Hi,
We are currently developing the firmware for a camera application based on CX3 IC. I realiced that CX3 is able to communicate with laptop, in order to manipulete the camera sensor, through two differet ways : by own driver or by standar UVC driver (V1.1 concretely).
We have decided to chose the standar UVC driver option to implement the communication betwen the laptop and the camera sensor. So, actually we can set and get whatever Camera Terminal controls (Exposure Time, Focus, etc) or whatever Processing Unit controls (Brightness,Contrast, etc). To do that, we follow the following approach:
- In laptop side, We have an application wich works with openCV library. Because it give us the possibility to interact with a camera based on UVC driver.
- In CX3 firmware side, we have the knoledge to modify the following files:
- cycx3_uvcdscr.c = in this file we can enable or disable both Camera terminal controls and Processing Unit controls, contemplated on UVC V1.1.
- cycx3_uvc.c = in this file we must customize the CyCx3UvcAppUSBSetupCB function (Callback to handle the USB Setup Requests and UVC Class events). for set all necessary fields of each enabled property in cycx3_uvcdscr.c. Among the fields we can find the following: CX3_USB_UVC_GET_LEN_REQ,CX3_USB_UVC_GET_INFO_REQ,CX3_USB_UVC_GET_MIN_REQ,CX3_USB_UVC_GET_MAX_REQ,CX3_USB_UVC_GET_RES_REQ,CX3_USB_UVC_GET_DEF_REQ,CX3_USB_UVC_GET_CUR_REQ and CX3_USB_UVC_SET_CUR_REQ. All this fields serve to set the amount of bytes, the maximum and minimum values and to write and read the value of the property.
Continuing with this, We would like to ask you the next question:
- It is possible to custom the data type of each property? I mean, for example, by default the exposure time is a double type. And We can not understand if it is set in cycx3_uvcdscr.c or it only depens of the UVC driver and it means that this field is not modifiable. Because we want to send directly the value in milliseconds, as a double, and convert it on a hexadecimal value inside the CX3 and send it to camera sensor. If we go to USB Video Class V1.1 document, we can see that the Exposure Time (Absolute) Control has 4 bytes of wLength, so how could we write the value directly in milliseconds?.
