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8.1.2 Shutter
All cameras of the LXG - camera with
Visual Applets
series are equipped with a global
shutter.
Pixel
Active Area (Photodiode)
Storage Area
Microlens
Global shutter means that all pixels of the sensor are reset and afterwards exposed for a
specified interval (t
exposure
).
For each pixel an adjacent storage circuit exists. Once the
exposure time elapsed, the
information of a pixel is transferred immediately to its circuit and read out from there.
Due to the fact that photosensitive area gets "lost" by the implementation of the circuit
area, the pixels are equipped with microlenses, which focus the light on the pixel.
8.1.3 Digitization Taps
The CMOSIS sensors are read out with 16 channels in parallel.
Figure 5 ►
Structure of an imag-
ing sensor with global
shutter
Figure 6 ►
Digitization Tap of the
Baumer LXG cameras
with Visual Applets
Readout with 16 chan-
nel