Abstract: Provided is a solid-state imaging element capable of thinning out the number of operations of AD conversion units while suppressing an influence of a noise component on the AD conversion units of other columns.

Abstract: An imaging device includes a plurality of pixels and a voltage supply circuit. Each of the plurality of pixels includes: a pixel electrode; a counter electrode; a photoelectric conversion layer located between the pixel electrode and the counter electrode; and a charge blocking layer located between the pixel electrode and the photoelectric conversion layer. The charge blocking layer contains an impurity and has a first surface facing the photoelectric conversion layer and a second surface facing the pixel electrode. The concentration of the impurity on the first surface is higher than the concentration of the impurity on the second surface. The voltage supply circuit supplies a first voltage between the counter electrode and the pixel electrode in a first period and supplies a second voltage different from the first voltage between the counter electrode and the pixel electrode in a second period.

Abstract: A gated camera for dividing a field of view into a plurality of ranges in a depth direction and generating a plurality of slice images corresponding to the plurality of ranges, the gated camera includes: an illumination device configured to irradiate the field of view with pulse illumination light; an image sensor; and a camera controller configured to control a light emission timing of the illumination device and an exposure timing of the image sensor. The camera controller is configured to switch between a first imaging mode in which performance is relatively high and power consumption is relatively high, and a second imaging mode in which performance is relatively low and power consumption is relatively low.

Abstract: A device includes a battery, a container, a frame, a first imaging device disposed at least partially within the container and coupled to the frame, a second imaging device disposed at least partially within the container and coupled to the frame, and a third imaging device disposed at least partially within the container and coupled to the frame. The first imaging device is oriented in a first direction, the second imaging device is oriented in a second direction that is different than the first direction, and the third imaging device is oriented in the second direction.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application relate to the technical field of camera modules to resolve an issue of miniaturization of camera modules. The embodiments of this application provide a camera module and an electronic apparatus. The camera module includes: a circuit board; an image sensor and a driver circuit that are located on the circuit board; an upper lens barrel and a lower lens barrel that are located on a side of the image sensor away from the circuit board; a connecting circuit located on the lower lens barrel; and an adjustable lens disposed inside between the upper lens barrel and the lower lens barrel. The adjustable lens is electrically connected to the driver circuit through the connecting circuit, so as to deform under driving of the driver circuit to adjust a focal power of the camera module. Such camera module has an advantage of small volume ratio.

Abstract: A signal processing device includes a plurality of pixel signal processing units and a signal line group. The plurality of pixel signal processing units is arranged in a first direction and a second direction, each of the plurality of signal processing units acquiring a digital signal having a plurality of bits based on an output from a corresponding avalanche photodiode. The signal line group is arranged corresponding to the plurality of pixel signal processing units arranged in the first direction and including a signal line to which a plurality of signals corresponding to a plurality of bits of different digits of the digital signal held in each of the plurality of pixel signal processing units arranged in the first direction are commonly output.

Abstract: This disclosure provides service processing methods and apparatuses. In an implementation, a method includes, after a target camera is enabled, capturing, based on a first image output specification, an image for processing a first service, and after the second service starts, capturing, based on a second image output specification, an image for processing a second service, wherein the second image output specification is higher than the first image output specification, and wherein the second service comprises photographing, video recording, or video calling.

Abstract: A voltage drop of a floating diffusion capacitor is suppressed. A solid-state imaging device includes a floating diffusion that accumulates charge generated by photoelectric conversion according to an amount of received light of a pixel, a comparison circuit that compares a voltage corresponding to accumulated charge of the floating diffusion with a reference voltage, and a boosting unit that raises a potential on one end side of the floating diffusion during photoelectric conversion.

Abstract: A pixel of a vision sensor includes a photoelectric converter configured to convert an optical signal into a current, a current-to-voltage converter configured to convert the current into a first voltage, an amplifier configured to generate an output voltage by amplifying a voltage level of the first voltage, at least one comparator configured to identify whether an event occurs based on comparing the output voltage with at least one threshold voltage, and generate an event signal based on identifying that the event occurs, and at least one counter configured to receive the event signal from the at least one comparator, obtain a count value by counting the event signal as information about an amount of change in illumination, and transmit output data comprising the count value.

Abstract: A pixel reading device, which includes a first capacitor, a second capacitor, a voltage generating circuit, and an analog front-end (AFE) circuit, is provided. A first terminal of the first capacitor is coupled to a fingerprint sensing pixel to receive a sensing voltage. A first terminal of the second capacitor is coupled to a second terminal of the first capacitor. The voltage generating circuit provide a compensation voltage to a second terminal of the second capacitor. During a sensing period of the fingerprint sensing pixel, the compensation voltage is at an initial level. During a level reading period of the fingerprint sensing pixel, the compensation voltage is pulled up from the initial level to a compensation level to compensate a common mode component of the sensing voltage. An input terminal of the AFE circuit is coupled to the second terminal of the first capacitor.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer program products for reducing optical interference in an optical sensor. The methods comprise: detecting, by an optical sensor device comprising a plurality of pixel sensors, a signal with a reflected light component and a stray light component; estimating, by a processor, a stray light intensity in each pixel of the plurality of pixel sensors using a measured mapping of an intensity of stray light relative to an intensity of reflected light, wherein the measured mapping is derived from the measured intensities associated with all pixel sensors of the optical sensor device; adjusting, by the processor, a noise probability for the signal using the estimated stray light intensity and an unbiased noise intensity; and adjusting, by the processor, a signal confidence score using the adjusted noise probability.

