Abstract: A camera system includes: a photoelectric converter including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a photoelectric conversion layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, the photoelectric conversion layer converting incident light into electric charge; voltage application circuitry; and a controller that derives a duty cycle corresponding to an attenuation ratio set for a first frame and that causes the voltage application circuitry to apply a pulse voltage having the duty cycle between the first electrode and the second electrode in the first frame.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises a controller configured to transmit an image obtained by an image sensor to an external device via a communication circuit, and cause the external device to execute a predetermined image processing on the image. The controller obtains information indicating recommendation or non-recommendation for the execution of the predetermined image processing on the image by the external device, based on a state of at least one of an imaging optical system and the image sensor when capturing the image, and transmits an execution request for the predetermined image processing on the image to the external device via the communication circuit, if the obtained information indicates the recommendation.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an image sensor that captures a subject image to generate image data; a controller that controls an image shooting operation, based on image data resulting from a plurality of times of imaging by the image sensor, the image shooting operation generating image data indicating a synthetic image into which a plurality of captured images is synthesized; a shake detector that detects a shaking state of the imaging apparatus; and a display that displays information, wherein the controller controls the display to display shaking state information including a plurality of shaking states detected by the shake detector during the plurality of times of imaging by the image sensor in the image shooting operation for the synthetic image.

Abstract: An image pick up apparatus includes an image sensor configured to pick up an image while changing an in-focus position during pickup of the image, at least one memory configured to store instructions, and at least one processor coupled to the at least one memory and configured to execute the instructions to perform a correction of a difference in exposure resulting from a change in the in-focus position while one image is picked up.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a dual-processor electronic apparatus operation method used in a dual-processor electronic apparatus that includes steps outlined below. A first processor is activated in an initialization procedure. A second processor is activated by the first processor to enter an operation mode. The first processor is deactivated in the operation mode, and the second processor executes a predetermined procedure. Whether a predetermined event occurs during the execution of the predetermined procedure is determined by the second processor such that event information is stored when the predetermined event occurs and the first processor is activated. The event information is accessed and processed by the first processor.

Abstract: A technique for reducing a work load during introduction of a system in the system processing an image generated by a camera. An information processing apparatus includes at least an accumulation unit, a recommended setting determination unit, and a camera control unit. The accumulation unit accumulates a score obtained through an authentication process using an image in which a person is captured and a camera setting at which a camera generates the image in a storage area. The recommended setting determination unit determines a recommended setting for the camera on the basis of a correspondence relationship between the score and the camera setting. The camera control unit controls the camera on the basis of the recommended setting.

Abstract: A photo-sensitive device comprises: an active layer configured to generate charges in response to incident light; a charge transport layer arranged below the active layer, wherein the charge transport layer comprises a first portion and a second portion being laterally displaced in relation to the first portion; a gate separated by a dielectric material from the charge transport layer, wherein said gate is arranged below the first portion and configured to control a potential thereof; and a transfer gate, which is separated by a dielectric material from a transfer portion of the charge transport layer between the first portion and the second portion, wherein the transfer gate is configured to control transfer of accumulated charges in the first portion to the second portion for read-out of detected light.

Abstract: A method includes capturing, by a camera disposed behind a display panel of an electronic device, a plurality of point spread functions (PSFs) through a semi-transparent pixel region of the display panel. Each of the plurality of PSFs is captured at a different exposure time. The method further includes generating an intensity dataset corresponding to the plurality of PSFs, the intensity dataset comprises a plurality of pixel location and a plurality of exposure times associated with the respective pixel locations, calculating a plurality of noise statistics values for the plurality of pixel locations of the intensity dataset, respectively, generating a pixel mask, the pixel mask filters the plurality of pixel locations for pixel locations with respective noise statistics values within a particular threshold, generating one or more high dynamic range (HDR) PSFs utilizing the plurality of PSFs and the pixel mask.

Abstract: A pixel group of an image sensor includes first through fourth unit pixels in a matrix form of two pixels rows and two pixel columns, and a common floating diffusion region in a semiconductor substrate at a center of the pixel group and shared by the first through fourth unit pixels. Each of the first through fourth unit pixels includes a photoelectric conversion element in the semiconductor substrate, and a pair of vertical transfer gates in the semiconductor substrate and extending in a vertical direction perpendicular to a surface of the semiconductor substrate. The pair of vertical transfer gates transfer photo charges collected by the photoelectric conversion element to the common floating diffusion region. Image quality is enhanced by increasing sensing sensitivity of the unit pixel through the shared structure of the floating diffusion region and the symmetric structure of the vertical transfer gates.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a reset circuit and a first image sensing circuit. The reset circuit is used to receive a reset signal and includes a plurality of transistors. The first image sensing circuit is coupled to the reset circuit and includes a photodiode, a first transistor and a second transistor. The photodiode has a first terminal. The first transistor has a first terminal coupled to the first terminal of the photodiode, and a second terminal. The second transistor has a first terminal coupled to the second terminal of the first transistor, and a second terminal configured to receive a row selection signal.

Abstract: An image sensor is provided. The image sensor includes: a pixel array including a plurality of pixels arranged along rows and columns; and a row driver which drives the plurality of pixels for each of the rows, wherein each of the plurality of pixels includes a plurality of sub-pixels, each of the plurality of sub-pixels includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements sharing a floating diffusion area with each other, and a micro lens disposed to overlap the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, a readout area is defined on the pixel array in accordance with a preset readout mode, and the row driver generates a drive signal for reading out signals provided from a photoelectric conversion element included in the readout area from among the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, and provides the drive signal to the pixel array.

