Unibrain 511 Manual De Usuario

Unibrain Fire-i 501/511/601/701/702/810 Operation Manual 

 

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Binning is defined as reading neighboring pixel and combining directly from the CCD of the camera. Binning is has an 

advantage in the following situation and my further be used in various applications. Relative binning mode per camera 

model is described in each camera specification. 

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Low Light Operation: Combining neighboring pixel increases the area of the CCD receiving light thus may 

obtain brighter picture in low light condition with possible noise reduction. 

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High Frame Rate Operation: Vertical Binning accelerates the speed of CCD data transfer rate by combining 

multiple vertical lines per single horizontal line of the CCD resulting in a significant gain in frame rate.   

Vertical binning combines CCD pixels neighboring vertically to a single pixel increasing light sensitivity of the camera. 

Since CCD acquire data horizontally, multiple lines are acquired in case of vertical binning which results significant 

speed gain. Thus the vertical resolution is reduced and due to the increased CCD area over exposure may occur which 

may require adjustment.   

 

1x2 Vertical Binning 

Example 

Horizontal binning combines CCD pixel neighboring horizontally to a single pixel increasing light sensitivity of the 

camera.  However  due  to  the  nature  of  CCD  transferring  each  horizontal  line  at  a  time  there  is  no  speed  gain  in 

horizontal binning. However light sensitivity increase may occur, due to the increased CCD area similar to vertical 

binning and horizontal resolution is reduced. 

 

2x1 Horizontal Binning 

Example