User manual PHILIPS PCVC750K

[. . . ] Contents 1 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 Preparation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3 Camera and software installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4 Using the applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] Set preferred recording device Clicking this button makes the Philips PCVC750K camera the preferred recording device. This button will be disabled if the Philips PCVC750K audio device is already selected as your preferred recording device. Windows stores the user's preferred recording device in its multimedia settings. Applications can use this setting for selecting a user-preferred audio source. Use preferred devices only Use this option to enforce or stop using the preferred device only. For most camera applications it is preferable to check this option. 5. 4 Capture Source Some applications may offer you a fourth tab called 'Capture Source'. Usually this setting has only one option when the USB PC Camera is the only video source connected to your computer. However, if more than one video source is connected to your system, you can switch between them here. Applications that do not show this fourth tab will offer video source switching under a different menu item within the application itself. NOTE: If you have two or more Philips USB cameras connected to your computer, they can only be used one at a time. 16 6 TWAIN applications Use the camera's voice control feature (say 'Cheese') to be sure to capture an image of you smiling. The Philips USB PC Camera is TWAIN-compatible (like a scanner), so you can use the camera as an input device for any application software that uses TWAIN as a data source (e. g. IMPORTANT NOTE: Windows®XP might start a generic WIA interface (Windows Image Acquisition) when you choose the camera device name with the WIA prefix as your source device for image capture, instead of the TWAIN View Finder depicted below. This Microsoft® WIA interface allows you to capture still images with your camera, but without the advanced capabilities of the TWAIN software described below (e. g. Please select the 'Philips ToUcam Camera' as your TWAIN source device for acquiring still images with your camera. 6. 1 Capturing images from within applications In TWAIN-compatible applications you will see the Philips USB PC Camera listed as an available TWAIN data source among your other TWAIN sources (e. g. Just pick the USB PC Camera as your source, to capture camera pictures directly into your application. Then choose 'Acquire' to launch the camera viewfinder, which displays the moving video picture. To capture a still image, say 'Cheese', click on the 'Capture' option under the viewfinder, or push the snapshot button on top of the camera. 17 6. 2 Capture settings To the right of the 'Capture' button you will find the 'Adjustments. . . ' button, which is used to change the settings. Clicking the 'Adjustments. . . ' button will bring up the following window. Camera source Usually this setting features only one option when the USB PC Camera is the only video source connected to your computer. However, if more than one video source is connected to your system, this is where you switch between them. The 'Camera Controls' button will bring up the other camera setting tabs as described under 'Camera Settings'. Image formats Here you can select the size of the still image to be captured. To the right of the still image format the streaming image format indicates the size of the preview window independently of the still image format. 18 Single Image Capture - 'Voice Controlled' snapshot (This option will be disabled (greyed out) when Auto Image Capturing is enabled) The 'Voice Controlled' check box disables/enables voice controlled capturing. If this function has been enabled the user can start capturing by saying 'Cheese' (or pushing the 'Capture' button in the Viewfinder or pressing the camera's Snapshot button). [. . . ] With USB devices this usually means that you will have to perform an installation procedure only once, i. e. the first time you connect the new hardware. After the initial set-up, you will not have to restart the computer when connecting the camera to the USB port. The USB driver will detect the camera as newly connected hardware. [. . . ]