I have a AVT Prosilica GX3300 camera that I am trying to acquire 12-bit PACKED imagery. I am able to send the commands for the camera to operate in that mode no problem, but when I go to write the image into a binary data file, it saves it as 16-bit. My guess is that LabVIEW is upacking the data to display it to the screen; however, I really want to have it packed when writing to disk to minimzie storage requirements. Any clue?
You can convert this to an array and repack it and write thr binary packed data if you need this.
Imaq to array, convert this to a flat 1d array of U8 and unpack by writing, just a combo of putting the nibbles back together and removing the extra 4bits out of each 16bits.
If you have the 16-bit data, I wrote this one time to accomplish the same thing. I basically switched between writing a byte (8-bit) and a word (16-bit) while passing the extra nibble around.
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