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Packed 12-Bit Mode
Definition All Guppy cameras have the so-called Packed 12-Bit Mode. This means: two
12-bit pixel values are packed into 3 bytes instead of 4 bytes.
The color codings are implemented via Vendor Unique Color_Coding accord-
ing to IIDC V1.31: COLOR_CODING_INQ @ 024h...033h, IDs=128-255)
See Table 108: Format_7 control and status register on page 252.
Note
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Configuration
To configure this feature in an advanced register: See Table
131: Advanced register: Format_7 mode mapping on page
280.
B/w cameras Color cameras
Packed 12-Bit MONO camera mode
SmartView: MONO12
Packed 12-Bit RAW camera mode
SmartView: RAW12
Mono and raw mode have the same implementation.
Table 51: Packed 12-Bit Mode
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For data block packet format see Table 34: Packed 12-Bit
Mode (mono and raw) Y12 format from AVT on page 95.
For data structure see Table 35: Data structure of Packed 12-
Bit Mode (mono and raw) from AVT on page 97.
Mode Color_Coding ID
Packed 12-Bit MONO ECCID_MONO12 ID=132
Packed 12-Bit RAW ECCID_RAW12 ID=136
Table 52: Packed 12-Bit Mode: color coding