Abstract: In a solid-state imaging device 10, the first binning switch 81 is formed such that a MOS capacitance and a wire capacitance of a wire connected to the binning switch 81, each having a value in accordance with an ON or OFF state, are added to a capacitance of a floating diffusion FD of a pixel PXL to be read, so as to optimize the capacitance of the floating diffusion FD and optimally adjust a conversion gain in accordance with a mode. This operation increases an image quality.

Abstract: Various embodiments include a camera with a voice coil motor (VCM) actuator assembly to provide autofocus (AF) and/or optical image stabilization (OIS) movement. The VCM actuator assembly is configured to move an image sensor of the camera in three dimensions (e.g. X, Y, and Z) to provide the AF and/or OIS movements. The VCM actuator assembly is asymmetrical and includes an at least partially open side that allows an optical assembly of the camera to pass through the open side of the VCM actuator. In some embodiments, the optical assembly is part of a folded optics arrangement of the camera that includes one or more prisms/and or lenses.

Abstract: A method of setting values of camera settings of a camera, the method comprising determining a plurality of sets of objective image parameters values of images captured by the camera, the value of at least one camera setting being different for each set of objective image parameters; obtaining a trade-off value; determining for each set of objective image parameters values, a quality value and a resource consumption value; determining a value of the at least one camera setting optimizing a trade-off between the quality and the resource consumption according to the trade-off value based on the determined quality values and resource consumption values; and setting the value of the at least one camera setting to the determined value.

Abstract: A system and method of applying special effects to video data. The interface can be associated with an electronic device including a processor in communication with a camera and a memory unit, or can receive pre-recorded video. A first speed rate of the video can be changed, by modifying at least one frame in the video data to create a modified video data at a modified speed rate that is different to the first speed rate. This allows for continuous recording and/or displaying of video at different speed rates without altering operations or settings. A video loop operation can be applied to selected segments of the video data and combined with non-selected segments to create a single continuous video stream. Slow and/or fast motion effects can be applied to the selected segments of the video loop by adding frames to or deleting frames from the selected segment.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a calculation unit that calculates a composite ratio of each area based on a contrast value of a plurality of images, an adjustment unit that conducts an adjustment to the composite ratio, and a composition unit that generates a composite image by composition for the plurality of images based on a composite ratio resulting from the adjustment, wherein the adjustment unit makes a relationship between the composite ratios of neighboring areas for the image more smooth in the adjustment, and wherein, in the adjustment, a degree of the adjustment of a first area having a first contrast value is higher than a degree of the adjustment of a second area having a second contrast value that is higher than the first contrast value.

Abstract: A radiation image capturing apparatus includes: scanning lines and signal lines; radiation detection elements; a scan driver switching a switching element of the radiation detection elements between on and off; and a readout IC incorporating readout circuits reading, as image data, electric charges from each radiation detection element, the readout circuit including: an integrating circuit outputting a voltage value corresponding to the electric charges; a reset switch resetting the integrating circuit; a first sample-and-hold circuit holding, as a reference value, the voltage value before the electric charges flow; a second sample-and-hold circuit holding, as a signal value, the voltage value after the electric charges flow; and a difference circuit outputting difference between the signal value and the reference value, the radiation image capturing apparatus further including a mechanism changing the voltage value from completion of the resetting and turning off of the reset switch until holding of the refe

Abstract: An electronic device includes a body, a functional assembly, and a sliding mechanism. The body may define a receiving cavity. The functional assembly may be rotatably connected to the body. The sliding mechanism may be received inside the body. The sliding mechanism may include a sliding rail arranged on one of the body and the functional assembly, and a sliding element arranged on the other of the body and the functional assembly. The sliding element may be slidable along the sliding rail, such that the functional assembly is able to rotate from an inside of the receiving cavity to an outside of the receiving cavity or rotate from the outside of the receiving cavity to the inside of the receiving cavity.

Abstract: An image sensor includes: an image obtainer configured to generate image information by converting received light into an electrical signal; a first detector configured to detect first time information regarding a first time at which the image obtainer acquires the image information; a second detector configured to receive a plurality of pieces of movement information indicating movements of the image obtainer, and detecting second time information regarding a second time at which at least one piece of movement information among the plurality of pieces of movement information is received. A single port is configured to output the image information, the first time information, output movement information selected from among the plurality of pieces of movement information, and the second time information regarding the selected output movement information.

Abstract: Disclosed is a camera module. The camera module includes: a lens barrel disposed in a housing to receive a lens assembly; an elastic member in at least one of the housing and the lens barrel; a driving unit moving the lens barrel relative to the housing; and a sensor unit fixed to the housing.

Abstract: Image-sensing devices include odd-symmetry gratings that cast interference patterns over a photodetector array. Grating features offer considerable insensitivity to the wavelength of incident light, and also to the manufactured distance between the grating and the photodetector array. Photographs and other image information can be extracted from interference patterns captured by the photodetector array. Images can be captured without a lens, and cameras can be made smaller than those that are reliant on lenses and ray-optical focusing.

