SAW Touch Monitor User Guide v1.0_MD
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1. Middle aza 328 Start Fig 20 After all the 5 points calibration click on OK button and then exit the setup program Now the parameters can be defined for the driver When clicking on the Parameters as in Fig 17 the dialog will appear as below Ee Parameters Setting Fine Position Sensor Parameters Vertical 0 w Mouse Enable Sensor Reverse Horizontal 0 l Edge Tip lt EU 11 07 Fig 21 Fine Position This is to adjust the vertical and horizontal precision ofthe driver When you move your hand or foot on the projection floor and find that the response position is not right near you please increase or decrease the valuein the edit box inorder to compensate the errors Mouse Enable Here should be ticked once the calibration has been done otherwise the sensor data from the user motion will not be transferred to multimedia effect content Sensor Reverse If the camera is upside down installed it can be mirrored by ticked this choice Edge Tip If this choice is selected the driver will send less data to multimedia effect content For example if with this choice the flower effect will generate less flowers when the user play with it Now everything is ready and clicks on the 1Floor exe in Fig 16 and enjoys the interactivity of the Floor system 3 2 Multimedia effect software configuration With the coming effects the software provides the entire interface to custom2. Music when ticked the background sound will be available Delay The duration for each background image when it is changing image background Fading The fading time for background image when it is changing image background After finishing the effect setting from the config interface it is important to save it Right click onthe dialog and then click Save Click on the Red Cross on the interface will exit the interface Furthermore some of the setting has to be edited with Notepad directly from the installation folder And also the resource files replacement 1e the background image can also be done directly from the installation folder In the installation folder there is a folder for fish which 1s 1Floor System data fish Here the fish dat can be opened by notepad and there will be a file structure as below The first lineis the numberof the fishand the blew isthe text to specify the animation fish that will be used The number of the lines should be the same as the first line The fish swimming animation files are placed under the fish subdirectory and it is working on the continuously playing of several fish motion pictures Please compare the Frog animation in the Ripple effect to find out how to build your own animation with motion pictures 23 In the below folder the background setting will be done here iFloor System data fish bg Wo Num of fishes data fish fish zebra zebra dat data fish
3. The above two situation all are needed to be setup together with the config interface in order to enable it 3 Flowers This page is to customize the effect parameters for Flowers effect as described above flower size ol flower dist 45 mas duration 1 2 rot speed 25 grow speed 0 05 fade speed 0 01 24 Flower Size The size of the flower Flower dist The distance between two flowers in units of screen pixel It is control the density of the flowers Max duration The life of the flowers after it appear Rot Speed The rotation speed of the flowers Grow Speed The increase speed of the flower transparency Fade Speed The decrease speed of the flower transparencey For the other setting please refer to the description in the Fish effect setup above Please notice that for the default setting the Flowers effect has a changing background and also the flowers can be changed to other objects by just replacing the files with same name from the folder of below 1Floor System data flowers flowers And also if more flowers are expected please compile the flowers dat in the same from the flowers folder and the file body will look like below data flowerssflowerssflowert tga Flower data flowerssflowerssflower tga Flowers data flowerssflowerssflowerd tga Flower4 data flowerssflowerssflowerh tga Flowers data flowers flowers flowersS tga Flower data flowers flowers flower tga Flower data flowers f
4. of each effect and switch interval time are defined The value is in munite Click on numbers below the Duration and input a new value with your keyboard Switch Scene The lasting time for the scene between two effect switch Fish The time that the fish effect will run The time 1s measured in minute 2 Fish 22 When click on the fish page tab or on the left side list the effect setting page for fish will appear as below There are two categories for the effects setting Param are the parameters for the effect and Media are the setup for background Sas a Contig 35 iFloor Floor Fish Flowers 3 Sj iFloor Floor Fish Z Fish Flowers Param Flowers Param Particle Particle Media Ripple Wave_Sctalar Ripple i i Scatter Media Type Image O Video Scatter Media Smash Smash Option Soccer Soccer Sphere3D Tiles Wipe Sphere3D Music V Tiles Wipe Delay Fading 0 0 Param Wave scalar the water wave amplitude the larger ofthe value and the wave amplitude is smaller Media Media Type The choice decides the type of the background layer of the effects If the image is chosen the background will be single image or changing images If the video is chosen the background will be video clip The corresponding image s or video clip file should be already placed in the folder otherwise it will cause crash when running
