The Atlas camera is equipped with a debayering core within the image processing pipeline. The color processing core enables the camera to output a color processed image format in addition to the unprocessed Bayer-tiled image. Currently the camera supports the RGB8 pixel format which outputs 8-bits of data per color channel for a total of 24-bits per pixel. Due to the amount of bits per pixel, the total image size for RGB8 would be 3 times larger when compared to an 8-bit image. This increase in image data size per frame would result in a reduction of average frame rate for the camera.
The following pseudocode demonstrates configuring the camera to RGB8 pixel format:
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// Connect to camera
// Get device node map
PixelFormat = PixelFormat_RGB8;
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