MotionBLITZ®Kit Instruction Manual MotionBLITZ®Kit Digital Motion Analysis Kit MotionBLITZ®Kit Manual Ver.2.0 Copyright -2006 Mikrotron GmbH Mikrotron GmbH Landshuter Str. 20-22 D-85716 Unterschleissheim Germany Tel.: +49 89 726342 00 Fax: +49 89 726342 99 info@mikrotron.de www.mikrotron.
1 General........................................................................................................................... 5 1.1 Essentials of MotionBLITZ®Kit....................................................................................................................................... 5 1.2 Customer indications......................................................................................................................................................... 5 1.2.
6.1 Moving the camera image............................................................................................................................................... 22 6.2 Zoom in and zoom out..................................................................................................................................................... 22 6.3 Brightness and contrast......................................................................................................................................
8.7.3 Dimensioned drawing, front view of MC13xx........................................................................................................ 50 MotionBLITZ®Kit Manual Ver.2.
1 General Congratulations! MotionBLITZ®Kit is an excellent choice, because its an extremely versatile, advanced and self contained digital camera system. Mikrotron GmbH has combined progressive camera technology with software which is very easy to operate. Thus MotionBLITZ®Kit is the ideal solution for high speed recording. This manual provides information about the features and operating modes of MotionBLITZ®Kit. 1.
1.2.3 Pour utilisateurs au Canada Cet appareil est conforme aux normes Classe A pour bruits radioélectriques, spécifiées dans le Règlement sur le brouillage radioélectrique. 1.2.4 Life Support Applications These products are not designed for use in life support appliances, devices, or systems where malfunction of these products can reasonably be expected to result in personal injury.
1.4 Warranty Note Do not open the body of the camera. The warranty becomes void if the camera body is opened. 1.5 Remarks, Warnings This document contains important remarks and warnings. See the corresponding symbols: Important remark Attention, Warning 1.6 The rear of the camera The type plate is to be found at the rear of the camera. It contains the serial number. There are two connectors for the Camera Link cables and one connector for the power cable.
2 Installation of MotionBLITZ®Kit 2.
2.4 Installation of Inspecta-5 for Windows 2000/XP 2.4.1 • • • • • • • • How to install the Inspecta-5 Start Windows 2000/XP. You should not have installed the framegrabber Inspecta-5 hardware for now! Insert the MotionBLITZ® Kit Setup CD or copy the Setup files to a directory and start the program SETUP.EXE from the root directory of the CD or from the directory where it is copied. Follow the instructions of the Setup program.
3 Starting the Mikrotron MotionBLITZ Director program Double-click on the following symbol on the Windows XP user interface using the left mouse button: MotionBLITZ®Kit Manual Ver.2.
4 Operating Modes By means of the MotionBLITZ®Kit software (control program) the camera can be set up for recording in different operating modes. 4.1 Live mode The camera images are continuously recorded and displayed. This mode is optimal for defining image detail, adjusting the focus and setting up the variuos camera parameters. Switch the camera to live mode by pressing the "Live" button.The framestamp will be displayed on the Infoline 4.
5 MotionBLITZ®Kit in practice The full range of functions available and all camera parameters may be set by means of the MotionBLITZ®Director software. 5.1 The user interface The camera is completely controlled through the user interface. All parameters of the camera for recording, playback and saving the frames after recording may be adjusted here. After recording, stored sequences of images maybe subsequently edited.
5.2 Selecting resolution, speed, gain, trigger, sync and white balance The Histogram button is used to adjust white balance.See details at Whitebalance The different gain options provide higher sensivity for low light conditions. Once the changes to the parameters for resolution and framerate are set, click on "Apply". Now the new parameters will be sent to the camera. All other parameters, e.g. shuttertime or gain, will be sent immediately to the camera after entering.
Please make sure the camera is connected correctly. 5.2.1 Resolution and frame rate. You can set the width, the height and the rate of the frame. 5.2.2 Fixed frame geometry In this mode, any changes in the frame rate will have no effect in the geometry of the frame.The RoI is frozen. 5.2.3 Fixed frame rate In this mode, the changes at the geometry will be accepted if it has no effect on the given frame rate. For this frame rate the maximum allowed frame height will be calculated. 5.2.
