Abstract: A method for assisting the acquisition of a media content at a scene provided with at least one main acquisition unit connected to a server is disclosed. The method includes performing by a processing unit of the server: receiving, from an electronic device including a secondary acquisition unit, a request for acquiring a media content at the scene, the request including data representative of acquisition conditions at the secondary acquisition unit; and providing in response a first media content generated as a function of data representative of acquisition conditions at the secondary acquisition unit from generic media content outputted by the at least one main acquisition unit.

Abstract: An ultrathin camera device is provided. The ultrathin camera device comprises an optical module including a microlens array in which microlenses are arranged, an image sensor that outputs electrical image signals by sensing light coming through the microlens array, spacers that form a focal length by separating the optical module from the image sensor, and a processor that outputs a final image by reconstructing array images generated from the image signals with a designated imaging process depending on a distance at which the object is located. Here, each microlens convexly protrudes toward the image sensor.

Abstract: An optical device includes: a display device configured to display an image; a camera mounting component on the display device; a camera on the camera mounting component; and a multi-channel lens on the camera covering the camera and the camera mounting component, wherein the camera comprises an image sensor.

Abstract: There is provided a notifying apparatus. A detecting unit detects a motion amount of an object from an image obtained through first shooting, the first shooting being carried out repeatedly at predetermined intervals of time. A converting unit converts the motion amount into a motion blur amount that will arise in second shooting, on the basis of the predetermined intervals of time and an exposure time used in the second shooting. A notifying unit makes a notification of motion blur on the basis of the motion blur amount. The notifying unit changes a form of the notification in accordance with a magnitude of the motion blur amount.

Abstract: An imaging device includes a modulator, a first grating pattern constituted by a plurality of lines, and a second grating pattern having a phase deviating from a phase of the first grating pattern, and modulates light intensity. The imaging device receives a first image signal output by the first grating pattern and a second image signal output by the second grating pattern, calculates difference data and a range of a difference between the first image signal and the second image signal, generates and sets a data conversion parameter at a regular interval from the difference data that is continuously input on the basis of the range of the difference and the difference data, generates compression image data by using the difference data and the data conversion parameter, compresses the generated compression image data, and includes information indicating the range of the difference into the compressed data.

Abstract: An image capture system provides automated prompts for aiding a user in capturing images for use in 3D model creation. While a user is preparing to capture an image, the system provides visual indications that indicate whether a quality-based condition is satisfied. Based on the visual indications, a user can determine whether an image, if captured, would likely be suitable for use in creating a 3D model. Determining if the quality-based condition is satisfied may include monitoring output generated by one or more sensors and comparing the output against a threshold value. Additionally, the system may analyze the visual content or metadata associated with an image to determine if the quality-based condition is satisfied and request user input to further identify certain image features that were identified by the system.

Abstract: Provided are methods for determination and correction of boresight shift caused by the installation of an optical layer over a camera assembly. Some methods described include performing a first calibration prior to installation of the window, performing a second calibration after installation of the window, and comparing the first and second calibrations to determine a transformation that corrects for the boresight shift. Systems and computer program products are also provided.

Abstract: An image sensor includes a plurality of lens elements, each lens element of the plurality of lens elements including a plurality of scatterers arranged to concentrate light incident on the image sensor; and a sensing element configured to sense light passing through the plurality of lens elements, wherein one lens element of the plurality of lens elements has a first focal length that is different from a second focal length of another lens element of the plurality of lens elements and is separated from the sensing element by the first focal length.

Abstract: One embodiment according to the technology of the present disclosure provides an optical element, an optical device, and an imaging apparatus, which can acquire a multispectral image having a good image quality. An optical element according to one aspect of the present invention includes: a frame having a plurality of aperture regions; and a plurality of optical filters that are mounted in the plurality of aperture regions, the plurality of optical filters including at least two types of filters having different wavelength ranges of transmitted light, and centroids of at least two types of aperture regions coincide with each other.

Abstract: An image capture device is described that includes a body; a mounting structure that is connected to the body; an integrated sensor-lens assembly (ISLA) that defines an optical axis and extends through the body and the mounting structure; and an accessory that is releasably connectable to the mounting structure via rotation through a range of motion less than approximately 90 degrees. The mounting structure and the accessory include corresponding angled bearing surfaces that are configured for engagement such that rotation of the accessory relative to the mounting structure creates a bearing effect that displaces the accessory along the optical axis to thereby reduce any axial force required during connection and disconnection of the accessory.

Abstract: A sensor lens assembly having a non-reflow configuration is provided. The sensor lens assembly includes a circuit board, an optical module fixed to a surface of the circuit board, a sensor chip assembled to the circuit board, a plurality of wires electrically coupling the sensor chip and the circuit board, a supporting adhesive layer, and a light-permeable sheet. The circuit board has a chip-receiving slot recessed in the surface thereof. The sensor chip is arranged in the chip-receiving slot, and a top surface of the sensor chip and the surface of the circuit board have a step difference therebetween that is less than or equal to 10 ?m. The supporting adhesive layer is in a ringed shape and is disposed on the top surface of the sensor chip. The light-permeable sheet is disposed on the supporting adhesive layer and faces the sensor chip.

