CN2731498Y - Automatic exposure appts. having cooperative work of digital brightness gain and exposure time - Google Patents
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The utility model discloses an automatic exposure device with cooperative work of digital brightness gain and exposure time, belonging to the field of automatic exposure control for picture quality in digital pick-up device. The automatic exposure device makes the exposure time and the digital luminance gain work cooperatively and the automatic exposure regulation smoother. The automatic exposure device also comprises a digital luminance gain regulating unit on the foundation of prior art. The optical sensor transmits the image data A to the digital luminance gain regulating unit. The digital luminance gain regulating unit carries out the gain adjustment for each pixel data of the image data An in the adjustable range of the luminance gain according to the new gain parameter transmitted by the automatic exposure control program unit, and then the image data An is change into image data B. The digital luminance gain regulating unit transmits the image data B to other picture signal processing units for further optimizing conformity, and the image data B is finally converted to the image data with YUV format.
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Technical field
The utility model relates in the digital camera automatic exposure control field to picture quality, relates in particular to the automatic exposure unit of digital brightness gain and time shutter collaborative work.
Background technology
Digital still images such as digital camera of the prior art, digital shadow stream are controlled the sensitometric curve that all is based on optical sensor to the automatic exposure of image quality in using, and the time shutter is long more, and the amplitude of image brightness gain is low more.Referring to Fig. 1, Fig. 1 is under the normal illumination condition, the image brightness statistical value (Y mean) that digital camera obtains from optical sensor, with the graph of relation of the current time shutter (Exposure Time) that optical sensor is provided with, the gain range of image brightness reduces along with the increase of time shutter.In addition, usually under fluorescent light,, must allow time shutter of optical sensor be 1/100 second integral multiple during PAL-system, must allow time shutter of optical sensor be 1/120 second integral multiple during TSC-system in order to eliminate the flicker striped that sensor photosensitive produces.Therefore, the adjustment of time shutter must be directly proportional with flicker cycle, and the time shutter is the some gears that disperse.But automatic exposure control device of the prior art exists following problem: 1, the AE adjusting is unsmooth, and the sensitometric curve slope of optical sensor is bigger; 2, under low light conditions, need constantly to increase the time shutter to obtain small luminance gain, untimely to the improvement of visual visibility; 3, cause the data frame per second to reduce significantly, destroyed digital shadow stream continuity.
The utility model content
In order to overcome the problems of the prior art and deficiency, the purpose of this utility model has been to provide the automatic exposure unit of a kind of digital brightness gain with the time shutter collaborative work.It makes and time shutter and digital brightness gain collaborative work makes that the automatic exposure adjusting is more level and smooth.
In order to realize the foregoing invention purpose, the technical solution of the utility model realizes as follows:
The automatic exposure unit of a kind of digital brightness gain and time shutter collaborative work comprises automatic exposure control procedure unit, time shutter control module, other image signal processing units and interrupt control unit.Described other image signal processing units comprise a brightness statistic, the luminance component of each pixel of the view data that described brightness statistic scanning receives, and calculate the brightness statistics value of every frame image, feed back to automatic exposure control procedure unit by the interrupt control unit again.The time shutter that described automatic exposure control procedure unit calculates renewal according to the brightness statistics value of gained and current time shutter, described automatic exposure control procedure unit sends to be upgraded the time shutter and instructs to described time shutter control module.Described time shutter control module acts on optical sensor with new time shutter parameter configuration, and described optical sensor is gathered original image data under new time shutter condition, and is translated into the pictorial data A of digital CFA form.Its design feature is, also comprise the digital brightness gain regulon, described optical sensor is conveyed into the digital brightness gain regulon with view data A, the new gain parameter that the digital brightness gain regulon sends according to automatic exposure control procedure unit is carried out gain-adjusted to each pixel data of view data A and is changed pictorial data B in the adjustable extent of luminance gain.Described digital brightness gain regulon is transferred to other picture intelligence processing unit with view data B and further optimizes and combines, and finally is converted into the pictorial data of yuv format.
