According to the GenICam
™
and GigE Vision
®
standards, 3D data should be repre‐
sented using coordinate pixel formats. For Ranger3, these formats are
Coord3d_C12p
and
Coord3d_16
. To allow a receiver that is not compatible with those new formats, the
binary compatible grayscale formats
mono_12p
and
mono_16
can be used.
7.9
Reflectance data
The reflectance values along the laser line can be collected in parallel to the 3D data.
The reflectance values are saved as an 8-bit grayscale image, with one value corre‐
sponding to each point in the range dataset.
For information about how to enable reflectance measurements,
reflectance measurements", page 58
7.10
High dynamic range (HDR) imaging
Ranger3 supports high dynamic range (HDR) imaging, which increases the sensor's
ability to adequately reproduce both bright and dark areas in a scene. HDR is suitable
for improving the localization of the laser line when acquiring images containing both
dark and bright materials, such as bright objects towards a dark background or dark
objects with bright prints.
Figure 13: Acquisition of
profiles
Figure 14: Resulting profile,
linear (non-HDR) mode
Figure 15: Resulting profile,
HDR mode
Ranger3 uses an HDR principle called multiple-slope with one knee-point, which means
that the normal linear relationship between the received light and the resulting pixel
value (reflectance) is broken into two linear segments. The result is a compressed light-
to-pixel value characteristic for high light intensities, according to
.
Light intensity
2
Pixel value
1
5
6
4
Maximum
pixel value
3
Figure 16: HDR multiple-slope principle
1
Pixel value
2
Light intensity
3
Maximum pixel value
4
Linear (non-HDR) mode
5
HDR mode
6
Knee-point
7
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