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Camera Ingestion with Time-aware Trigger Mechanism White Paper March 2022 Document Number: 712757-0.8
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You may not use or facilitate the use of this document in connection with any infringement or other legal analysis concerning Intel products described herein. You agree to grant Intel a non-exclusive,...
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Contents 1.0 Introduction .................................................................................................................................. 5 1.1 Terminology ............................
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Revision History Date Revision Description February 2022 0.8 Internal review for public release. September 2021 0.5 Draft version. Camera Ingestion with Time-aware Trigger Mechanism White Paper March ...
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Introduction 1.0 Introduction This white paper delivers fundamental principles and practical implementation approaches for integrating the real-time vision and motion control technologies. The technol...
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Introduction Term Description TGPIO Time-Aware GPIO 1.2 Reference Documents Log in to the Resource and Documentation Center (rdc.intel.com) to search for and download the document numbers listed in th...
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Overview 2.0 Overview Real-time vision allows real-time capture for image-data that has high-precision position characteristics and high-speed image processing. As key of high-precision position chara...
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Overview • Option D: Precision Time Protocol (PTP) trigger by trigger time stamp. It can trigger camera on an accurate timing. But it requires timing trigger capability of the camera. From the introdu...
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Overview 2.3 Intel® Edge Insights for Industrial (Intel® EII) Intel® Edge Insights for Industrial (Intel® EII) is a software reference platform to deal with data ingestion, processing, storage, data s...
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Solution 3.0 Solution 3.1 Time-Aware IO Trigger Time-Aware IO trigger is used for trigger/strobe control in real-time vision. Its deterministic feature can help to resolve the jitter issue of trigger ...
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Solution Figure 4. Measured Jitter of IO Trigger Signal without Time-Aware Feature Camera Ingestion with Time-aware Trigger Mechanism March 2022 White Paper Document Number: 712757-0.8 11
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Solution Figure 5. Measured Jitter of IO Trigger Signal with Time-Aware Feature Camera Ingestion with Time-aware Trigger Mechanism White Paper March 2022 12 Document Number: 712757-0.8
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Solution 3.2 Image Processing Hough circle algo has been integrated into Intel® EII video ingestion module. As shown in Figure 6, both video ingestion and visualizer are Intel® EII modules. By using v...
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Solution Block diagram: Figure 7. Topology of Image Processing Test configurations • ECI 2.5 as base • Open CV version: 4.5.2 • Hough circle algorithm is integrated with camera app • External trigger ...
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Solution Figure 8. Ingestion Results Camera Ingestion with Time-aware Trigger Mechanism March 2022 White Paper Document Number: 712757-0.8 15
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Conclusion 4.0 Conclusion In this paper, we have illustrated how to apply Intel platform solutions (Intel® ECI and Intel® EII) to develop real-time vision case. The result shows that Intel platform ca...