METADATA DESCRIBING NOMINAL LIGHTING CONDITIONS OF A REFERENCE VIEWING ENVIRONMENT FOR VIDEO PLAYBACK
First Claim
1. A computing system comprising:
- a metadata generator configured to generate metadata that describes one or more nominal lighting conditions of a reference viewing environment for playback of video, wherein the metadata includes one or more of;
one or more parameters that specify a nominal level of ambient light in the reference viewing environment, the one or more parameters that specify the nominal level of ambient light including an indicator of light per unit of area; and
one or more parameters that specify a nominal color characteristic of the ambient light in the reference viewing environment, the one or more parameters that specify the nominal color characteristic of ambient light including coordinates in a multi-dimensional mapping of values in a color space; and
a buffer configured to store the metadata for output with encoded data for the video.
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Abstract
Innovations in the areas of generating, parsing, and using metadata that describes nominal lighting conditions of a reference viewing environment for video playback are presented herein. In various examples described herein, metadata includes parameters that describe the nominal lighting conditions (e.g., level of ambient light, color characteristics of ambient light) of a reference viewing environment. By conveying a representation of the nominal lighting conditions of the reference viewing environment (e.g., one assumed when mastering image content), a transmitter system can enable a receiver system to adapt its local display of the image content. Upon receiving image content and the metadata, the receiver system can identify characteristics of the actual viewing environment, use the metadata to determine whether the actual viewing environment matches the reference viewing environment, and, if not, adjust sample values of the image content, adjust a display device, or adjust lighting conditions of the actual viewing environment.
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1. A computing system comprising:
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a metadata generator configured to generate metadata that describes one or more nominal lighting conditions of a reference viewing environment for playback of video, wherein the metadata includes one or more of; one or more parameters that specify a nominal level of ambient light in the reference viewing environment, the one or more parameters that specify the nominal level of ambient light including an indicator of light per unit of area; and one or more parameters that specify a nominal color characteristic of the ambient light in the reference viewing environment, the one or more parameters that specify the nominal color characteristic of ambient light including coordinates in a multi-dimensional mapping of values in a color space; and a buffer configured to store the metadata for output with encoded data for the video. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. In a computing system, a method comprising:
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receiving metadata that describes one or more nominal lighting conditions of a reference viewing environment for playback of video, wherein the metadata includes one or more of; one or more parameters that specify a nominal level of ambient light in the reference viewing environment, the one or more parameters that specify the nominal level of ambient light including an indicator of light per unit of area; and one or more parameters that specify a nominal color characteristic of the ambient light in the reference viewing environment, the one or more parameters that specify the nominal color characteristic of ambient light including coordinates in a multi-dimensional mapping of values in a color space; and parsing the metadata. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A computing system comprising:
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a buffer configured to store metadata that describes one or more nominal lighting conditions of a reference viewing environment for playback of video, wherein the metadata includes one or more of; one or more parameters that specify a nominal level of ambient light in the reference viewing environment, the one or more parameters that specify the nominal level of ambient light including an indicator of light per unit of area; and one or more parameters that specify a nominal color characteristic of the ambient light in the reference viewing environment, the one or more parameters that specify the nominal color characteristic of ambient light including coordinates in a multi-dimensional mapping of values in a color space; a metadata parser configured to parse the metadata; a buffer configured to store encoded data for video; and a video decoder configured to decode the encoded data for the video.
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