## Image

The Image view allows you to calibrate your camera’s focus and lighting settings automatically via the Auto Calibration button, or to adjust them manually via the Exposure, Gain, Focus, and Lighting Mode parameters. The Image view also allows you to set the White Balance for color cameras. Calibration and White Balance settings are saved to the camera, as are Exposure, Gain, and Focus settings that are adjusted manually.

The upper-right corner of the Image view provides feedback on the current image, including its width and height, the quality of its Dynamic Range (Excellent, Good, Fair, Poor), and a histogram of the image to help you visualize the Dynamic Range. The colors blue and pink in the image are used to show undersaturated (blue) and oversaturated (pink) pixels.

The photometry values (Exposure, Gain, and Focus) shown to the right of the image area are determined either by the AutoVISION job or by photometry values stored on the camera. There are multiple ways these values can be set: manually with the sliders, Auto Calibration in AutoVISION, Auto Calibration with the AutoVISION button, and Omron Microscan Link.

Photometry values can be locked to prevent them from being changed by the Auto Calibration process. Click on the lock icons to the left of Exposure, Gain, and Focus (shown below) to lock or unlock photometry values. When a photometry value is locked, the value already stored in the AutoVISION job (not on the camera) is used. You can change photometry values manually, even when they are locked, by using the text fields and sliders.

Precautions for Correct Use: Photometry values must be locked if you intend to tie them to AutoVISION global data service (GDS) tags using Omron Microscan Link. Locking the values allows any new values that appear in the job to be used. If photometry values are unlocked, the values stored on the camera will be used, but they cannot be changed using Omron Microscan Link.

Important:

- Color cameras have additional controls for white-balancing. See the Color Tool section for details.

- Fixed focus cameras do not show the focus slider bar. The cameras are preset at a single distance.

- Lighting Mode options depend on the lights mounted on the camera. Please see Lighting Mode section for details.

Precautions for Correct Use: Auto Calibration, Exposure, Gain, Focus, and Lighting Mode do not function when the Emulator is being used instead of a camera.

##### Auto Calibrate

Adjusts Exposure, Gain, and Focus.

##### Focus Only

Focuses the image.

##### Spot Focus

Drag the cursor to the spot in the image where you want to focus.

##### White Balance

White Balance automatically evens out the gain values of red, green and blue channels so the camera image will look the same as it does to the human eye. White will become white even if the lighting is not.

Example: The image prior to White Balance has a greenish color. The red, green, and blue histograms are not balanced.

The image after White Balance has no greenish color. The red, green, and blue histograms are balanced.