Abstract: A digital camera includes a vibration detector, an imaging element shift mechanism that corrects a shake of an image captured by an imaging element, and a system control unit, in which the system control unit performs a first control of driving the imaging element shift mechanism based on vibration information output from the vibration detector, and in a case where it is determined to be in a first state based on the vibration information, predicts the vibration information (angular velocity) output from the vibration detector at a timing of finish of the first state.

Abstract: An image processing device includes a target pixel detector configured to detect a plurality of target pixels in which noise is generated among a plurality of pixels included in an image sensor. The image processing device also includes a target pixel corrector configured to change target pixel values, which are pixel values of the plurality of target pixels, by using average pixel values of neighboring pixels included in a preset range based on a position of each of the plurality of target pixels. The image processing device further includes a target pixel compensator configured to compensate for the target pixel values by using an accumulation value obtained by accumulating values corresponding to a decimal fraction part of the average pixel values.

Abstract: An image sensing system control method comprising: (a) receiving a first polling from the control circuit by the image sensor at a first polling time; (b) triggering a first dummy read at a first dummy read time after the first polling time, to compute output motion delta occurs between the first polling time and the first dummy read time according to frames sensed by the image sensor between the first polling time and the first dummy read time; (c) receiving a second polling from the control circuit by the image sensor at a second polling time after the first dummy read time; and (d) outputting the output motion delta to the control circuit by the image sensor in a predetermined time range of the second polling time.

Abstract: Various embodiments include sensor shift flexure arrangements for improved signal routing. For example, a camera with sensor shift actuation may include a flexure for suspending an image sensor from a stationary structure of the camera, and for allowing motion of the image sensor enabled by one or more actuators of the camera. The flexure may be configured to convey electrical signals between the image sensor and a flex circuit in some embodiments. According to some embodiments, the flexure may include a stack of layers comprising a conductive layer and an electrical grounding. The conductive layer may include a signal pad region and a signal trace region. A distance between at least one section of the signal pad region and the electrical grounding may be greater than a distance between at least a section of the signal trace region and the electrical grounding.

Abstract: An electronic device is provided, including a main body and a camera module. The camera module has a frame, a lens unit disposed in the frame, a guiding member, and a hinge. The guiding member is affixed to the main body and has a rail and a spring sheet. The hinge pivotally connects to the frame and the guiding member. When the camera module is in the retracted position, the camera module is hidden in a recess of the main body. When the camera module slides out of the recess from the retracted position along the rail into the operational position, the spring sheet is pressed by the hinge to increase the friction between the hinge and the guiding member.

Abstract: An apparatus includes an image sensor having a plurality of pixels that form regions of interest (ROIs), analog-to-digital converter (ADC) banks, and multiplexers. Each respective multiplexer is electrically connected to (i) a corresponding ADC bank and (ii) a corresponding subset of the ROIs. The apparatus also includes control circuitry configured to obtain a full-resolution image of an environment by electrically connecting, by way of the multiplexers, each respective ADC bank to the associated respective ROI. The control circuitry is also configured to select a particular ROI based on the full-resolution image and obtain a plurality of ROI images of the particular ROI by (i) electrically connecting, to the particular ROI, a first ADC bank associated with the particular ROI and a second ADC bank associated with another ROI and (ii) digitizing pixels of the particular ROI by way of parallel operation of the first and second ADC banks.

Abstract: Provided are a camera module and an imaging apparatus including the same. The camera module includes a printed circuit board (PCB); a first imaging device on the PCB, the first imaging device configured to generate first image data based on a received optical signal; a second imaging device on the PCB, the second imaging device configured to generate second image data based on the received optical signal; a power management integrated circuit (PMIC) on the PCB, the PMIC configured to generate a plurality of power voltages based on an external power voltage received from an external power supply and provide the plurality of power voltages to the first imaging device and the second imaging device; and a connector configured to receive the external power voltage from the external power supply and provide the external power voltage to the PMIC.

Abstract: A pixel processing circuit, a reading method thereof and an image sensor are provided. The pixel processing circuit includes a pixel array comprising a plurality of pixel units arranged in a Bayer array, an Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) module comprising a plurality of analog-to-digital converters and a plurality of switch selection modules. The analog-to-digital converters are respectively located on the opposite first side and second side of the pixel array. The switch selection modules are set between the pixel array and the analog-to-digital converters to switch the connectivity between the pixel units and the analog-to-digital converters on the opposite sides of the pixel array so that signals of green pixel units are read by first analog-to-digital converters located at the first side of the pixel array, and signals of remaining color pixel units are read by second analog-to-digital converters that are located at the second side of the pixel array.

Abstract: A method that determines optical path maintenance need before any critical failure in operation of the system is provided. In order to indicate the maintenance need due to the defocusing, the pixel-wise offset value differences between 2 point NUC and 1 point NUC are examined. When the width of this pixel-wise offset difference histogram is greater than predefined threshold, maintenance need is raised. The change in detector characteristics and the need for 2 point NUC/BPR update are proposed to be determined after 1 point NUC by controlling the total number of the bad pixels and bad pixel clusters.

