This module can convert from any supported camera sensor pixel format (YUYV, BAYER, RGB565) to any supported USB output pixel format (YUYV, GREY, MJPG, BAYER, RGB565, BGR24).

See Advanced topic: Image pixel formats for information about supported pixel formats.

This module accepts any resolution supported by the JeVois camera sensor:

• SXGA (1280 x 1024): up to 15 fps
• VGA (640 x 480): up to 30 fps
• CIF (352 x 288): up to 60 fps
• QVGA (320 x 240): up to 60 fps
• QCIF (176 x 144): up to 120 fps
• QQVGA (160 x 120): up to 60 fps
• QQCIF (88 x 72): up to 120 fps

This module also automatically rescales the image if input and output sizes differ.

Things to try

Edit JEVOIS:/config/videomappings.cfg on your MicroSD card (see Advanced topic: Video mappings and configuring machine vision modes) and try to add some new convert mappings. Not all of the thousands of possible convert mappings have been included in the card to avoid having too many of these simple conversion mappings in the base software distribution. For example,

YUYV 176 144 115.0 BAYER 176 144 115.0 JeVois Convert

will grab raw BAYER frames on the sensor, with resolution 176x144 at 115 frames/s, and will convert them to YUYV before sending them over the USB link. To test this mapping, select the corresponding resolution and framerate in your video viewing software (here, YUYV 176x144 @ 115fps). Although the sensor can capture at up to 120fps at this resolution, here we used 115fps to avoid a conflict with a mapping using YUYV 176x144 @ 120fps USB output and the SaveVideo module that is already in the default videomappings.cfg file.

Note that this module may suffer from DMA coherency artifacts if the camturbo parameter of the jevois::Engine is turned on, which it is by default. The camturbo parameter relaxes some of the cache coherency constraints on the video buffers captured by the camera sensor, which allows the JeVois processor to access video pixel data from memory faster. But with modules that do not do much processing, sometimes this yields video artifacts, we presume because some of the video data from previous frames still is in the CPU cache and hence is not again fetched from main memory by the CPU. If you see short stripes of what appears to be wrong pixel colors in the video, try to disable camturbo by editing JEVOIS:/config/params.cfg on your MicroSD card and in there turning camturbo to false.