Active Dcam is an industrial-grade hardware-independent Software Development Kit designed to provide developers with a rapid access to FireWire (IEEE-1394) digital cameras. Just drop anActiveDcam object onto the surface of your application and have it immediately support multiple FireWire cameras. With ActiveDcam your application does not have to rely on a specific camera model - any DCAM-compliant 1394 camera will work with it out-of-the-box in any popular development environment, such as Visual Studio, Visual Basic (VB), Delphi, PowerBuilder, Java, Matlab, Python, Adobe Flash. You can even insert an ActiveDcam object into an MS Word or PowerPoint document and have the live video embedded right into your presentation! In addition you can:
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Acquire and display live video from one or several IIDC 1394 cameras.
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Select among multiple camera sources.
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Set the desired video format and triggering mode.
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Select among several hardware and software trigger sources.
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Grab 8- or 16-bit per channel monochrome and color images.
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Perform automatic color interpolation of raw video generated by Bayer cameras.
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Choose among several available frame rates.
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Select the desired size and position of the scan area.
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Adjust multiple camera parameters in real time: brightness, gain, shutter, gamma, sharpness, hue, saturation, white balance.
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Control iris, focus and zoom in cameras with motorized lenses.
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Activate automatic or one-push control over selected camera parameters.
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Save camera settings in memory channels or system registry and reload them on demand.
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Use proprietary camera features through direct access to 1394 registers.
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Choose among several palettes for pseudo-color display.
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Get an instant access to pixel values and pixel arrays.
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Retrieve individual color planes from RGB images.
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Save images in BMP, TIFF and JPEG formats.
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Obtain a timestamp for each frame captured.
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Time-lapse capture to AVI files and image sequences.
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AVI 2.0 support with unlimited file size, selectable compression and adjustable playback rate.
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Overlay custom graphics and texts on live and recorded video.
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Import live video into PictureBox objects.
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Perform image processing on incoming frames and display them in real time.
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Flip and rotate live image.
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Perform real-time histogram and statistical analysis over a selected color component.
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Implement built-in background (dark and flat field) correction.
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Anti-tearing and monitor synchronization options for eliminating display artifacts.
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TWAIN interface to third party imaging applications
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DirectShow Video Capture (WDM) interface to third-party video-recording applications
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New! Signed drivers for Windows Vista and Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit)
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New! Universal feature control with an absolute value mode
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New! Real-time running average and integration of video frames
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New! User-defined pre- and post-processing of video frames
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New! Built-in LUT (lookup table), software brighnest, contrast and WB control
Ability to run multiple copies of the control in one application guarantees independent adjustment and seamless parallel acquisition from multiple 1394 cameras in both the design and run-time modes.
ActiveDcam setup includes extensive documentation and source code samples for Visual C++, Visual Basic, HTML, VB.NET, C#, Matlab, Python and DirectShow, demonstrating live video capture, image processing and analysis, storing acquired images in different formats, full control over camera settings, and many more. Excellent performance, industry-proven robustness, broad functionality and diligent technical support make ActiveDcam one of the best camera SDKs in its class.