Abstract: A vehicular camera module includes a front housing member, a rear housing member, an imager, and a circuit board. With the circuit board accommodated within a cavity formed by the mated front and rear housing members, the imager is closer to a first side of the circuit board than to a second side of the circuit board. The rear housing member includes an electrical plug connector that is configured to plug into an electrical socket connector at the second side of the circuit board when the front and rear housing members are being mated together during assembly of the vehicular camera module. With the vehicular camera module mounted at a vehicle, electrical power is provided from the vehicle to the electrical circuitry of the circuit board via the connection made by the electrical plug connector of the rear housing member plugged into the electrical socket connector of the circuit board.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a camera, a primary display panel including a pixel array and an aperture adjacent the pixel array, an auxiliary display, and an optical assembly including a reflecting optical element and an actuator coupled to the reflecting optical element. The actuator is configured to switch the reflecting optical element between a first arrangement and a second arrangement. The first arrangement defines an optical path from the aperture to the camera and the second arrangement defines an optical path from the aperture to the auxiliary display.

Abstract: A hybrid ferroelectric-metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor (Fe-MOSFET) device is described, such as for incorporation into in-pixel circuitry of an imaging pixel array to provide both reset and dual conversion gain features. The Fe-MOSFET includes source and drain regions implanted in a semiconductor substrate and separated by a channel region. The source region can be the floating diffusion region of a photosensor. A gate structure is deposited on the substrate directly above at least the channel region and an isolating layer is formed on the surface of the substrate to electrically isolate the gate structure from at least the channel region. The isolating layer is split into a Fe segment of ferroelectric material that can be written to different polarization states for conversion gain control, and a dielectric segment that can be used for current channel formation in the channel region.

Abstract: A mobile device includes an application processor and an image sensor. The application processor includes an imaging subsystem configured to process high resolution image data through a first interface and a sensor hub configured to process sensor data through a second interface. The image sensor operates in one of first and second modes. The image sensor is configured to capture the high resolution image data in response to a request from the imaging subsystem and the imaging subsystem is configured to access the high resolution image data using the first interface for performing a first operation, during the first mode. The image sensor is configured to capture low resolution image data and the sensor hub is configured to access the low resolution image data using the second bus for performing a second operation, during the second mode.

Abstract: An image capturing method and a terminal device are provided. The method includes entering a camera application to start a lens and display a viewfinder interface, converting an original image captured by the lens into a red-green-blue (RGB) image, and decreasing luminance of the RGB image to be less than first luminance or increasing the luminance of the RGB image to be greater than second luminance, to obtain a first image; converting the RGB image into N frames of high-dynamic-range (HDR) images, and fusing color information of pixels in any same location on the first image and the N frames of HDR images to obtain a final image.

Abstract: An endoscopic camera device having an optical assembly; a first image sensor in optical communication with the optical assembly, the first image sensor receiving a first exposure and transmitting a first low dynamic range image; a second image sensor in optical communication with the optical assembly, the second image sensor receiving a second exposure and transmitting a second low dynamic range image, the second exposure being higher than the first exposure; and a processor for receiving the first low dynamic range image and the second low dynamic range image; wherein the processor is configured to combine the first low dynamic range image and the second dynamic range image into a high dynamic range image using a luminosity value derived as a preselected percentage of a cumulative luminosity distribution of at least one of the first low dynamic range image and the second low dynamic range image.

Abstract: A method for reducing overexposure or underexposure in a time-lapse includes acquiring, using an image capture device, a first frame of the time-lapse using a first exposure setting; and acquiring, using the image capture device, a second frame of the time-lapse. The first frame of the time-lapse is acquired under a first luminance condition. The second frame of the time-lapse is acquired under a second luminance condition that is different from the first luminance condition. The second frame of the time-lapse is acquired using an exposure setting that is determined based on respective exposure settings of one or more preview images obtained between the first frame of the time-lapse and the second frame of the time-lapse. The one or more preview images are not included in the time-lapse.

Abstract: In one or more implementations, the apparatus, systems and methods disclosed herein are directed to calibrating a smart phone with an arbitrary phone case for color lookup applications, wherein the calibration process includes obtaining, with the smartphone without the case equipped, a first measurement data set that includes at least one measurement of each of a black, white and grey calibration target; obtaining, with the smartphone with the case equipped, at least three exposure measurements of a white calibration target at least three different exposure times; calculating an optimized exposure time using at least the at least three exposure measurements; obtaining, with the smartphone with the case equipped, a second measurement data set that includes at least one measurement of each of a black, white and grey calibration target at the optimized exposure time; generating fitting parameters from the first and second measurement datasets; and storing the generated fitting parameters and optimized exposure t

Abstract: Methods, systems, and storage media for dynamically identifying visual media capture formats based upon at least one of capture device, resultant visual medium, and/or application-supported conditions are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: query a visual media capture device for at least a portion of the device-supported visual media capture formats; receive information regarding one or more capture device, resultant visual medium, and/or application-supported conditions relevant to capture of a resultant visual medium; execute an ordered plurality of rules to dynamically identify one or more device-supported visual media capture formats of the device-supported visual media capture formats that is configured to optimize the resultant visual medium; and cause the visual media capture device to initiate capture of the resultant visual medium using one of the identified device-supported visual media capture formats.