Abstract: An audio processing method implemented by an electronic device includes entering a multi-channel video recording mode, detecting a shooting operation of a user, simultaneously recording, after detecting the shooting operation, a first video image and a second video image using a first camera and a second camera, and recording audio of a plurality of sound channels, where the audio includes panoramic audio, first audio corresponding to the first video image, and second audio corresponding to the second video image. The electronic device further records the first audio based on a feature value such as a zoom magnification corresponding to the first display area.

Abstract: A camera system including an imaging device; and a signal processor. The imaging device includes; a first imaging cell having a first photoelectric converter generating a first signal; and a second imaging cell having a second photoelectric converter generating a second signal; and a capacitor having a first and second terminal, the first terminal electrically coupled to second photoelectric converter. An area of the first photoelectric converter is greater than an area of the second photoelectric converter in a plan view, the first imaging cell has a first number of saturation charges, and the second imaging cell has a second number of saturation charges, the number of saturation charges by the first photoelectric converter is greater than the number of saturation charges by the second photoelectric converter. The capacitor causes the second number of saturation charges to become greater than the first number of saturation charges.

Abstract: An imaging system can automatically measure a distance to an object. A camera, having a field of view that includes the object, can define a camera longitudinal axis that extends to a center of the field of view. An illuminator, defining an illuminator longitudinal axis that is substantially parallel to the camera longitudinal axis and is laterally offset from the camera longitudinal axis, can illuminate the object with an illumination field. The illumination field can have an illumination field central axis that is angularly offset from the illuminator longitudinal axis by an angle that depends at least in part on the measured distance to the object to at least partially compensate for parallax error caused by the lateral offset between the illuminator longitudinal axis and the camera longitudinal axis. The camera can capture an image of the object while the illuminator illuminates the object with the illumination field.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire information on a remaining time representing a remaining usable time of the electronic apparatus; and a control unit configured to perform control to set any of a plurality of modes including a first mode and a second mode having power consumption of the electronic apparatus that is lower than power consumption of the electronic apparatus in the first mode, wherein the control unit performs processing to provide notification to prompt a user to switch from the first mode to the second mode in a case where the remaining time corresponding to the information acquired by the acquisition unit is less than a threshold and a predetermined condition for switching from the first mode to the second mode is satisfied in the first mode.

Abstract: The technology of the present disclosure improves an image quality in a solid-state imaging element that amplifies a voltage for every column. In the solid-state imaging element, an input transistor outputs, from a drain, an output voltage corresponding to a voltage between a source and a gate to which an input voltage is input. A base side current source transistor supplies a predetermined current from the drain of the input transistor to a base node determined in advance. A feedback circuit feeds back a part of the predetermined current to the gate of the input transistor. The clamp circuit limits the output voltage to a value higher than a lower limit voltage determined in advance.

Abstract: A delta image sensor comprising an arrangement of pixels and a plurality of acquisition circuits corresponding to at least one pixel. Each acquisition circuit includes at least one sensor circuit comprising a photosensor configured to generate a sensor signal, VSIG, depending on a light signal; at least one analogue to digital conversion, A/D, circuit configured to convert a current VSIG to a digital signal; at least one digital storage circuit configured to store a representation of at least one digital signal corresponding to a previous VSIG; at least one digital comparison circuit configured to compare the level of the stored representation with the current VSIG to detect a changed level; and at least one digital output circuit configured to generate an event output under the condition of the changed level. The sensor circuit is configured to change an analogue function of its read-out characteristics to generate a respective changed VSIG.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a camera module capable of achieving a smaller height, a method of manufacturing a camera module, an imaging apparatus, and an electronic apparatus. An imaging device having its imaging surface bonded to a provisional substrate is attached, and the imaging device in that state is joined to a substrate via an electrode having a TSV structure. After the provisional substrate is detached, an IR cut filter (IRCF) on which a light blocking film is printed or jet-dispensed in a region other than the effective pixel region is bonded to the imaging surface via a transparent resin. Because of this, there is no need to provide any sealing glass in the stage before the imaging surface, and the optical length of the lens can be shortened. Thus, a smaller height can be achieved. The present disclosure can be applied to camera modules.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes an element isolating portion that is disposed on a side of a front surface of a semiconductor layer and constituted by an insulator, and a pixel isolating portion. The pixel isolating portion includes a part that overlaps an isolating region in a normal direction. The semiconductor layer is continuous across semiconductor regions in an intermediate plane. The part is located between a semiconductor region and another semiconductor region.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an imaging apparatus and an imaging method that are capable of easily setting a type of a subject as a focusing target in each imaging. An image sensor acquires an image. An operation unit selects a type of a subject as a focusing target in each imaging of the image acquired by the image sensor. In the case where the type of the subject as a focusing target is selected by the operation unit, a microcomputer detects an area of the subject of that type from the image and sets the detected area as an in-focus area of the image. The present disclosure can be applied to an imaging apparatus, for example.

Abstract: Methods and systems for tamper reduction for camera systems. One example system includes a camera with a first field of view configured to operate in a low-power mode and an active mode, an energy wave sensor with a second field of view, and an electronic processor. The electronic processor is configured to monitor, via the energy wave sensor, for an object within the second field of view and determine an object type of the object. In response to determining that the object type is a vehicle, the electronic processor transitions the camera from the low-power mode to the active mode and captures, via the camera, an image of the vehicle. In response to determining that the object type is a person, the electronic processor performs a tamper-monitoring action when the person is within a first predetermined range of a plurality of predetermined ranges of the system.

