Abstract: A method for performing light shaping with aid of an adaptive projector and associated apparatus are provided.

Abstract: A processing apparatus includes a control unit that performs a control of performing, a plurality of times in parallel, a recognition operation in which a recognition unit recognizes a specific subject included in an imaging region based on a captured image obtained by imaging the imaging region by an imaging unit, and a distance measurement operation in which a distance measurement unit performs distance measurement by emitting light to the imaging region and receiving reflected light of the light from the imaging region, and a change unit that changes irradiation energy of the light to the imaging region for each distance measurement operation.

Abstract: A system for generating a privacy protected image. The system may have a detection logic and obscuring logic configured to detect one or more identity-correlated object categories. The system may provide automatic selection of a type of obscuring to be used based on the detected category; wherein said automatic selection includes automatically selecting among a plurality of different, category specific types of reversible obscuring. The detection logic and obscuring logic may include an automatic category-specific selecting between irreversible obscuring and reversible obscuring. The system may comprise a privacy protected image output logic configured to generate the privacy protected image.

Abstract: A method for retrieval of multi spectral bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) parameters by using red-green-blue-depth (RGB-D) data includes capturing, by an RGB-D camera, at least one image of one or more objects in a scene. The captured at least one image of the one or more objects includes RGB-D data including color and geometry information of the objects. A processing unit reconstructs the captured at least one image of the one or more objects to one or more 3D reconstructions by using the RGB-D data. A deep neural network classifies the BRDF of a surface of the one or more objects based on the 3D reconstructions. The deep neural network includes an input layer, an output layer, and at least one hidden layer between the input layer and the output layer. The multi spectral BRDF parameters are retrieved by approximating the classified BRDF by using an iterative optimization method.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an electronic zoom unit, a motion vector detection unit, a first representative vector calculation unit, a second representative vector calculation unit, and a third representative vector calculation unit, wherein the third representative vector calculation unit determines the third representative motion vector by setting a weight of the first representative motion vector greater than a weight of the second representative motion vector when an enlargement magnification in the electronic zoom unit is equal to or greater than a threshold, and determines the third representative motion vector by setting a weight of the second representative motion vector greater than a weight of the first representative motion vector when an enlargement magnification in the electronic zoom unit is less than the threshold.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a display apparatus and a camera. The display apparatus includes a first substrate, a driving circuit layer, a pixel definition layer, a common electrode layer, a second substrate, a capping layer and at least a light shielding block. The camera is at least partially disposed corresponding to the plurality of pixel holes and is configured to acquire image through the display apparatus. The light shielding block is configured to shield the ambient light when the camera acquires image.

Abstract: An actuator, the actuator is used for the camera unit. The actuator includes: a seat configured to be assembled with a first lens and a fluid lens of the camera unit; a stator assembly fixedly connected to the seat; a focusing mover assembly configured to be connected with the fluid lens; and an anti-shake mover assembly configured to be connected with the first lens. The focusing mover assembly is configured to move along a first direction of the seat by interacting with the stator assembly, for adjusting a curvature of the fluid lens, and the anti-shake mover assembly is configured to translate in a plane perpendicular to the first direction by interacting with the stator assembly, for driving the first lens to move.

Abstract: A light shielding plate includes: a front surface located on a light entry side; a rear surface facing away from the front surface; and a hole extending through between the front surface and the rear surface. The hole includes a first hole portion and a second hole portion connected to the first hole portion at a center opening. The first hole portion extends from a rear surface opening in the rear surface to the center opening and is tapered in shape from the rear surface toward the front surface. The second hole portion extends from a front surface opening in the front surface to the center opening and is tapered in shape from the front surface toward the rear surface. The front surface opening is larger in size than the rear surface opening.

Abstract: A method for setting a parameter value of a first video source device comprises: determining a first set of image characteristic values from an image captured by the first video source device configured with a first set of parameter values; obtaining a second set of image characteristic values generated from an image captured by a second video source device different from the first video source device, the second video source device being configured with a second set of parameter values; determining if the obtained second set of image characteristic values comprises values equivalent to values of the determined first set of image characteristic values; and if there are equivalent values, setting the parameter value of the first video source device using the second set of image characteristic values.

Abstract: An apparatus for acquiring images includes an image sensor and a signal processor. The image sensor may include a sensor substrate and a color separation lens array, wherein the sensor substrate includes a plurality of photo-sensing cells, and the color separation lens array may separate an incident light into a plurality of lights having different wavelengths and forms a phase distribution for condensing the plurality of lights having the different wavelengths on adjacent photo-sensing cells of the plurality of photo-sensing cells. The signal processor may perform deconvolution on sensing signals of the plurality of photo-sensing cells to obtain a sub-sampled image, perform demosaicing to restore a full resolution image having a full resolution from the sub-sampled image, and correct a color of the full resolution image using a point spread function (PSF) of the color separation lens array.

Abstract: A method for generating a composite image comprises: detecting a color temperature of a background image; acquiring from a camera through an image signal processor, ISP, performing white balance correction of acquired image data, an image including a foreground region including face of a user; and detecting a color temperature of the foreground region. Responsive to the color temperature for the foreground region differing from that of the background image by more than a threshold amount, a color temperature for white balance correction of a subsequently acquired image is set which causes skin pixels within the foreground region of the subsequently acquired image to have a color temperature closer to the color temperature for the background image. Pixel values of the foreground region are combined with pixel values of the background image corresponding to a background region of the acquired image to provide the composite image.

