Increasing Sensitivity With Binning - Teledyne HS-40-04k40 User Manual

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4.3.4 Increasing Sensitivity with Binning

Binning increases the cam era's light sensitivity by d ecreasing horizontal and / or vertical
resolu tion—the charge collected by ad jacent pixels is ad d ed together. Binning is also
u sefu l for increasing fram e rate (vertical binning) or increasing the pixel pitch. For
exam ple, if you set you r vertical binning to 2 and you r horizontal binning to 2, you r pixel
size increases from 7µm x 7µm (no binning) to 14µm x 14µm (2x2 binning).
Figure 20: 2x2 Binning in Area Mode
Setting Horizontal Binning
Purpose:
Syntax:
Syntax Elem ents:
N otes:
Exam ple:
Teledyne DALSA
Increases the horizontal pixel pitch and light sensitivity by
d ecreasing horizontal resolution. The am ount of d ata being sent
from the cam era is red uced by the horizontal binning factor.
Different fram egrabber files are need ed for d ifferent horizontal
binning factors.
sbh m
m
H orizontal binning value. Available values are 1 (factory
setting, no binning) 2, 4, or 8.

If you are using horizontal binning, the m in, m ax, and m ean
statistics generated by the
second pixel (or valid d ata) only (e.g., if sbh 2, every second
pixel).

For optim al flat field correction, you should rerun the ccp and
ccf com m and s after changing binning values.

Changing binning values d oes not autom atically alter gain,
fram e rate generation, or other functions of the cam era.

Pixel num bering rem ains unchanged for the roi, gl, gla,
dpc, gfc, sfc, gpc, and
for an explanation of pixel num bering and pixel start and stop
values w hen using a region of interest.
sbh 2
gl gla
or com m and are for every
spc
com m and s. Refer to Figure 21
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