When retrieving the value from a `ControlValue` usually one of two
things happen: a small, trivially copyable object is returned by
value; or a view into the internal buffer is provided. This is true
for everything except strings, which are returned in `std::string`,
incurring the overhead of string construction.
To guarantee no potentially "expensive" copies, use `std::string_view`
pointing to the internal buffer to return the value. This is similar
to how other array-like types are returned with a `Span<>`.
This is an API break, but its scope is limited to just `properties::Model`.
Bug: https://bugs.libcamera.org/show_bug.cgi?id=256
Signed-off-by: Barnabás Pőcze <barnabas.pocze@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo.mondi@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Elder <paul.elder@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
In the current code, decompand will only set a curve in the prepare
phase, which will only run after 1-2 frames pass through the FE. This
is fixed by adding an initialValues() member function to the decompand
algorithm, which will be called in the IPA before we start the hardware
streaming.
Signed-off-by: Naushir Patuck <naush@raspberrypi.com>
Tested-by: Nick Hollinghurst <nick.hollinghurst@raspberrypi.com>
Reviewed-by: David Plowman <david.plowman@raspberrypi.com>
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Don't let applyDecompand() directly change the FE global enables.
Instead pass the global mask into the function and set it in the caller.
This will be needed when a future commit will add setting the decompand
initial values.
Signed-off-by: Naushir Patuck <naush@raspberrypi.com>
Tested-by: Nick Hollinghurst <nick.hollinghurst@raspberrypi.com>
Reviewed-by: David Plowman <david.plowman@raspberrypi.com>
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
This patch integrates a new decompand algorithm that utilizes the PiSP
FE hardware block available on Raspberry Pi 5. The implementation
enables conversion of companded sensor data into linear format prior to
ISP processing.
Changes include:
- Implementation of decompand logic for controller and pipe interfaces
- Enabling decompand block by "rpi.decompand" in tuning.json
Signed-off-by: Sena Asotani <aso.fam429@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Naushir Patuck <naush@raspberrypi.com>
Tested-by: Nick Hollinghurst <nick.hollinghurst@raspberrypi.com>
Reviewed-by: David Plowman <david.plowman@raspberrypi.com>
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
If the histogram size is non-zero but lower than the number of bins,
yHistValsPerBin is zero and then the AGC processing crashes on division
by it. Let's check yHistValsPerBin for being zero and stop AGC
processing in such a case. The condition also covers the cases where
histogramSize or yHistValsPerBinMod are zero.
Tested-by: Barnabás Pőcze <barnabas.pocze@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Milan Zamazal <mzamazal@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hansg@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Hans de Goede <hansg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
The result type of the std::accumulate() call is uint64_t; let's use the
same type for the initial value (rather than the default int) to prevent
summing up the values in a different integer type.
Signed-off-by: Milan Zamazal <mzamazal@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hansg@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Barnabás Pőcze <barnabas.pocze@ideasonboard.com>
Tested-by: Hans de Goede <hansg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
The R/G/B sums computed in AWB simple IPA may be zero or perhaps even
negative. Let's make sure the sums are always positive, to prevent
division by zero or completely nonsense results.
Signed-off-by: Milan Zamazal <mzamazal@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Barnabás Pőcze <barnabas.pocze@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hansg@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Hans de Goede <hansg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
The window coordinates passed to SwStatsCpu::setWindow are confusing.
Let's clarify what the coordinates should be.
A source of confusion is that the specified window is relative to the
processed area. Debayering adjusts line pointers for its processed area
and this is what's also passed to stats processing. The window passed
to SwStatsCpu::setWindow should either specify the size of the whole
processed (not image) area, or its cropping in case the stats shouldn't
be gathered over the whole processed area. This patch should clarify
this in the code.
Reviewed-by: Maciej S. Szmigiero <mail@maciej.szmigiero.name>
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hansg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Milan Zamazal <mzamazal@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Barnabás Pőcze <barnabas.pocze@ideasonboard.com>
Tested-by: Hans de Goede <hansg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
SwStatsCpu::setWindow reduces the window width by the added x-offset, to
prevent exceeding image bounds. But if the window width is smaller than
the x-offset, we get unsigned integer underflow. Fix it by setting the
window width to 0 in such a case.
