Abstract: An imaging device has a sensor chip and a signal processing chip. The sensor chip includes a pixel array in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a 2-dimensional matrix and a data output terminal group made up of a plurality of data output terminals which output analog signals of pixels for each pixel column of the pixel array. The signal processing chip includes a data input terminal group electrically coupled to the data output terminal group, a plurality of A/D converters which convert analog signals of pixels received by the data input terminal group into digital signals for each pixel column of the pixel array, and a control unit which controls operation of the plurality of A/D converters.

Abstract: A camera module includes a lens barrel, a driving coil disposed to face a target detection unit prepared on one side of the lens barrel, a driving device configured to provide a driving signal to the driving coil, and a position calculating unit including a first capacitor, configured to provide a ground for an alternating current (AC) signal to the driving coil, a second capacitor, connected to the driving coil to constitute oscillation circuit together with the driving coil, and a position calculating circuit configured to calculate a position of the lens barrel from a frequency of the oscillation circuit.

Abstract: The invention relates to systems, methods, and computer readable media for responding to a user snapshot request by capturing anticipatory pre-snapshot image data as well as post-snapshot image data. The captured information may be used, depending upon the embodiment, to create archival image information and image presentation information that is both useful and pleasing to a user. The captured information may automatically be trimmed or edited to facilitate creating an enhanced image, such as a moving still image. Varying embodiments of the invention offer techniques for trimming and editing based upon the following: exposure, brightness, focus, white balance, detected motion of the camera, substantive image analysis, detected sound, image metadata, and/or any combination of the foregoing.

Abstract: An image processing circuit includes a gain calculation circuit and a digital amplifier. The gain calculation circuit calculates a first gain with which an average color-difference value in a whole region of a pickup image is brought close to a predetermined convergent point. The digital amplifier performs correction of a white balance of a pixel of the pickup image with a candidate pixel that is of a first candidate pixel calculated based on the first gain and a second candidate pixel calculated based on a second gain associated with each of divided regions and in which a color-difference component is closer to the predetermined convergent point.

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide systems and methods for motion capture to generate content (e.g., motion pictures, television programming, videos, etc.). An actor or other performing being can have multiple markers on his or her face that are essentially invisible to the human eye, but that can be clearly captured by camera systems of the present disclosure. Embodiments can capture the performance using two different camera systems, each of which can observe the same performance but capture different images of that performance. For instance, a first camera system can capture the performance within a first light wavelength spectrum (e.g., visible light spectrum), and a second camera system can simultaneously capture the performance in a second light wavelength spectrum different from the first spectrum (e.g., invisible light spectrum such as the IR light spectrum). The images captured by the first and second camera systems can be combined to generate content.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an angular velocity sensor that detects a shake and a motion vector detection unit that detects a motion of a subject, and optically corrects an image blur by moving a shift lens. In a mode for supporting panning imaging, a shutter speed calculation unit calculates first and second exposure times as an exposure time of an imaging element. The first exposure time is calculated using a shake detection signal, a motion amount of a subject image, a focal distance of an imaging optical system, and a set value of a flow effect of a background image. The second exposure time is calculated from the shake detection signal, the motion amount of the subject image, a position and a maximum correction angle of a shift lens. If the first exposure time exceeds the second exposure time, processing of preferentially determining the second exposure time is performed.

Abstract: An imaging device includes: a light source that applies light at a timing according to a light emission control signal; a light receiver that performs exposure to reflected light from an object at different timings according to an exposure control signal, and outputs exposure signals generated as a result of the exposure; a calculator that calculates a distance to the object; and a controller that outputs the light emission control signal and the exposure control signal for any of: modulating a length of a light emission period and an exposure period by increasing or decreasing the number of pulses of each of the light emission control signal and the exposure control signal; and modulating a repetition sequence of the light emission period and the exposure period while maintaining a phase relationship between the light emission control signal and the exposure control signal, randomly or in conformity with a specific rule.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an acquisition unit configured to acquire activity information associated with a user situation; and a control unit configured to control a capture angle of an image based on the activity information associated with the user situation.

Abstract: An optical system and method may relate to capturing extended dynamic range images. In an example embodiment, the optical system may include a lens element configured to receive incident light and a beam splitter optically coupled to the lens element. The beam splitter is configured to separate the incident light into at least a first portion having a first photon flux and a second portion having a second photon flux. The first photon flux is at least an order of magnitude greater than the second photon flux. A controller may be configured to cause a first image sensor to capture a first image of the first portion of the incident light according to first exposure parameters and cause a second image sensor to capture a second image of the second portion of the incident light according to second exposure parameters.

