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Contents
INTRODUCTION &INSTALLATION
1. Introduction..................................................... 5
2. Installing and Running SVIP...................................... 7
2.A Installation and Configuration............................. 7
2.A.1 Configure PC for SILICON VIDEO..................... 7
2.A.2 SVIP Installation.................................. 7
2.B Running SVIP............................................... 13
2.B.1 Old Style Main Menus: -oldmenus................... 14
2.B.2 No Graphics Option: -nographics................... 14
2.B.3 Force use of BIOS Option: -biosonly............... 15
2.B.4 Select Super VGA Option: -svga.................... 15
2.B.5 No Mouse Option: -nomouse......................... 16
2.B.6 Initialize as RS-170 Option: -rs170............... 16
2.B.7 Initialize as CCIR Option: -ccir.................. 16
2.B.8 Import Video Format and State: -f................. 17
2.B.9 MIPX Scripts and Batch Mode: -x................... 17
2.B.10 Respecify Driver's Addresses Option: -adrs........ 17
2.B.11 Specify SILICON VIDEO's PC Configuration Options... 18
2.B.12 Specify Authorization Key Port: -keylpt........... 19
2.B.13 Demo Only Option: -menudemo....................... 19
2.B.14 No Warnings Option: -nowarnings................... 19
2.B.15 SVIP Environment Variable.......................... 19
2.C Errors..................................................... 20
2.C.1 Installation Errors................................ 20
2.C.2 Operating Errors................................... 20
2.D Esoterica.................................................. 21
2.D.1 SVIP under DOS..................................... 21
2.D.2 Running SVIP in Windows DOS Box.................... 22
2.D.3 Temporary Files.................................... 22
2.D.4 SILICON VIDEO MUX under Windows 3.x Enhanced Mode.. 22
3. The Main Menus................................................... 23
3.A Help....................................................... 24
3.A.1 Help Key Usage..................................... 24
3.B Setup...................................................... 26
3.C Capture.................................................... 27
3.D View....................................................... 28
3.E Examine.................................................... 29
3.F Process.................................................... 30
3.G Measure.................................................... 32
3.H Draw....................................................... 33
3.I File....................................................... 33
3.J Scripts.................................................... 34
3.K DSP........................................................ 34
3.L Utilities.................................................. 34
3.M Custom..................................................... 35
3.N Windows.................................................... 35
VIDEO SETUP
4. Video Format &Resolution........................................ 37
4.A Split Digitize/Display Formats............................. 38
4.B QUICK SET VIDEO............................................ 39
4.C Video State Export/Import &SVOBJ Support.................. 39
5. Video Format..................................................... 40
5.A Predefined Formats......................................... 41
5.B Simple Format Modifications................................ 41
5.C Format Specification - NonStandard Dimensions............. 41
5.D Format Specification - NonStandard SV-MUX Modes........... 43
5.E Format Specification - Miscellaneous Custom Parameters.... 44
6. Video Resolution................................................. 45
6.A Conventions................................................ 45
6.B Video Sampling, Concepts and Terms......................... 45
6.C Horizontal Resolution Parameters........................... 48
6.D Vertical Resolution Parameters............................. 49
6.E Remaining Parameters....................................... 50
6.F Concluding Advice.......................................... 50
CAPTURE &DISPLAY
7. Video Capture &Display.......................................... 53
7.A Capture, Digitize, Display, and Blanking................... 54
7.B Genlock.................................................... 54
7.C Split Screen Modes......................................... 55
8. Motion Sequence Capture &Display................................ 57
8.A Single Sequences........................................... 58
8.B Trigger Options............................................ 59
8.C Repeated Sequences......................................... 62
9. Capture Image Alignment.......................................... 63
10. Triggered Image Capture.......................................... 64
10.A Triggered Image Sequence Capture........................... 66
IMAGE VIEWING
11. Video Zoom and Pan............................................... 69
12. Contrast and Lookup Tables (RGB)................................. 71
12.A Numerical Specification.................................... 72
12.A.1 Numerical Specification: Set....................... 72
12.A.2 Numerical Specification: Modify.................... 75
12.A.3 Numerical Specification: File...................... 75
12.A.4 Numerical Specification: More...................... 75
12.B Center, Width, Depth Paradigm.............................. 76
12.B.1 Center, Width, Depth Paradigm: Red, Green &Blue... 76
12.B.2 Center, Width, Depth Paradigm: More................ 79
12.C Black Level, Contrast Paradigm............................. 79
12.C.1 Black Level, Contrast Paradigm: Red, Green &Blue.. 79
12.C.2 Black Level, Contrast Paradigm: More............... 80
12.D Band Colorization.......................................... 81
12.D.1 Band Colorization: Set Bands....................... 81
12.D.2 Band Colorization: RGB............................. 82
12.D.3 Band Colorization: HSB............................. 82
12.D.4 Band Colorization: More............................ 82
