Abstract: A camera module includes: a housing; a first dynamic component movably disposed in the housing in a direction of an optical axis; a second dynamic component including a lens and movably disposed on the first dynamic component in a direction orthogonal to the optical axis; a pocket configured in either one or both of the first dynamic component and the second dynamic component; a damping gel disposed in the pocket; and a damping pin extending from the first moving body or the second moving body, and at least partially embedded in the damping gel.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus that is capable of converting an image file such that all annotation information recorded in the image file can be used. When converting a first-format image file including image data and annotation information on the image data to a second-format image file whose memory capacity of a predetermined area, where annotation information is recorded, is less than that of the first-format image file, the image processing apparatus, when the annotation information included in the first-format image file is not predetermined annotation information whose data amount is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, records the annotation information into the predetermined area in the second-format image file, and, when the annotation information included in the first-format image file is the predetermined annotation information, records link information on the annotation information in the predetermined area in the second-format image file.

Abstract: An image processing device and an image processing method are disclosed. The image processing device includes a memory storing a first image transmitted from a first camera and a second image transmitted from a second camera with a wider view angle than the first camera, and a processor processing the first and second images. When a target is specified in a first area in which the first image and the second image overlap each other within an augmented reality screen generated based on at least one of the first and second images, the processor extracts target information on the target based on data for the first image, and generate augmented reality data based on the target information so that a visual object corresponding to the target is displayed on the first area.

Abstract: Reducing camera throughput to downstream systems using an intermediary device, including: receiving, by a device and from a camera via a first data link between the device and the camera, a frame; selecting, by the device, an area of focus for the frame; generating, by the device from the frame, a downsampled frame and a cropped frame, wherein the cropped frame is based on the area of focus; and providing, by the device to a computing system of an autonomous vehicle via a second data link between the device and the computing system, the downsampled frame and the cropped frame instead of the frame, wherein the second data link has a lower bandwidth than the first data link.

Abstract: An image sensor includes a pixel defining pattern in a mesh form, wherein a first division pattern divides a pixel area into two halves, a second division pattern divides the pixel area into two halves, a first diagonal division pattern divides the pixel area into two halves, a second diagonal division pattern divides the pixel area into two halves, and first through eighth photodiodes are arranged in the pixel area so divided.

Abstract: In a high-magnification photographing scenario, the electronic device may automatically lock, in response to an operation of the user, a photographing object that requires high-magnification photographing. Then, the electronic device may collect and display a preview image of the photographing object by using a proper zoom ratio, and obtain an initial state and an initial position of the electronic device. In this way, it is unnecessary for the user to manually adjust the zoom ratio, so that jitter caused by the user's manual operation can be reduced.

Abstract: In one aspect, the method includes causing presentation of a camera interface, the camera interface to display a first image captured by a camera of a computing device of a first user, causing presentation of a plurality of augmentation icons within the camera interface, each of the image augmentation icons being associated with a respective image augmentation mechanism, detecting user selection of an auxiliary augmentation icon of the plurality of image augmentation icons, the second image icon being associated with an second image augmentation mechanism, determining an second image selection criterion for an second image augmentation mechanism, selecting an second image based on the second image selection criterion, the second image being selected from a plurality of photographs associated with the first user, and overlaying the second image on the first image to generate a composite image that is presented within the camera interface.

Abstract: This invention provides an information processing apparatus comprising a first acquisition unit which acquires first operation member arrangement information related to an arrangement of an operation member of a first electronic device having an operation member to which a user-set function is assignable, and first setting value information representing a relation between the operation member and the user-set function, a second acquisition unit which acquires second operation member arrangement information related to an arrangement of an operation member of a second electronic device, a conversion unit which converts the first setting value information into second setting value information for the second electronic device, based on the first and second operation member arrangement information, and a transmission unit which transmits the second setting value information to the second electronic device.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes a second image sensor having an organic photoelectric conversion film transmitting a specific light, and a first image sensor which is stacked in layers on a same semiconductor substrate as that of the second image sensor and which receives the specific light having transmitted the second image sensor, in which a pixel for focus detection is provided in the second image sensor or the first image sensor. Therefore, an AF method can be realized independently of a pixel for imaging.

Abstract: An image sensor, a level shifter circuit, and an operation method thereof are provided. The image sensor includes a pixel circuit and a pixel driving circuit. The pixel driving circuit includes first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth transistors. A first terminal of the first transistor is coupled to a first voltage. A first terminal of the second transistor is coupled to the first voltage, and a control terminal of the second transistor is coupled to a control terminal of the first transistor and a second terminal of the first transistor. A first terminal of the third transistor is coupled to the second terminal of the first transistor, and a second terminal of the third transistor is coupled to a ground voltage. A first terminal of the fourth transistor is coupled to a second terminal of the second transistor and an output terminal.

