Abstract: In an embodiment, an image sensor includes: first and second voltage rails; first and second regulators configured to generate first and second regulated voltage at the first and second voltage rails, respectively; and a plurality of pixels coupled to the first and second voltage rails. Each pixel includes: first and second transistor coupled first and second storage capacitor, respectively. A third transistor is coupled between a control terminal of the first transistor and the first or second voltage rails. The third transistor is configured to limit a slew rate of current flowing between the control terminal of the second transistor and the first or second voltage rails to a first slew rate when the image sensor operates in global shutter mode, and to a second slew rate when the image sensor operates in rolling mode, the first slew rate being smaller than the second slew rate.

Abstract: A first tone correction unit generates a second image signal by applying, to a first image signal, first tone correction processing conforming to a first tone correction characteristic. A second tone correction unit generates a fourth image signal by applying, to a third image signal, second tone correction processing conforming to a second tone correction characteristic. A generation unit generates a fifth image signal by compositing a luminance component of the second image signal and a color difference component of the fourth image signal. A first tone conversion unit generates a sixth image signal by applying, to the fifth image signal, first tone conversion processing conforming to a non-linear first tone conversion characteristic. The second tone correction characteristic is determined based on the first tone correction characteristic and a non-linear second tone conversion characteristic.

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes a tilt detection unit that detects a tilt in the vertical direction, conversion data used for transforming plane coordinates into spherical coordinates, a correction unit that corrects the conversion data according to the tilt, a plurality of image capturing units, a coordinate transformation unit that transforms plane coordinates of a plurality of pixels included in images captured by the image capturing units into spherical coordinates according to the conversion data corrected by the correction unit, and a combining unit that combines the images including the pixels transformed into spherical coordinates by the coordinate transformation unit.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an apparatus that comprises an instruction receiving module configured to receive, at a master device, a set of instructions for operating a plurality of peripheral devices. The apparatus also comprises an instruction identification module configured to identify at least one subset of the set of instructions that are associated with at least one slave device. The apparatus further comprises an instruction distribution module configured to send the at least one subset of instructions to the at least one slave device. The apparatus additionally comprises a trigger module configured to send a start signal, from the master device to the at least one slave device, that triggers the at least one slave device to begin executing the at least one subset of instructions such that each of the plurality of peripheral devices operates synchronously based on the executing instructions.

Abstract: A device for supporting a smartphone having a camera or supporting an action camera has a holder configured for supporting a smartphone having a camera or supporting an action camera, a handle configured to be held by a user, and components for receiving audio signals from an audio signal source and reproducing the received audio signals in the vicinity of the handle.

Abstract: An electronic device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises: an image sensor for generating image data on the basis of incident light; and a plurality of image processing blocks (IP blocks), and may comprise an image signal processor (ISP) for processing the image data. The image signal processor may set a first processing path and a second processing path by at least one IP block among the plurality of image processing blocks on the basis of designated control information, divide the image data into first image data and second image data when the image data is received, process the first image data by using a first group image processing block on the first processing path, and process the second image data by using a second group image processing block on the second processing path. Various other embodiments understood from the specification are also possible.

Abstract: A device for time delay and integration imaging comprises: an array of pixels being arranged in rows and columns extending in a first and second direction, respectively. Pixels may accumulate generated charges in response to received electro-magnetic radiation along each column. The rows comprise at least one lateral charge shifting row to selectively shift accumulated charges in a column to an adjacent column and a controller configured to receive at least two angle correction input values. Each angle correction input value is based on a received intensity of electro-magnetic radiation on a measurement line, wherein the at least two angle correction input values are acquired by measurement lines extending in directions defining different angles in relation to the second direction, wherein the controller is configured to, based on the received at least two angle correction input values, control activation of the at least one lateral charge shifting row.

Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a pixel sensing circuit. The photoelectric conversion sub-circuit is configured to collect an incident light, and generate an electrical signal based on the incident light collected. The first resetting sub-circuit is configured to write a first power supply voltage to the signal collection point. The threshold compensation sub-circuit is configured to obtain a threshold voltage of the conversion transistor and a second controlling signal from the second controlling signal line, generate a compensation voltage according to the threshold voltage, and write the compensation voltage to the signal collection point. The conversion transistor is configured to output a current signal at the second electrode according to a voltage at the signal collection point. The selection sub-circuit is configured to output a current signal from the second electrode of the conversion transistor.

Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus including: a wide dynamic range (WDR) image sensor configured to output image frames by photographing a subject with different shutter times; and at least one processor to implement: a wide image synthesis unit configured to synthesize a WDR image based on n subchannels included in each of the image frames; a knee curve generating unit configured to generate an integral histogram of luminance levels of m×n subchannels included m image frames among the image frames, and generate a knee curve based on the integral histogram, where m and n each is an integer greater than zero; and a dynamic range transforming unit configured to reduce a dynamic range of the WDR image based on the generated knee curve.

