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\n\tThu, 26 Jan 2023 05:46:04 -0800 (PST)","To":"libcamera-devel@lists.libcamera.org","Date":"Thu, 26 Jan 2023 13:45:58 +0000","Message-Id":"<20230126134559.3323-2-david.plowman@raspberrypi.com>","X-Mailer":"git-send-email 2.30.2","In-Reply-To":"<20230126134559.3323-1-david.plowman@raspberrypi.com>","References":"<20230126134559.3323-1-david.plowman@raspberrypi.com>","MIME-Version":"1.0","Content-Transfer-Encoding":"8bit","Subject":"[libcamera-devel] [PATCH v2 1/2] libcamera: controls: Add controls\n\tfor AEC/AGC flicker avoidance","X-BeenThere":"libcamera-devel@lists.libcamera.org","X-Mailman-Version":"2.1.29","Precedence":"list","List-Id":"","List-Unsubscribe":",\n\t","List-Archive":"","List-Post":"","List-Help":"","List-Subscribe":",\n\t","From":"David Plowman via libcamera-devel ","Reply-To":"David Plowman ","Errors-To":"libcamera-devel-bounces@lists.libcamera.org","Sender":"\"libcamera-devel\" "},"content":"Flicker is the term used to describe brightness banding or oscillation\nof images caused typically by artificial lighting driven by a 50 or\n60Hz mains supply. We add two controls intended to be used by AEC/AGC\nalgorithms:\n\nAeFlickerMode to determine whether flicker avoidance is active or not.\n\nAeFlickerPeriod to specify a custom flicker period when the period is\nother than 50 or 60Hz.\n\nSigned-off-by: David Plowman \n---\n src/libcamera/control_ids.yaml | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------\n 1 file changed, 52 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)","diff":"diff --git a/src/libcamera/control_ids.yaml b/src/libcamera/control_ids.yaml\nindex adea5f90..8093ab75 100644\n--- a/src/libcamera/control_ids.yaml\n+++ b/src/libcamera/control_ids.yaml\n@@ -14,6 +14,58 @@ controls:\n \n \\sa ExposureTime AnalogueGain\n \n+ - AeFlickerMode:\n+ type: int32_t\n+ description: |\n+ Set the flicker mode, which determines whether, and how, the AGC/AEC\n+ algorithm attempts to hide flicker effects caused by the duty cycle of\n+ artificial lighting.\n+\n+ Although implementation dependent, many algorithms for \"flicker\n+ avoidance\" work by restricting the exposure time to integer multiples\n+ of this cycle period, wherever possible.\n+\n+ Implementations may not support all of the flicker modes listed below.\n+\n+ enum:\n+ - name: FlickerOff\n+ value: 0\n+ description: No flicker avoidance is performed.\n+ - name: FlickerFreq50Hz\n+ value: 1\n+ description: 50Hz flicker avoidance.\n+ Suppress flicker effects caused by lighting runing with a\n+ 100Hz period (such as produced by 50Hz mains electricity).\n+ - name: FlickerFreq60Hz\n+ value: 2\n+ description: 60Hz flicker avoidance.\n+ Suppress flicker effects caused by lighting running with a\n+ 120Hz period (such as produced by 60Hz mains electricity).\n+ - name: FlickerCustom\n+ value: 3\n+ description: Custom flicker avoidance.\n+ Suppress flicker effects caused by lighting running with a\n+ period specified by AeFlickerPeriod.\n+\n+ \\sa AeFlickerPeriod\n+ - name: FlickerAuto\n+ value: 4\n+ description: Automatic flicker period detection and avoidance.\n+ The system will automatically determine the most likely value\n+ of the flicker period, and avoid flicker of this frequency.\n+ \n+ - AeFlickerPeriod:\n+ type: int32_t\n+ description: Custom flicker period in microseconds.\n+ This value is taken as the current flicker period to avoid. It\n+ is used when the AeFlickerMode is set to FlickerCustom.\n+\n+ For example, to avoid 50Hz mains flicker, you could set the period\n+ to 10000, corresponding to 10ms (twice the mains frequency), and\n+ AeFlickerMode to FlickerCustom.\n+\n+ \\sa AeFlickerMode\n+\n - AeLocked:\n type: bool\n description: |\n@@ -843,23 +895,6 @@ controls:\n value: 1\n description: The lens shading map mode is available.\n \n- - SceneFlicker:\n- type: int32_t\n- draft: true\n- description: |\n- Control to report the detected scene light frequency. Currently\n- identical to ANDROID_STATISTICS_SCENE_FLICKER.\n- enum:\n- - name: SceneFickerOff\n- value: 0\n- description: No flickering detected.\n- - name: SceneFicker50Hz\n- value: 1\n- description: 50Hz flickering detected.\n- - name: SceneFicker60Hz\n- value: 2\n- description: 60Hz flickering detected.\n-\n - PipelineDepth:\n type: int32_t\n draft: true\n","prefixes":["libcamera-devel","v2","1/2"]}