Glossaire (Acquisition)

All acquisition signal types transmit image data from the camera to the host system. Each technology has its own strengths and weaknesses and not all mechanisms are suitable for every application.

There have been three major bus interface standards found on PCs since the original PC/AT: the ISA bus, the PCI bus and more recently the new PCI Express bus standard.

Including pre-​processing in the acquisition path can reduce demand on the host PC and can sometimes pre-​select data for transfer.

A processor is the central processing unit (CPU) of a computer system.