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diff --git a/src/libcamera/control_ids.yaml b/src/libcamera/control_ids.yaml index f2e542f4..5827d7ec 100644 --- a/src/libcamera/control_ids.yaml +++ b/src/libcamera/control_ids.yaml @@ -774,6 +774,96 @@ controls: Continuous AF is paused. No further state changes or lens movements will occur until the AfPauseResume control is sent. + - HdrMode: + type: int32_t + description: | + Control to set the mode to be used for High Dynamic Range (HDR) + imaging. HDR techniques typically include multiple exposure, image + fusion and tone mapping techniques to improve the dynamic range of the + resulting images. + + When using an HDR mode, images are captured with different sets of AGC + settings called HDR channels. Channels indicate in particular the type + of exposure (short, medium or long) used to capture the raw image, + before fusion. Each HDR image is tagged with the corresponding channel + using the HdrChannel control. + + \sa HdrChannel + + enum: + - name: HdrModeOff + value: 0 + description: | + HDR is disabled. Metadata for this frame will not include the + HdrChannel control. + - name: HdrModeMultiExposureUnmerged + value: 1 + description: | + Multiple exposures will be generated in an alternating fashion. + However, they will not be merged together and will be returned to + the application as they are. Each image will be tagged with the + correct HDR channel, indicating what kind of exposure it is. The + tag should be the same as in the HdrModeMultiExposure case. + + The expectation is that an application using this mode would merge + the frames to create HDR images for itself if it requires them. + - name: HdrModeMultiExposure + value: 2 + description: | + Multiple exposures will be generated and merged to create HDR + images. Each image will be tagged with the HDR channel (long, medium + or short) that arrived and which caused this image to be output. + + Systems that use two channels for HDR will return images tagged + alternately as the short and long channel. Systems that use three + channels for HDR will cycle through the short, medium and long + channel before repeating. + - name: HdrModeSingleExposure + value: 3 + description: | + Multiple frames all at a single exposure will be used to create HDR + images. These images should be reported as all corresponding to the + HDR short channel. + - name: HdrModeNight + value: 4 + description: | + Multiple frames will be combined to produce "night mode" images. It + is up to the implementation exactly which HDR channels it uses, and + the images will all be tagged accordingly with the correct HDR + channel information. + + - HdrChannel: + type: int32_t + description: | + This value is reported back to the application so that it can discover + whether this capture corresponds to the short or long exposure image (or + any other image used by the HDR procedure). An application can monitor + the HDR channel to discover when the differently exposed images have + arrived. + + This metadata is only available when an HDR mode has been enabled. + + \sa HdrMode + + enum: + - name: HdrChannelNone + value: 0 + description: | + This image does not correspond to any of the captures used to create + an HDR image. + - name: HdrChannelShort + value: 1 + description: | + This is a short exposure image. + - name: HdrChannelMedium + value: 2 + description: | + This is a medium exposure image. + - name: HdrChannelLong + value: 3 + description: | + This is a long exposure image. + # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Draft controls section |