Piranha4 2K and 4K Color Camera User's Manual
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Teledyne DALSA
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Binning is the com bining of tw o im age sensor p ixels to form a new com bined p ixel. A binned im age
u sing the sam e exp osu re settings as a non -binned im age w ill show an im p roved signal-to-noise ratio,
red u ced scanning tim es (d u e to low er sp atial resolu tion) and save as a sm aller im age file size com p ared
w ith a non-binned im age, at the exp ense of low er im age resolu tion.
For this cam era, the d efau lt horizontal binning valu e is 1.
The
Binning Horizontal
featu res in the
Image Format Control
set rep resents the nu m ber of horizontal
p ixels that w ill be com bined (ad d ed ) together.
Image Format Control
Parameter
Description
BinningH orizontal
This featu re rep resents the nu m ber of horizontal p hoto -
sensitive cells that m u st be com bined (ad d ed ) together.
Figure 32. Horizontal Binning
a
q1
+
q2
q1
q2
More charge
=
Brighter pixel
Charge in 2
adjacent pixels
Normal Image
Binned Image
2
Charge binned: 1
pixel output