Current status of GenICam™

The GenICam^TM standard committee accepted the GenTL standard which is now part of GenICam^TM.

The first official release of the GenICam^TM standard (GenApi module) was finished and ratified in 2006. The standard text, schema file and other files related to the standard can be downloaded from the download section.

The committee also ratified the Standard Features Naming Convention (SFNC) document as part of the GenICam^TM standard. This document defines a list of standard feature names for GenICam^TM compliant cameras - a single list for all camera interface types (GigE Vision^TM, Camera Link®, 1394 DCAM or others). The SFNC document is being continously improved.

Last but not least, the newest GenICam^TM module, GenTL (GenICam Transport Layer), was officially released in 2008. The GenTL standard provides technology-independent interface for enumerating cameras and acquiring images from them.

The current GenICam^TM standard version 2.0 consists of:

• GenApi standard version 2.0 (the committee also provides GenApi reference implementation version 2.0 together with the standard)
• SFNC standard version 1.3
• GenTL standard version 1.1

More information about the last technical meetings is provided in the meeting minutes (also available in the download section). 

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