color plane extraction

[hugot]

Hi,

I am using Ni Vision Assistant  and I have a question
In the function color plane extraction the Vision assistant removes one plane of color, but how it his possible that the resulting image has 8 bits? what ever hapen to the other planes of color?

thank you for your time

T.

[BruceAmmons]

A color image consists of three color planes (RGB).  Each color plane is an 8 bit image.  You can also generate other color planes (HSL) based on the original colors.

Extract color plane pulls out the information for a single color plane and discards all the other information about the original image.  This is how you convert an image from color to grayscale.  It is assumed that all the critical information is present in the extracted color plane.

Bruce