Abstract: An image sensor with an array of image sensor pixels is provided. Each image sensor pixel may include a set of photodiodes formed in a semiconductor substrate, a color filter structure formed over the set of photodiodes, a microlens formed over the color filter structure, and associated pixel circuitry coupled to the set of photodiodes. The set of photodiodes may include at least two photodiodes linked together via a preferential blooming channel that provides a reduced potential barrier between the two photodiodes. This allows excess charge to spill over from one photodiode to another when more charge is concentrated in a particular photodiode. Configured in this way, the pixel can provide depth sensing capabilities without suffering from reduced pixel capacity.

Abstract: In an embodiment a method of estimating a sparse signal from a measured signal using a transform matrix is disclosed. The method comprises determining a partial contribution to the sparse signal; determining a residual by subtracting the partial contribution from the measured signal; and iteratively determining further contributions to the sparse signal.

Abstract: Control of a camera is provided. Data describing a visual key is generated. The data describing the visual key is transmitted. The visual key is identified. A person who is in possession of the visual key is identified. The person is associated with the visual key, wherein the person is authorized to control the camera using gestures. A gesture of the person is recognized. The gesture causes a program to execute a command that corresponds to the gesture, wherein the command cause the camera to perform a function.

Abstract: Disclosed is a camera module. The camera module according to one embodiment includes a lens barrel disposed in a housing to receive a lens; a driving unit moving the lens barrel relative to the housing; and a circuit board electrically connected to the driving unit. The driving unit includes a first driving unit in the lens barrel; and a second driving unit in the housing. A portion of the second driving unit directly makes contact with the circuit board.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and a device for configuring photographing parameters, which relate to the field of terminal device technology. The method for configuring photographing parameters in a main device includes: acquiring photographing parameters, which include at least an output color temperature and an output time, for configuring a supplemental device with a flashlight component capable of adjusting color temperature according to a currently set photographing mode; and transmitting the photographing parameters to the supplemental device through a wireless data network, such that the supplemental device sets an output color temperature and an output time of the flashlight component in the supplemental device according to the photographing parameters when photographing.

Abstract: An image sensor comprising a plurality of image sensing pixel groups is provided. Each of the image sensing pixel groups has a plurality of first pixels each having photoelectric conversion portions arrayed in first and second directions for first and second numbers of divisions, respectively, and a plurality of second pixels each having photoelectric conversion portions arrayed in the first and second directions for third and fourth numbers of divisions, respectively. The photoelectric conversion portions comprising the first pixel and the second pixel have a function of photoelectrically converting a plurality of images formed by divided light fluxes of a light flux from an imaging optical system and outputting a focus detection signal for phase difference detection. The first and third numbers of division are coprime natural numbers, and the second and fourth numbers of divisions are coprime natural numbers.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus is reduced in width and length dimensions. The image pickup apparatus has a heat sink-cum-duct disposed on a rear face side of an air cooling fan. Air sucked from an opening defined by an opening portion of the heat sink-cum-duct is guided to an air inlet port of the cooling fan through a ventilation path defined by plural fins of the heat sink-cum-duct and is discharged from an air outlet port of the cooling fan. A circuit board disposed on a rear face side of the heat sink-cum-duct is cooled and heat generated in the circuit board is radiated from a heat radiation plate. The image pickup unit, cooling fan, heat sink-cum-duct, circuit board, and heat radiation plate are each formed into a flat shape having a short dimension in optical axis direction and are substantially parallel to one another.

Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes a PCB (Printed Circuit Board) mounted with an image sensor, a housing disposed at coupled to an upper surface of the PCB, a holder module spaced from a bottom surface of the housing at a predetermined distance, wound with a first coil at a periphery and including thereinside at least one or more lenses, a connecting portion disposed at coupled to an upper surface of the holder module and including a conductive pattern, a plate member coupled to a bottom surface of the holder module, and a plurality of wire springs connected at one end to the connecting portion and connected at the other distal end to the plate member.

Abstract: The invention provides an image reproducing apparatus in which a zoom corresponding to a degree of a shake is adjusted in a reproduction vibration-proofing upon reproduction of a moving image and a proper angle of view can be cut out and displayed. An image reproducing apparatus has: a storing unit for storing a moving image and shake information; a reproduction vibration-proofing unit for electronically executing a reproduction vibration-proofing based on shake information; and a control unit for setting a reproduction vibration-proofing term and a second zoom magnification for a reproduction vibration-proofing term different from a first zoom magnification which is used in a term without a reproduction vibration-proofing based on a shake information, wherein a control unit provides a change term for changing from one of first and second zoom magnifications to the other before and/or after a reproduction vibration-proofing term.

Abstract: A 360-degree gimbal device includes an upright support, a pan motor rotatably coupled with a hollow shaft mounted on the support, a slip ring disposed in the hollow shaft, a first arm having a proximal end attached to the pan motor so that the first arm is freely rotatable 360° about a pan axis, a roll motor connected with a distal end of the first arm, a second arm having a proximal end attached to the roll motor so that the second arm is rotatable 270° about a roll axis, a tilt motor connected with a distal end of the second arm, a holder attached to the tilt motor so that the holder is rotatable ±60° about a tilt axis. The gimbal device is in wireless communication with a mobile device which has a mobile application for generating a plurality of image-shooting modes based on a plurality of customized paths.

