Abstract: An image pickup device which suppresses an increase in chip area of peripheral circuits without degrading the performance of a pixel section and makes it possible to prevent costs from being increased. The image pickup device includes a first semiconductor substrate and a second semiconductor substrate. A pixel section includes photo diodes each for generate electric charges by photoelectric conversion, floating diffusions each for temporarily storing the electric charges generated by the photo diode, and amplifiers each connected to the floating diffusion, for outputting a signal dependent on a potential of the associated floating diffusion. Column circuits are connected to vertical signal lines, respectively, for performing predetermined processing on signals output from the pixel section to vertical signal lines.

Abstract: The imaging device 102, to which an extension device 103 for accommodating an external battery 202 can be detachably attached, comprises a main body 102a for accommodating an internal battery 201, a charge IC 231, an operation unit 160, and a charge microcomputer 232. The charge IC 231 charges the internal battery 201 or the external battery 202 with power input from outside. The operation unit 160 receives an input for setting a use order of the internal battery 201 and the external battery 202. The charge microcomputer 232 controls the charge IC 231 so as to charge the internal battery 201 or the external battery 202 according to the priority order.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for operating an electronic device is provided. A first image is obtained at a first position of a focus lens of a camera module of the electronic device. The first image is output through a display. A second image is obtained at a second position of the focus lens while the first image is being output. A defocus amount of the focus lens at the second position is calculated based on the first image and the second image. An on-focus region is detected based on the calculated defocus amount.

Abstract: An image signal processing apparatus includes a down-converter unit configured to down-convert an image signal having a first resolution into an image signal having a second resolution lower than the first resolution, a high-frequency-band-edge detection unit configured to perform filtering on the image signal having the first resolution to extract components in a higher frequency band than a frequency corresponding to the second resolution and to perform down-conversion on an edge detection signal obtained through the filtering to obtain an edge detection signal having the second resolution, and a combination unit configured to combine the edge detection signal obtained by the high-frequency-band-edge detection unit with the image signal having the second resolution generated by the down-converter unit so as to obtain an image signal having the second resolution and being to be displayed.

Abstract: A method and a device for monitoring a post print processing machine through which printed products are successively transported. An image recording device is assigned to the post print processing machine and connected to a computer unit for recording during each operating cycle an image series with at least two images of a printed product, spaced apart by a time interval. The images of the image series are transmitted to the computer unit and the images are displayed in real time on a display device that is connected to the computer unit.

Abstract: There is provided an image pickup apparatus that has a mixture readout mode configured to mix and read outputs of a plurality of pixels in an image sensor (107), when pixels to be mixed are image pickup pixels, they are mixed. When the pixels to be mixed contain a focus detection pixel, a signal of the image pickup pixel is not mixed with a signal of the focus detection pixel.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus, comprising: a receiving unit receiving a first image and image-capturing information associated with the first image; a determining unit determining, based on the image-capturing information, whether or not the first image is an image of a subject image in a view point direction corresponding to the aperture mask, using an output signal of an image sensor that includes a pixel array including first parallax pixels having the aperture mask with asymmetric directional properties in the long axis and short axis with respect to incident light flux of a single optical system and positioned to permit a portion of the light flux to pass; and an outputting unit outputting a corrected first image by carrying out a correction process having different frequency properties between the long axis direction and the short axis direction on the subject image in an unfocused region of the first image.

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes a light emission controller configured to make a light emitter provide a first light emission and a second light emission with a light emission amount calculated based on a result of photometry in the first light emission, the light emitter being configured to emit illumination light of the object field, and a switch configured to switch a readout of an exposure control signal between first and second signal readouts to obtain a result of the photometry in the first light emission. In the first signal readout signals from a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements are synthesized and read out. In the second signal readout, an output of a first photoelectric conversion element is read out among a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements in an image sensor and then an output of a second photoelectric conversion element is read out.

Abstract: An embodiment of a camera module includes a holder configured such that the upper and lower portions of the holder are open and such that a first hole and a second hole, opposite to the first hole, are formed in the side surface of the holder, a first lens unit coupled to the upper portion of the holder, a second lens unit coupled to the lower portion of the holder, and a liquid lens disposed in the first hole and the second hole of the holder between the first lens unit and the second lens unit, the liquid lens protruding outward from the side surface of the holder, wherein at least a portion of the liquid lens may be spaced apart from the inner surface of the holder.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method to resolve a technical problem of a “ghost”. The method is applied to a terminal that includes a first camera lens and a second camera lens, where the both lenses are located on a same side of the terminal. The method includes: obtaining a first image that is captured by the first camera lens and is about a first area, and a second image that is captured at a same moment by the second camera lens and is about a second area; performing translation compensation on the second image by using the first image as a reference image; and fusing the first image and the second image that is obtained after translation compensation is performed, to generate a third image, where a resolution of the third image is higher than a resolution of the first image and a resolution of the second image.

