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Chapter 1 Introduction to IMAQ Vision

IMAQ Vision for Visual Basic User Manual 1-4 ni.com

niocr.ocx

niocr.ocx provides one ActiveX control and a collection of ActiveX

objects you use in a machine vision application to perform optical character

recognition (OCR).

NIOCR control

Use this control to perform OCR, which is the process by which the

machine vision software reads text and/or characters in an image. OCR

consists of the following two procedures:

• Training characters

• Reading characters

Training characters is the process by which you teach the machine vision

software the types of characters and/or patterns you want to read in the

image during the reading procedure. You can use IMAQ Vision to train any

number of characters, creating a character set, which is the set of characters

that you later compare with objects during the reading procedure. You store

the character set you create in a character set file. Training might be a

one-time process, or it might be a process you repeat several times, creating

several character sets to broaden the scope of characters you want to detect

in an image.

Reading characters is the process by which the machine vision application

you create analyzes an image to determine if the objects match the

characters you trained. The machine vision application reads characters in

an image using the character set that you created when you trained

characters.

cwmv.ocx

cwmv.ocx contains one ActiveX control and a collection of ActiveX

objects. Refer to the ActiveX Objects section for more information about

ActiveX objects.

CWMachineVision control

Use this control to perform high-level machine vision tasks, such as

measuring distances. This control is written entirely in Visual Basic using

the methods on the CWIMAQVision and CWIMAQViewer controls. The

source code for the CWMachineVision control is included in the product.

For more information about CWMachineVision methods, refer to

Chapter5, Performing Machine Vision Tasks.

Contents

Main Page Important Information Warranty Copyright Trademarks WARNING REGARDING USE OF NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS PRODUCTS Contents About This Manual Chapter 1 Introduction to IMAQ Vision Chapter 2 Getting Measurement-Ready Images Chapter 3 Making Grayscale and Color Measurements Chapter 4 Performing Particle Analysis Chapter 5 Performing Machine Vision Tasks Page Page About This Manual Conventions Related Documentation IMAQ Vision NI Vision Assistant NI Vision Builder for Automated Inspection Other Documentation Introduction to IMAQ Vision About IMAQ Vision Documentation and Examples IMAQ Vision for Visual Basic Organization cwimaq.ocx CWIMAQ Control CWIMAQVision Control CWIMAQViewer Control niocr.ocx NIOCR control cwmv.ocx CWMachineVision control ActiveX Objects Creating IMAQ Vision Applications Chapter 1 Introduction to IMAQ Vision Figure 1-1. General Steps for Designing a Vision Application IMAQ Vision for Visual Basic User Manual 1-6 ni.com Chapter 1 Introduction to IMAQ Vision Figure 1-2. Inspection Steps for Building a Vision Application National Instruments Corporation 1-7 IMAQ Vision for Visual Basic User Manual Getting Measurement-Ready Images Set Up Your Imaging System Calibrate Your Imaging System Create an Image Page Acquire or Read an Image Acquiring an Image One-Shot Acquisition Continuous Acquisition Reading a File Converting an Array to an Image Display an Image Attach Calibration Information Analyze an Image Page Improve an Image Lookup Tables Filters Convolution Filter Nth Order Filter Grayscale Morphology FFT Complex Image Operations Making Grayscale and Color Measurements Define Regions of Interest Defining Regions Interactively Page Page Figure 3-2. Tools Information Defining Regions Programmatically Defining Regions with Masks Measure Grayscale Statistics Measure Color Statistics Figure 3-3. Primary Components of an 32-bit Color Image Figure 3-4. Primary Components of a 64-bit Color Image CWIMAQVision.ColorValueConversion2. Comparing Colors Learning Color Information Specifying the Color Information to Learn Using the Entire Image Using a Region in the Image Using Multiple Regions in the Image Choosing a Color Representation Sensitivity Ignoring Learned Colors Performing Particle Analysis Create a Binary Image Improve the Binary Image Removing Unwanted Particles Separating Touching Particles Improving Particle Shapes Make Particle Measurements Page Page Page Page Page Page Performing Machine Vision Tas ks Locate Objects to Inspect Using Edge Detection to Build a Coordinate Transformation Page Using Pattern Matching to Build a Coordinate Transformation Page Chapter 5 Performing Machine Vision Tasks National Instruments Corporation 5-7 IMAQ Vision for Visual Basic User Manual Choosing a Method to Build the Coordinate Transformation Figure 5-4. Building a Coordinate Transformation Set Search Areas Defining Regions Interactively Defining Regions Programmatically Find Measurement Points Finding Features Using Edge Detection Finding Lines or Circles Finding Edge Points Along One Search Contour Finding Edge Points Along Multiple Search Contours Finding Points Using Pattern Matching Defining and Creating Effective Template Images Symmetry Feature Detail Positional Information Background Information Training the Pattern Matching Algorithm Defining a Search Area Setting Matching Parameters and Tolerances Match Mode Minimum Contrast Rotation Angle Ranges Testing the Search Algorithm on Test Images Using a Ranking Method to Verify Results Finding Points Using Color Pattern Matching Defining and Creating Effective Color Template Images Color Information Symmetry Feature Detail Positional Information Training the Color Pattern Matching Algorithm Defining a Search Area Setting Matching Parameters and Tolerances Color Sensitivity Search Strategy Color Score Weight Minimum Contrast Rotation Angle Ranges Testing the Search Algorithm on Test Images Finding Points Using Color Location Convert Pixel Coordinates to Real-World Coordinates Make Measurements Distance Measurements Analytic Geometry Measurements Instrument Reader Measurements Identify Parts Under Inspection Classifying Samples Reading Characters Reading Barcodes Read 1D Barcodes Read Data Matrix Barcode Read PDF417 Barcode Display Results Page Page Calibrating Images Perspective and Nonlinear Distortion Calibration Defining a Calibration Template Defining a Reference Coordinate System Page Learning Calibration Information Specifying Scaling Factors Choosing a Region of Interest Choosing a Learning Algorithm Using the Learning Score Learning the Error Map Learning the Correction Table Setting the Scaling Mode Calibration Invalidation Simple Calibration Save Calibration Information Attach Calibration Information Page A Technical Support and Professional Services Glossary Numbers A B Page C D E F G H I Page J K L Page M N O P Q R S T Page Index Numerics A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P R S T U V W Z