features

acquisition

Capture images from digital cameras, industry standard framegrabbers, scanners, TWAIN, VFW, WDM, and IEEE-1394 devices
Perform frame averaging and integration while capturing.
Acquire, create, and playback image sequences with user-specified delay time
Capture video into AVI files.
Support for 10-, 12- and 16-bit input devices
Video format and size selection.
Hardware-controlled brightness, contrast, saturation and hue;
Mapping of image memory to the DMA buffer for performance boost
Simultaneous grabbing from multiple cameras.
Trigger and encoder synchronization; exposition, clock and line rate adjustment for digital and line-scan cameras.
Simulation video-driver for prototyping real-time algorithms prior to buying imaging hardware
Simulate video input from an AVI file, generate standard patterns, apply several types of noise to a static image, add non-uniform background
Read and store images in BMP, PCX, GIF, TIFF, TGA, JPEG and user-defined formats.
Handle a wide variety of images types, including the high-bit depth ones:
- 1-bit binary
- 8-bit gray
- 16-bit gray
- 32-bit gray
- 32-bit floating point
- 64-bit complex
- 4-bit palletized
- 8-bit palletized
- 8-bit multiphase
- 24-bit color
- 48-bit color
Support extended TIFF format for storing high-depth images and look-up tables
Use a proprietary IWD format with lossless compression
Preserve geometrical and optical scales in IWD, TIFF and JPEG files
Adjust compression settings for JPEG, TIFF and AVI files