Image data processing for digital overlap wide dynamic range sensors

    公开(公告)号:US10944911B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-03-09

    申请号:US14920932

    申请日:2015-10-23

    Inventor: Shashank Dabral

    Abstract: Methods and integrated circuits to process image data from single or multiple digital overlap (DOL) wide dynamic range (WDR) sensors, in which first received pixel data associated with a first exposure of a sensor image is stored in a DDR memory circuit, second received pixel data associated with a second exposure of the image is stored in the first buffer, third received pixel data associated with a third exposure of the image is stored in a second buffer, and fourth received pixel data associated with a fourth exposure of the image is provided to a merge circuit, and merged pixel data is stored in a dynamically partitioned line buffer for processing by an image pipeline circuit to facilitate interfacing multiple DOL WDR sensors in an interleaved fashion.

    DIGITAL MIRROR SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES AND METHODS OF OPERATING THE SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20210049389A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-02-18

    申请号:US17086958

    申请日:2020-11-02

    Abstract: Digital mirror systems for vehicles and methods of operating the same are disclosed. An example vehicle control system includes:a driver monitoring system including a head position determiner to determine at least one of a location of a head, an orientation of the head, or an eye gaze point of the head; a digital mirror system including a region-of-interest (ROI) detector to identify an ROI based on the at least one of the location of the head, the orientation of the head, or the eye gaze point of the head, and a cropper to extract a portion of a first image corresponding to the ROI to form a second image, the first image representing an area exterior to the vehicle; and a display within an interior area of the vehicle to present the second image

    ADAPTIVE BILATERAL (BL) FILTERING FOR COMPUTER VISION

    公开(公告)号:US20190130534A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-02

    申请号:US16178200

    申请日:2018-11-01

    Abstract: A method for filtering noise for imaging includes receiving an image frame having position and range data. A filter size divides the frame into filter windows for processing each of the filter windows. For the first pixel, a space to the center pixel and a range difference between this pixel and the center pixel is determined and used for choosing a selected weight from weights in a 2D weight LUT including weighting for space and range difference, a filtered range value is calculated by applying the selected 2D weight to the pixel, and the range, filtered range value and selected 2D weight are summed. The determining, choosing, calculating and summing are repeated for at least the second pixel. A total sum of contributions from the first and second pixel are divided by the sum of selected 2D weights to generate a final filtered range value for the center pixel.

    IMAGE DATA PROCESSING FOR MULTI-EXPOSURE WIDE DYNAMIC RANGE IMAGE DATA

    公开(公告)号:US20190104245A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-04

    申请号:US16208313

    申请日:2018-12-03

    Abstract: Disclosed examples include integrated circuits, merge circuits and methods of processing multiple-exposure image data, in which a single pre-processing circuit is used for pre-processing first input exposure data associated with a first exposure of the image, and then for pre-processing second input exposure data associated with a second exposure of the image, and the first and second pre-processed exposure data are merged to generate merged image data for tone mapping and other post-processing. An example merge circuit includes a configurable gain circuit to apply a gain to the first and/or second exposure data, as well as a configurable weighting circuit with a weight calculation circuit and a motion adaptive filter circuit to compute a first and second weight values for merging the pre-processed first and second exposure data.

    Adaptive light source with spatial light modulator

    公开(公告)号:US11781723B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-10

    申请号:US17849472

    申请日:2022-06-24

    Abstract: An example includes a system, having: an illumination source configured to produce illumination light; and a spatial light modulator (SLM) optically coupled to the illumination source, the SLM comprising an array of picture elements. The SLM is configured to: receive the illumination light; direct, by a first portion of the picture elements, on state light in a first direction; and direct, by a second portion of the picture elements, off state light in a second direction. The example system includes imaging optics optically coupled to the SLM, the imaging optics configured to receive the on state light from the SLM and to project an image as an image portion of a beam; and non-imaging optics optically coupled to the SLM, the non-imaging optics configured to receive the off state light from the SLM and to project the off state light as part of the beam.

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