PMIS - Functional Overview
Items marked in bold italics are new to PMIS Version 4.1
[Acquisition] [Display]
[Processing] [Analysis]
[Import/Export] [Commands]
[Miscellaneous]
Image acquisition
- Complete camera control
- Flexible image sequence acquisition
- PCO and The Cooke Corporation Camera Support
- Supports both CCIR and RS-170 video standards
- New SensiCam systems
- Roper Scientific/Photometrics Camera Support
- Series 200 cameras
- 16 bit PVCAM based cameras
- 32 bit PVCAM based cameras
- User defined camera control scripts
- Complete Image Point camera support
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Image display
- Display 16 bit signed and unsigned monochrome data
- 8 functionally defined image display scaling modes
- User defined image display scaling
- Zoom ,Squeeze, and Pan multiple image displays
- Zoom or Squeeze around point or region of interest
- Display image sequences as movies
- Create image montages and text overlays
- 256 color mode
- Gray-level and Pseudo-color image display
palettes
- Real-time image display palette control
- 24 bit color mode
- 256 shade monochrome display
- 64k color Pseudo-color display
- 48 bit 3 channel True Color display
- Complete control of True Color display reduction
- Support for 32 bit display pixel depth
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Image processing
- Native pixel data size is 16 bits signed or unsigned
integer
- Image Morphology operations: BLABEL, BSTAT, BMASK, BOBJECT
- 32 Bit Operations: COPY, ADD, SUB, MUL, DIV
- Binary Operations: THRESHOLD, DILATE, ERODE, OUTLINE
- Pixel Operations: SHIFT, ROTATE, NEGATE, INVERT, ABS, LOG, SQRT
- Monadic Operations: ROTATE, FLIP, SHIFT, COPY, SUBIMAGE,
INSERT
- Constant Operations : COPY, ADD, SUB, MUL, DIV, AND, OR,
XOR, MIN, MAX
- Dyadic Operations : COPY, ADD, SUB, MUL, DIV, AND, OR,
XOR, MIN, MAX
- Convolution Filters : SOBEL, LAPLACE, MIN, MAX, MEDIAN,
OUTLINE, USER
- FFT Filters : LOW / BAND / HIGH PASS, BAND REJECT
- FFT Data Visualization : REAL, IMAGINARY, AMP, logAMP,
PHASE
- Geometric image transformations : ROTATE, SCALE,
TRANSLATE, SKEW
- Integral row and column resolution reduction : REDUCE
- Correct for CCD Line or Point defects : FIXPOINT, FIXLINE
- 16 to 8 bit data scaling : 8 scaling modes
- Correct image data using Bias, Dark Current, or Flat
Field images
- Special video image processing functions : VFIELD, VLINE
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Image analysis
- Object area, perimeter, center of gravity, bounding rectangle
- Pixel minimum, maximum, average, standard deviation,
absolute mean deviation
- Statistics optionally restricted to region of interest
(ROI)
- Rectangular, Elliptical, Elliptical Ring, and Polygonal ROIs
- Plot area histogram, pixel row, column, or line, 3D
surface
- Plot image analysis results or user defined data
- Analysis data and subimages can be easily transferred to
external programs
- Measure point intensity or Euclidean distance and angle
- Linear measurements compensate for non-square pixel
sources
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Image import and export
- Read/Write native image files (16 bit)
- Read/Write FITS image files (16 bit)
- User defined FITS header records
- Read/Write TIFF 8/16 bit gray scale image files
- Read/Write TIFF 24/48 bit True Color files
- Write Windows BMP files (8 bit with Color Palette)
- Read Windows BMP files (8 bit with Color Palette)
- Read/Write 24 bit True Color BMP files
- Read IPlab image files (16 bit)
- Read Star1 image files (16 bit)
- Read raw binary data files (8/16/32 bit)
- Write raw binary data files (16 bit)
- Print internal image data (gray, pseudo, or true color)
- Print image screen display (includes text and graphics)
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Command line interface
- Powerful command line interpreter, more than 200 commands
- Access more than 100 internal variables and structure
elements
- Expression analysis similar to "C"
- Save complex command sequences in macro files
- Execute user defined macros from User menus or Icon
toolbar
- New commands can be easily added (requires PMIS SDK)
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Miscellaneous functions
- Interrupt driven serial I/O support
- Parallel I/O support
- Access to external I/O ports and physical memory
- Read and Write external ASCII files
- Extensive commands for linear array processing
- Request and process text, point, line, and rectangle
input from user
- Transfer images or subimages to the Windows Clipboard
- Complete DDE server functionality
- Windows DDE client functions
- Internet TCP/IP client functions
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Last Modified: June 20, 2003