slmsuite.hardware.cameras

The sensor arrays used to measure results. Computer vision hardware is connected to python by a myriad of SDKs, often provided by hardware vendors. However, these SDKs likewise have a myriad of function names and hardware-specific quirks. Thus, cameras in slmsuite are integrated as subclasses of the abstract class Camera, which requires subclasses to implement a number of methods relevant for SLM feedback (see below). These subclasses are effectively wrappers for the given SDK, but also include quality-of-life features such as image transformations (flips, rotates) and useful common methods. A number of SDKs are supported, including:

AlliedVision, for AlliedVision cameras, through vimba (GitHub),

Cheetah640, for Xenics Cheetah cameras, through the Xenics SDK,

FLIR, for Teledyne FLIR cameras, through the PySpin interface of the Spinnaker SDK,

MMCore, for the general microscope control package Micro-Manager, through pymmcore (GitHub), and

ThorCam, for Thorlabs scientific cameras, through thorlabs_tsi_sdk and the ThorCam SDK.

Tip

While the superclass Camera only requires a small number of features to be implemented as class functions, any further control of a camera interface can be accessed by using the given SDK object directly (usually the attribute cam of the subclass) or writing additional functions into the subclass.

`slmsuite.hardware.cameras.alliedvision`	Hardware control for AlliedVision cameras via the `vimba` interface.
`slmsuite.hardware.cameras.camera`	Abstract camera functionality.
`slmsuite.hardware.cameras.flir`	(NotImplemented) Hardware control for FLIR cameras via the `PySpin` interface to the Spinnaker SDK.
`slmsuite.hardware.cameras.mmcore`	(NotImplemented) Hardware control for Micro-Manager cameras via the `pymmcore` interface.
`slmsuite.hardware.cameras.template`	Template for writing a subclass for camera hardware control in `slmsuite`.
`slmsuite.hardware.cameras.thorlabs`	Hardware control for Thorlabs cameras via `TLCameraSDK`.
`slmsuite.hardware.cameras.xenics`	Hardware control for Xenics camera via the `Xeneth` interface.