Abstract: Provided is an imaging device that can acquire a high-quality multispectral image with one image sensor. An imaging device includes: an image sensor (100) including a plurality of pixel blocks each of which includes n (n?2) types of spectral filter elements having different spectral transmittances and m (2?m?3) types of polarization filter elements having different transmission polarization directions which are combined such that q (q=n×m) types of light are received by each pixel; an optical system (10) that includes k (k?q) optical regions transmitting light in different wavelength bands and polarization filter units provided in each of the optical regions; and a signal processing unit (200) that processes a signal (pixel signal) of each pixel obtained from the image sensor (100) to generate an image of each optical region of the optical system (10). The signal processing unit (200) performs predetermined arithmetic processing on q pixel signals (x1, x2, . . .

Abstract: Provided is an imaging device that can acquire three independent high-quality images using one imaging element. An imaging device includes: an optical system (10) including three optical regions (12A, 12B, 12C) that transmit light in different polarization directions; an imaging element (100) including a plurality of pixel units each of which is a set of three pixels that receive light in different polarization directions; and an image processing unit (200) that calculates three pixel signals (X1, X2, X3) corresponding to each of the optical regions (12A, 12B, 12C) of the optical system (10) from three pixel signals (x1, x2, x3) obtained from each pixel unit of the imaging element (100) to generate an image of each of the optical regions (12A, 12B, 12C).

Abstract: An imaging apparatus capable of capturing an in-focus image while moving, and an image composition apparatus capable of generating a high detail composite image are provided. A camera 100 is mounted on an unmanned aerial vehicle 10, and imaging is performed while moving. During imaging, a focusing mechanism included in the camera 100 is controlled, and a focus position is periodically scanned. In addition, during imaging, movement of the unmanned aerial vehicle 10 is controlled such that at least one scanning is performed during movement to a position shifted by an imaging range.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing device, an imaging apparatus, and an image processing method capable of acquiring images that are registered with high accuracy and include only a component of a desired wavelength range. In an image processing device according to an aspect of the invention, at least one image is captured with light having a plurality of wavelength ranges not overlapping one another (that is, including an intentional interference component in addition to a principal wavelength range), and at least one wavelength range of the plurality of wavelength ranges is common among the images. Accordingly, it is possible to detect correspondence points among a plurality of images based on information of such a common wavelength range, and to register the plurality of images with high accuracy.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus, an unmanned moving object, an imaging method, a system, and a program capable of favorably compositing a telephoto image group even in a case where an overlapping region between images of the telephoto image group is small, and accurately compositing a telephoto image regardless of a subject (scene) of a wide angle image are provided.

Abstract: There are provided an imaging device, a distance measurement method, a distance measurement program, and a recording medium capable of accurately measuring a distance to a subject without depending on a color of the subject.

Abstract: Provided are an imaging apparatus, an imaging method, an imaging program, and an imaging system capable of easily making an imaging plan. The imaging apparatus (100) includes an imaging evaluation map acquiring section (101) that acquires an imaging evaluation map, and an imaging point selecting section (102) that selects an imaging point suitable for imaging an object and an imaging condition at the imaging point on the basis of the acquired imaging evaluation map. In the imaging evaluation map, an evaluation value that represents an evaluation of imaging in a case where an object is imaged at a specific position under a specific imaging condition is set at a plurality of imaging candidate positions for each of a plurality of imaging conditions.

Abstract: Provided are an imaging evaluation map, an imaging evaluation map generating device, an imaging evaluation map generating method, and an imaging evaluation map generating program capable of easily making an imaging plan.

Abstract: A first wide angle image, a second wide angle image, a first telephoto image, and a second telephoto image are acquired from a first imaging unit 11L and a second imaging unit 11R at the same time, and particularly, optical axes of the wide angle optical system and the telephoto optical system constituting the first imaging optical system 12L match each other, and the second imaging optical system is similarly configured, and therefore, it is possible to position the main subject at a center position of the first telephoto image and the second telephoto image by independently performing pan and tilt control on the first and the second imaging unit so that the main subject is captured on the respective optical axes of the first imaging optical system and the second imaging optical system on the basis of the first wide angle image and the second wide angle image.

Abstract: Provided are an imaging apparatus capable of acquiring an image having a small transmission wavelength shift at a plurality of wavelengths and an image processing apparatus capable of measuring a subject on the basis of an image which has a small transmission wavelength shift and which is acquired at a plurality of wavelengths. High image height rays imaged at a position of which an image height is high is incident at a large angle with respect to the optical axis. Therefore, the transmission wavelength shift increases. However, in the imaging apparatus according to the first aspect, the first optical system causes the high image height rays to be incident into the first optical filter and the second optical filter in a state where the upper ray and the lower ray are parallel.

Abstract: Provided are an imaging device and an image data generation method which are capable of reducing noise generated in an image in which crosstalk is removed. In an imaging device (1) that captures images corresponding to optical systems at one time by using an imaging lens (10) including a plurality of optical system of which imaging characteristics are different and an image sensor (100) including a plurality of light receiving sensors of which crosstalk ratios are different in each pixel, the number (m) of light receiving sensors included in each pixel of the image sensor (100) is larger than the number (n) of optical systems included in the imaging lens (10) (m>n). Accordingly, it is possible to reduce noise generated in an image in which crosstalk is removed.

