Abstract: This application provides an image processing method and an image collection device. A haze intensity of a first image is calculated. When the haze intensity of the first image is greater than a first threshold, control information is sent, where the control information is used to control a haze penetration optical component to move into a lens. Because the haze penetration optical component can improve quality of optical imaging, the lens into which the haze penetration optical component is moved has a function of optical haze penetration. It can be learned that, when the haze intensity of the first image is greater than the first threshold, the function of the optical haze penetration is enabled, so as to improve quality of an image obtained in a haze environment.

Abstract: A solid state imaging device as an embodiment includes: a plurality of pixels each including at least one photoelectric conversion unit and an amplification transistor having a first input node electrically connected to the photoelectric conversion unit, a first primary node, and a second primary node; a transistor having a second input node, a third primary node, and a fourth primary node and having the same polarity as the amplification transistor; at least one signal line to which the first primary node of each of the plurality of pixels is electrically connected; and a current source electrically connected to the signal line, and a power source voltage is applied to the third primary node, the fourth primary node and the second primary node are electrically connected to each other, and the first primary node and the second input node are electrically connected to each other.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging element, a readout unit, and a signal processing unit. The imaging element includes pixels that have photoelectric conversion units for one micro lens. The readout unit performs a first readout operation on pixels included in a first region of the imaging element to read signals according to accumulated electric charges, and performs a second readout operation on pixels included in a second region different from the first region to read signals according to accumulated electric charges. The signal processing unit makes a correction for reducing noise levels to the signals readout by the readout unit. The signal processing unit makes the correction to the signals acquired from the first region such that differences between noise levels included in the signals read by the first readout operation and the second readout operation become smaller after the correction by the signal processing unit.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a solid-state imaging device, a driving method for the same, and an electronic appliance, and an object is to provide a solid-state imaging device that can achieve the pixel miniaturization and the global shutter function with higher sensitivity and saturated charge amount. Another object is to provide an electronic appliance including the solid-state imaging device. In a solid-state imaging device 1 having the global shutter function, a first charge accumulation unit 18 and a second charge accumulation unit 25 are stacked in the depth direction of a substrate 12, and the transfer of the signal charges from the first charge accumulation unit 12 to the second charge accumulation unit 25 is conducted by a vertical first transfer transistor Tr1. Thus, the pixel miniaturization can be achieved.

Abstract: The present invention provides an imaging device wherein an imaging unit can be stably supported by a bracket and adverse effects on the imaging unit caused by differences in the amount of thermal expansion between the bracket and the imaging unit can be reduced. This imaging device 1 is provided with an imaging unit 10 attachable to the bracket. The imaging unit 10 is provided with a plurality of supported parts 15 to be supported by the bracket. The supported parts 15 are provided on both ends of the imaging unit 10 in the width direction DW crossing the light axis OA direction at one end of the imaging unit 10 in the light axis OA direction, and in the center part in the width direction DW at the other end of the imaging unit 10 in the light axis OA direction. The supported parts 15 have supported points 15a, which are supported by the bracket, and load points 15b, which receive the biasing force operating toward the supported points 15a from the bracket.

Abstract: The fact that a beam-deflecting device can be produced cost-effectively and without any losses of optical quality of the multi-aperture imaging device is used when a carrier substrate is provided for the same, wherein the carrier substrate is common to the plurality of optical channels and is installed with a setting angle, i.e. oblique with respect to the image sensor in the multi-aperture imaging device such that a deflection angle of deflecting the optical path of each optical channel is based, on the one hand, on the setting angle and, on the other hand, on an individual inclination angle with respect to the carrier substrate of a reflecting facet of a surface of the beam-deflecting device facing the image sensor, the reflecting facet being allocated to the optical channel.

Abstract: A light source module includes an array of illumination elements and a light diffusing material. The light source module is configured to receive a control signal for adjusting diffusion of light emitted from the light source module and in response adjust the amount of diffusion of light emitted from the light source module. A light source module may include a segmented light diffusing material where each segment is associated with an illumination element. And individual segments may have light diffusing properties that are different than other segments of the light diffusing material. Some illumination elements may emit light of a different color spectrum than other illumination elements, and a light diffusing material may scatter the different colored light to illuminate a scene with combinations of light of different colors. A light source module may be embedded in a mobile computing device.

Abstract: A digital video camera, including a heat management system, which includes at least one inlet and at least one outlet in the housing to enable air to flow through the housing. The heat management system also includes a first heat sink thermally connected to an image sensor(s), and a second heat sink thermally connected to a data processing unit(s), and a centrifugal fan. The centrifugal fan is configured to draw air into the front of the fan in an axial direction and push air radially out in a sideways direction, whereby air travels through the inlet(s) over the first heat sink and then over the second heat sink to the outlet(s).

Abstract: An imaging device includes an image sensor and a controller. The controller sets a focus detection area and a motion detection area, determines an instability of a subject for a motion based on an imaging signal corresponding to an inside of the motion detection area, determines a degree of focusing based on the imaging signal corresponding to an inside of the focus detection area. The controller makes an operation parameter of a focus adjustment operation different, when the subject is determined to be unstable once and then determined to be stable. The controller determines the degree of focusing by a focus adjustment operation using minute driving. The operation parameter is an amplitude or an amount of a movement of the focus lens.

