Re: [PATCH] v4l: mt9v032: Fix Bayer pattern

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Hi Guennadi,

On Saturday 16 July 2011 23:40:23 Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Jul 2011, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > On Saturday 16 July 2011 01:11:28 Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> > > On Fri, 15 Jul 2011, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > > > Compute crop rectangle boundaries to ensure a GRBG Bayer pattern.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > > 
> > > >  drivers/media/video/mt9v032.c |   20 ++++++++++----------
> > > >  1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> > > > 
> > > > If there's no comment I'll send a pull request for this patch in a
> > > > couple of days.
> > > 
> > > Hm, I might have a comment: why?... Isn't it natural to accept the
> > > fact, that different sensors put a different Bayer pixel at their
> > > sensor matrix origin? Isn't that why we have all possible Bayer
> > > formats? Maybe you just have to choose a different output format?
> > 
> > That's the other solution. The driver currently claims the device outputs
> > SGRBG, but configures it to output SGBGR. This is clearly a bug. Is it
> > better to modify the format than the crop rectangle location ?
> 
> Actually, it is interesting. I just looked (again) in the mt9v032 and some
> other Aptina Bayer sensor datasheets, and they actually have _odd_ numbers
> of rows and columns. So, mt9v032 actually has 753x481 active pixels. And
> that extra pixel is explicitly provided to adjust the origin colour. Ok,
> they write, it is for uniformity with the mirrored image, but who believes
> them?;-) So, maybe you should adjust your max values to the above ones,
> then taking one pixel out of your image will not reduce your useful image
> size.

I'm not sure what you mean. Even though the pixel array is bigger than that, 
the maximum output width/height are 752x480 according to the datasheet.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart
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