Abstract: An image sensor includes a pixel array including a plurality of unit pixels arranged along a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. Each of the unit pixels includes a photoelectric conversion element generating and accumulating photocharges, a charge detection node receiving the photocharges accumulated in the photoelectric conversion element, a readout circuit converting the photocharges accumulated in and output from the charge detection node into an electrical pixel signal, the readout circuit outputting the electrical pixel signal, a capacitive element, and a switching element controlling connection between the charge detection node and the capacitive element. Each of the rows of the pixel array includes first pixels connected to a first conversion gain control line and second pixels connected to a second conversion gain control line.

Abstract: A control apparatus comprises a generation unit that generates a first synchronization signal and a second synchronization signal; and a control unit that controls the generation unit. The control unit controls the generation unit such that the first synchronization signal used to repeatedly readout a first image signal to be sequentially displayed on a display and the second synchronization signal used to display the first image signal on the display are output with a predetermined time difference. In a case where a second image signal is read out at a timing corresponding to a shooting instruction between readouts of the first image signals, the first and second synchronization signals are output with the predetermined time difference before and after the readouts of the second image signal.

Abstract: A ramp generator providing ramp signal with high resolution fine gain includes a current mirror having a first and second paths to conduct a capacitor current and an integrator current responsive to the capacitor current. First and second switched capacitor circuits are coupled to the first path. A fractional divider circuit is coupled to receive a clock signal to generate in response to an adjustable fractional divider ratio K a switched capacitor control signal that oscillates between first and second states to control the first and second switched capacitor circuits. The first and second switched capacitor circuits are coupled to be alternatingly charged by the capacitor current and discharged in response to each the switched capacitor control signal. An integrator coupled is to the second path to generate the ramp signal in response to the integrator current.

Abstract: Provided are a polarization imaging apparatus, a polarization imaging method, a controller and a computer readable storage medium. The polarization imaging apparatus includes an optical rotation device, a lens device, an image sensor, an image processor, and a controller which are sequentially arranged along a ray direction of incident light. The controller is configured to control the optical rotation device to be in a first optical rotation state or a second optical rotation state, control the lens device to be in an in-focus state or an out-of-focus state, and control the image sensor to collect light passing through the optical rotation device and the lens device to obtain multiple images. The image processor is configured to obtain polarized image information according to the multiple images.

Abstract: A method includes capturing, by a camera disposed behind a display panel of an electronic device, an original image through a semi-transparent pixel region of the display panel. The original image includes one or more color components. The method further includes determining, for a plurality of pixel regions of the original image, a point spread function (PSF) for each of the one or more color components. The method further includes performing, for the plurality of pixel regions of the original image, a deconvolution of each of the one or more color components of the original image based at least in part on their respective PSFs. The method thus includes generating a reconstructed image corresponding to the original image based on the deconvolutions of the one or more color components of the plurality of pixel regions of the original image.

Abstract: Disclosed are an electromagnetic interference control method and a related product. The method is for an electronic device including an antenna and a camera. The method includes: obtaining a first operating frequency of the camera and a second operating frequency of the antenna; determining the second operating frequency is interfered; in response to the second operating frequency being interfered, obtaining a target frame rate range; determining an operating frequency of the camera corresponding to each frame rate in the target frame rate range; obtaining an operating frequency list; determining at least one third operating frequency from the operating frequency list; and selecting one third operating frequency from the at least one third operating frequency as a first target operating frequency; determining a first target frame rate; operating the camera at the first target operating frequency; and performing the video function based on the first target frame rate.

Abstract: Provided is a photoelectric conversion apparatus including a plurality of pixels and a control unit, wherein each of the pixels includes a photoelectric conversion unit and a digital-signal output unit configured to output a digital signal based on the output of the photoelectric conversion unit, and the number of bits of the digital signal may be switched.

Abstract: According to the present invention, there is provided an information processing apparatus (10) including: an obtainment unit (12) which obtains a reference image; an extraction unit (13) which extracts, from a storage unit (11) which stores a provision image generated by a plurality of provision-image generation cameras installed in a facility, the provision image including a person included in the reference image; and a display control unit (14) which causes a display to display the provision image extracted by the extraction unit (13).

Abstract: Techniques, systems, architectures, and methods for reducing peak power during an Analog-to-Digital Conversion (ADC) process, in embodiments on a Focal Plane Array (FPA).

Abstract: An image detection device includes a liquid resonant lens system whose focal point is cyclically changeable; an image detector configured to detect a detection image in a to-be-imaged region through the lens system; a pulsed illuminator configured to emit pulsed light on the to-be-imaged region in synchronization with the focal point; and an illumination controller configured to increase or decrease an illumination duration of the pulsed illuminator depending on a required light volume of the to-be-imaged region at the focal point where the pulsed illuminator emits pulsed light.

