Camera Settings

Camera settings include setting the Channel, Resolution, show/hide Focus Controls, and Configuration for each camera. There are two (2) types of cameras: array and document. The three (3) array cameras capture the front, back, left, right, top, and aerial photos. The two (2) document cameras capture the manifest, standard, stadium, divider, file, tab, and document images. The document camera is position below the main monitor and toward the left-hand side of the WIB™ Unit and toward the left-hand side of the WIB™ Unit. The Stadium camera is positioned below the right touchscreen monitor toward the right side of the WIB™ Unit.

Camera Channel

The five (5) camera channels are as follows:

1.       Left – the blue camera in Figure 4.

2.       Back – the red camera

3.       Top – orange camera

4.       Standard – green camera; and

5.       Stadium – yellow camera

Note: The highlight color for camera(s) 1 through 3 matches the cord covering for each camera.

The operator can change the camera channel by clicking on the touchscreen video feed for the camera and selecting which channel to assign the camera view to.

Resolution

Image resolution is the number of rows and columns in pixels. The 3284 x 1840 is optimal resolution setting for the cameras, however, the resolution can be changed to decrease file size for photos of less importance i.e., the photo of the top, or lid, of the box does not need to be as high a resolution of a photo of a file. However, changing the resolution of a single camera from one resolution for a particular image type to another resolution for a different photo type is not suggested as it is not efficient. Choose a resolution for a camera based on the photo types the camera is assigned to take and choose the setting that is best suited for the most complex data that may be taken with the camera. The resolution options are 3264x2448, 3264x1840 (optimal), 2592x1952, 2048x1536, 1920x1080, 1600x1200, 1280x720, 1024x768, 800x609, and 640x480.

Configure

Configuration settings allow the operator to manually set each of the settings to the desired effect. The operator can set the resolution from the configure menu as well adjust the brightness, contrast, gamma, hue, saturation, sharpness, exposure, and white balance for any of the five (5) cameras. Below is a description of each setting and the effect each setting has on the image(s).

Brightness

Brightness is simply how dark or light a picture is. Correct brightness is important to easily understand the contents of the picture. It is the simplest of the tools present in photo editors for light adjustment. Changing the brightness of a picture affects all pixels equally. Increasing it will make the dark areas lighter and light areas lighter too. Similarly, decreasing the brightness will make light areas darker and the dark areas darker too. Changing the brightness can help improve the visibility of the darker parts of the image.

 Contrast

This is the difference in the bright and dark areas of the image. If the contrast is high, the image looks lively; conversely, if the contrast is low, the image looks flat and monotonous.

Gamma

Gamma encoding of images is used to optimize the usage of bits when encoding an image, or bandwidth used to transport an image, by taking advantage of the non-linear way humans perceive light and color. The human perception of brightness (lightness), under common illumination conditions (neither pitch black nor blindingly bright) with greater sensitivity to relative differences between darker tones than between lighter tones.

Hue

Hue a hue is a pure pigment—one without tint or shade (added white or black pigment, respectively). Hue represents the color being displayed, as found on a red-green-blue scale, color wheel or grayscale. The intensity of the primary colors or gray displayed grows with increased brightness, but the color itself does not change. Changing to different color values makes no difference.

Saturation

This is the depth of the colors in the image. The higher the saturation, the more vivid the colors will be.

Sharpness

This is the image's clarity. The higher the sharpness, the more distinct the subject's contours will be.

 Exposure

Exposure is something entirely different than Brightness. It is an in-camera property of a picture. When clicking a picture, exposure is the amount of light that enters the lens of the camera. In other words, how exposed is the lens to the light entering the camera. Exposure can be controlled by changing the camera settings beforehand. When less than the required light enters the camera, the picture is said to be under-exposed. When more than the required light enters the camera, the picture is said to be over-exposed.

White Balance

White balance is a color adjustment that ensures that white things appear white. There are various kinds and conditions of light, and those differences affect the color or pictures. Human beings can recognize white things as white under various light sources from experience.    

Camera Setting Buttons

 

Save

Save allows the user to save custom settings. This gives the user the ability to load a saved camera configuration that is different from the default settings.

Reset Default

Reset Default allows the user to quickly reset the settings to the default settings.

Reset Saved

Reset Saved allows the user to change the custom settings for a single image. When Reset Saved is selected the saved custom settings are deployed after the changes.

Exit

Exit allows the user to close the camera configuration menu and return to capturing photos.