Camera Measure for Windows User Guide

Overview

Camera Measure is an image processing and measurement application software for USB
digital cameras (microscopes, borescopes, dental cameras, inspection cameras)
on Windows OS (Windows 10/8/7, XP, Vista etc.).

Camera Measure software can preview, take pictures and record videos, and do image
measurement on screen in real time for USB Windows cameras. Camera Measure for
microscopes and boresopes/endoscopes provides a calibration ruler on live image,
and the ruler can be put anywhere, in any direction, and in any color and superimposed
on an image. This is user-friendly for in real time measurement. Camera Measure
offers a variety of measurement tools: line segment length, distance, angles,
distance between parallel lines, distance from a point to a straight line, length
of curves, Radius and areas of circles and ellipses, length, width and area of a
rectangle. Users can also insert text annotations and images in a picture.

Camera Measure has many other functions like magnifying glass, image zooming, dragging.
These features help users make more accurate measurements. Camera Measure offers
a ruler, magnification ratio, measurement function for microscopy applications.
Camera Measure also has other functions, such as:

Image fusion, which can stitch several images with different focus points into a long view depth
photo.

Time lapse videos, which takes pictures with certain time intervals, and form a slide show file to
play back.

Snapping local area images, take picture and video for specified image area.

High speed imaging, for cameras with frame frequency higher than 50 FPS.

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 Table of Contents
Camera Measure for Windows User Guide....................................................................................... 1

Table of Contents .............................................................................................................................. 2

1. Software and System Requirements ............................................................................................. 4

2. Using Cameras............................................................................................................................... 5

2.1 Camera Preview Play ........................................................................................................... 6

2.1.1 Full Screen Playing.................................................................................................... 6

2.1.2 Setting Camera Output Size and Format .................................................................. 6

2.1.3 Adjust Camera Color ................................................................................................ 7

2.1.4 Other Settings .......................................................................................................... 8

2.1.5 Play Multiple Cameras Simultaneously .................................................................... 8

2.2 Take pictures with time interval ........................................................................................ 10

2.3 Record Videos.................................................................................................................... 11

3. Image Gallery .............................................................................................................................. 12

3.1 Add an Image File to Gallery ............................................................................................. 12

3.2 Delete an Image or Images................................................................................................ 12

4. Image Processing Tools ............................................................................................................... 13

4.1 Image Fusion / Stitching .................................................................................................... 13

4.2 Histogram .......................................................................................................................... 15

5. Measurement .............................................................................................................................. 16

5.1 Zoom In/Out and Drag ...................................................................................................... 18

5.2 Grid and Cross ................................................................................................................... 19

5.3 Magnifying glass ................................................................................................................ 20

5.4 Setting Ruler .............................................................................................................. 21

5.5 Length Measurement ........................................................................................................ 23

5.6 Measuring Angles .............................................................................................................. 23

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 5.7 Measuring Distance of Two Parallel Lines ......................................................................... 25

5.8 Measuring Distance of a Point to a Straight Line .............................................................. 25

5.9 Measuring Curves.............................................................................................................. 25

5.10 Measuring Circles ............................................................................................................ 25

5.11 Measuring Ellipse ............................................................................................................ 26

5.12 Measuring Rectangles ..................................................................................................... 26

5.13 Measuring Polygon.......................................................................................................... 26

5.14 Annotation ...................................................................................................................... 26

5.15 Add Cliparts and Pictures ................................................................................................ 27

6. Technical Support ........................................................................................................................ 28

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1. Software and System Requirements
Operation Systems

Camera Measure can be run on Windows XP(SP2) and later versions, including Windows XP,
Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10.

Hardware requirements

Camera Measure uses Microsoft DirectX9.0c image to speed up image process, so make sure the
system is installed with video drivers.

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2. Using Cameras
Windows OS and Camera Measure will detect USB cameras available connected to computer. The
cameras are displayed in the list of cameras and camera currently in use:

The Interface of Camera Selections and Settings

If there is more than one camera connected to your computer system, you can select camera in
the drop-down list of all available cameras.

Windows OS supports hot-pluggable USB cameras. After you plug in a camera, you do not need
to re-run the software to see added / removed camera. You simply need to click “Detect” under
"Camera" menu as shown below:

Detect Available USB Cameras

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2.1 Camera Preview Play

Click to start playback. After you start playing, the play button will turn into pause button,

is used to pause playback. Click stop button to stop play, as shown below:

Camera Operation Toolbar: Play/Pause, Stop, Snap, Record, Settings

In the figure above, from left to right are "play"/"pause" button, "stop" button, "snap photo"
button, "record video" button and camera settings button, respectively. These features can also
be used with shortcut keys on a keyboard:

 Play / Pause: F9
 Record video / Stop recording: F2
 Stop: F11
 Snap Photo: F12

2.1.1 Full Screen Playing

Camera Measure supports full-screen playback and measurement. Right-mouse click in the
picture will switch between normal and full screen view modes. When in full screen, using
shortcuts to easily operate the software.

