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Indicator LED

The LED on top of the camera will be illuminated when it is delivering video images to your computer, and not illuminated when it is not. It will flash before a timed snapshot is taken. One second before the snapshot countdown ends, it will flash more rapidly to warn you of the impending event.

Philips installation program

A standard installation program that runs from the CD-ROM. Normally, this program starts automatically after the installation CD-ROM has been inserted into the CD-ROM drive, and will guide you through the whole installation process. The program can be started manually by running 'setup.exe' from the CD-ROM drive.

Pixel

The smallest square or round element in an image. These are the 'building blocks' that are only one colour in their individual state, but combine with others to form complete images.

Plug & Play

An operating system principle for connecting hardware to your computer. The idea is to recognize the new hardware automatically and to load the appropriate drivers without restarting your computer. With USB devices this usually means that you will have to perform an installation procedure only once, i.e. the first time you connect the new hardware. After the initial set-up, you will not have to restart the computer when connecting the camera to the USB port. The USB driver will detect the camera as newly connected hardware. It can then be used within a few seconds without the need to restart the computer.

Preview Window

The window within the capture application that is used to display live, or moving, video.

Property page

A window with camera setting tabs that appears when you click on a setting menu item within an application. This setting menu item can have different names in different applications, but is usually called 'Settings', 'Preferences', 'Video settings' or similar.

Rebooting

Restarting your PC to initialize all original settings and finalize all settings changed during an installation procedure.

Resolution

Typically given in the context of pixels, this is used to describe overall video size. This is related to quality in that the higher the resolution, the better the quality and the more pixels.

Snapshot button

The hardware button on top of the camera which fulfils the same function as the software 'Capture' button in the TWAIN viewfinder window. If the viewfinder displays the camera's view on your screen in the TWAIN viewfinder window, pressing this button will capture a still image.

Standard software interface for imaging applications. If a hardware device has a TWAIN driver, it can be used as an image source for TWAIN-compatible imaging applications. Choose your TWAIN source in the imaging application itself. Then choose 'Acquire' to start the TWAIN driver for the TWAIN source.