Sapera LT is a free image acquisition and control software development toolkit (SDK) for Teledyne DALSA’S 2D/3D cameras and frame grabbers. Hardware independent in nature, Sapera LT offers a rich development ecosystem for machine vision OEMs and system integrators. Sapera LT supports image acquisition from cameras and frame grabbers based on standards including 2D/3D GigE Vision™, CameraLink®, CameraLink HS™, CoaXpress®, and USB3 Vision from Teledyne Lumenera.
Key Features
- Supports Teledyne DALSA 1D/2D/3D GigE Vision™ , USB3 Vision™, CoaXpress® , CameraLink® , CameraLink HS™cameras
- Integrated support for patented TurboDrive technology to boost GigE speeds
- Proven image acquisition and control with field proven T2IR framework
- Free download with Teledyne DALSA hardware
- Extensive camera supports for area and line scan cameras
- Pre-processing functions such as Flatfield correction ,Color conversion, Look-Up-Table, and way more
- Supports C++, C#, C programming languages
- Supports 64-bit Windows 11 & 10, WoW64 and Linux (kernel 3.10 and up)*
* Some conditions apply; contact Teledyne DALSA Sales for more information
Key Benefits
- Platform portability
- Highly robust GigE Vision driver for very high line and frame rate and High Bandwidth
- Extensive camera support
- Build-in diagnostic and monitoring tools with T2IR framework
- Faster application development with extensive documentation and demo/example source code
Image Acquisition
Sapera LT SDK provides field proven functions and libraries for image acquisition from a wide variety of area and linescan color/monochrome cameras and our 3D laser Profiler. Sapera LT SDK support all major machine vision standard such as CameraLink, CameraLink HS, CoaXpress, USB3 Vision, and GigE Vision. Sapera LT features a highly optimized GigE Vision driver that incorporate Teledyne DALSA’s patented TurboDrive™ technology to augment the GigE image transfer speeds by a factor of x1.5 to x3. When coupled with supported hardware cameras, this breakthrough technology delivers additional bandwidth to imaging applications without additional programming steps or resource utilization.
The image acquisition libraries are designed for high performance vision applications in mind and offer sophisticated host image buffer and transfer management techniques. Sapera LT SDK and its re-distributable runtime components for application deployment are offered free of charge when used with Teledyne DALSA cameras and frame grabbers.
CamExpert
Sapera CamExpert provides an indispensable user touch point for configuring and setting up cameras. Sapera CamExpert offers an intuitive graphical interface that allows configuring and setup of GigE Vision, CXP, USB3 Vision, CLHS, CameraLink and GenCP compliant cameras and frame grabbers.
Sapera CamExpert includes live image acquisition with interactive parameter configuration capabilities. With live status windows and built-in serial communication terminal, users can setup the camera and frame grabbers from a single window.
In addition, Sapera CamExpert offers software color conversion algorithms, horizontal and vertical line profiles, individual pixels inspection window, localized zoom, and image statistics (histogram, max, min, average values, etc.) to facilitate setup and diagnosis.
3D and Z-Expert
3D:
- Supports Teledyne DALSA’s 3D devices such as Z-Trak 3D Laser Profiler.
- Compatible with GenICam SFNC v2.3 (including Scan3D features)
- New 3D packed pixel formats containing: Z (depth), X (lateral), reflectance and extra device specific information.
- 3D buffer attributes: invalid points flag, world scaling factors, distance unit
- 3D data storage in TIFF and CRC (proprietary) file formats
- Splitting and merging functions for 3D data formats manipulations
Z-Expert Key Features:
- Supports Teledyne DALSA Z-Trak family of 3D profile sensors
- Concurrent acquisition and display of 3D scan data
- Built-in wizard to generate unified measurement space using multiple Z-Trak 3D sensor
- Save, load, import 3D scan in 3dr, PLY, tiff (16-bit) and CRC file format
- 3D visualization capabilities include supports 3D profiles, surface view, wireframe, point cloud display
- Display 3D in world units
- Seamless switching between surface and profile view
- Zooming, panning and grid display
- Pre-defined 3D view to rapid orientation and zooming
Demos & Examples
Sapera LT includes a range of demo applications built using its libraries with C++, C#, C on Microsoft® Windows® 10, Windows® 11 64-bit operating systems. Additional platform support includes Microsoft WoW64 and Linux.
Some conditions apply - Contact Teledyne DALSA Sales for more info. Application developers can use Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 to 2019 (Windows) and GCC Version (Linux).
