Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a display unit, a communication unit configured to read, from another electronic apparatus having a plurality of operation modes, information regarding a current operation mode of the another electronic apparatus, and a controller configured to select a user interface screen which is displayed on the display unit in accordance with the information regarding the operation mode read by the communication unit.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for processing at least a portion of an input digital image comprising rows of pixels extending in two mutually perpendicular directions over a 2D field. The method comprises defining a kernel for processing an image, the kernel comprising at least one row of contiguous elements of the same non-zero value (such rows being referred to herein as equal-valued kernel regions), the equal-valued kernel regions, if more than one, extending parallel to one another. For each pixel in at least selected parallel rows of pixels within the image portion, the cumulative sum of the pixel is calculated by adding a value of the pixel to the sum of all preceding pixel values in the same row of the image portion. The kernel is convolved with the image portion at successive kernel positions relative to the image portion such that each pixel in each selected row is a target pixel for a respective kernel position.

Abstract: An image generating apparatus includes a first generator configured to obtain a first image using a first camera with a first angle of view, a second generator configured to obtain a second image using a second camera with a second angle of view wider than the first angle of view, and a generator configured to generate an observation image using the first image and the second image. The observation image is observable as a double image in which the first image and the second image are superimposed on each other in an area that contains a center of the first image.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a readout unit that reads out information recorded in association with an image and that indicates an effect applied to the image, a processing unit that applies an effect to an image, and a control unit that, in a case where the information indicating the effect applied to the image has been read out, performs control to restrict the processing unit from applying to the image a part of effects including an effect other than the applied effect and being set according to the applied effect indicated by the information, from among a plurality of effects that can be applied by the processing unit.

Abstract: A data transfer circuit that can suppress a voltage drop in a start signal without narrowing a process margin. The data transfer circuit includes N stages of register sections that are connected in series. A register section at an nth stage includes: a first transfer gate that transfers an analog signal; a second transfer gate that transfers one clock out of a clock signal, thereby generating an (n+1)th start signal for a register section at an (n+1)th stage; a control signal generation circuit that generates control signals for the first transfer gate and the second transfer gate; and a holding capacitor. The control signal generation circuit includes a third transfer gate that transfers an nth start signal that is input from a register section at an (n?1)th stage, and the third transfer gate is formed as a CMOS logic circuit.

Abstract: Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for dynamic pixel binning are presented. In one example, an image sensor system includes a plurality of sensor elements; a plurality of floating diffusion regions in communication with the plurality of sensor elements, each floating diffusion region of the plurality of floating diffusion regions configured to be selectively enabled; and at least one comparison circuit coupled to at least two floating diffusion regions of the plurality of floating diffusion regions, the comparison circuit configured to: receive input signals from the two floating diffusion regions, compare the input signals, and output a comparison signal based on the comparison of the input signals.

Abstract: A pixel in an integrated-circuit image sensor is enabled to output, throughout a sampling interval, an analog signal having an amplitude dependent, at least in part, on photocharge integrated within a photosensitive element of the pixel. A plurality of samples of the analog signal are generated during an initial portion of the sampling interval that is shorter than a settling time for a maximum possible level of the analog signal.

Abstract: A protective case for an electronic device includes a top member and a bottom member. The top member has a perimeter portion configured for receiving at least a portion of the electronic device and clasping members positioned around interior surfaces of at least two sides. The top member further includes alignment posts around the perimeter and an opening that frames a display of the installed electronic device. The bottom member includes clasping members configured to engage the clasping members of the top member to removably attach the bottom member to the top member The bottom member also includes one or more alignment channels for receiving the alignment posts of the top member to align the top member with the bottom member.

Abstract: An image processing method comprising: receiving a first image signal representing a portion of a captured image with a first dynamic range; generating a second image signal using the first image signal: applying one of: a first gain to the brightness value of each pixel in the portion of the captured image represented by the first image signal having a brightness value less than a first threshold brightness value, the first gain serving to increase the brightness value of each pixel to which it is applied, and a second gain to the brightness value of each pixel in the portion of the captured image represented by the first image signal having a brightness value greater than a second threshold brightness value, the second gain serving to decrease the brightness value of each pixel to which it is applied; and after the application of the one of the first and second gains, performing a conversion process such that the brightness value of each pixel in the portion of the captured image represented by the first im

Abstract: Pixels output a first signal based on signal charge of a part of photoelectric conversion units of multiple photoelectric conversion units, and a second signal based on signal charge of multiple photoelectric conversion units. An imaging apparatus outputs signals based on the first signals and signals based on the second signals by reducing the number of signals based on the first signals as compared to the number of signals based on the second signals.

