[PATCH v3 6/6] ipa: simple: Report exposure in metadata

Laurent Pinchart laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com
Mon Jan 27 08:10:26 CET 2025


Hi Milan,

Thank you for the patch.

On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 02:34:05PM +0100, Milan Zamazal wrote:
> Report the exposure+gain in metadata.
> 
> The exposure value is especially dubious because it should be in
> microseconds but it's handled using V4L2_CID_EXPOSURE control, which
> doesn't specify the unit, see
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/userspace-api/media/v4l/control.html.

Please convert it to the right unit.

> Signed-off-by: Milan Zamazal <mzamazal at redhat.com>
> ---
>  src/ipa/simple/algorithms/agc.cpp | 7 ++++++-
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/ipa/simple/algorithms/agc.cpp b/src/ipa/simple/algorithms/agc.cpp
> index 72aade14..ba7e7adc 100644
> --- a/src/ipa/simple/algorithms/agc.cpp
> +++ b/src/ipa/simple/algorithms/agc.cpp
> @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
>  
>  #include <libcamera/base/log.h>
>  
> +#include "control_ids.h"
> +
>  namespace libcamera {
>  
>  LOG_DEFINE_CATEGORY(IPASoftExposure)
> @@ -99,8 +101,11 @@ void Agc::process(IPAContext &context,
>  		  [[maybe_unused]] const uint32_t frame,
>  		  [[maybe_unused]] IPAFrameContext &frameContext,
>  		  const SwIspStats *stats,
> -		  [[maybe_unused]] ControlList &metadata)
> +		  ControlList &metadata)
>  {
> +	metadata.set(controls::ExposureTime, frameContext.sensor.exposure);
> +	metadata.set(controls::AnalogueGain, frameContext.sensor.gain);
> +
>  	/*
>  	 * Calculate Mean Sample Value (MSV) according to formula from:
>  	 * https://www.araa.asn.au/acra/acra2007/papers/paper84final.pdf

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart


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