Barco AutoAlign Quick start guide

Brand: Barco

Model: AutoAlign

Type: Quick start guide

Barco AutoAlign is an innovative device designed to assist users in aligning and optimizing their display systems. Its advanced capabilities include:

Acuras: Capture and reproduce brightness and color settings for precise alignment and drift correction.
OmniBlend: Automatically aligns brightness and colors in blended regions, ensuring seamless transitions between multiple channels.
AutoGeometry: Retrieves X and Y coordinates of display corners for accurate geometry alignment.
Head Location Configuration: Defines multiple physical positions for the AutoAlignment Head to cover extended projection areas.

Barco AutoAlign is an innovative device designed to assist users in aligning and optimizing their display systems. Its advanced capabilities include:

Acuras: Capture and reproduce brightness and color settings for precise alignment and drift correction.
OmniBlend: Automatically aligns brightness and colors in blended regions, ensuring seamless transitions between multiple channels.
AutoGeometry: Retrieves X and Y coordinates of display corners for accurate geometry alignment.
Head Location Configuration: Defines multiple physical positions for the AutoAlignment Head to cover extended projection areas.

Removing the shipping bracket: Image A

• Remove the screws (R9843500: 8x; R9843501:15x) ﬁxing

the shipping bracket to the unit;

• Remove the shipping bracket;

• Insert the screws back into their holes.

Preparing the installation

• Carefully read and follow all safety instructions as they

are stated in the Safety manual R59770580;

• Unpack the AutoAlignment Head.

Fixing the unit to a support: Image B

• Remove nuts and washers from the mounting studs (M6);

• Install the AutoAlignment Head on a support: the position-

ing pin and each stud should be inserted in a dedicated

slot;

• Fix the AutoAlignment Head to its support using the wash-

ers and nuts.

Connect the unit: Image C

1. Connect the power cord to both the AutoAlignment Head

and the wall outlet;

2. Stick warning label R870792 to one end of the SFTP Cat.

5e cable;

3. Next to this label, make a loop in the SFTP Cat. 5e cable;

4. Fix ferrite core B195382 on this loop;

5. Stick warning label R870792 to the other end of the SFTP

Cat. 5e cable;

6. Next to this label, make a loop in the SFTP Cat. 5e cable;

7. Fix the second ferrite core B195382 on this loop;

8. Plug in one end of the SFTP Cat. 5e cable on the Auto-

Alignment Head;

9. Plug in the other end of the SFTP Cat. 5e cable on the LEX

USB extender;

10. Plug in the LEX USB extender on the Master Control Unit

(MCU);

11. Connect the power cord to both the MCU and the wall

outlet.

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AutoAlignment Head Gen II Quick Start Guide

Quick start guide

Barco Simulation division

Noordlaan 5, B-8520 Kuurne

www.barco.com

Getting started

It is assumed that the XDS RACU software has been installed

and that the correct License File including the purchased Au-

toAlignment options has been imported. See XDS RACU user

and installation manual R59770508.

1. Power on the Master Control Unit (MCU) (press the ON/

OFF button) and wait until it has fully booted;

2. Install the spectrometer calibration ﬁle (see User guide);

3. Power on the eRACU (press the ON/OFF button for 2

seconds) and wait until it has fully booted;

4. Power on the AutoAlignment Head (power switch);

5. Connect to a Display System;

6. Switch to Administrator User Access Level;

7. Select a projector or a group of projectors;

8. Check the plugins in Options > Add/Remove Device >

Plugin Management and click Apply;

9. Click Reset Gimbal in Position page > Position Gimbal/

Panel Position Marker.

More details about the procedures described below can be

found in the AutoAlignment user and installation manual

R59770509.

Conﬁguration - Head Location

If one or more regions of the projected image are outside the

range of the AutoAlignment Head, more than one physical

position must be deﬁned for it.

Next to the Default Location, additional Head Locations can

be deﬁned in Options > AutoAlignment > General > Measure-

ment Head Location.

Conﬁguration - Acuras Position

For each display channel, one (Acuras 1-point) or multiple

(Acuras Multi-point) measure points must be deﬁned in the

Position page:

• Acuras 1-point: use the Laser pointer to indicate the

center of each channel and store these Positions;

• Acuras Multi-point:

1. The four outer corners and the center point of the

visible area of each channel must be marked (=

Panel Marker) and stored;

2. Use the Laser pointer to indicate the measure

point in each of the Panel Markers and store these

Positions (= Gimbal Center and Gimbal Corners).

XDS RACU will calculate four more measure points

(center of each side of the channels). One of those

four may be left undeﬁned.

Conﬁguration - AutoGeometry Position

Camera Positions (Camera Live views) must be deﬁned in

such a way that each corner of the visible area of each chan-

nel is included in at least one Position. Position types are:

• Without Blend Zone: if a Position only includes non-

overlapping channels;

• With Blend Zone: if a Position includes overlapping

channels;

• HUD to deﬁne the corners of the HUD image in relation

to the background channels on which it appears.

