Re: HTML Canvas - Transforms for HDR and WCG

On 2021-04-28 15:23, Christopher Cameron wrote:
> In all browsers today, for "Colorbars in HLG 203 display.png", any 
> signal value above 0.75 is clamped to SDR-white.

The choice of 0.75 follows from the HLG specification - a code value of 
0.75 is media white, while a code value of 1.0 is peak white and is 12x 
higher luminance.

The choice of clamping all HDR highlights, with no tone mapping is an 
easy but bad one. However, dislaying HDR content on SDR is in general 
hard; HLG is easier here than PQ (by design).

>
> Going back to the <img> tag situation, should 0.75 in this image 
> always match sRGB-white on HDR displays (even if sRGB-white is 80, 
> 100, or 400 nits)?

Yes, it should.(80, 100, 140, 203, or 400 - 203 is the ITU value)

Although media white increases typically mean brighter viewing 
conditions, which may require an OOTF to compensate for the decreased 
contrast.


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Chris Lilley
@svgeesus
Technical Director @ W3C
W3C Strategy Team, Core Web Design
W3C Architecture & Technology Team, Core Web & Media

Received on Thursday, 29 April 2021 17:34:38 UTC