Exporting single images from camera to ImageJ

[Phase GmbH]

Hi,

we have added a new function to our firewire camera control and image acquisitions software FireCam Control (under Windows only) which may be interesting for a lot of ImageJ users.

The new function lets the user export a single image from the live image stream (uncompressed data) into the ImageJ work space by a single mouse click. Any newer ImageJ version under Windows may be used without need of adding special macros or Plug-Ins.

For more details, please see:

www.phase-hl.com/cgi-bin/querypage.cgi?FireCamIJ_uk



Christian Kreutzfeldt

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PHASE GmbH
Bluecherstr. 2 , 23564 Luebeck, Germany
Tel. [phone], Fax 792644
www.phase-hl.com

[Gabriel Landini]

On Thursday 23 August 2007 14:42:55 Phase GmbH wrote:

> we have added a new function to our firewire camera control and image
> acquisitions software FireCam Control (under Windows only) which may be
> interesting for a lot of ImageJ users.
>
> The new function lets the user export a single image from the live image
> stream (uncompressed data) into the ImageJ work space by a single mouse
> click. Any newer ImageJ version under Windows may be used without need of
> adding special macros or Plug-Ins.
>
> For more details, please see:
>
> www.phase-hl.com/cgi-bin/querypage.cgi?FireCamIJ_uk

I cannot find the download link.

Can one trigger image acquisition FROM an ImageJ macro or plugin?

Thanks

Gabriel

[dksamuel]

Dear all, Can one trigger image acquisition from an ImageJ macro or plugin?
using a consumer USB 2 /1.1 camera like Canon, Olympus or Kodak, with 4-7 MB
pixels  It will be nice, thanks Samuel


On 8/23/07, Gabriel Landini <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> On Thursday 23 August 2007 14:42:55 Phase GmbH wrote:
> > we have added a new function to our firewire camera control and image
> > acquisitions software FireCam Control (under Windows only) which may be
> > interesting for a lot of ImageJ users.
> >
> > The new function lets the user export a single image from the live image
> > stream (uncompressed data) into the ImageJ work space by a single mouse
> > click. Any newer ImageJ version under Windows may be used without need
> of
> > adding special macros or Plug-Ins.
> >
> > For more details, please see:
> >
> > www.phase-hl.com/cgi-bin/querypage.cgi?FireCamIJ_uk
>
>
> I cannot find the download link.
>
> Can one trigger image acquisition FROM an ImageJ macro or plugin?
>
> Thanks
>
> Gabriel
>

[Mario Emmenlauer-3]

Hi,

Duleep Samuel wrote:
> Dear all, Can one trigger image acquisition from an ImageJ macro or plugin?
> using a consumer USB 2 /1.1 camera like Canon, Olympus or Kodak, with 4-7 MB
> pixels  It will be nice, thanks Samuel

I've been looking to do something similar for a long time.
My current 'state of project' is: Canon cameras can be remotely
triggered (and even controlled) from linux using the capture
project:
   http://capture.sourceforge.net/

The main advantage over gphoto is that you can also control
the shutter and lenses to not open and close on every shot,
thereby increasing the camera live.

The library can be called from Java using the Java Native
Interfaces, so writing a linux ImageJ plugin shouldn't be
too hard. However as a non-native java solution I don't
know how well it is supported on Windows, it might work with
cygwin but it might as well not :-)

Cheers,
  Mario


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[Gabriel Landini]

On Friday 24 August 2007 06:52:12 Duleep Samuel wrote:
> Dear all, Can one trigger image acquisition from an ImageJ macro or plugin?
> using a consumer USB 2 /1.1 camera like Canon, Olympus or Kodak, with 4-7
> MB pixels  It will be nice, thanks Samuel

If the camera comes with a program that allows you to grab a shot and send it
to IJ, you can use the IJ_Robot plugin to click on the application panel from
an IJ macro. It is not very elegant (for example, you cannot mover the mouse
when the capture is ongoing) but works.

Plugins where one needs to physically click to send the image to IJ (like the
QImaging plugin and many others) are not particularly suitable to do
automated work: lapse shots, average shots, autofocusing (when connecting to
a microscope stage), mosaic capture, etc.
Instead the capture plugins should be callable from a macro or plugin (i.e.
call the program/driver so it sends the image to IJ).
This should not bee too difficult to program and the advantages of being able
to automate image capture with IJ would be enormous  for the user (more
power) and for the manufacturer (more camera sales).

Cheers,

G.

[Phase GmbH]

Hi,

former replies to this topic let us know that there is also interest for triggering image acquisition from the ImageJ environment.

In the meantime we added a corresponding trigger hook function into the camera control software FireCam Control. The new AcqFromFireCam_ plugin for ImageJ is triggering FireCam Control to export a single image from the image stream to the ImageJ work space. This plugin loads a native function from a DLL, which is making the whole procedure specific for FireCam Control.

Customers having a former version of FireCam Control may contact us for an update and receiving the above mentioned PlugIn (you may also have a look to: www.phase-hl.com/pdf/Programm-Gel-FO.pdf ).

Christian Kreutzfeldt

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PHASE GmbH
Bluecherstr. 2 , 23564 Luebeck, Germany
Tel. [phone], Fax[phone]
www.phase-hl.com
[hidden email]
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> we have added a new function to our firewire camera control and image
> acquisitions software FireCam Control (under Windows only) which may be
> interesting for a lot of ImageJ users.
>
> The new function lets the user export a single image from the live image
> stream (uncompressed data) into the ImageJ work space by a single mouse
> click. Any newer ImageJ version under Windows may be used without need of
> adding special macros or Plug-Ins.
>
> For more details, please see:
>
> www.phase-hl.com/cgi-bin/querypage.cgi?FireCamIJ_uk