5.2.8 Trigger In signal The trigger input is used to stop a current recording with an external signal. See Trigger and Synchronisation inputs. The active edge of the signal of pin .. is defined together with “Trigger edge”. 5.2.9 Enable sync input For synchronizing camera you only have to connect the sync output of an external source to the sync input, as described in Trigger and Synchronisation inputs Enabling this mode and applying an external signal will be recognized at the desktop.
cording, the recorded frames are displayed simultaneously. After recording, the first (oldest) recorded frame will be displayed. Recording in non circular mode may only be achieved with MotionBLITZ®Kit user interface program and not with the trigger signal! 5.5 Recording in circular mode Circular mode should be used if a trigger is applied. The trigger may be the closing of the camera's trigger switch, a trigger signal or by clicking on the stop button in the MotionBLITZ®Kit control software.
5.6 Playback of a sequence The frames in the camera may be accessed after recording. Click on one of the forward or backward buttons. Now the frames will be displayed. Alternatively the play settings menu may be used for selecting the frames. playback reverse 1 frame reverse 1 frame forward playback forward The frame counter shows the position within the recorded sequence. The time stamp indicates the position relative to the trigger. Use this slider to browse through your recorded sequence. 5.
5.7.1 Editing a sequence by using frame slider or keys If the frame slider has the focus you may use the mouse buttons or the key “b”, “e” and “l” for editing a sequence. This method works only if the frame slider has the focus! Click on the frame slider for getting the focus 5.7.1.1 Set the beginning of a sequence Press the right mouse button or the key “b”. The actual frame number, 51 in the picture above, will be set as a start value for the range of frames.
5.8 Retrieving saved bmp-files If the saved bmp-files are to be viewed, select the directory, the filename and the desired frame numbers in the Menu File =>Load menu (chapter 6.4.1 ). Now the image source for displaying frames is the selected directory with the appropriate files. This is indicated by the symbol in the status area of the MotionBLITZ®Director control-programm. The playback buttons or the "Play settings" menu allow navigation through the image files as described in chapter 5.6 on page 17.
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5.10.1 Do the whitebalence Adjust the size of the green check-line, which is automatically displayed in the camera image, and move this line over a white area using the mouse. (Click and hold on the line and move it). The values of the pixels along this line will be shown as three curves – red, green and blue. Using the "R", "G" and "B"-sliders, move the three curves until they are nearly congruent as shown in the figure above. Click on "Apply" to assume these values. Click on "Close" to close the form.
6 Controls and menus in the MotionBLITZ®Kit software There are several menus and controls in the MotionBLITZ®Director program. Each will be described in the following chapters 6.1 Moving the camera image Click with the left mouse button on the camera image. Hold the button and move the mouse. The image will move in the desired direction. 6.2 Zoom in and zoom out For zooming, use the left vertical scrollbar. The range of the zoom factor is from 0.5 (smaller) to 10 (bigger) than the original.
Changes to contrast and brightness are relevant for the saved frames! 6.4 Menu File The File menu allows - reloading bmp or rec -files for display start saving images as bmp or rec -files, create an avi-file and autosave exit the program MotionBLITZ®Kit Manual Ver.2.
6.4.1 6.4.1.1 Reload image-files Reload bmp files MotionBLITZ®Director loads only bmp-files with 5 digit name endings. Files with the same part before these 5 digits are assumed to be from the same saved sequence. To reload a sequence (or a part of it) select the volume, the directory and the filename without the digits. There are 2 methods of selecting the single files to be loaded: Load Load frame list 6.4.1.2 Load Frames Click on the radio button "Frames".
6.4.1.3 Load frame list Click on the radio button "Frame list" The list may be edited in the menuPlay settings. Only the files whose numbers are included in the frame list will be loaded and displayed. By clicking “OK“ the first file is loaded into the main window. Use the replay buttons as described in Playback of a sequencefor displaying the whole sequence. 6.4.1.4 Load raw format from disk. For reloading frames, that are stored in a raw file, use the “Load Raw..” in the files menu.
6.4.2 Format of the rec header All numbers are in decimal format example [RAWHEADER] FormatIdentifier= Number of chars 32 32 MRAW HeaderVersion= OffsetToFirstFrame= VendorId= MotionBLITZ= Firmware= CameraType= CameraSerialNumber= ColorMode= FrameTopInPixel= FrameLeftInPixel= FrameWidthInPixel= FrameHeightInPixel= BitsPerPixel = BayerFilterStart= 1,0000 1310720 Mikrotron GmbH 1.10.
NumberOfSequences= [SEQUENCES] NumberofFrames_00= FirstFrameNumber_00= TriggerFrameNumber_00= Reftim1_00= 1000 1 50 (1…x) 268582,89928164 32 32 32 32 32 32 NumberofFrames_01= FirstFrameNumber_01= TriggerFrameNumber_01= Reftim1_01= 1000 1050 (1…x) 32 32 32 32 32 NumberofFrames_02= ... …. 6.4.3 1 First sequence Time of trigger frame in µsec based on BaseTime Second sequence Third and next sequences Save images in files 6.4.3.
ing a name on the keyboard. On the right side of the window it is possible to set the hard disk drive and the path with the mouse. It is essential to remember that if more than of 3 characters for the name are used, the performance may decrease. Nevertheless, any name may be used which conforms to Windows. MotionBLITZ® Kit extends these characters by a 5-digit figure which corresponds to the frame number. There are 2 methods of selecting the bmp files to be saved: Load Frames Load frame list 6.4.3.
The selection of the frames to store operates in the same manner as described in”Save images in files” MotionBLITZ®Kit Manual Ver.2.
6.4.4 Make Avi File Select the avi-filename, the numbers of the frames to be compressed and the compressor-type by clicking on the "Compressor-setup" button. If only a special region of the sequence is to be processed, select this region by clicking on the "clipping" checkbox. An rectangle named "AVI clipping area" will be overlayed in the camera image. Adjust the size as needed and move the rectangle over the region of interest with the mouse. Once all parameters have been set, click on "Make AVI..
6.4.5 AutoSave If the Auto Save mode is activated, frames will be stored to hard disk in the raw data format automatically after the end of a triggered circular recording sequence. After completion of storing the frames, a new recording sequence will be started. Autosaving will be ending when the user stops the recording sequence (by pressing the F12-key or clicking on the stop button) or if the disk runs out of space. Parameters for Auto Save could be adjusted in the form Auto Save.
6.5 View menu 6.5.1 Raw The image is displayed as delivered from the camera without any modification and no Bayer color-calculations. Thus in Raw mode always a black and white image will be seen. 6.5.2 Display Input ports The 4 Bit digital input is stored in the 4th byte of each frame during recording. If "Infoline" is enabled (checked), the 4 Bit digital input of the frame is displayed in the toolbar and inserted in the infoline. 6.5.3 Marker Up to 4 markers may be enabled.
6.5.4 Infoline Attaching information to the recorded images is switched on or off. The information portion is displayed as follows: Framestamp: The upper part of this section taken from the MotionBLITZ®Director main window shows the remaining part of a recording and the information portion. It contains the following fields with information at the time of recording: Field: Date Time Frame number rel.
6.5.6 Language German or English may be selected as language for all texts in the program. 6.6 Record settings There are two recording modes: Non circular mode Circular mode 6.6.1 Non circular mode Recording proceeds until the end of buffer and stops. 6.6.2 Circular mode The camera will record in a circular mode, i.e. the oldest frame is overwritten by the newest.
6.6.3 Enable trigger input for recording Enabling this item lets trigger input to start recording. 6.7 Play settings In this menu the number of the images that shall be displayed is defined. This is valid for frame selection in the "file save" and "file Make Avi" menu as well. The behavior during playback in forward and reverse sequences is influenced by the radio buttons; it is possible to set a time delay between the display of individual frames. 6.7.
6.7.2 Frame list The frame numbers selected via "Single frame" or “from … to” can be added to the frame list by pressing the “=> frame list“ button. By pressing “Delete“ the numbers which were marked previously with the mouse can be removed. The contents of this list can be used for saving / loading images from files (in the “File“ window), for saving frames as an AVI (in the “File” -> “Make AVI…” menu) or for defining a playback sequence. 6.7.
