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8.5  Auto gain .............................................................................................................62 
8.6  Setting the brightness (black level or offset) .............................................................65 
8.7  Auto shutter .........................................................................................................65 
8.8  Lookup table (LUT) and Gamma function...................................................................67 
8.8.1  Loading a LUT into the camera .....................................................................68 
8.9  Shading correction.................................................................................................70 
8.9.1  Automatic generation of correction data........................................................70 
8.9.2  Loading a shading image into the camera ......................................................75 
8.9.3  Loading a shading image out of the camera ...................................................76 
8.10  DSNU & blemish correction (MF-131B only) ..............................................................77 
8.11  Horizontal mirror function .....................................................................................80 
8.12  Binning (CCD b/w models) .....................................................................................81 
8.12.1  Vertical binning ........................................................................................81 
8.12.2  Horizontal binning ....................................................................................82 
8.12.3  Full binning..............................................................................................82 
8.13  Sub-sampling (CMOS) ............................................................................................83 
8.14  Sharpness............................................................................................................84 
8.15  Color interpolation and correction...........................................................................85 
8.15.1  Color interpolation (BAYER demosaicing)......................................................85 
8.15.2  Color correction ........................................................................................86 
8.15.3  RGB  YUV conversion ..............................................................................86 
8.15.4  Hue and Saturation ...................................................................................86 
8.16  Serial interface.....................................................................................................87 
9  Controlling image capture.......................................................................... 91 
9.1  Trigger modi .........................................................................................................91 
9.1.1  Trigger delay..............................................................................................94 
9.2  Exposure time .......................................................................................................96 
9.2.1  Extended shutter ........................................................................................96 
9.3  One-Shot..............................................................................................................97 
9.3.1  One-Shot command on the bus to start of exposure .........................................97 
9.3.2  End of exposure to first packet on the bus .....................................................98 
9.4  Multi-Shot ............................................................................................................98 
9.5  ISO_Enable / Free-Run ...........................................................................................99 
9.6  Asynchronous broadcast .........................................................................................99 
9.7  Jitter at start of exposure ..................................................................................... 100 
9.8  Frame memory and deferred image transport ........................................................... 101 
9.8.1  HoldImg mode ......................................................................................... 102 
9.8.2  FastCapture.............................................................................................. 103 
9.9  Sequence mode ................................................................................................... 104 
9.9.1  Changing the parameters within a sequence ................................................. 107 
10  Video formats, modes and bandwidth ....................................................... 109 
10.1  MF-033B/ MF-033C ............................................................................................. 109 
10.2  MF-046B/ MF-046C ............................................................................................. 110 
10.3  MF-080B/ MF-080C (-30 fps) ................................................................................ 111 
10.4  MF-145B/ MF-145C ............................................................................................. 112 
10.5  MF-131B/ MF-131C ............................................................................................. 113 
10.6  Area of interest (AOI) ......................................................................................... 114 
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