SCD - Scorpion Camera Drivers’s documentation¶

Scorpion Vision Software is an open and independent machine vision system.

The implication is the following:

Cameras are interfaced through an open c-dll interface - Scorpion Camera Interface.

The Scorpion Camera Interface description is available upon request to enable user to interface their own cameras with Scorpion.

Supporting USB, Firewire, IP-camera and GigE using DirectShow

When the Scorpion project was started in 2000 the goal was to support all USB and Firewire cameras using the Microsoft DirectShow interface.

This lead to the development of the Scorpion Camera Driver:

SCD-0017 Firegrab - supports all DirectShow compatible camera devices

With this driver we are able to support most windows camera devices

including USB 2.0 and 3.0 web and machine vision cameras and the complete range of DCAM compatible firewire cameras.

FireGrab.dll is implemented as a true DirectShow interface but is enhanced with the Unibrain MS Stack SDK enabling support for machine vision features like hw-trigger, format-7 and direct register access for firewire cameras. More on Unibrain Fire-I and Scorpion support.

Another long term supporter of DirectShow is The Imaging Source - the firegrab.dll is of course compatible with the drivers from The Imaging Source.

Important Scorpion Camera Drivers are:

SCD-0023 Scorpion GigE Camera - HVGrab - Scorpion GiGE and USB3 cameras

SCD-0015 Basler Area 2 - Pylon support for USB3 and GigE Area Cameras

SCD-0025 2DScanner - supports scanning from single and multiple cameras

SCD-0026 ScorpionCamera - supports shared memory image sharing

SCD-0017 Firegrab - supports all DirectShow compatible camera devices

SCD-0027 Imaging Source - supports all Imaging Source camera devices

Other drivers are:

Basler Pylon support for linescan cameras

SCD-0009 AVT Prosilica for GigE cameras

AVT Firepackage for firewire cameras

SCD-0018 Network Camera - supports IP-cameras

Legacy Camera Drivers

SCD-0003 Sony ZCL GigE Camera - Supports Sony XCG Camera also for Windows 10

SCD-0002 Basler Area - Pylon support for Gige Area Cameras

PtGrey Firewire and GigE cameras

Sick IVP and Microsoft Kinect providing 3D support

Matrox Mil9 support for Cameralink and GigE Vision

Sony SmartCam

ICamGrab.dll - support the XCI-SX1 Smartcam

ICamGrab_V3.dll - support the XCI-V3 SmartCam

Second generation V100 and SX100 both monochrome and color

Note

Check the Scorpion Vision Installer for the latest drivers.

Scorpion Camera Drivers - SCD - are included with Scorpion Vision Software installation and are located in the Scorpion Runtime folder.

From Scorpion Vision Version XI the most used 32 and 64 bit drivers are included in the Scorpion Vision Installer.

The drivers are mormally postfixed by the version #.

Note

We supply multiple versions for backward compatibility.

It is the user’s responsibility to select the correct version.

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