Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a plurality of imaging elements, at least one signal processing circuit, and a transfer path, in which each of the plurality of imaging elements includes a memory that is incorporated in the imaging element and stores image data obtained by imaging a subject, and a communication interface that is incorporated in the imaging element and outputs output image data based on the image data stored in the memory, the transfer path connects the plurality of imaging elements and a single signal processing circuit in series, and the communication interface of each of the plurality of imaging elements outputs the output image data to an imaging element in a rear stage or the signal processing circuit through the transfer path.

Abstract: A system and method are provided for a wireless device for use with a first video conference device, a second video conference device, WAN and an item. The video conference devices are configured to establish a video conference over a secure communication channel over the WAN. The first video conference device is additionally configured to transmit a video conference invitation in response to a video conference request from the wireless device, the video conference invitation including credentials to establish a communication channel with the first video conference device. The second video conference device is additionally configured to transmit a magnification control signal. The wireless device is configured to: image the item in a first magnification; transmit first image data of the item based on the first magnification; change the magnification; image the item in a second magnification; and transmit second image data of the item based on the second magnification.

Abstract: An optical communication-based image processing system is disclosed. The system may include a transmitter having at least one light emitting element and a receiver having a rolling shutter camera. As the system is provided, a rolling shutter effect may be improved.

Abstract: Example implementations include a method, apparatus and computer-readable medium for configuring profiles for a camera, comprising receiving video from the camera. The implementations further include classifying a first scene of the first video stream. Additionally, the implementations further include determining a first metadata for the first scene. Additionally, the implementations further include selecting a first profile for the camera based on the first metadata, wherein the first profile comprises one or more configuration parameters, wherein values of each of the one or more configuration parameters of the first profile are based on the first metadata. Additionally, the implementations further include configuring the camera with the first profile.

Abstract: The present technology relates to a signal processing device and method, and a program that enable easier and more accurate failure detection. The signal processing device includes: an addition unit that adds test data for failure detection to valid data on which predetermined processing is to be performed, two or more samples processed in parallel in different paths having a same sample value in the test data; and a signal processing unit that performs the predetermined processing on the valid data and the test data that has been added to the valid data by a plurality of the paths. The present technology can be applied to in-car cameras.

Abstract: Techniques are described for efficient high-resolution output of an image captured using a high-pixel-count image sensor based on pixel binning followed by luminance-guided umsampling. For example, an image sensor array is configured according to a red-green-blue-luminance (RGBL) CFA pattern, such that at least 50-percent of the imaging pixels of the array are luminance (L) pixels. Pixel binning is used during readout of the array to concurrently generate a downsampled RGB capture frame and a downsampled L capture frame. Following the readout, the L capture frame is upsampled (e.g., by upscaling and interpolation) to generate an L guide frame with 100-percent luminance density. An upsampled RGB frame can then be generated by interpolating the RGB capture frame based both on known neighboring RGB information (e.g., from the RGB capture frame and previously interpolated information), as adjusted based on local luminance information from the L guide frame.

Abstract: A system for dark current compensation in SPAD imagery is configurable to capture an image frame with the SPAD array and generate a temporally filtered image by performing a temporal filtering operation using the image frame and at least one preceding image frame. The at least one preceding image frame is captured by the SPAD array at a timepoint that temporally precedes a timepoint associated with the image frame. The system is also configurable to obtain a dark current image frame. The dark current image frame includes data indicating one or more SPAD pixels of the plurality of SPAD pixels that detect an avalanche event without detecting a corresponding photon. The system is also configurable to generate a dark current compensated image by performing a subtraction operation on the temporally filtered image or the image frame based on the dark current image frame.

Abstract: Provided is a video creation method in which, in a configuration in which a part of a captured video is extracted and displayed, the adjustment of an exposure amount and the video display in a case in which an extracted region is changed are appropriately executed.

Abstract: Provided is a comparison circuit to which a negative voltage to be compared can be input directly. The comparison circuit includes a first input terminal, a second input terminal, a first output terminal, and a differential pair. The comparison circuit compares a negative voltage and a negative reference voltage and outputs a first output voltage from the first output terminal in response to the comparison result. The negative voltage is input to the first input terminal. A positive reference voltage is input to the second input terminal. The positive reference voltage is determined so that comparison is performed. The differential pair includes a first n-channel transistor and a second n-channel transistor each having a gate and a backgate. The first input terminal is electrically connected to the backgate of the first n-channel transistor. The second input terminal is electrically connected to the gate of the second n-channel transistor.

Abstract: An electronic device includes: a display control unit that is configured to display at a display unit a first image generated by capturing an image with light having entered a first area of an image sensor and a second image generated by capturing an image with light having entered a second area at the image sensor different from the first area; and a selection unit that is configured to select either the first area or the second area as an area for image-capturing condition adjustment in reference to the first image and the second image displayed at the display unit.

Abstract: Provided is a lens apparatus connected to a camera configured to pick up an image based on a set pickup parameter, comprising: a first operating member; a controller configured, based on an operation of the first controller, to control a function of the lens apparatus in a first mode and to output a signal for switching a setting of a combination of pickup parameters including a function of the camera in a second mode; and a switching device configured to switch from the first mode to the second mode, in which the combination of pickup parameters in the second mode is previously set by a user.

