High dynamic range imaging

1. A high dynamic resolution video processing method comprising:

passing light through a Bayer filter;

capturing the light by an image capture device to create a Bayer-mosaic image;

performing merging techniques on the Bayer-mosaic image; the merging techniques comprising a low dynamic range-updated merging mode comprising updating a previous high dynamic range frame with a new low dynamic range frame data to obtain a new high dynamic range frame;

wherein, during merging techniques, multiple frames of different exposures are used per high dynamic range capture;

performing tone mapping techniques on the Bayer-mosaic image;

converting results of the merging techniques and the tone mapping techniques to red green blue (RGB) data; and

outputting a high dynamic range image from the red green blue data.

2. The high dynamic resolution video processing method of claim 1 , the merging techniques comprising a full-reset merging mode.

3. The high dynamic resolution video processing method of claim 2 , the full-reset merging mode comprising:

merging of N consecutive frames 1, 2, 3, . . . N into a first high dynamic range image;

merging of a next series of N consecutive frames 1, 2, 3, . . . N into a second high dynamic range image; and

merging subsequent series of N consecutive frames 1, 2, 3, . . . N into subsequent high dynamic range images.

4. The high dynamic resolution video processing method of claim 2 , the full-reset merging mode comprising creating a high dynamic range frame once all multiple frames have been captured.

5. The high dynamic resolution video processing method of claim 1 , wherein no de-mosaicing or color space conversions are utilized to perform merging and tone mapping techniques.

6. The high dynamic resolution video processing method of claim 1 , wherein all high dynamic range processing techniques are performed in a logarithmic scale.

7. The high dynamic resolution video processing method of claim 1 , the tone mapping techniques comprising performing locally-adaptive tone mapping to a brightness range compression.

8. A high dynamic resolution video processing method comprising:

passing light through a Bayer filter;

capturing the light by an image capture device to create a Bayer-mosaic image;

performing merging techniques comprising a full-reset merging mode and a low dynamic range-updated merging mode on the Bayer-mosaic image; the low dynamic range-updated merging mode comprising updating a previous high dynamic range frame with a new low dynamic range frame data to obtain a new high dynamic range frame;

wherein, during merging techniques, multiple frames of different exposures are used per high dynamic range capture;

the full-reset merging mode comprising:

merging of N consecutive frames 1, 2, 3, . . . N into a first high dynamic range image;

merging of a next series of N consecutive frames 1, 2, 3, . . . N into a second high dynamic range image; and

merging subsequent series of N consecutive frames 1, 2, 3, . . . N into subsequent high dynamic range images;

performing tone mapping techniques on the Bayer-mosaic image;

converting results of the merging techniques and the tone mapping techniques to red green blue (RGB) data; and

outputting a high dynamic range image from the red green blue data.

9. The high dynamic resolution video processing method of claim 8 , the full-reset merging mode comprising creating a high dynamic range frame once all multiple frames have been captured.

10. The high dynamic resolution video processing method of claim 8 , wherein no de-mosaicing or color space conversions are utilized to perform merging and tone mapping techniques.

11. The high dynamic resolution video processing method of claim 8 , wherein all high dynamic range processing techniques are performed in a logarithmic scale.

12. The high dynamic resolution video processing method of claim 8 , the tone mapping techniques comprising performing locally-adaptive tone mapping to a brightness range compression.

13. A high dynamic resolution video processing method comprising:

passing light through a Bayer filter;

capturing the light by an image capture device to create a Bayer-mosaic image;

performing merging techniques comprising a full-reset merging mode and a low dynamic range-updated merging mode on the Bayer-mosaic image; the low dynamic range-updated merging mode comprising updating a high dynamic range frame with low dynamic range frames at a frame rate of the low dynamic range frames;

wherein, during merging techniques, multiple frames of different exposures are used per high dynamic range capture;

the full-reset merging mode comprising:

merging of N consecutive frames 1, 2, 3, . . . N into a first high dynamic range image;

merging of a next series of N consecutive frames 1, 2, 3, . . . N into a second high dynamic range image; and

merging subsequent series of N consecutive frames 1, 2, 3, . . . N into subsequent high dynamic range images;

performing tone mapping techniques on the Bayer-mosaic image;

converting results of the merging techniques and the tone mapping techniques to red green blue (RGB) data; and

outputting a high dynamic range image from the red green blue data.

14. A high dynamic resolution video processing method comprising:

passing light through a Bayer filter;

capturing the light by an image capture device to create a Bayer-mosaic image;

performing merging techniques on the Bayer-mosaic image; the merging techniques comprising a low dynamic range-updated merging mode comprising updating a high dynamic range frame with low dynamic range frames at a frame rate of the low dynamic range frames;

wherein, during merging techniques, multiple frames of different exposures are used per high dynamic range capture;

performing tone mapping techniques on the Bayer-mosaic image;

converting results of the merging techniques and the tone mapping techniques to red green blue (RGB) data; and

outputting a high dynamic range image from the red green blue data.