Tiger CCD Cameras with Camera Link
– User Manual
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A.1.2 Using Microsoft Excel
You can create the .LUT file in Excel as follows:
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Create the spreadsheet as shown below (note that 1024 (1024*3) rows
are required in the table).
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Add the necessary equations into the output cells to generate the
transfer function required.
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Save the file as a .csv file (comma-delimited format).
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Rename the .csv file to an extension of .lut.
Figure 60: LUT example.
A.2 Creating Corrective Maps
The camera includes a Defective Pixel Map (DPM) and Hot Pixel Map (HPM). You can
create your own DPM or HPM file using any standard ASCII text editor or Microsoft Excel.
Additionally, you can use any spreadsheet or mathematical program capable of generating
a comma delimited (.csv) file.
When creating your own corrective map, you must apply a .dpm extension for a DPM map
and a .hpm extension for a HPM map. The .dpm or .hpm file has two main sections: a
header and a table. The header section is a free text area up to 256 ASCII characters. You
must terminate each line of the header section with a comma. The table section of the file
contains an array of lines with each line containing an X (pixel number) value followed by
