Piranha Color Camera User’s Manual 12
DALSA 03-032-10211-01 5/9/2007
1.2 Image Sensor
The Piranha Color camera uses a trilinear CCD sensor with three lines of pixels: one
blue, one red and one green. Depending on your camera model, each line contains
either 2048 or 4096 pixels. As illustrated in the diagram below, the blue line has 2
outputs (taps), and the red and green lines have 4 outputs.
Figure 1: Sensor Block Diagram
Red Tap 2
Red Tap 1
Blue Tap 2
Blue Tap 1
2048 or 4096 pixels
Red Tap 4
Red Tap 3
Green Tap 2
Green Tap 1
Green Tap 4
Green Tap 3
Red Tap 2
ed Tap
1
Blue Tap
1
Green Tap 2
Green Tap
1
30 µm (4k)
42 µm (2k)
30 µm (4k)
42 µm (2k)
he three color lines are
separated
30 µm (4k) or 42 µm (2k) apart
center to
center.
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