07-18-2014 08:42 AM
Hello,
I am in charge to develop a video acquisition module , which will then use the NI VISION module functions.
07-27-2014 03:34 PM
Okay, here's my experience:
NI treats image-acquisition and image-processing as two separate things. Once an image has been acquired into memory, the functions in NI-VISION can then be used to operate on it.
Image-Acquisition can be done either by:
(3) is simplest, but most expensive, which is no surprise with NI.
Only assume that a 3rd party's image acquisition hardware will work with IMAQ or IMAQdx & LabWindows if you have a cast-iron contractual guarantee.
Short answer is, having installed the supplier's driver, can you see it in MAX?
Note that the LabWindows versions of NI's image processing software is very much the poor relation. The LabView image processing library has lots of interesting things, such as stereoscopic 3D imaging, optical flow and object tracking, since about 2012. The LabWindows version STILL has none of these.