Abstract: A monitored area including a plurality of video cameras is monitored for possible events. A video camera captures a video stream showing a portion of the monitored area and performs video analysis on the captured video stream. When the video camera identifies an event of interest within the captured video stream, the video camera generates event information associated with the identified event of interest. The video camera uses the relative location information to determine which video camera of the plurality of video cameras is positioned to capture the event of interest now and/or in the future and instructs that video camera to track the event.

Abstract: The photoelectric conversion device includes pixels each including photoelectric converters and a floating diffusion to which charges of the photoelectric converters are transferred, a vertical scanning unit for performing readout processing and reset processing on the pixels while switching the photoelectric converter to be processed and the floating diffusion to be processed, and a control unit that controls the vertical scanning unit. The control unit includes a readout row address generation unit and a reset row address generation unit that generate a row address to be processed. A first cycle in which the photoelectric converter is switched is shorter than a second cycle in which the floating diffusion is switched, an update cycle of the row address is equal to the second cycle, and a setting unit of an update timing of the row address is equal to the length of one cycle of the first cycle.

Abstract: An image sensing device includes a pixel array configured to include a plurality of pixel groups consecutively arranged in row and column directions. Each of the pixel groups includes a plurality of unit pixels and each unit pixel includes a photoelectric conversion element structured to generate photocharges through a conversion of incident light. Each pixel group outputs a first pixel signal corresponding to photocharges generated by a single unit pixel and a second pixel signal corresponding to a sum of photocharges generated by two or more unit pixels.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging element that detects address events captures high-quality images. The solid-state imaging element includes a pixel array section that has a plurality of pixels including a specific pixel arranged in a two-dimensional lattice pattern. The specific pixel includes a pixel circuit and two analog-digital converters. The pixel circuit outputs two analog signals proportional to an amount of charge produced by photoelectric conversion. The analog-digital converters convert the respective two analog signals into digital signals with different resolutions.

Abstract: There is provided a camera of which operability is good regardless of the brightness of the surrounding environment. The brightness of the surrounding environment is detected by a brightness detection unit provided in a camera. The contents of settings of the camera are displayed on a sub-display 18 in a situation in which the surrounding environment is bright. The contents of settings of the camera and an image representing the set state of a shutter speed dial 33 are displayed on the sub-display 18 in a case in which the surrounding environment is dark.

Abstract: An image sensing system comprising: a storage device, comprising at least two first registers, wherein a number of the first registers following a first direction of the storage device is larger than a number of the first registers following a second direction of the storage device; a filter, comprising at least two second registers; and an SIPO (serial in parallel out) circuit, coupled between the storage device and the filter.

Abstract: Systems and methods herein describe a method for capturing a video in real-time by an image capture device. The system provides a plurality of visual pose hints, identifies first pose information in the video while capturing the video, applies a first series of virtual effects to the video, identifies second pose information, and applies a second series of virtual effects to the video, the second series of virtual effects based on the first series of virtual effects.

Abstract: A solid state imaging device that includes a substrate having oppositely facing first and second surfaces and a photoelectric conversion unit layer having a light incident side facing away from the substrate. The substrate includes a first photoelectric conversion unit and a second photoelectric conversion and the photoelectric conversion layer includes a third photoelectric conversion unit.

Abstract: An image sensor element includes a transfer transistor TX, a LOFIC select transistor LF, a photodiode PD, and a first overflow path OFP. The transfer transistor TX outputs a readout signal from a first end. The LOFIC select transistor LF includes a first end connected to a second end of the transfer transistor TX, and a second end connected to a capacitor. The photodiode PD is connected in common to a third end of the transfer transistor and a third end of the LOFIC select transistor LF. The first overflow path OFP is formed between the photodiode PD and a second end of the LOFIC select transistor LF. Each of the transfer transistor TX and the LOFIC select transistor LF is configured with a vertical gate transistor.

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus comprising an image capturing unit; a flicker detection unit; and a control unit configured to cause, in parallel, an execution of a first image capturing operation in which the image capturing unit is caused to periodically capture an image for storage and a second image capturing operation in which the image capturing unit is caused to periodically capture an image for display, wherein the control unit: in the first image capturing operation, causes the image capturing unit to perform capturing in accordance with a peak timing of a flicker; and in a case where an accumulation period in the first image capturing operation and an accumulation period in the second image capturing operation overlap, changes a timing of capturing in the second image capturing operation.