2.1.2 Setting Camera Output Size and Format

Usually cameras support several video output formats and dimensions. Before playing camera,
you can choose preview format and size:

Selecting Camera Output Format and Size

In the diagram above, you can select a camera preview / video-recording sizes, formats, and still
picture capture size (the still picture capture size setting corresponds to a camera with hardware
snap button or snap switch).

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2.1.3 Adjust Camera Color

You can make other settings on camera’s preview images such as: color boost, auto white balance,
Gamma correction, saturation, brightness, contrast, horizontal mirror image, vertical flip etc.

Click Button to adjust camera color:

Auto White Balance Setting

Auto White balance function displayed on this interface is adjusted by Camera Measure software.
It is not adjusted by camera hardware from camera’s manufacturers. You should give priority to
use camera white balance setting of camera manufacturers in the properties page. Hardware
parameter adjustment does not affect software performance. When the white balance
adjustment of camera manufacturer cannot achieve the desired requirement, you can use the
two kinds of white balance from the software: basic method white balance and color
temperature balance. When the picture color is rich, basic method will have better result; when
the picture colors is not rich, color temperature white balance has better effect.

If the auto white balance of the above methods cannot reach the effect of color correction, you
can click button to customize each color channel values to get correct colors:

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 Color Adjustment Settings

Note: white balance will reduce the camera's output speed (frame rate). After a good white
balance selected and the colors in the picture display correctly, you should immediately cancel
the white balance calculation. Color-gain parameters calculated by the software will be
remembered and used automatically for late operations. White balance calculation is no longer
needed.

2.1.4 Other Settings

Usually camera manufacturers will have a camera parameters window for users to adjust settings.
Click “Camera Options” button to access camera setting boxes.

2.1.5 Play Multiple Cameras Simultaneously

Multiple cameras can be played simultaneously (the software supports up to four cameras to play
at the same time) or one selected camera be played individually. The following figure shows the
software is playing two cameras:

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 Two cameras are played simultaneously

Under menu "Camera" selecting "Preview All" will enable multiple cameras to be played
simultaneously and measured.

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2.2 Take pictures with time interval

In addition to taking pictures during preview by clicking the “Take Picture” button, you can also
specify the time intervals to take pictures continuously.

When camera is under stopped status, click button to start timed picture taking.

In the "Tools" menu "Settings" submenu, you can set interval for taking pictures:

Image Settings

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2.3 Record Videos

Before you record videos, you may need to set video recording options and audio recording
options. In the "Tools" menu "Settings" submenu, you can select video recording format, video
recording quality, audio capture device etc.

Audio Recording Options

If you want to record audio for video, be sure to check "Record Audio" box. Usually microscopes
and borescopes do not have audio functions.

If you are using a high-speed camera, such as frame rate exceeds 50 FPS camera, we recommend
that you select "High-Speed Recording" option. In this case, the software will record the last
period images (for example, if the interface settings for 10 seconds) into video memory. When
you stop recording video, the in-memory images will be saved as a video file. Software uses
higher-speed memory writing into a hard drive method to achieve real time high speed video
recording. Due to limited memory size, we do not recommend to records long videos.

Click “Record” button to start recording:

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3. Image Gallery
All images are saved at the bottom of the software window: photo images, video files, image filed
opened, image processed and/or synthesized image files:

Images and Videos List at the Bottom

You can click on an image to select it, and display it in the main window, and subsequently do
operations and processes, such as measurement, annotation.

You can press and hold the CTRL or SHIFT keys to select more than one image files, and then
delete or remove. You can also drag the image, change its position in the gallery.

You can double-click an image to open the file folder that contains the images.

3.1 Add an Image File to Gallery

You can add a local image file to the image gallery and do measurement on it: in the "File" menu
click the submenu "Open Images..." or double click the blank of image gallery.

Camera Measure supports Jpeg, Bitmap, Png, TIF image files as well as RAW(BAYER) image file
format.

3.2 Delete an Image or Images

After selecting an image or several images on the gallery, you can use the DELETE keys to remove
images from the gallery. When removing, the holding down the SHIFT key at the same time, the
image file(s) will be completely removed from the hard disk.

