Abstract: An image capture apparatus capable of increasing the width by which the dynamic range is expanded by HDR combination, according to whether a moving object exists or not, while preventing occurrence of ghost artifacts or the like, caused by improper combination. An image capture section performs image capture operations with a plurality of different exposure amounts for each frame to thereby generate a plurality of captured images so as to perform HDR combination. An exposure controller sets the plurality of different exposure amounts for the image capture section. A moving object detection section detects a moving object existing in at least one of the plurality of captured images. The exposure controller adjusts the plurality of different exposure amounts according to whether or not a moving object is detected by the moving object detection section.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus (12) has a processing device (122) for executing, on a first image (111w) captured by a first imaging device (11w) imaging a first imaging area and a second image (111t) captured by a second imaging device (11t) imaging a second imaging area, an image recognition processing for recognizing a target in the first image and the second image, the processing device executes the image recognition processing on a non-overlapped image part (113w) of the first image without executing it on a overlapped image part (112w) of the first image when the processing device executes the image recognition processing on the first image, the non-overlapped image part includes a non-overlapped area at which the first imaging area does not overlap with the second imaging area, the overlapped image part includes a overlapped area at which the first imaging area overlaps with the second imaging area.

Abstract: A method and a device for video enhancement, and an electronic device are provided, in accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure. In the method, a current brightness of a display panel of the electronic device is obtained when a video is playing in the display panel. The current brightness may be compared with a target brightness, and a comparing result is obtained. An effect of video enhancement, which configured to be applied to the video, is determined according to the comparing result. The video is processed according to a video enhancement corresponding to the effect of video enhancement. Therefore, in the process of the video enhancement for the electronic device while playing video, the video may be displayed with extremely clear images and may have an extremely clear visual effect.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the field of electronics and provide a method for image shooting, an apparatus, a terminal device, and a storage medium. The method includes: shooting, via an image shooting component, a preview image and acquiring an exposure parameter of the preview image, when a terminal device is in a state of being ready for image shooting; obtaining an image shooting parameter for a present night scene via an image shooting parameter estimation model based on the preview image and the exposure parameter; performing, in response to receiving an image shooting instruction, image shoot processing based on the estimated image shooting parameter to obtain a target synthesized image.

Abstract: An encoder includes: a correction unit configured to execute gradation correction on RAW image data from an image capture element having optical black on the basis of a gamma coefficient and an optical black value of the optical black; and an encoding unit configured to encode gradation correction RAW image data that has undergone gradation correction by the correction unit.

Abstract: An image signal processor includes a shared circuit, a first circuit, and a second circuit. The shared circuit processes input image data. The first circuit provides a first algorithm for processing the input image data and is used by the shared circuit to process the input image data at a first operation mode in a first shooting environment. The second circuit provides a second algorithm for processing the input image data and is used by the shared circuit to process the input image data at a second operation mode different from the first operation mode in a second shooting environment different from the first shooting environment.

Abstract: An apparatus includes an imaging device including a plurality of light receiving units each converting a light beam into a voltage pulse based on an avalanche effect, and a controller having a processor which executes instructions stored in a memory, the controller being configured to function as a generation unit configured to generate image data based on the voltage pulse, a detection unit configured to detect a focus state of an imaging optical system based on the voltage pulse, and a control unit configured to control an exposure time of the light receiving units. The control unit includes a histogram generation unit and a determination unit. The histogram generation unit generates a histogram of the plurality of light receiving units based on the voltage pulse, and the determination unit determines an exposure state of the plurality of light receiving units based on the histogram generated by the histogram generation unit.

Abstract: An image recording method (2) and an image recording apparatus (1) are provided for recording a sequence of individual images of a scene (3), wherein, in a first control loop (6), an exposure parameter (8) is set in dependence on a respective brightness value (21) of an individual image, wherein the scene (3) is illuminated using an illumination device (4), wherein, in a second control loop (7), a maximum value (10) of a control range (9) of the exposure parameter (8) in the first control loop (6) is set, wherein the setting of the maximum value (10) is effected in dependence on an exposure variable (11), which indirectly stands for an expected quantity of light incident on an image sensor.

