Changelog for Nerian Vision Software Release

6.0.0 (2018-06-07)

• New network protocol (not backwards compatible; requires firmware >= 2.0.0)
• Dropped support for SP1
• Discovery of devices on the local network
• Re-transmission of UPD packets in case of packet loss
• Added example for server application with libvisiontransfer
• Added dropped frames display to NVCom
• Compatibility improvements to GenTL producer

5.2.0 (2018-03-29)

• NVCom improvements:
  • New tool for displaying 3D coordinates
  • Added support for sending 12-bit image data
  • Fixed possible crash in full screen mode
• libvisiontransfer improvements:
  • Fixed infinite timeouts in ImageTransfer
  • Added deep copy functionality for ImagePair
• GenTL producer
  • Fixed path installation on windows to be compatible with other GentL producers

5.1.0 (2018-02-01)

• Added functionality for time stamp recording in NVCom
• Improved reliability of input image transmission in NVCom
• Added support for binary PLY files
• Fixed destruction of ImagePair while writing PLY files
• TCP streams no longer require a client port

5.0.1 (2017-10-18)

• Fixed synchronization issue in AsyncTransfer
• Fixed PGM output on Windows for ImagePair
• Fixed image data modifications during PGM output

5.0.0 (2017-09-29)

• Added support for SceneScan
• Added support for Jumbo Frames
• Support for 12-bit image data
• Renamed to Vision Software Release
• Renamed SpCom to NVCom
• Fixed possible display stall bug in NVCom

4.1.5 (2017-05-07)

• Added application icon to SpCom
• Compatibility fixes to GenTL producer
• New sample data for GenTL producer test builds

4.1.4 (2017-04-12)

• Added example program for MATLAB
• Fixed reading / writing of paths with non-ASCII characters with SpCom on Windows
• Allow recording of more than 10,000 frames in SpCom

4.1.3 (2017-03-30)

• Compatibility fixes to GenTL producer. Now compatible with MATLAB

4.1.2 (2017-03-27)

• Fixed possible image reception stall when reconfiguring SP1
• Removed restrictions to image size when compiling with SSE or AVX2

4.1.1 (2017-03-09)

• Fixed critical bug that causes image reception problems on Windows 10

4.1.0 (2017-02-15)

• Fixed erroneous subpixel decoding of disparity maps
• GenTL producer now supports multi-part data streams
• GenTL producer now has a dedicated virtual device for right camera images
• Added an example for HALCON 13
• Both HALCON examples now visualize the 3D point cloud
• SpCom build fix for older CMake versions

4.0.0 (2016-01-17)

• New network protocol for SP1 firmware 3.0.0
• Support for variable disparity range
• Added zoom and fullscreen support to SpCom
• Fixed display stall bug in SpCom
• Build fixes for ARM

3.0.1 (2016-10-13)

• Fixed build problem for some Linux systems

3.0.0 (2016-10-07)

• New protocol with lower performance overhead
• Support for larger image resolutions
• Qt GUI for SpCom
• SpCom supports saving of 3D point clouds
• New color coding scheme for SpCom
• Zoom functionality for SpCom

2.1.7 (2016-07-08)

• Compatibility fix for non-AVX CPUs for binary windows builds

2.1.6 (2016-05-18)

• Fixed possible receive buffer overflow in libvisiontransfer
• Build-fix for cross compilation of libvisiontransfer

2.1.5 (2016-03-17)

• Improved parallelization for AsyncTransfer in libvisiontransfer
• Fixed possible duplicate write of captured frames in spcom
• Fixed possible problem with captured file numbering in spcom

2.1.4 (2016-03-11)

• Fixed network exceptions on Windows 10
• Lazy initialization of receive thread in libvisiontransfer

2.1.3 (2016-03-07)

• Improved installation procedure for Windows and Linux

2.1.2 (2016-02-12)

• Improved parallelism for libvisiontransfer
• Fixed inaccurate frame rate display of spcom for Windows builds

2.1.1 (2016-01-12)

• Fix for image widths that are not a multiple of 64

2.1.0 (2015-12-08)

• Added a GenICam GenTL producer that encapsulates libvisiontransfer
• Minor compilation fixes

2.0.0 (2015-11-23)

• Major clean-up and simplification of all interfaces
• Image pairs are now stored in the new class ImagePair
• Transmission / reception of q-Matrix, timestamp and sequence number
• Right image can now have 8-bit color depth
• Support for image reception and transmission on the same connection
• Several network optimizations
• Internal refactoring