Abstract: A method for photographing images, applied to a mobile terminal having a source, the method including: obtaining a current ambient light intensity; determining a target luminous intensity based on the current ambient light intensity, wherein the target luminous intensity is a luminous intensity of the light source upon a photographing operation is performed; and controlling the light source to emit light according to the target luminous intensity.

Abstract: An image data generating block 72 of an image capturing apparatus 12 generates polarized images having two or more resolutions from luminance of polarization in two or more directions acquired by a luminance data acquiring block 70. A pixel value converting block 74 generates new image data with a predetermined parameter being a pixel value on the basis of the polarized luminance in two or more directions. A transmission image generating block 76 connects image data of two or more types on a predetermined pixel line basis and then crops the requested data, thereby stream-transferring the cropped data from a communication block 78. A target object recognizing block 80 of an information processing apparatus 10 recognizes the state of a target object by use of the transmitted data and an output data generating block 82 generates output data by use of the recognized state.

Abstract: Provided are an imaging apparatus, an imaging method and a computer program product capable of reducing the deviation of an output image when imaging modules with different spectral sensitivities are replaced with each other, an imaging method, and a computer program product. The imaging apparatus includes a processor that selectively obtains one of the first captured image and the second captured image to be output as an output image based on a magnification characteristic of the output image; based on the first image being replaced with the second image as the output image, corrects image information of the second captured image based on first output image information of the first captured image and second output image information of the second captured image; and outputs the output image according to a correction to the second captured image based on the corrected image information of the second captured image.

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes a sensor controller and a distance calculator. The sensor controller acquires a target image and a first reference image. The point spread function (PSF) of the target image is point-asymmetric, and the PSF of the first reference image being point-symmetric. The image sensor receives light having passed through a filter region that changes PSFs for sensor images of at least one kind into point-asymmetric forms, and then generates the target image for which a PSF has been changed into a point-asymmetric form by the filter region, and the first reference image that is not the target image. The distance calculator calculates the distance to an object captured in the target image and the first reference image, in accordance with the correlations each between an image obtained by convoluting a blur kernel to the target images and the first reference image.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a combining unit configured to combine a plurality of images to generate a panoramic image, a determination unit configured to determine whether the combination of the plurality of images is successful, and a recording unit configured to record the panoramic image. The recording unit records the panoramic image when the determination unit determines that the combination for generating the panoramic image is successful and records one of the plurality of images or an image obtained by cutting out a part of the image when the determination unit determines that the combination for generating the panoramic image is unsuccessful.

Abstract: A semiconductor device for use in controlling a camera module performs position adjustment of a correction lens for use in optical camera shake correction, based on information representing a present position of the correction lens and position information of an output image of electronic camera shake correction with respect to a photographed image photographed by an imaging element. As a result, an operation margin of the correction lens is kept, while keeping a correction margin for the electronic camera shake correction.

Abstract: An image pickup unit 20 has a configuration in which non-polarizing pixels and polarizing pixels are disposed, the polarizing pixels being provided per angle in at least two polarization directions. A demosaicing unit 50 generates a non-polarized image, and a polarization component image per polarization direction, from a captured image generated by the image pickup unit 20. A polarization information generating unit 60 generates polarization information indicating the polarization characteristics of a subject included in the captured image, from the non-polarized image and the polarization component image generated by the demosaicing unit 50. As described above, the polarization information is generated with not only the polarization component image but also the highly-sensitive non-polarized image not having a decrease in the amount of light.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for performing high dynamic range optical image detection of a scene comprising: imaging incident light from a scene onto an object plane; determining the locations of those pixels in the object plane of higher brightness; detecting the optical irradiance values of those pixels of higher brightness to produce a first detected image; detecting the optical irradiance values of those pixels of lower brightness to produce a second detected image; and generating a high dynamic range optical irradiance map of the scene by combining the first detected image and the second detected image into a single image.

Abstract: An imaging device includes a light source, a plurality of lenses disposed adjacent to one another on a predetermined plane, a diffuser plate that diffuses light to be emitted from the light source, and an imaging element that includes a plurality of pixels, the imaging element being configured to receive reflection light generated by causing the light diffused by the diffuser plate to be reflected from a subject. The plurality of lenses are disposed so that a period of interference fringes in the diffused light is less than or equal to three pixels of the imaging element. This configuration can provide the imaging device in which an influence of the interference fringes of the diffused light can be suppressed in an image that is obtained when an image of the subject is captured by irradiating the subject with the light diffused by the diffuser plate having the plurality of lenses.

Abstract: A method of adjusting an output bitrate of an image by contrast adjustment includes: determining a maximum subtraction rate of a contrast of the image in response to a brightness of the image; comparing a current output bitrate of the image with a target bitrate while reducing the contrast of the image up to the determined maximum subtraction rate of the contrast of the image; and determining the contrast of the image to be the reduced contrast in response to determining that the reduced contrast of the image corresponds to the target bitrate.

Abstract: The projection display unit includes an illumination section including one or a plurality of light sources, a light valve that modulates light emitted from the illumination section and outputs the modulated light, a projection lens section that projects the light outputted from the light valve onto a projection surface, a light-receiving section including an imaging device that receives light incident via the projection lens section, and an optical device that allows for splitting into respective optical paths that pass through the illumination section, the light valve, and the light-receiving section. A first range corresponding to a portion of a pupil range of the projection lens section is assigned for projection, and the light-receiving section includes a light-shielding part that performs light-shielding of a selective part corresponding to the first range, at a position substantially optically conjugate with respect to an aperture of the projection lens section.