O-3000 Camera Series
The latter two modes
time
and
sensitivity
are settings which can be adjusted independently and are
part of the manual exposure mode. Exposure time can be set at least to 16 microseconds and moreover
the sensor’s gain (sensitivity) can be set to a value between 0 and 100 percent. To adjust these values
you can send appropriate XML commands. All values can be set at any time but only one mode can
be active at one time. For a detailed explanation please see [
6
].
The tags
time_range
,
brightness_range
and
sensitivity_range
serve to read from the camera the valid
upper and lower limits for each parameter.
2.1.6
White Balance
You can adjust the different
color_weights
by setting their values
red
,
greenr
,
greenb
, and
blue
in the
range from 0 to 100 percent. Thus, it allows you to make the white balance of the image manually.
For more information see [
6
] and further application notes on the subject.
2.1.7
Mirroring
The mirroring mode allows you to flip the picture up/down or left/right. It can be done by changing
values of parameter
mirroring
. For more information please see [
6
].
2.1.8
Data Format
The camera is supporting three different data formats (bit depths). You can choose between 8 bit, 12
bit and HDR
1
(20 bit compressed). This feature is most important for image processing algorithms
or machine/computer vision applications because many monitors or print media are not able to dis-
tinguish more than 8 bit resolution per color channel. For more information about the data format
identifiers please see [
7
] and for usage of the
data format
XML commands [
6
] as usual.
Note, that a monochrome camera only supports
mono
fomats and a color camera only supports the
bayer
modes.
2.1.9
Downsampling
Among the
advanced_functions
these cameras also support a
downsampling
mode, which is also
called binning. In this mode, neighbouring pixels are combined. This reduces the image size and the
image noise.
Note, that these cameras only support no binning, vertical binning and vertical & horizontal binning.
Horizontal binning alone is not supported.
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High Dynamic Range.
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