Current status of GenICam™

The GenICam^TM standard committee prepared the GenTL standard for approval.

The first official release of the GenICam^TM standard (GenApi module) was finished and ratified in 2006. The standard text, schema file and other files related to the standard can be downloaded from the download section.

Later, the GenICam^TM committee accepted GenICam^TM GenApi maintenance release 1.0.1 and recently a new release vesion 1.1.0. Both these releases are based on the same standard text and GenICam^TM XML Schema document, they only improve/extend the GenApi reference implementation.

The committee also ratified the Standard Features Naming Convention (SFNC) document as part of the GenICam^TM standard. This document defines a list of standard feature names for GenICam^TM compliant cameras - a single list for all camera interface types (GigE Vision^TM, Camera Link®, 1394 DCAM or others).

During recent technical meeting in Pilsen, the committee finished works on the GenTL GenICam^TM module. The long-awaited GenTL standard text will soon be ready for the approval process.

More information about the last technical meetings is provided in the meeting minutes (also available in the download section).

GigE Vision^TM standard refers to the GenICam^TM standard as previously announced.

Outlook

The next meeting of the standard committee is planned for October 2008 in Montréal.