Abstract: An image capturing apparatus (1) includes a focus detector (21) that performs focus detection based on a plurality of parallax image signals obtained via a second image capturer (110) with an angle of field that is wider than an angle of field of a first image capturer (100), and a controller (30, 41) that performs focus control of the first image capturer (100) based on an output signal from the focus detector (21).

Abstract: An apparatus includes an imaging element for obtaining a plurality of parallax images by receiving a plurality of light flux that passes through different areas of a pupil of an optical system by different pixels, and a processor for performing image processing on an image that is obtained by using the imaging element. The processor includes a first obtaining unit that obtains first shape information based on a plurality of photometric stereo images that are shot by using the imaging element in light source conditions that include at least three different light source conditions, a second obtaining unit that obtains second shape information by using the plurality of parallax images, and a third obtaining unit that obtains third shape information by using the first shape information and the second shape information.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an image sensor configured to photoelectrically convert an object image formed by an imaging optical system in at least three states in which positions of light sources configured to emit light are different from each other, and to output at least three image data, and a luminance distribution acquirer configured to acquire information on a plurality of luminance distributions of the image data based on common information on a common light amount distribution regarding the at least three states.

Abstract: A control apparatus includes a focus information calculator configured to calculate focus information by using an image signal obtained via a first image capturer, a distance information calculator configured to calculate distance information on a distance to an object by using an image signal obtained via a second image capturer, a correction value calculator configured to calculate a correction value by using the focus information of the first image capturer, and a controller configured to provide a focus control to the first image capturer using the correction value and the distance information.

Abstract: A processing apparatus includes an input image acquirer configured to acquire an input image obtained by capturing an object, a normal information acquirer configured to acquire normal information of the object, a first renderer configured to generate a first rendered image about the object based on a light source condition in capturing the input image and the normal information, and an area detector configured to detect a target area corresponding to a portion where an error of the normal information in the object is larger than a predetermined value based on the input image and the first rendered image.

Abstract: A processing apparatus includes a photographed image obtainer configured to obtain a plurality of photographed images of an object, the images being photographed by sequentially irradiating light onto the object from a plurality of different light source positions, a first shadow map generator configured to generate a first shadow map by determining a shadow area in the plurality of photographed images, a second shadow map generator configured to generate a second shadow map based on the first shadow map, and a normal information obtainer configured to obtain normal information of the object calculated based on the second shadow map and the plurality of photographed images.

Abstract: A processing apparatus includes a corrector that, when the object is sequentially irradiated with light from three or more light sources with mutually different positions, corrects a light source condition to calculate surface normal information of an object on the basis of brightness of each of the light sources.

Abstract: A processing apparatus includes a luminance information obtainer that obtains luminance information for each color in each of a plurality of images, each of which is imaged respectively when a light source arranged at mutually different positions sequentially irradiates an object with light, and a color setter that sets a color to use in obtaining surface normal information for each region of an image on the basis of the luminance information.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus (104) includes a first obtainer (104a) that obtains a plurality of input images (111) obtained by photographing an object a plurality of times while at least one of a light source position and a viewpoint is changed, and a second obtainer (104b) that obtains a plurality of diffuse images (115) based on the same pixel areas of object images in the plurality of input images (111).

Abstract: A control apparatus includes a focus detector configured to perform focus detection based on an image signal obtained via a first optical system, the first optical system having a shallowest depth of field in a plurality of optical systems having focal lengths different from each other, and a controller configured to perform focus control of the plurality of optical systems based on an output signal from the focus detector.

Abstract: The image processing apparatus produces a virtual light source image that is an image of an object lighted by a virtual light source. The apparatus includes a shape acquirer configured to acquire shape information relating to a shape of the object, a light source condition setter configured to set a first virtual light source condition as a condition relating to a virtual light source, depending on an image capturing mode indicating a type of a captured image acquired by image capturing of the object, on image type information indicating a selected one of multiple types of the virtual light source images or on an image capturing condition selected in the image capturing. The apparatus further includes an image producer configured to produce the virtual light source image by using the first virtual light source condition and the shape information.