5. should be avoid is that the image from camera view become so white to override 2 3 Installation of the software Before you install the driver software iFloor it is important that all necessary drivers are installed before Please follow this instruction therefore step by step 2 3 1 Frame grabber card driver After installation of the Frame grabber card please switch on the PC to install the corresponding drivers Here the CG400 model is used as example andthe other models will have the same steps After the start of the PC please insert the 1Floor CD Asin Fig 10 it is required to install the driver for the Daheng CG400 video capture Welcome to the Found New Hardware Wizard This wizard helps you install zoftware for Daheng Ch 400 Video Capturel1 2 06 2003 6e If your hardware came with an installation CD lt or floppy disk insert it now What do vou want the wizard to do Install the software automatically Recommended afl from a list or specific location Advanced Click Next to continue ee oy Fig 10 Please confirm this window with Next gt Found Hew Hardware Wizard Please choose your search and installation options Ge Search for the best driver in these locations Use the check boxes below to limit or expand the default search which includes local paths and removable media The best driver found will be installed Sea ER paca loop CO ROM Inclu
6. EE net en E 20 ONY Des A A E N E OOT A 20 3 2 2 Customizing the graphic elements cccccccccccecccccececeeeeeceeeeeeeeeeeeaeaeaaeaeaeas 21 SA rE ECESO OZ O NO 21 DK En 22 PA NOMS o A IE EEES E EN E E A EEA EEA EE E E EE A E PR E aaease 22 e E O o aA EE EEA T A AN EEAS I EEE E EE eden 24 Ase UL Built Bee SOUL WAL nene area r E T aes aea aaa 25 Bel Mt ST CO IN Capa oe ec seers ted a eta esha T pas wak braan ue eee a seo saceosaeels 25 42 HMEC MUIS SOM W ANC Scie ccids actisndadanadcara diene ikt NE Di Preface The present guidebook describes the setup of the interactive floor projection system iFloor You receive a full instruction about the installation of the hardware and software components Furthermore examples of different possible applications and representable contents are also introduced 1 Overview of 1Flo or System iFloor system consists of the following parts 1 projector to generate the image on the floor 2 PC 3 Floor screen 4 Sensor unit to detect human action 5 Multimedia software responding to the sensor event Fig 1 The sensor unit includes both the infrared camera and infrared illumination device which is to enable the visibility of camera in the dark environment Normally the projector and sensor are installed together on ceiling of the room For some special purpose like for first demo or mobile demo they could also be placed on the table and use the room wall as the projection
7. a view borders should be nearly parallel to the projector projection image borders And also if you raise your arm in the camera view you should not look like upside down Then please drag and drop the blue rectangle to cover the four corners of the projection images as in Fig 19 For this purpose you need some black object to place on the corner of the projection image onthe floor and then drag the blue rectangle corner to cover it After finishing the blue rectangle borders should be parallel to the image window border Screen Border Calibration Setting Position Posx Pos Middle 474 328 Start Fig 19 When the projection screen borders are correctly determined now it istime to calibrate it Click on the WStart button and then the mouse cursor of computer will jump the left top corner of the projection image In this case usinga black object to place on the position of the mouse cursor and then drag and move the red circle on the image window to cover the black object in the camera view as in Fig 19 And then please click on the button Left Top and the position values on the left edit box will be updated At the same time the mouse cursor jumps to the second position the right top corner of the projection image illustrated in Fig 20 Please do the same as the first position until you finish the all 5 points Screen Border Calibration Setting Position PosX Pos y Lett Top 169 179
8. bber card inserted inside the PC has to be connected via BNC cable which can be extended to 20 meters though only 1 meter long cable is provided from the factory In order to build the complete system an empty room as illustrated as fig 31s expected which is often to be the entrance of a room or obvious area within the vision of the visitors As in Fig 3 all the system components are in the ceiling and the interactive projection image area are on the floor There are two ways to install the projector and sensor unit One is to face the projector and sensor unit directly down from the ceiling to the floor as in Fig in this 4 left picture Consult your projector seller for the way to fix the projector on the ceiling case the height of the room should be enough to generate the required projection image area or a wide angle projector lens will be utilized The second way is to use a mirror to reflect the projection image as shown in the Fig 4 right image In this setup though the projector is horizontally placed but after 90 degree of light route variation the projector light will come down directly in the same as the first method The first method is more fast and easy to handle with but the second method is more concise and good looking In the above installation the infrared device is missing In mostcase our system needn t the infrared device if the environment light 1s always enough for example if nearby there is a halogen