Abstract: In embodiments, an electronic device comprises a housing including a printed circuit board (PCB) in an inner space thereof; and a camera module assembly disposed in the inner space and including: a module housing; a first camera module having a first camera housing, the first camera module disposed in at least a part of the module housing and including a first flexible PCB (FPCB) drawn out of the module housing and connected to the PCB; and a second camera module having a second camera housing separate from the first camera housing, the second camera module disposed in the module housing to be adjacent to the first camera module and including a second FPCB drawn out of the module housing and electrically connected to the PCB, wherein the first and second FPCBs are overlapped at least in part with each other, when the module housing is viewed from above, and drawn to face a same direction.

Abstract: A method enhances brightness in video frames of a video during streams. The method includes determining, by a processor, that a first video frame has low light. The method further includes applying, by the processor, a linear correction to provide a first brightness enhancement in the first video frame that modifies a first brightness of a predetermined darkest percentage of pixels to be less than a darkness threshold value or a second brightness of a predetermined lightest percentage of the pixels to be greater than a lightness threshold value. The method further includes averaging, by the processor, the first brightness enhancement of the first video frame with a set of brightness enhancements corresponding to previous video frames to generate a modified video.

Abstract: An example method includes capturing, by an image capture device, a first image having a plurality of pixels. Each pixel includes a plurality of channels, and the first image is captured in accordance with first exposure parameters. The method includes determining, by a controller of the image capture device, average pixel intensities for each of the plurality of channels. The method includes determining, by the controller, a weighted average of pixel intensities using the average pixel intensities. The method includes setting, by the controller, a gain that is proportional to a ratio of a desired average pixel intensity relative to the weighted average of pixel intensities. The method includes setting, by the controller, second exposure parameters for a second image based on the gain. The method includes capturing, by the image capture device, the second image in accordance with the second exposure parameters.

Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] When a cable length between a CHU and a CCU varies, images-capture timings of the plural CHUs mismatch. [Solution] In order to match the images-capture timing of the CHU, a phase control circuit in each CCU transfers, to the CHU, a frame pulse signal, a phase of which is advanced by a correction time corresponding to the cable from a time position of beginning of a frame of a reference synchronizing signal input to the CCU. In this way, a timing of the beginning of a frame of a synchronizing signal, which is received by the CHU from a synchronizing signal generation circuit, matches in a case of 1 m transfer, 400 m transfer, and 1 km transfer. Therefore, the images-capture timings of the CHUs can match.

Abstract: An image sensor including: a plurality of phase shift code generators, wherein each of the plurality of phase shift code generators outputs a phase shift code; a. test data selection circuit for outputting test data corresponding to a test pattern; a counter for receiving the phase shift code from at least one of the plurality of phase shift code generators, receiving the test data from the test data selection circuit, latching a digital code corresponding to the test pattern using the phase shift code, and outputting the digital code; and a control logic for calculating a data pattern using the digital code and selecting one of the plurality of phase shift code generators in accordance with a result of a comparison between the data pattern and the test pattern.

Abstract: Proposed are a method of synchronizing a rotary LiDAR and a camera, and a device thereof. The synchronization device may include a LiDAR, a camera, and a synchronization control unit. The method of synchronizing a LiDAR and a camera may comprise the steps of: outputting a sample at every predetermined output cycle while rotating, by the LiDAR; deriving a trigger timing that is a time estimated for the LiDAR to rotate from a current position to a trigger target on the basis of the sample, by the synchronization control unit; and outputting a trigger signal to the camera after a time indicated by the trigger timing elapses, by the synchronization control unit. The sample may include a rotation angle indicating the current position of the LiDAR, and the trigger target may indicate a virtual direction in which the center of the angle of view of the LiDAR matches that of the camera.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided for a video enabled armor system for use in an armored surface of a vehicle. In one embodiment the system has an exterior facing ballistic resistant armor panel mounted over an opening in the armored surface of the vehicle, with the armor panel overlaying the armored surface around a perimeter of the opening. The armor panel has a first aperture in a portion of the panel adjacent the opening, and a first video camera disposed in the first aperture aimed outward through the first aperture. The system may further include a video display operatively connected to the first video camera and mounted over the opening on an interior side of the armored surface.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus and a method that enable alignment for communication, in which short-range wireless communication is performed, to be performed easily and with high accuracy. The apparatus and the method include a control unit that displays, on a display unit, an image to be presented to a user at a time of aligning a position of a communication unit of the self-apparatus that performs short-range wireless communication with a position of a communication unit of a communication counterpart apparatus. The control unit overlappingly displays, on the display unit, an alignment image captured by a camera of the self-apparatus at a position where short-range wireless communication between the self-apparatus and the communication counterpart apparatus is possible, and a live view image which is a current captured image according to the camera of the self-apparatus. The control unit displays outline data or transparent data for the alignment image on the display unit.

Abstract: An image sensor includes a plurality of pixels, where each of the plurality of pixels includes a photodiode. The image sensor is configured to capture images of a scene exposed with a flickering light source by for each of the plurality of pixels, acquiring a value representative of a light level at a corresponding pixel by gradually varying a value of sensitivity of the corresponding pixel.