Line-Scan Timing: Belt Speed, Resolution Interval and Required Line Rate

Find your belt speed in the left column and the resolution interval you need along the motion direction in the header row. Each cell opens the full working: line period, exposure ceiling for one, a half and a quarter pixel of smear, the camera whose pixel pitch keeps the lens inside the PMS-LLC magnification band, and the pixel count that yields square sampling.

Required line rate (kHz) by speed and resolution

Speed10 µm15 µm20 µm30 µm50 µm75 µm
50 mm/s53.32.51.710.7
100 mm/s106.753.321.3
200 mm/s2013.3106.742.7
500 mm/s5033.32516.7106.7
1000 mm/s10066.75033.32013.3
2000 mm/s200133.310066.74026.7

Line rate = speed ÷ resolution interval. The table is in kHz; multiply by 1000 for lines per second. A 2,000 mm/s line at 10 µm already demands 200 kHz, which is why wide, fast lines are usually split across two or three cameras rather than run on one.

The two axes have to match

The line rate fixes sampling along the motion direction. Sampling across the web is fixed by the lens: magnification = pixel pitch ÷ resolution interval. The POMEAS PMS-LLC 16K line-scan series covers 0.22X to 3.5X on an 82 mm image circle with an M72 mount, so the choice of camera pixel pitch decides whether your resolution target lands inside that band or outside it.

ModelMagnificationWorking distanceResolving power
PMS-LLC026-14640M-M720.22X – 0.3X752 / 644 / 571 mm5 μm
PMS-LLC033-14640M-M720.3X – 0.37X482 - 571 mm5 μm
PMS-LLC05-14640M-M720.47X – 0.54X417 / 383 / 357 mm5 μm
PMS-LLC075-14640M-M720.7X – 0.85X304 / 286 / 267 mm5 μm
PMS-LLC1-14640M-M720.92X – 1.08X见规格书5 μm
PMS-LLC133-14640M-M721.33X – 1.33X216 mm5 μm
PMS-LLC2-14640M-M721.75X – 2.25X179 - 690 mm5 μm
PMS-LLC3-14640M-M723X – 3.5X157 / 150 / 144 mm10 μm

Frequently asked questions

How do I calculate the line rate for a line-scan camera?

Line rate equals belt speed divided by the resolution interval you want along the motion direction. At 500 mm/s and 50 µm that is 500 / 0.05 = 10 000 lines per second, or 10 kHz. Keep both terms in the same unit — mixing micrometres with millimetres is the classic error.

What line rate do I need for 1 m/s at 100 µm?

10 kHz. One metre per second is 1 000 mm/s, and 1 000 mm/s ÷ 0.1 mm per line = 10 000 lines per second. The line period is 100 µs, so the exposure has to stay below 50 µs to hold a half-pixel of smear.

How much motion blur is acceptable in a line-scan image?

Half a pixel is the usual working target for measurement and one pixel for presence detection. Because smear equals speed × exposure, the acceptable blur converts directly into an exposure ceiling, which is the number this table gives for every cell.

Why does a line-scan lens need a specific magnification?

Because magnification is what sets the sampling across the web. To keep pixels square, magnification = pixel pitch ÷ resolution interval. A 5 µm pitch camera at a 20 µm interval needs 0.25X; the same camera at 10 µm needs 0.5X.

Related reading

motion blur: exposure time against conveyor speed, magnification table: sensor width × field of view, inline cycle time and station count, real working distances by model, PMS-LLC05 16K line-scan lens

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