Abstract: Disclosed herein is an apparatus for correcting image distortion of a lens, including an input unit for receiving image information, a segmentation unit for segmenting the image information into one or more image subdivision units, a setting unit for setting a center of the image information, a controller for shifting each of the one or more image subdivision units by a variation ratio with respect to the center of the image information, an interpolation unit for inserting one or more image subdivision units corresponding to the shifted image subdivision units into an interpolation space generated between the shifted image subdivision units, and an output unit for outputting corrected image information. According to an embodiment of the present invention, by shifting one or more image subdivision units by a variation ratio, operation logic for coordinate calculation and internal memory logic may be minimized, and implementation complexity may be lowered.

Abstract: A digital photographing system includes a smart mount that includes lenses, a shutter, an image sensor, and an image processor, combined with a camera body or a mobile terminal device. A method of operating the digital photographing system is provided. The digital photographing system includes a lens; a smart mount that captures and processes an image of an object input via the lens; and a body that displays, modifies, stores, or deletes the image captured and processed by the smart mount.

Abstract: A method of an electronic device for automatically focusing on a moving object is provided. The method includes generating, by a processor, at least one focal code based on information comprising depth information of the moving object obtained using at least one previous position of the moving object, focusing, by the processor, on at least one portion of the moving object based on the at least one focal code, and capturing, by a sensor, at least one image of the moving object comprising the at least one portion of the moving object.

Abstract: A portable electronic device and a touch operation method thereof are provided. When the portable electronic device is at an image capturing mode, a touch event on a touch screen is detected. Next, a shooting countdown time is determined according to a location of an end point of the touch event on a predetermined path. When no touch event is detected on the touch screen, executing the counting of the shooting countdown time, and an image capturing unit is triggered to capture an image when the counting of the shooting countdown time is up. The user directly enables a timed shooting function and sets a shooting countdown time at the same time by dragging a shutter button, which provides the convenience while operation.

Abstract: An image sensor includes multiple pixel groups arranged in a row included in a pixel array, the row including multiple pixels respectively allocated to the multiple pixel groups. The image sensor further includes multiple row drivers configured to respectively control operations of the pixels respectively allocated to the pixel groups in the row, and multiple readout circuits configured to respectively read out pixel signals output by the pixels respectively allocated to the pixel groups in the row.

Abstract: An imaging system includes: plural imaging devices which are mounted on the same moving body, and configured to capture subjects to acquire images; and a controller configured to calculate a target white balance value common to the images acquired by the imaging devices. Each imaging device includes: a white balance calculator configured to calculate an individual white balance value of the image acquired by the imaging device; and a white balance corrector configured to correct the individual white value of the image of the subject taken by the imaging device to the target white balance value. The controller includes a weighting unit configured to individually weight the individual white balance value given from each imaging device.

Abstract: A video imaging system including: a low resolution color digital video camera and a high resolution monochromatic digital video camera operably connected to a digital processing system.

Abstract: A method is described comprising: applying a random pattern to specified regions of an object; tracking the movement of the random pattern during a motion capture session; and generating motion data representing the movement of the object using the tracked movement of the random pattern.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a photometric lens for forming a secondary image of object light that has been transmitted through a lens unit and had a primary image formed by the lens unit, a photometric sensor for outputting a signal of the object light that has had the secondary image formed, and a PN liquid crystal panel located in the vicinity of a primary imaging plane. The imaging apparatus generates an image obtained by subjecting an output signal of the photometric sensor to reforming processing on the basis of an output signal of the photometric sensor when the PN liquid crystal panel serves as an object. Thus, the imaging apparatus can suppress a deterioration in the image that could be caused by various factors including a manufacturing error, a change over time, a change in temperature, and a change in humidity.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus on which a lens unit is to be removably mounted includes an image pickup element, a first focus detection unit which performs a focus detection by a contrast detection method based on a signal output from the image pickup element, a second focus detection unit which performs a focus detection by a phase difference detection method based on a pair of image signals output from the image pickup element, and a control unit which performs a focus control based on an in-focus position detected by the first or second focus detection unit, and the control unit receives, from the mounted lens unit, first information related to a displacement of the in-focus position by the phase difference detection method and determines whether to use the second focus detection unit for the focus control according to the first information.

