The Color Tool can be used in two ways: Color ID and Color Match.
AutoVISION supports color cameras. When a color camera is selected, images will be displayed in full color.
A toolbar in the Image view contains buttons for Auto Calibration, White Balance, Restore Factory White Balance, and, for Auto Focus cameras only, a Quick Focus button (not shown here). White Balance and Restore Factory White Balance buttons are only visible for color cameras.
Auto Calibration button:
White Balance button:
Clicking this button will launch the Auto White Balance operation:
Restore Factory White Balance button:
Clicking this button will restore the white balance settings to factory defaults.
Images are displayed in full color. Moving the mouse pointer over a pixels in a color image will display the RGB and HSI values of the current pixel.
AutoVISION allows you to insert any of the standard tools into a color image (Count, Presence/Absence, Measure, etc.). These tools do not operate on color pixels, but they do operate on one of the monochrome color planes (typically luminance). The color plane is only displayed within the region of interest of the selected tool. The Count Tool is shown in this example:
The overall image remains in color, but within the region of interest of the Count Tool, the monochrome pixels being operated on are shown.