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GenICam

The Generic Interface for Cameras standard is the base for plug & play handling of cameras and devices.

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Today’s digital cameras are packed with much more functionality than just delivering an image. Processing the image and appending the results to the image data stream, controlling external hardware, and doing the real-time part of the application have become common tasks for machine vision cameras. As a result, the programming interface for cameras has become more and more complex.

 

GenICam
Introduction
The goal of GenICamTM (Generic Interface for Cameras) is to provide a generic programming interface for all kinds of devices (mainly cameras), no matter what interface technology (GigE Vision, USB3 Vision, CoaXPress, Camera Link HS, Camera Link etc.) they are ... read more
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News
Next meeting will be held in April 2023 as part of IVSM Spring 2023 in Vienna! Soon to come GenICam reference implementation v3.4.1 December 2022 Updated GenICamPixelFormatValues.pdf and  PFNC.h September 2022 Meeting in Tokyo Hooray, a face2face meeting again! as ... read more
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Downloads
The official public releases of the GenICamTM standard are available for download below. Complete GenICamTM downloads GenICamTM Package Version 2022.06 consists of GenApi 3.4.0, GenTL 1.6, SFNC 2.7, GenTL SFNC 1.2, GenCP 1.3, GenDC 1.1, CLProtocol 1.2 and FWUpdate 1.0. ... read more
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Group Members
How to join the GenICamTM standard group? Any company can become an associated member of the GenICamTM group (individuals and organizations are not accepted). The Membership Application Form is part of the GenICamTM membership documents. It has to be filled ... read more
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History
GenICamTM contributors, meetings and milestones Starting with a kick-off meeting in June 2003 many actively contributing companies pushed the standard's development forward realizing a true success story. The following list shows the attendees of the GenICamTM meetings held up to ... read more
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Compliant products
There are basically three types of GenICamTM compliant products: cameras, transport layers, and software libraries. The rules specifying which products are considered to be GenICamTM compliant are listed in the GenICamTM license document. The GenICamTM standard committee will provide a ... read more