Abstract: An image sensor for sampling a pixel signal a plurality of times during a readout time includes an analog comparator configured to compare a signal level of the pixel signal with a signal level of a target ramp signal that is any one of a plurality of ramp signals, a counter configured to output counting data based on a comparison result of the analog comparator, and a digital comparing circuit configured to compare a binary value of a target reference code corresponding to the target ramp signal with a binary value of the counting data and determine whether to output a digital signal corresponding to the counting data to a data output circuit based on a result of the comparison between the binary value of the counting data and the binary value of the target reference code.

Abstract: An ultrafast camera system includes a sensor head that injects an optical pulse train input from a pulsed laser onto a surface of a measurement target and outputs an optical signal reflected from the surface, and a timing detector that receives the optical signal whose time-of-flight is changed after passing through the sensor head and outputs an electrical signal corresponding to a timing error between the optical signal and a reference signal. Another ultrafast camera system includes a wavelength dispersion device to disperse an optical pulse train of a pulsed laser into a wavelength spectrum, a lens that vertically injects continuous wavelength signals dispersed into the wavelength spectrum onto a measurement line, and a timing detector that receives an optical signal including the continuous wavelength signals reflected from the measurement line, and outputs a timing error between the reference signal and the continuous wavelength signals as a signal intensity.

Abstract: An image capture device may capture a video. A part of the video may include depiction of an object of interest, and another part of the video may not include depiction of the object of interest. Stabilization of the video may switch between object stabilization and movement stabilization based on whether or not the video depicts the object of interest. The part of the video depicting the object of interest may be stabilized using object stabilization. The part of the video not depicting the object of interest may be stabilized using movement stabilization.

Abstract: A method for estimating a signal charge collected by a pixel of an image sensor includes determining an average bias that depends on the pixel's floating-diffusion dark current and pixel-sampling period. The method also includes determining a signal-charge estimate as the average bias subtracted from a difference between a weighted sum of a plurality of N multiple-sampling values each multiplied by a respective one of a plurality of N sample-weights.

Abstract: Image capture devices and methods may be used to pre-buffer media storage. The pre-buffering method includes recording an image capture segment in a circular buffer. The circular buffer includes a number of recordable segments. The pre-buffering method includes determining whether a key moment command is received. If a key moment command is not received, the method includes recording a next image capture segment in a next adjacent recordable segment of the circular buffer if the next adjacent recordable segment of the predetermined number of recordable segments is available. If a key moment command is not received, the method includes overwriting an oldest recordable segment if the next adjacent recordable segment of the predetermined number of recordable segments is not available. If a key moment command is received, the pre-buffering method includes marking a wrap point in the circular buffer and switching from recording in the circular buffer to linear recording.

Abstract: A display control device for controlling a display panel is switchable between a first display mode in which a video is displayed at a first vertical resolution and a second display mode in which a video is displayed at a second vertical resolution that is lower than the first vertical resolution. The display control device comprises at least one memory and at least one processor which function as: a control unit configured, in a first case where a first operation is received in the first display mode, to change to the second display mode after changing a display update timing in the first display mode, and in a second case where a second operation is received in the second display mode, to change the display update timing after changing to the first display mode.

Abstract: A disclosed comparator includes a comparison circuit that performs comparison between an input signal and a reference signal and changes a level of a signal to be output to a first node in accordance with a result of the comparison; and a positive feedback circuit including an amplifier unit that includes a current source load and outputs a signal in accordance with a potential of the first node to a second node and a feedback unit that positively feeds back a signal in accordance with a potential of the second node to the first node. The feedback unit includes a first transistor to which output of the amplifier unit is fed back and a switch that controls turning on or off of the first transistor.

Abstract: A depth imaging system in a vehicle includes a lens that includes a polarization-coded aperture. The polarization-coded aperture includes a perpendicular polarization portion to pass incident light entering the perpendicular polarization portion of the polarization-coded aperture as perpendicularly polarized light. The polarization-coded aperture also includes a parallel polarization portion to pass the incident light entering the parallel polarization portion of the polarization-coded aperture as parallel polarized light. An image sensor provides a perpendicularly polarized image based on the perpendicularly polarized light and a parallel polarized image based on the parallel polarized light. A controller processes the perpendicularly polarized image and the parallel polarized image to identify one or more objects in a field of view of the depth imaging system and to determine a range to each of the one or more objects.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion device may operate in a first to third driving modes. In the first driving mode in which a correction value is acquired, an analog-to-digital conversion unit compares a first analog signal with a reference signal to acquire the correction value. In the second driving mode in which a pixel signal is read, a reading condition is set based on a result of comparing the pixel signal with a threshold signal. In the third driving mode, at least one of the first analog signal and the threshold signal is controlled to reduce a difference between a potential of the first analog signal and a potential of the threshold signal.

Abstract: An electronic device (200) having an array of pixels (210; 400; 500; 810), and pixel modulation drivers (D1 to D8), each pixel modulation drivers (D1 to D8) being configured to drive a sub-array (R1 to R8) of the pixels.

Abstract: The disclosure includes a security system including an outdoor security device. In some embodiments, the outdoor security device comprises a housing, a light coupled to the housing and located within a hollow inner portion of the housing, and a camera and a lens coupled to the housing. In some embodiments, the security device comprises at least one directional microphone communicatively coupled to the camera and configured to determine a location of a detected sound whereby the camera performs a frame lock to capture an image associated with the detected sound.