L_LightControlBitmap

#include "l_bitmap.h"

L_LTIMGCLR_API L_INT L_LightControlBitmap(pBitmap, puLowerAvr, puAvrage, puUpperAvr, uFlags)

Lightens or darkens all or part of a bitmap by remapping the pixel values. This function is also useful for pre-processing images for the purpose of improving barcode recognition results.

Returns

Comments

This function does not support signed data images. It returns the error code ERROR_SIGNED_DATA_NOT_SUPPORTED if a signed data image is passed to this function.

This function remaps the pixel values of the bitmap across the full range of available pixel values, in order to achieve the values passed in puLowerAvr, puAvrage and puUpperAvr.

For example, call this function for a grayscale bitmap, with puAvrage containing 150, puLowerAvr containing 100 and puUpperAvr containing 190. The pixels of the bitmap will be remapped so that the new average pixel value for the entire bitmap will be 150, the new average value for those pixels with a value between 0 and the average value for the entire bitmap will be 100, and the new average value for those pixels with a value between the average value for the entire bitmap and the maximum pixel value in the bitmap will be 190.

This function supports 12 and 16-bit grayscale and 48 and 64-bit color images. Support for 12 and 16-bit grayscale and 48 and 64-bit color images is available in the Document and Medical Imaging toolkits.

To update a status bar or detect a user interrupt during execution of this function, refer to L_SetStatusCallback.

For an example, click here

To obtain this effect, the following settings were used with the function:

uLowerAvr = 100
uAverage = 255
uUpperAvr = 255
uFlags = YUV_SPACE

This function does not support 32-bit grayscale images. It returns the error code ERROR_GRAY32_UNSUPPORTED if a 32-bit grayscale image is passed to this function.

Required DLLs and Libraries

Platforms

Windows 2000 / XP/Vista.

See Also

Example

The following example loads a bitmap and applies light control function.

 L_INT LightControlBitmapExample(L_VOID)
{
   L_INT nRet;
   BITMAPHANDLE LeadBitmap; /* Bitmap handle to hold the loaded image. */
   L_UINT  puLowerAvr[3];
   L_UINT puAverage[3];
   L_UINT puUpperAvr[3];

   puLowerAvr[0] = 100; /*for blue, gray or yuv*/
   puLowerAvr[1] = 120; /*for green*/
   puLowerAvr[2] = 80; /*for red*/
   puAverage[0] = 150; /*for blue, gray or yuy*/
   puAverage[1] = 140; /*for green*/
   puAverage[2] = 128; /*for red*/
   puUpperAvr[0] = 190; /*for blue, gray or yuv*/
   puUpperAvr[1] = 200; /*for green*/
   puUpperAvr[2] = 220; /*for red*/ 

   /* Load the bitmap, keeping the bits per pixel of the file */
   nRet = L_LoadBitmap(TEXT("%UserProfile%\\My Documents\\LEADTOOLS Images\\IMAGE1.CMP"), &LeadBitmap, sizeof(BITMAPHANDLE), 0, ORDER_BGR, NULL, NULL);
   if(nRet !=SUCCESS)
      return nRet;

   /* change the lightness of the bitmap */
   nRet = L_LightControlBitmap(&LeadBitmap, puLowerAvr, puAverage, puUpperAvr, YUV_SPACE);
   if(nRet !=SUCCESS)
      return nRet;
   nRet = L_SaveBitmap(TEXT("%UserProfile%\\My Documents\\LEADTOOLS Images\\Result.BMP"), &LeadBitmap, FILE_BMP, 24, 0, NULL);
   if(nRet !=SUCCESS)
      return nRet;
   //free bitmap 
   if(LeadBitmap.Flags.Allocated)  
      L_FreeBitmap(&LeadBitmap);  
   return SUCCESS;
}