Abstract: Provided are a camera and an electronic device. The camera comprises a camera body (1) and an electrically-controlled liquid crystal light-adjusting layer (13), wherein a lens (11) is provided in the camera body (1), and the electrically-controlled liquid crystal light-adjusting layer (13) is correspondingly arranged outside the lens (11) and configured to allow the lens (11) to receive outside light through the electrically-controlled liquid crystal light-adjusting layer (13); the electrically-controlled liquid crystal light-adjusting layer (13) is electrically connected to the camera body (1) through a switch (14). In the camera provided by embodiments of the present disclosure, an electrically-controlled liquid crystal light-adjusting layer (13) is provided on the front of the lens (11); in a case in which the electrically-controlled liquid crystal light-adjusting layer (13) is turned off, it is not possible to take pictures even if the camera (1) is manipulated by a hacker or a trojan-horse program.

Abstract: It is provided a photographing assisting system. The system includes a plurality of photographing apparatuses and an information processing apparatus which receives images from the plurality of photographing apparatuses, recognizes a subject in each received image and a location in which each received image is photographed, determines a group including at least one photographing apparatus within a predetermined area of each photographing apparatus and detects a photographing situation indicating the subject, the location and a photographer of the photographing apparatus within the predetermined area. The information processing apparatus outputs photographing advice according to the photographing situation of each of the plurality of photographing apparatuses to the photographing apparatus in the group. The photographing apparatus in the group outputs the photographing advice received from the information processing apparatus.

Abstract: Systems and apparatus for sensing and video capture include at least one camera with an optical sensor that captures video image data of a first sampling rate. An auxiliary sensor captures auxiliary data at a second sample rate. A processor is communicatively connected to the optical sensor and auxiliary sensor. The processor transmits video image data captured at the first sample rate auxiliary sensor data captured at the second sampling rate across a data connection to a centralized computer that receives the video image data and the auxiliary sensor data and operate to present the video image data and the auxiliary sensor data on a graphical display.

Abstract: A mobile terminal including a camera; a wireless communication processor configured to provide wireless communication; a display; and a controller configured to display a first preview image on the display corresponding to image data input through the camera, detect an external device located within a preset range of the mobile terminal via the wireless communication processor, display an icon on the display corresponding to the detected external device by overlapping the first preview image, execute a communication connection with the external device, in response to a touch input applied to the icon, while the communication with the detected external device is not connected, and release the communication connection with the external device, in response to the touch input applied to the icon, while the communication with the detected external device is connected.

Abstract: A single user input element in an image capture device is used for both image and video capture, based on detecting a state change of the single user input element from a first state to a second state based on a detected user activity, and determining a duration of the second state. An image from the image sensor is stored based on the duration of the second state being less than a time interval, and a video recording is captured based on the duration of the second state being greater than the time interval. The video recording is captured until a state change of the single user input element from the second state to the first state is detected.

Abstract: Real-time video stabilization for mobile devices based on on-board motion sensing. In accordance with a method embodiment of the present invention, a first image frame from a camera at a first time is accessed. A second image frame from the camera at a subsequent time is accessed. A crop polygon around scene content common to the first image frame and the second image frame is identified. Movement information describing movement of the camera in an interval between the first time and the second time is accessed. The crop polygon is warped to remove motion distortions of the second image frame is warped using the movement information. The warping may include defining a virtual camera that remains static when the movement of the camera is below a movement threshold. The movement information may describe the movement of the camera at each scan line of the second image frame.

Abstract: An image reproducing includes a memory that stores instructions, and one or more processors that execute the instructions to cause the image reproducing apparatus to function as a generation unit configured to generate an image corresponding to a virtual diaphragm value by reconstructing image data, a setting unit configured to set the virtual diaphragm value, and a display control unit configured to display, on a display, the image corresponding to the virtual diaphragm value generated by the generation unit. The display control unit displays the image corresponding to the virtual diaphragm value and a graphical user interface for indicating the virtual diaphragm value of the image set by the setting unit. In addition, the display control unit displays a plurality of images generated by the generation unit together, and the plurality of images respectively correspond to a plurality of virtual diaphragm values.

Abstract: Various embodiments provide a so-called smart gallery that is designed to create a short summary view of a collection of content, such as photographs and video. The content can be prioritized and presented in a smart gallery user interface that includes gallery elements that can be sized in accordance with prioritized content. Prioritization can take place based on whether content is manually captured or automatically captured. Alternately or additionally, prioritization can take place based on content analysis that looks at content quality and/or objects that appear in the content.

Abstract: A method for displaying self-taken images. The method comprises: acquiring a self-taken image; receiving selection information relating to the processing method of the self-taken image, said processing method being mirror image processing or non-mirror image processing; and, on the basis of the selection information, carrying out the corresponding processing of the self-taken image and displaying the processed image. Also disclosed is an apparatus for displaying self-taken images. The embodiments may enhance the efficiency of displaying self-taken images.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an imaging element, a control method, a program, and an electronic device that can provide an electronic ND function by means of a simpler configuration. The imaging element includes a reference signal generation unit and an A/D conversion unit that includes a comparison unit and a switching unit that switches a capacitance connected to a terminal through which the pixel signal is inputted to the comparison unit and A/D-converts the pixel signal. In the case where the exposure time at the time when the image one frame before was captured is smaller than a prescribed first threshold, the switching unit is controlled so as to increase the capacitance connected to the terminal through which the pixel signal is inputted to the comparison unit. The present technology can be applied to a CMOS image sensor, for example.