13. Image Display on PC.............................................. 83
13.A Waterfall Line Display on PC............................... 85
IMAGE EXAMINATION
14. Pixel Peek, Poke &Plot.......................................... 87
14.A Selecting Image Buffer and Cursor Coordinates.............. 87
14.B Pixel Value Peek &Poke.................................... 87
14.C Pixel Value Display &Plot................................. 88
14.D Image Buffer Sequence Pixel Display &Plot................. 92
14.E 3-D Image Plot............................................. 93
14.F User-defined Pixel Value Plot.............................. 96
15. Histogram Display................................................ 98
15.A Vertical Display........................................... 99
15.B Horizontal Display......................................... 99
15.C Save Histogram Data........................................ 100
15.D Pixel Count................................................ 100
16. Moments and Center of Mass....................................... 102
16.A Center of Mass Computation................................. 103
16.B Moments Computation........................................ 103
17. Feature Finders.................................................. 105
17.A Cursor Coordinate Save and Restore......................... 106
17.B Mass Features.............................................. 106
17.C Pixel Value Features....................................... 107
18. SMPTE Vertical Interval Time Code (VITC) Decode.................. 109
IMAGE PROCESSING &ENHANCEMENT
19. Processing - Simple Pixel Operations............................ 111
19.A Pixel Set, AND, XOR, Complement............................ 112
19.B Dithering.................................................. 112
19.C Thresholding and Contrast Enhancement...................... 112
19.D Lookup Table Mapping....................................... 113
19.D.1 Defining Lookup Tables............................. 113
20. Processing - Image Copy, Resize, Rotate......................... 116
20.A Image Copy................................................. 116
20.B Copy and Shift Image....................................... 118
20.C Image Flip................................................. 118
20.D Copy and Resize Image...................................... 118
20.E Copy and Rotate Image...................................... 119
20.F Copy and Skew Image........................................ 119
21. Processing - Spatial Filters.................................... 120
21.A Low Pass Filters........................................... 121
21.B High Pass Filters.......................................... 121
21.C Median and Rank Filters.................................... 122
21.D Edge Enhancement........................................... 122
22. Processing - Edge Detectors..................................... 123
22.A Edge Magnitude Detectors................................... 124
22.B Edge Gradient Detectors.................................... 125
23. Processing - NxN Operations..................................... 127
23.A Convolutions............................................... 128
23.B Dynamic Threshold.......................................... 130
23.C Inverse Contrast Mapping................................... 130
24. Processing - Morphological Operations........................... 131
24.A Erosion, Dilation, Open, Close, etc........................ 131
24.B Skeletons and Thinning..................................... 134
24.C Numeric Results............................................ 135
25. Processing - Transform (FFT) Operations......................... 136
25.A Set Up..................................................... 136
25.B Transform.................................................. 137
25.C Frequency Domain Filters................................... 138
25.D Magnitude and Phase Graphs................................. 140
25.E Other Manipulations........................................ 140
25.F File Load &Save........................................... 140
26. Processing - Equalization &Normalization....................... 141
26.A Intensity Normalization.................................... 141
26.B Histogram Equalization..................................... 142
27. Processing - Image Interlace Modifications...................... 143
27.A Interlaced Image Data Format Conversion.................... 143
27.B De-flickering Interlaced Images............................ 145
28. Processing - Two Image Arithmetic............................... 147
28.A Add, Subtract, OR, XOR, AND, and Average Image Pairs....... 147
28.B Product and Ratio of Image Pairs........................... 149
28.C Arbitrary Function on Image Pairs.......................... 149
29. Processing - Two Image Normalizations........................... 151
29.A Contrast Match and Modify.................................. 151
29.B Background Corrections..................................... 151
29.C Speckle Corrections........................................ 152
30. Processing - Image Correlations................................. 153
30.A Correlation Profiles....................................... 153
31. Processing - 32 Bit Integration................................. 155
31.A Set Up..................................................... 156
31.B Integration................................................ 156
32. Processing - Image Sequence Operations.......................... 157
32.A Image Sequence Average and Integrate....................... 157
32.B Image Sequence Set Pixels.................................. 158
32.C Difference Image Sequence.................................. 158
32.D Image Sequence Tile........................................ 158
33. Processing - Miscellaneous Operations........................... 159
33.A Spatial Quantization with Shrink........................... 159
33.B Halftone Image............................................. 160
33.C Raw Image Memory Copy...................................... 160
IMAGE MEASUREMENTS
34. Measurements - Introduction..................................... 161
