Edge Blender Controller

Calibration Manual

Version 2017 V1

Contents

Contents

INTRODUCTION 1

FEATURES 1

OS AND HARDWARE 1

INSTALLATION 2

INSTALLATION 2

UNINSTALLATION 4

INTERFACE 6

COMMUNICATION 7

CONFIG 9

GEOMETRY 10

BUTTONS DESCRIPTION 11

GEOMETRY PROCEDURES 12

BLACK BOOST 16

BUTTONS DESCRIPTION 17

BLACK BOOST PROCEDURES 18

BRIGHTNESS 20

BUTTONS DESCRIPTION 21

BRIGHTNESS ADJUSTMENT PROCEDURE 21

FEATHER/ S-CURVE 25

BUTTONS DESCRIPTION 26

S-CURVE PROCEDURE 26

APPLY & DOWNLOAD 28

READ & SAVE 29

Introduction

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Introduction

Features

1. Connected with DigiBird Edge Blender Controller (referred as EBC hereafter)

via TCP/IP.

2. Supports geometry adjustment.

3. Supports black boost / black uplift.

4. Supports color and brightness adjustment.

5. Supports overlapped feather adjustment.

6. Supports configuration import and export.

7. Supports factory reset.

8. Auto save configuration.

9. Support background image uploaded.

10. Supports flat, curved, cornered, and tube blending.

OS and hardware

This software supports Microsoft Windows OS, please read below requirement before

installing software.

1. Hardware

Item Requirements Recommended

CPU Intel Core i3 or later version Intel Core i5 or later version

RAM Min. 2G RAM 4GB RAM

Disk Min. 150MB 5GB

Display Min. 1366x768 1920x1080

2. OS

Microsoft Windows OS:

OS Note

Windows XP 32/64bit

Windows 7 32/64bit

Windows 8 32/64bit

Windows 8.1 32/64bit

Windows 10 32/64bit

Installation

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Installation

Installation

1. The installation file is shown below:

2. Here is example based on Window 7 x64, run the installation file and follow the

wizard:

3. Click [Next] and select installation path:

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4. Check [Run Edge Blender Controller…] and [Finish]:

5. The software need to be registered, check the [Register Offline] and send the

Machine Code to your sales or send directly to sales@digibirdtech.com to get the

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Register Code. For details, refer to EBC2 register manual.

6. Use the register code to complete the installation, the shortcut will be shown at

your desktop:

Uninstallation

1. Click “uninstall.exe” to remove the software:

2. Click [Uninstall]:

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3. Click [Close] when uninstallation completed:

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Interface

The software interface is shown as below:

Communication

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Communication

Please login DigiBird web-based software to setup the edge blender configuration,

refer to details in EBC2 User Manual.

Go back to the EBC calibration software, click [Connect]: (Please make sure your PC is

connected with the EBC via Cat cable or WiFi within the same LAN network.)

1. Fill in the EBC2 IP address (default as 192.168.1.200 which can be changed via the

push buttons.) and the port (default as 8080), then click [OK]:

2. It will show you the blender name, IP address, ID, layouts, resolution, overlap size,

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rotation and output channel ID, which you just configured in the web-based

software. (This manual is an example based on 2x1 layouts with 2x projectors.) Click

[OK]:

Config

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Config

You need to setup below configuration for tube blender, click [Config] at the tools bar:

Enable multiphase antialiasing: checked as default, used to enhance the

unified and smooth image output.

Enable grayscale enhancements: checked as default, used to enhance the

image output quality.

Layouts: the total resolution and the overlapped size.

Horizontal/Vertical tube: used for the horizontal or vertical tube application.

Geometry

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Geometry

To adjust the geometry, you need to adjust the corner points and outer lines to be

aligned with the projection screen (canvas) then adjust inner lines and crossed points.

Press F6 and/or F7 to make all lines uniformed. You are able to add more lines or

columns to nudge more details.

Below pictures show the geometry display and software interface prior to the

adjustment, with lines and columns not aligned.

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Buttons description

Select display (projector):

The number 0-0 and 0-1 means the projectors you

have connected. Click each once to make sure all the

geometry grids are shown on the projection; the

selected projection will be shown as solid grid and

un-selected shown as dashed.

Select point:

Press <W><A><D><S> keys to select the crossed

point on the grid.

Move point:

Press <↑><↓><←><→> keys to move the position of

the selected point.

