Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Graphics-safe HDR image luminance re-grading
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Application No.: US16642958Application Date: 2018-09-04
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Publication No.: US11151962B2Publication Date: 2021-10-19
- Inventor: Leon Maria Van De Kerkhof , Wiebe De Haan , Johan Cornelis Talstra
- Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
- Applicant Address: NL Eindhoven
- Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
- Current Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Eindhoven
- Priority: EP17189493 20170905
- International Application: PCT/EP2018/073715 WO 20180904
- International Announcement: WO2019/048420 WO 20190314
- Main IPC: G09G5/02
- IPC: G09G5/02 ; H04N21/43 ; H04N21/84 ; H04N9/77 ; H04N19/46

Abstract:
To allow pragmatic insertion of secondary images by an apparatus connected to the final display we invented an image processing apparatus (301, 501) with an output image connection (506) for connection to a display (550), and an input (510) for receiving an input image (IM) and metadata specifying at least one luminance mapping function (F_Lt), which luminance mapping function specifies the relationship between luminances in the input image and a second image with an at least 6 times higher or lower maximum luminance, and comprising a graphics generation unit (502) arranged to determine a secondary image (IMG), and an image composition unit (504) arranged to compose an output image (IMC) on the basis of the pixel colors of the input image and of the secondary image, characterized in that the image processing apparatus comprises a luminance function selection unit (505), which is arranged to output to a metadata output (507) a copy of the at least one luminance mapping function (F_Lt) in case no secondary image colors arc mixed with the input image, and which is arranged to output a predetermined mapping function (F3) in case the output image is not identical to the input image because some pixel colors of the secondary image have been used to change the input image colors.
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