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Triggering and timings
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Triggering with rolling shutter cameras
This section describes triggering behavior for
Alvium G1-500m/c and G1-2050m/c
cameras with rolling shutter sensor. Figure 59 shows how an external signal
triggers exposure and readout for cameras with rolling shutter sensors. Like for
global shutter sensors, readout has a constant duration, acquisition must be active
to enable exposure, the end of exposure starts readout.
ERS sensors run in cycles where
readout area equals exposure area . Overlapping
triggering is not supported. If exposure time is shorter than readout time,
exposure starts with a delay:
Exposure start delay = exposure area – exposure time.
Figure 59: Triggering rolling shutter cameras
No Conditions Results
1 Exposure time is shorter than readout time. Trigger 1 starts exposure 1 with a delay
2 Exposure time is shorter than readout time, but
longer
than for exposure 1.
Trigger 2 starts exposure 2 with a delay
shorter
than for exposure 1.
3 Exposure time is longer than readout time Trigger 3 starts exposure time without a delay.
Because the exposure area is longer, also the
readout area is longer than for triggers 1 and 2
4 Exposure area is ongoing. Trigger 4 is ignored.
5 Readout area is ongoing Trigger 5 is ignored.
6 Readout area is finished. Exposure time is
longer than readout time.
Trigger 6 starts exposure 6 without a delay
Table 81: Triggering results versus conditions
TriggerSelector values for rolling shutter cameras
Cameras with rolling shutter
can
be triggered using
AcquistionStart
,
AcquisitionEnd
, or
FrameStart
for
TriggerSelector
.
Cameras with rolling shutter
cannot
be triggered using
ExposureStart
or
ExposureEnd
for
TriggerSelector
.
External signal
Sensor state
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1
2
2
3
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Readout area Exposure area
Delay П Delay П
Idle Readout area Exposure area Readout area Exposure area
П Exposure start delay