Specifications

Camera interfaces

Bigeye Technical Manual V2.3.0

AcquisitionControl

Beside the internal exposure control capabilities also direct exposure control

by an externally applied signal is possible. In this case the ExposureMode has

to be configured to Off to deactivate the internal timer.

Feature Description

AcquisitionMode This feature controls the acquisition mode of the software. This

feature works independently (!) of the chosen camera mode

(Continuous, IOD hardware trigger, IOD hardware timer). It

describes how many frames should be acquired.

AcquisitionStart Starts the image acquisition of the camera.

AcquisitionStop Stops the image acquisition of the camera.

TriggerMode Modifies the trigger mode of the camera. When the trigger mode

is “Off”, the camera will generate frames independently. When

the trigger mode is “On” the camera is switched to the so called

IOD (image-on-demand) mode. In this mode the camera waits

for an external trigger signal or an timer pulse generated

internally. To control exposure and dark time trigger mode must

be switched to “On”.

ExposureMode Start or stop the internal exposure signal timer.

ExposureTime This feature is used to set the Exposure time, in μs.

ExposureTimeAbs This feature is used to set the Exposure time, in μs (deprecated).

ExposureTimeAbsMs This feature is used to set the Exposure time, in ms.

ExposureTimeGranularity Exposure time granularity.

DarkTime This feature is used to set the Dark time, in μs.

DarkTimeAbs This feature is used to set the Dark time, in μs (deprecated).

DarkTimeAbsMs This feature is used to set the Dark time, in ms.

DarkTimeGranularity Dark time granularity.

Table 15: Camera standard feature: AcquisitionControl

Note

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Bigeye P-132, Bigeye P-1100: The TriggerMode feature has to

be set to On and the timer has to be enabled via ExposureMode

in order to control the exposure.

Note

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Bigeye P-629: The timer has to be enabled via the

ExposureMode feature in order to control the exposure. Set the

TriggerMode feature to On if the electromechanical shutter

operation is needed, otherwise it will stay permanently open.