STINGRAY Technical Manual
V2.2.0
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Pixel data.................................................................................................................... 92
Description of the data path
........................................................................95
Block diagrams of the cameras ....................................................................................... 95
Black and white cameras ........................................................................................... 95
Color cameras .......................................................................................................... 96
White balance .............................................................................................................. 97
One-push automatic white balance ............................................................................. 98
Automatic white balance ......................................................................................... 100
Auto shutter .............................................................................................................. 101
Auto gain .................................................................................................................. 103
Manual gain............................................................................................................... 106
Brightness (black level or offset) .................................................................................. 106
Horizontal mirror function ........................................................................................... 108
Shading correction...................................................................................................... 109
Building shading image in Format_7 modes ............................................................... 109
First example .................................................................................................... 109
Second example................................................................................................. 109
How to store shading image..................................................................................... 110
Automatic generation of correction data.................................................................... 111
Requirements .................................................................................................... 111
Algorithm ......................................................................................................... 111
Loading a shading image out of the camera ............................................................... 114
Loading a shading image into the camera .................................................................. 115
Look-up table (LUT) and gamma function ....................................................................... 116
Loading an LUT into the camera ............................................................................... 118
Binning (only Stingray b/w models and F-201C) .............................................................. 119
2 x / 4 x / 8 x binning (F-201C only 2 x vertical binning) ............................................ 119
Vertical binning ..................................................................................................... 120
Horizontal binning (F-201C only 2 x horizontal binning) .............................................. 122
2 x full binning/4 x full binning/8 x full binning (F-201C only 2 x full binning)............... 123
Sub-sampling (Stingray b/w and color) .......................................................................... 125
What is sub-sampling? ............................................................................................ 125
Which Stingray models have sub-sampling? ................................................................ 125
Description of sub-sampling..................................................................................... 125
Binning and sub-sampling access .................................................................................. 131
Quick parameter change timing modes........................................................................... 133
Why new timing modes?.......................................................................................... 133
Standard Parameter Update Timing
.................................................................... 134
New:
Quick Format Change Mode
(QFCM) ............................................................. 134
How to transfer parameters to the camera.................................................................. 135
Encapsulated Update (begin/end)
...................................................................... 135
Parameter-List Update
...................................................................................... 136
Standard Update (IIDC)
..................................................................................... 137
Packed 12-Bit Mode
................................................................................................... 138
High SNR mode (High Signal Noise Ratio) ...................................................................... 139
Frame memory and deferred image transport................................................................... 140
Deferred image transport......................................................................................... 140
