Abstract: A camera module includes a housing to accommodate a lens module, a stop module coupled to the lens module and configured to selectively change an amount of light incident to the lens module, and a coil portion configured to drive the stop module to selectively change an amount of light incident to the lens module. The coil portion is disposed on the housing.

Abstract: An image capturing device having a power reset function includes a fixed base and a camera. The fixed base has a first assembly portion, and the first assembly portion is provided with a first magnetic member. The camera includes a housing, a circuit board, and a magnetic reset switch electrically connected to the circuit board. The housing has a second assembly portion, and the second assembly portion is provided with a second magnetic member. The second magnetic member and the first magnetic member are configured to be magnetically attracted to each other such that the second assembly portion is correspondingly assembled and disposed on the first assembly portion. The circuit board is disposed inside the housing. The magnetic reset switch is disposed inside the housing and is distant from the second assembly portion.

Abstract: A camera module of an embodiment may comprise: a first holder in which a filter is mounted; a lens barrel which is provided to be vertically movable in a first direction with respect to the first holder; a lens operating device which comprises a terminal and moves the lens barrel in the first direction; a first circuit board which is disposed under the first holder and on which an image sensor is mounted; a soldering part for electrically connecting the terminal of the lens operating device to the first circuit board; and a coupling reinforcement part which is disposed to face the soldering part and couples the lens operating device and the first circuit board.

Abstract: According to one aspect, embodiments herein provide a digital unit cell comprising a photodiode, an integration capacitor coupled to the photodiode and configured to accumulate charge generated by the photodiode responsive to an input light signal incident on the photodiode over an integration period, a comparator coupled to the integration capacitor and configured to compare a voltage across the integration capacitor with a voltage reference and to generate a clock signal at a first level each time a determination is made that the voltage across the integration capacitor is greater than the voltage reference, a shift register coupled to the comparator and configured to receive the clock signal from the comparator and increase a count value each time the clock signal at the first level is received from the comparator, and an output coupled to the shift register and configured to provide the count value to an external system.

Abstract: Provided is a photoelectric conversion device including: a pixel array including a plurality of pixels each including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a photoelectric conversion layer arranged between the first and second electrodes, in which the pixels include a first pixel having a first color filter and a second pixel having a second color filter different from the first color filter; a potential supply line that supplies an electric potential to the first electrodes of the first pixel and the second pixel; and control lines configured to supply different electric potentials to the second electrodes of the first pixel and the second pixel, respectively, to compensate a difference between a dependency of a sensitivity of the first pixel on a bias voltage applied to the photoelectric conversion layer and a dependency of a sensitivity of the second pixel on a bias voltage applied to the photoelectric conversion layer.

Abstract: An electronic device includes first and second operation units. Where an item, allocated as a setting item for which a setting value is changed according to an operation on the first operation unit, is a first item, the first item setting value is changed per the operation on the first operation unit. After a predetermined operation of releasing an operation on the second operation unit, or performing a particular operation to be performed after releasing the operation on the second operation unit, the allocated item becomes different depending on whether the operation on the second operation unit is continuously performed for a first period or longer after the operation is performed on the second operation unit when the first item is set as the allocated item, until the operation on the second operation unit is released.

Abstract: Systems and methods for creating a collaborative video campaign. The method comprises receiving, at a server, a plurality of videos from remote contributor image capture devices, then sorting the plurality of videos at the server into separate categories, each corresponding to a shot type. Then, the method may comprise displaying, on a page of an edit creation interface of a computing device, representative images of at least some of the plurality of videos within a plurality of sections, wherein the plurality of sections on the edit creation interface comprise: a first section for at least one of the plurality of videos to be reviewed; and a second section at least one of the plurality of videos that have been selected; and providing a selection tool associated with each representative image that allows a user to select the associated video as suitable for inclusion in the campaign.

Abstract: A global shutter imaging pixel may have a single source follower transistor. The source follower transistor may be coupled to a floating diffusion region and a charge storage region. In order to read out samples from the charge storage region without including a second source follower transistor in each pixel, the samples may be transferred to floating diffusion regions of adjacent pixels. Alternatively, a transistor may be configured to transfer charge from the charge storage region to the floating diffusion region of the same pixel, thus reusing a single source follower transistor. These types of pixels may be used for correlated double sampling, where a reset charge level and integration charge level are both sampled. These pixels may also operate in a global shutter mode where images are captured simultaneously by each pixel.

Abstract: Provided is an image pickup apparatus including pixels each divided into subpixels that receive respective rays of a pencil having passed through different pupil subregions in an optical system, the apparatus having a viewpoint image generation unit that generates viewpoint images based on pixel signals outputted by the subpixels, an image deviation amount calculation unit that calculates an image deviation amount from the viewpoint images, a conversion factor calculation unit that calculates a conversion factor for use in conversion of the image deviation amount into a defocus amount, and a recording unit that records at least two of the conversion factor, the image deviation amount, and the defocus amount in a storage medium as metadata in association with the viewpoint images or an image obtained from the viewpoint images.

Abstract: At a processor of a camera-equipped electronic device, a first data set generated at a sensor incorporated within a camera module is obtained, and a second data set generated at one or more sensors external to the camera module is obtained. Based on the first set and second data sets, a first set of control signals is transmitted to the camera module. At a disturbance rejection controller integrated within the camera module, a second set of control signals is generated, based on the first set of control signals and on a third set of data obtained from the sensor incorporated within the camera module. The second set of control signals is transmitted to an actuator, which causes a displacement of a camera lens.

