Packed 12-Bit Mode - AVT Pike Technical Manual

Description of the data path

Packed 12-Bit Mode

All Pike cameras have the so-called Packed 12-Bit Mode. This means: two
12-bit pixel values are packed into 3 bytes instead of 4 bytes.
B/w cameras
Packed 12-Bit MONO camera mode
SmartView: MONO12
Mono and raw mode have the same implementation.
Note For data block packet format see
Mode (mono and raw) Y12 format
For data structure see
Bit Mode (mono and raw)
The color codings are implemented via Vendor Unique Color_Coding accord-
ing to IIDC V1.31: COLOR_CODING_INQ @ 024h...033h, IDs=128-255)
See Table 120: Format_7 control and status register
Mode
Packed 12-Bit MONO
Packed 12-Bit RAW
Table 48: Packed 12-Bit Mode: color coding
Color cameras
Packed 12-Bit RAW camera mode
SmartView: RAW12
Table 47: Packed 12-Bit Mode
Table 33: Data structure of Packed 12-
on page 93.
Color_Coding
ECCID_MONO12
ECCID_RAW12
Table 32: Packed 12-Bit
on page 92.
on page 261.
ID
ID=132
ID=136
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