CREATION OF IMAGES WITH EXTENDED DYNAMIC RANGE FROM IMAGES WITH NARROW DYNAMIC RANGE Russian patent published in 2016 - IPC H04N19/597 H04N13/00 

FIELD: photography.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to image processing, particularly to creation high dynamic range (HDR) images from low dynamic range (LDR) images, and concerns a combination of high dynamic range information with 3D information. Disclosed is an encoding apparatus for encoding a first view high dynamic range image and a second view high dynamic range image, comprising: first and second HDR image receivers (203, 1201) arranged to receive first view high dynamic range image and a second view high dynamic range image; a predictor (209) arranged to predict first view high dynamic range image from a low dynamic range representation of first view high dynamic range image; and a view predictor (1203) to predict second view high dynamic range image from at least one of first view high dynamic range image, a low dynamic range representation of second view high dynamic range image, or a low dynamic range representation of first view high dynamic range image.

EFFECT: coding information related to HDR, and information related to 3D, namely to use of existing relationships between different coded representations of surveying same scene, wherein said encoded representation have different levels of reliability.

12 cl, 22 dwg