Overview

Acuras is used to store brightness and color settings per

channel in a Golden Alignment data set after full alignment

of a Display System by a Barco professional (= Capture) and

to reproduce the Golden Alignment ‘look’ in the best possible

way to correct for drift due to aging of lamps, ﬁlters etc. (Re-

align). Measure points (Positions) for the spectrometer must

be deﬁned before a Capture can be performed.

Omniblend is used to automatically align the brightness

and colors of the blend regions and match them to the

non-overlapping areas in a multiple channel display system.

Camera Positions must be deﬁned before OmniBlend can be

processed.

AutoGeometry is used to retrieve the X and Y coordinates

of the corners of the visible area of each display channel (=

Capture). Camera Positions must be deﬁned before a Capture

can be performed.

Conﬁguration - OmniBlend Position

Camera Positions (Camera Live views) must be deﬁned in

such a way that each overlap area of each channel is covered

by at least one (set of) Position(s).

Conﬁguration – Warp AutoGeometry Posi-

tion

Camera position (Camera Live views) must be deﬁned in

such a way that maximum warp area can be captured inside

the Camera Live views for that Position.

Three options are available for the AutoGeometry dot pat-

terns generation:

• Polaris;

• Projector;

• Image Generator.

Each option has its own prerequisite, which must be complet-

ed prior to starting the Warp AutoGeometry Capture process.

AutoAlignment Head Gen II Quick Start Guide

Quick start guide

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Important remarks

• Always perform a Gimbal reset after powering on the

AutoAlignment Head!

• No stray light is allowed during any of these processes!

Acuras Capture & Realign

CAPTURE

1. Create/Activate a desired Golden Alignment set;

2. Run GLC on all channels from the Adjust Gray Scale Page;

3. Fully align the display system;

4. Click Reset Gimbal in Position page > Position Gimbal/

Panel Position Marker;

5. In the Acuras page, click Start Capture.

REALIGN

1. Activate the desired Golden Alignment set for which

Capture was executed;

2. Click Reset Gimbal in Position page > Position Gimbal/

Panel Position Marker;

3. In the Acuras page, click Start Realignment.

AutoGeometry Capture

CAPTURE (if no Position is of the HUD type)

1. Click Reset Gimbal in Position page > Position Gimbal/

Panel Position Marker;

2. In the AutoGeometry page, click Capture.

CAPTURE (if at least one Position is of the HUD type)

1. Click Reset Gimbal in Position page > Position Gimbal/

Panel Position Marker;

2. Make sure that all projectors get a black image from their

IG (Image Generator) and that the HUD projector shows

a full white rectangle (from the IG) in the HUD region of

interest;

3. In the AutoGeometry page, click Capture.

OmniBlend Alignment Process

1. Select (a Group of) projectors;

2. In the OmniBlend page, optionally select one or more

Positions;

3. Click Start;

4. Select Colored Blending (higher quality alignment) or

Grayscale Blending (faster alignment);

5. Start the OmniBlend process by clicking Selected Positions,

Selected Group or Selected Projectors.

Warp AutoGeometry Capture & Realign

PREREQUISITE - Polaris

1. SimCAD ﬁle created for the display setup should be

available;

2. Polaris software is installed on the master IG and on

the slave IGs;

3. All slave IGs are connected to their corresponding

projectors;

4. Polaris Master PC is connected to the XDS RACU MCU

through the network (LAN);

5. Polaris slave is launched on the slave IG of the projec-

tor for which the capture is to be executed;

6. Polaris master is launched on the master IG.

PREREQUISITE - Projector

External source(s) must be connected to the projector gener-

ating the AutoGeometry Dot patterns.

PREREQUISITE - Image Generator

1. Application running on the Image Generator able to

communicate with the XDS RACU software via XDS

RACU API;

2. Application can draw AutoGeometry dot pattern on the

Image Generator when received a request for it from.

CAPTURE

1. Click Reset Gimbal in Position page > Position Gimbal/

Panel Position Marker;

2. Open the SimCAD ﬁle through the Barco Polaris Master

window;

3. Enable Warp AutoGeometry check box in Options page>

Auto Alignment > Warp AutoGeometry;

4. Select the desired pattern generator option;

5. In the Eyepoint page, activate the eyepoint for which

the warp capture process is to be executed;

6. In the AutoGeometry page, select the group where you

wish to run the warp capture process;

7. In the AutoGeometry page, click Capture.

REALIGN

1. In the Eyepoint page, activate the eyepoint for which the

warp capture process was executed;

2. In the AutoGeometry page, select the group for which

the warp cature process was executed;

3. In the AutoGeometry page, click Start Realignment.

Barco AutoAlign Quick start guide

Brand: Barco

Model: AutoAlign

Type: Quick start guide

Barco AutoAlign is an innovative device designed to assist users in aligning and optimizing their display systems. Its advanced capabilities include:

Acuras: Capture and reproduce brightness and color settings for precise alignment and drift correction.
OmniBlend: Automatically aligns brightness and colors in blended regions, ensuring seamless transitions between multiple channels.
AutoGeometry: Retrieves X and Y coordinates of display corners for accurate geometry alignment.
Head Location Configuration: Defines multiple physical positions for the AutoAlignment Head to cover extended projection areas.

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