Abstract: A camera device communicably connected to a server device includes an imaging unit that images an outdoor monitoring target area, a detection unit that detects an object appearing in a captured image of the imaged monitoring target area and generates a cut-out image of the object, an image correction unit that generates a sharpened image to be used for collating processing of the object in the server device by using the cut-out image of the object and an image correction model, and a communication unit that sends the cut-out image of the object and the sharpened image to the server device in association with identification information of the object.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a computational distributed fiber-optic sensing method and system. The method includes: determining a signal source for modulating intensity of incident light, where the signal source is a binary sequence; using an optical pulse sequence obtained after modulation is performed using the signal source, as an incident light signal, and emitting the incident light signal to an optical fiber; acquiring, according to specified sampling frequency, a scattered light signal obtained through optical fiber scattering; determining, according to the incident light signal and the scattered light signal, a time-domain reconstructed image of a to-be-detected light signal by using a time domain-based differential ghost imaging protocol; and determining a sensing signal of the optical fiber according to the time-domain reconstructed image of the to-be-detected light signal.

Abstract: A sensor sphere may measure light and/or other properties of an environment from a multitude of angles and/or perspectives. A rendering system may obtain measurements that the sensor sphere generates as a result of measuring light in the environment from a common position and the multitude of angles and/or perspectives. The rendering system may receive image(s) that capture the environment from a first perspective, may determine a first set of the measurements that measure the lighting from the first perspective, may determine a second set of the measurements that measure the lighting from a different second perspective, may illuminate the environment from the second perspective by adjusting the lighting of the environment according to a difference between the second set of measurements and the first set of measurements, and may render the environment from the second perspective with the adjusted lighting.

Abstract: Devices, systems and methods for generating high dynamic range images and video from a set of low dynamic range images and video using convolution neural networks (CNNs) are described. One exemplary method for generating high dynamic range visual media includes generating, using a first CNN to merge a first set of images having a first dynamic range, a final image having a second dynamic range that is greater than the first dynamic range. Another exemplary method for generating training data includes generating sets of static and dynamic images having a first dynamic range, generating, based on a weighted sum of the set of static images, a set of ground truth images having a second dynamic range greater than the first dynamic range, and replacing at least one of the set of dynamic images with an image from the set of static images to generate a set of training images.

Abstract: An image sensor with improved reference level accuracy for event detection and event detection precision is disclosed. In one example, an image sensor includes a photoreception section, an event detection section, a retention section, a readout section, and a reset section. The photoreception section acquires an electric signal proportional to an amount of light received as a photoreception signal. The event detection section detects a change in the amount of light received as an event by finding a difference between a reference level, and a current photoreception signal level. The retention section retains a detection signal that is based upon detection of the event. The readout section reads out the detection signal as an event signal. The reset section resets the reference level to the readout of the event signal by the readout section.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes first and second line buffers, an image processing circuit configured to perform an image processing on first pixel data stored in the first line buffer and then second pixel data stored in the second line buffer, and a controller configured to control writing of the second pixel data in the second line buffer at a timing aligned with a synchronizing signal and reading of the second pixel data written in the second line buffer for the image processing by the image processing circuit at a timing of a completion of the image processing by the image processing circuit of the first pixel data stored in the first line buffer.

Abstract: Embodiments provide for a portable imager by capturing several radar readings related to an object in an environment over several times from several of Points of View (POV), wherein each radar reading indicates a distance to and reflectivity of the object relative to the imager; capturing several camera images of the environment over the several of times from the several POVs; determining positional shifts of the imager over the several times based on photogrammetrical differences between subsequent camera images of the several camera images; determining, based on accelerometer data, a trajectory that the imager moves in the environment over the several times; determining positions of the imager in the environment over the several times based on the positional shifts and the trajectory; combining the several radar readings based on the positions to produce a synthetic aperture radar image of the object; and outputting the synthetic aperture radar image.

Abstract: The present invention provides a high dynamic range video shooting method, comprising: acquiring corresponding images by means of shooting lenses of a multi-lens panoramic camera; determining corresponding image synthesis weights of image pixel blocks according to pixel color gray scale variations, pixel color gray scale differences and pixel color gray scale offsets of the image pixel blocks of each shot image; forming a high dynamic range panoramic shot image based on the image synthesis weights of the image pixel blocks of each shot image; and splicing all the high dynamic range panoramic shot images.

Abstract: A dynamical time gain controlling light sensing device generates a detection time configuration signal according to a light intensity indication signal, and generates a set of adjustment switch signals to respectively control the plurality of gain selection switches to be turned on or off according to a ratio of a real gain time and a simulation gain time within a detection time, such that an overall gain of a resolution adjustment circuit can correspond to an substitute gain lower than a set gain within the simulation gain time and correspond to the set gain within the real gain time, thereby generating an adjusted count result signal.

