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        "To": "libcamera-devel@lists.libcamera.org",
        "Date": "Wed, 25 Jan 2023 13:20:18 +0000",
        "Message-Id": "<20230125132018.5725-1-david.plowman@raspberrypi.com>",
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        "Subject": "[libcamera-devel] [PATCH] libcamera: controls: Add controls for\n\tAEC/AGC flicker avoidance",
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        "From": "David Plowman via libcamera-devel <libcamera-devel@lists.libcamera.org>",
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    "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 <david.plowman@raspberrypi.com>\n---\n src/libcamera/control_ids.yaml | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\n 1 file changed, 52 insertions(+)",
    "diff": "diff --git a/src/libcamera/control_ids.yaml b/src/libcamera/control_ids.yaml\nindex adea5f90..5e5428ea 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: Flicker50Hz\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: Flicker60Hz\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",
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