Signed-off-by: Milan Zamazal <mzamazal@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Barnabás Pőcze <barnabas.pocze@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hansg@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Hans de Goede <hansg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Use a signalfd to detect `SIGINT` instead of registering a signal handler in
order to remove the `CamApp` singleton. This is better than using a normal
signal handler: a signal can arrive after the `CamApp` object has been destroyed,
leading to a use-after-free. Modifying the `CamApp::app_` in the destructor is
not a good alternative because that would not be async signal safe (unless it
is made atomic).
Signed-off-by: Barnabás Pőcze <barnabas.pocze@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
At the moment the blc code uses 255 as starting blacklevel for sensors
where there is no blacklevel info in the sensor-helper.
There are a number of issues with this:
1. When the first frame is bad (e.g. mostly white) which happens sometimes
the initial blacklevel will be kept leading to a divide by zero problem
in the AGC code (this divide by 0 problem is avoided in the AGC code by
not running the AGC algorithm).
2. Not runnning the AGC algorithm means that the gain/exposure do not
change, which causes the BLC algorithm to not run on the next frames,
so we keep the bad 255 blacklevel which stops AGC from running which
stops BLC from running. Leaving things stuck at a 255 blacklevel
resulting in an unusuable image.
3. Sometimes the auto-blc code leads to an unrealistic high
blacklevel detection which results in lower image quality.
To fix this start with a blacklevel of 16, which is the highest
(4096 / 256) blacklevel used for any sensor listing a blackLevel_
value in the sensor-helper class.
Note 2. could alternatively be fixed by disabling the check for
exposure/gain changes when the blacklevel is unrealistic high,
but that still leaves the other problems.
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hansg@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Milan Zamazal <mzamazal@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Run sw-statistics once every 4th frame, instead of every frame. There are
2 reasons for this:
1. There really is no need to have statistics for every frame and only
doing this every 4th frame helps save some CPU time.
2. The generic nature of the simple pipeline-handler, so no information
about possible CSI receiver frame-delays. In combination with the software
ISP often being used with sensors without sensor info in the sensor-helper
code, so no reliable control-delay information means that the software ISP
is prone to AGC oscillation. Skipping statistics gathering also means
skipping running the AGC algorithm slowing it down, avoiding this
oscillation.
Note ideally the AGC oscillation problem would be fixed by adding sensor
metadata support all through the stack so that the exact gain and exposure
used for a specific frame are reliably provided by the sensor metadata.
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Tested-by: Milan Zamazal <mzamazal@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hansg@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Milan Zamazal <mzamazal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Generating statistics for every single frame is not really necessary.
However a roundtrip through ipa_->processStats() still need to be done
every frame, even if there are no stats to make the IPA generate metadata
for every frame.
Add a valid flag to the statistics struct to let the IPA know when there
are no statistics for the frame being processed and modify the IPA to
only generate metadata for frames without valid statistics.
This is a preparation patch for skipping statistics generation for some
frames.
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Milan Zamazal <mzamazal@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Milan Zamazal <mzamazal@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hansg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
At the moment when the overall image brightness is considered too high
the AGC code will lower the gain all the way down to againMin before
considering lowering the exposure.
What should happen instead is lower the gain no lower than 1.0 and after
that lower the exposure instead of lowering the gain.
Otherwise there might be a heavily overexposed image (e.g. all white)
which then is made less white by a gain < 1.0 which is no good.
When there is no sensor-helper, assume the driver reported default-gain
value is close to a gain of 1.0 .
While at it also remove the weird limitation to only lower the gain
when exposure is set to the maximum. As long as the gain is higher
than the default gain, the gain should be lowered first.