Abstract: A camera module having a voice coil motor driver, including a driving controller configured to compare a reference voltage and a negative feedback voltage to output a driving control signal, and a driver configured to drive a coil of the voice coil motor according to the driving control signal.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus moves a focus lens on the basis of an imaging signal of an image pickup device to perform a focal adjustment. The image pickup device images a subject. The imaging apparatus includes an evaluation value calculation circuit, a control circuit, and a movement determination circuit. The evaluation value calculation circuit extracts a predetermined signal component from an imaging signal to generate an evaluation value. The control circuit performs a focal adjustment on the basis of the evaluation value. The movement determination circuit determines whether or not the subject or the imaging apparatus is moving. The control circuit changes a frame rate of the image pickup device from a first frame rate to a second frame rate higher than the first frame rate when the movement determination circuit determines that the subject or the imaging apparatus is moving.

Abstract: A method of processing information of a portable device includes displaying a preview image output from a camera when a camera application is executed; displaying communication applications corresponding to recognition information of a selected image in the displayed preview image; executing a selected communication application among the displayed communication applications; and transmitting a content/file through the communication application.

Abstract: In some embodiments, an apparatus includes an optics assembly housing an optics component. In some embodiments, the optics assembly is configured to move within the apparatus. In some embodiments, the optics assembly is suspended by a plurality of wires on a base component of the apparatus. In some embodiments, one or more passive dampers disposed around the plurality of wires. In some embodiments, the passive dampers are configured to passively dampen motions of the optics assembly within the apparatus, and each of the one or more passive dampers radially surrounds a portion of a length of a respective one of the plurality of wires over a portion of the length of the respective one of the plurality of wires.

Abstract: Provided is an AD converter including a first AD converting unit in which pixel columns of a pixel array are divided into at least two groups, and that compares a first ramp signal and a first pixel signal output from a first group of the pixel columns and performs AD conversion on the first pixel signal; and a second AD converting unit that compares a second ramp signal and a second pixel signal output from a second group of the pixel columns and performs AD conversion on the second pixel signal, in which the first ramp signal is a signal of which a level is decreased with a constant slope over time in a D-phase period for detecting a signal level of a pixel signal, and the second ramp signal is a signal of which a level is increased with a constant slope over time in the D-phase period.

Abstract: An image-capture unit of an image-capture apparatus captures an image of a subject. A display unit can be disposed in a range where emission light from the display unit reaches the subject whose image is captured by the image-capture unit and can display the image using the emission light. An emission light control unit executes control for changing at least one of a display content and a display state of an image displayed on the display unit at a time of photographing in consideration of an influence of the emission light (irradiation light) from the display unit on a photographing state of the subject.

Abstract: Electronic devices may include image sensors. Image sensors may be used to capture images having rows of long-exposure image pixel values that are interleaved with rows of short-exposure image pixel values. The long-exposure and short-exposure values in each interleaved image frame may be interpolated to form interpolated values. A combined long-exposure image and a combined short-exposure image may be generated using the long-exposure and the short-exposure values from the interleaved image frames and the interpolated values from a selected one of the interleaved image frames. The combined long-exposure and short-exposure images may each include image pixel values from either of the interleaved image frames in a non-motion edge region and image pixel values based only on the image pixel values or the interpolated values from the selected one of the interleaved images in a motion or non-edge region. High-dynamic-range images may be generated using the combined long-exposure and short-exposure images.

Abstract: Passive dampers (e.g., a viscoelastic material such as a silicon gel) may be applied at one or more locations within an actuator module along wires suspending a moving component (an optics assembly) from a fixed component (e.g., a base of an actuator module). The passive dampers act to passively dampen the motion of the optics assembly on the XY plane within the actuator module during optical image stabilization (OIS) of the optics assembly when subjected to external excitation or disturbance, and may also provide Z (optical) axis damping and impact protection. Process control and automation manufacturing and assembly methods for an OIS voice coil motor (VCM) actuator module including passive dampers are described, as well as design elements that provide for the integrity and reliability of the passive dampers over the life cycle of the actuator module.

Abstract: An image sensor operating in a skip mode and reading out a pixel signal provided by at least one of a plurality of pixels and compensating for fixed pattern noise (FPN) in column-parallel pipelines.

Abstract: A system and method of determining a tilt angle of a portable computing device using a sensor indicating gravitational pull on the device; determining the tilt angle of a camera of the device; identifying a tilt angle range from a plurality of predetermined tilt angle ranges; determining a first focal length setting using a first array that associates the tilt angle range with the first focal length setting; determining an adjustment increment using a second array that associates the adjustment increment with the tilt angle range; and determining a second focal length setting of the camera using the adjustment increment according to an autofocus scan range algorithm. A portable computing device including a processor; a camera; and a memory device including instructions operable to be executed by the processor to perform a set of actions, enabling the portable computing device to perform the method.