Abstract: An image capturing device and a mobile electronic device are provided. The image capturing device includes a frame, a flexible circuit board connected to the frame, a camera lens assembly mounted at the middle of the frame, a first prism unit mounted at one end of the frame and at an object side of the camera lens assembly to receive light, a second prism unit mounted at another end of the frame and at an image side of the camera lens assembly, a first voice coil motor for driving the second prism unit to rotate about an X-axis direction in the frame, and a second voice coil motor for driving the second prism unit to rotate about a Y-axis direction in the frame. The first and second voice coil motors are electrically connected to the flexible circuit board. An overall appearance of a mobile electronic device is not affected.

Abstract: In illustrative implementations, an imaging system may comprise a lens, an optical cavity and a time-of-flight camera. The imaging system may capture an image of a scene. The image may be formed by light that is from the scene and that passes through the optical cavity and the lens. In some cases, the lens is in front of the optical cavity, enabling the Euclidean distance between the lens and the camera sensor to be less than the nominal focal length of the lens. In some cases, the lens is inside the optical cavity, enabling the camera to acquire ultrafast multi-zoom images without moving or changing the shape of any optical element. In some cases, the lens is behind the optical cavity, enabling the system to perform ultrafast multi-spectral imaging. In other cases, an optical cavity between the scene and time-of-camera enables ultrafast ellipsometry measurements or ultrafast spatial frequency filtering.

Abstract: An optical prism that includes an interlock structure that precisely couples to a complementary structure of a refractive lens. For precision, the interlock structure may be formed at the same time and using the same technique as the optical surface of the prism. The interlock structure provides high accuracy when assembling a folded lens system by precisely aligning the object side optical surface of the lens with the image side optical surface of the prism so that the optical axis is centered in the lens. The prism may have refractive power. A portion of the object side surface may be coated with an opaque material to provide an aperture stop at that surface.

Abstract: An optical apparatus includes a lens part including a first imaging portion forming a first image of an object and a second imaging portion forming a second image of the object, and a filter part including a filter arranged on at least one of optical axes of the first and second imaging portions and configured to make properties of light for forming the first image and light for forming second image different from each other. The first and second images correspond to a common field stop. F numbers of the first and second imaging portions are different from each other.

Abstract: The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging device, a method of driving the same, and an electronic apparatus. The solid-state imaging device includes a pixel having a photodiode that performs photoelectric conversion on incident light, and a driving control unit configured to control driving of the pixel. The pixel stores a first charge generated by the photoelectric conversion in the photodiode and stores a second charge generated by the photoelectric conversion in a first capacitor provided in a pixel separation portion. The driving control unit causes a pixel signal due to the second charge stored in the first capacitor to be output and then a pixel signal due to the first charge stored in the photodiode to be output. The present technology may be applied, for example, to a solid-state imaging device or the like that detects both electrons and holes to perform high dynamic range imaging.

Abstract: An image capturing device includes an image capturing section that captures first video data having a frame cycle of a first frame cycle and an exposure time for one frame shorter than the first frame cycle, an image acquisition section that acquires the first video data captured by the image capturing section, a detection section that detects a flicker of a light source in the first video data, and an image capturing frame cycle control section that controls the frame cycle of the image capturing in the image capturing section. The image capturing frame cycle control section changes the frame cycle of the first video data captured by the image capturing section from the first frame cycle to a second frame cycle, which is a frame cycle shorter than the first frame cycle, in a case where the detection section detects the flicker.

Abstract: An apparatus for protecting a camera from foreign debris incudes a first body and a second body removably coupled to the first body. The first body has a first inner surface and a first outer surface opposite the first inner surface. The first inner surface defines a first cavity. The first inner surface has an inner circumference. The first body includes a protrusion extending directly from the first inner surface toward the first cavity. The protrusion extending along an entirety of the inner circumference of the first inner surface and is shaped as a half-torus. The second body has a second inner surface and a second outer surface opposite the second inner surface. The second inner surface defines a second cavity. The second cavity is in fluid communication with the first cavity to facilitate flow of the fluid from the first cavity to the second cavity.

Abstract: An image processing device including a memory; and at least one image signal processor configured to: generate, using a first neural network, a feature value indicating whether to correct a global pixel value sensed during a unit frame interval, and generate a feature signal including the feature value; generate an image signal by merging the global pixel value with the feature signal; split a pixel value included in the image signal into a first sub-pixel value and a second sub-pixel value, split a frame feature signal included in the image signal into a first sub-feature value corresponding to the first sub-pixel value and a second sub-feature value corresponding to the second sub-pixel value, and generate a first sub-image signal including the first sub-pixel value and the first sub-feature value, and a second sub-image signal including the second sub-pixel value and the second sub-feature value; and sequentially correct the first sub-image signal and the second sub-image signal using a second neural netwo

Abstract: A printed circuit board of a camera module according to various embodiments of the disclosure includes: a ground portion constructed on the printed circuit board; a conductive member which is disposed to cover the ground portion and includes a first opening at a location corresponding to the ground portion; and an adhesive layer which is interposed between the printed circuit board and the conductive member and includes a second opening at a location corresponding to the ground portion, wherein the conductive member may be electrically coupled to the ground portion through a solder constructed on the first opening and the second opening. Other embodiments are also possible.