The adjustable extent of the digital brightness gain of above-mentioned digital brightness gain regulon is being successively decreased along with the increase of time shutter.The adjustable extent of digital brightness gain can dispose by the characteristic parameter of time shutter and optical sensor.
The gain parameter of above-mentioned digital brightness gain regulon is N/M.N among the gain parameter N/M and M can regulate respectively.
Above-mentioned digital brightness gain regulon also comprises one when automatic exposure is in steady state (SS), masks the screened circuit module of luminance gain function.
The utility model can also comprise synchronous control unit, described synchronous control unit starts the exposure frames counting number according to the synchronous mark that the time shutter control module sends, count results and automatic exposure control procedure unit are preset luminance gain to synchronous control unit to come into force and postpones frame number and compare, if reach the delay frame number, the steering order that described synchronous control unit transmission brightness comes into force is to described digital brightness gain regulon.The luminance gain that described synchronous control unit sets in advance comes into force and postpones frame number and can regulate.
The new time shutter gear that digital brightness gain regulon of the present utility model sends according to automatic exposure control procedure unit carries out gain-adjusted to each pixel data of view data A and changes pictorial data B in the adjustable extent of luminance gain.Like this, when automatic exposure was regulated, between two time shutter shelves, the digital brightness gain regulon had been regulated luminance gain, makes the adjusting of automatic exposure seem smoother.In addition, under low light conditions, the utility model automatic exposure control procedure unit is according to current time shutter gear and current image brightness statistical value, can in time judge the low-light (level) duty, with the time shutter locked at higher gear and guarantee the frame per second (Frame rate) of proper digital shadow stream (Digital video), regulate digital brightness gain parameter N and M simultaneously,, can fast and effeciently improve visual visibility such as increasing the N value or reducing the M value.Digital brightness gain parameter N and M can regulate respectively, have guaranteed the precision of computing like this, make that the adjusting of luminance gain is flexible more, the realization cost minimum of hardware.
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The sensitometric curve figure of optical sensor in Fig. 1 prior art;
Fig. 2 is a structure principle chart of the present utility model;
Fig. 3 is the structure principle chart of the utility model preferred implementation;
Fig. 4 is the collaborative work curve map of the utility model time shutter and digital brightness gain;
Fig. 5 is a workflow diagram of the present utility model.
Below in conjunction with the drawings and specific embodiments the utility model is further specified.
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Referring to Fig. 2, the automatic exposure unit of a kind of digital brightness gain and time shutter collaborative work comprises automatic exposure control procedure unit 1, time shutter control module 2, other image signal processing units 5 and interrupt control unit 6.Described other image signal processing units 5 comprise a brightness statistic 7, the luminance component of each pixel of the view data that described brightness statistic 7 scannings receive, and calculate the brightness statistics value of every frame image, feed back to automatic exposure control procedure unit 1 by interrupt control unit 6 again.The time shutter that described automatic exposure control procedure unit 1 calculates renewal according to the brightness statistics value of gained and current time shutter, described automatic exposure control procedure unit 1 sends to be upgraded the time shutter and instructs to described time shutter control module 2.Described time shutter control module 2 acts on optical sensor 3 with new time shutter parameter configuration, and described optical sensor 3 is gathered original image data under new time shutter condition, and is translated into the pictorial data A of digital CFA form.The utility model also comprises digital brightness gain regulon 4, described optical sensor 1 is conveyed into digital brightness gain regulon 4 with view data A, the new gain parameter that digital brightness gain regulon 4 sends according to automatic exposure control procedure unit 1, each pixel data of view data A is carried out gain-adjusted change pictorial data B in the adjustable extent of luminance gain, described digital brightness gain regulon 4 is transferred to other picture intelligence processing unit 5 with view data B and further optimizes and combines, and finally is converted into the pictorial data of yuv format.The adjustable extent of the digital brightness gain of described digital brightness gain regulon 4 is being successively decreased along with the increase of time shutter.The adjustable extent of digital brightness gain can dispose by the characteristic parameter of time shutter and optical sensor.