6.8 Info At the Info form the details of MotionBLITZDirector and the Firmware of the connected camera will be shown. - Serialnumber of the Camera 30211 Firmware-Version V1.53-F2.52 Framegrabber info Inspecta-5 Driver Software Version The size of the Grabber memory and its serial number MotionBLITZ®Kit Manual Ver.2.
7 Maintenance During normal use an occasional cleaning of the optical path is necessary. Information about cleaning the lens is provided by the respective manufacturers. 7.1 Cleaning of the MC1311 infrared filter MC1311 contains a filter to suppress infrared light. Dust and dirt, which may deposit on this filter is best removed by means of an oil free air pressure spray or with a lens cleaning tissue. Sticky mud and fingerprints may be cleared away with medical alcohol.
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8 Appendix 8.1 technical data MC133x camera Number of pixel Pixel size Active area Fill factor Sensitivity at 550 nm @ Vref = 1V (a2 = 66h) Spectral response Shutter Trigger Internal Dynamic Power supply Power consumption max., continuous recording @ 660 Mbytes/sec Thermal resistance typ.
8.2 Connnector assignments 8.2.1 Circular power connector, 6-pin pin 1 2 3 signal VCC VCC STRB pin 4 5 6 Table 8.2-1 *DGND ... digital GND for signal STRB Manufacturer: Order no.: Hirose HR10A-7P-6S MotionBLITZ®Kit Manual Ver.2.
8.2.2 Camera Link® Connector, MDR-26 „Base Camera Link® “ Pinning: pin 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 signal pin signal GND 14 GND X015 X0+ X116 X1+ X217 X2+ XCLK18 XCLK+ X319 X3+ SERTC+ 20 SERTCSERTFG21 SERTFG+ CC122 CC1+ CC2+ 23 CC2CC324 CC3+ CC4+ 25 CC4GND 26 GND Table 8.2-2 „Full Camera Link® “ Pinning (second connector for MC1310/11): pin 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 signal pin GND 14 Y015 Y116 Y217 YCLK18 Y319 100 Ω Term. 20 Z021 Z122 Z223 ZCLK24 Z325 GND 26 Table 8.2-3 manufacturer: Order-Nr.
8.2.3 Trigger and Synchronisation inputs Trigger Input : Opto Coupler 0 Sync Input : Opto Coupler 1 The polarity of the active edge can be selected with the check boxes in the camera menu 8.3 Optocoupled I/O The parallel I/O Port is accessible via a 26-pin male header on Inspecta-5. This header is connected with flat cable to a 25-pin male Sub-D connector on a PC-bracket.
For all four inputs, the anodes and cathodes of the optocouple LEDs are accessible, just as the emitters and collectors of the four output optocouplers. There are no additional components on the I/Os besides the optocoupler pins. If, because of excessive overvoltage and/or reversed voltage a coupler breaks, they can be easily replaced because they are socketed. 8.3.1 Optocoupler technical data Typ ILD30 Opto-Out HCPL2531 Opto-In 8.3.
8.3.3 Input wiring (e.g.: light barrier) with PNP-transistor Calculation of R1 as above with NPN Transistor. 8.3.4 Input wiring with a switch and an external voltage source Calculation of R1 as above with NPN Transistor. 8.3.5 Input wiring with an external 5V TTL signal Make sure that the external signal can source the LED minimal current (>10mA). Use R1 also. MotionBLITZ®Kit Manual Ver.2.
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8.5 Pixel sensitive area Pixel size: Fill factor: Sensitive area: 12 x 12 µm 40 % 10,5 x 6,5 µm MotionBLITZ®Kit Manual Ver.2.
8.6 Dimensions 8.7 Camera body The camera body is with its dimensions of 63 x 63 x 41 mm (without lens) very compact. To fasten the camera there are two mounting holes M4x7mm and one tripod connection on each side available. 8.7.1 Dimensioned drawing, rear view of MC13xx MotionBLITZ®Kit Manual Ver.2.
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