Abstract: In a device for predictable exposure control of a vehicle camera, a first vehicle camera has a visual field directed to the side or to the rear, and a second vehicle camera has a visual field directed to the front. A method involves recording second image data from the outer front surroundings by the second vehicle camera, detecting a region having altered brightness within the second image data, determining a required change of an exposure value based on the second image data, to compensate for a brightening or darkening that occurs when the vehicle enters the region having altered brightness, and transmitting the changed exposure value to the first vehicle camera such that, upon entry into the region having altered brightness, the first vehicle camera records first image data based on the changed exposure value.

Abstract: A solid-state image sensor includes pixels, each of which is provided with a light receiving portion, a charge storage portion, a gate electrode, a first trench formed in a region between the light receiving portion and the charge storage portion, a first insulating film provided in the first trench, a transmitting portion, and a light-shielding film covering the charge storage portion, the transmitting portion, and the gate electrode. In a plan view, a distance from an end of the light-shielding film through the transmitting portion to the charge storage portion in a direction from the light receiving portion toward the charge storage portion is longer than a distance from the end of the light-shielding film through the first trench to the charge storage portion.

Abstract: An image sensor includes a pixel array that includes a first pixel group and a second pixel group, each including a plurality of image pixels to generate image data. The first pixel group includes a first phase detection pixel pair including first phase detection pixels arranged adjacent to each other in a first direction and having at least one first microlens thereon, and the second pixel group includes a second phase detection pixel pair including second phase detection pixels arranged adjacent to each other in a second direction different from the first direction and having at least one second microlens thereon. The sensitivity of the first phase detection pixels is different from the sensitivity of the second phase detection pixels.

Abstract: An imaging system, comprising a pixel image sensor array disposed on a substrate and comprising a plurality of pixels, a multi-stage timer coupled to said pixel image sensor array for triggering exposures of said pixels, wherein the pixels are grouped into N subsets, and the timer triggers, for each subset, a sequence of at least two exposures of different capture duration of the pixels of said subset, wherein start times of the exposure sequences of the different subsets are temporally offset, at least one ADC coupled to said pixel image sensor array, which converts said exposures of said pixels to pixel digital values, a memory coupled to said at least one ADC to store said pixel digital values, and a logic circuit coupled to said memory to determine for each pixel of the image sensor array which of the corresponding stored pixel digital values to upload to a video frame.

Abstract: According to an aspect of the invention, as imaging apparatus includes a first control unit configured to control exposure parameters of an imaging element, and a second control unit configured to perform processing of switching between and outputting a first image corresponding to pixel portions of a number of first pixels and a second image corresponding to pixel portions of a number of second pixels smaller than the number of first pixels among pixel portions of the imaging element. The second control unit performs focusing determination on the basis of at least one of the first image and the second image.

Abstract: An image processor includes: an image sensor outputting a short exposure image and a long exposure image; a sensor controller that, when brightness of the subject changes, controls first exposure sensitivity to cause the short exposure image to have first brightness and controls second exposure sensitivity to cause the long exposure image to have second brightness; a motion blending ratio calculator calculating a motion blending ratio based on a motion amount of the subject; a motion-adapted image synthesizer generating a motion-adapted image by synthesizing a corrected short exposure image and the long exposure image based on the motion blending ratio; and an HDR image synthesizer generating an HDR image by synthesizing the motion-adapted image and the short exposure image together. When the subject becomes darker, the sensor controller controls the first and second exposure sensitivities to cause the first sensor gain to be at most the second sensor gain.

Abstract: A system comprises an image sensor comprising an array of infrared sensors operable to capture an image of a scene, an integration timing circuit variably controlling an integration time of the infrared sensors, a readout integrated circuit (ROIC) operable to generate signals from the infrared sensors corresponding to the captured image of the scene, and an automatic gain control operable to applied a gain to the generated signals. The system further comprises a dynamic range compensation controller operable to receive image parameters corresponding to the generated signals, compare the received image parameters to target image parameters, and generate an integration timing signal for controlling the integration timing circuit.

Abstract: A method includes: receiving light at an image sensor of a digital camera; generating an image based on the received light; detecting an artifact in the image; determining a blocking area of the sensor based on the detecting the artifact; blocking the light at the blocking area; determining whether the artifact is present in the image after the blocking; in response to determining that the artifact is present after the blocking, determining a new blocking area and repeating the blocking and the determining using the new blocking area; and in response to determining that the artifact is not present after the blocking, saving the image in memory.

