Abstract: Various embodiments include a camera with folded optics and lens shifting capabilities. In some examples, a folded optics arrangement of the camera may include one or more lens elements and one or more light path folding elements (e.g., a prism). Some embodiments include voice coil motor (VCM) actuator arrangements, carrier arrangements, and/or suspension arrangements to provide autofocus (AF) and/or optical image stabilization (OIS) movement. Furthermore, some embodiments include position sensor arrangements for position sensing with respect to AF and/or OIS movement.

Abstract: A voice coil motor strongly attached to the base of a camera module comprises the base and a casing. The casing and the base are interlocked with each other. The casing is a hollow structure. The casing comprises a top surface and a side wall surrounding the top surface. The side wall and the base are engaged with each other. The side wall is extended in parts to form at least one extending leg. The extending leg extends to a side of the base away from the top surface and is bent toward the base.

Abstract: An electronic device, while in a first media acquisition mode, captures media and performs scene recognition. If the scene recognition meets first criteria, the media is displayed as a sequence of images acquired by the camera in temporal proximity to a single activation of a shutter button of the device at the first time. The sequence of images includes a plurality of images acquired by the camera prior to detecting activation of the shutter button at the first time, a representative image that represents the sequence of images and was acquired by the camera after one or more other images in the sequence of images, and a plurality of images acquired by the camera after acquiring the representative image. If the scene recognition does not meet the first criteria, the media is displayed as a single image in temporal proximity to the activation of the shutter button.

Abstract: An integrated display panel, a display apparatus and an image display method. The integrated display panel includes a display substrate and a plurality of photodiodes located in the display substrate, at least part of the plurality of photodiodes being configured to acquire light signals of a target area and convert the acquired light signals of the target area into electric signals for forming a target area image.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for controlling a camera module. The camera module is removable between a first position received in a body of the electronic device and a second position exposed from the body. The method includes: driving the camera module to slide to the second position based on a call request on the camera module sent by a camera application, in response to the camera application running in a system foreground; determining whether a current application is a preset application, in response to an application in the system foreground switching from the camera application to the current application; determining whether receiving a call request on the camera module sent by the current application in response to the current application being the preset application; and maintaining the camera module in the second position within a preset duration, in response to not receiving the call request.

Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a camera module, a memory, a gyro sensor, and a processor. The housing may include a front plate, a rear plate, and a lateral member surrounding a space between the front plate and the rear plate. The camera module may include a first camera disposed in the space and performing shooting based on a first direction, a second camera disposed in the space and performing shooting based on a second direction, and an image signal processor for correcting images. The processor may be configured to control at least one of the first camera or the second camera to capture images, to identify a camera switching command while capturing the images, to acquire gyro motion information through the gyro sensor in response to the camera switching command, and to control the image signal processor to correct the captured images.

Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for rendering a combined image. In use, two or more source images including at least one strobe image and at least one ambient image are loaded. A pixel-level correction is estimated for at least one of the two or more source images based on a pixel level correction function. At least one pixel of the two or more source images is color-corrected based on the pixel-level correction. A first blend weight associated with the two or more source images is initialized, and a first combined image from the two or more source images is rendered based on the color-correction and the first blend weight. Additional systems, methods, and computer program products are also presented.

Abstract: A comparing circuit may include a first amplifier and a second amplifier. The first amplifier performs a correlated double sampling operation in response to a pixel signal and a ramp signal, and the second amplifier amplifies an output signal of the first amplifier. The second amplifier includes a current stabilization circuit that supplies current to the second amplifier during the correlated double sampling operation irrespective of the output signal of the first amplifier.

Abstract: A video, such as a spherical video, may include motion due to motion of one or more image capture devices during capture of the video. Motion of the image capture devices during the capture of the video may cause the playback of the video to appear jerky/shaky. The video may be stabilized by using both a horizontal feature and a fixed feature captured within the video.

Abstract: A screen includes: a camera component and a display component. The camera component includes a lens portion and an image processor. The lens portion is integrated in the display component. The image processor is assembled below the display component and is disposed at a position corresponding to the lens portion. The display component includes at least one light-transmitting layer. The at least one light-transmitting layer has a predetermined region corresponding to the image processor. The lens portion includes at least one lens. The lens is disposed in the predetermined region.

Abstract: An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and system for collaborative video capturing via multiple smart contact lenses. An embodiment may include identifying a participant, of multiple participants, currently capturing video via a smart contact lens of the identified participant. In response to a predicted next eye closing event for the identified participant, an embodiment may include transferring current video capture to a smart contact lens of another participant, of the multiple participants, during the predicted next eye closing event for the identified participant.

