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    • Using Seco Camera Driver

    Owned by Albinleo Velappan (Deactivated)
    Last updated: 28. Mar 2023 by Anu Selvaraj (Deactivated)
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    The Seco camera driver has a custom interface to get pictures and control camera features.
    It consists of a camera-specific and a common part.

    Registry Settings

    Camera-timings are configured through the registry.

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\BuiltIn\Camera] "Dll"="camera.dll" ; common camera.dll "Prefix"="CXM" ; together with Index, "Index"=dword:1 ; specifies to create driver at CXM1: "Order"=dword:2 "FriendlyName"="Camera Driver" !-- For the older camera driver (pre 02.07.2009) the registry settings !-- for a camera are here: "Control0"=dword:900003f9 ; see PXA-Developers-Manual for details "Control1"=dword:013f8112 ; on Control0 to Control4. "Control2"=dword:fa000000 "Control3"=dword:0e0001df "Control4"=dword:00b80001 "Timeout"=dword:007BFA48 ; 5s "CameraDLL"="ov7660.dll" ; custom camera-specific DLL. !-- For new camera drivers, each camera has its own sub-key. !-- Which camera will be used is determined by the "Name"-key: "Name"="ov7660" ; Name of the camera. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\BuiltIn\Camera\OV7660] "Control1"=dword:013f8112 ; on Control0 to Control4. "Control2"=dword:fa000000 "Control3"=dword:0e0001df "Control4"=dword:00b80001 "Timeout"=dword:007BFA48 ; 5s "CameraDLL"="ov7660.dll" ; custom camera-specific DLL.

    The Custom/Camera-Specific Part

    The custom camera DLL needs to export following functions:

    • int InitCamera( void)

    • BOOL IoctlCamera( DWORD dwCode, PVOID pBufIn, DWORD dwLenIn, PDWORD pdwBufOut, DWORD dwLenOut, PDWORD pdwActualOut)

    • int DeInitCamera( void)

    InitCamera

    This function gets called on the CreateFile(…)-call of the application.

    DeInitCamera

    This function gets called on the CloseHandle(…)-call of the application.

    IoctlCamera

    This function gets called on every DeviceIoControl(…)-call to the camera-driver.
    If this function returns TRUE, it indicates that this ioctl-call is handled by the custom-driver.
    If it returns FALSE it indicates, that the common-camera-driver should do additional action. i.e. when using IOCTL_SET_CAMERA_FEATURE with CAM_RESOLUTION you would typically set some registers in the camera and return FALSE, so the common driver adjust the resolution of the quick-capture-interface of the processor.

    Application

    The application should open the camera-driver with a call to:

    hCamera = CreateFile( TEXT("CXM1:"), GENERIC_READ|GENERIC_WRITE, 0, 0, OPEN_EXISTING, 0, 0);

    and close it with:

    CloseHandle( hCamera);

    To get a picture call:

    Where g_pFrame is a pointer to a memory-region which should receive the captured data and FRAME_SIZE is the size of the memory-region reserved at g_pFrame.

    Download

    PXACamera sample with new Camera Driver. Direct preview within camera driver made for Trizeps IV IPAN7 with PAL color conversion. 50fps:

    PXACamera sample application for Windows Embbedded CE6 (Trizeps IV & Trizeps V):

    Sample of custom camera drivers: (Trizeps IV & Trizeps V)

    Windows Embedded CE6-Image for Trizeps5 running on uConXS (Spark) and using Omnivision OV9655 camera: