Abstract: An electronic device is provided that includes a first housing, a second housing configured to be slidable from the first housing, and a main printed circuit board (PCB) disposed inside the first housing and including a processor mounted therein. The electronic device also includes a camera module disposed in the second housing, and a display module. The display module includes a display having a first region exposed externally and a second region within an internal space of the first housing, while in a slide-in state of the second housing. The display module also includes a first flexible PCB (FPCB) connected to the main PCB. At least a portion of the first FPCB is movable as the second housing slides out from the first housing. The camera module is electrically connected to the first FPCB to transmit and receive electrical signals to and from the processor mounted on the main PCB.

Abstract: Techniques for generating a high resolution full color output image from lower resolution sparse color input images are disclosed. A camera generates images. The camera's sensor has a sparse Bayer pattern. While the camera is generating the images, IMU data for each image is acquired. The IMU data indicates a corresponding pose the camera was in while the camera generated each image. The images and IMU data are fed into a motion model, which performs temporal filtering on the images and uses the IMU data to generate a red-only image, a green-only image, a blue-only image, and a monochrome image. The color images are up-sampled to match the resolution of the monochrome image. A high resolution output color image is generated by combining the up-sampled images and the monochrome image.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a first output unit configured to output, outside the imaging apparatus, a first image that an image sensor, an imaging region of which is divided into a plurality of regions, has captured while an exposure condition is controlled for each of the plurality of regions, and a second output unit configured to output, outside the imaging apparatus, exposure information for each of the plurality of regions, the exposure information indicating the exposure condition to be applied to the corresponding one of the plurality of regions when the first image is captured. The second output unit is configured to complete outputting exposure information for a region to be subjected to exposure correction processing in the first image, out of the plurality of regions, before the first output unit completes outputting an image of the region to be subjected to exposure correction processing.

Abstract: A motorcycle includes a camera stay, a camera, a vibration reduction cover, and an attachment cover. The camera photographs the front area of the motorcycle. The vibration reduction cover is made of the elastic material and covers at least two surfaces of the camera facing each other. The attachment cover holds the camera via the vibration reduction cover and is attached to the camera stay.

Abstract: An illustrative apparatus may perform gaze-based auto-exposure management of image frames. For example, the apparatus may determine, for an image frame within an image frame sequence captured by an image capture system, auto-exposure values for pixel units into which the image frame is divided. The apparatus may then assign weight values to the pixel units based on a gaze direction of a viewer viewing the image frame sequence. Based on the auto-exposure values determined for the pixel units and the weight values assigned to the pixel units, the apparatus may update one or more auto-exposure parameters for use by the image capture system to capture an additional image frame within the image frame sequence. Corresponding apparatuses, systems, and methods for gaze-based auto-exposure management of image frames are also disclosed.

Abstract: A method in an electronic device includes detecting, with one or more processors, initiation of an image capture operation using an image capture device situated on a first surface of the electronic device and having a first field of view extending away from the first surface in a first direction. In response to detecting the initiation of the image capture operation, the method includes actuating a second image capture device situated on a second surface of the electronic device and having a second field of view extending away from the second surface in a second direction. The method then captures image content with the second image capture device and presenting the image content on a display situated on the first surface of the electronic device. Thereafter, the one or more processors capture at least one image with the first image capture device.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a camera exposure processing method and system. The method includes: obtaining trigger signals, the trigger signals being used to trigger the camera to collect image data and trigger the light source to turn on and off in turn in a fixed sequence; triggering cyclically n light sources to turn on in turn; triggering multiple sensor lines of the camera to perform image acquisition on the object simultaneously; extracting the image data of the exposed object under the turned-on light source collected by the multiple sensor lines to obtain effective data of the object, wherein a sequential lighting order is that after a former light source is cyclically turned on y times, a latter light source is cyclically turned on y times; and splicing all image data of the same position of the object to obtain a spliced image of the object under different light sources.

Abstract: There is provided an optical sensor that acquires a first image frame corresponding to a first flicker period and acquires a second image frame corresponding to a second flicker period. The optical sensor respectively adds pixel data of every two pixels in neighboring rows of the first image frame and the second image frame to generate a low-resolution image frame for the motion detection.

Abstract: There is provided a system (100) for performing image motion compensation. The system comprises a light source (110), an imaging unit (120), and a control unit (130). The light source is configured to provide multiplexed illumination to an object in a plurality of color channels, the imaging unit is configured to capture a first image and a second image of the object in the plurality of color channels, and the control unit is configured to determine an estimated motion of pixels between the first image and the second image in a first color channel, and to generate a first motion compensated image by extrapolating the estimated motion of pixels between the first image and the second image to at least another one of the plurality of color channels.

Abstract: A camera and LED strobe unit are operated such that the strobe unit produces a series of bursts, such as approximately ten per second. The bursts are used either to illuminate a subject at a series of different light levels, to then present a series of images to the user to select the best exposure, or to produce a series of images of a moving subject within a single frame. The light unit has a continuous mode of LED light output, but can be switched to the burst mode for high power bursts in rapid succession.

Abstract: The present description describes an image sensor including an array of pixels arranged inside and on top of a region of a semiconductor substrate electrically insulated from the rest of the substrate by insulating trenches crossing the substrate, each pixel including a photoconversion area and at least two assemblies, each including a memory area and a transfer gate coupling the memory area to the photoconversion area, and a circuit configured to apply, for each pixel and at least during each integration phase, a bias voltage different from ground to a portion of the substrate having the pixel arranged inside and on top of it.

Abstract: An apparatus configured to obtain an event signal that indicates a position of a pixel and a time at which a luminance change has occurred includes a detection unit configured to detect an object based on the event signal, and a control unit configured to perform control to change at least one parameter in a case where a time period during which the detection unit does not detect the object is longer than a predetermined time period.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire, among a plurality of images obtained by periodically capturing one or more lighting devices that repeat blinking according to a determined pattern, a first image and a second image in which a lighted lighting device is captured and in response to a distance from a position of the device indicated by the first image to a position of the device indicated by the second image being within a range corresponding to a period from a time of capturing the first image to a time of capturing the second image, regard the lighting device indicated by the first image and the lighting device indicated by the second image are the same, and specify the pattern of the lighting device that has been regarded the same.

Abstract: Disclosed are an optical lens, a camera module and a camera. From an object side to an image side along an optical axis, the optical lens includes: a first lens having a positive focal power and a convex object side surface; a second lens having a negative focal power; a third lens having a negative focal power; a fourth lens having a negative focal power; a fifth lens having a positive focal power, an object side surface of the fifth lens is convex at a paraxial region thereof, and an image side surface of the fifth lens is concave at a paraxial region thereof; a stop disposed between the second and third lens; and a filter disposed between the fifth lens and an imaging plane. The camera module includes the optical lens and an image sensor, and the camera includes the camera module.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a sensor having an array of detectors. The sensor is configured to assign multiple detectors to a detector group corresponding to a block pixel. The sensor is also configured, for each frame of a set of frames, to apply a specified one of a set of mask patterns in order to select outputs of the detectors in the detector group and aggregate the selected outputs of the detectors in the detector group to determine pixel information for the block pixel. The apparatus also includes at least one processor configured to generate the frames using the pixel information for the block pixel, and upscale the portion of the at least one of the frames using the set of mask patterns to identify native pixels within the block pixel.

Abstract: The present technique aims to provide a solid-state imaging device that reduces shading and color mixing between pixels. The present invention also provides a method of manufacturing the solid-state imaging device. The present technique further relates to a solid-state imaging device that enables provision of an electronic apparatus that uses the solid-state imaging device, a method of manufacturing the solid-state imaging device, and an electronic apparatus. The solid-state imaging device includes a substrate, pixels each including a photoelectric conversion unit formed in the substrate, and a color filter layer formed on the light incidence surface side of the substrate. The solid-state imaging device also includes a device isolating portion that is formed to divide the color filter layer and the substrate for the respective pixels, and has a lower refractive index than the refractive indexes of the color filter layer and the substrate.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect a flicker frequency of a subject light source by sampling an output signal of a sensor in first sampling processing, a determination unit configured to determine whether the detected flicker frequency falls within a detection target range, by sampling an output signal of the sensor in second sampling processing, and a control unit configured to perform control to notify a user in response to determination by the determination unit that the detected flicker frequency falls out of a detection target range in the first sampling processing.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an imaging apparatus and an imaging method, a camera module, and an electronic apparatus that are capable of detecting a failure in an imaging device having a structure in which a plurality of substrates are stacked. The timing at which a row drive unit provided in a second substrate outputs a control signal for controlling accumulation and reading of pixel signals in a pixel array provided in a first substrate is compared with the timing at which the control signal output from the row drive unit is detected after passing through the pixel array. Depending on whether or not the timings coincides with each other, a failure is detected. The present disclosure can be applied to an imaging apparatus mounted on a vehicle.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus obtains a plurality of pieces of image data with different exposure amounts and then performs a level-conversion of the image data by applying input/output characteristics thereto. The apparatus encodes the image data whose level has been converted and decodes the encoded image data. The apparatus further applies inverse characteristics of the input/output characteristics to the decoded image data and then generates combined image data. In generating the combined image, the input/output characteristics are set in accordance with a combining ratio of each of the image data.

Abstract: An apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a measurement result of a number of luminance changes, based on an address event signal indicating an address of a pixel having changed in luminance and a time, and a control unit configured to cause a relationship between the time and the measurement result to be displayed. The control unit causes the measurement result to be displayed in accordance with a direction of the luminance changes.