Abstract: An image sensor may include a non-rectilinear image pixel array, which may produce non-rectilinear image data. The image sensor may include a resampling circuit to convert the non-rectilinear image data into rectilinear image data that is optimized for displaying an image to a user. This image data may be corrected using defect correction circuitry, resilience filtering circuitry, and aberration correction circuitry in the image sensor, and demosaicking circuitry and color correction circuitry in an image signal processor that is coupled to the image sensor. Alternatively, the non-rectilinear image data may be sent to the image signal processor without converting it to rectilinear image data. For example, machine vision applications may use and interpret non-rectilinear image data directly.

Abstract: A videophone apparatus and a method for automatically adjusting a videophone visual indicator are provided. The videophone includes a camera unit with an imager. Data from the imager and imager data processed by an image signal processor may be converted into a value that can be compared to a scale correlating to a brightness condition of an area in which the imager is located, allowing the brightness condition to be determined. The visual indicators of the videophone can be set to illuminate based upon the determined brightness condition. Thus, the brightness condition of a room can be determined using components already found on the videophone, without the need for additional sensors, hardware or software that increase the cost and complexity of the videophone.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for instant capture of content are described. A method may include placing an image capture device in an aware state and capturing aware state data. The aware state may include enabling low power sensors or entering the image capture into an event mode. A content capture opportunity is automatically determined from the captured aware state data. The aware state data may be image information and a classifier classifies the image information. The aware state data may be position data for the image capture device and when the image capture device is in a capture position, the image capture device may instantly capture image information. An image capture device mode is automatically selected for the content capture opportunity and content is automatically captured with the selected image capture device mode.

Abstract: A light control device 10 includes a pair of electrodes 611 and 612 and a stacked structure body 613? of a plurality of light control layers 613 sandwiched by the pair of electrodes 611 and 612; and each light control layer 613 has a stacked structure of a first insulating layer 614, a first nanocarbon film 615 doped with an n-type impurity or not doped with an impurity, a second insulating layer 617, and a second nanocarbon film 616 doped with a p-type impurity or not doped with an impurity.

Abstract: Limiting exposure to infrared light. At least some of the example embodiments are methods including: repeatedly illuminating a field of view of an image sensor with infrared light from a light emitting diode (LED), each illumination defining an exposure time, and time between contiguous illuminations defining a frame period; and forcing the frame period to be greater than a frame period threshold. Forcing the frame period to be greater than the frame period threshold may also include setting the frame period threshold by a first resistor coupled to a first terminal of a LED driver circuit. Setting the frame period threshold further may also include setting the frame period threshold by a first resistor coupled between ground and the first terminal of the LED driver circuit. The methods further include limiting exposure time of each illuminations to be less than an exposure time threshold.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium are provided for delivery of notifications for feedback over visual quality of images. The electronic apparatus determines, from a plurality of categories, a category of the image frame based on imaging information associated with the image frame or an object of interest. The electronic apparatus selects a set of scoring parameters for the image frame from a plurality of scoring parameters based on the determined category. The set of scoring parameters corresponds to a defined visual quality for the determined category. The electronic apparatus estimates score information for the set of scoring parameters based on deviation of a value of at least one scoring parameter of the selected set of scoring parameters from a set of threshold values. The electronic apparatus outputs a notification based on the score information. The notification corresponds to feedback on a visual quality of the image frame.

Abstract: A presence detection system (10) is disclosed comprising a camera module (20) comprising an image sensor (21) having a plurality of pixels (22) for capturing an image of a space (1) and a signal processor (23) arranged to process signals from each pixels in accordance with one or more configuration parameters for said pixel; and generate a setting for the image sensor from the processed signals. The system further comprises a controller (30) communicatively coupled to the signal processor and arranged to provide the signal processor with configuration parameters for the pixels based on an expected presence in a region of said image such that the pixels corresponding to said region have at least one different configuration parameter to pixels outside said region; periodically receive the setting from the signal processor; and detect a change in said presence in the space from a change in the received setting.

Abstract: A solid-state image pickup device includes: a pixel array in which a plurality of pixels each outputting a photoelectric conversion signal are disposed; a reference voltage generator that generates a temperature detection voltage changing in accordance with a change in temperature and a reference voltage not depending on a change in temperature; a read circuit that performs signal processing of the photoelectric conversion signal output by the pixel array and the temperature detection voltage generated by the reference voltage generator and reads the photoelectric conversion signal and the temperature detection voltage that are processed; an output circuit that outputs both the photoelectric conversion signal and the temperature detection voltage for which the signal processing has been performed by the read circuit to the outside; and a bias generator that supplies a bias voltage generated based on the reference voltage to both the read circuit and the output circuit.