Row/ Column:

Add row: to make rows double.

Add col: to make columns double in non-overlapped

area.

Less row: to make the rows less.

Less col: to make columns less in non-overlapped

area.

Add right col: to make the columns double in the

right overlapped area.

Less right col: to make the columns less in the right

overlapped area.

Add left col: to make the columns double in the left

overlapped area.

Less left col: to make the columns less in the left

overlapped area.

Add top row: to make the rows double in top

overlapped area.

Less top row: to make the rows less in top overlapped

area.

Add bottom row: to make the rows double in bottom

overlapped area.

Less bottom row: to make the rows less in bottom

overlapped area.

Align:

Uniform grid: to make all rows and columns spread

uniformly.

Linear grid: to make all rows and columns spread as

linear.

Reset: to reset all configuration as default.

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Import geometry file:

Use for special layouts blending, for example dome,

the file need to be customized by DigiBird.

Grid:

Grid: to show all grid.

Point: to show points only.

Frame: to show the points and outer frame.

Hide: to hide the grid.

Coordinate:

To show the coordinate of the selected point.

Source: to show the coordinate of the video resource.

Destination: to show the coordinate of the projection

display.

Move point:

Point: to move the selected point only.

Row: to move the row on which the selected point.

Col: to move the column on which the selected point.

All: to move all.

Adjustment:

Major: to move big scope each step.

Minor: to move small scope each step.

Current col: to move the current column only.

Current row: to move the current row only.

Adjustment Pixels:

The quantity of pixels for each movement:

Options: 0.01, 0.05, 0.1, 0.5, 1, 5, 10, and 50 pixel(s).

Background:

To select the built-in background image when do

geometry.

Geometry procedures

1. Select 0-0 display, adjustment the outer points and lines to be aligned with the

projection screen. Click [Uniform grid], [Linear grid] and make sure the overlapped

area placed at the middle of the whole projection screen.

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2. Select 0-1 display, adjustment the outer points and lines to be aligned with the

projection screen. Click [Uniform grid], [Linear grid] and make sure the overlapped

area placed at the middle of the whole projection screen.

3. Adjust the rows and columns of each projector and make them aligned and

overlapped well. Then click [Uniform grid], see below pictures.

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4. Select 0-0 display, click [Add right col]; select 0-1 display, click [All left col]. (See

below pictures). Select the point and move the columns of 0-0 and 0-1 then move

them to align with each other, click [Uniform grid] after each movement. Note: You

shall move 0-0 and 0-1 both to make sure the overlapped area placed at the middle

of projection screen.

5. When moving the columns, the rows and points on them will be adjusted, now you

shall add more rows and adjust them again. Click [Uniform grid] to make sure the

grids are aligned. See below:

图 5. 1 调整行线

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6. Add more rows and columns then adjust the points that not aligned. After this, do

NOT click [Uniform grid] or [Linear grid]. See below:

When you add more rows or columns failed, please setup the max. rows/ columns

quantity in the settings menu. See below:

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Black boost

The overlapped area always is brighter due the light leaking of projectors. By this black

boost (or black level uplift), the EBC will increase the brightness of the non-overlap area

to make sure the resulting display is seamless and avoid dips, dots, or bright spots. See

below pictures including the black boost interface in the software:

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Buttons description

Select display:

Click 0-0 and 0-1 display to make sure these two

projectors output black image.

Select point:

Press <W><A><D><S> keys to select the point to

be adjusted.

Select point on the column: the mode is boundary

adjustment. Use move point to adjust the

boundary.

Select point in central area: the mode is black boost.

Use move point to adjust the black boost.

Move point:

Press <↑><↓><←><→> to move point or adjust

value.

Boundary adjustment mode: Use move point to

adjust the boundary.

Black boost mode: Use move point to adjust the

black boost.

Adjust:

Reset: to reset the brightness and boundary of the

current selected display to be default.

Reset all: to reset the brightness and boundary of

all displays to be default.

Add point: to add point when select the boundary.

Less point: to less the points when select the

boundary.

Display mode:

Line + Point: to display all lines and points.

All points: to display all points.

Selected point: to display the current selected point.

Hide: to hide all lines and points.

Channel:

White: to adjust red, green and blue together.

Red/ Green/ Blue: to adjust one by one.

Mode:

Simple vs. Complex: the complex mode is used to

the projectors which has more light leaking.

Select color level:

To select 4x color phases to adjust.