Abstract: A lens apparatus detachable from a camera that includes a first correction unit movable for an image stabilization in a camera system including the lens apparatus and the camera. The lens apparatus includes a second correction unit movable for the image stabilization, and a setting unit. The camera system moves one correction unit of the first correction unit and the second correction unit and does not move the other correction unit in the image stabilization before imaging for recording starts, and moves the first correction unit and the second correction unit in the image stabilization during the imaging for recording, and the setting unit sets information on a correction ratio between the first correction unit and the second correction unit for each direction of the one correction unit from a position of the one correction unit when the imaging for recording starts.

Abstract: In an example embodiment, an image processing device includes a pixel array including pixels two-dimensionally arranged and configured to capture an image, each of the pixels including a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements and an image data processing circuit configured to generate image data from pixel signals output from the pixels. The image processing device further includes a color data processing circuit configured to extract color data from the image data and output extracted color data. The image processing device further includes a depth data extraction circuit configured to extract depth data from the image data and output extracted depth data. The image processing device further includes an output control circuit configured to control the output of the color data and the depth data.

Abstract: Image processing devices and methods according to embodiments of the invention advantageously utilize computationally efficient and high speed operations based on dynamic camera models to support rapid determination of multiple camera intrinsics. These built-in dynamic models can utilize varying focus distance values as inputs (i.e., operands) to generate respective intrinsic parameters as outputs, as a stream of images are captured and processed in real time to possibly determine pose and position of a three-dimensional (3D) object during 3 image scanning.

Abstract: Methods and systems for reconstructing a high frame rate high resolution video in a Bayer domain, when an imaging device is set in a Flexible Sub-Sampled Readout (FSR) mode are described. A method provides the FSR mode, which utilizes a multiparty FSR mechanism to spatially and temporally sample the full frame Bayer data. The multi parity FSR utilizes a zigzag sampling that assists reconstruction of motion compensated artifact free high frame rate high resolution video with full frame size. The method includes reconstructing the high frame rate high resolution video using the plurality of parity fields generated. The reconstruction is based on a FSR reconstruction mechanism that can be a pre-Image Signal Processor (ISP) FSR reconstruction or a post-ISP FSP reconstruction based on bandwidth capacity of an ISP used by the imaging device.

Abstract: Digital circuitry is provided that periodically reads at least one bit of digital counters associated with pixels of an image sensor. When the read bit(s) of a particular digital counter decrease between subsequent reads, then the digital circuitry increments an overflow counter associated with the particular digital counter. The value of each of the overflow counters of the digital circuitry are used with the corresponding values of the digital counters to generate pixel values for a frame (also referred to as an image).

Abstract: A pixel circuit includes a front-end circuit, a signal storage circuit, and an output circuit. All of the front-end circuit, the signal storage circuit and the output circuit are coupled to a common floating diffusion (FD) node. The front-end circuit is arranged to generate pixel signals. The signal storage circuit is arranged to store the pixel signals generated by the front-end circuit, wherein when the pixel circuit is selected for performing a read-out operation, the pixel signals stored in the signal storage circuit are pulled up from original voltage levels to other voltage levels higher than the original voltage levels according to a voltage increment applied to a control voltage of the signal storage circuit. When the pixel circuit is selected for performing the read-out operation, the output circuit generates output signals on an output terminal according to voltage levels of the common FD node, respectively.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus, an unmanned moving object, an imaging method, a system, and a program capable of favorably compositing a telephoto image group even in a case where an overlapping region between images of the telephoto image group is small, and accurately compositing a telephoto image regardless of a subject (scene) of a wide angle image are provided.

Abstract: An electronic device and a method for adding an effect while recording are provided. The method includes previewing a scene in a field of view (FOV) of a camera of an electronic device; detecting available objects in the previewed scene; identifying that at least two objects from among the available objects meet an object criteria; and applying one or more effects on the at least two objects based on the object criteria.

Abstract: A camera module includes a lens and a voice coil motor (VCM), and the lens is placed in the VCM, where a first portion of an inner side of the VCM is attached to a first portion of an outer side of the lens, and a second portion of the inner side of the VCM is provided with a screw thread structure recessed relative to the first portion of the inner side of the VCM. The screw thread structure and a second portion of the outer side of the lens form a groove portion, and the groove portion is filled with adhesive. The first portion of the VCM is a lower portion, and the second portion of the VCM is an upper portion. The first portion of the lens is a lower portion, and the second portion of the lens is an upper portion.