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Jan 29, 2008, 3:54:47 PM1/29/08
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Does anyone have any experience with a Coreco Imaging PC Vision card. I
bought one second hand to aid with my understanding of Computer vision but
have been unable to find drivers for the card.

In fact, I can't even find the manufacturer website, using google.

Thanks.


ImageAnalyst

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Jan 29, 2008, 11:31:18 PM1/29/08
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Is it a TCi (PCI slot) or a TCx (ISA slot)? I've used both and may
still have drivers around.

J

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Jan 30, 2008, 3:18:28 AM1/30/08
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The Coreco API is called Sapera and a few years ago Coreco was bought
out by Dalsa - so you need to look here for the Sapera PC Vision
drivers.

http://www.dalsa.com/

You should be able to download the Sapera API since the license is
linked to Coreco hardware. If you can't download drivers from there,
then you will need to contact Firstsight vision - www.firstightvision.co.uk
- who are the uk distributors for Dalsa. They should be able to put a
CD in the post with everything you need on.

An alternative route would be to download common vision blox -
http://en.commonvisionblox.de/pages/cvb/download.php?view=510&menu=5-1

This is a large cd iso download so might take a couple of hours, but
this cd is shipped with all the Dalsa drivers.

Regards

Dr Jason Dale
www.visionexperts.co.uk

Mark Robinson

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Jan 30, 2008, 9:12:52 AM1/30/08
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}{ wrote:
> Does anyone have any experience with a Coreco Imaging PC Vision card. I
> bought one second hand to aid with my understanding of Computer vision but
> have been unable to find drivers for the card.

The PC Vision was originally an ITI (Imaging Technology Inc.) card,
which was taken into the Coreco range when ITI were bought by them.
Coreco were subsequently bought by Dalso. ITI used to own the
imaging.com domain, but that now leads to Dalsa.

ITI's interface software was called IFC (Imaging Foundation Classes)
which supports all of the ex-ITI range of framegrabbers. It is
still available and still developed (albeit very slowly) and supported
by Dalsa. I don't know whether it's free, although it was supplied
with every grabber. You might try searching around the Dalsa website.
I still support a product that uses it (currently at version 5.8sp3)
to drive PCDig framegrabbers.

It seems there were some attempts to produce Linux drivers, e.g.
http://itifg.sourceforge.net/ but it seems to have gone dead now.

One last point is that older revisions of the PCDig don't work in
some modern motherboards (for PCDig, Coreco produced a revision C
board). I think the problem was associated with the PCI interface
chip, so it may be common across all older ITI boards. It may even
be why the vendor wanted to sell it (we've got a stack of Rev B
PCDig boards that are rapidly becoming useless...)

HTH

Cheers

mark-r

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Jan 30, 2008, 4:18:23 PM1/30/08
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Guys,

Thanks for all your help.

Following a couple of links took me to the Common Vision Blox website where
I was able to get the required drivers.

Kind Regards.


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