
RMV Operations Manual Revision Copyright illunis LLC, 2014
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5.7: Image Processing
Automatic Tap Matcher
The two tap sensors require two sets of ana-
log to digital converters and associated circuitry.
Along with variances in the sensor manufacturing
these two paths are rarely exactly the same. In addi-
tion the effects of temperature, optics and gain can
cause the tap imbalance to be visible.
Thus we need to balance the two taps through
the use of analog gain. The Automatic Tap Matcher
(ATM) uses the tap crack detectors to determine the
tap mismatch and then applies analog gain to attempt
to correct the imbalance.
The tap matcher runs at full speed of the crack
detectors (every 7 frames).
4 Tap readout requires top/bottom matching.
4 Tap process matches taps B to A, D to C. When
those are matched, D and C get moved together to
match B and A.
Applications that will benefit from the ATM are
Arial imaging, portrait photography, and microscopy.
Applications that should not use ATM are PCB and
LCD inspection, imaging with regular features and
fixed patterns and PIV particle fields.
Serial Commands
Target
Index
Command
R/W
Description
09
00
Tap Match On/Off
R/W
0 = off. 1 = on
05
00
Camera mode
R
0x0000 = read mode register 1
04
11
OSD modes
Write
0x000a enable color mode
0x000b disable color mode
Quick FAQ’s:
►The ATM is designed to work with randomly
changing images that present unstructured im-
age data to the crack detectors.
►The crack detectors must be set to color
mode if the sensor is a Bayer pattern color de-
vice. It is a good idea to use the color mode all
the time with the ATM.
►The ATM on/off state is saved with the cam-
era state.
►The ATM will change the analog gains by no
more than one count (up or down) on any given
correction.
►The ATM correction is scene dependent. If
the image data presented to the tap crack de-
tectors is unbalanced then the ATM correction
will cause the taps to become unbalanced.
►The ATM correction is performed by adjusting
the right analog gain.
►NOTE: If the state of the camera is saved, the
ATM modified analog gains will also be saved.
Mono Mode Crack
Detector
Color Mode Crack
Detector
Left
(B)
Right
(A)
Left
(B)
Right
(A)