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FAQ

The CMUcam2 is now available for sale from our licensees and distributors: Seattle Robotics (USA), Acroname (USA), and Lextronic (France). CMUcam2 accessories are becoming available as well. A CMUcam2 turret is now available at The Robotics Connection.

The CMUcam2 has the following capabilities: ¶

• Track user defined color blobs at up to 50 Frames Per Second (frame rate depends on resolution and window size settings)
• Track motion using frame differencing at 26 Frames Per Second
• Find the centroid of any tracking data
• Gather mean color and variance data
• Gather a 28 bin histogram of each color channel
• Process Horizontally Edge Filtered Images
• Transfer a real-time binary bitmap of the tracked pixels in an image
• Arbitrary image windowing
• Image Down Sampling
• Adjust the camera's image properties
• Dump a raw image (single or multiple channels)
• Up to 176 x 255 Resolution
• Supports baudrates of: 115,200 57,600 38,400 19,200 9,600 4,800 2,400 1,200
• Control 5 servo outputs
• Slave parallel image processing mode off of a single camera bus
• Automatically use servos to do two axis color tracking
• B/W Analog video output (PAL or NTSC, depending on camera module used)
• Flexible output packet customization
• Power Down Mode
• Multiple pass image processing on a buffered image
• Works with the newer OV7620 camera module
• Yes, it is backward compatible with your current OV6620 camera module!