9. d Fig 13 Please confirm this window with Finish button After the installation of the Daheng CG400 video capture you will be asked to install the Daheng audio capture driver Please do the steps in the same way as above instructions When the two drivers have been finished it is requested to restart the computer 11 System Settings Change Windows has Finished installing new devices The software that supports your device requires that you restart your computer You must restart your computer before the new settings will take effect Do vou want fo restart our compybs Fig 14 Please confirm this window with Yes Then the frame grabber card is ready to use 2 3 2 Installation of the 1Floor Browse the CD ROM drive disk and get into the folder iFloor In the folder double click the setup exe file and then the installation starts Do it step by step according to the instruction of the installation wizard When finished you will see the 1Floor appear in program menu and desktop as in Fig 15 an 1Floor System g 1Floor GJ Uninstall g river Setup g Effect Setting iFloor Fig 15 Now the iFloor are ready to be in service 3 Adjustment of 1Floor After the hardware is properly installed it is time to setup the driver in order to make it work 3 1 motion tracking camera calibration After software installation you will find the following files in the installation fo
10. de this location in the search 5 ADH CG 400 Win2000_XP Don t search will choose the driver to install Choose this option to select the device driver from a list Windows does not guarantee that the driver vou choose will be the best match for pour hardware Fig 11 Please click the Browse button and choose the Frame Grabber Card Driver DH CG400 Win2000 XP in the CD ROM disk drive Confirm this window with Next gt Found New Hardware Wizard Please wait while the wizard installs the software The software vou are installing for this hardware Daheng CG 410 Video Capture 1 2 08 2003 has not passed Windows Logo testing to werkd its compatibility with Windows P Tell me why this testing is important Continuing your installation of this software may impair or destabilize the correct operation of pour system either immediately or in the future Microsoft strongly recommends that gou stop this installation now and contact the hardware vendor for software that has passed Windows Logo testing Continue Anyar F STOP Installation Fig Please confirm this window with Continue Anyway button Found Mew Hardware Wizard Completing the Found New Hardware Wizard The wizard has finished installing the software for rey Daheng CO 400 Video Capture 1 2 08 2003 za The hardware vou installed wall nat work until you restart our computer Click Fimizh to close the wizar
11. football match The ball size and speed can be adjusted to suit Rolling Ad bar can be customizable 7 Particle Effect Emitting particle source moving with the user Tip The background can be single image changing images or video clip which can be configured by interface The particle size and density can be customized Background sound is available 8 Smash Effect The Object are moving around and when user steps on them it will change into another image Tips The background can be single image changing images or video clip which can be configured by interface The cars can be changed into any other pictures Background sound is available mo flats 9 Sphere 3D Ball Effect 3 dimension balls bumps away when user touches it Tips The background can be single image changing images or video clip which can be configured by interface The balls surface can bechangedto any pictures Background sound is available 10 Wipe Effect Wiping the front layer to discover the background layer Tipes The background can be single image changing images or video clip which can be configured by interface Front layer can also be customized Background sound is available 20 3 2 2 Customizing the graphic elements As can be seen from the above software screenshot different graphic elements are displayed The software provides the flexible way to using one s own graphic elements like customer s compa
12. for the vertical mouse position and foot position Horizontal The compensation value for the horizontal mouse position and foot position Edge Tip The choice to decide the condensation of the motion position points Mouse Enable when checked the InterGround will begin to function Camera Reverse when the camera is in reverse installation check it When finishing the setting please confirm with OK 4 Mouse Enable When selected and ticked the InterGround will begin to work otherwise stop working 5 Exit Exit the program 26 4 2 Effect multimedia software The InterGround driver software will send out the motion tracking position points These data will be sent to effect software via socket connection Here the driver behaves like a server and the effect software will work as client Once the client connects to the localhost server with specification of IP address 127 0 0 1 Port 2000 the data stream will be received from port 2d 28