Abstract: There is provided an imaging control apparatus including a control section that creates a first image by performing exposing to a pixel with first exposure by a first exposure time and creates a second image by performing exposing to a pixel with second exposure by a second exposure time in succession to the first image and a synthesizing section that synthesizes a synthesized image in which the first image and the second image have been synthesized and a selected image selected from either the first image or the second image. The control section decides the first exposure time and the second exposure time such that an image to be selected as the selected image in the synthesizing section is switched over on a basis of an exposure ratio being a ratio of an exposure time of the synthesized image and an exposure time of the selected image.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes a computing system which may receive captured image data from a camera assembly. The camera assembly may include one or more cameras and an actuator to move the cameras. The image data may include frames that were captured while the actuator was moving the cameras. The computing system may determine for each frame, the time and position of the camera at the point that the image data was captured. The computing system may then generate an index of the captured image data and the associated time and position data. The index may be utilized for reconstructing the scene around the camera assembly from a viewpoint which is different from the viewpoint of any one of the cameras. This reconstruction may be performed based on one or more frames of the captured image data queried using the index, the viewpoint, and a time of interest.

Abstract: A digital camera includes a detection unit, an operation history storage unit, an analysis unit, a determination unit, and a warning unit. The detection unit detects an imaging operation and a setting operation of a user as user operation information. The setting operation is an operation to set setting information of a first setting item and setting information of a second setting item selectable exclusively with respect to the setting information of the first setting item for setting items relating to imaging conditions. The analysis unit acquires normal operation information based on an imaging operation history and a setting operation history stored in the operation history storage unit. After the normal operation information is acquired, in a case where the user operation information is different from the normal operation information, the determination unit determines that the user is in the confused state. The warning unit issues a warning in a case where determination is made to be the confused state.

Abstract: Disclosed is a camera module. The camera module includes: a lens barrel disposed in a housing to receive a lens assembly; an elastic member in at least one of the housing and the lens barrel; a driving unit moving the lens barrel relative to the housing; and a sensor unit fixed to the housing.

Abstract: The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging device, an electronic apparatus, a lens control method, and a vehicle capable of suppressing deterioration in quality of a captured image. A sub block includes a plurality of pixels of the same color, a block includes a plurality of sub blocks including different colors, and phase difference detection pixels are disposed at positions corresponding to each other in two or more sub blocks in a case in which the phase difference detection pixels are disposed in two or more sub blocks among the plurality of sub blocks configuring the block. For example, the present technology is able to be applied to a camera that calculates an amount of a deviation of a focus and performs focus control on a basis of a calculated defocus amount.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for transferring color information from a no-flash image of a scene to a flash image of the scene using a localized tonal mapping algorithm. In some aspects, an example method can include obtaining a no-flash image and a flash image, mapping color information from the no-flash image to the flash image, and generating an output image including the flash image modified based on the mapping to include at least a portion of the color information from the no-flash image.

Abstract: In general, the subject matter can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for identifying, by a computing system and using first and second frames of a video, a transformation that indicates movement of a camera with respect to the frames. The computing system generates a modified transformation so that the transformation is less representative of recent movement. The computing system uses the transformation and the modified transformation to generate a second transformation. The computing system identifies an anticipated distortion that would be present in a stabilized version of the second frame. The computing system determines an amount by which to reduce a stabilizing effect. The computing system applies the second transformation to the second frame to stabilize the second frame, where the stabilizing effect has been reduced based on the determined amount by which to reduce the stabilizing effect.

Abstract: An image sensor includes a photodiode disposed in a semiconductor material to generate image charge in response to incident light, and a first transfer gate is coupled to the photodiode to extract image charge from the photodiode in response to a first transfer signal. A first storage gate is coupled to the first transfer gate to receive the image charge from the first transfer gate, and a first output gate is coupled to the first storage gate to receive the image charge from the first storage gate. A first capacitor is coupled to the first output gate to store the image charge.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media directed to generating training image data for a convolutional neural network, encoding parameters into a convolutional neural network, and employing a convolutional neural network that estimates camera calibration parameters of a camera responsible for capturing a given digital image. A plurality of different digital images can be extracted from a single panoramic image given a range of camera calibration parameters that correspond to a determined range of plausible camera calibration parameters. With each digital image in the plurality of extracted different digital images having a corresponding set of known camera calibration parameters, the digital images can be provided to the convolutional neural network to establish high-confidence correlations between detectable characteristics of a digital image and its corresponding set of camera calibration parameters.

Abstract: An imaging device includes pixels each including a photoelectric conversion unit and a charge holding unit and a control unit that performs first control, which causes the pixels to perform an operation that includes an exposure operation of the photoelectric conversion unit, a reset operation of the charge holding unit, and a charge transfer operation from the photoelectric conversion unit to the charge holding unit and updates charges held by the charge holding unit by the reset and charge transfer operations, and second control to read out a signal based on charges held by the charge holding unit from each of the pixels. The control unit repeats the first control at a predetermined cycle without inserting the second control in a first period before a trigger signal is externally input and changes the first control to the second control when the trigger signal is externally input after the first period.