High Performance Single Exposure High Dynamic Range (HDR)
While traditional HDR relies on multiple exposures, this approach is often impractical for applications involving motion or high-data rates. Gidel’s HDR IP overcomes these limitations with an innovative single-exposure algorithm, delivering uncompromised HDR quality and performance using FPGA-based processing.
High Image Quality with Unlimited Throughput
Gidel’s IP provides a real-time high-quality HDR with virtually zero-latency. The HDR IP stands out by analyzing not only the luminance data of each pixel but also the surrounding pixels, dynamically adjusting HDR processing to account for local luminance variations. This environment-sensitive approach enhances subtle details, even in challenging lighting, to deliver images with exceptional fidelity. Gidel’s proprietary HDR algorithm, combined with FPGA architecture, enables the simultaneous processing of unlimited multiple pixels, allowing for high-speed, efficient HDR performance across an ultra wide image field.
Integration in ISP Pipeline
Gidel’s HDR CPU offloading can be easily integrated into Gidel’s frame grabbers and FPGA modules. It may be combined with user IPs and/or other Gidel real-time, zero latency image enhancement modules, such as gamma correction, white balance, debayering, and compression. This modular approach allows for a fully optimized end-to-end solution to meet the specific demands of any imaging application.
Target applications:
- Aerial mapping
- Sports broadcasting
- Augmented reality
- Volumetric imaging
- Medical imaging
- Homeland security
The Gidel HDR IP is supported by the ProcVision Development Suite.
The suite enables to customize the acquisition and processing flow in a modular approach, including:
- Embedding the HDR IP in the processing pipeline
- Embedding in the pipeline additional Gidel processing blocks, e.g., white balance, Gamma correction and compression
- Embedding user-proprietary processing blocks
- Tailoring the acquisition architecture – ProcFG, InfiniVision, user customized
- Selecting the input camera protocol: GigE Vision, CoaXPress, Camera Link and user-protocol
The ProcVision Suite comprises:
- FPGA templates
- FPGA IPs library
- ProcWizard Development software
- API libraries for grabbing flow and general FPGA design functionality
- Certify suite for verification of image processing and acquisition flow