Abstract: The present technique relates to a camera module and an electronic apparatus that allow a camera module to be used for various purposes. The camera module includes a first pixel array in which pixels that receive light having an R, G, or B wavelength are two-dimensionally arranged in a matrix form and a second pixel array in which pixels that receive light having a wavelength region of visible light are two-dimensionally arranged in a matrix form and a first optical unit that converges incident light onto the first pixel array and a second optical unit that converges the incident light onto the second pixel array. The present technique can be for example applied to a camera module and the like.

Abstract: A camera system captures an image in a source aspect ratio and applies a transformation to the input image to scale and warp the input image to generate an output image having a target aspect ratio different than the source aspect ratio. The output image has the same field of view as the input image, maintains image resolution, and limits distortion to levels that do not substantially affect the viewing experience. In one embodiment, the output image is non-linearly warped relative to the input image such that a distortion in the output image relative to the input image is greater in a corner region of the output image than a center region of the output image.

Abstract: There is provided an imaging apparatus for continuously performing a plurality of photographing operations. The imaging apparatus includes an AF sensor and an image sensor. A microcomputer performs focal point detection (i.e., defocus amount calculation) processing based on a signal acquired by the AF sensor. Further, the microcomputer performs focal point detection processing based on a signal acquired by the image sensor. The microcomputer selects one of two focal point detection results and performs a control to drive a focusing lens in a lens drive 1 and a lens drive 2.

Abstract: An assembly for a rotatable surveillance camera is disclosed. The assembly can include a gimbal ring, a base securable to the gimbal ring and a flexible hook member securable to the base. The gimbal ring can have a slotted channel recessed into an interior surface. The slotted channel can have a spiral configuration with opposing ends and can extend around the interior of the gimbal ring at least one full revolution. The base can have a side wall with a slot provided through at least a portion thereof. The hook member can have a proximal end within the interior of the base and can extend outside the base through the slot to an opposing end having a tab. The slotted channel can receive the tab and be slidably rotated around said tab between the opposing ends during rotation of the gimbal ring relative the base.

Abstract: A visual camera bearing structure includes: a shaft body, having a top end portion and bottom end portion; a through hole, configured inside the shaft body, one end of the through hole being in communication with the bottom end portion of the shaft body, another end thereof the top end portion of the shaft body, and the top end portion formed with a lens barrel accommodation opening; and a barrel lens support having a larger diameter, configured on an outer peripheral wall of the top end portion of the shaft body. Whereby, the barrel lens support is allowed to support the lens accommodation portion having a large area stably, thereby overcoming the condition of conventional visual cameras being difficult to be configured with a barrel lens having a large area.

Abstract: An image preview method, apparatus, and terminal are disclosed to provide a technical solution in which a background blurring effect with respect to a current scene can be previewed in real time. A terminal device synchronously obtains preview images of a current scene from different angles in a dual-camera photographing preview mode by using a dual-camera module, calculates, in the preview images based on a phase difference generated by a distance and an angle of the dual-camera module, a depth of field of each pixel unit included in a preview image, obtains a foreground depth of field of a preset target area in the preview image, and determines, in the same preview image, an area including all pixel units having a depth of field beyond a range as a background area.

Abstract: An electronic device may include: at least one lens; an image sensor that generates an image; and a first processor that determines a location of the at least one lens when an auto-focusing mode is executed. The electronic device also has a second processor configured to, when the location of the at least one lens is changed from a first location to a second location, change a size of a second image frame, which has a second viewing angle larger than a first viewing angle of a first image frame generated at the first location, among frames in the image, to a size corresponding to the first viewing angle.

Abstract: A method for acquiring an image comprises acquiring a first image frame including a region containing a subject at a first focus position; determining a first sharpness of the subject within the first image frame; identifying an imaged subject size within the first image frame; determining a second focus position based on the imaged subject size; acquiring a second image frame at the second focus position; and determining a second sharpness of the subject within the second image frame. A sharpness threshold is determined as a function of image acquisition parameters for the first and/or second image frame. Responsive to the second sharpness not exceeding the first sharpness and the sharpness threshold, camera motion parameters and/or subject motion parameters for the second image frame are determined before performing a focus sweep to determine an optimal focus position for the subject.

Abstract: An imaging system for capturing an image of an object comprises a first lens, a dichroic beam splitter, which transmits light of a color band and reflects light of all colors outside the color band, a first image sensor for capturing an image formed by the transmitted light in the color band, a second image sensor for capturing an image formed by the reflected light outside the color band. The first image sensor is a monochrome image sensor and the second image sensor is a color image sensor having a color filter array disposed on pixels of the second image sensor. The image captured by the first image sensor and the image captured by the second image sensor are combined to form a single color image.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes: an image pickup device that includes pixels in a predetermined color array and is configured to be able to acquire a plurality of color array images corresponding to the color array through pixel shift; a chromatic aberration correction processing section configured to receive the plurality of color array images and to perform chromatic aberration correction processing on each of the plurality of color array images; a pixel shift composition processing section configured to perform pixel shift composition processing on the plurality of color array images that are subjected to the chromatic aberration correction processing by the chromatic aberration correction processing section, to acquire a pixel shift high-resolution image; and a demosaicking processing section configured to perform demosaicking processing on the pixel shift high-resolution image.