SSP O-3000 Series, O-3010, O-3020 User Manual

Stettbacher Signal Processing

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O-3000 Camera Series

User’s Guide

Version 2.10

2015-08-10

Abstract: This user’s guide highlights the camera features and gives an overview over the
device’s basic functions. In addition for programmers and developers, it is a starting point
and references to all necessary resources.

O-3000 Camera Series

Contents

1 Intention 3

2 Camera Features 3

2.1 Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

2.1.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

2.1.2 Streaming and Snapshots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

2.1.3 Region of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

2.1.4 Frame Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

2.1.5 Exposure Adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

2.1.6 White Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

2.1.7 Mirroring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

2.1.8 Data Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

2.1.9 Downsampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

2.2 Hardware Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

2.3 Software Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2.3.1 Driver-Level Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2.3.2 USB-Level Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

3 Install Package 8

3.1 Demo Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

3.2 Source Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

4 Literature and References 10

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O-3000 Camera Series

1 Intention

This user guide will highlight the camera features and give you an overview over the device’s basic
functions. In addition for programmers or developers, it is a starting point and will reference to all
necessary resources. Please contact Stettbacher Signal Processing (SSP) if you have questions.

2 Camera Features

Technical data are specified in [2]. This section covers the functional features of the O-3010
monochrome and the O-3020 color devices in more detail. More devices will follow.

2.1 Functions

This chapter focuses on the camera’s main functionalities and on how to use them. To use a specific
camera function you can simply do it by sending appropriate XML commands [6] to the camera and
receiving respectively.

2.1.1 Overview

The following is a list of all supported XML commands and parameters. Note that cameras do not
necessarily support all of the functions implied by the XML specification [6].

Functions:

set reset snapshot warning

get restart stream error

stop

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