Image Logger
Scorpion Image Logger is an application in the powerful Scorpion Vision Software family. Scorpion is capable of acquiring digital images from a broad range of commercial video cameras, optionally tagging the images with real-time data from external data sources such as GPS receivers and OPC devices, before storage to JPG or BMP disk files.
Successful applications have been created using Scorpion with GPS receivers for tagging real world data to images or documenting lack of defects prior to shipments in automotive traceability environments.
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System Description
The Image Logger system consists of the following parts:
Standard DirectX interface
Real time Image Display
Database connectivity
Python Script Kernel
Automatic Image Logging
Mobile camera system
The Image Logger is used in a mobile camera system collecting data for a national road information base.
A camera positioned on the roof of a car captures an image every 20 meter. The images are stored in the computer together with their respective GPS position coordinates. The road authorities can later look up the images for information, planning or repairing purposes.