Video formats, modes and bandwidth
STINGRAY Technical Manual
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Video formats, modes and bandwidth
The different Stingray models support different video formats, modes and
frame rates.
These formats and modes are standardized in the IIDC (formerly DCAM) spec-
ification.
Resolutions smaller than the generic sensor resolution are generated from
the center of the sensor and without binning.
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The maximum frame rates can only be achieved with
shutter settings lower than 1/framerate. This means
that with default shutter time of 40 ms, a camera will
not achieve frame rates higher than 25 frames/s. In
order to achieve higher frame rates, please reduce the
shutter time proportionally.
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The following tables assume that bus speed is
800 Mbit/s.
With lower bus speeds (e.g. 400, 200 or
100 Mbit/s) not all frame rates may be achieved.
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For information on bit/pixel and byte/pixel for each
color mode see
Table 92: ByteDepth
on page 215.
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The following Format_7 tables show
default Format_7
modes
without Format_7 mode mapping.
For information on Format_7 mode mapping ...
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... see Chapter
Mapping of possible Format_7 modes to
F7M1...F7M7
on page 132
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... see Chapter
Format_7 mode mapping
on page 285
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H-binning
means horizontal binning.
V-binning
means vertical binning.
Full binning (H+V)
means hori vertical binning
2 x binning means: 2 neighboring pixels are combined.
4 x binning means: 4 neighboring pixels are combined.
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Binning average
means: signals form adjacent pixels
are combined by averaging.
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Binning increases signal-to-noise ratio
(SNR), but
decreases resolution.