Abstract: Methods for parameter alignment processing are described herein. An image capture device includes a first image capture device configured to capture a first image, a second image capture device configured to capture a second image, and an image signal processor connected to the first image capture device and to the second image capture device. The image signal processor is configured to apply, to the first image and the second image, at least two of a respective luminance lens shading (LLS) compensation factor, a respective color lens shading (CLS) compensation factor, a respective exposure difference compensation factor, a respective white balance compensation factor, a respective lens exposure correction (LEC) compensation factor, and a respective flare compensation factor, blend the compensated first image and the compensated second image to form a blended image, and output an image based on the blended image.

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes a main frame and a lens module, a middle pillar, a module board, a first housing, and a second housing assembled to the main frame respectively. The main frame has a side wall, and the first housing covers the module board. The first housing, the module board, and the middle pillar are located on a same longitudinal axis of the main frame. The first housing and the module board are opposite to the middle pillar with the main frame interposed therebetween. The module board is located between the first housing and the main frame, and the lens module is located on a horizontal axis of the main frame. The first housing and the second housing encapsulate the main frame, and the side wall leans against the first housing and the second housing.

Abstract: A system for processing a masking region includes a transmitter configured to detect an object region, on which masking is to be performed, from an input image through a camera, convert the detected object region into a block region to perform masking, and encode and transmit an input image on which the masking is completed and a receiver configured to decode an image transmitted from the transmitted to extract a frame therefrom, detect a masked block region by units of extracted frames, and unmask the detected block region to restore the masked image to an original image.

Abstract: An optical image lens assembly includes six lens elements which are, in order from an object side to an image side along an optical path: a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element. The first lens element has positive refractive power. The sixth lens element has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. At least one of the object-side surface and the image-side surface of at least one lens element of the optical image lens assembly has at least one inflection point. A thickness along an optical axis of the first lens element is a maximum value among thicknesses along the optical axis of all lens elements of the optical image lens assembly.

Abstract: This invention provides an integrated circuit chip comprising a plurality of signal processing circuits formed by stepping exposure, a bus formed by one-shot exposure, an arbitration circuit that arbitrates between the plurality of signal processing circuits and the bus, and an input unit that inputs a captured image signal from an image sensor, wherein the plurality of signal processing circuits formed by stepping exposure includes a processing unit that generates a RAW image by carrying out predetermined signal processing on the captured image signal and outputs the RAW image to the exterior, and a generating unit that generates image evaluation information using the bus formed by one-shot exposure and the arbitration circuit, in addition to the generation of the RAW image.

Abstract: A camera system (1, 1?) which includes a housing (2); and an optoelectronic sensor unit (3), arranged in the housing (2), which has at least one detector device (4) and at least one optical unit (5), connected upstream of the at least one detector device (4). The optoelectronic sensor unit (3) is elastically mounted in relation to the housing (2). At least one elastic mounting device (6.1-6.7) is formed from multiple ring segments (6.10-6.70) arranged spaced apart from one another.

Abstract: A display panel and a terminal device thereof are provided. The display panel defines a display region and a camera region, and includes substrate layers and a device function layer disposed on the substrate layers. The substrate layers include a first substrate, a first buffer layer, a second substrate and a second buffer layer, which are sequentially stacked. The device function layer is disposed on the second buffer layer. The first buffer layer is provided with a first through hole in the camera region, and the second substrate downwardly fills the first through hole and further contacts the first substrate.

Abstract: A display panel capable of capturing an image of an object over a light-entering surface thereof includes a displaying array, a light valve array, and an imaging array, which are sequentially below the light-entering surface. The light valve array includes a plurality of light valve portions and can form a plurality of first mask patterns, and at least two first mask patterns are configured to be different. The displaying array includes a plurality of displaying pixels and can form a second mask pattern. The imaging array includes a plurality of imaging pixels and can generate an intermediate image upon receiving lights from the object and transmitting through the second mask pattern in the displaying array and at least one of the plurality of first mask patterns in the light valve array. The image of the object can then be deduced from the intermediate image.

Abstract: The present technology relates to an imaging device and an electronic device which enable image capturing based on the global shutter system, without reducing the amount of saturated signal charge. Pixels each including a photoelectric conversion unit that converts light received thereon into electric charge, and a holding unit that holds the electric charge transferred from the photoelectric conversion unit, a floating diffusion that is shared among a plurality of the pixels, and that holds the electric charge transferred from the holding unit, and a boost line through which the floating diffusion is boosted are included. The present technology is applicable, for example, to an imaging device to capture images on the basis of a global shutter system.

Abstract: An image processor according to the present embodiment includes an acquirer, an output unit, and a generator. The acquirer acquires a first pixel value obtained by making a pixel value in a first image captured in a first exposure time correspond to a predetermined sensitivity and a second pixel value obtained by making a pixel value in a second image captured in a second exposure time shorter than the first exposure time correspond to the predetermined sensitivity. The output unit outputs a pixel value serving as a predetermined value larger than the second pixel value when the first pixel value has been saturated and the second pixel value corresponding to the first pixel value is less than the first pixel value. The generator generates a high dynamic range image using at least the first image and the second image based on the pixel value output by the output unit.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus is capable of decreasing a space capacity occupied by component elements and being downsized compared to a case where an actuator is arranged independently of a supporting unit. The image pickup apparatus has an image pickup unit driven by the actuator, a base unit, and the supporting unit provided in a standing manner from the base unit and rotatably supports the image pickup unit. The actuator has a piezoelectric element and an oscillator including a transmission unit which transmits driving force caused by vibration excited by the piezoelectric element. The transmission unit is arranged in the supporting unit so that it is in pressure contact with the image pickup unit. The image pickup unit has a transmitted plane with which the transmission unit is brought into pressure contact, and the vibration excited by the oscillator causes the transmitted plane to move relatively to the oscillator.