Abstract: An image processing device for generating an output image front an input image of a scene, the input image being the first image and the output image being the second image, the output image corresponds to an exposure that is different from an exposure of the input image, the image processing device comprising an intensity transformer that is configured to determine one or more intensities of an output pixel of the output image based on an input patch around an input pixel of the input image that corresponds to the output pixel.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program making it possible to achieve camerawork corresponding to changes in various conditions when controlling multiple robot cameras. Position information about a subject is acquired, timing information indicating a passage of time is acquired, and on a basis of the timing information and the position information about the subject, camerawork control information controlling the camerawork of an image capture apparatus that captures the subject is generated. The present disclosure is applicable to a switcher apparatus that controls multiple robot cameras.

Abstract: A method, system, and apparatus are described. The method includes calculating, via a white balancer, a candidate illumination chromaticity estimate for a current frame and calculating, via a scene prior monitor, a scene prior chromaticity for the current frame as a weighted sum of a scene prior chromaticity from a previous frame and a candidate illumination chromaticity estimate. The method also includes calculating, via a scene invariant illumination chromaticity controller, a final illumination chromaticity for the current frame as a weighted sum of a scene illumination chromaticity for the current frame and the candidate illumination chromaticity estimate.

Abstract: A camera module with excellent strength is provided. A camera module includes a housing to which a lens unit is attached and a substrate having a certain positional relationship with the lens unit and supported by the housing, where the housing includes an adhesive agent pool provided to a first main plane of the substrate with a certain opposing space and an open end of an adhesive agent path including the opposing space that is provided to a side of a second main plane of the substrate.

Abstract: A solid state image sensor includes light receiving sections formed in a two-dimensional array, in which the light receiving section in one unit is formed such that a lens provided on a light receiving surface, a first light receiving element configured to receive light incident from an object via the lens, and a second light receiving element provided in a layer below the first light receiving element and configured to receive light incident from the object via the lens and the first light receiving element and acquire information about a distance to the object configure a stacked structure.

Abstract: In aspects of digital image color space channel blending, a camera device can capture digital images that encompass a three-hundred and sixty degree (360°) field of view. An image blending module is implemented to combine the digital images along a seam between the digital images to form a blended image. To combine the digital images, the image blending module can determine mismatched color between the digital images along the seam within an overlap region that overlaps two of the digital images along the seam. The image blending module can then blend the digital images by channel gains in a color space applied to enhance pixels of one of the digital images starting within the overlap region along the seam and blending into the one digital image.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus, including: an image pickup element configured to photoelectrically convert an object image; a signal acquisition unit configured to acquire a first signal obtained from a light flux that has passed through a first pupil partial region, a second signal obtained from a light flux that has passed through a second pupil partial region, and a third signal obtained from one of a light flux that has passed through a region that includes the first pupil partial region and is wider than the first pupil partial region, and a light flux that has passed through a region that includes the second pupil partial region and is wider than the second pupil partial region; and a defocus state detection unit configured to detect a defocus state based on at least one of the first signal and the second signal, and the third signal.

Abstract: In an imaging device that includes an imaging lens including n number of optical systems of which imaging characteristics are different and an image sensor including m number of light receiving sensors of which combinations of crosstalk ratio and light sensitivity are different in each pixel, m number of primary image data items are generated by obtaining image signals output from the light receiving sensors of each pixel of the image sensor, and n number of secondary image data items corresponding to the optical systems are generated by performing crosstalk removal processing on the m number of generated primary image data items for each pixel. In a case where a pixel as a processing target includes the primary image data of which a pixel value is saturated, the secondary image data items are generated by removing the corresponding primary image data and performing the crosstalk removal processing.

Abstract: A displacement sensor includes a first frame; a second frame; a first coil including a first voltage formed at the first frame applied to the first coil; a second coil formed at the first frame including a current of a second voltage flowing in the second coil corresponding to a voltage of the first frame if the first voltage is applied to the first coil; a conductor coupled to the second frame; and a detector for calculating a relative position between the first frame and the second frame by monitoring the second voltage. Further, a size of the second voltage is reduced if the second coil is moved closer to the conductor.

Abstract: A camera microcomputer sets a gamma characteristic that suits a luminance input value/output value relationship in the entire luminance region extending from lower luminance to higher luminance of a video signal to a luminance input value/output value relationship of a referential gamma characteristic, irrespective of input dynamic range. A gamma correction processing unit performs gamma correction processing on a captured video signal in such a way as to convert the input value into the output value based on the set gamma characteristic.

Abstract: A camera apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes an image sensor, an electrochromic filter element, an infrared illuminator, and a controller configured to activate at least one from among the electrochromic filter element and the infrared illuminator based on a feature of an image of a scene captured by the image sensor.