D-Link DSB-C300Clear User manual

DSB-C300

300K Pixel Digital Webcam

User’s Guide

Rev. 1.2

Contents

Overview..................................................................................1

Minimum System Requirements..............................................................1

Hardware Installation.................................................................................1

Driver Installation.......................................................................................1

Quality & Format Adjustment..................................................2

Display Utility..............................................................................................2

Color Adjustment........................................................................................3

Format Adjustment.....................................................................................5

Taking a Snapshot..................................................................6

Uninstalling the DSB-C300.....................................................7

D-Link Offices..........................................................................8

Overview

Thank you for the purchase of the D-Link DSB-C300. This high

performance webcam is imbedded with state of the art video

compression technology and transmits through the USB interface.

You will never be too late to enjoy the high resolution sensor providing

the sharpest image quality allowing a pleasurable experience with the

video applications in your PC along with the DSB-C300. Following is a

brief installation guide for first time users who are running the DSB-

C300 in the Windows environment.

Minimum System Requirements

§Pentium 133 or above CPU, Pentium II 350 recommended

§32 MB of system RAM

§One USB port

§Microsoft Windows 98 or above

§20MB hard disk space

Hardware Installation

Plug in the USB cable of theDSB-C300 into the USB port in the PC or

any USB hub attached to the PC.

Note: The Add New Hardware Wizard will start automatically once

the camera has been plugged in.

The LED indicator of the camera will be active after the USB host

controller initiated the USB device properly.

Driver Installation

This section includes a generic driver installation procedure that can

be used for most Windows USB enabled operating systems. These

instructions are not specific to all versions of Microsoft Windows.

Once the camera has been installed, Windows will detect the camera

and prompt “Add New Hardware Wizard” dialog box on the screen.

Follow these instructions to finish the driver installation…

§Click on “Next>” button to continue.

§Select the “Search for the best driver for your device.”

§And click on the Next button to search for the best driver.

§Select the “Floppy disk driver” and insert the driver diskette that

came with the camera into the floppy drive. Then click on the

Next button.

§Click on the Next button, then Windows will copy all required

files from the driver diskette to system.

§Click on the Finish button to complete the driver installation.

Quality & Format Adjustment

Display Utility

Once the driver is installed successfully, the display utility allows you

to view video images from your DSB-C300, and adjust the parameters

for best color quality.

To gain access to the display utility after installation, you need to

select the pc-camera.exe file (the file with the camera icon) in Drive

A:as illustrated below…

To adjust for the best image quality, select Device from the menu bar

and choose PC Camera Capture; a prompt screen will be displayed

like the one below:

This will initiate a video capture. However, before you begin utilizing

the DSB-C300, make sure there is enough lighting in the scene and

adjust the focus on the DSB-C300 to gain optimal image quality.

Color Adjustment

Once the DSB-C300 is capturing images, you can start adjusting the

colors by selecting Options in the menu bar and clickingVideo

Capture Filter. A prompt screen will be displayed like the one below:

Under the PCAM Color tab, make the appropriate adjustments from

the menu list to fine tune the image related parameters such as

Saturation, Contrast, Sharpness, Gamma or set to Default.

Saturation is an expression for the relative bandwidth of the visible

output from a light source. As saturation increases, colors appear

more pure and as it decreases, colors appear more washed out.

Contrast is the degree of difference in tone between the light and dark

parts of an image. The higher the contrast the brighter the image and

the lower the contrast the darker it will become.

Sharpness determines how crisp the image quality looks. For

example, when sharpness is high, the picture will look crisp and edges

will be well-defined.

Gamma measures the nonlinear relationship between brightness and

voltage output, which affects the contrast in the mid-level grays, and

can be adjusted without significantly affecting the shadows and

highlights in an image.

White Balance is not recommended to be changed and be set at

Auto, unless the video colors shifts unstably.

Under Light Source you can adjust up to four settings of your lighting

environment such as Office (fluorescent), Home (incandescent),

Outdoors, and All Purpose.

In Exposure, it is recommended to be set at Auto or you can have the

option to adjust to your required capture image since most cameras

determine the exposure by averaging all the light that enters the lens.

Keep in mind when changes are made, click the Apply button to

refresh all the new details you have set and click OK to return to the

PC-CAM Capture Screen.

Format Adjustment

You can also format the image captured by selecting Options in the

menu bar and selecting Video Capture Pin. A prompt screen will be

displayed like the one below:

In the Frame Rate display you have the options from 5 frames per

second (fps) up to 30 fps.

