Perceptual luminance nonlinearity-based image data exchange across different display capabilities

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9959837-B2
Application number	US-201715610499-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 31, 2017
Priority date	Dec 6, 2011
Publication date	May 1, 2018
Grant date	May 1, 2018

Abstract

A handheld imaging device has a data receiver that is configured to receive reference encoded image data. The data includes reference code values, which are encoded by an external coding system. The reference code values represent reference gray levels, which are being selected using a reference grayscale display function that is based on perceptual non-linearity of human vision adapted at different light levels to spatial frequencies. The imaging device also has a data converter that is configured to access a code mapping between the reference code values and device-specific code values of the imaging device. The device-specific code values are configured to produce gray levels that are specific to the imaging device. Based on the code mapping, the data converter is configured to transcode the reference encoded image data into device-specific image data, which is encoded with the device-specific code values.

First claim

It is claimed:

1. A method performed on one or more processors comprising:
receiving a perceptual curve digital code value D for an image;
determining a normalized perceptual curve signal value V from a perceptual curve digital code value D determining a normalized color component value C based on a functional model of

C
=

(

max
⁡

[

(

V

1
m

-

c
1

)

,
0

]

c
2

-

c
3

⁢

V

1
m

)

1
n

;

determining an absolute value L from at least the normalized component value C,
wherein parameters n, m, c 1 , c 2 , and c 3 are predetermined values; and
rendering the image based on the determining of the absolute value L.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein:

n
=

2610
4096

×

1
4

≃
0.1593017578125

⁢

;

m
=

2523
4096

×
128

≃
78.84375

⁢

;

c
1

=

⁢

c
3

-

c
2

+
1

=

⁢

3424
4096

≃
0.8359375

⁢

;

c
2

=

2413
4096

×
32

≃
18.8515625

⁢

;

⁢

and
⁢

⁢

c
3

=

2392
4096

×
32

≃

18.6875
.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the perceptual curve digital code value D is 10 bits.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the perceptual curve digital code value D is 12 bits.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein a relationship between the normalized perceptual curve signal value V and the perceptual curve digital code value D is provided by the function:

V
=

D
-

4
·

2

b
-
10

1015
·

2

b
-
10

,

wherein b is a bit depth corresponding to a number of bits used to represent the perceptual curve digital code value D.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the perceptual curve digital code value D is received from a non-transitory storage media.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the normaliz

Assignees

• Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp
• Dolby Laboratories Licensin Corp

Inventors

• Miller Jon Scott
• Daly Scott
• Nezamabadi Mahdi
• Atkins Robin

Classifications

• G06F3/14 Primary

  Digital output to display device {; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units} · CPC title

• G09G5/10 Primary

  Intensity circuits · CPC title

• G09G2320/04

  Maintaining the quality of display appearance · CPC title

• G09G2370/04

  Exchange of auxiliary data, i.e. other than image data, between monitor and graphics controller · CPC title

• G09G2340/06

  Colour space transformation · CPC title