Lumenera infinity1 cam communication rpoblem

[Damian.jm]

The problem is: I'm using Lumenera infinity1 series 10 bit color cam for acquiring images. I've got the labview 8.5 and vision development 8.6, I've donwloaded the lumenera labview pulg in 2.0.1 too. Whe I open the "take video example.vi" I just can work with 8and 16 bits greyscale images, and if I set the pixel format to 24,32, or 64 bit RGB the "lu set format.vi" who is inside the "take video.vi" shows me this error:

Error 5022

LucamPropertyAccessFailed - The API failed to access the property. Most likely, the reason is that the camera does not support that property.

How can it be? If I have a 10 bit color camer. I just can onbtain greyscale images from my color cam. This is really annoying..

Help please.

[DOC-doc]

Hi Damian,

Usually the cameras are shipped with a test software, which can show the camera picture.

Did you try the camera with that software ?

[Damian.jm]

Hi Doc.

mmm the software that comes with my cam is "lumenera infinity capture"  and "lumenera infinity analize", both of them are complete versions, but as they are free software the set of option available is so poor, this is the reason cause I need to make my own software.

oooh, but mos important thing is the fact that in "lumenera infinity capture" I'm able to see 8 bit and 16 bit live preview color images (this is: 32 bit RGB or 64 bit RGB)and save them to H.D. on propper image format (as TIFF), but on other hand I can't switch the pixel format of the cam to be any RGB on my on labview software.

By the way, I have a Qimaging 01 evolution VF cooled color camera too, and with this camera I don't have any trouble for it to send me correct image in color format, i.e. the Qimaging color camera sends me color images (good tihng), and the lumenera color camera sends me grayscale images (bad thing) usually the images are semi trash images, I can distingish in the depth the image I want but blured, and what color plane send me the camera when it sends a greyscale image (I think there is no way to know)??? 

Thanks for your time!

P.d. I'll check the links you sent me. 

[DOC-doc]

Hi Damian,

Ok so, you know at least that the camera is working fine and the cable is ok and that it is a color camera.

Can you grab pictures in MAX ??

[Damian.jm]

Hi Doc.

Yes! The cam is working fine with lumenera's software. I can see IMages and save the to HD propperly. This tells me tha:

1.- The cam is OK

2.- The Cable is OK

3.- There should be a way to the communicate with the camera to make it work.

On teh other side this model of cam (lumenera infinity 1)  is not compadible directly with NI. This is I can't see it neither with MAX nor labview. This is the reason cause lumenera gives a LAbview pathc that enable it to see the camera. This patch is just a set of C functions grouped in a dll, and an new palette for labview to call it via VIs. The core of all these Vis is a call library function node. Lumenera infinity model 1 is made by Qimaging (lumenera just distribute it), this is: Qimaging also offers a labview patch for its products, therfore I have two patches availables, lumenera (more specific)and Qimaging (more generic) patches (both of them as dlls).

I found in  the industrial andvisor for NI vision that Qimaging products are not supported direclty. This is the reason for the pathches for labview tah lumenera and Qimaging offers.

 Uhh I forgot to mention that my lumenera cam is a USB 2. My Qimaging (VF cooled color 12 bits) is 1394.

Qimaging also gives me a software to take snaps and have a live preview: QCapture; with this software I can see both cams (due to the generic drivers) but as it has generic drivers I can make less operations on the camera than with lumenera infinity capture. But I can see color images of 10 bits an save them on a tiff format of 64 bit RGB.

All it's fine, except when try to make my own programs and tell the camera to give me color images.

What should it be???

P.d. Thank you so much for your time.

[elpoulpo]

Hi Damian.jm,

I had the same issue with my Infinity II from Lumenara.

I found out you need to specify how to transform the intensity information received by the CCD sensor into colour channels, otherwise it will interpret it as a grey level image.

This is done by changing the default Bayer parameters  when grabbing a frame.

Attached are snapshots and a VI to acquire a colour image. I hope this helps even if this is not exactly the same camera.