Abstract: A disclosed system for providing wood-cultivated ginseng age information includes a background sheet made of paper or plastic, a consumer terminal configured to obtain a wood-cultivated ginseng image of a wood-cultivated ginseng placed on the background sheet by a user, receive the start line of a wood-cultivated ginseng rhizome and the end line of the wood-cultivated ginseng rhizome by the user, calculate a wood-cultivated ginseng rhizome length using the obtained wood-cultivated ginseng image and the obtained start line and end line of the wood-cultivated ginseng rhizome, and transmit the calculated wood-cultivated ginseng rhizome length, and a server configured to previously store wood-cultivated ginseng age information corresponding to a wood-cultivated ginseng rhizome length, search for wood-cultivated ginseng age information corresponding to the wood-cultivated ginseng rhizome length received from the consumer terminal, and transmit the retrieved wood-cultivated ginseng age information to the consumer t

Abstract: An image pickup device which suppresses an increase in chip area of peripheral circuits without degrading the performance of a pixel section and makes it possible to prevent costs from being increased. The image pickup device includes a first semiconductor substrate and a second semiconductor substrate. A pixel section includes photo diodes each for generate electric charges by photoelectric conversion, floating diffusions each for temporarily storing the electric charges generated by the photo diode, and amplifiers each connected to the floating diffusion, for outputting a signal dependent on a potential of the associated floating diffusion. Column circuits are connected to vertical signal lines, respectively, for performing predetermined processing on signals output from the pixel section to vertical signal lines.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus including a casing and a display device held on the casing at a holding position and including display sections each capable of independently displaying an image. The display sections include a first display section farthest from the holding position and at least one second display section including a display section held on the casing at the holding position. The display device is in one of a first state in which all angles each formed between adjacent display sections are larger than a first angle, a second state in which all the angles are smaller than a second angle smaller than the first angle, and a third state other than these states. When in the third state, an image is displayed on the first display section, and is not displayed on at least one of the second display sections.

Abstract: An image apparatus includes: an image sensor configured to successively generate image data by continuously imaging an object scene; a memory configured to successively store the image data generated by the image sensor; a touch panel configured to output a first signal for commanding shooting preparation by a touch operation of a user and a second signal for commanding shooting by a release operation of releasing the touch operation; and a processor configured to successively store the image data successively generated by the image sensor in the memory according to a first storage format when the first signal is input from the touch panel and store the image data successively generated by the image sensor in the memory according to a second storage format when the second signal is input from the touch panel.

Abstract: An electronic device and method are disclosed herein. The electronic device includes a display, a camera, a sensor circuit, a processor. The processor implements the method, including executing a preview mode and outputting a camera preview image, detecting movement of the device, detecting whether a movement distance reaches a reference distance, when the movement distance reaches the reference distance, detecting whether the movement direction matches a reference direction, and when the movement direction matches the reference direction, switching to a panorama capture mode.

Abstract: An imaging device proofed against ghosting and flaring in captured images includes a lens barrel and a lens module received in the lens barrel. The lens barrel comprises an inner surface and a supporting portion extending radially from the inner wall surface. The supporting portion has through hole for light entry, the through hole comprises a reflecting surface, the supporting portion comprises a top surface and a bottom surface, the reflecting surface connects the top surface and the bottom surface, and a plurality of light-scattering structures are formed on the reflecting surface.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus capable of making a user confirm effect of HDR reliably. An acquirer acquires a luminance component of an input image. A converter converts the luminance component acquired by the acquirer into a predetermined luminance value for each pixel. A generator generates a graph waveform image that shows a graph showing a distribution of the luminance values obtained through the conversion by the converter. A display controller displays the graph waveform image generated by the generator on a display unit. When the input image is recorded in a first mode, an axis representing the luminance values in the graph is a logarithmic axis, and the generator generates a logarithmic graph waveform image showing the distribution of the luminance values based on the logarithmic axis.

Abstract: A ramp signal generator and an image sensor including the same are disclosed, which relate to technology for allowing a ramp signal generator to reduce voltage drop and current deviation affected by fabrication change. The ramp signal generator includes a ramp array including a plurality of ramp circuits arranged in row and column directions and selectively activated by ramp control signals, and configured to generate an output current by summing currents from selectively activated ramp circuits, and a current-to-voltage converter configured to convert the output current into a voltage value to output the voltage value as a ramp signal. Each of the ramp circuits initializes a voltage of a charge node in response to an initialization voltage, and generates the output current based on charges in a charge transistor charged through the charge node when receiving a drive voltage.

Abstract: Certain embodiments of the disclosure relate to electronic devices and methods for controlling the display of images each obtained by a respective one of cameras.

Abstract: A digital camera (100) includes a drive unit that moves a movable unit including an imaging element (20) in directions X, Y, and ?, and a system controller (108) that controls the drive unit. The system controller (108) selectively performs a first control for moving the movable unit in at least one direction of the direction X, the direction Y, or the direction ?, and a second control for prohibiting movement of the movable unit in the direction ? and moving the movable unit only in at least one direction of the direction X or the direction Y, and the controller sets a movable range of the movable unit in the direction X and the direction Y in a case where the second control is performed to be wider than the movable range of the movable unit in the first direction and the second direction in a case where the first control is performed.

Abstract: An embodiment of a camera module includes a holder configured such that the upper and lower portions of the holder are open and such that a first hole and a second hole, opposite to the first hole, are formed in the side surface of the holder, a first lens unit coupled to the upper portion of the holder, a second lens unit coupled to the lower portion of the holder, and a liquid lens disposed in the first hole and the second hole of the holder between the first lens unit and the second lens unit, the liquid lens protruding outward from the side surface of the holder, wherein at least a portion of the liquid lens may be spaced apart from the inner surface of the holder.