Unibrain API-810 Instruction Manual Page 1

Unibrain Ultra Compact firewire cameras Models: 530/550/630/830/850 User Operation Manual Version 2.0 April 2012

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 3 Fire-i 550, 850 1.3. Camera Interface The camera’s interface is located on the

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 4 1.4. Firewire Port The industry standard FireWire (IEEE-1394) port has the followi

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 5 1.5. Electrical Operating Condition Trigger Recommended Trigger Example 1 Recom

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 6 Strobe Recommended Strobe Example 1 Recommended Strobe Example 2 Electrical Specifi

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 7 1.6. Pixel Data The Unibrain Fire-i ultra compact form Series complies with the I

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 8 U-(K+Pn-8) Y-(K+Pn-8) Y-(K+Pn-7) V-(K+Pn-8) Y-(K+Pn-6) Y-(K+Pn-5) U-(K+Pn-4)

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 9 <U, V> Each component has 8 bit data. The data type is “Straight Binary” Si

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 10 2. Camera Specifications 2.1. Monochrome cameras 2.1.1. Fire-i 830b Specificatio

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 11 2.1.2. Fire-i 630b Specification Features Image Sensor Type 1/3-inch Interline C

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 12 2.1.3. Fire-i 530b Specification Features Image Sensor 1/3-inch Interline CCD (S

Legal Notice For Customers in U.S.A. This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuan

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 13 2.1.4. Fire-i 550b Specification Features Image Sensor 1/3-inch MT9V022177ATM (M

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 14 2.2. Color Cameras 2.2.1. Fire-i 830c Specification Features Image Sensor Type 1

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 15 2.2.2. Fire-i 630c Specification Features Image Sensor Type 1/3-inch Interline

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 16 2.2.3. Fire-i 530c Specification Features Image Sensor Type 1/3-inch Interline C

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 17 2.2.4. Fire-i 850c Specification Features Image Sensor Type 1/2-inch MT9T031 (Mi

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 18 2.2.5. Fire-i 550c Specification Features Image Sensor Type 1/3-inch MT9V022177A

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 19 2.3. Spectral Sensitivity Excludes lens and light source characteristics. 2.3.1

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 20 Spectral Sensitivity for Fire-i 530b Spectral Sensitivity for Fire-i 550b

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 21 2.3.2. Color Cameras Spectral Sensitivity for Fire-i 830c Spectral Sensitivit

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 22 Spectral Sensitivity for Fire-i 530c Spectral Sensitivity for Fire-i 850c

Before You Start This manual should help you in installation and setting of the camera and we recommend you to carefully follow the instruction

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 23 Spectral Sensitivity for Fire-i 550c

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 24 3. Basic Operation and Features The Fire-i x3x cameras employ a progressive scan C

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 25 Abs_Control [1] Absolute value control 0: Control with value in Value field 1: Co

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 26 ON_OFF [6] Write: ON or OFF this feature, Read: read a status 0:OFF, 1:ON If this

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 27 Status Control Register Address Name Field Bit Description 80Ch WHITE_BALANC

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 28 050010001500200025003000350040000 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 3500 4000 Gamma Ran

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 29 1706 ~ 2399 1ms T= (Y-1705)+76 ms 77ms ~ 770ms 2400~2902 10ms T= (Y-2399)*10+770 ms

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 30 3.8. Gain Gain refers to the amount of the CCD output signal amplification where

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 31 Inquiry Register Address Name Field Bit Description 530h TRIGGER_INQ Presence

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 32 3.9.2. Trigger and Strobe Signal Relation 3.9.2.1. Fire-i 530, 630, 830

Table of contents 1. Introduction ...

