Instruction manual

PIKE Technical Manual V4.0.0
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IO_INP_CTRL 1-2 ................................................................................................. 96
Trigger delay ....................................................................................................... 97
Outputs .................................................................................................................. 99
IO_OUTP_CTRL 1-4 ............................................................................................. 103
Output modes.................................................................................................... 104
Pixel data.................................................................................................................. 107
Description of the data path......................................................................110
Block diagrams of the cameras ..................................................................................... 110
Black and white cameras ......................................................................................... 110
Color cameras ........................................................................................................ 111
Sensor ...................................................................................................................... 112
Channel balance ......................................................................................................... 112
Channel adjustment with SmartView (>1.5)................................................................ 112
White balance ............................................................................................................ 115
One-push automatic white balance ........................................................................... 116
Automatic white balance ......................................................................................... 118
Auto shutter .............................................................................................................. 119
Auto gain .................................................................................................................. 121
Manual gain............................................................................................................... 123
Brightness (black level or offset) .................................................................................. 123
Horizontal mirror function ........................................................................................... 125
Shading correction...................................................................................................... 126
Building shading image in Format_7 modes ............................................................... 126
First example .................................................................................................... 126
Second example................................................................................................. 126
How to store shading image..................................................................................... 127
Automatic generation of correction data.................................................................... 128
Requirements .................................................................................................... 128
Algorithm ......................................................................................................... 128
Loading a shading image out of the camera ............................................................... 131
Loading a shading image into the camera .................................................................. 132
Look-up table (LUT) and gamma function....................................................................... 133
Loading an LUT into the camera ............................................................................... 134
Binning (only PIKE b/w models) ................................................................................... 135
2 x / 4 x / 8 x binning ............................................................................................ 135
Vertical binning ..................................................................................................... 136
Horizontal binning ................................................................................................. 138
2 x full binning/4 x full binning/8 x full binning ........................................................ 140
Sub-sampling (PIKE b/w and color) ............................................................................... 142
What is sub-sampling? ............................................................................................ 142
Which PIKE models have sub-sampling? ..................................................................... 142
Description of sub-sampling..................................................................................... 142
Binning and sub-sampling access.................................................................................. 149
Quick parameter change timing modes....................................................................... 151
Why new timing modes?.......................................................................................... 151
Standard Parameter Update Timing .................................................................... 152
New: Quick Format Change Mode (QFCM) ............................................................. 152