Abstract: An information acquisition method implemented by one or more processor, includes: acquiring, for each of frames, a brightness value corresponding to a position of a color filter from a light receiving device including light receiving elements whose light receiving surfaces are covered with color filters, the color filters including the color filter and the color filters comprising at least first color filters transmitting light of a wavelength band corresponding to a first color and second color filters transmitting light of a wavelength band corresponding to a second color; and acquiring information on a mobile device based on difference between brightness values of the position acquired from a plurality of frames and at least one of a threshold for the first color filters and a threshold for the second color filters.

Abstract: A camera system of a mobile device includes: a sensor module disposed in a first body connected to a rotation member of the mobile device; and a lens module disposed in a second body connected to the rotation member. When the first body and the second body are rotated with respect to the rotation member to overlap each other, optical axes of the sensor module and the lens module correspond to each other and are operated as a common camera system, and the common camera system provides a first photographing mode and a second photographing mode with different viewing angles based on two focuses generated by a first geometry phase lens included in the lens module.

Abstract: A control apparatus provided in a lens apparatus controls a plurality of optical systems each including an aperture diaphragm which is variable in aperture diameter. A lens control unit sets driving amount information regarding the respective driving amounts of the aperture diaphragms, and sets driving speed of each of the aperture diaphragms based on the driving amount information. The lens control unit determines the driving speeds of the respective aperture diaphragms such that driving times of the aperture diaphragms of the plurality of optical systems match each other.

Abstract: Provided is method for rectifying an image using an electronic device. The method includes simultaneously capturing a first image of a scene using a first image sensor and a second image of the scene using a second image sensor, a first field of view (FOV) of the first image sensor being different from a second FOV of the second image sensor; identifying a motion characteristic in the first image; determining a motion function based on one of the first image and a capture process of the first image that caused the motion characteristic in the first image; scaling the motion function from the first image by a scale of the first image sensor with respect to the second image sensor; and applying the scaled motion function onto the second FOV of the second image to obtain a rectified second image without the motion characteristic.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus that is capable of improving heat dissipation while reducing a cost and securing reliability of flange back. The image pickup apparatus includes a lens mount to which a lens unit is attachable, and a housing that is formed by inserting a metal member into a resin member and that has a mount portion to which the lens mount is attached. The metal member has a first planar portion that is perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens unit and a second planar portion including at least one planar plate that is bent in an optical axis direction from the first planar portion. The at least one planar plate is inserted into the mount portion.

Abstract: There is provided a solid-state imaging device that includes a substrate having a pixel array unit sectioned into a matrix, a plurality of normal pixels, a plurality of phase difference detection pixels, and a plurality of adjacent pixels adjacent to the phase difference detection pixels, each provided in each of the plurality of sections, in which each of the normal pixel, the phase difference detection pixel, and the adjacent pixel has a photoelectric conversion film, and an upper electrode and a lower electrode that sandwich the photoelectric conversion film in a thickness direction of the photoelectric conversion film, and the lower electrode, in the adjacent pixel, extends from the section in which the adjacent pixel is provided to cover the section in which the phase difference detection pixel adjacent to the adjacent pixel is provided, when viewed from above the substrate.

Abstract: Provided are a lens device, an imaging apparatus, an optical member, an imaging method, and an imaging program that are used to acquire multispectral images having a good image quality. According to one aspect, a lens device includes: an imaging optical system that includes a lens forming an optical image of a subject; and an optical member that is disposed near a pupil of the imaging optical system in a state where an optical axis of the optical member coincides with an optical axis of the imaging optical system, and includes a frame that includes a plurality of aperture regions, a plurality of optical filters that are disposed in at least one of the plurality of aperture regions and include two or more optical filters transmitting light having at least some wavelength ranges different from each other, and a plurality of polarizing filters that are disposed in at least one of the plurality of aperture regions and have different polarization directions.

Abstract: A filter insertion/removal unit that is capable of removing and inserting a variable neutral density filter having a variable transmittance from and into the incident light path of object light to an imaging device unit is instructed to insert the variable neutral density filter, and a variable transmittance drive unit is instructed to lower the transmittance of the variable neutral density filter, both on the basis of detection of a transmittance lowering operation of an operating unit. Also, the variable transmittance drive unit is instructed to raise the transmittance of the variable neutral density filter, and the filter insertion/removal unit is instructed to remove the variable neutral density filter from the incident light path, both on the basis of detection of a transmittance raising operation of the operating unit.

Abstract: An image head including a housing, side rails, a port, and internal componentry. The housing includes a first side and a second side located opposite the second side. The side rails are located on or within the first side, the second side, or both and the side rails are configured to provide sliding directional control of the image head when connecting to a base. The port is configured to electrically connect the image head to the base. The internal componentry includes a printed circuit board; an integrated lens and sensor assembly (ISLA) configured to generate an image; and memory located on the printed circuit board configured to store the image.