Below are demos & examples available with the Sapera LT SDK:
| Demo Type | Name | Description |
| GUI Based | ColorConversion Demo | This demo show color conversion functionalities including Bayer pattern, BiColor (linescan) and more. |
| GUI Based | GigECameraDemo | This demo shows how to acquire images from a Teledyne DALSA GigE Vision™ camera. The demo either loads a configuration file (previously generated by CamExpert) or uses the camera defaults |
| GUI Based | GrabDemo | This demo shows the basic acquisition functions included in Sapera LT ++. It allows you to acquire images either in continuous or in one-shot mode, while adjusting the acquisition parameters. |
| GUI Based | FlatFieldDemo | This demo shows how to use the flat field correction function included in Sapera LT ++. Flat Field Correction (FFC) includes Fixed Pattern Noise (FPN), Pixel Replacement, Photo Response Non-Uniformity (PRNU), and Shading Correction |
| GUI Based | MultiBoardSyncGrabDemo | This demo shows how to grab from two different frame grabbers simultaneously (SapAcquisition servers), place both images in a single buffer, and display it |
| GUI Based | IODemo | This demo shows the usage of General I/O functionality included in Sapera LT ++. It allows you to monitor the current state of the input and output pins and change their state between low and high polarity |
| GUI Based | GigEMetaDataDemo | This demo shows the metadata functionality supported by Teledyne DALSA GigE Vision™ cameras |
| GUI Based | SeqGrabDemo | This demo shows how to grab a sequence of images from a camera into memory and then display them. The program allows you to record several images and save AVI files, plus load those AVI files for playback |
| Console | CameraEvents | Shows how to list all the available events with the camera. Using the registering and unregistering callback mechanism, it shows also how to track when a specific T2IR event occurs. |
| Console | CameraFeatures | Shows how to enumerate available features on a camera. It also shows how to retrieve feature specific information (for example, access mode), and how to change feature values. |
| Console | CameraFiles | Shows how to upload/download files for cameras that support file access such as firmware upload and LUTs. |
| Console | GrabLut | Shows how to grab images from a selected camera into a buffer in the host computer's memory. This program also shows how to enable, save, and load a lookup-table (LUT) |
| Console | FindCamera | Shows how to list all detected cameras when more than one camera is present, listing them by username, serial number, model name or server name. |
| Console | GigECameraMulticast | Shows how to perform a multicast broadcast. This allows a single GigE camera to transmit images to multiple host computers that request to receive the multicast broadcast. |
| Console | CameraFirmwareUpdate | Shows how to update firmware for cameras that support file access, allowing automatic firmware updates at the application level. |
| Console | GrabConsole3DWorld | Shows how to calculate real X and Z coordinates, as well as reflectance values (R). It does not display acquired images. |
| Console | GrabConsole3D | Shows how to grab profiles or ranges from a GigE 3D acquisition device. |
T2IR
Sapera LT features Teledyne DALSA’s Trigger-To-Image-Reliability framework. T2IR is a set of programmable functions within the Sapera libraries that supports the real-time traceability of the image acquisition and transfer process. Developers can build detection, monitoring, diagnostic and prevention capabilities directly into their application for seamless operations. T2IR combines hardware and software functions including visual indicators on the hardware, software libraries and stand-alone, non-intrusive utilities that can run transparently alongside the user applications without modifications.
Development Platforms and Tools
Sapera LT SDK image acquisition and control libraries are hardware independent and allow seamless interchangeability among Teledyne DALSA cameras and/or frame grabbers. Modular in nature, Sapera LT applications can be developed using Microsoft® C/C++, C# with Microsoft .NET™ framework & .NET™ platform. Sapera LT is supported on Microsoft Windows 10 and Windows 11 64-bit platforms.
| Name | Description |
| CamExpert | 1D and 2D Camera and Frame Grabber configuration and setup GUI. CamExpert supports hundreds of camera models and configurations including 3rd party cameras |
| Z-Expert | 3D Laser Profiler Camera configuration and setup GUI. Z-Expert supports Teledyne DALSA's 3D acquisition devices such as Z-Trak 3D Laser Profiler family. |
| Network Configuration Tool | The Network Configuration tool provides information and parameter adjustments for network adapters installed in the system and any connected GigE Vision camera without use of any Windows Control Panel application. This tool allows to enable and easily configure a Sapera DHCP server for your GigE cameras. |
| Sapera Monitor | Logs and displays low level Sapera LT interaction with host, buffers and acquisition devices |
| Teledyne LogViewer | Logs and displays low level Sapera LT interaction with host, buffers and acquisition devices |
| Sapera Configuration Tool | Allows buffer and memory management along with communication port configuration |
| Sapera PCIDiag | Host level utility displays PCI configuration and resource allocation and identifies conflicts |
Specifications
- Type
- Acquisition & Control SDK
- Operating System
- Windows 10 / Windows 11 / Linux (Kernel 3.10 or later) long term support distribution
- Supported Languages
- C++, C#, C, .NET
- Image Processing
- Color Conversion, Flat Field Correction, Look-Up Table
- Compilers Supported
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 to 2019 (Windows), GCC version (Linux)
- Camera/Frame Grabber Interface Supported
- CameraLink, CameraLink HS, CoaXpress, GigE Vision (Windows only), USB Vision (Windows only)
- Processor
- Intel/AMD, ARM64 (Linux Only)
- Hard Drive
- Minimum 4 MB for Linux - ARM64, 12 MB for Linux - Intel/AMD, 175 MB for Windows - Intel/AMD
Resources & Support
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Sapera LT SDK (full version) - Free Download
Gen CP Camera SDK (Sapera SDK for Gen CP compliant Camera Link cameras only) for Win 10/11
Machine Vision Brochure
SAP-AN0005 - SaperaLT Plugin for ImageJ for Teledyne DALSA Frame Grabbers and GigE Cameras
SAP-AN0009 - Using Sapera LT with OpenCV Processing API
SAP-AN0010 - GigE Vision Camera Automatic Firmware Update with Sapera LT
SAP-AN0012 - High Frame Rate - Very Large Image Acquisition
Trigger-to-Image Reliability FAQ
Trigger-to-Image Reliability Framework Primer
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