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4. Image Processing Tools
Select images on the gallery, you can do some useful image processing:

4.1 Image Fusion / Stitching

Image fusion can be applied to two or more microscope images of different focal lengths, and
merges them into one picture. The following figures, Figure A, and Figure B have different focal
length, some parts are clear and some parts are fuzzy and blur.

Figure A

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 Figure B

Using image fusion / stitching process, a new figure, Figure C, is generated by integration of
Figure A and Figure B. The Figure C has better and clearer image:

Figure C

On the image gallery, select two or more than two image files having the same size (height and
width), then in the "Tools" menu, choose "Image Fusion" submenu. The new generated
processed fusion image file will be automatically added to the image gallery.

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4.2 Histogram

Histogram tool displays RGB channels histogram with red, green and blue lines on the image.

Click button to show/hide histogram:

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5. Measurement
Camera Measure can do geometric measurements on preview live video and/or image
files. With the measurement tools, you can select the key points in the picture to
draw and measure geometric shapes, such as lines, circles, and so on. The
measurement results are listed, showed or exported.

Measurement results and geometry shapes are drawn directly on the image. You can
click Save on the toolbar and the save a copy button to save the drawings and
measurement results. The “Save” button will overwrite the original image file.
Save a copy button will generate a new image file. You can draw directly on the camera
video footage and do measurements; the measurement results are saved through save a copy.

In addition to the direct saved images, the measurement results can also be saved
as text, EXCEL, or project formats.

Measurement Menu

In the “Measure” menu, click on "Save Measurement…". The measurement results can be saved
as non-image mode, and later loaded into a different image.

 Common Measurement Setting

Click the arrow button to show the common measurement settings:

Universal Measurement Setting

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In above diagram you can set background color of renderer window, filling mode of measurement,
line style of measurement, grid options and cross options.

 Manage Measurement

The created measurement list is on the right side of window with all measured results:

List of Measurements

In the measurement list, you can select a measurement to change settings, Hide / Show
measurement, or remove measurement. You can also directly select a measurement on the
screen with a mouse click, then press the DELETE key to delete.

If there is no measurement is selecting, the “Pen color”, “Pen width” and other settings are
applied as global settings, following new measurement will use these common settings.

 Button is used to change measurement line drawing color or fill color. When there
is no measurement selection, this button will set global color measurement color and
subsequent measurement color;

 Button is used to change the width of measurement line drawing;

 Button is used to change the display color of the text of measurement results;

 Button is used to change the font size of text of measurement results;

 Button is used to delete all measurements;

 Button is used to Show / Hide measurements on screen;

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When you change a color, the following screen will appear:

Color Setting

In color settings box, there are some commonly used colors for direct selection or click on

the Button to select more colors. This is used to set the

transparency of a color.

5.1 Zoom In/Out and Drag

When measuring, you can scale an image to make it easier to select measurement points and to
observe. Roll the mouse over an image to zoom in or out on an image.

You can also double-click the left mouse button on the image, this will switch between displays
in 1:1 and filling the window.

When an image is not in a filling window display mode, you can drag and move the image. This
helps watch different regions of an image and choose edge zones of an image. There are in two
ways to drag an image: hold down the CTRL key and use the left mouse button to drag an image;

Clicking in the toolbar change the operation mode to drag image.

If you use the right mouse button to change to full screen, use CTRL key + the left mouse button
to drag an image more conveniently.

You can also use these three buttons to change the zoom ratio of an image.

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5.2 Grid and Cross

Grid and cross can be used to help measurement. Grid lines in pixel units are drawn in the picture
to form grid; the crosshairs is drawn in the screen center to form cross line. Click the tool

bar button to display grid and cross settings interface as shown below:

Grid and Cross Settings

The buttons listed above can be used to set size of the lattice spacing of grid lines (in pixels), grid
line color, color of the cross and whether to show grid lines and/or a crosshair.

Grid Lines to Divide Image into Small Equal Areas

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5.3 Magnifying glass

Magnifying glass magnifies mouse cursor area to facilitate image points selection. Using F4 key

can quickly show / hide the magnifying glass. Click button in the tool bar to display setting
interface as shown below:

Magnifying Glass

In the Magnifier Setting window, you can set:

 Magnifying power

 Magnifier displays radius

 Magnifier following mouse movement or not

When the cursor is outside the scope of image, Magnifier will not display.

