- SN9C10x PC Camera Controllers
- Driver for Linux
- =============================
+ SN9C10x PC Camera Controllers
+ Driver for Linux
+ =============================
- - Documentation -
+ - Documentation -
Index
development of this project, despite several requests for enough detailed
specifications of the register tables, compression engine and video data format
of the above chips. Nevertheless, these informations are no longer necessary,
-becouse all the aspects related to these chips are known and have been
+because all the aspects related to these chips are known and have been
described in detail in this documentation.
The driver relies on the Video4Linux2 and USB core modules. It has been
high compression quality (see also "Notes for V4L2 application developers"
and "Video frame formats" paragraphs);
- full support for the capabilities of many of the possible image sensors that
- can be connected to the SN9C10x bridges, including, for istance, red, green,
+ can be connected to the SN9C10x bridges, including, for instance, red, green,
blue and global gain adjustments and exposure (see "Supported devices"
paragraph for details);
- use of default color settings for sunlight conditions;
Type: short array (min = 0, max = 64)
Syntax: <-1|n[,...]>
Description: Specify V4L2 minor mode number:
- -1 = use next available
- n = use minor number n
- You can specify up to 64 cameras this way.
- For example:
- video_nr=-1,2,-1 would assign minor number 2 to the second
- recognized camera and use auto for the first one and for every
- other camera.
+ -1 = use next available
+ n = use minor number n
+ You can specify up to 64 cameras this way.
+ For example:
+ video_nr=-1,2,-1 would assign minor number 2 to the second
+ recognized camera and use auto for the first one and for every
+ other camera.
Default: -1
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Name: force_munmap
Type: bool array (min = 0, max = 64)
Syntax: <0|1[,...]>
Description: Force the application to unmap previously mapped buffer memory
- before calling any VIDIOC_S_CROP or VIDIOC_S_FMT ioctl's. Not
- all the applications support this feature. This parameter is
- specific for each detected camera.
- 0 = do not force memory unmapping
- 1 = force memory unmapping (save memory)
+ before calling any VIDIOC_S_CROP or VIDIOC_S_FMT ioctl's. Not
+ all the applications support this feature. This parameter is
+ specific for each detected camera.
+ 0 = do not force memory unmapping
+ 1 = force memory unmapping (save memory)
Default: 0
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Name: frame_timeout
Type: uint array (min = 0, max = 64)
Syntax: <n[,...]>
Description: Timeout for a video frame in seconds. This parameter is
- specific for each detected camera. This parameter can be
- changed at runtime thanks to the /sys filesystem interface.
+ specific for each detected camera. This parameter can be
+ changed at runtime thanks to the /sys filesystem interface.
Default: 2
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Name: debug
Type: ushort
Syntax: <n>
Description: Debugging information level, from 0 to 3:
- 0 = none (use carefully)
- 1 = critical errors
- 2 = significant informations
- 3 = more verbose messages
- Level 3 is useful for testing only, when only one device
- is used. It also shows some more informations about the
- hardware being detected. This parameter can be changed at
- runtime thanks to the /sys filesystem interface.
+ 0 = none (use carefully)
+ 1 = critical errors
+ 2 = significant informations
+ 3 = more verbose messages
+ Level 3 is useful for testing only, when only one device
+ is used. It also shows some more informations about the
+ hardware being detected. This parameter can be changed at
+ runtime thanks to the /sys filesystem interface.
Default: 2
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0x04 0xC4 Frame synchronisation pattern.
0x05 0x96 Frame synchronisation pattern.
0x06 0xXX Unknown meaning. The exact value depends on the chip;
- possible values are 0x00, 0x01 and 0x20.
+ possible values are 0x00, 0x01 and 0x20.
0x07 0xXX Variable value, whose bits are ff00uzzc, where ff is a
- frame counter, u is unknown, zz is a size indicator
- (00 = VGA, 01 = SIF, 10 = QSIF) and c stands for
- "compression enabled" (1 = yes, 0 = no).
+ frame counter, u is unknown, zz is a size indicator
+ (00 = VGA, 01 = SIF, 10 = QSIF) and c stands for
+ "compression enabled" (1 = yes, 0 = no).
0x08 0xXX Brightness sum inside Auto-Exposure area (low-byte).
0x09 0xXX Brightness sum inside Auto-Exposure area (high-byte).
- For a pure white image, this number will be equal to 500
- times the area of the specified AE area. For images
- that are not pure white, the value scales down according
- to relative whiteness.
+ For a pure white image, this number will be equal to 500
+ times the area of the specified AE area. For images
+ that are not pure white, the value scales down according
+ to relative whiteness.
0x0A 0xXX Brightness sum outside Auto-Exposure area (low-byte).
0x0B 0xXX Brightness sum outside Auto-Exposure area (high-byte).
- For a pure white image, this number will be equal to 125
- times the area outside of the specified AE area. For
- images that are not pure white, the value scales down
- according to relative whiteness.
- according to relative whiteness.
+ For a pure white image, this number will be equal to 125
+ times the area outside of the specified AE area. For
+ images that are not pure white, the value scales down
+ according to relative whiteness.
+ according to relative whiteness.
The following bytes are used by the SN9C103 bridge only:
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