You can format the setting allowing incoming color depth as 24-bit

RGB with other choices of IYUV and JPGL in the Color

Space/Compression.

Output Size can be used to set the video display size. There are

various formats available such as 176X144 (QCIF), 352X288 (CIF),

and 640X480 (VGA).

However, keep in mind the higher the Frame Rate, Color

Space/Compression, and Output Size the larger the video file size will

be. Therefore, the lower resolution is recommended for video-

conferencing or video recording.

Once again when changes are made, click theApply button to refresh

all the new details you have set and click OK to return to the PC-CAM

Capture Screen.

Now you are ready to have fun with the new DSB-C300 and with the

bundled software you will be able to use the various video editing

applications permitting you image manipulation, editing, photo album,

video mail, and video conferencing capabilities.

Taking a Snapshot

The snapshot button on DSB-C300 is used to capture a still picture,

this function must be supported by TWAIN driver. The TWAIN driver

can be activated by the image editing software, like Windows Imaging,

MGI PhotoSuite, etc.

In this case, the snapshot button will be enabled only when the image

editing software is activated.

After running Windows Imaging, (click on Start > Menu > Program >

Accessory > Imaging). From the File menu button, choose Select

Scanner to select the desired device for capturing images. After

selecting the DSB-C300, from the File menu bar choose Scan New

and the user can capture still pictures by pressing theSnapshot

button or click the Capture button on the screen.

Uninstalling the DSB-C300

To uninstall your DSB-C300 insert the Driver Installation Diskette and

activate Drive A: then click on the prompt highlighted -Pcamrm as

illustrated below:

Click on the icon and a prompt will be displayed like the one below

requesting you to unplug the DSB-C300.

Click on the OK button, and a prompt will appear acknowledging the

DSB-C300 has been uninstalled successfully as illustrated by the

prompt below.

Click the OK button and you have successfully uninstalled the Driver

from your system.

Note:To verify if all systems related to the DSB-C300 have been

completely uninstalled, please check Drive C: under the

Windows directory and under the sub-directory inf choose

other. On the details side just delete the Diviopcam2.inf and

you are done.

D-Link Offices

AUSTRALIA D-LINK AUSTRALIA

Unit 16, 390 Eastern Valley Way, Roseville, NSW 2069, Australia

TEL: 61-2-9417-7100 FAX: 61-2-9417-1077

TOLL FREE: 1800-177-100 (Australia), 0800-900900(NewZealand)

URL: www.dlink.com.au

E-MAIL: [email protected], [email protected]

CANADA D-LINK CANADA

2180 Winston Park Drive, Oakville, Ontario, L6H 5W1 Canada

TEL: 1-905-829-5033 FAX: 1-905-829-5223 TOLL FREE: 1-800-354-6522

URL: www.dlink.ca

E-MAIL: [email protected]

CHILE D-LINK SOUTH AMERICA

Isidora Goyeechea 2934 of 702, Las Condes, Santiago Chile S.A.

TEL: 56-2-232-3185 FAX: 56-2-232-0923

URL: www.dlink.cl

E-MAIL: [email protected], [email protected]

CHINA D-LINK CHINA

2F. Sigma Building, 49 Zhichun Road, Haidian District, 100080 Beijing, China

TEL: 86-10-88097777 FAX: 86-10-88096789

URL: www.dlink.com.cn

DENMARK D-LINK DENMARK

Naverland 2, DK-2600 Glostrup, Copenhagen, Denmark

TEL:45-43-969040 FAX:45-43-424347

URL: www.dlink.dk

E-MAIL: [email protected]

EGYPT D-LINK MIDDLE EAST

7 Assem Ebn Sabet Street, Heliopolis Cairo, Egypt

TEL: 202-2456176 FAX: 202-2456192

URL: www.dlink-me.com

E-MAIL: support@dlink-me.com, fateen@dlink-me.com

FRANCE D-LINK FRANCE

Le Florilege #2, Allee de la Fresnerie

78330 Fontenay le Fleury France

TEL: 33-1-302-38688 FAX: 33-1-3023-8689

URL: www.dlink-france.fr

E-MAIL: info@dlink-france.fr

GERMANY D-LINK Central Europe/D-Link Deutschland GmbH

Schwalbacher Strasse 74

D-65760 Eschborn, Germany

TEL: 49-6196-77990 FAX: 49-6196-7799300

URL: www.dlink.de

BBS: 49-(0)6192-971199 (Analog) 49-(0)6192-971198 (ISDN)

INFO LINE: 00800-7250-0000 (toll free)

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