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MultiCam is the Euresys unique driver. MultiCam serves all Euresys frame grabbers and enables the control of several vision boards using as many cameras as wished from one or several applications in a PC. The Euresys driver offers a wide choice of camera, type of board, OS and development environment to build any vision application. This flexible and intuitive driver reduces drastically the time-to market for new product development or new Euresys board integration.
MultiCam manages the image acquisition and control of the cameras through a simple concept of a channel linking the camera to the buffer in the PC memory. The MultiCam channel identifies all parameters ruling the acquisition process from a camera. Every camera feature, such as its type, resolution or image format, is described and controlled through clear parameters, considerably easing the camera control task. For each channel-controlled camera, a set of dedicated parameters is created from a CAM file. Euresys delivers pre-defined files for many popular cameras; still the user can customize its CAM files.

The channel concept considerably eases the management of video surveillance applications using multiple cameras. Channels can be activated simultaneously. The MultiCam driver automatically manages the switching among cameras and frame grabbers to optimize the acquisition speed and the display refresh rate. The image processing applications immediately benefit from the multithreading environment

Industrial applications benefit from a wide range of camera interfaces. The corresponding CAM files are directly accessible and modifiable in EasyGrab, the easy-to-use MultiCam demonstrator program. All significant parameters are adaptable to specific cases such as trigger and strobe control, exposure control, camera timing, general purpose I/O management, ...