35. Measurements - Calibrate Intensity.............................. 162
35.A Reference Values........................................... 162
35.B Explicit Expression........................................ 164
36. Measurements - Calibrate Horizontal &Vertical.................. 165
36.A Reference Points........................................... 166
36.B H-V Calibration Example.................................... 167
37. Measurements - Distance &Angle................................. 168
37.A Distance &Angle Example................................... 169
38. Measurements - Mark &Plot...................................... 170
38.A Image Warping.............................................. 172
39. Measurements - Blob Analysis.................................... 173
39.A Preparation................................................ 173
39.B Search..................................................... 173
39.C Results.................................................... 176
39.D Report..................................................... 178
40. Measurements - SubPixel Edges................................... 180
41. Measurements - Particle Tracking................................ 182
41.A Preparation &Tracking..................................... 184
41.B Show....................................................... 184
41.C Examine.................................................... 185
PATTERNS &GRAPHICS
42. Test Patterns &Sequences........................................ 189
42.A 2-D Periodic Patterns...................................... 189
42.B Alignment Patterns......................................... 191
42.C Pattern Movies............................................. 191
43. Paint, Draw &Text Overlay....................................... 193
43.A Text Overlay............................................... 194
43.B Paint...................................................... 195
43.B.1 Fill Patterns...................................... 196
43.C Draw....................................................... 197
43.C.1 Sketching Curves................................... 197
43.C.2 Making Curves Permanent............................ 202
43.C.3 Filling Regions.................................... 202
FILE &PRINT
44. Image File....................................................... 205
44.A File, TIFF Format.......................................... 206
44.A.1 Browse TIFF Database............................... 208
44.B File, BMP Format........................................... 210
44.C File, PCX Format........................................... 211
44.D File, Targa TGA Format..................................... 212
44.E File, X/Y Format........................................... 212
44.E.1 Binary Format...................................... 213
44.E.2 Hex Format......................................... 213
44.E.3 Text Format........................................ 213
44.F File, Compressed........................................... 214
44.F.1 Run Length Compression............................. 214
44.F.2 Block Truncation Compression (BTC)................. 215
44.G File, Image Buffer Stream.................................. 215
45. Image Print...................................................... 217
45.A Preprocessing Options...................................... 217
45.B Sizing &Orientation Options............................... 218
45.C Halftoning Options......................................... 219
45.D Printer Selection.......................................... 220
45.E Printing................................................... 221
45.F Suggestions................................................ 221
MISCELLANEOUS
46. Graph Display, Control &Options................................. 225
47. Image Processing Modes........................................... 232
47.A Image Areas of Interest.................................... 233
47.A.1 Image Buffer....................................... 233
47.A.2 Image Color........................................ 235
47.A.3 Image Area......................................... 236
47.A.4 Image Regions...................................... 238
48. Image Examination Modes.......................................... 243
49. Setup Options.................................................... 244
49.A Video Cursor Options....................................... 244
49.B Image Overlay Display Options.............................. 245
49.C SVIP Environment........................................... 246
49.D Keyboard &Mouse Options................................... 247
49.E Graph Display Defaults..................................... 248
50. Utilities........................................................ 249
50.A DOS Escape................................................. 249
50.B File/Directory............................................. 251
50.C File Display............................................... 251
50.D Diagnostics................................................ 251
51. Obscure Menus.................................................... 252
51.A SILICON VIDEO State, Address, and Microcode................ 252
51.B Multiple SILICON VIDEO Control............................. 254
51.B.1 Typical Applications............................... 254
51.B.2 Special Applications............................... 255
51.C PC Graphics Adapter........................................ 256
52. Common Questions &Answers....................................... 257
52.A On Configuration........................................... 257
52.B On User Interaction........................................ 258
52.C On Custom Operations and Macros............................ 259
52.D On Exporting and Importing................................. 261
52.E Miscellaneous.............................................. 262
53. Release Notes.................................................... 263
54. Distribution Contents............................................ 266
55. Index............................................................ 268
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