More NXTCam

Lighting conditions

The NXTCam is designed to operate under white fluorescent light. If you notice

reddish image color, which tends to happen when your environment has lot of

ambient Infrared light, try to find the source of Infrared light and reduce it by

replacing it with fluorescent light.

For advanced operations it is possible to change color gain, brightness and contrast

of NXTCam by manipulating the I2C register values.

Following table lists the register definitions and setup commands:

Commands

ASCII Hex Action

A 0x41 Sort tracked objects by size

B 0x42 Select Object tracking mode

C 0x43 Write to Camera Registers

D 0x 44 Disable Tracking

E 0x45 Enable Tracking

G 0x47 Get the Color map from Camera Engine

H 0x48 Read data from the Camera Registers

I 0x49 Illumination on (Future)

L 0x 4C Select Line tracking mode

N 0x4E Set ADPA mode ON (setting stored in NVRAM)

O 0x4F Set ADPA mode Off (default) (setting stored in NVRAM)

P 0x50 Ping camera Engine

R 0x52 Reset Camera Engine

S 0x53 Send the color map to camera Engine

T 0x54 Illumination Off

U 0x55 Sort tracked objects by color

V 0x56 Get camera Engine firmware version No

X 0x58 Do not Sort tracked objects

Time: 5hrs.