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14. ize the effects to your own imagination Until now 10 effects are provided as follows 3 2 1 Effects 1 Water and Fish Effect Fish swim inthe water and light wave isshinning under water When user walk over there will be water ripple and fish goes away 21 1 Scatter Effect Objects scattering when approached or stepped on In our product objects means leaves Tip you can replace the leaves by any other pictures The background can be single image changing images or video clip which can be configured by interface 16 3 Flowers Effect Objects flowing when through the image projected In our product objects means flowers Tip you can replace the flowers by any other pictures The background canbe single image changing images or video clip which can be configured by interface Background sound is available 4 Tiles Effect A movement across the screen causes tiles to flip over The tiles can flip at different speeds and hold for a variable amount of time 17 5 Water Ripple amp Lotus Effect The Image appears to be under water floating lotus and frogs are swimming with rippling distortions A movement across the screen causes waves Tip The background can be single image changing images or video clip which can be configured by interface The frogs can be changed into other animated objects Background sound is available 6 Soccer Effect A playable
15. lamp Otherwise the infrared device should be hanged with infrared camera t Fig 3 _ h m p me W i mn 4 a a Fig 4 For the floor surface 1f the floor is light color ceramic panel or similar material the projection image from the projector can be displayed directly Or a white plastic surface should be used as in Fig 5 For decoration the black tape 1s often used to surround the screen border Fig 5 If the floor at the installation room is not white or light colored any white or light colored mat or paint can be placed on the floor to enhance the projection Any of the following can be used e Rosco Dance Floor http www rosco com us floors dance asp e Laminate Tiles http www europe pergo com Professional Templates Range Products CT ProductD etail asp PNo 034082 amp CNo 1 e Floor Graphics Vinyl Film http www xes fi library PDF 3m 3m_controltac_162 pdf e Formica surface high pressure laminate http www formica eu com listado_productos php sec 2 amp sub 17 e Floor Paint http www phoenixpaints com au m 04 04 html 2 2 Installation of the hardware components 2 2 1 Installation of the Frame grabber card Step l Open the IMAVISION Video Series box and take out the frame grabber card inside Fig 6 Step 2 Plug the card into the PCI slot of the PC and close the PC box Fig 7 2 2 2 Cable connection After the screen projector and camera are cor
16. lder rm 1Floor System Su 1Floor G Uninstall SU Driver Setup Gi Effect Setting Fig 16 The first step is to setup the tracking camera Supposed the camera and projector are properly installed By clicking on the Driver Setup program there will be a minimized program appearing on the right lower corner of task bar which will looks like Fig 17 screen Border Parameters w Mouse Enable Exit Fig 17 There are 4 items in the popup menu About when selected a version dialog will appear Screen Border when selected the screen area can be defined by a blue rectangle in a camera view Parameters when selected a parameter setting dialog will jump out Mouse Enable when selected it enables the mouse to be controlled by finger touch Exit Exit the program Right click on the program icon and the choice of Screen Border will come If left clicking on it the following window will jump out as in Fig 18 Screen Border Calibration Setting Position PosX Pos Middle 474 328 Start Fig 18 Until here you should see the live view from the camera The below condition should be ensured from the camera view otherwise please adjust the camera height orientation or zoom lens to have the requirement 1 The camera view should cover the projection area of the projector 2 The objects in the camera view should be visible otherwise switch on the infrared illuminator 3 The camer
17. lowers flower tga Flowers data flowers flowers flowers tga Fig 29 For the rest of the effects pages it can be understood easily from the knowledge of the above two effects setting If you have more questions please feel free to contact your distributor 4 Self Built Effect Software The system also support your own development of the effect software made by Flash MX Java C Directx OpenGL or any other multimedia authoring and programming tools 4 1 InterGround InterGround is the driver program to support self built effect software After starting it will appear in the task as illustrated in the Fig 33 InterGround should be firstly run and then start other client effect multimedia software Reversely operation sequence will not make the software work correctly If right clicking on the icon a popup window will appear as in the Figure 25 About screen Border Parameters Mouse Enable Exit Fig 33 1 About The version information dialog window 2 Screen Border It is the same as the section 3 1 which is to calibrate the motion tracking camera This is the first step to setup the driver 3 Parameters After the above step 2 and close the Screen Border window the parameters of the driver can be configured Parameters Setting Fine Posttion Sensor Parameters Vertical 0 Mouse Enable Sensor Reverse Edge Tip Horizontal 0 4 Fig 34 Vertical The compensation value
