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Products and Services: Spherical Vision Products: Ladybug®2

Point Grey Research's Spherical Vision camera systems are provided as complete hardware and software packages. Customers can access and control their Ladybug2 Spherical Vision system with the Ladybug SDK.

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Ladybug2 (1394b)
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The highly affordable Ladybug®2 spherical digital video camera system has six 0.8 MP cameras that enable the system to collect video from more than 75% of the full sphere, and an IEEE-1394b interface that allows streaming to disk at 30fps. The Ladybug2 is an excellent choice where smaller size, lower cost, or the ability to have the camera run over long distances via optical cable is required.

Benefits of IEEE-1394b (FireWire S800)

Sensor: Six Sony 1/3" progressive scan CCD, Color
Resolution: 1024x768
Frame Rates: 1024x768 at 30FPS
Compression: JPEG image compression via Compressor
Calibration: Provides high quality spherical image stitching
Lenses: Six (6) 2.5mm focal length high quality micro lenses
 Technical Datasheet   |   Getting Started Manual   |   Samples Gallery

Additional Features and Specifications

Components
  • The Ladybug2 is composed of a Head unit and a solid state Compressor unit; a separate storage unit is no longer required.
  • The Compressor unit is connected to the camera Head unit via a high-speed fiber-optic link. The Compressor can be connected to any standard PC with IEEE-1394 capability. A 1394b interface provides the ability to stream raw, uncompressed data to the PC at 15 FPS.
  • The Ladybug2 SDK can be used to control the system, preview live images and retrieve and process previously recorded data.
Head Unit
  • Six 1024x768 color sensors
  • Five CCDs are positioned in a horizontal ring and one points straight up
  • High quality 2.5mm micro lenses
  • Multiple frame rates
  • Proprietary 1.2Gbps optical link to Compressor unit provides ability to stream images at up to 30FPS
  • Covers approximately 75% of a full sphere
Compressor Unit
  • JPEG compression engine allows user to trade-off image quality for frame rate
  • Compression allows data transfer rates to local hard drive of up to 30FPS
  • In applications where no compression is required, a maximum of 15FPS can be achieved

Model and Part Numbers

*NOTE: Each camera comes as a full Development Kit (get full Kit details)
Part Number Description
LD2-HICOL-KIT 1024x768 Color Ladybug2 Kit



Development Kit Contents

  • Ladybug2 Camera Head Unit
  • Ladybug2 Compressor Unit
  • IEEE-1394b OHCI PCI Host Adapter 3-port 800Mb/s card
  • 4.5 meter, 9-pin to 9-pin, IEEE-1394b cable
  • 4.5 meter, 6-pin to 9-pin, IEEE-1394a to IEEE-1394b cable
  • 4.5 meter, 4-pin to 9-pin, IEEE-1394a to IEEE-1394b cable
  • 10 meter 62.5/125um fiber optic link cable
  • 10 meter, 3-pin power link cable
  • 24V 2.5A power supply with standard connector and wall wart
  • Ladybug SDK, including C/C++ API and device drivers
  • Getting Started manual and LadybugCap demo software

Recommended System Configuration

  • Intel Pentium® 4 3.6+ GHz or compatible processor
  • 2 gigabytes (GB) of RAM
  • NVIDIA GeForce6 video card with 128MB RAM or more
  • 64-bit PCI or PCI-X slot for the IEEE-1394b PCI card
  • Windows XP Service Pack 1 (not compatible with 64-bit operating systems)
  • Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 or Visual Studio 2005 to compile and run example code
  • SCSI RAID array to store streaming image data

Emissions and RoHS Compliance

FCC / CE Compliance

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instruction manual, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. Operation of this equipment in a residential area is likely to cause harmful interference in which case the user will be required to correct the interference at his own expense.

You are cautioned that any changes or modifications not expressly approved in this manual could void your authority to operate this equipment.

RoHS / WEEE Compliance

This product is RoHS and WEEE compliant.

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