Abstract: Welding cameras, welding helmets, welding masks, and associated display systems are described herein that utilize darkening or attenuating filters in conjunction with long-exposure imaging to capture flicker-free video of a welding process. Example embodiments include one or more of a darkening filter, an image sensor to capture long-exposure images as frames of a video, an optical image stabilization subsystem, a data storage to store video, and an electronic display to display the video. For example, captured images may be displayed on an electronic display within the welding mask without risk of overexposure of ultraviolet radiation to the operator. In some examples, dual electronic displays are used to display different images to each eye of the operator to provide a stereoscopic video feed.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image sensor including a pixel array, wherein the pixel array includes a first sub-pixel array including pixels disposed in a first diagonal direction and each having a green filter, and pixels disposed in a second diagonal direction and each having a yellow filter; a second sub-pixel array including pixels disposed in the first diagonal direction and each having the green filter, and pixels disposed in the second diagonal direction and each having the yellow filter; a third sub-pixel array including pixels disposed in the second diagonal direction and each having a red filter, and pixels disposed in the first diagonal direction and each having a magenta filter; and a fourth sub-pixel array including pixels disposed in the second diagonal direction and each having a blue filter, and pixels disposed in the first diagonal direction and each having a cyan filter.

Abstract: A method of operating an imaging system is described. The method comprising transferring first image charges accumulated during a long exposure period of a first image frame to respective floating diffusion regions of a first pixel and a second pixel, reading out long exposure image signals from the respective floating diffusion regions to a first storage capacitor associated with the first pixel and a second storage capacitor associated with the second pixel, transferring second image charges accumulated during a short exposure period of the first image frame to the respective floating diffusion regions of the first pixel and the second pixel, reading out a short exposure image signal from a corresponding one of the floating diffusion regions to the second storage capacitor, and reading out storage charge signals from the first storage capacitor and the second storage capacitor to generate image data for the first image frame.

Abstract: An image acquisition apparatus includes: a first image sensor configured to acquire a first image based on a first wavelength band; a second image sensor configured to acquire a second image based on a second wavelength band of 10 nm to 1,000 nm, and a processor configured to register the first image and the second image, which are respectively output from the first image sensor and the second image sensor, to obtain a registration image based on the first image and the second image, and perform color conversion on the registration image by using an illumination value estimated from the second image.

Abstract: An imaging device including first and second substrate; first and second connection portion electrically connecting the first and second substrate; a first and second pixel; and a common signal line for the first and second pixel. Each of the first and second pixels includes: a photoelectric converter that converts incident light into a signal charge, and a first transistor that outputs a signal corresponding to the signal charge to the common signal line. The first substrate includes the photoelectric converter and first transistor of the first and second pixels. The second substrate includes: a first line transmitting a voltage to the first transistor of the first and second pixel, and a voltage source coupled to the first transistor of the first pixel, via the first line and the first connection portion, and coupled to the first transistor of the second pixel, via the first line and the second connection portion.

Abstract: Portable electronic devices having I/O assemblies that can include optical and audio components are described. An exemplary I/O assembly can include a first camera module and a second camera module that can be carried within a camera module housing. A flex connector can carry a strobe that can be positioned between the first camera module and the second camera module. A trim can enclose the first camera, the second camera and the strobe and optically isolates the optical components. An exemplary portable electronic device can include a side wall retainer that defines its perimeter, a front cover glass and a rear cover glass that cooperate to form an enclosure. The I/O assembly can be secured to the enclosure both from inside and outside of the rear cover glass. I/O assembly can also include an audio transducer that can record sound when the camera module are recording videos.

Abstract: A frame assembly constitutes a base or a carrier of the optical actuator, and includes first and second rail shafts formed of a metal, and a frame formed by injecting a resin into a mold into which the first rail shaft and the second rail shaft are inserted. At least a part of each of the first rail shaft and the second rail shaft coming into contact with the ball is exposed through one surface of the frame, and a plurality of first shaft position alignment holes arranged in a longitudinal direction of the first rail shaft to expose the first rail shaft therethrough and a plurality of second shaft position alignment holes arranged in a longitudinal direction of the second rail shaft to expose the second rail shaft therethrough are formed in a remaining surface of the frame.

Abstract: A camera includes a lens group, an image sensor, an actuator to move the image sensor relative to the lens group, and a flexure that suspends the image sensor from a stationary structure of the camera and that allows motion of the image sensor enabled by the actuator. The flexure includes a dynamic platform to which the image sensor is connected such that the image sensor moves with the dynamic platform, a static platform connected to a static portion of the camera, a plurality of flexure arms that mechanically connect the dynamic platform to the static platform, and one or more elastic spacers positioned between at least two flexure arms of the plurality of flexure arms.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes a plurality of pixel regions. Each of the plurality of pixel regions includes a first photoelectric conversion unit and a second photoelectric conversion unit. The second photoelectric conversion unit overlaps the first photoelectric conversion unit when viewed in a light incident direction. At least one of the first photoelectric conversion unit and the second photoelectric conversion unit is an embedded unit. The first photoelectric conversion unit and the second photoelectric conversion unit are electrically connected to mutually different types of readout circuits.

Abstract: An optical element driving mechanism is provided, including a fixed part, a movable part, and a driving assembly. The movable part includes a holder, and a supporting element. The holder holds an optical element. The supporting element is connected to the holder. The driving assembly drives the movable part to move relative to the fixed part. The holder uses the supporting element as a fulcrum and moves relative to the fixed part around the first axis and the second axis. The first axis is not parallel to the second axis.