With Scorpion images are normally generated or captured in three ways:

• Captured from an image source
  • normally a camera connected to scorpion
• Loaded from file
  • often used to simulate or test a vision system
• Generated from the scorpion toolbox
  • often as a result of processing other images
  • the ImageFilter, AreaFilter, ImagerConverter and ColorSegmentor tools are producing images

Image Management

- Add image
- Edit image - activate Image Configuration dialog
- Selection up
- Selection down
- Delete image
- offline - simulation from files
- online - camera connected
- select sequence
- Reset Camera Sequence
- help

Image Configuration

The following properties are defined in the Image Configuration dialog

• Image
  • Active - Used to enable the image.
    • Images generated from the inside of Scorpion shall not be active
  • Auto clear - in rare cases you want to uncheck Auto clear to keep an image
  • ImageType - 2D | 3D
  • Name - the name of the image specified by the user.  The name is displayed as a caption to the image.
  • Camera - Used to select the camera connected to the image when not in simulation mode
  • Rotation - defines the rotation of an image
    • Note: the rotation consumes CPU - can reduce the system cycle time significantly
• Simulation
  • Load images from file - The image is read from file with the given path and filter. This image path is also used as source if you mark the Simulate box in the main image settings window.
  • Path - specifies the path to load simulation images
  • Filter - filter to select a subset of images
  • Rotation - defines rotation for images loaded from files

Note: The path can be relative to the current directory.

Advanced

The advanced tap can be used to:

• capture images from the image history list
  • purpose to be able to process/combine image from previous inspection with the current inspection
  • can be used for calculate motion between images
• stitch multiple images in rows or columns