Gamma Value Adjustment for Seamless Video Synthesis

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional video systems require complex manual adjustments of gamma values and color temperatures to achieve seamless synthesis of optically overlapped video images, leading to inefficient processing and potential pixel dropouts.

Innovation Solution

A processing apparatus and computer program that automate the adjustment of gamma values by removing gamma processing from overlapping video images using look-up tables, synthesizing the images, and re-applying gamma processing to ensure uniform brightness and seamless integration.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If manual adjustment of gamma values and color temperatures is performed to achieve seamless synthesis of optically overlapped video images, then uniform brightness and seamless integration are improved, but processing complexity and time consumption increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebrightness uniformityVSAvoidadjustment complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs self-adjustment of gamma values by automatically detecting brightness differences at seam portions and correcting them through gamma value modification, eliminating the need for manual operator intervention and achieving uniform brightness autonomously

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback control by measuring actual brightness values at seam portions, comparing them against target values, and iteratively adjusting gamma values to minimize brightness differences, ensuring seamless integration through continuous optimization

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Manufacturing precision

If manual tuning of gamma values is performed to achieve uniform brightness, then brightness uniformity is improved, but processing time and operational efficiency deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebrightness uniformityVSAvoidprocessing efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system replaces manual mechanical adjustment operations with automated computational processing, using algorithms to calculate optimal gamma values and apply corrections programmatically, thereby dramatically improving processing efficiency while maintaining precision

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary detection of brightness differences and pre-calculates required gamma adjustments before final synthesis, allowing efficient batch processing and reducing overall processing time by preparing correction parameters in advance

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Speed

If gamma processing is not removed before synthesis, then processing speed is improved, but pixel dropouts and synthesis quality deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprocessing speedVSAvoidsynthesis quality
Core Design Contradiction:
SpeedVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts and removes gamma processing components from video data before synthesis operations, isolating the non-linear brightness characteristics that cause synthesis defects, thereby enabling defect-free synthesis while maintaining efficient processing through targeted intervention

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS7528864B2Processing apparatus and computer program for adjusting gamma value
Publication Date: 2009.05.05 MEGA VISION CORP
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AI summary

To provide a processing apparatus for performing synthesis of video data to which video data of optically overlapped (duplicated overlap) video images are imparted. An image processor includes gamma removal units 810, 811, and 812 which remove gamma processing performed on video data to which video data of optically overlapped (duplicated overlap) video images are imparted, a video synthesis unit 825 which synthesizes video data adjacent to each other in the video data from which the gamma processing is removed, and a gamma addition unit 826 which re-performs gamma processing on the synthesized video data.