Emergent Vision Technologies Camera Documentation

Welcome to the technical documentation site for Emergent Vision Technologies high-speed cameras!

This documentation currently:

• Introduces Emergent Vision Technologies and its high-speed camera families
• Details the camera feature parameters
• Explains the modes for triggering area-scan and line-scan cameras
• Describes the camera hardware, including data interfaces, GPIO ports, LEDs, and mounts

Note: Future updates will include documentation about Emergent’s network interface cards, accessories, software, and resources. Links on the top navigation bar will be enabled when the content is available.

Search the documentation:

1. Enter search terms in the search field on the top navigation bar and press Enter or click the search icon. The search results will display topics that best match the search terms.
   Note: Currently you can't limit search results to exact matches.
2. Click on a result link to view the topic.

Navigate the documentation:

1. Select a Camera Family on the left navigation panel.
2. Choose a Camera Model.
   
3. On the navigation panel, find and click a topic's link. The main panel displays the topic.
   ‍Tip: Longer topics have a right navigation panel with links to sections within the topic.
4. To return to the camera documentation home page, click Cameras on the top navigation bar.
5. To visit the main Emergent website, click the Emergent Vision Technologies logo on the top navigation bar.

Note: The left navigation panel doesn't provide links to topics until you select a camera family and model. When you select a model, the left navigation panel provides links only to feature information and other topics relevant to the model. However, you can use the search field to find any topic without selecting a family and model.

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About Emergent Vision Technologies

Emergent Vision Technologies is a leading provider of GigE Vision industrial cameras for machine vision, sports technology, volumetric capture, the metaverse, and virtual reality imaging applications. Our award-winning area scan and line scan cameras feature the latest CMOS image sensors from Sony and Gpixel, designed to address today’s toughest imaging challenges and enable exciting new applications.

In addition to industrial cameras, Emergent Vision Technologies offers comprehensive imaging software, network interface cards, switches, cables, lens mounts, and power and I/O products, making us your one-stop shop for high-speed imaging needs.

For more information about Emergent Vision Technologies and its products, visit the main Emergent Vision Technologies website.

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Camera Families and Models

Emergent’s camera models are grouped into area-scan and line-scan GigE camera families.

Area-scan camera families

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Line-scan camera families

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Camera Features

Emergent’s camera features (or parameters) allow you to configure and use the camera with either the eCapture application or API.

The features of each camera model depend on its firmware and corresponding GenICam XML file. In this documentation, when you select a camera model, the XML file is used to list only that model's current features in the left navigation bar.

The software and documentation group the features as follows:

• Device information
• Image format control
• Acquisition control
• Analog control
• Transport layer control
• GPIO control

Camera Trigger Modes

Emergent’s cameras support various trigger modes, allowing flexible image acquisition control.

Area-scan camera trigger modes:

• AS-A: All internal triggering
• AS-B: Software triggers
• AS-C: PTP triggers
• AS-D1: Hardware triggers with internal exposure settings
• AS-D2: Hardware triggers with external exposure settings

Line-scan camera trigger modes:

• LS-A: All internal triggering
• LS-B: External frame triggers
• LS-C: External frame triggers and encoder line time triggers
• LS-D: Encoder frame triggers and encoder line time triggers
• LS-E: External trigger masks/pulses and encoder line time triggers

Tip: The trigger mode topics are in the Camera Image Acquisition section on the left navigation panel.

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