User`s manual

60 • Operational Reference Genie Color Series-GigE Vision Camera
• Click on Acquire Black Image. The flat field calibration tool will grab video frames, analyze the pixel gray
level spread, and present the statistics. The desired black reference image should have pixel values less then 20.
If the results are acceptable, accept the image as the black reference.
• Setup the camera to acquire a uniform white image (but not saturated white). Even illumination on white paper
can be used, with a gray level of 128 minimum. It is preferable to prepare for the white level calibration step
before starting the calibration procedure.
• Click on Acquire White Image. The flat field demo will grab video frames, analyze the pixel gray level
spread, and present the statistics. The captured gray level for all pixels should be greater than 128. If acceptable
accept the image as the white reference.
• Click on Save. The flat field correction data is saved as a TIF image with a file name of your choice
(suggestions are the camera name and its serial number).
Using Flat Field Correction
From the CamExpert menu bar enable Flat Field correction (Pre-Processing • Flat Field Correction • Hardware).
With Genie color cameras, remember to set the pixel format to RGB 32-bit, UYVY, or YUY2. Now when doing a
live grab or snap, the incoming image is corrected by the current flat field calibration data for each pixel.
Use the menu function Tools • Flat Field Correction • Load to load in a flat field correction image from
previously saved calibration data. CamExpert allows saving and loading calibration data for all cameras used with
the imaging system.
Flat Field Correction Control via Sapera LT or GigE Vision Compliant
Applications
Sapera
Genie Sapera parameters for Flat Field Correction:
FlatFieldEnable = Enable Flat Field Correction {False=0, True=1}
FlatFieldFormat = {RO: mono 8, mono 9, mono 10, RGB}
FlatFieldWidth = read buffer width
FlatFieldHeight = read buffer height
FlatFieldGainMin = read minimum gain value
FlatFieldGainMax = read maximum gain value
FlatFieldOffsetMin = read minimum offset value
FlatFieldOffsetMax = read maximum offset value
FlatFieldGainBuffer = Flat Field correction gain data buffer
FlatFieldOffsetBuffer = Flat Field correction offset data buffer
Sapera++ Class constructor: SapFlatField::SapFlatField
In CamExpert, these features are available from the “Pre-Processing” menu.
XML features for Flat Field Correction:
Not supported