Overview

The Imaging Source, experts in imaging hardware, and LEAD Technologies, experts in imaging software, have co-developed and are announcing the immediate availability of a new ActiveX SDK called FPICS. FPICS, which is an acronym for Frame-grabber Programming Interface Control Standard, allows developers and OEMs to quickly build advanced capture applications using the industry's first programming standard for frame-grabbers. 

Rolf Bollhorst, president of The Imaging Source states, "OEM's and system integrators can now configure powerful, yet low cost, machine vision, image processing and analysis systems using FPICS. FPICS has been developed as an interface to the DFG & PCMCIA families of video capture boards from The Imaging Source. FPICS is a powerful productivity tool, and when added to the DFG frame grabber you get an extremely effective application development combination. This combination gives developers a low cost solution to easily leverage capture applications for any industry, and get professional results in just minutes."

Highlights of FPICS:
+ Support for multiple boards and/or concurrent multiple cameras with
different video sources (CCIR, PAL, NTSC, SECAM, RS170).
+ Visual Basic source code examples and demo programs
+ Enable image processing parameters such brightness, contrast and
gamma correction, and on the fly scaling.
+ Control over hardware functions and access to advanced features,
such as: -
Internal and external triggers
Digital input/output
+ Full Support for DirectDraw, including:
Extra high speed display with primary surface mode.
Real-time display of text and drawing with overlay modes.
Divert live display to any desired window.
+ Automatic detection or manual selection of color and video modes.
+ On-board EEPROMData (read/write).
+ Flash/strobe field, line and polarity.<</html>