Cameras & Sensors
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Terms
Term Reference
16 terms| Term | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) | The circuit that converts analog sensor voltage to a digital number | |
| Auto White Balance | A camera mode that re-balances every frame on the assumption that the scene averages to gray; wrong for stained tissue. | |
| Binning | Combining adjacent pixels to increase sensitivity at the cost of spatial resolution | |
| Bit Depth | The number of bits used to represent each pixel intensity value | |
| Clipping | A pixel or channel at the camera's maximum value; anything brighter is recorded as the same number, so the information i... | |
| Dark Frame | An image taken with no light reaching the camera, at the same exposure; it records the camera's offset so it can be subt... | |
| Dynamic Range | The span from dimmest to brightest | |
| Frame Rate | Images per second | |
| Full Well Capacity | Maximum electrons per pixel | |
| Pixel Size | The physical dimension of each sensor element | |
| Quantization | The process of mapping continuous intensity values to discrete digital levels | |
| Quantum Efficiency | Photon to electron conversion | |
| Read Noise | The electronic noise floor | |
| sCMOS Camera | The modern standard for fluorescence imaging | |
| Sensor Area | How big is the 'film' | |
| White Balance | Scaling a color camera's red, green and blue gains so that blank glass records as neutral gray under your lamp. |