Abstract: An electronic device is provided that includes a housing, a first circuit board disposed within the housing, a second circuit board spaced apart from the first circuit board, a first component and a second component disposed on at least a portion of the first circuit board or at least a portion of the second circuit board, and an interposer electrically connecting the first circuit board and the second circuit board. The interposer may be disposed between the first circuit board and the second circuit board. An arrangement space for disposing the first component and the second component may be formed between the first circuit board and the second circuit board.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device capable of acquiring an RGB image, a CMY image, and luminance information through one imaging process. The solid-state imaging device includes a pixel array portion in which a plurality of pixel unit groups are arrayed, the pixel unit group including pixel units disposed in a 2×2 matrix, the pixel unit including pixels disposed in an 2×2 matrix, and the pixels including a photoelectric conversion unit and a color filter. Each of the pixel unit groups is configured such that an R filter and a C filter are included as the color filters in a first pixel unit among four pixel units constituting the pixel unit group, a G filter and an M filter are included as the color filters in each of second and third pixel units, and a B filter and a Y filter are included as the color filters in a fourth pixel unit.

Abstract: A camera module includes an image sensor configured to output a plurality of image frames, a lens assembly disposed on the image sensor, the lens assembly including at least one lens unit disposed on an optical path and a variable filter unit configured to adjust the optical path of light incident on the image sensor from outside, a controller configured to generate a control signal to control the variable filter unit, and an image synthesizer configured to synthesize the plurality of image frames to generate a composite image, wherein the composite image has a higher resolution than the image frames, and wherein the plurality of image frames includes image frames generated along respectively different optical paths changed by the variable filter unit.

Abstract: In one implementation, a camera includes an image sensor including a plurality of sensor elements at a respective plurality of first image sensor locations. The camera includes a controller to receive, from the image sensor, a plurality of sensor values indicative of a characteristic of light impinging on the plurality of sensor elements and generate, based on the plurality of sensor values, an image file including a plurality of pixels having a respective plurality of pixel values, wherein the plurality of pixels are associated with a respective plurality of pixel locations that represent a respective plurality of second image sensor locations. The plurality of second image sensor locations are within a circle and the image file does not include a pixel having a pixel location representing an image sensor location outside the circle and within a square in which the circle is inscribed.

Abstract: An image sensor includes a plurality of pixels, each pixel belonging to one of N subframes each characterized by (a) a same exposure-time sequence that includes a short exposure-time alternating with a long exposure-time, and (b) a respective temporal offset equal to a multiple of the short exposure-time. A method for encoding a video stream captured by the image sensor includes (i) for each subframe, linearly combining a long-exposure image, captured at the long exposure-time, and a short-exposure image, captured at the short exposure-time, to yield a residual image, (ii) combining at least some of the long-exposure images from the N subframes to yield a full-frame image having a higher resolution than any long-exposure image, (iii) encoding the full-frame image into a base layer of the video stream, and (iv) encoding at least some of the residual images from the N subframes into an enhancement layer of the video stream.

Abstract: An optical device includes an underlying device configured to output light in a first spectrum. A stacked device is coupled to the underlying device and configured to be coupled in overlapping fashion to an optical output of the underlying device. The stacked device is transparent to light in the first spectrum. The stacked device includes electro-optical circuits including: light emitters and detectors. Each detector is associated with one or more light emitters. Each detector is configured to detect light emitted from the underlying device. The light emitters are configured to output light dependent on light detected by an associated detector. Optical filters are optically coupled to an optical input of the underlying device. Each filter is aligned with a detector to suppress absorption of certain wavelengths of light by the underlying device thereby affecting light detected by the detectors and thus further affecting the light output by the light emitters.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for calculating an exposure evaluation value and an imaging device. The method includes: dividing an image into a plurality of blocks, the plurality of blocks being arranged in a plurality of rows and columns, for each row of the plurality of rows: for each block of the row: accumulating brightness values of the plurality of pixels in the block to obtain an accumulated brightness value; calculating an average brightness value of the block according to the accumulated brightness value; and writing the average brightness value into a first random access memory, and clearing the plurality of registers in response to writing the average brightness value of each block of the row into the first random access memory, and obtaining an exposure evaluation value according to the average brightness values of the plurality of blocks and predetermined weight coefficients of the plurality of blocks.

Abstract: A glass rear cover includes a light-transmitting region. The light-transmitting region at least partially overlaps with a camera assembly in a thickness direction of the glass rear cover. The light-transmitting region allows light out of the glass rear cover to pass through the light-transmitting region to enter the camera assembly. The glass rear cover includes a first predetermined region and a second predetermined region. The first predetermined region is configured close to the light-transmitting region, and a strength of the first predetermined region is less than a strength of the second predetermined region. Therefore, when the glass rear cover is stressed, an extension direction of the crack on the glass rear cover is turned at the first predetermined region without reaching the light-transmitting region, avoiding the impact on image capturing of the camera assembly.

Abstract: An image sensing device includes a pixel array including a plurality of pixels, each of pixels configured to generate a pixel signal corresponding to intensity of incident light, and a plurality of grid structures, each grid structure disposed to overlap with a boundary between adjacent pixels among the plurality of pixels and configured to include an air layer so as to optically isolate the adjacent pixels. Each of the grid structures includes regions that form a cross shape.