Genie Monochrome Series-GigE Vision Camera Operational Reference 43BinningBinning is the process where the charge on two (or more) adjacent pixels is combined. This results in increased lightsensitivity since there is twice the sensor area to capture photons. The sensor spatial resolution is reduced but theimproved low-light sensitivity plus lower signal-noise ratio may solve a difficult imaging situation. The user canevaluate binning by using CamExpert.Genie supports horizontal and vertical binning independently, by a factor of 2 in each axis. Specifically if horizontalbinning only is activated, a nominal 640x480 image is reduced to 320x480. If vertical binning only is activated, theimage is reduced to 640x240. With both binning modes activated, the resulting image is 320x240.Vertical binning also provides an increase in maximum acquisition frame rate. The frame rate increase depends onthe camera model and amount of vertical cropping used. The following graphic illustrates binning.1 6406394321 2 320Horizontal BinningLine1Line2Line3Line4Line479Line480Line1Line2Line240Repeated for eachline of pixelsRepeated for each column of pixelsVertical BinningHorizontal and Vertical Binning Illustration