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Black boost procedures

1. Select 0-0 display, click the central point, adjust the brightness higher. The same

operation to the 0-1. Now the boundary of overlapped area will be clear.

Higher the brightness.

2. Select the point on the boundary and adjust the point or line to make sure the

boundary is aligned with the actual edge of the overlapped.

Adjust the boundary.

The boundary is adjusted.

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3. Select the central point again, adjust the brightness of the non-overlapped area.

Adjust the brightness of the non-overlapped area.

After black boost adjustment.

If the projectors has color issues, please adjust the black boost by red, green and blue separately.

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Brightness

Different projectors have different chroma (white balance) and brightness。

The EBC2 software can used to adjust each projector by adjusting the red, green and

blue color.

Chromatic aberration

Brightness adjustment

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Buttons description

Select display:

Click 0-0 and 0-1 display to make sure these

two projectors output well.

Move point:

Press <↑><↓> to select point, <←><→> to

adjust the value.

Display and Adjust:

Display: to display which color on the

projection.

Adjust: to decide which color to adjust. Points:

Add points: to add points.

Less points: to less points.

Reset: to reset the brightness of the current

selected display to be default.

Reset all: to reset the brightness of all

displays to be default.

Color:

To adjust the value.

Settings:

Show saturation picture: to display the

saturation picture.

Diff: to setup the difference.

Low saturation: to set the low saturation

value.

Low saturation: to set the high saturation

value.

Gamma: to setup the same gamma value

with the projector.

Brightness adjustment procedure

There are some points on the curved line (see below picture), which can be adjusted

of the brightness based on white, red, green and blue colors. Click [Display] to show

white, red, green and blue separately and check the difference of each projector, for

example one projection is much blue than another one, please adjust down the blue

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value. When one projection is much darker than another one, please increase the

white value.

The description as below:

1. Select one point on the line (with current value 128), the projection will show the

color with this value:

2. The right projection is darker and much blue, check [White] color and increase the

value; check [Blue] decrease the value. Then adjust red and green separately. The

display after adjustment as below:

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The adjustment of other colors as below:

Color Before adjustment After adjustment

Red

Green

Blue

3. There is one color value tool, CameraRGB, which can be download from Apple

App Store (Search CameraRGB) or request the “.APK” file from

sales@digibirdtech.com for Android OS. This app is used to facilitate your

brightness adjustment, the value detection depends on the light environment

and the performance of your cellphone.

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CameraRGB

Feather/S-Curve

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Feather/ S-Curve

To adjust the brightness and color to make sure that the ‘blend’ is basically an S-shaped

curve that is applied to gradually reduce the brightness of the image at the edge. With

this feature, the user is able to nudge the overlapped edge to make resulting seamless

and unify image.

Below show the adjusting points in the overlapped area, you are abled to add more

points.

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Buttons description

Select display:

Select the overlapped area in the middle.

Point:

Press <←><→> to select point, and <↑><↓> to

adjust the value.

Adjust & Display:

Adjust: to adjust the color.

Display: to display the color.

Point:

Add point: to make the points double.

Less point: to make points less.

Reset: to reset the configuration of the

overlapped.

Reset all: the same as above here.

Select level:

To select 0-11 brightness value.

Color:

To adjust the value of each color.

Grid:

All Line + Point: to display 4 color lines and all

points.

Current Line + Point: to display the current

color line and points.

Selected point: to display the adjusting point

only.

Hide: to hide all lines and points.

S-Curve procedure

1. [Select level]: Select a level, say 11.

2. Select the central point to adjust the color value.

a) [Display]: Select white.

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b) Press <↑> <↓> to adjust the color value.

c) Then try red, green and blue colors.

3. Move to other points then repeat above steps.

4. After adjustment, it will show below:

5. [Select level]: select other levels and repeat above steps.

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Apply & Download

After adjustment, click to send the configuration data to the output channels (the

EBC2 output cards), then click to display the video content (need to send the

content on the projection via DigiBird web-based software.). If the display meets your

requirements, then click to download the configuration data to the EBC2

hardware, then the EBC2 will work as your configuration, power ON/OFF will not impact

the display.

The final display as below:

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Read & Save

During the adjustment, you are abled to click [Save to] to save the configuration data

to the EBC2 currently; or click [Save] [Save as] to your PC.

Click [Read] to retrieve the configuration data from EBC2 and [Open] to import the data

saved in your PC.

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