Set Exposure Time; Control Gain And Black Level; Set Image Size - Teledyne Piranha4 User Manual

Piranha4 4K Color Camera User's Manual

Set Exposure Time

To set the cam era's exp osu re tim e, u se the Exposure Time p aram eter—a m em ber of the Sensor Controls
set. This featu re is only available w hen the Exposure Mode p aram eter is set to Timed. The allow able
exp osu re range is from 7 µs to 3,000 µs, d ep end ent on the valu e of the internal line rate.
GenICam parameters:
Sensor Controls > Exposure Time (Timed Exposure Mode) > 8 µs to 3,000 µs.

Control Gain and Black Level

The cameras p rovid e gain and black level ad ju stments in the d igital d om ain for the CMOS sensor. The
gain and black level controls can m ake small com p ensations to the acqu isition in situ ations w here
lighting varies and the lens iris cannot be easily ad ju sted . The u ser can evalu ate gain and black level by
u sing CamExp ert.
The p aram eters that control gain and black level are grou p ed together in the Sensor Controls set.
Black Level
Gain

Set Image Size

To set the height of the im age, and therefore the nu m ber of lines to scan, u se the p aram eters grou p ed
u nd er the Im age Form at Control set.
Control the size of the transm itted im age
Wid th
H eight
Pixel Form at
Test Im age Selector
Teledyne DALSA
Deca RGB8 Max: 70KH z
Sensor Controls
Ap p ly a d igital ad d ition after an FPN correction: ± 1/ 8 of the available range of
-32 to +31 in 8-bit m od e, -128 to +127 in 10-bit m od e, and -512 to +511 in 12-bit
m od e.
Set the gain as an am p lification factor ap p lied to the vid eo signal across all
p ixels: 1x to 10x.
Image Format Control
Wid th of the im age.
H eight of the im age in lines.
8 bit d ep th to Cam era Link.
Select an internal test im age:
Off
Color Ram p
Grey Ram p
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