Table Of Contents - Allied Vision Technologies F-201B AVT Dolphin Manual

Contents
1 Safety instructions................................................................................................. 6
1.1 Environmental conditions ...........................................................................6
2 Device type and range of application....................................................................... 7
2.1 System components ...................................................................................7
3 Specifications........................................................................................................ 9
3.1 F-201B.....................................................................................................9
3.2 F-201C ................................................................................................... 10
3.3 Spectral sensitivity .................................................................................. 11
4 Quick start .......................................................................................................... 12
5 Camera dimensions .............................................................................................. 13
6 Camera interfaces ................................................................................................ 14
6.1 IEEE-1394 port pin assignment.................................................................. 15
6.2 HiRose jack pin assignment....................................................................... 15
6.3 Status LEDs............................................................................................. 15
6.3.1 On LED................................................................................................... 15
6.3.2 LEDs 1 and 2........................................................................................... 16
6.4 Operating the camera............................................................................... 16
6.5 Control and video data signals .................................................................. 17
6.5.1 Inputs ................................................................................................... 17
6.5.2 Outputs.................................................................................................. 19
6.5.3 Pixel Data............................................................................................... 21
6.6 Time response ......................................................................................... 23
6.6.1 OneShot command on the bus to start of exposure ....................................... 23
6.6.2 End of exposure to first packet on the bus .................................................. 23
6.6.3 Exposure time ......................................................................................... 24
7 Block diagrams of the camera ............................................................................... 24
7.1 Description of the data path ..................................................................... 24
7.2 White balance ......................................................................................... 25
7.2.1 Automatic white balance .......................................................................... 25
7.3 Manually setting gain............................................................................... 26
7.4 Setting the offsets (black value)................................................................ 26
7.5 Lookup tables (LUT)................................................................................. 27
7.6 Shading correction .................................................................................. 29
7.6.1 Automatic generation of correction data..................................................... 29
7.7 Color interpolation and correction.............................................................. 32
7.7.1 RGB
7.8 Controlling image capture......................................................................... 34
7.8.1 OneShot ................................................................................................. 34
7.8.2 Multi-Shot .............................................................................................. 34
7.8.3 ISO_Enable / Free-Run ............................................................................. 34
7.8.4 Asynchronous broadcast ........................................................................... 34
7.8.5 Jitter at start of exposure......................................................................... 34
7.9 Sequence mode ....................................................................................... 35
7.9.1 How is sequence mode implemented? ......................................................... 35
7.9.2 Reading in the sequence........................................................................... 37
7.9.3 Changing the parameters within a sequence ................................................ 37
7.10 Deferred image transport .......................................................................... 38
7.10.1 HoldImg mode ........................................................................................ 38
7.10.2 FastCapture ............................................................................................ 38
8 Video formats, video modes and IEEE 1394 bandwidth............................................ 39
8.1 Area of interest (AOI) .............................................................................. 41
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YUV conversion ............................................................................ 33