18. ny logo by just replacing the corresponding files in the installation folder as shown below in Fig 27 s iFloor System data flowers particle ripple scatter scene smash soccer i no texture j ied x 125 JPEG spheresd tiles wipe be scene Frobe Document Fig 27 One rule should be follow is that the file used to replace should be in the same file name format size and other requirements like transparency A Photoshop expert is often helpful in this Case 3 2 3 Effect Setting Besides the graphic elements of the effects can be replaced each effect can also be customized for your own creation In order to do so please run the Effect Setting from the program menu as illustrated in Fig 28 21 1Floor z OH 1Floor System G Uninstall G Iriver Setup SU Effect Setting 4 Fig 28 After run the program a window will appear as in the Fig 29 From this interface it is possible to customize all the 10 effects on different pages Below each page which corresponds to an effect will be explained one by one 3 J iFloor iFloor Flowers A Fish Flowers Scene Duration Particle Switth Scene 0 1 Ripple Fish 0 2 Scatter Smash Flowers 0 2 gt Soccer Farticle 0 2 Sphere3D Ripple 0 2 Tiles Scatter 0 2 Wipe Smash 0 2 Soccer 0 2 sphere 30 0 2 Tiles 0 2 wipe Ie Fig 29 1 1Floor In this page the running time
19. rectly installed the whole system can be now interconnected by cables Here only the camera related cable connections are introduced Step 1 Connection to Video grabber card Fig 8 Step 2 Connection to camera Fig 9 Connecting the video cable from the camera to the cable as showed in the Fig 9 The camera needs a 12 VDC power supply Use screw driverto fix the power cable of the AC DC adapter to the camera Please be sure toconnectthe positive output of power supply with a to the positive input of the camera Reverse connection will cause dangerous result If you are not sure about the connection please call your technical support Ifthe connectionis all correct the LED behind the infrared camera will be ON and also the infrared illumination device could be seen weakly red color Otherwise ensure the cable connection 1s reliable 2 2 3 Infrared illumination device installation Infrared illumination setup 1s the critical factor for this system Without the proper support of the infrared illumination the system might not work in the situation where there is no infrared light around the instillation site The rule for a good infrared illumination setup is that the vision from camera will be visible for 24 hours and atsame time there will beno shadowif user steps inside the interactive zone Otherwise several infrared illumination devices should be utilized in the same way used by doctor operation desk One situation
20. screen and interactive area 2 Installation The following chapter describes the installation of the hardware and the software components The requirement for PC and projector are as follows PC System Specification Processor Intel Pentium IV up to 2 8 GHz FSB 800 Hyper threading active 512 MB DDR RAM PC 400 PC compatible to the PCI 2 1 specifications Geforce graphic card with model 5200 or late CD ROM disk drive Microsoft Windows operating system 2000 XP All other technical components correspond to the current standard Projector Specification Resolution over 1024 x 768 pixels Brightness over 3000 Lumens 2 1 General Installation All function hardware components can be fitted compactly into a case designed individually which facilitates the common electrical connection each other System installation PC House Keyboard UGA Control Monitor Projector R5232 Sensor Frame Grabber Fig 2 Here ifa wireless mouse and keyboard would be available it will be more convenient for the operation of the computer system The reason for this is that in floor projection system the normal desktop monitor is not used but only the projection screen on the floor especially the PC is often far from the hand Wireless VGA Transmitter receiver is also recommended to use in order to connect projector and PC which is already a cheap and robust enough device The connection between sensor and frame gra
21. sfishilion lion dat Fish model used data fishyFish yellow yellow dat data fishy Fish zebra zebra dat data fish fish zebraszebra dat datasfashifish lionlion dat data fishyFish yellow yellow dat data fish fish yellou yellow dat datasfishifish lionlion dat data fish fish yellow yellow dat datasfishifish lionlion dat data fishyFish yellow yellow dat datasfish fish zebra zebra dat data fish fish lionlion dat datatFichtFichtlinnilinon dat In this folder the image subfolder is to place the background image s as in the Media Type setup if the background is set tobeasingle image inthis folder there should be a single image which should be named as image jpg It can also be edit from the image dat in this folder image data fish bg image image jpg data flowers bg image 1 jpg 2 data flowers bg image 2 jpg 3 data flowers bg ilmage 3 jpg On the left side it is the fish effect background which is a single image and on the right side of the above pictureitis the background of flower effect whichis changing images Please compare to find out how to edit the text in order to make single or changing images background But most of all the mode needs to be enabled from Config interface Please also notice the file name format The music folder is to place the background sound file which must be mp3 format The video folder is to place the background video clip and the file should be mpg file format
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