SICK Ranger E

Reference Manual Chapter 9
Ranger E/D
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Hardware Description
Filter Wavelength Rows std Rows Hi-Res Comment
Red 610-690 nm 8 518 Red channel filter
Green 500-580 nm 4 516 Green channel filter
Blue 410-490 nm 0 514 Blue channel filter
IR block 380-690 nm 12 520 IR is block is also on
all R,G,B color rows.
This is used as gray
channel without any
IR content.
No filter 380-950 nm 16 526 This is used as gray
with IR content.
No filter
ColorRangers
without IR
option (E40,
E50, E55)
380-950 nm 35-511 This is used as gray
with IR content.
IR pass
ColorRangers
with IR option,
(E50 IR, E55 IR)
730-950 nm 100-511 522 This is used as IR
content only.
1-3, 5-7,
9-11,13-15,
17-34
524, 528 Undefined filter
response.
522 For ColorRanger
without IR option
Undefined
35-99 For ColorRanger with
IR option
Table 9.1 – Specification of sensor filter positions.
The wavelengths given in the table are the filter response at > 50% filter transmission. The
filter tolerance is +/- 10 nm.
9.1.3 High-resolution Rows
The Ranger E55 is equipped with a single high-resolution row with 3072 pixels. The pixels
on this row has the same height – 9.5 µm– as the normal pixels but only half the width.
This row is addressed by the row index 512.
The ColorRanger E55 has eight additional high-resolution rows. Three of them are covered
with RGB-filters, giving high-resolution color capability. One high-resolution row is covered
by an IR block filter.
The pixels on the color filtered high-resolution rows have double the height – 20 µm –
compared with the normal sensor rows, and the pixel distance (pitch) between the rows is
~4 times the distance of the normal rows (42 µm). These rows are addressed by even row
indexes 514-528.
The ColorRanger E40 and E50 have the same high-resolution color rows (RGB) as the
ColorRanger E55, but with limited pixel resolution. Only every other pixel are used by these
models.
Between the standard sensor region and the high-resolution regions there are regions that
are not used. These are displayed as black areas when viewing the high-resolution rows in
Image mode to achieve an image with correct aspect ratio.
9.1.4 Color response
The M12 sensor and color filter response curves are shown in the following figure. The
color filters are combined with an IR-blocking filter so that second order filter peaks do not
transmit any light.