Abstract: An image sensor includes a pixel array including a plurality of shared pixels including a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged in a first direction and a second direction and connected to a same floating diffusion node, and a plurality of column lines connected to the plurality of shared pixels, extending in the second direction, and arranged in parallel. The image sensor further includes an analog-to-digital conversion circuit including a plurality of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) connected to the plurality of column lines. At least two first shared pixels consecutively arranged in parallel in at least one of the first and second directions and configured to sense an optical signal of a first color among the plurality of shared pixels are connected to different column lines among the plurality of column lines.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image sensing device including a pixel array, wherein the pixel array includes a first sub-pixel array including pixels each having a green filter and disposed in a first diagonal direction, and pixels each having a white filter and disposed in a second diagonal direction, a second sub-pixel array including pixels each having the green filter and disposed in the first diagonal direction, and pixels each having the white filter and disposed in the second diagonal direction, a third sub-pixel array including pixels each having a red filter and disposed in the second diagonal direction, and pixels each having the white filter and disposed in the first diagonal direction, and a fourth sub-pixel array including pixels each having a blue filter and disposed in the second diagonal direction, and pixels each having the white filter and disposed in the first diagonal direction.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion device including a pixel configured to output a signal in response to incidence of a photon includes a first measurement unit configured to measure the signal output from the pixel, a second measurement unit configured to measure time until the signal measured by the first measurement unit reaches a first threshold, a first storage unit configured to store, as a first time, a result of the measurement by the second measurement unit at a first time point, a comparison unit configured to compare the first time stored in the first storage unit and a second time measured by the second measurement unit at a second time point later than the first time point, and an output unit configured to output a signal corresponding to a result of the comparison by the comparison unit.

Abstract: An embodiment method for estimating a missing or incorrect value in a table of values generated by a photosite matrix comprises a definition of a zone of the table comprising the value to be estimated and other values, referred to as neighboring values, and an estimation of the value to be estimated based on the primary neighboring values and the weight associated with these primary neighboring values, wherein a weight of each neighboring value, referred to as primary neighboring value, of the same colorimetric component as that of the missing or incorrect value to be estimated, is determined according to differences between neighboring values disposed on an axis and neighboring values disposed parallel with this axis and positioned in relation to this axis on the same side as the primary neighboring value for which the weight is determined.

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: A display device is provided that has pixels including a first pixel and a second pixel arranged to be adjacent to each other along a first direction. The pixels include a light emitting region and a color filter. Luminous efficacy of the first pixel is higher than that of the second pixel. In a plane view, a center position of each color filter is shifted in the first direction from a center position of a corresponding light emitting region, and a length parallel to the first direction of the color filter of the first pixel is longer than that of the second pixel. In the first direction, each first pixel is periodically arranged and a pitch of the color filter of each first pixel and a pitch of the light emitting region of each first pixel are different from each other.

Abstract: Multi-stage auto-zeroing signal amplifiers are deployed within event-shuttering pixels of a quanta image sensor (QIS) pixel array to enable reliable per-pixel reporting of photonic events, down to resolution of a single photon strike, for each of a continuous sequence of sub-microsecond event-detection intervals.

Abstract: An image sensing device includes a pixel array including a (2×2) array that includes two first pixels, a second pixel, and a third pixel, wherein the first to third pixels have a pixel area and include first to third optical filters that are configured to transmit light of different colors, respectively, and wherein the second pixel or the third pixel includes a grid structure located along a boundary of the second pixel or the third pixel, and wherein the first pixel includes a red optical filter and has a first light reception area that is greater than a second light reception area of the second pixel or a third light reception area of the third pixel.

Abstract: Some embodiments include a system, comprising: a housing; an imaging array disposed within the housing; an imaging strip disposed within the housing; a first readout circuit coupled to the imaging array; a second readout circuit coupled to the imaging strip; and common electronics coupled to the first readout circuit and the second readout circuit and configured to generate image data in response to at least one of the first readout circuit and the second readout circuit.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a sensor, a movable portion configured to hold the sensor and move in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis, a holding unit configured to gradually change a holding force for holding the movable portion by moving back and forth in the direction of the optical axis, and a control unit configured to control the holding force of the holding unit for holding the movable portion depending on a state of the apparatus.