Referring to Fig. 3, preferred implementation of the present utility model is also to comprise synchronous control unit 9 on basis of the present utility model, described synchronous control unit 9 starts the exposure frames counting number according to the synchronous mark that time shutter control module 2 sends, count results and automatic exposure control procedure unit 1 are preset luminance gain to synchronous control unit 9 to come into force and postpones frame number and compare, if reach the delay frame number, the steering order that described synchronous control unit 9 transmission brightness come into force is to described digital brightness gain regulon 4.The luminance gain that above-mentioned synchronous control unit 9 sets in advance comes into force and postpones frame number and can regulate.Above-mentioned digital brightness gain regulon 4 also comprises one when automatic exposure is in steady state (SS), masks the screened circuit module 8 of luminance gain function.
Referring to Fig. 4, anatomize digital brightness gain regulon 4 when the time shutter changes, the process that luminance gain is mediated.All the time do not satisfy automatic exposure steady state conditions with the image brightness statistical value below, and to be lower than expectation value be example.Automatic exposure steady state conditions refers to: current image brightness statistical value is in the stationary zones.Stationary zones depends on current time shutter gear and optical sensor characteristic parameter, can calculate flexibly.Analyze 0-1 for the curve map among Fig. 4: the digital brightness gain minimum under the current time shutter, on transfer to digital brightness gain mxm. under the current time shutter; 1-2: the time shutter is raised one grade, simultaneously digital brightness gain is reset to the minimum under the current time shutter; 2-3: be equal to step 0-1; 3-4: be equal to step 1-2; 4-5: be equal to step 0-1; 5-6: be equal to step 1-2.By top analysis as can be seen, described digital brightness gain regulon 4 can be begun luminance gain under the current time shutter by minimum, on transfer to luminance gain mxm. under the current time shutter shelves; If at this moment the time shutter raises, digital brightness gain regulon 4 is reset to luminance gain minimum under the current time shutter shelves with digital brightness gain simultaneously, and then on transfer to luminance gain mxm. under the current time shutter shelves.
The adjustable extent of digital brightness gain is different at the different exposure time gear, under the normal illumination condition, successively decreases with the increase of time shutter, can flexible configuration.
The gain parameter of above-mentioned digital brightness gain regulon 4 is N/M.N among the gain parameter N/M and M can regulate respectively.The correction of time shutter, influence the brightness of pictorial data A of the original CFA form of optical sensor output, the digital brightness gain regulating action is on each original pixels (Pixel) data, gain parameter N/M increases image brightness greater than 1, less than 1 minimizing image brightness, equal 1 and keep image brightness.Pictorial data B has embodied the synthesis of time shutter control with the adjusting of digital brightness gain.Therefore under low light conditions, the adjusting of time shutter gear can not increase image brightness timely and effectively, even the amplitude of the maximum adjustable scope of digital brightness gain (under the normal illumination condition) can not satisfy the needs that recover visual visibility under the low frame per second condition as early as possible.And pass through the utility model, can in time judge low-light (level) duty (based on the relation of current time shutter gear and current image brightness statistical value), with the time shutter locked at higher gear and guarantee the frame per second (Frame rate) of proper digital shadow stream (Digital video), regulate digital brightness gain parameter N and M simultaneously, such as increasing the N value or reducing the M value, fast and effeciently improve visual visibility.In like manner, under high illumination conditions, also can realize automatic exposure, repeat no more here by of the present utility model.Digital brightness gain parameter N and M separate setting in hardware circuit, be to guarantee operational precision, and hardware realizes that cost minimizes, the synergistic keys of factor such as control maximum flexibility.