Abstract: An imaging device includes a first chip on which a plurality of first blocks is arranged in a matrix, and a second chip which includes a first block scanning circuit and a second block scanning circuit. The second chip includes a selection circuit configured to select driving timing given to a plurality of pixels, based on a signal output from the first block scanning circuit and a signal output from the second block scanning circuit. A second block includes a circuit other than the selection circuit.

Abstract: The image processing apparatus according to one embodiment of the present invention has: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a first image captured with a first amount of exposure, a second image captured with a second amount of exposure different from the first amount of exposure before the first image is captured, and a third image captured with the second amount of exposure after the first image is captured; a specification unit configured to specify a direction of movement of an object by using at least two images of the first image, the second image, and the third image; and a composition unit configured to generate an HDR image by composing the first image with one of the second image and the third image for each pixel in accordance with the direction of movement of the object.

Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to the synchronization of image sensors with different exposure durations. In some embodiments, a system may include multiple image sensors, such as cameras, that have differing exposure durations. A data management component may be configured to receive sensor data from the image sensors. In addition, a synchronization component may be configured to transmit a shutter synchronization pulse to the image sensors. Finally, a tracking component may be configured to temporally center, based at least in part on the shutter synchronization pulse, the differing exposure durations of the image sensors. Various other systems and methods are also disclosed.

Abstract: The present disclosure is related to the acquisition of images with an image sensor. It is proposed a variable frame rate acquisition method that accommodates a fixed output frame rate. The exposure time is modified not only within the range of the current acquisition frame rate but the frame rate is modified to take into account the brightness level of the acquired image. The method of the present invention produces a fixed frame rate whatever the acquisition frame rate is defined by duplicating the images (lower acquisition frame rate) or skipping some images (higher acquisition frame rate).

Abstract: A computing device for performing image pre-processing for blending images receives a first image depicting a head. The computing device detects a portion of the head in the first image and calculates an image attribute of the portion in the first image. The computing device receives a second image and generates an adjusted second image by adjusting color pixels in the second image based on the calculated image attribute of the portion in the first image. The computing device blends the adjusted second image with the first image.

Abstract: There is provided an electronic device. A changing unit changes a setting value of a setting item selected from a plurality of setting items to a setting value that is selected, in accordance with a user operation, from among a plurality of setting values including a first setting value, for which a setting value is automatically determined. A determination unit automatically determines, for a setting item for which the first setting value was set, a setting value. A control unit performs control such that, when, in a state in which a setting value of a first setting item for which the first setting value was set has been automatically determined, a user operation is made to change a setting value of a second setting item, the setting value of the first setting item is not changed.

Abstract: In an image generating apparatus, a setter is configured to variably set, for an image capturing task at a next capturing cycle, first and second shutter times and a total gain. The total gain is based on combination of an analog gain and a digital gain. An allocating unit is configured to obtain a threshold gain based on the first and second shutter times and a compression characteristic. The allocating unit is configured to variably allocate the total gain to at least one of the analog gain and the digital gain in accordance with a comparison among the total gain, the threshold gain, and an upper limit for the analog gain.

Abstract: A camera device for a motor vehicle includes an image sensor to provide a raw image (R) of an environment of the camera device. Additionally, an image processing device generates an output image (I) from the raw image (R) by means of a spreading function of a histogram spreading. The spreading function generates from a respective input pixel value (Li) of each pixel of the raw image (R) each one output pixel value (Lo) of a corresponding pixel of the output image (I). Furthermore, the histogram spreading may be adapted to the capturing situation. At least one parameter value (S, G) of the camera device depending on a brightness (B1, B2) of the environment is acquired and a limit value (L) for the output pixel values (Lo) is set in the spreading function depending on the at least one acquired parameter value (S, G).

Abstract: Techniques for correcting image data in a lens shading correction circuit include accessing numerical constants associated with channels of a captured image represented by a pixel array from a memory. The techniques further include calculating lens shading correction factors for the captured image for each pixel of a channel in the pixel array according to the x-y pixel position of the pixel based on a lens shading correction formula and the numerical constants. For the channel in the pixel array, the correction formula applies different subsets of the numerical constants to different radial portions of the pixel array. The techniques also includes performing lens shading correction for the captured image based on the calculated lens shading correction factors to produce corrected image data, and storing the corrected image data in a non-transitory computer-readable medium.

