Supported Pixel Formats For Color Cameras - Smartek Vision Giganetix GC Series User Manual

The two bytes are arranged in little-endian order, which means that the Least Significant Byte (LSB) is
arranged first, the most significant byte second. The memory layout of the image with the Mono16 pixel
format is shown in Figure 118. Starting with the upper left of the image, byte 0 and byte 1 represent the
value of pixel P(1, 1), byte 2 and byte 3 represent the value of pixel P(1, 2) and so on. The least significant
bit is assigned to bit 0 of the first byte, the most significant bit to bit 7 of the second byte.
Byte 0
(LSB)
0 ...

5.4.3 Supported Pixel Formats for Color Cameras

5.4.3.1 BayerGR8 / BayerRG8 / BayerGB8 / BayerBG8
In an image with one of the Bayer8 pixel formats, each pixel value P is represented by one byte or 8
bits. The "GR", "RG", "GB" or "BG" notation describes the layout of the Bayer pattern on the image sensor,
used in the camera. For detailed description about color imaging and the Bayer filter, please refer to chapter
4.1.5 - Color Imaging with Bayer Pattern.
The Bayer8 pixel formats in SMARTEK Vision digital cameras are specified like shown below:
PixelFormat
Description
Pixel size
Value range
The memory layout of the image with this pixel formats is shown in Figure 119. Starting from the upper left
of the image, byte 0 represents the value of pixel P(1, 1), byte 1 represents the value of pixel P(1, 2) and so
on. In each byte the bitorder is by default little endian; the least significant bit is assigned to bit number 0
and the most significant bit is assigned to bit number 7.
Figure 119: Image Layout with pixel format GR8/RG8/GB8/BG8
P (1, 1)
Byte 1 Byte 2
(MSB) (LSB)
7 8 ... 15
Figure 118: Image layout with pixel format Mono16
BayerGR8, BayerRG8, BayerGB8, BayerBG8
Table 71: Specification PixelFormat Bayer8
P (1, 1)
Byte 0
0 ... 7
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P (1, 2)
Byte 3 Byte 3
...
(MSB) (MSB)
8-bit monochrome unsigned
1 byte
0 . . . 255
P (1, 2)
Byte 1 ...
146
Byte 3
...
(MSB)
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