Abstract: An image processing method includes: receiving image data of a Bayer format comprising red color information, green color information, and blue color information, generating image data of a modified Bayer format by combining the green color information with the red color information and combining the green color information with the blue color information while downscaling the image data of the Bayer format to a target resolution, denoising the image data of the modified Bayer format, and generating RGB image data by demosaicing the denoised image data of the modified Bayer format.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed and include: initiating a capture operation using an image capture component of the mobile device, the capture operation comprising; capturing video data; and estimating a plurality of motion vectors corresponding to motion of the image capture component during the capture operation. The systems, techniques, and computer program products also include detecting a document depicted in the video data; tracking a position of the detected document throughout the video data; selecting a plurality of images using the image capture component of the mobile device, wherein the selection is based at least in part on: the tracked position of the detected document; and the estimated motion vectors; and generating a composite image based on at least some of the selected plurality of images.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus in which an imaging sensor package reflow mounted in advance to a circuit board can be fixed to a fixture member of the image pickup apparatus. A sensor holder of a digital video camera as an image pickup apparatus has a holder body that is positioned to surround an imaging sensor package mounted to a sensor board as a circuit board. Flange portions of the sensor holder are formed to project from a rear end surface of the holder body toward a heat radiation plate having a flat plate shape. The heat radiation plate is fixed to a lens barrel in a state that the flange portions are held between the lens barrel and the heat radiation plate.

Abstract: Provided is an image processing method adapted for a mobile electronic device. The image processing method includes the steps of: deriving an original image; and executing a calculating procedure according to the original image to derive an up-sample image. The calculating procedure includes the steps of: making the up-sample image to be overlapped with the original image; deriving pixels of the original image overlapped with an nth pixel of the up-sample image and pixel values of the pixels; deriving a proportion between each of the pixels of the original image (that overlapped with the nth pixel of the up-sample image) and the nth pixel, and setting the proportion as a weight; and calculating a pixel value of the nth pixel of the up-sample image according to the pixel values of the pixels of the original image overlapped with the nth pixel of the up-sampling image and the corresponding weight.

Abstract: In an implementation, a computer-implemented method includes receiving a digital signal from an image acquisition sensor, the digital signal encoded with an initial resolution. A video image is constructed from the digital signal to display on a micro display of an optical system, an initial linear dimension of the video image smaller than a linear dimension of an active area of the micro display. A display of the video image is initiated on the micro display using monochrome sub-pixels configured to act as independent pixels for display of the video image. A magnification request is received for the video image on the micro display, and the video image is adjusted on the micro display by increasing a linear dimension of the video image on the micro display by combining groups of monochrome sub-pixels to collectively represent a single pixel of the video image at the initial resolution.

Abstract: A control device of present invention includes a display control portion that performs control such that a whole image display region, in which a whole image captured by a camera is displayed, and an enlarged image display region, in which a region corresponding to a position specified on the whole image is enlarged and an enlarged image is displayed, are displayed, and a control portion that performs control such that the region corresponding to the position specified on the whole image is changed. The region includes at least one preset region, and the display control portion displays, on the whole image, a section that corresponds to the preset region.

Abstract: A color filter array for use on a color image sensor includes an oxide grid having sidewalls arranged to define openings in the oxide grid. Each one of the openings is to be disposed over a corresponding pixel cell of the color image sensor. Oxide support structures are disposed in an interior region of each opening in the oxide grid over a corresponding pixel cell of the color image sensor. The openings in the oxide grid are filled with color filter material of a corresponding color filter. A surface tension between each oxide support structure and the surrounding color filter material of the color filter is adapted to provide uniform thickness for the color filters within the corresponding openings in the oxide grid.

Abstract: An apparatus, computer readable medium, and method for auto-focusing, the method including reading out a live-view signal from first group pixels; reading out an auto-focusing detection signal from second group pixels; and auto-focusing using the live-view signal and the auto-focusing detection signal, wherein the first group pixels and the second group pixels do not substantially overlap.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus of the present invention, which is capable of wireless communication, images a peripheral imaging apparatus from among a plurality of peripheral imaging apparatuses around the imaging apparatus; detects predetermined information by which identification information identifying the peripheral imaging apparatus is identifiable from within the imaging frames; identifies the identification information by analyzing the detected predetermined information; selects a peripheral imaging apparatus to be a target for predetermined processing from among the plurality of peripheral imaging apparatus by using the identified identification information; and performs the predetermined processing with the selected peripheral imaging apparatus via the wireless communication.