Abstract: Provided are an imaging device, method, and a non-transitory recording medium, which simultaneously image a plurality of images and obtain images having enlarged dynamic ranges by using an imaging system, comprising a directional sensor in which light receiving sensors have directivity with respect to incidence angles of light rays. Image signals of first and second light receiving sensors are obtained in a state in which second incidence rays of an imaging lens are shielded from a directional sensor in which a ratio of sensitivity between the first and the second light receiving sensors with respect to first incidence rays incident through a first optical system of the imaging lens is M:1, and a third image having a dynamic range which is equal to or less than M times a dynamic range of a first image using the image signals of the first light receiving sensors is generated.

Abstract: Provided are an imaging apparatus and a mobile imaging apparatus capable of reducing the size and weight of a structure relating to focus adjustment. The imaging apparatus 1 includes: a central optical system 12 that captures an image with pan focus; an annular optical system 14 that is disposed concentrically with the central optical system 12; and an image sensor 20 that simultaneously captures an image to be formed through the central optical system and an image to be formed through the annular optical system 14. In the imaging apparatus 1, the central optical system 12 and the image sensor 20 are moved integrally along the optical axis L so as to adjust a focal point of the annular optical system 14.

Abstract: Provided are an imaging device, an imaging method, a program, and a non-transitory recording medium which simultaneously image a plurality of images having different imaging characteristics, and detect blurring of the plurality of images. Image signals having imaging characteristics different from each other are simultaneously obtained by an imaging unit including an imaging optical system constituted by a first optical system and a second optical system which are provided in different regions and have imaging characteristics different from each other and a directional sensor, true movement vectors are extracted from movement vectors detected from the image signals and degrees of certainty thereof, and blurring of an image resulting from a shake of the imaging unit is detected from the true movement vectors.

Abstract: In an imaging device that includes an imaging lens including n number of optical systems of which imaging characteristics are different and an image sensor including m number of light receiving sensors of which combinations of crosstalk ratio and light sensitivity are different in each pixel, m number of primary image data items are generated by obtaining image signals output from the light receiving sensors of each pixel of the image sensor, and n number of secondary image data items corresponding to the optical systems are generated by performing crosstalk removal processing on the m number of generated primary image data items for each pixel. In a case where a pixel as a processing target includes the primary image data of which a pixel value is saturated, the secondary image data items are generated by removing the corresponding primary image data and performing the crosstalk removal processing.

Abstract: An image generation apparatus includes an image acquisition part that acquires a wide angle image group and a telephoto image group in which a subject is imaged while changing a position of an imaging apparatus, the wide angle image group being captured by the imaging apparatus including an imaging optical system including a wide angle optical system and a telephoto optical system having a common optical axis, and the telephoto image group being captured at the same time as the wide angle image group; a composition information acquisition part that analyzes the acquired wide angle image group and acquires composition information to be used for compositing the telephoto image group; and a composite image generation part that generates an image in which the telephoto image group is composited, information related to focal lengths of the wide angle optical system and the telephoto optical system, and the telephoto image group.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus capable of capturing an in-focus image while moving, and an image composition apparatus capable of generating a high detail composite image are provided. A camera 100 is mounted on an unmanned aerial vehicle 10, and imaging is performed while moving. During imaging, a focusing mechanism included in the camera 100 is controlled, and a focus position is periodically scanned. In addition, during imaging, movement of the unmanned aerial vehicle 10 is controlled such that at least one scanning is performed during movement to a position shifted by an imaging range.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus 500 includes an image obtaining unit 501 that obtains a plurality of frame images of the same scene including a water surface having a wave, a brightness value calculation unit 503 that calculates a brightness value corresponding to a minute region constituting each frame image based on the plurality of frame images, a pixel value extraction unit 505 that extracts a pixel value corresponding to the minute region of a frame image in which the brightness value of the minute region is a brightness value lower than the brightness value of the minute region of another frame image in the plurality of frame images, a storage unit 507 that stores the pixel value extracted by the pixel value extraction unit 505, and a composite image generation unit 509 that generates a composite image corresponding to the scene based on the pixel value stored in the storage unit 507.

Abstract: An imaging device, an imaging method, a program, and a non-transitory recording medium capable of easily coping with interference and suppressing an increase in cost due to countermeasures for preventing the interference such as providing a light shielding band are provided. In an imaging device according to an aspect of the present invention, an imaging unit includes an imaging optical system including a first optical system and a second optical system provided in a different area and having different imaging characteristics, and a directivity sensor, and first and second true movement vectors in first and second images are extracted on the basis of first and second possibilities of movement vectors calculated according to first and second movement vectors that are detected movement vectors of a subject in first and second images obtained via the first and second optical systems.

Abstract: The present invention provides an imaging apparatus that individually obtains high image quality, restored images for a plurality of different directions at a wide angle of view without using a lens, and an imaging module using such an imaging apparatus. In an imaging apparatus according to an aspect of the invention, incident light is divided into a plurality of azimuthal regions by a directional sensor, and images corresponding to the azimuthal regions are restored from a plurality of projection images acquired corresponding to the azimuthal regions. Accordingly, incident light from oblique directions does not become noise to incident light from a front direction, and projection images can be individually acquired for the azimuthal regions throughout a wide range from the front direction to the oblique directions.