Abstract: An imaging device has a lens holding member; a base member for holding the lens holding member; and a substrate to which the base member is secured. The lens holding member holds at least one lens. The base member has a contact surface that is perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens, and contacts an end face of the lens holding member in a state wherein the lens holding member is held; and an opening portion through which passes the optical axis of the lens, provided in the contact surface. The substrate has an imaging element on which light that has passed through the lens and through the opening portion of the base member is incident.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus which, when performing image-plane phase-difference AF, eliminate a noise difference in phase difference information obtained based on signals read from pupil-dividing pixels of an image pickup device, which are arranged in rows and columns in a two-dimensional form. A first image signal is read from one pixel of each pupil-dividing pixels, and a second image signal is read from the other pixel. The order in which they are read is alternately switched on a row-by-row basis. Each of the first and second image signals is subtracted from a third image signal, which is a sum of the first image signal and the second image signal, to obtain first and second separated image signals. The first image signal and the first separated image signal are added together, and the second image signal and the second separated image signal are added together in the column direction.

Abstract: A subject detection unit of an imaging apparatus detects a subject image from an image. An automatic zoom control unit determines whether the subject detection unit detects the subject image in a specific region and performs first control such that a zoom magnification is controlled on a telephoto side based on a determination result when the subject image is not detected in the specific region. The automatic zoom control unit changes the first control to second control when the subject detection unit detects the subject image in the specific region, and controls the zoom magnification based on a reference size and a sequentially detected size of the subject image.

Abstract: An interchangeable lens includes: a mount unit on which a camera body can be mounted; a driven member; a drive unit that drives the driven member; a storage unit that stores lens data related to driving of the driven member by the drive unit; and a transmitter that sends lens-side judgment data, based on which whether the lens data is properly stored in the storage unit can be judged at the camera body, to the camera body.

Abstract: A subject detection unit of an imaging apparatus detects a subject image from an image. An automatic zoom control unit automatically selects a specific composition among a plurality of compositions, sets a reference size of the subject image used to control a zoom magnification based on the selected composition, and controls the zoom magnification according to the reference size and a size of the subject image detected by the subject detection unit. The selectable composition differs between when a photographing state is a photographing preparation state of a still image and when the photographing state is a recording state of a moving image.

Abstract: Synchronization of simultaneously captured media in a multi-camera system is performed using a consistent file structure within the cameras. A primary camera receives a bitmap describing the file and folder utilization of each of one or more secondary cameras. The primary camera selects a folder number and file position number that is commonly available across all cameras. The primary camera directs the secondary cameras to store subsequently simultaneously captured media content at the selected file number and folder position number. During post-processing, simultaneously-captured content is accessed based on common folder numbers and file position numbers. A post-processing system compares a timestamp associated with each content file in a group with matching folder numbers and file position numbers to identify false positive groupings.

Abstract: An imaging module and an electronic device including the imaging module are provided. The imaging module includes a flexible printed circuit board and an imaging unit including two cameras arranged side by side and connected to the flexible printed circuit board. The flexible printed circuit board includes a projection portion projecting to a side edge of the imaging unit. The side edge extends along an arranging direction of the two cameras, and a width of the projection portion in the arranging direction is less than a length of the side edge.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for automatically identifying defective pixels captured by a motion picture camera within a sequence of frames is disclosed. The method comprises applying a spatio-temporal metric for each pixel in each frame wherein the spatio-temporal metric weights the spatial severity of error in the pixel by a degree of motion at the pixel to produce a weighted spatio-temporal metric value. The weighted spatio-temporal metric values for each pixel are compared to a threshold to automatically identify defective pixels within the sequence of frames.

Abstract: An information terminal includes an image-capturing information acquisition unit that acquires image-capturing information added to a captured image selected from among one or more captured images; a position information acquisition unit that acquires position information; a communication unit that acquires, from the outside, environmental change information in the past and environmental change information in the future on the basis of the image-capturing information and the position information; a comparison unit that compares the environmental change information in the past with the environmental change information in the future; and a report unit that reports an image-capturing opportunity on the basis of a result of the comparison performed by the comparison unit.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide is an on-vehicle image processing device that achieves low cost and provides high mounting accuracy and high electrical adjustment accuracy during a manufacturing process. The on-vehicle image processing device includes a first imaging section, a second imaging section, and an enclosure having the first imaging section at one end and the second imaging section at the other end. The on-vehicle image processing device generates a range image from images captured by the first and second imaging sections. The on-vehicle image processing device further includes an enclosure reference surface that comes in contact with an equipment jig during manufacture, the enclosure reference surface being provided at two locations between the first and second imaging sections.