Abstract: Systems and methods of the invention merge information from multiple image sensors to provide a high dynamic range (HDR) video. The present invention provides for real-time HDR video production using multiple sensors and pipeline processing techniques. According to the invention, multiple sensors with different exposures each produces an ordered stream of frame-independent pixel values. The pixel values are streamed through a pipeline on a processing device. The pipeline includes a kernel operation that identifies saturated ones of the pixel values. The streams of pixel values are merged to produce an HDR video.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for producing high quality images in uncontrolled or impaired environments. In some examples of the disclosed technology, groups of cameras for high dynamic range (HDR), polarization diversity, and optional other diversity modes are arranged to concurrently image a common scene. For example, in a vehicle checkpoint application, HDR provides discernment of dark objects inside a vehicle, while polarization diversity aids in rejecting glare. Spectral diversity, infrared imaging, and active illumination can be applied for better imaging through a windshield. Preprocessed single-camera images are registered and fused. Faces or other features of interest can be detected in the fused image and identified in a library. Impairments can include weather, insufficient or interfering lighting, shadows, reflections, window glass, occlusions, or moving objects.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device 10 capable of extending a dynamic range by combining a plurality of read-out signals has a signal processing part 710 which, when combining the plurality of read-out signals, selects at least one signal which becomes necessary for the combination in accordance with a result of a comparison between at least one read-out signal among the plurality of read-out signals (high conversion gain signal HCG, low conversion gain signal LCG) with a threshold value (Joint Thresh), applies the selected signal to the combinational processing, and thereby generates the combined signal extended in the dynamic range, and the signal processing part can dynamically change the threshold value. By this configuration, it is possible to smoothly switch a plurality of signals to be combined irrespective of variations in individual units etc., possible to realize a higher dynamic range while suppressing deterioration of images, and consequently possible to realize a higher quality of image.

Abstract: There is provided an image capturing control apparatus. An image capturing control unit controls image capturing by an image capturing unit based on setting values of a plurality of setting items. A selection unit selects a setting item from among the plurality of setting items. A changing unit changes the setting value of the setting item selected by the selection unit to a setting value that is selected in accordance with a first operation from among a plurality of setting values that correspond to the selected setting item and a specific setting value to which one of the plurality of setting values that is automatically determined in accordance with predetermined processing is applied.

Abstract: A three-dimensional motion obtaining apparatus includes: a light source; a charge amount obtaining circuit that includes pixels and obtains, for each of the pixels, a first charge amount under a first exposure pattern and a second charge amount under a second exposure pattern having an exposure period that at least partially overlaps an exposure period of the first exposure pattern; and a processor that controls a light emission pattern for the light source, the first exposure pattern, and the second exposure pattern. The processor estimates a distance to a subject for each of the pixels on the basis of the light emission pattern and on the basis of the first charge amount and the second charge amount of each of the pixels obtained by the charge amount obtaining circuit, and estimates an optical flow for each of the pixels on the basis of the first exposure pattern, the second exposure pattern, and the first charge amount and the second charge amount obtained by the charge amount obtaining circuit.

Abstract: A control apparatus and method that captures video image includes acquiring a parameter for recognition processing with respect to acquired image data and changing the acquired parameter according to a change in zoom magnification of an image capturing unit.

Abstract: A method of managing traffic flow. The method includes receiving, at a camera, an image containing vehicle traffic flow. The method also includes processing, using a processor, the image to mask areas in the image that exceed a predetermined number of candelas. The method also includes thereafter analyzing, using the processor, the image to determine a parameter related to the vehicles, whereby an analysis is performed. The method also includes managing the traffic flow based on the analysis.

Abstract: A rearview system for a vehicle and a vehicle having the rearview system are disclosed. The rearview system includes: an image pick-up device configured to acquire an image showing a condition beside and behind the vehicle; and a liquid crystal display device configured to display the image acquired by the image pick-up device in real time. The liquid crystal display device comprises a backlight module, a liquid crystal display panel, a semi-transmissive and semi-reflective functional layer arranged between the backlight module and the liquid crystal display panel. The semi-transmissive and semi-reflective functional layer is configured to transmit light emitted by the backlight module when the backlight module is turned on and to reflect external ambient light when the backlight module is turned off.