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5.4 Setting Ruler

In order to display the measurement results, the software needs to know the ratio of image pixels
and the actual distance. You should set the ruler to get conversion ratio. You can set the ruler as
this: place a ruler in front of camera lens, let the ruler displayed in the shooting range, drag the
two vertices of the ruler to a known length of line segment, as shown below:

Drag Ruler Vertices to Set Length

Click button on toolbar to display the ruler settings interface:

Ruler Setting Interface

In ruler settings interface, enter the actual length of the ruler in edit box and click button.

Displayed next to a ruler on the screen 1.000cm 1:0.01 respectively are:

Actual length + Unit / Pixel Conversion ratio

If you want to change the ruler units, such as mm, cm, inch etc., enter a unit string and set it.

If you are using a microscope camera, in the "magnification" edit box, enter the current
magnification of the lens, then click “set” button. When you switch the microscope magnification
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lens, you do not need to change the actual length of the rulers, only need to enter the current
magnification rate.

Click the button to load a saved ruler, click the button to save the current ruler:

Save and Load a Ruler

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5.5 Length Measurement

Click button on the tool bar, press the left mouse button at the start point of measurement

segment on the image, hold and drag the mouse to the end point of the measurement line,
release the left mouse button. You can then change the vertex to change measurement segment:

Measuring Length

In length measurement and calibration, the vertex are labeled with black and white boxes, while
color boxes are used temporarily for intermediate points of lines. When you use mouse to drag
the middle point, the intermediate point will be changed to the vertices, and you can measure a
polyline.

In the length measurement properties window, you can click button to directly input vertex
values to fine-tune the vertex coordinates.

If the measurement result text covers some effective screen, you can drag the text to a different
location.

5.6 Measuring Angles

Camera Measure provides two methods for measuring angles: three-points method and four
points measuring method. Three-point measuring method has a common intermediate point. In
four-point measuring method, vertex 1 and 2 form a line segment, vertex 3,4 constitute the
second segment.

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 Measuring Angles: Three-Point and Four-Point Methos

Click button on the tool bar to measure angles.

If you have selected a three-point method, press the left mouse button, hold and drag to another
point, release the mouse button to generate an angle to measure. You can change the three
vertices of an angle.

If you have selected a four-point measuring method, click mouse to select the four vertices.

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5.7 Measuring Distance of Two Parallel Lines

Click button on the tool bar to measure the distance between two parallel lines. Holding

the left mouse button and drag to the other point, then release the mouse left button. You can
change the vertex coordinates afterwards.

5.8 Measuring Distance of a Point to a Straight Line

Click button on the tool bar to measure distance between a point and a line. Click left

mouse button three times to select three points to create the measurement. You can change the
vertex coordinates later.

5.9 Measuring Curves

Click button on toolbar to measure a curve’s length. Hold the left mouse button and drag to

other point, then release to draw a curve. You can drag the middle point to change curve or
change vertex coordinates.

5.10 Measuring Circles

Click button on toolbar to measure circles. Hold the left mouse button and drag to the other

point release to draw a circle. Later you can change vertex coordinates. Camera Measure uses
three points to define a circle. You can change the coordinates of the three points.

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 Circle Measurement

Software gives the radius and the area of the circle.

5.11 Measuring Ellipse

Click button on toolbar to measuring ellipses. Holding the left mouse button and drag to

the other point and release to draw an ellipse. You can then change coordinates of
vertexes. Software using two points to define an ellipse for measurement.

5.12 Measuring Rectangles

Click button on toolbar to measure rectangles. Press and hold the left mouse button and

drag to other point, then release to draw a rectangle. You can change the vertex coordinates.

5.13 Measuring Polygon

Click button on toolbar to measure a polygon. Press and hold the left mouse button and
drag to other point, then release to draw a polygon. You can change the vertex coordinates or
drag intermediate point to increase the number of vertexes.

5.14 Annotation

Click on toolbar to add text annotations on an image:

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 Annotation Setting

Enter text you want to add in the text box, click button to set your text, then click on image
with mouse to place text there.

On the image, you can drag the text box to change the location and size:

Text Annotation

5.15 Add Cliparts and Pictures

Click on toolbar to insert clipart or image on screen. Select artwork file in the settings

interface:

Clipart Insertion Setting

You can drag the added image on screen, also change the size of the image.:

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 Frame of Inserted Image

Software supports a variety of image file formats. The software also allows to set the opacity of
the inserted images. The opacity can be changed through the following opacity interface:

Or

Change Transparency of Inserted Image

If the image has its own clear channel to adjust opacity, for example, a PNG image, we
recommend that you adjust opacity value to maximum value.

6. Technical Support
http://www.e2esoft.com/
[email protected]

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