Hi Laurent,

2012/9/28 Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinch...@ideasonboard.com>:
> Hi Enric,
>
> On Thursday 27 September 2012 18:05:56 Enric Balletbò i Serra wrote:
>> 2012/9/27 Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinch...@ideasonboard.com>:
>> > On Wednesday 26 September 2012 16:15:35 Enric Balletbò i Serra wrote:
>> >> 2012/9/26 Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinch...@ideasonboard.com>:
>> >> > On Wednesday 26 September 2012 09:57:53 Enric Balletbò i Serra wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > [snip]
>> >> >
>> >> >> You had reason. Checking the data lines of the camera bus with an
>> >> >> oscilloscope I see I had a problem, exactly in D8 /D9 data lines.
>> >> >
>> >> > I'm curious, how have you fixed that ?
>> >>
>> >> The board had a pull-down 4k7 resistor which I removed in these lines
>> >> (D8/D9). The board is prepared to accept sensors from 8 to 12 bits,
>> >> lines from D8 to D12 have a pull-down resistor to tie down the line by
>> >> default.
>> >>
>> >> With the oscilloscope I saw that D8/D9 had problems to go to high
>> >> level like you said, then I checked the schematic and I saw these
>> >> resistors.
>> >>
>> >> >> Now I can capture images but the color is still wrong, see the
>> >> >> following
>> >> >> image captured with pipeline SENSOR -> CCDC OUTPUT
>> >> >>
>> >> >>     http://downloads.isee.biz/pub/files/patterns/img-000001.pnm
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Now the image was converted using :
>> >> >>     ./raw2rgbpnm -s 752x480 -f SGRBG10 img-000001.bin img-000001.pnm
>> >> >>
>> >> >> And the raw data can be found here:
>> >> >>     http://downloads.isee.biz/pub/files/patterns/img-000001.bin
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Any idea where I can look ? Thanks.
>> >> >
>> >> > Your sensors produces BGGR data if I'm not mistaken, not GRBG.
>> >> > raw2rgbpnm doesn't support BGGR (yet), but the OMAP3 ISP preview engine
>> >> > can convert that to YUV since v3.5. Just make your sensor driver expose
>> >> > the right media bus format and configure the pipeline accordingly.
>> >>
>> >> The datasheet (p.10,11) says that the Pixel Color Pattern is as follows.
>> >>
>> >> <------------------------ direction
>> >> n  4    3    2    1
>> >> .. GB GB GB GB
>> >> .. RG RG RG RG
>> >>
>> >> So seems you're right, if the first byte is on the right the sensor
>> >> produces BGGR. But for some reason the mt9v032 driver uses GRBG data.
>> >
>> > You can change the Bayer pattern by moving the crop rectangle. That how
>> > the mt9v032 driver ensures a GRBG pattern even though the first active
>> > pixel in the sensor array is a blue one. As the MT9V034 first active pixel
>> > is located at different coordinates you will have to modify the crop
>> > rectangle computation logic to get GRBG.
>>
>> Please, could you explain how to do this ? I'm a newbie into image
>> sensors world :-)
>
> Let's assume the following Bayer pattern (left to right and top to bottom
> direction).
>
>  | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ...
> ----------------------
> 1| G R G R G R G R ...
> 2| B G B G B G B G ...
> 3| G R G R G R G R ...
> 4| B G B G B G B G ...
> 5| G R G R G R G R ...
> 6| B G B G B G B G ...
> 7| G R G R G R G R ...
> 8| B G B G B G B G ...
> .| ...................
>
> If you crop the (1,1)/4x4 rectangle from that sensor you will get
>
>  | 1 2 3 4
> ----------
> 1| G R G R
> 2| B G B G
> 3| G R G R
> 4| B G B G
>
> which is clearly a GRBG pattern. If you crop the (2,1)/4x4 rectangle you will
> get
>
>  | 2 3 4 5
> ----------
> 1| R G R G
> 2| G B G B
> 3| R G R G
> 4| G B G B
>
> which is now a RGGB pattern. The pattern you get out of your sensor thus
> depends on the crop rectangle position.
>

Many thanks for the explanation. I'm learning a lot with your explanations :-)

>> >> Maybe is related with following lines which writes register 0x0D Read
>> >> Mode (p.26,27) and presumably flips row or column bytes (not sure
>> >> about this I need to check)
>> >>
>> >> 334         /* Configure the window size and row/column bin */
>> >> 335         hratio = DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(crop->width, format->width);
>> >> 336         vratio = DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(crop->height, format->height);
>> >> 337
>> >> 338         ret = mt9v032_write(client, MT9V032_READ_MODE,
>> >> 339                     (hratio - 1) <<
>> >> MT9V032_READ_MODE_ROW_BIN_SHIFT |
>> >> 340                     (vratio - 1) <<
>> >> MT9V032_READ_MODE_COLUMN_BIN_SHIFT);
>> >>
>> >> Nonetheless, I changed the driver to configure for BGGR pattern. Using
>> >> the Sensor->CCDC->Preview->Resizer pipeline I captured the data with
>> >> yavta and converted using raw2rgbpnm program.
>> >>
>> >>     ./raw2rgbpnm -s 752x480 -f UYVY img-000001.uyvy img-000001.pnm
>> >>
>> >> and the result is
>> >>
>> >>     http://downloads.isee.biz/pub/files/patterns/img-000002.pnm
>> >>     http://downloads.isee.biz/pub/files/patterns/img-000002.bin
>> >>
>> >> The image looks better than older, not perfect, but better. The image
>> >> is only a bit yellowish. Could be this a hardware issue ? We are close
>> >> to ...
>> >
>> > It's like a white balance issue. The OMAP3 ISP hardware doesn't perform
>> > automatic white balance, you will need to implement an AWB algorithm in
>> > software. You can have a look at the omap3-isp-live project for sample
>> > code (http://git.ideasonboard.org/omap3-isp-live.git).
>

So you think the sensor is set well now ? The hardware can produce
this issue ? Do you know if this algorithm is implemented in gstreamer
?

Regards,
    Enric
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