Handling Images While Charting

Setting Video Capture Options

You can acquire color images using digital cameras, scanners, intraoral cameras, or from a file on disk.

Before attempting to set video capture options:

To set video capture options:

  1. On any tab in the Chart for window, select Video > Options. The Video Capture/Display Properties window is displayed.

  2. Select the video card to use when receiving live video from the Video Source section.

  3. If you use the 1000 intraoral video camera, version USB 2, to capture images, select No Video Interface from the Video Source section then use the dental imaging system to operate the camera.

  1. Click Device Options and set the options for the device.

  2. Select an option:

  3. To save the image and restart live video:

  4. To pause the video capture after the image is captured:

  5. To capture live video images in a separate window:

  1. Select the path for the image storage drive that stores the captured images from this workstation from the Image Storage Drive (for this workstation) drop-down list. You can also click Add New Location to add a path.

  1. Select an option:

  2. To display images with the same height and weight ratio:

  3. To display the image by actual size when it is initially loaded:

  4. To display thumbnail images at the bottom of the Patient List, Patient, Daily Appointments, Book At A Glance, and History Appointments windows when scrolling through patient records or appointments:

  5. To have the software monitor a patient's image storage drive for new temporary 3D volume folders:

  6. If you are using XRayVision software to control the location of images on the hard drive:

  7. To enable the video capturing application to look for new images in the image storage drive among all networked computers when it is launched:

  1. Select the default image storage type for your document images from the Document Images drop-down list.

  2. Select the default image storage type for your dental images from the Dental Images drop-down list.

  3. Drag the slider to the correct compression level for documents and dental images in the Compression section.

  4. If you are using ViperSoft, select the default mode and startup command from the drop-down lists.

  5. To click an image and deselect an annotation, select Deselect Annotations.

  6. If you use DenTelVision, type the installation path in the Installation Path field. You can also click Browse to search for and select a path.

  7. Select the default template to use when LayOut mode is displayed in the Clinical Imaging tab of the Chart for window from the Default Template drop-down list.

  8. To set digital camera options, click Digital Camera Options.

  9. Type the directory from which digital images are imported in the Digital Camera Import Directory field.

  10. To delete selected images from the camera after importing them, select Delete selected images from camera after importing.

  11. Click OK.

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