IP Library Granted Patent US 11,394,920
Granted Patent B2
US 11,394,920 · App. 16/827,267 · Granted Jul 19, 2022

Transmission device, transmission method, reception device, and reception method

Inventor: Ikuo Tsukagoshi (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
H04N7/005G06T5/009G06T5/50H04L65/607H04N5/225H04N5/243H04N19/46H04N19/70H04N21/236H04N21/434H04N21/84G06T2207/20208
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Patent No.
US 11,394,920
App. No.
16/827,267
Granted
Jul 19, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present technology ensures that electrooptical conversion processing for transmission video data obtained using an HDR optoelectrical conversion characteristic is favorably carried out at a receiving side. The transmission video data is obtained by performing high dynamic range optoelectrical conversion on high dynamic range video data. A video stream is obtained by applying encoding processing to this transmission video data. A container in a predetermined format including this video stream is transmitted. Meta information indicating an electrooptical conversion characteristic corresponding to a high dynamic range optoelectrical conversion characteristic is inserted into a parameter set field in the video stream.

Claims (47)

1. A reception device comprising:

a digital interface configured to connect to an external device;

a receiver configured to receive transmission video data and a packet through the digital interface,

the transmission video data being obtained by applying a high dynamic range optoelectrical conversion to high dynamic range data, and

the packet including meta information that includes:

characteristic information indicating a type of high dynamic range electrooptical conversion corresponding to the high dynamic range optoelectrical conversion,

peak brightness information indicating a peak brightness level of the high dynamic range data, and

compliant threshold information indicating a compliant threshold level that is greater than a minimum brightness level of the high dynamic range data; and

processing circuitry configured to:

control a high dynamic range electrooptical conversion on the transmission video data to obtain first display video data on a basis of the type of high dynamic range electrooptical conversion indicated by the characteristic information;

control a display brightness adjustment of the first display video data to obtain second display video data on a basis of the peak brightness information included in the meta information and a peak brightness level of the external device, the display brightness adjustment obtaining a portion of brightness levels of the second display video data that is greater than the compliant threshold level by adjusting a portion of brightness levels of the first display video data that is greater than the compliant threshold level, and the display brightness adjustment keeping another portion of the brightness levels of the second display video data and another portion of the brightness levels of the first display video data that are equal to or less than the compliant threshold level matched; and

control output of the second display video data to the external device for display.

2. The reception device according to claim 1 , wherein the digital interface is in compliance with a High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) standard.

3. The reception device according to claim 2 , wherein

the packet is InfoFrame according to the HDMI standard.

4. A reception method comprising:

receiving transmission video data and a packet from an external device through a digital interface connected to the external device,

the transmission video data being obtained by applying a high dynamic range optoelectrical conversion to high dynamic range data, and

the packet including meta information that includes:

characteristic information indicating a type of high dynamic range electrooptical conversion corresponding to the high dynamic range optoelectrical conversion,

peak brightness information indicating a peak brightness level of the high dynamic range data, and

compliant threshold information indicating a compliant threshold level that is greater than a minimum brightness level of the high dynamic range data;

performing a high dynamic range electrooptical conversion on the transmission video data to obtain first display video data on a basis of the type of high dynamic range electrooptical conversion indicated by the characteristic information;

performing a display brightness adjustment of the first display video data to obtain second display video data on a basis of the peak brightness information included in the meta information and a peak brightness level of the external device, the display brightness adjustment obtaining a portion of brightness levels of the second display video data that is greater than the compliant threshold level by adjusting a portion of brightness levels of the first display video data that is greater than the compliant threshold level, and the display brightness adjustment keeping another portion of the brightness levels of the second display video data and another portion of the brightness levels of the first display video data that are equal to or less than the compliant threshold level matched; and

outputting the second display video data to the external device for display.

5. The reception method according to claim 4 , wherein

the digital interface is in compliance with a High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) standard.

6. The reception method according to claim 5 , wherein

the packet is InfoFrame according to the HDMI standard.

7. A reception method comprising:

receiving transmission video data and a packet from an external device through a digital interface connected to the external device,

the transmission video data being obtained by applying a high dynamic range optoelectrical conversion to high dynamic range data, and

the packet including meta information that includes:

characteristic information indicating a type of high dynamic range electrooptical conversion corresponding to the high dynamic range optoelectrical conversion,

peak brightness information indicating a peak brightness level of the high dynamic range data, and

compliant threshold information indicating a compliant threshold level that is greater than a minimum brightness level of the high dynamic range data;

determining a combined conversion curve by combining a high dynamic range electrooptical conversion on a basis of the type of high dynamic range electrooptical conversion indicated by the characteristic information and a display brightness adjustment on a basis of the peak brightness information included in the meta information and a peak brightness level of the external device, the display brightness adjustment corresponding to obtaining an adjusted conversion curve by adjusting a portion of an initial conversion curve with brightness levels greater than the compliant threshold level, keeping another portion of the initial conversion curve with brightness levels equal to or less than the compliant threshold level matched;

performing a combined conversion on the transmission video data to obtain display video data according to the combined conversion curve; and

outputting the display video data to the external device for display.

8. The reception method according to claim 7 , wherein

the peak brightness level of the external device is greater than the peak brightness level of the high dynamic range data.

9. The reception device according to claim 1 , wherein

the peak brightness level of the external device is greater than the peak brightness level of the high dynamic range data.

10. The reception method according to claim 4 , wherein

the peak brightness level of the external device is greater than the peak brightness level of the high dynamic range data.

11. The reception device according to claim 1 , wherein the meta information further includes:

minimum brightness information indicating the minimum brightness level of the high dynamic range data.

Priority Claims (1)
JP 2014-267034 · Dec 29, 2014 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 15524441
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