Abstract: An image capture device includes a base, a zoom module, a wide-angle module, and a telemeter module. The wide-angle module captures a background image. The telemeter module detects a distance between a target to be captured and the image capture device. The zoom module is rotatably disposed on the base, and the wide-angle module and the telemeter module are rotatably disposed on the zoom module. The zoom module adjusts focus to capture the target according to the distance and captures a main image. The image capture device combines the main images captured by the zoom module and the background images captured by the wide-angle module to form a series of combination images.

Abstract: An apparatus for photographing by using an electronic flash has a photography controller that carries out a pre-flash photography by emitting strobe light in a pre-flash exposure period and subsequently carries out a main flash photography by emitting strobe light; and an exposure adjuster that sets at least one exposure value associated with the pre-flash photography and/or the main flash photography. The exposure adjuster sets an aperture value of a diaphragm that suppresses an occurrence of saturation in image-pixel signals that are generated in an image sensor in the pre-flash exposure period. The photography controller drives the diaphragm in accordance to the set aperture value for the pre-flash photography.

Abstract: At an electronic device with a touch-sensitive display, a remote camera control user interface may be displayed. In some examples, a user may provide input through a gesture at a location corresponding to the touch-sensitive display and/or through a rotation of a rotatable input mechanism to control a camera of an external device. Camera control may include control of the external device's camera features, including image capture, zoom settings, focus settings, flash settings, and timer settings, for example, and may also include access to the external device's library of previously captured images.

Abstract: A digital camera includes an electromagnetic spectrum radiator for emitting electromagnetic spectrums to a target when photographing images of the target, a CCD sensor, a CMOS sensor and/or an OLCD sensor, which constitute an independent image element of the photographed image and receive electromagnetic wave radiation bands propagating in the air in different wavelengths as a result of color reactions of the target to the electromagnetic spectrums. The digital camera includes a memory for storing different color values corresponding to different electromagnetic wave radiation bands and a photographing system, which divides the photographed image into over 100 independent images of small area, and which compares the electromagnetic wave radiation band received by the sensors in each independent image of small area to the different color values in the memory, and then inserts colors corresponding to said color values back to said image of small area.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a direction detection unit configured to detect a direction of a picture pattern of each picture in an input image having a predetermined color pixel array; a moire detection unit configured to detect a moire level by periodicity of a pixel value of each pixel in the input image depending on the direction as a moire index value; and a moire suppression unit configured to suppress the moire level in the input image based on the moire index value detected by the moire detection unit. A method thereof and a program therefor are also provided.

Abstract: An image processing device includes: a determination unit that determines, based on a plurality of pieces of image data which is generated by continuously taking images of an area of field of view and input from an imaging unit provided outside the image processing device, whether the area of field of view of the imaging unit has been changed; an image composition unit that superimposes overlapping areas of imaging regions of a plurality of images corresponding to the plurality of pieces of image data along a direction in which the area of field of view of the imaging unit has been changed, to generate composite image data when the area of field of view of the imaging unit has been changed; and a display control unit that causes a display unit provided outside the imaging processing device to display a composite image corresponding to the generated composite image data.

Abstract: The following description is directed to systems and methods for digital cameras. In one embodiment, a camera can comprise an optical system, a sensor array, a color spreader, a memory, and a controller. The optical system can focus an image. The sensor array comprises a plurality of pixels and can be configured to capture image data. The color spreader can be positioned between the optical system and the sensor array. The color spreader can comprise an array of segments, where each respective segment can be configured to spread a spectrum of incident light toward a corresponding group of pixels using diffraction or refraction. The memory can store one or more spatial models. The controller can be coupled to the sensor array and the memory. The controller can be configured to reconstruct spectral and spatial components of the image from the captured image data and one of the spatial models.

Abstract: A digital photographing apparatus having low power consumption includes a lens unit, an encoder sensor configured to detect a rotational state of the lens unit, a power supply controller configured to control power supply such that an operation of turning on the encoder sensor to generate a detection signal and an operation of turning off the encoder sensor are repeatedly performed, and a determiner configured to determine the rotational state of the lens unit from the detection signal.

Abstract: A line-of-sight detection apparatus is configured to calculate a mean luminance value in an eye area of a face image, determine that an object is a person whose iris area is blue or green in a case in which the calculated mean luminance value is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, determine a correction parameter for correcting the eye area based on the determined color of the iris area, and generate a luminance image in which the eye area is corrected by using the determined correction parameter. Thus, the line-of-sight detection apparatus detects a line of sight with high accuracy regardless of the color of the iris area.

Abstract: A method for correcting images acquired via an asynchronous triggered acquisition, wherein image acquisition is triggered by a trigger signal based on the motion and/or position of the sample to be imaged by an image sensor, the method including: measurement of the motion and/or position of the sample; determination of an exposure time based on the aforementioned measurement; and correction of an acquired image based on the determined exposure time and a desired exposure time.