Architecture
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The flexible architecture of HALCON ensures its compatibility with future developments, for example, the portability to other operating systems or the integration into new programming environments. This protects your investment in your applications. Image Acquisition InterfacesHALCON includes a powerful software interface to provide a common view on different image acquisition devices. Thus, you can connect to your device, set device-specific parameters, and acquire images within a few lines of code. You can use all kinds of image acquisition hardware, including line scan cameras, 3D cameras, and cameras with non-standard resolutions and more than 8 bits per pixel. HALCON guarantees hardware independence by providing interfaces to hundreds of industrial cameras and frame grabbers. HALCON also provides ready-to-use interfaces to all commonly used standards, including GenICam, GigE Vision, and IIDC 1394. Moreover, HALCON supports real-time preprocessing by directly running filter operations on the image acquisition device. Because of the open architecture, you can even develop new interfaces to fully integrate additional image acquisition devices into HALCON. Furthermore, you can also pass images to HALCON via their memory address, or read them via a virtual acquisition interface from hard disk. Extension PackagesThis unique feature allows you to integrate your existing or newly developed image processing algorithms into HALCON. Thus, you get a common view on all the image processing parts of your application and facilitate maintenance and future development. An open, extensively documented interface enables you to utilize the powerful internal data structures of HALCON. |
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