Using Zebra Clarity UHD

To use any Zebra Clarity UHD, you must allocate it as an Aurora Imaging Library Clarity UHD system using MsysAlloc with M_SYSTEM_CLARITY_UHD. This allocation opens communications with your Zebra Clarity UHD and allows Aurora Imaging Library to use its resources. You can allocate an Aurora Imaging Library Clarity UHD system for your board in multiple processes (executables). However, multiple processes cannot allocate a digitizer for the same acquisition path simultaneously.

Zebra Clarity UHD supports the following grab buffer pixel formats:

Aurora Imaging Library grab buffer format	Description
1 band 8-bit	Monochrome 8-bit
M_YUV16 + M_PACKED	YUV 4:2:2 8-bit
M_YUV24 + M_PLANAR	YUV 4:4:4 8-bit planar
RGB 3 band 8-bit	RGB 8-bit planar
M_BGR32 + M_PACKED	BGR32 8-bit packed buffer

You can also grab into a dynamic buffer. For more information, see Grabbing capabilities.

If Zebra Clarity UHD has been purchased with the H.264 encoder option, you can use the Aurora Imaging Library Sequence module to perform on-board H.264 video compression or decompression. To compress a sequence, you must allocate a sequence context usingMseqAllocwith M_SEQ_COMPRESS; to decompress a sequence, you must allocate a sequence context using MseqAllocwith M_SEQ_DECOMPRESS. For more information on H.264 video compression and decompression, see Inputs and outputs of an H.264 compression or decompression.