Abstract: An installation assistance apparatus (100) includes a first image capture unit and a second image capture unit that are placed in such a way as to face each other in a plan view, an acquisition unit (102) acquiring a first image from the first image capture unit, a detection unit (104) detecting a position of at least part of the second image capture unit in the first image by processing the first image, a determination unit (106) determining whether the position of the second image capture unit satisfies a criterion, and an output processing unit (108) causing a determination result by the determination unit (106) to be output.

Abstract: A system and method are provided for super-resolution imaging beyond the Rayleigh spatial resolution limit of an optical system. In the context of a system, first and second pinhole assemblies are configured to be controllably positioned. The first and second pinhole assemblies define respective pinholes and being configured to be backlit. The system also includes a collimating lens configured to collimate at least a portion of the signals passing through the respective pinholes of the first and second pinhole assemblies. The system further includes an amplitude/phase mask configured to provide amplitude and phase modulation to signals received from the collimating lens and an imaging lens configured to focus the signals received from the amplitude/phase mask upon an image plane to permit objects to be separately identified.

Abstract: The photoelectric conversion device includes a pixel. The pixel includes a photoelectric conversion unit and a signal processing circuit. The photoelectric conversion unit includes an avalanche diode that multiplies charge generated by an incident of photon by avalanche multiplication, and outputting a first signal in accordance with the incident of photon. The signal processing circuit includes a logic circuit that outputs a third signal in response to the first signal and a second signal. The signal processing circuit includes a first element having a first withstand voltage and a second element having a second withstand voltage lower than the first withstand voltage, and is configured such that the first signal is input to the first element and the second signal is input to the second element.

Abstract: An image sensor includes first and second column lines, and a read circuit configured to receive pixel signals through the first and second column lines. The first column line and the second column line each include a main wire, a first wire between one end of the main wire and the first interlayer connection region, and a second wire connected with an opposite end of the main wire. A first distance between the first and second column lines is longer than a second distance between a connection point of the first column line and the first interlayer connection region and a connection point of the second column line and the first interlayer connection region. A length of the first wire of the first column line is greater than a length of the first wire of the second column line.

Abstract: This application belongs to the technical field of semiconductor devices, and relates to a pixel circuit, a control method, and an image sensor, including: at least two pixel units arranged in an array, wherein transmission transistors of two pixels of at least one pixel unit are connected to a corresponding first group of transmission control lines, and transmission transistors of other pixel unit are connected to a corresponding second group of transmission control lines. Therefore, the pixel circuit, the control method and the image sensor provided in the present application can control the density of phase focus of the image sensor by controlling the first group of transmission control lines and the second group of transmission control lines without changing the structure of the pixel, the structure is simple, and the optical performance is good.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a method (100) is described. The method comprises obtaining (102) a three-dimensional representation of a body surface. The method further comprises obtaining illumination information for the three-dimensional representation that is indicative of an orientation of the body surface relative to a reference axis. The method further comprises determining illumination compensation information (104). The illumination compensation information is used (106) to compensate for an illumination variation apparent from the illumination information in an image of the body surface.

Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: capturing, using a camera sensor of an information handling device, an image associated with a user; identifying, in a conferencing application, a background image for a video stream of the user; determining, based on comparing the background image to the image of the user, a contextual discrepancy for a superimposition of the image of the user over the background image; and adjusting, based on the determining, one or more aspects of the background image or one or more aspects of the image of the user to negate the contextual discrepancy. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Abstract: A lens assembly and a mobile terminal incorporating a lens assembly include, a lens barrel, and the lens barrel includes a front lens barrel and a rear lens barrel arranged coaxially. A ratio of an outer diameter of a front end surface of the front lens barrel to an outer diameter of a front end surface of the rear lens barrel is within a predetermined range.

Abstract: Various schemes pertaining to generating a full-frame color image using a hybrid sensor are described. An apparatus receives sensor data from the hybrid sensor, wherein the sensor data includes partial-frame chromatic data of a plurality of chromatic channels and partial-frame color-insensitive data. The apparatus subsequently generates full-frame color-insensitive data based on the partial-frame color-insensitive data. The apparatus subsequently generates the full-frame color image based on the full-frame color-insensitive data and the partial-frame chromatic data. The apparatus provides benefits of enhancing image quality of the full-frame color image especially under low light conditions.

Abstract: An image sensor has diffractive microlenses over pixels with central structures and ring(s) of material having index of refraction different from that of background material. Disposed beneath the diffractive microlenses are photodiodes that permit determining ratios of illumination of peripheral photodiodes to illumination of central photodiodes of the pixels, and, in embodiments, circuitry for determining said ratio. In embodiments, the ratio is used to find illumination wavelengths; and in other embodiments the ratio is used to determine focus of an imaging lens providing illumination. A method determines color by passing light through a diffractive lens disposed above photodiodes of the diffractive pixel and determining color from illumination peripheral and central photodiodes. An autofocus method of determining focus includes passing light through a diffractive lens and determining focus from illumination of peripheral photodiodes and central photodiodes of the pixel.