Abstract: Highly accurate focus adjustment device can be provided, for example, that includes a focus detection area setting unit that sets a focus detection area to a position of a face detected in an image pickup field angle, and sets a luminance addition number and a correlation addition number in the focus detection area according to a size of the face, and performs focus detection for the face, thereby to suppress a decrease in accuracy.

Abstract: An image processing device and a related image compression method are applied to filter the fixed pattern noise of an image. The image compression method includes applying characteristic value calculation to the image along a predetermined direction to generate a series of characteristic values, comparing a pixel matrix of the image with the series of characteristic values, and acquiring a difference matrix according to a comparison result. The foresaid difference matrix can be compressed to indicate as a compression datum of the image.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electronically controlled camera iris device. The camera iris device may include a transparent conductor layer supplying an input voltage controlling the diameter of the aperture, a transparent resistance layer providing different voltages in different regions varying based on the distance from a center point, and a diaphragm layer that can be independently controlled in different regions to block or transmit light incident on the diaphragm layer when corresponding control voltages are applied on the diaphragm layer. The camera iris device can be configured to have a desired diameter by controlling a first region of the diaphragm layer to transmit the light and a second region of the diaphragm layer outside of the first region to block the light. The diaphragm layer may include a Bragg grating layer or an Electrochromic layer.

Abstract: An image pickup circuit including a plurality of circuit blocks. Each of the plurality of circuit blocks includes a plurality of comparing elements, a single counter, and a plurality of storage units. Each of the comparing elements compares a pixel signal supplied through a vertical signal line connected to vertically aligned pixels in a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, and a slope signal whose voltage is changed from an initial voltage at a constant slope. The counter counts an elapsed time since a voltage of the slope signal starts to change from the initial voltage. Each of the storage units stores a count value obtained by the counter in accordance with a comparison result of the comparator, the count value corresponding to an elapsed time until the voltage of the slope signal is changed from the initial voltage to a voltage coinciding with the pixel signal.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus of the disclosure includes a body, a display section, and a display controller. The display section is pivotable on the body between a first state in which a display surface is oriented to rear surface side of the body and a second state in which the display surface is oriented to front surface side of the body. The display controller varies an arrangement state of a predetermined icon depending on orientation of the body, when the display section is in the second state. The predetermined icon is displayed on the display section.

Abstract: An adjustable camera enclosure is provided. In one aspect of the present disclosure, the adjustable camera enclosure includes a housing including a hollow interior defining a longitudinal axis and at least one aperture in a wall of the housing; a beam disposed through an end of the housing into the hollow interior of the housing such that the beam is disposed along the longitudinal axis, where the housing is slidable over the beam along the longitudinal axis to extend and retract the housing relative to the beam; a camera disposed within the hollow interior of the housing, where a lens of the camera is oriented to the at least one aperture of the housing in a direction away from the housing; and a base coupled to the beam, where the base is rotatable about the longitudinal axis to rotate the beam and the housing about the longitudinal axis.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus equipped with a flicker detection function and including an image sensor of a rolling shutter type calculates a Fourier spectrum including an amplitude and a phase for each of two captured images acquired by the image sensor and having different imaging timings by performing Fourier spectrum analysis based on a flicker period serving as a detection target, and judges that flicker with the flicker period serving as the detection target has occurred, when the amplitude of a calculated Fourier spectrum and the phases of the two Fourier spectrums satisfy predetermined conditions and a sum of squares of a pixel value difference between the two captured images for each pixel is larger than a predetermined sum of squares.

Abstract: A lens assembly and an electronic device are provided. The lens assembly and/or the electronic device includes a lens barrel, a housing configured to accommodate the lens barrel on one surface of the housing, and an image sensor assembly mounted to the other surface of the housing, the image sensor being configured to rotate around an optical axis of the lens barrel. The image sensor assembly includes a ring-shaped rotation member facing the other surface of the housing, and a plurality of balls interposed between the rotation member and the other surface of the housing. The rotation member rotates on a plane perpendicular to the optical axis.

Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic includes a camera module and a processor configured to capture at least one image of an object using the camera module, obtain a sound using a microphone operably connected to the processor when the at least one image is captured, determine whether the sound is related to the object, when the sound is determined to be unrelated to the object, change at least one attribute of the sound and store the changed at least one attribute of the sound.

Abstract: An image sensor comprises a pixel circuit including a reset transistor and configured to output a pixel signal; and a differential comparator including a pixel input, a reference input, and a comparator output, wherein one of a source or a drain of the reset transistor is connected to the comparator output. In this manner, an active reset method may be incorporated in the image sensor.