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 33 3.9.2.2. Fire-i 550, 850

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 34 3.9.2.3. Trigger Timing Diagram for Fire-i 550, 850 Correlation of VD and fps Ca

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 35 3.9.2.4. Timing Diagram for External Trigger and Shutter and Strobe Fire-i 530, 63

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 36 3.9.4. Trigger Mode 0 The Camera starts integration of the incoming light from th

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 37 3.9.7. Trigger Mode 3 Not supported at Format 7 Mode This is an internal trigger

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 38 3.9.9. Trigger Mode 5 This mode is the “multiple shutter pulse width mode”. The c

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 39

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 40 3.10. Strobe Control Register Base Address: 0xF2F23000h Address Name Field Bit

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 41 active output, 1: High active output) Delay_Value [8..19] Delay after start of e

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 42 3.11. Trigger Delay Control Based on the external triggers, the user can delay

3.5. Hue ...

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 43 The table shows the strobe index by the increment step through strobe delay time an

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 44 3.12. Optical Filter Control The Optical Filter control allows the user to chang

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 45 3.13. Color (Bayer) Patterns Conversion Color sensors capture images through an op

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 46 4. Advanced Features 4.1. Binning Mode Binning is defined as reading neighborin

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 47 4.1.3. Full Binning Full binning mode can be obtained by combining both vertical a

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 48 4.2. Partial Scan Cameras provide a certain resolution which is dictated by the im

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 49 4.3. Pan/Tilt Pan/Tilt is a function used to move a camera up and down or left and

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 50 Pan/Tilt Details for Fire-i 830b & Fire-i 830c Image Size Movement Fire-i

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 51 4.4. One-Shot and Multi-Shot This camera supports One-Shot and Multi-Shot features

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 52 4.5. Multi-Camera Auto-sync. Not supported in 3.75 fps In applications incorpor

4. Advanced Features ... 46 4.1. Binning Mode

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 53 4.7. Memory Channel Save / Load The setting of the camera features (Shutter, Gain,

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 54 4.8. Time Stamp Register The Time stamp register may be inquired from the Native

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 55 4.9. Serial Interface The cameras are equipped with the SIO (Serial input/output)

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 56 Note that 1394 data consist of 32 bit data the data read should Bit 0 ~ Bit 7 : 1s

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 57 SIO (RS232) TX Control Procedure Method II STEP 1 Check TX buffer size by readin

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 58 4.9.2. SIO(RS232) Registers Base address: F2F22000h, default baud rate is 57600

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 59 Write : 0: Clear flag 1: Ignored PER [14] Receive data parity error Read : Curre

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 60 4.9.3. SIO(RS232) Special Commands 0xF2F10018 Auto-Sync Mode control register B

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 61 S AF 0Bytes Z ‘G’+18 Byte Read feature control value Return value order ‘G’[

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 62 4.10. Frame Save Function The Fire-i ultra compact form series cameras can save t

6.5. Fire-i 550b / Fire-i 550c ...

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 63 4.11. LUT (Lookup table) The cameras support a LUT, which provides the user with a

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 64 The user defined LUT save procedure is: 1. Check the save ready bit (bit1) st

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 65 4.12. One Pixel Snow Noise Remove With this function, it is possible to average

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 66 4.13. PIO Control Register Short for Programmable Input/Output, PIO provides a

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 67 5. User Defined (custom) FIREWIRE Registers User defined registers are features un

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 68 0xF2F10018 Mode control register Bit 31 : auto sync enable Bit 30 : SIO enable mode

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 69 image command 0xF2F1012C 4 step knee LUT run control register LUT knee 1st point re

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 70 0xF2F10150 Snow noise remove threshold register Bit 0 : presence inquiry (read only

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 71 6. Video Formats and Modes IIDC 1.31 defines several video formats which determine

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 72 6.1. Fire-i 830b / Fire-i 830c Format Mode Resolution 60fps 30fps 15fps 7.5

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 1 1. Introduction 1.1. Overview Unibrain’s Fire-i ultra compact Industrial Firewire

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 73 6.2. Fire-i 630b / Fire-i 630c Format Mode Resolution 60fps 30fps 15fps 7.5f

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 74 6.4. Fire-i 850c Format Mode Resolution 60fps 30fps 15fps 7.5fps 3.75fps

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 75 6.6. Trouble Shooting FireWire based cameras are operated in connection with syste

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 76 7. Technical Support We ensure the conformity of our product to be reliable and fr

Unibrain Fire-i 530/550/630/830/850 Operation Manual Page 2 1.2. Dimensions and Description Camera Body Size : 29 (w) x 29 (H) x 39(D) mm