Video and Vision Processing Suite Intel® FPGA IP User Guide

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Date 12/31/2023
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Document Table of Contents
1. About the Video and Vision Processing Suite 2. Getting Started with the Video and Vision Processing IPs 3. Video and Vision Processing IPs Functional Description 4. Video and Vision Processing IP Interfaces 5. Video and Vision Processing IP Registers 6. Video and Vision Processing IPs Software Programming Model 7. Protocol Converter Intel® FPGA IP 8. 1D LUT Intel® FPGA IP 9. 3D LUT Intel® FPGA IP 10. AXI-Stream Broadcaster Intel® FPGA IP 11. Bits per Color Sample Adapter Intel FPGA IP 12. Black Level Correction Intel® FPGA IP 13. Black Level Statistics Intel® FPGA IP 14. Chroma Key Intel® FPGA IP 15. Chroma Resampler Intel® FPGA IP 16. Clipper Intel® FPGA IP 17. Clocked Video Input Intel® FPGA IP 18. Clocked Video to Full-Raster Converter Intel® FPGA IP 19. Clocked Video Output Intel® FPGA IP 20. Color Space Converter Intel® FPGA IP 21. Defective Pixel Correction Intel® FPGA IP 22. Deinterlacer Intel® FPGA IP 23. Demosaic Intel® FPGA IP 24. FIR Filter Intel® FPGA IP 25. Frame Cleaner Intel® FPGA IP 26. Full-Raster to Clocked Video Converter Intel® FPGA IP 27. Full-Raster to Streaming Converter Intel® FPGA IP 28. Genlock Controller Intel® FPGA IP 29. Generic Crosspoint Intel® FPGA IP 30. Genlock Signal Router Intel® FPGA IP 31. Guard Bands Intel® FPGA IP 32. Histogram Statistics Intel® FPGA IP 33. Interlacer Intel® FPGA IP 34. Mixer Intel® FPGA IP 35. Pixels in Parallel Converter Intel® FPGA IP 36. Scaler Intel® FPGA IP 37. Stream Cleaner Intel® FPGA IP 38. Switch Intel® FPGA IP 39. Tone Mapping Operator Intel® FPGA IP 40. Test Pattern Generator Intel® FPGA IP 41. Unsharp Mask Intel® FPGA IP 42. Video and Vision Monitor Intel FPGA IP 43. Video Frame Buffer Intel® FPGA IP 44. Video Frame Reader Intel FPGA IP 45. Video Frame Writer Intel FPGA IP 46. Video Streaming FIFO Intel® FPGA IP 47. Video Timing Generator Intel® FPGA IP 48. Vignette Correction Intel® FPGA IP 49. Warp Intel® FPGA IP 50. White Balance Correction Intel® FPGA IP 51. White Balance Statistics Intel® FPGA IP 52. Design Security 53. Document Revision History for Video and Vision Processing Suite User Guide

39.1. About the Tone Mapping Operator IP

The tone mapping operator (TMO) Intel FPGA IP dynamically adapts the processing of an image based on a regional (tile-based) approach. It improves the visibility of latent image detail and enhances the overall viewing experience.

You can configure the required number of bits per symbol and pixels in parallel. Typical applications include:

  • Medical imaging
  • Machine vision
  • Video conferencing
  • Surveillance
  • Automotive imaging
Figure 90.  Example of processing a real-life image using the TMO IPThe figure shows example results obtained after applying the TMO IP dataflow on a real-life image: left is the original image; right is the output image after TMO IP processing.

You provide and receive video data to the TMO IP in RGB format via the AXI4-Stream compatible Intel FPGA video streaming interfaces. The IP determines the size of the video busses from the number of pixels processed per clock cycle, the color bit depth, and the number of component streams parameters. The number of video component streams is fixed at 3. The IP supports:

  • Component bit depths of 8, 10 and 12-bit.
  • Pixels per clock of 1, 2 and 4.

You control the strength of the contrast enhancement for the output images provided by the TMO IP via an Avalon memory-mapped control interface. The data bus for the control interface is set to 32-bit to interface with an embedded CPU. During operation, you can configure the TMO IP using a software driver that controls all the IP parameters via a set of software APIs.

The TMO IP allows four modes of operations:

  • Passthrough
  • Contrast-enhancement
  • Horizontal and vertical slider
  • Region of interest

The Example of processing a real-life image using the TMO IP figure shows passthrough and contrast enhancement.

Region of interest allows you to define a specific window within the active picture, so that the contrast enhancement is only applied in that specific part of the output image.

Figure 91. Examples of horizontal slider and region of interest

The TMO IP supports RGB sampling. The sampling method at the output is always the same as the input. You must provide details of the current standard video resolution via the CPU control interface to ensure correct behavior. the IP only supports 4:4:4 progressive sampling. You should perform any deinterlacing and chroma up or down sampling externally to the TMO IP.