Abstract: A cooling apparatus includes a body frame holding a fan. The fan includes a blade housed in a casing and rotating about a fan shaft and discharges air from a casing's fan inlet opening surrounding the fan shaft into a casing's fan exhaust opening on a tangent line of the blade's rotational direction. The body frame includes an air-leading duct feeding the discharged air to a heat exchanger in a first direction. The fan tilts by a first tilt from a first plane orthogonal to the first direction to position, in the first direction, the fan exhaust opening closer to the heat exchanger than the blade, and by a second tilt about the fan shaft to tilt, as viewed from the first direction, the fan exhaust opening from a direction parallel to a second plane parallel to the first direction.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a device housing and a blade assembly carrying a blade and slidably coupled to the device housing. The electronic device includes a translation mechanism operable to slide the blade assembly relative to the device housing. The electronic device includes one or more processors operable with the translation mechanism. The one or more processors automatically transition the blade assembly to the peek position when a front-facing imager or front-facing loudspeaker is required unless a privacy mode of operation is enabled, wherein transition of the blade assembly to the peek position is precluded.

Abstract: An optical sensor module has a controller, a sensor array, present state decision circuitry, and a pattern recognizer. The sensor array comprises a plurality of CMOS sensor pixels, wherein the sensor array is configured to supply one of a plurality of analog sensor signals at each of a sequence of sample times, wherein at each of the sample times, the one of the plurality of analog sensor signals is derived from one or more of the plurality of CMOS sensor pixels. The present state decision circuitry is configured to compare the one of the plurality of the analog sensor signals with a respective controller-selected reference voltage and to generate therefrom a respective single state decision signal. The pattern recognizer is configured to assert a pattern recognition signal whenever a plurality of sequentially generated single state decision signals matches a currently active one of a set of one or more reference sequences of single state decision signals.

Abstract: A camera may comprise a sensor-shift structure including a substrate to allow an image sensor to be movable relative to one or more lenses of the camera in one or more directions. During a drop or shock event, the substrate may experience unwanted movement and collide with a base structure in the vicinity. The camera may include one or more protection structures to prevent the substrate from directly colliding with the base structure to protect the base structure from potential damages. The protection structures may be implemented using components placed at the substrate and/or the base structure.

Abstract: The processing unit of the sensor includes a time counter and pixel counters. The number of lines is reduced by sharing output lines with the pixel counters and the time counter. In addition, readout time is reduced by transposing an output sequence of pixel count values and time count values across Bayer units depending on a state of saturation of a pixel.

Abstract: An optical filter includes a filter array including filters two-dimensionally arrayed and a band-pass filter. The filters includes first and second filters. A transmission spectrum of each of the first and second filters has local maximum values of transmittance at three or more wavelengths included in a first wavelength region. The band-pass filter passes light in a second wavelength region including two or more wavelengths of the three or more wavelengths and not including one or more wavelengths of the three or more wavelengths. The filter array and the band-pass filter are disposed so that (a) the band-pass filter is located on an optical path of light that passes through the first and second filters or (b) the first and second filters are located on an optical path of light that passes through the band-pass filter.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a coordination window processing method and system, and an electronic device. The method includes: the second electronic device displays coordination windows of the first electronic device, where an interface displayed in a first coordination window is always the same as that displayed in the first electronic device, and an application interface displayed in a second coordination window is different from that displayed in the first coordination window. After a user taps a camera function option on the interface of the second coordination window, the first coordination window and the first electronic device display an interface for collecting information by the camera of the first electronic device.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method of constructing a corrective phase mask for an optical element, includes propagating, for each of one or more wavelengths, a point source field from an object plane to a corrective mask plane to determine a source field and propagating, for each of the one or more wavelengths, the point source field from an image plane to the corrective mask plane to determine an image field. The method may further include determining, for each of the one or more wavelengths, a phase modulation field based on the source field and the image field; and determining a multi-wavelength phase modulation field based on combining the phase modulation field for each of the one or more wavelengths.

Abstract: An image sensor including: a pixel array including first and second pixel groups, each of the first and second pixel groups includes of pixels arranged in rows and columns; and a row driver configured to provide transmission control signals to the pixel array, the first pixel group includes a first auto-focus (AF) pixel including photodiodes arranged in a first direction, the pixels of the first pixel group output a pixel signal through a first column line, and the second pixel group includes a second AF pixel including photodiodes arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, the pixels of the second pixel group output a pixel signal through a second column line, and the first AF pixel of the first pixel group and the second AF pixel of the second pixel group receive same transmission control signals.