Instruction manual
Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- Declarations of conformity
- Safety instructions
- PIKE types and highlights
- FireWire
- Overview
- FireWire in detail
- Serial bus
- FireWire connection capabilities
- Capabilities of 1394a (FireWire 400)
- Capabilities of 1394b (FireWire 800)
- Compatibility between 1394a and 1394b
- Image transfer via 1394a and 1394b
- 1394b bandwidths
- FireWire Plug & play capabilities
- FireWire hot plug precautions
- Operating system support
- 1394a/b comparison
- System components
- Specifications
- Camera dimensions
- PIKE standard housing (2 x 1394b copper)
- PIKE (1394b: 1 x GOF, 1 x copper)
- Tripod adapter
- Pike W90 (2 x 1394b copper)
- Pike W90 (1394b: 1 x GOF, 1 x copper)
- Pike W90 S90 (2 x 1394b copper)
- Pike W90 S90 (1394b: 1 x GOF, 1 x copper)
- Pike W270 (2 x 1394b copper)
- Pike W270 (1394b: 1 x GOF, 1 x copper)
- Pike W270 S90 (2 x 1394b copper)
- Pike W270 S90 (1394b: 1 x GOF, 1 x copper)
- Cross section: C-Mount (VGA size filter)
- Cross section: C-Mount (large filter)
- Adjustment of C-Mount
- F-Mount, K-Mount, M39-Mount
- Camera interfaces
- Description of the data path
- Block diagrams of the cameras
- Sensor
- Channel balance
- White balance
- Auto shutter
- Auto gain
- Manual gain
- Brightness (black level or offset)
- Horizontal mirror function
- Shading correction
- Look-up table (LUT) and gamma function
- Binning (b/w models)
- Sub-sampling
- High SNR mode (High Signal Noise Ratio)
- Frame memory and deferred image transport
- Color interpolation (BAYER demosaicing)
- Sharpness
- Hue and saturation
- Color correction
- Color conversion (RGB ‡ YUV)
- Bulk Trigger
- Level Trigger
- Serial interface
- Controlling image capture
- Video formats, modes and bandwidth
- How does bandwidth affect the frame rate?
- Configuration of the camera
- Camera_Status_Register
- Configuration ROM
- Implemented registers
- Camera initialize register
- Inquiry register for video format
- Inquiry register for video mode
- Inquiry register for video frame rate and base address
- Inquiry register for basic function
- Inquiry register for feature presence
- Inquiry register for feature elements
- Inquiry register for absolute value CSR offset address
- Status and control register for feature
- Feature control error status register
- Video mode control and status registers for Format_7
- Advanced features
- Version information inquiry
- Advanced feature inquiry
- Camera status
- Maximum resolution
- Time base
- Extended shutter
- Test images
- Look-up tables (LUT)
- Shading correction
- Deferred image transport
- Frame information
- Input/output pin control
- Delayed Integration enable
- Auto shutter control
- Auto gain control
- Autofunction AOI
- Color correction
- Trigger delay
- Mirror image
- AFE channel compensation (channel balance)
- Soft Reset
- High SNR mode (High Signal Noise Ratio)
- User profiles
- GPDATA_BUFFER
- Firmware update
- Glossary
- Index
Glossary
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Global pipelined
shutter
A global pipelined shutter assures that the integration for all pixels starts
and stops at the same moment in time. The integration of the next image
is possible during the readout of the previously captured image.
Global shutter All pixels are exposed to the light at the same moment and for the same
time span.
HDR mode HDR = high dynamic range
High dynamic range In the high dynamic range mode various nonlinearity points, the so-called
knee-points (and integration time as a second parameter) can be freely
adjusted, leading to increased dynamic range. This enables the high
dynamic range of the sensor to be compressed into 8 bit, preserving inter-
esting details of the image. This mode is also known as multiple slope.
Horizontal binning In horizontal binning adjacent horizontal pixels in a line are combined in
pairs.
This means that in horizontal binning the light sensitivity of the camera is
also increased by a factor of two (6 dB). Signal-to-noise separation
improves by approx. 3 dB. Horizontal resolution is lowered, depending on
the model.
See also: vertical binning and full binning
Host computer Host computer is the primary or controlling computer for a digital camera.
HSV color space The HSV (hue, saturation, value) model, also called HSB (hue, saturation,
brightness), defines a color space in terms of three constituent compo-
nents:
• Hue, the color type (such as red, blue, or yellow)
• Saturation, the vibrancy of the color and colorimetric purity
• Value, the brightness of the color
Hue A hue refers to the gradation of color within the optical spectrum, or vis-
ible spectrum, of light. Hue may also refer to a particular color within this
spectrum, as defined by its dominant wavelength, or the central tendency
of its combined wavelengths. For example, a light wave with a central ten-
dency within 565-590 nm will be yellow.
In an RGB color space, hue can be thought of as an angle ϕ in standard
position. The other coordinates are saturation and brightness.
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