Hello guys! I need to make a binning of the pixel output of a sensor. The binning process is based on adding 5 pixels. But the sensor is outputing 4 pixels/clk (See picture1 attached) in my mind was doing something like in the picture2 attached. But the problem is that with that solution I can't ouput data every clock after the pipeline delay... I need one solution to ouput data every clock without "deadtimes" in the output... Any idea? Thanks!
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You get the information with 20% less speed you actually need it. So how should this work "on the fly"? E.g. I give you every minute 4 apples and your task is, to pack 5 apples in a bag every minute. That cannot work in an endless process. If you know that there are 100 apples to pack you can store the incoming apples (4 every minute) in a container and start packing when there are 20 apples in the contrainer. So if you know that there are 10.000 pixels to process, store the first 2.000 in a fifo-memory and then start processing.
Schlumpf is right. Also, where is the fifth pixel in your table? I see only D1, D2, D3, D4. That looks like exactly four pixels to me.
Do you want to use hard binning or soft binning? Generally the way of data input reception has nothing to do with binning. You will have to buffer incoming pixels in an array of lines and post process partial fields in the conventional way. So 6 lines will be required to do this appropriately and join the quad words. In case of colour sensors, this can be combined with BAYER-processing. Basically you can do this with a conventional debayering 3x3->1 or with a extended 5x5 and post processing for higher effort. In your case a 8x8 window might also be worth tinhking to handle possible aliasing effects when binning pixels of high resolution images. Care should be taken of the way of filtering.
Hi the fith pixel is D1 of the next CLK. I need to add 5 pixels together and I am receiving only 4 pixels/clk. I need to do a hardware binning of the pixels like Jürgen Schuhmacher said in the post. But I thought that there was any posibility to add them on the fly without storing them in a any array. Anyway I am wondering how can I estimate the minimum size of the buffer (FIFO) to output the binned pixels before storing the new incomming pixels? Thanks a lot
Why do you want to store the binned pixel (outgoing) in a fifo?
Enrique Perez wrote: > I need to do a hardware binning of > the pixels like Jürgen Schuhmacher said in the post. With "hard" binning, I had the common method in mind, when physically adding the charges of the sensor pixel together by setting their outputs as a "wired or". This usually is triggered by setting the sensor to a specific mode and leads to a different timing. In your case I assume you want to perform soft binning by reading each pixel's piece of information and adding them in the logic with an adder. Although it is a hardware doing this, I call this "soft" because you do not really add the charges (a real process) but you do "only" add the abstract values of the intensity representing these charges (something logical). Anyway you have to solve your timing issue and as far as I understand you description, you are getting all your pixels in sequence line by line, so you will have to create a block of 5 lines at least to get apply your 5x5 window to generate each of the filtered pixel. After this you apply a DDC by simply ignoring 4 out of 5 pixels and 4 out of lines. Basically you will use the pixel coordinates/numbers 2,7,12 in lines 2,7,12 and so on to have a 2 dimensional binning.
Ah! One question: Do you have a 2D-Sensor or is it just a 1D-line-Sensor? This made clear why you want to add subsequent pixels of only one line. If this is the case, you need a simple register ram with only one input and one output where the output vector progresses with 5 steps as soon as enough pixels are available. Theoretically this is a FIFO but you might take my words regarding filtering into account. You should consider to use a FIFO, feed it with 4 words from left, read 5 words from right and push them into a 15 word register array. Then apply a filter over all these registers like shown in the upper part of the left image, with rising and falling behavior covering the adjacent pixels. You can use also my "magic" triangular curve of weighted coefficients: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 leading to a simply divider, namely 64.
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