Reviewed-by: Milan Zamazal <mzamazal@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Milan Zamazal <mzamazal@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Isaac Scott <isaac.scott@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hansg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Even though there is an abstract class to represent the interface of an IPA,
the threaded and IPC versions are still multiplexed using the same type,
which uses a boolean to actually dispatch to the right function.
Instead of doing that, split the classes into "threaded" and "isolated"
variants, and make `IPAManager` choose accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Barnabás Pőcze <barnabas.pocze@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Elder <paul.elder@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Currently the virtual pipeline generates the images synchronously. This is not
ideal because it blocks the camera manager's internal thread, and because its
behaviour is different from other existing pipeline handlers, all of which
complete requests asynchronously.
So move the image generation to a separate thread by deriving `VirtualCameraData`
from `Thread`, as well as `Object` and using the existing asynchronous signal
and method call mechanism.
Signed-off-by: Barnabás Pőcze <barnabas.pocze@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Sometimes there is a need to remove pending messages of an object. For example,
when the main purpose of a thread is to carry out work asynchronously using
invoke messages, then there might be a need to stop processing because some
kind of state has changed. This can be done in two main ways: flushing messages
or removing them. This changes enables the second option, which is useful if
the effects of the pending messages are no longer desired.
Signed-off-by: Barnabás Pőcze <barnabas.pocze@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
While optional, libunwind integration is enabled when meson finds it without
having a way to disable it. This is the case for Debian where libunwind is
installed by build dependencies. Since we want to reduce dependencies on
libunwind in Debian due to several issues with it[0], we need an option to
control its activation.
[0]: https://bugs.debian.org/1093688
Signed-off-by: Dylan Aïssi <dylan.aissi@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Barnabás Pőcze <barnabas.pocze@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
[Longer commit message lines, reworded meson option description.]
Signed-off-by: Barnabás Pőcze <barnabas.pocze@ideasonboard.com>
The code was only allowing the exposure mode to be updated when both
exposure/gain were in manual mode, which is a mistake. It needs to be
updatable precisely when the auto modes are enabled.
The fix is to ignore the enabled/disabled status of AEC/AGC, matching
our other controls (metering mode, constraint mode etc.). While there
might be a debate to be had about what the actual behaviour of all
these controls should be, for the time being we'll just match
everything else.
Signed-off-by: David Plowman <david.plowman@raspberrypi.com>
Reviewed-by: Naushir Patuck <naush@raspberrypi.com>
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Software ISP performs performance measurement on certain part of initial
frames. Let's make this range configurable.
For this purpose, this patch introduces new configuration options
software_isp.measure.skip and software_isp.measure.number. Setting the
latter one to 0 disables the measurement.
Instead of the last frame, the class member and its configuration
specify the number of frames to measure. This is easier to use for
users and doesn't require to adjust two configuration parameters when
the number of the initially skipped frames is changed.
The patch also changes the names of the class members to make them more
accurate.
Completes software ISP TODO #7.
Signed-off-by: Milan Zamazal <mzamazal@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Elder <paul.elder@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
On some platforms, working directly on the input buffer is very slow due
to disabled caching. This is why we copy the input buffer into standard
(cached) memory. This is an unnecessary overhead on platforms with
cached buffers.
Let's make input buffer copying configurable. The default is still
copying, as its overhead is much lower than contingent operations on
non-cached memory. Ideally, we should improve this in future to set the
default to non-copying if we can be sure under observable circumstances
that we are working with cached buffers.
Completes software ISP TODO #6.
Signed-off-by: Milan Zamazal <mzamazal@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Elder <paul.elder@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
This patch allows enabling or disabling software ISP via config file in
addition to compile time. This can be useful for software ISP testing
on various platforms as well as for overriding the defaults in case the
defaults don't work well (e.g. hardware ISP may or may not work on
i.MX8MP depending on the kernel and libcamera patches present in the
given system).
The configuration is specified as follows:
configuration:
pipelines:
simple:
supported_devices:
- driver: DRIVER-NAME
software_isp: BOOLEAN
- ...
For example:
configuration:
pipelines:
simple:
supported_devices:
- driver: mxc-isi
software_isp: true
The overall configuration of enabling or disabling software ISP may get
dropped in future but this patch is still useful in the meantime.
