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Glossary
A
acquisition window The image size specific to a video standard or camera resolution.
address Value that identifies a specific location (or series of locations) in memory.
API Application programming interface.
area A rectangular portion of an acquisition window or frame that is controlled
and defined by software.
array Ordered, indexed set of data elements of the same type.
aspect ratio The ratio of a picture or image’s width to its height.
asynchronous (1) Independent in time from any other event. (2) Communication
mechanism on the IEEE 1394 bus, which guarantees delivery of the
message but does not guarantee timing.
B
big endian Describes computers that store bytes of memory by placing the most
significant byte at the memory location with the lowest address, the next
significant byte at the next memory location, and so on.
buffer Temporary storage for acquired data.
C
camera session A process-safe handle to a camera.
chroma The color information in a video signal.