What are the advantages of the Enhanced Image Processing Engine?
Frame Averaging Captures from 1 to 256 frames, at any image resolution; accumulates the unprocessed/uncompressed pixel data in software and averages the accumulated pixel data by the number of frames captured. Advantages Increases the Signal-to-Noise Ratio in low-light images, by up to 16x with no loss of definition (up to the camera’s rated maximum of 52 dB). The rate of S/N is calculated by taking the square root of the number of frames captured (i.e. 256 frames captured = 16x S/N). Reduces the noise in low-light, low signal images Increases the sensitivity of the camera up to 10x (from 3 lux to 0.3 lux), Histogram Equalization Performs histogram equalization on the 16-bit data (48-bit RGB) of accumulated frames. Only 2 accumulated frames are necessary to achieve greater than 8-bit precision. Advantages Significantly enhances low light and low contrast images through better distribution of contrast. Expand Contrast Function Performs expansion of the histogram, on the 16-bit data (48