Referring to Fig. 5, workflow of the present utility model is as follows: 1) automatic exposure control procedure unit judges whether that according to brightness statistics value that receives and current time shutter needs carry out automatic exposure and regulate; 2) if do not need to carry out the automatic exposure adjusting, exposure is regulated and is finished, and carries out automatic exposure if desired and regulates, time shutter that calculating makes new advances and new gain parameter; 3) if the time shutter increase, the digital brightness gain regulon is reset to minimum under the new time shutter with digital brightness gain, if the time shutter reduces, the digital brightness gain regulon is reset to mxm. under the new time shutter with digital brightness gain, if the time shutter is constant, then new digital brightness gain parameter is acted on the digital brightness gain regulon; 4) brightness statistics value with the view data B after the digital brightness gain adjusting sends to automatic exposure control procedure unit, and returns step 1).
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1, the automatic exposure unit of a kind of digital brightness gain and time shutter collaborative work, comprise automatic exposure control procedure unit (1), time shutter control module (2), other image signal processing units (5) and interrupt control unit (6), described other image signal processing units (5) comprise a brightness statistic (7), the luminance component of each pixel of the view data that described brightness statistic (7) scanning receives, and calculate the brightness statistics value of every frame image, feed back to automatic exposure control procedure unit (1) by interrupt control unit (6) again, the time shutter that described automatic exposure control procedure unit (1) calculates renewal according to the brightness statistics value of gained and current time shutter, described automatic exposure control procedure unit (1) transmission is upgraded the time shutter and is instructed to described time shutter control module (2), described time shutter control module (2) acts on optical sensor (3) with new time shutter parameter configuration, described optical sensor (3) is gathered original image data under new time shutter condition, and be translated into the pictorial data A of digital CFA form, it is characterized in that, described automatic exposure control procedure unit (1), be provided with digital brightness gain regulon (4) between other image signal processing unit (5) and the optical sensor (3), described optical sensor (3) is conveyed into digital brightness gain regulon (4) with view data A, the new gain parameter that digital brightness gain regulon (4) sends according to automatic exposure control procedure unit (1), each pixel data of view data A is carried out gain-adjusted change pictorial data B in the adjustable extent of luminance gain, described digital brightness gain regulon (4) is transferred to other picture intelligence processing unit (5) with view data B and further optimizes and combines, and finally is converted into the pictorial data of yuv format.
2, according to the automatic exposure unit of the described digital brightness gain of claim 1 with the time shutter collaborative work, it is characterized in that, described digital brightness gain regulon (4) for the adjustable extent of its digital brightness gain at the circuit unit that successively decreases along with the increase of time shutter.
3, according to the automatic exposure unit of the described digital brightness gain of claim 2 with the time shutter collaborative work, it is characterized in that described digital brightness gain regulon (4) is the circuit unit that the characteristic parameter by time shutter and optical sensor disposes for the adjustable extent of its digital brightness gain.
4, according to the automatic exposure unit of the described digital brightness gain of claim 1, it is characterized in that described digital brightness gain regulon (4) is the circuit unit of N/M for its gain parameter with the time shutter collaborative work.
5, according to the automatic exposure unit of the described digital brightness gain of claim 4, it is characterized in that described digital brightness gain regulon (4) is the circuit unit of regulating respectively for N and the M among its gain parameter N/M with the time shutter collaborative work.
6, according to the automatic exposure unit of the described digital brightness gain of claim 1 with the time shutter collaborative work, it is characterized in that, described digital brightness gain regulon (4) also comprises one when automatic exposure is in steady state (SS), masks the screened circuit module (8) of luminance gain function.
7, according to the automatic exposure unit of the described digital brightness gain of claim 1 with the time shutter collaborative work, it is characterized in that, also comprise synchronous control unit (9), described synchronous control unit (9) starts the exposure frames counting number according to the synchronous mark that time shutter control module (2) sends, count results and automatic exposure control procedure unit (1) are preset luminance gain to synchronous control unit (9) to come into force and postpones frame number and compare, if reach the delay frame number, the steering order that described synchronous control unit (9) transmission brightness comes into force is to described digital brightness gain regulon (4).
8, according to the automatic exposure unit of the described digital brightness gain of claim 7, it is characterized in that it is adjustable circuit unit that described synchronous control unit (9) postpones frame number for its luminance gain that sets in advance comes into force with the time shutter collaborative work.
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