Image Thumbnail

The ImageThumbnail device is meant to reduce the input image for preview purposes. It expects an image in input.

It lets the user specify the size of a canvas where the output thumbnail image must fit. It outputs the image downscaled to fit in the specified canvas. Downscaled image is obtained by means of the thumbnail function from the image processing package.

Input to the Device

Property key Description
thumbCanvas
Shape of the canvas where thumbanail must fit [Y, X]
resample
If True binned pixel are averaged. Set to False
to spare CPU load, set to True to avoid aliasing.

Output of the Device

Property key Description
frameRate
The rate of incoming and outgoing images. It is
refreshed once per second.
ppOutput
The output channel for GUI and pipelines.
Thumbnail image can be found in data.image.
daqOutput
The output channel for DAQ - with reshaped image.