Specifications
FASTER Engineering Model
66
connected via a USB port to the EPIA EN15000. The LCD matrix is mounted on a
fiberglass support jointly with the AD5621GA control board (VGA and power
connector), the LI0610A inverter board and the LID08A LED driving board [Ref (38),
(39), (40), (41)].
Figure 56: Litemax 8.4" high brightness LCD display and its mechanical drawing [Ref. (42)]
6.1.3 Sensing Device
The selected sensing device is a commercial DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex)
camera, the Canon EOS 450 coupled with a fixed focal length 28 mm lens Canon EF28
f/2.8 (Figure 57). The EOS is equipped with a 22.2 x 14.8 mm CMOS sensor (APS-C
format, 3:2 aspect ratio, 1.6x FOV crop) with a total amount of 12.2 million effective
pixels (12.4 million total pixels considering also the dark area used for automatic sensor
calibration). Sensor matrix is composed by 4272 columns and 2848 rows with a pixel
pitch of 5.2 µm. In order to obtain the maximum image quality, images are saved in an
uncompressed 14-bit RAW format [Ref. (43)].
Figure 57: Canon EOS 450 and Canon EF28 f/2.8 [Re.(6)]