Multi-Picture Video Image Processing with Luminance Equalization

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Solution Overview

Problem

In videoconferencing systems, the integration of multi-picture video images from different conference halls often results in uneven luminance and color characteristics due to varying environmental conditions and equipment, leading to a suboptimal visual experience for participants.

Innovation Solution

The method involves obtaining image characteristics from sub-picture video images from multiple channels, calculating independent adjustment coefficients, and applying identical control parameters to equalize these images before forming a multi-picture video image, ensuring uniform luminance and chroma adjustments across all sub-pictures.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If pictures from different conference halls are separately adjusted at the source terminal to optimize their individual effects, then each sub-picture achieves optimal local quality, but the luminance and color characteristics of various sub-pictures become starkly different when spliced into a multi-picture, deteriorating visual experience

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelocal picture qualityVSAvoiduniformity of multi-picture
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies parameter changes by dynamically adjusting luminance and chroma parameters of sub-pictures based on their individual characteristics. The system calculates adjustment coefficients for each sub-picture's luminance and chroma components, then applies these parameter transformations to achieve uniform visual effects across the multi-picture display, resolving the contradiction between local optimization and global uniformity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements equipotentiality by equalizing the luminance and color characteristics of all sub-pictures to a common reference level. Through calculating and applying adjustment coefficients, the system creates a uniform visual potential across different conference hall pictures, eliminating the stark differences that would otherwise deteriorate the overall visual experience

Inventive Principle:
Principle #12Equipotentiality

2Manufacturing precision

If output modes of display devices are uniformly adjusted to satisfy one sub-picture's effect, then that sub-picture achieves excellent visual experience, but the effects of other sub-pictures are affected and cannot all be satisfied

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevisual experience of one sub-pictureVSAvoidcompatibility with other sub-pictures
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies segmentation by processing each sub-picture independently through separate adjustment coefficient calculations. Each sub-picture's luminance and chroma are adjusted individually based on its own characteristics, allowing each segment to achieve optimal visual quality without compromising others, thereby resolving the contradiction between satisfying one sub-picture and maintaining compatibility with others

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements local quality by applying different adjustment coefficients to different sub-pictures based on their individual luminance and chroma characteristics. Each region (sub-picture) receives customized parameter adjustments tailored to its specific needs, enabling each to achieve excellent visual experience while maintaining overall multi-picture harmony

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentEP2521351B1Method and device for processing multi-picture video image
Publication Date: 2016.01.27 HUAWEI DEVICE CO LTD
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AI summary

The embodiments of the present invention provide a method and device relating to multi-picture video image processing, which solve the problem in related art of the deterioration of the vision experience of the conventioneer as the characteristics of each sub-picture can not be satisfied simultaneously. Said method includes: receiving the data code stream of the sub-picture video images from several channels; equalizing the effect of said sub-picture video images with control parameters respectively according to the image characteristics of the sub-picture video images; synthesizing said equalized sub-picture video images to a multi-picture video image. This invention can uniformly adjust each sub-picture video image to the effect with the same image characteristics, which enables the sub-picture video images exhibit the same picture characteristic when be displayed. The display of the multi-picture video image constituted by sub-picture video images achieves whole style harmony and the vision experience of the conventioneer is improved.