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NAME

6       pambayer - interpret Bayer patterns
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SYNOPSIS

10       pambayer -type={1|2|3|4} [-nointerpolate] [pamfile]
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12       Minimum  unique abbreviation of option is acceptable.  You may use dou‐
13       ble hyphens instead of single hyphen to denote options.   You  may  use
14       white space in place of the equals sign to separate an option name from
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DESCRIPTION

20       This program is part of Netpbm(1).
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22       pambayer reads a Bayer pattern in a 1-deep Netpbm image and produces  a
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25       A Bayer pattern is what you get from the optical sensor in some digital
26       cameras.  Such a camera doesn't have a red, green, and blue  sensor  in
27       the  exact  same  place  for an individual pixel.  Instead, it has red,
28       green, and blue sensors laid out in a two dimensional array.  The  pat‐
29       tern  in  which  they  are laid out is the Bayer pattern.  The input to
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35       responding  Bayer  input,  pambayer averages the sample values from the
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38       But you can have pambayer fill in black instead (see  the  -noninterpo‐
39       late option), which gives you a simpler representation of what the cam‐
40       era saw, on which you might do further processing.  Such an image still
41       looks  right,  though considerably dimmer, if you stand far enough away
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44       The input image is a pseudo-PNM image (pseudo- because while the struc‐
45       ture  is  the  same,  the sample values have different meanings) or PAM
46       image of arbitrary tuple type.  pambayer looks at only the first  plane
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49       The  output  image is a PAM image of tuple type 'RGB', i.e.  a standard
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OPTIONS

58       -type=n
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76              Each  output  pixel  position corresponds to one position in the
77              input Bayer pattern, which means only one  of  the  three  color
78              components  is  supplied  by the input.  For the other two, this
79              option says to user zero.  Without it, pambayer instead interpo‐
80              lates  from  the  adjacent pixels that do have that color compo‐
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SEE ALSO

91       cameratopam(1) pam(1)
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HISTORY

95       pambayer was new in Netpbm 10.30 (October 2005).
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