Abstract: Systems, methods and devices for automatically cropping images taken by an electronic device in order to determine the identity of a product contained in the image are described herein. A number of different techniques may be applied to perform the automatic cropping, including a focus sweep technique in which a first image is analyzed for the presence of a human being and then a second image is taken in a plane closer to the camera than the first image. The two frames are analyzed and a resultant image is provided that avoids the regions in which the human being is present to focus on the product. In other embodiments, a motion vector calculation is made between two images in which an individual is holding a product. The motion vectors related to the human are removed and a bounding box is calculated to reduce the size of the image to include a higher percentage of the product, such that the product can be more easily identified.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a sensor interface circuit that performs scaling of image data in a Bayer pattern without spreading defective pixels across multiple pixels. The sensor interface circuit may include a register circuit storing operating parameters of the sensor interface circuit. The sensor interface circuit includes a scaling circuit with a first defect pixel detection circuit to detect a first defective pixel in an input image by analyzing pixels in a line of an input image data along a first direction. A first scaling circuit is coupled to the first defect pixel detection circuit and generates a scaled line of pixels representing the line of the input image scaled along the first direction according to the operating parameters.

Abstract: Inspection scopes suitable for use in connection with mobile electronic devices are disclosed. The inspection scope may utilize an optical connection to the mobile electronic device and/or an electrical connection to the mobile electronic device. Software operative on the mobile electronic device is configured for control of inspection scope components and for acquisition of video and/or image data.

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus comprises an image sensor that includes a pixel array in which a plurality of unit pixels, each having a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, are arranged in matrix, and a plurality of column output lines respectively provided in columns of the pixel array, and a control unit that performs control such that in a case in which signals from a portion of photoelectric conversion elements of each of the plurality of unit pixels is to be read out, signals from a plurality of unit pixels that are arranged in the same column of the pixel array are output simultaneously to one column output line out of the plurality of column output lines.

Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for capturing digital images. In use, an ambient image comprising a plurality of ambient pixels and a flash image comprising a plurality of flash pixels is captured, via a camera module. Next, at least one de-noised pixel based on the ambient image is generated. Additionally, a resulting image is generated by combining the at least one de-noised pixel and a corresponding flash pixel. Additional systems, methods, and computer program products are also presented.

Abstract: The present invention provides an imaging device and a focusing control method capable of reliably preventing the accuracy of a focusing control from being lowered even in a case where a signal level of a phase difference detection pixel is low. A system control unit (11) calculates, using detections signals of phase difference detection pixels (52A, 52B) obtained by each of two instances of imaging which are consecutively performed by an imaging element (5), first defocus amounts for each instance of imaging, adds up detection signals corresponding to the detection signals of the phase difference detection pixels (52), among captured image signals obtained by each of two instances of imaging, calculates a second defocus amount using signals after addition, and compares the plural of first defocus amounts and the second defocus amount to determine whether to perform a focusing control based on the second defocus amount.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide a digital camera that enables, using a simple configuration, a digital display to be easily and freely rotated in the horizontal and vertical directions. [Solution] A digital camera (1) is provided with the following: a camera main body (2) having an image pickup lens; a liquid crystal display (3) that displays the images picked up by the image pickup lens; and a hinge unit (4) that connects the camera main body (2) and the electronic display (3). The camera main body (2) includes a first slit (22) that is formed by cutting out at least a portion of an inner circumferential wall (21a) of an accommodating depression (21) which accommodates the hinge unit (4), and that causes an outer circumferential surface (4a) of the hinge unit (4) to be exposed to the outside.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a transformation circuit that performs a predetermined transformation process based on a reference area referred from an input image stored in a first memory corresponding to each divided area that divides an output image to be generated into multiple areas and a second memory that stores a transmission area including a logical OR area of the multiple reference areas. The transformation circuit transfers the transmission area from the first memory to the second memory and performs the predetermined transformation process based on the reference area included in the transmission area transferred to the second memory.

Abstract: Certain aspects relate to imaging systems and methods for manufacturing imaging systems and image sensors. The imaging system includes a pixel array including a plurality of pixels, the pixels configured to generate a charge when exposed to light and disposed on a first layer. The imaging system further includes a plurality of pixel circuits for reading light integrated in the pixels coupled thereto, each of the plurality of pixel circuits comprising one or more transistors shared between a subset of the plurality of the pixels, the one or more transistors disposed on a second layer different than the first layer. The imaging system further includes a plurality of floating diffusion nodes configured to couple each of the plurality of pixels to the plurality of pixel circuits.

Abstract: A method of providing blooming protection to a CMOS imager having a pixel array of a plurality of pixels arranged in rows and columns, where the CMOS imager is operable to capture high dynamic range images using a rolling shutter, is provided. Such a method can include reading out charge accumulated by the pixels in a readout row of a first integration time, applying a reset to the readout row for a reset time sufficient to allow readout and reset to occur in at least one subsequent row, and starting a second integration time of the pixels in the readout row, wherein the second integration time is shorter than the first integration time, and wherein the at least one subsequent row is a sufficient number of rows to have a combined reset to preclude blooming effects from the pixel array during the second integration time.