Glossary

The words these docs and the camera use, in plain terms.

The inspection

Term	Meaning
Recipe	One complete inspection: how the image is captured, what is checked, how the verdict is decided, and what the line is told. A camera holds many recipes but runs one at a time. See All Recipes.
Active recipe	The recipe the camera is currently running. Activating another deactivates it.
Tool	One check inside a recipe, such as AI Classification or Barcode Read. Tools run in order, top to bottom. See Inspection Tools.
Region	The area of the image a tool looks at. Also called an ROI, a region of interest. Smaller regions give the AI a cleaner signal.
Aligner	An Alignment tool. It finds the part in each frame so the regions of other tools follow it when it shifts or rotates. See Alignment.
Anchor, template region	The rigid features an aligner locks onto, such as holes, corners or edges. Spread them as far apart as possible.
Follows the aligner	A tool linked to an aligner. Its regions move with the part, and it is skipped if the aligner cannot find the part.
Class	One possible answer for AI Classification, such as ok or scratch. You mark each class Pass or Fail.
Training	Teaching an AI tool from labelled examples. It happens on the camera, in seconds, and nothing is uploaded.

The verdict

Term	Meaning
Verdict, judgment	The single pass or fail the recipe produces for each part.
Rule	One condition in Judgment, such as "all inspection tools pass". Every rule must hold for the recipe to pass. See Step 4: Judgment.
Gating	A tool gates the verdict when a rule covers it. A tool outside every rule still runs and records its result, but has no say in pass or fail.
Skipped, not applicable	A tool that did not run, usually because the aligner it follows missed the part. How a rule treats a skipped tool is set in its Advanced section.
Not Inspected	A capture where every inspection tool was skipped. The camera records it as a fail but keeps it out of the yield figure.
Yield	The share of inspected parts that passed.

Running the camera

Term	Meaning
Setup	The mode for building and changing recipes. Outputs still fire, so you can test wiring.
Production	The mode for running the line. The HMI goes live and recipes cannot be edited. Switching between the two is deliberate, so a running line cannot be changed by accident.
Trigger	What makes the camera take a picture: a manual press, a timer, the AI trigger, or an external signal. See Step 2: Triggering.
Image trigger buffer	How many triggers the camera will queue while it is still inspecting. 0 means one at a time.
Capture	One image and its results, as stored in the Library.
Pinned	A capture that is never deleted automatically. Everything unpinned is removed oldest first once storage is full.

Talking to the line

Term	Meaning
Fieldbus	The industrial network protocol used to talk to a PLC: EtherNet/IP or PROFINET. See Industrial Ethernet.
Process image	The fixed block of bytes the camera and PLC exchange continuously: 500 bytes from the camera, 496 bytes from the PLC.
EDS, GSDML	Files that describe the process image to your PLC software. EDS is for EtherNet/IP, GSDML for PROFINET. Always use the one that matches your firmware.
Slot	A fixed position in the process image that one tool reports in. Slots 1 to 8 carry a full result record, slots 9 to 64 a single pass bit. See Step 5: Outputs.
PLC recipe ID	The number a PLC uses to select a recipe, from 1 to 32767, unique on each camera.
Handshake	The sequence of bits the PLC and camera exchange to trigger, read a result, or switch recipe. See PLC handshakes.
Output line	A physical wire on the camera that switches on a result, such as a reject valve on DO0.
Hold, pulse	Whether an output line stays switched until the next result, or switches for a set time.
Remote Storage	Copies images, result metadata and recipe backups to your own FTP, SFTP or SMB server. See Remote Storage.
Destination	One server that Remote Storage sends to. A camera can have two.
Token	A placeholder such as {YYYY} or {recipe} in a Remote Storage folder or file name, filled in from each capture.
PoE	Power over Ethernet. OV Spark Pro can run from a single network cable through the Overview adapter. See Power over Ethernet.