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Integrating a CCD Camera to LabWindows CVI

I have a USB2.0 CCD camera that I would like to integrate into a LabWindows CVI application.  The camera software comes with standard drivers like Direct Show (WDM), ActiveX, CVB, HALCON, and TWAIN. What would be the best approach to integrate one of these drivers to bring images into a CVI panel. I have the full development system. Would I need any further software add-ons for my LabWindows CVI environment.

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you may integrate the camera into your software using the drivers provided with the camera. ActiveX should be the simplest method: follow the CVI documentation for integrating an ActiveX control into your application, and look into your camera installation cd, you may find some ready-made examples.

 

for personal reasons, i would chose TWAIN or DirectShow, for this, you need to install the Windows SDK which comes with CVI, but the learning curve is steeper. the HALCON drivers is made to integrate with the HALCON image processing library, which i suppose you do not own (it is an excellent image processing library but is quite expensive). i don't know what CVB is but i suppose it is another image processing library.

 

additionally, a standard USB camera should work with the NI Vision library. if, by any chance, you have a license for this library, try that way: you will find plenty of examples, easy support through this forum, plus it was designed to integrate with CVI.

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