The hue (h) is measured in degrees, the equivalence between degrees and LSBs depends on the hsv-encoding used, see Colorspaces. The saturation (s) and the value (v) are measured in percentage of the cylinder: 0 being the smallest value and 255 the maximum.
The values are packed in 24 or 32 bit formats.
| Identifier | Code | Byte 0 in memory | Byte 1 | Byte 2 | Byte 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Bit | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | |||||
| V4L2_PIX_FMT_HSV32 | ‘HSV4’ | h7 | h6 | h5 | h4 | h3 | h2 | h1 | h0 | s7 | s6 | s5 | s4 | s3 | s2 | s1 | s0 | v7 | v6 | v5 | v4 | v3 | v2 | v1 | v0 |
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| V4L2_PIX_FMT_HSV24 | ‘HSV3’ | h7 | h6 | h5 | h4 | h3 | h2 | h1 | h0 | s7 | s6 | s5 | s4 | s3 | s2 | s1 | s0 | v7 | v6 | v5 | v4 | v3 | v2 | v1 | v0 | ||||||||||||
Bit 7 is the most significant bit.