The CMUcam4 is a fully programmable embedded computer vision sensor. The main processor is the Parallax P8X32A (Propeller Chip) connected to an OmniVision 9665 CMOS camera sensor module.
Features
- Fully open source and re-programmable using the Propeller Tool
- Arduino Shield Compatible
- w/ Supporting Interface Libraries and Demo Applications for the Arduino and BASIC Stamp
- VGA resolution (640x480) RGB565/YUV655 color sensor
- Image processing rate of 10 frames per second
- Raw image dumps over serial or to flash card
- (640:320:160:80)x(480:240:120:60) image resolution
- RGB565/YUV655 color space
- Onboard Image Processing (QQVGA 160x120)
- Track user defined color blobs in the RGB/YUV color space
- Mean, median, mode and standard deviation data collection
- Segmented (thresholded) image capture for tracking visualization (over serial or to flash card)
- 80x60 image resolution
- Monochrome color space
- Histogram generation (up to 128 Bins)
- Arbitrary image clipping (windowing)
- µSD/µSDHC/µSDXC flash card slot with FAT16/32 full file system driver support
- w/ Directory and File manipulation
- I/O Interfaces
- Two-port servo controller (pan and tilt w/ 1us resolution at a 50 Hz refresh rate)
- Pan and/or Tit servo channels can be configured as GPIOs
- Indicator user controllable LED (red) and power LED (green)
- TTL UART (up to 115200 baud – 19200 baud by default)
- Monochrome baseband analog video output (NTSC/PAL) of 160x120 resolution for tracking visualization (segmented (thresholded) image w/ color centroid and bounding box overlay at 10 FPS)
- CMUcam4 GUI for viewing images on the PC
