ALLIED Vision Technologies Pike F-1600 - Manual (Page 174)

Description of the data path
PIKE Technical Manual V5.1.2
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2 x full binning/4 x full binning/8 x full binning
If horizontal and vertical binning are combined, every 4 (16 or 64) pixels are
consolidated into a single pixel. At first two (4 or 8) vertical pixels are put
together and then combined horizontally.
This increases light sensitivity by a total of a factor of 4 (16 or 64) and at the
same time signal-to-noise separation is improved by about 6 (12 or 18) dB. Res-
olution is reduced, depending on the model.
By default and without further remapping use Format_7 Mode_3 for
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2 x full binning.
Note
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The image appears horizontally compressed in this mode and
does no longer show true aspect ratio.
If horizontal binning is activated the image may appear to be
over-exposed and must eventually be corrected.
Figure 91: 2 x and 4 x full binning
Figure 92: 8 x full binning
2 x full binning 4 x full binning
8 x full binning