Abstract: Pulsed hyperspectral, fluorescence, and laser mapping imaging without input clock or data transmission clock is disclosed. A system includes an emitter for emitting pulses of electromagnetic radiation and an image sensor comprising a pixel array for sensing reflected electromagnetic radiation. The system includes a plurality of bidirectional data pads and a controller in communication with the image sensor. The system is such that at least a portion of the pulses of electromagnetic radiation emitted by the emitter comprises one or more of: electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength from about 513 nm to about 545 nm, from about 565 nm to about 585 nm, from about 900 nm to about 1000 nm, an excitation wavelength of electromagnetic radiation that causes a reagent to fluoresce, or a laser mapping pattern.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device capable of suppressing variations in reference voltages and improving performance of reference voltages is provided. According to one embodiment, the solid-state imaging device includes a pixel outputting a luminance signal voltage corresponding to an amount of incident light, reference voltages, a reference voltage generation circuit outputting a ramp signal and an inverse ramp signal, and an AD converter, and the AD converter includes a comparator including an amplifier coupled to one input terminal, a reference voltage and an input terminal coupled to each of the ramp signals via a capacitor, and an input terminal coupled to each of the reference voltage and the ramp signal via a capacitor, and a ramp current cancel circuit coupled to each of the reference voltages via a cancel capacitor.

Abstract: An example image capture device includes memory configured to store display content and image information received from a camera sensor, the camera sensor being configured to receive light through at least a portion of a display. The image capture device includes one or more processors coupled to the memory. The one or more processors are configured to determine a camera sensor blanking period. The one or more processors are configured to control the display to display content via one or more of a plurality of pixels in the at least a portion of the display during the camera sensor blanking period. The one or more processors are configured to control the display to not display content via the one or more of the plurality of pixels outside of the camera sensor blanking period.

Abstract: A vibration reliability calculation apparatus 10 is provided with an image acquisition unit 11 that acquires time-series images of an object that are output by an image capturing apparatus that shoots the object, and a reliability calculation unit 12 that calculates, for a vibration waveform of the object that is derived from a result of comparing one image and another image that constitute the acquired time-series images, a reliability level indicating a reliability of the vibration waveform.

Abstract: The disclosure can provide a method for shooting a video. The method includes: obtaining a target music file for shooting the video and a preset shooting duration; obtaining shooting guidance information based on beat information of the target music file and the preset shooting duration; the shooting guidance information including a number of clips of the video within the preset shooting duration and a clip duration of each of the clips; and displaying the shooting guidance information in a shooting interface.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus, an imaging apparatus, an image processing method, and a non-transitory computer readable medium for storing an image processing program capable of controlling the brightness of a desired color in a captured image are provided. A brightness and color difference conversion processing unit generates a reference first brightness signal “Y1” and color difference signals “Cb and Cr” from color signals “R1, G1, and B1” of three primary colors after gamma conversion. A second brightness signal generation unit generates a second brightness signal “Y2” in which a value of a brightness signal corresponding to a target color is decreased with respect to the first brightness signal “Y1” from the color signals “R1, G1, and B1”. The brightness of the desired target color can be controlled according to the reference first brightness signal “Y1” and the second brightness signal “Y2”.

Abstract: A method for operating a messaging system for sending modifiable videos including a self-image of a user is provided. The method includes providing a face outline to assist with taking the self-image. Instructions relating to a light level, a facial expression, a face position, and a face size may be provided to the user. A smile measurement is displayed to enable the user to adjust the current smile level to a target smile level. A stock video may be created using an actor wearing a mask and facing a video camera. The mask is a marker for insertion of the self-image. The stock video is uploaded to a database of stock videos and, after selection by a user, is combined with a self-image to form a personalized video.

Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to the synchronization of image sensors with different exposure durations. In some embodiments, a system may include multiple image sensors, such as cameras, that have differing exposure durations. A data management component may be configured to receive sensor data from the image sensors. In addition, a synchronization component may be configured to transmit a shutter synchronization pulse to the image sensors. Finally, a tracking component may be configured to temporally center, based at least in part on the shutter synchronization pulse, the differing exposure durations of the image sensors. Various other systems and methods are also disclosed.

Abstract: An imaging device includes a first imaging unit that captures a first capturing region, a second imaging unit that captures a second capturing region of the first capturing region, a holding unit that holds position information corresponding to the second capturing region captured by the second imaging unit, an output unit that outputs a cutout image of the second capturing region corresponding to the position information held by the holding unit out of a captured image captured by the first imaging unit, and a change unit that, when one of a plurality of cutout images output by the output unit is selected, controls the second imaging unit so as to capture the second capturing region corresponding to the selected cutout image.

Abstract: Techniques for synchronizing acquisition of image data by cameras in a multi-camera system using a waveform associated with an AC power supply for the cameras. Each camera in the multi-camera system may receive power from the AC power supply provided using an AC voltage signal. Further, each camera may be configured to identify predefined voltages on a waveform of the AC voltage signal. By detecting the predefined voltage on the waveform of the AC voltage signal, the cameras may be synchronized according to a frequency of the AC voltage signal. The cameras may be configured to synchronize acquisition of image data from respective imaging sensors based on the frequency of the AC voltage signal. In this way, the cameras of the multi-camera system may be synchronized using an AC power signal delivered through wires that are used to deliver power to the multiple cameras.