Abstract: At least one image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup unit which photoelectrically converts object images formed by plural image pickup optical systems of different focal lengths. If an image plane most separated from an object side among the image planes of the plural image pickup optical systems is defined as a reference image plane, a longest distance among distances from a reference image plane to each of entrance pupil planes of the plurality of image pickup optical systems is defined as EPmax, a shortest distance among distances from the reference image plane to each of the entrance pupil planes of the plural image pickup optical systems is defined as EPmin, and a 35 mm equivalent focal length of an image pickup optical system having the longest focal length among a plurality of image pickup optical systems is defined as ftele35, then EPmax, EPmin, and ftele35 satisfy a predetermined condition.

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus (1) includes a first image capturer (100) including a first image capturing optical system (101) and a first image sensor (102), and a second image capturer (110) including a second image capturing optical system (111a) and a third image capturing optical system (111b) with different viewpoints from each other and a second image sensor (112), an angle of field of each of the second image capturing optical system and the third image capturing optical system is larger than an angle of field of the first image capturing optical system, each of the second image capturing optical system and the third image capturing optical system includes at least two reflection members (P1a, P2a; P1b, P2b) that introduces light from an object to the second image sensor, and a predetermined conditional expression is satisfied.

Abstract: The multi-lens optical apparatus includes multiple imaging optical systems configured to respectively form optical images of an object in mutually different areas on an image plane. The multiple imaging optical systems include imaging optical systems having mutually different focal lengths, and adjacent lenses included in the multiple imaging optical systems are integrally held, the adjacent lenses being mutually adjacent in a direction orthogonal to optical axes of the multiple imaging optical systems. Of the multiple imaging optical systems, a most wide-angle imaging optical system whose focal length is shortest includes a most object-side lens that is a meniscus lens having a negative optical power and having a convex surface toward an object side, and the convex surface is disposed at a most object-side position in the multiple imaging optical systems.

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes a main image capturing system configured to capture an object image formed by a main optical system that can vary a magnification, a first sub capturing system configured to capture an object image formed by a first sub optical system having an angle of view equal to or wider than that at a wide-angle end of the main optical system, and a second sub capturing system configured to capture an object image formed by a second sub optical system having an angle of view narrower than that at a wide-angle end and equal to or wider than that at a telephoto end of the main optical system. An optical barrel configured to hold the main optical system can be retracted relative to a body of the image capturing apparatus. A predetermined condition is satisfied.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus (204) includes a generator (204a) which generates difference information relating to a plurality of parallax images, a gain distribution determiner (204b) which determines a gain distribution based on the difference information, an intensity determiner (204c) which determines an unnecessary component intensity based on the gain distribution, and a reducer (204d) which generates an unnecessary component reduction image in which an unnecessary component is reduced based on the parallax image and the unnecessary component intensity.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus (204) includes an unnecessary component determiner (204a) which determines unnecessary component information of a parallax image based on difference information relating to a plurality of parallax images, a reduction processor (204b) which performs reduction processing on at least one of the parallax image, the difference information, and the unnecessary component information, a magnification processor (204c) which performs magnification processing on the unnecessary component information, and an unnecessary component reducer (204d) which reduces an unnecessary component, based on the unnecessary component information, from the parallax image or a synthesized image obtained by synthesizing the plurality of parallax images.

Abstract: The image capturing apparatus includes a main image capturing system configured to capture an object image formed by a main optical system whose magnification is variable, and multiple sub image capturing systems configured to respectively capture multiple object images respectively formed by multiple sub optical systems. The multiple optical systems are arranged on both sides across a sectional plane including an optical axis of the main optical system. The apparatus further includes a processor configured to acquire, using a main image produced by the main image capturing system and multiple sub images produced by the multiple image capturing systems, object distance information in an image capturing view angle of the main image capturing system.

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus (1) includes a focus detector (21) that performs focus detection based on a plurality of parallax image signals obtained via a second image capturer (110) with an angle of field that is wider than an angle of field of a first image capturer (100), and a controller (30, 41) that performs focus control of the first image capturer (100) based on an output signal from the focus detector (21).

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus (1) includes a first image capturer (100) including a first image capturing optical system (101) and a first image sensor (102), and a second image capturer (110) including a second image capturing optical system (111a) and a third image capturing optical system (111b) with different viewpoints from each other and a second image sensor (112), an angle of field of each of the second image capturing optical system and the third image capturing optical system is larger than an angle of field of the first image capturing optical system, each of the second image capturing optical system and the third image capturing optical system includes at least two reflection members (P1a, P2a; P1b, P2b) that introduces light from an object to the second image sensor, and a predetermined conditional expression is satisfied.