Stitching images with overlays

I am stitching one large imaq image from several smaller images using image to image copy. The small images each have several overlays. After the image to image copy the overlays from the small images are lost. How can this be avoided. Or at least how can I get the overlay image information to manipulate it and reapply the data.
Is this possible, it seems that it should be.
Paul Falkenstein
Coleman Technologies Inc.
CLA, CPI, AIA-Vision
Labview 4.0- 2013, RT, Vision, FPGA

The image overlay data is lost when performing the image to image copy because you lose the origin (0,0) of the small image, to which all overlays are relative.
You are going to need to user the IMAQ set overlay properties VI to configure the behaviors of the overlays before you copy them.
An easier method would be to merge the overlay with the picture before copy, but you would lose pixel data under the overlay, and the image would convert to RGB.
Machine Vision, Robotics, Embedded Systems, Surveillance
www.movimed.com - Custom Imaging Solutions

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BlueCheese, thanks a lot.
I understand it is difficult to read. The camera application stuff is only a smaller part of a larger software
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The AVI save loop now does not have any flickering, and Im able to save to file with approx 5 frames per second. Going higher results in that the copy function & merge overlay function, in addition save to AVI would consume more time and it not able to save to AVI with the faster frame rate. I will try and see how much time that case uses, althrough again - its depended on how large the overlay is.
I'll leave this open for some days in case someone sees something else (or that I used the wrong strategy) that could be done to increase performance, if not I'll mark your comment as a solution and try to live with the performance issue.

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