[sane-devel] Unknown tables

[gerard klaver]

On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 15:21, JKD wrote:
> Debugging the windows library that manages my scanner I see that the
> first thing the driver does is create six tables with unknown purposes
> at the moment. Theese tables are created in the following way.
> 
> 1 - Loop with 3 iterations. I think one iteration per colour (not sure)
> 2 - In each iteration, 2 tables are created. All tables have the same
> size (0xff0 bytes = 4080.) and contains data of two bytes size (0x7f8 words = 2040.)
> 3 - The first table in each iteration is filled with zeroes.
> 4 - The second table in each iteration is filled with 0x7f8 words with value 0x4000 (16384.)
> 
> It seems to be minimum values and maximum values for something but I'm
> not sure of that. Could anyone have any idea about the purpose of theese
> values? Gain values or something else ?. Gamma tables have only 255
> posible values and I've located them.
> 
> Sincerelly, JKD


Could be calibration tables, but you didn't mention the backend and
scanner you are using?

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