A method for processing a video stream prior to encoding, the video stream potentially comprising a film grain, the method comprising: measuring a film grain intensity in the video stream; obtaining at least one encoding rate information item associated with the video stream, in order to determine a pair of respective values for the grain intensity and encoding rate; comparing the pair values with predetermined respective threshold values in order to categorize the video stream with respect to pairs of predetermined values of grain intensity and rate; and selecting a film grain management strategy among at least four combinations based on the categorization of the video stream.

An image processing apparatus for displaying an image on a display screen, inputs data, specifies at least one of a bright region and a dark region of an image corresponding to the image data, executes, for at least one of the bright region and the dark region, at least one of first chroma processing of increasing a chroma of the bright region, second chroma processing of lowering the chroma of the dark region, first hue processing of making a hue of the bright region close to red, and second hue processing of making the hue of the dark region close to blue in accordance with display dynamic range information corresponding to the display screen, and displays, on the display screen, an image based on corrected image data that has undergone correction.

A device, method and software program for sensor self-calibrating are disclosed, including sensing, by sensors, objects in at least one field of view and generating sense data from the sensing; detecting, from the sense data, at least one marker disposed in a fixed position within the at least one field of view; for each marker detected, extracting position information of the marker and associating the marker with the extracted position information therefor; and calibrating the sensors based upon the extracted position information for each marker detected.

In various embodiments, a reconstruction application generates reconstructed video content that includes synthesized film grain. The reconstruction application performs scaling operation(s) on first unit noise based on a piecewise linear scaling function and the brightness component of the decoded video content to generate a brightness component of synthesized film grain. The reconstruction application then generates a brightness component of reconstructed video content based on the brightness component of the synthesized film grain and the brightness component of the decoded video content. Finally, the reconstructed application performs operation(s) related to saving the reconstructed video content to a file and/or further processing the reconstructed video content. Advantageously, the synthesized film grain reliably represents the film grain included in source video content from which the decoded video content was derived.

The present principles relate to a method and a device for reducing noise in a component of a picture. The method includes obtaining a low-pass filtered component by low-pass filtering the component of the picture, for a current pixel in the component of the picture. For at least one current neighboring pixel of the current pixel, computing a distance, relative to the current neighboring pixel, between the value of the current pixel in the low-pass filtered component and the value of the current neighboring pixel in the low-pass filtered component. When the distances relative to the at least one neighboring pixels of the current pixel are lower than a first threshold, modifying the value of the current pixel in said component of the picture according to a linear combination of the value of the current pixel in the component of the picture and the value of the current pixel in the low-pass filtered component. Otherwise the value of the current pixel in the at least one component of the picture remains unchanged.

Provided is a process relating to virtual video composition through a unique combination of manufacturing techniques that improve fidelity over prior methods or attempts at producing high-quality cinematic video.

A device for vehicle measurement, in particular for determining the angular position of at least one wheel of a vehicle, includes at least one measuring device having at least one image recording device configured to record images. The recorded images contain the image of at least one mark which has a fixed geometric relationship to a wheel of the vehicle. The device for vehicle measurement further includes at least one evaluation unit configured to evaluate the images recorded by the at least one measuring device. The evaluation unit is further configured to evaluate the intensity of illumination of a background area surrounding the respective mark in addition to imaging the at least one mark.

The present invention provides apparatuses and systems for determining block averages in film grain simulation including determining block averages during a display process and determining block averages during a decoding process. The apparatuses and systems of the present invention exhibit different characteristics in terms of memory requirements and computational cost. More specifically, the first apparatus and system use no external memory, but require either extra reads of the blocks, or internal memory in the display pipeline, while the second apparatus and system require extra memory bandwidth and extra external memory (e.g., RAM).

Transforming rendered frames in a graphics processing system to obtain enhanced frames with desired characteristics of a set of target images includes selecting a plurality of shaders, each defined by a parametrized mathematical function arranged to replicate a particular visual characteristic. For each shader, parameters of the parametrized mathematical function have been derived in dependence on a set of target images so that the shader is arranged to impose its respective particular visual characteristic in dependence on an extent to which the particular visual characteristic is exhibited in the target images. The plurality of shaders are combined to form a pipeline, obtaining one or more rendered frames, applying the pipeline to at least a portion of the one or more rendered frames to obtain enhanced frames, and outputting for display the enhanced frames, wherein the enhanced frames exhibit visual characteristics of the target images.

Technologies for modifying a digital image to take on the appearance of an antique image. Such modifying is typically based on generating and rendering various effects that are blended with the input image, such as color transformation, simulating film grain, dust, fibers, tears, and vintage borders. Such effects may be rendered to various layers that are overlaid on a color transformed image resulting in what appears to be an antique image.