Signed-off-by: Milan Zamazal <mzamazal@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Elder <paul.elder@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
This patch adds configuration options for environment variables used in
the IPA proxy.
The configuration snippet:
configuration:
ipa:
config_paths:
- config path 1
- config path 2
- ...
module_paths:
- module path 1
- module path 2
- ...
proxy_paths:
- proxy path 1
- proxy path 2
- ...
force_isolation: BOOL
LIBCAMERA_<IPA_NAME>_TUNING_FILE remains configurable only via the
environment variable; this is supposed to be used only for testing and
debugging and it's not clear what to do about IPA names like "rpi/vc4"
and "rpi/pisp" exactly.
There are two ways to pass the configuration to the places where it is
needed: Either to pass it as an argument to the method calls that need
it, or to pass it to the class constructors and extract the needed
configuration from there. This patch uses the second method as it is
less polluting the code.
Signed-off-by: Milan Zamazal <mzamazal@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Elder <paul.elder@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Let's add some helpers to make accessing simple configuration values
simpler. The helpers are used in the followup patches.
GlobalConfiguration::option ensures that no value is returned rather
than a value of YamlObject::empty.
Signed-off-by: Milan Zamazal <mzamazal@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Elder <paul.elder@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Global configuration is accessed via a GlobalConfiguration instance.
The instance is conceptually a singleton, but singletons are not welcome
in libcamera so we must store the (preferably single) instance
somewhere.
This patch creates a GlobalConfiguration instance in CameraManager and
defines the corresponding access method. CameraManager is typically
instantiated only once or a few times, it is accessible in many places
in libcamera and the configuration can be retrieved from it and passed
to other places if needed (it's read-only once created). Using
CameraManager for the purpose is still suboptimal and we use it only due
to lack of better options. An alternative could be Logger, which is
still a singleton and it's accessible from everywhere. But with Logger,
we have a chicken and egg problem -- GlobalConfiguration should log
contingent problems with the configuration when it's loaded but if it is
created in the logger then there are mutual infinite recursive calls.
One possible way to deal with this is to look at the environment
variables only during logging initialisation and apply the logging
configuration when a CameraManager is constructed. Considering there
are intentions to remove the Logger singleton, let's omit logging
configuration for now.
If there are multiple CameraManager instances, there are also multiple
GlobalConfiguration instances, each CameraManager instance is meant to
be fully independent, including configuration. They may or may not
contain the same data, depending on whether the global configuration
file in the file system was changed in the meantime.
The configuration is stored in the private CameraManager. It's
accessible within libcamera (via CameraManager) but it's not meant to be
accessed by applications.
Signed-off-by: Milan Zamazal <mzamazal@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Elder <paul.elder@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Currently, libcamera can be configured in runtime using several
environment variables. With introducing more and more variables, this
mechanism reaches its limits. It would be simpler and more flexible if
it was possible to configure libcamera in a single file.
For example, there was a request to define pipeline precedence in
runtime. We want to compile in multiple pipelines, in order to have
them accessible within single packages in distributions. And then being
able to select among the pipelines manually as needed based on the
particular hardware or operating system environment. Having the
configuration file then allows easy switching between hardware, GPU or
CPU IPAs. The configuration file can also be used to enable or disable
experimental features and avoid the need to track local patches changing
configuration options hard-wired in the code when working on new
features.
This patch introduces basic support for configuration files.
GlobalConfiguration class reads and stores the configuration. Its
instance can be used by other libcamera objects to access the
configuration. A GlobalConfiguration instance is supposed to be stored
in a well-defined place, e.g. a CameraManager instance. It is possible
to have multiple GlobalConfiguration instances, which may or may not
make sense.
libcamera configuration can be specified using a system-wide
configuration file or a user configuration file. The user configuration
file takes precedence if present. There is currently no way to merge
multiple configuration files, the one found is used as the only
configuration file. If no configuration file is present, nothing
changes to the current libcamera behavior (except for some log
messages related to configuration file lookup).
