Vinten Radamec Free-d - Manual (Page 33)

Vinten Broadcast Ltd free - d ™ Installation Manual V1.4.4
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The DSP status is a signed 8-bit number which when negative indicates an
error condition as follows:
-1 Too few valid targets visible to compute camera position.
-2 Iteration failed to converge.
-3 A DSP reset occurred.
-4 Internal DSP error.
A zero or positive value of DSP status indicates the number of iterations which
were required to compute the camera's position.
A.3.4 Type D3 - control parameters
The D3 message is used for transferring the control parameters. It may be
sent to the
free-d™ unit in order to set their values, or requested from the free-d™
unit in order to interrogate the current values. Operation of switch S4 saves
the current values to EEPROM, which become the default values following a
subsequent processor reset.
The message contains 13 bytes as follows:
Message type
Camera ID
Studio ID
Smoothing value
Maximum asymmetry
Half box width
Black video threshold
White video threshold
Black video clip level
White video clip level
Maximum number of >black pixels between boxes
Minimum number of >white pixels in inner box
Checksum
The ‘studio ID’ is in the range 0 to 255 and determines which database of
target positions (stored in the on-board EEPROM) is used.
The ‘smoothing value’ is in the range 0 to 255, corresponding to settings of
smoothing between 0.000 and 0.996.
The ‘maximum asymmetry’ is in the range 0 to 255, in units of 1/128 pixels.
This sets a limit on the difference between the centre position of a target as
measured by the hardware and its position as estimated as the mid-point
between opposite edges.