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LEPTON® Engineering Datasheet
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Lepton Engineering Datasheet, Document Number: 500-0659-00-09 Rev: 203
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Table of Figures
Figure 1. Lepton with shutter Camera (with and without socket)
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Figure 2 - Lepton Architecture
Figure 3 - Lepton Detailed Block Diagram
Figure 4 - Lepton Video Pipeline Block Diagram
Figure 5 - State Diagram Showing Transitions among the Five Power States
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Figure 6 - Lepton Power Sequencing
Figure 7 - Examples of Good Uniformity, Graininess, and Blotchiness
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Figure 9 - Relative Spatial Noise after FFC vs. Number of Integrated Frames ((defaults is 8)
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Figure 12 - Illustration of a Histogram for a 3x3 Pixel Area
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Figure 13 - Comparison of Linear AGC and Classic/Lepton Variant of Histogram Equalization
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Figure 14 - Built-in Color Palette
Figure 15 - Comparison of an Identical Image with Grayscale and a False-color Palette
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Figure 16 - VoSPI Flexible Clock Rate
Figure 18 - SPI Mode 3 (CPOL=1, CPHA=1)
Figure 19 - SPI Bit Order (transmission of 0x8C08)
Figure 20 - Generic VoSPI Packet
Figure 23 - Raw14 Mode: 1 video line per 160-byte payload
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Figure 24 - RGB888 Mode: 1 video line per 240-byte payload
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Figure 25 - Frame Counter for Successive 80x60 Frames
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Figure 26 - Valid Frame Timing (no loss of synchronization)
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Figure 27 -Clock Too Slow - Failure to Read an Entire Frame Within the Frame Period