The configuration file is a YAML file. We already have a mechanism for
handling YAML configuration files in libcamera and the given
infrastructure can be reused for the purpose. However, the
configuration type is abstracted to make contingent future change of the
underlying class easier while retaining (most of) the original API.
The configuration is versioned. This has currently no particular
meaning but is likely to have its purpose in future, especially once
configuration validation is introduced.
The configuration YAML file looks as follows:
---
version: 1
configuration:
WHATEVER CONFIGURATION NEEDED
This patch introduces just the basic idea. Actually using the
configuration in the corresponding places (everything what is currently
configurable via environment variables should be configurable in the
file configuration) and other enhancements are implemented in the
followup patches.
Signed-off-by: Milan Zamazal <mzamazal@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Elder <paul.elder@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Add a WDR algorithm to do global tone mapping. Global tone mapping is
used to increase the perceived dynamic range of an image. The typical
effect is that in areas that are normally overexposed, additional
structure becomes visible.
The overall idea is that the algorithm applies an exposure value
correction to underexpose the image to the point where only a small
number of saturated pixels is left. This artificial underexposure is
then mitigated by applying a tone mapping curve.
This algorithm implements 4 tone mapping strategies:
- Linear
- Power
- Exponential
- Histogram equalization
Signed-off-by: Stefan Klug <stefan.klug@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Elder <paul.elder@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Query the params device for RKISP1_CID_SUPPORTED_PARAMS_BLOCKS and
inject the information into the IPA hardware context for use by the
algorithms.
To be able to modify the hardware configuration at runtime, replace the
pointer with an instance and create a copy of the static hardware
specific data.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Klug <stefan.klug@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Scally <dan.scally@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Elder <paul.elder@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
The Y mode of the histogram gets captured at the ISP output, before the
output formatter. This has the side effect that the first and the last
bins are empty in case of limited YUV range. Another side effect is
that gamma and GWDR processing is included in the histogram which makes
algorithm development very difficult. In RGB mode the histogram is taken
after xtalk (CCM) and is therefore independent of gamma and WDR. The
limited range issue also does not apply. In the ISP reference it is
however stated that "it is not possible to calculate a luminance or
grayscale histogram from an RGB histogram since the position information
is lost during its generation".
During testing the RGB histogram provided good data and better
algorithmic stability at a possible (but not measured) inaccuracy.
Another option would be to pass the color space information into the IPA
and strip the histogram accordingly. For ease of implementation switch to
the RGB mode.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Klug <stefan.klug@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Elder <paul.elder@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
When the extensible parameters queued to the kernel contain an unknown
block type it fails with -EINVAL. This should not happen as user land is
supposed to check for the supported parameter types. But it took a while
to figure out where things went wrong. Add a error statement when
queuing of the parameter buffer fails for whatever reason.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Klug <stefan.klug@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Elder <paul.elder@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Scally <dan.scally@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
There are several occasions where quantization can lead to visible
effects.
In WDR mode it can happen that exposure times get set to very low values
(Sometimes 2-3 lines). This intentionally introduced underexposure is
corrected by the GWDR module. As exposure time is quantized by lines,
the smallest possible change in exposure time now results in a quite
visible change in perceived brightness.
On some sensors the possible gain steps are also quite large leading to
visible jumps if e.g. if the exposure time is fixed.
Mitigate that by applying a global gain to account for the error
introduced by the exposure quantization.
ToDo: This needs perfect frame synchronous control of the sensor to work
properly which is not guaranteed in all cases. It still improves the
behavior with the current regulation and can easily be skipped, be
removing the compress algorithm from the tuning file.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Klug <stefan.klug@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Scally <dan.scally@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Elder <paul.elder@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Calculate the error introduced by quantization as "quantization gain"
and return it separately from splitExposure(). It is not included in the
digital gain, to not silently ignore the limits imposed by the AGC
configuration.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Klug <stefan.klug@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Scally <dan.scally@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Elder <paul.elder@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