Abstract: A projection system includes a light source, an imaging unit, a control unit, and a projecting unit. The light source applies a light beam having a predetermined wavelength. The imaging unit captures a subject to which the light beam is applied. The control unit generates image data for projection based on the captured image. The projecting unit projects a projection image onto the subject. The imaging unit captures the projection image together with an image of a region responding to the light beam. The control unit corrects the image data for projection to additionally display the projection image on a region which responds to the light beam and does not overlap a region onto which the projection image is projected, and to erase the projection image in a region onto which the projection image is projected and does not overlap the region responding to the light beam.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a column A/D converter, column A/D conversion method, imaging device, and camera system that can reduce the amount of IR drop by dispersing the current consumed during the count operation, mitigate the counter characteristic degradation, readily reduce the amount of fluctuation in the power source voltage, and achieve operation at a low power source voltage. The column A/D converter includes a plurality of column processing units including an A/D conversion function, a plurality of counters configured to generate digital codes in response to a reference clock and arranged corresponding to each or a set of the column processing units, and a count start offset unit configured to trigger a pseudo count operation in each of the counters and to offset a count start code for at least two or more counters among the plurality of counters before the reference clock is supplied to the counters.

Abstract: An imaging system may capture image data and use the captured image data to detect a privacy request. Depending on the specific privacy request, the imaging system may delete or blur the captured image to comply with the detected privacy request. The imaging system may use face recognition software and only blur faces that are present in the captured image, leaving the rest of the image unobscured. The imaging system may only comply with the privacy request if the imaging system is in a predetermined area or within a predetermined distance of a privacy seeking external device. The imaging system may be disabled if the system enters a geo-fenced area that restricts the capture of images. The imaging system may recognize a given temporal pattern of light as a privacy request and modify any captured images accordingly.

Abstract: A correcting optical device according to an aspect of the present invention in which, when image shake is not corrected, a restricting member is caused to engage an engaging portion, to restrict translational movement of a movable member, and in which, when the image shake is corrected, the restricting member is caused to disengage the engaging portion, to cause the movable member to be in a state capable of the translational movement, the restricting member being provided at the rotary member, the engaging portion being provided at the movable member. A driving unit drives the movable member in a direction in which the movable member moves translationally with respect to a fixed member in a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of a correcting lens, so that the correcting lens corrects the image shake, and drives the rotary member in a direction in which the rotary member rotates around the optical axis.

Abstract: The invention provides an encapsulant module for an image sensor device. The module includes an outer frame, a set of optical elements, and an opaque coating. The outer frame includes an enclosing wall and a first opening surrounded by the enclosing wall. The set of optical elements connects to and is disposed in the enclosing wall. The opaque coating overlies the enclosing wall.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes an optical device, a transparent conductive film, an electrode pad, and a penetrating electrode. In the optical device, an optical element area for receiving light is formed on a first surface side of a substrate, and an external connection terminal is formed on a side of a second surface opposite to the first surface of the substrate. The transparent conductive film is formed to face the first surface of the substrate. The electrode pad is formed on the first surface of the substrate and configured to perform connection with a fixed potential. The penetrating electrode is connected to the electrode pad and formed to penetrate the substrate between the first surface and second surface. The transparent conductive film is connected to the electrode pad, and the penetrating electrode is connected to the external connection terminal on the side of the second surface of the substrate.

Abstract: A method of selecting an image captured on an image capture device (101) is disclosed. A captured image is displayed on a display (114) associated with the image capture device (101). A viewer image of a viewer viewing the captured image displayed on the display (114) is captured using the image capture device (101). The captured image and the viewer image are compared to identify at least one common feature in the captured image and the viewer image. The captured image is selected if the at least one common feature is identified in both the captured image and the viewer image.

Abstract: An image sensor may include a pixel array having image pixels for capturing image data and phase detection pixels for gathering phase information during automatic focusing operations. Phase detection pixels may form phase detection pixel pairs having first and second pixels with different angular responses. The first and second pixels may have color filters of the same color or may have color filters of different colors. The phase detection pixel pairs may be isolated from other phase detection pixel pairs in the array or may be arranged consecutively in a line. The phase detection pixels may, for example, be provided with color filters to match the color filter pattern of the pixel array. Processing circuitry may adjust red and green pixel signals from a phase detection pixel pair having a red and green color filter and may subsequently determine a phase difference using the adjusted pixel signals.

Abstract: A driving circuit for controlling a driving current is provided. A D/A converter has a precision of N bits and outputs a control signal for a driving current to a current driver. A logic unit receives input control data of M bits (M>N) and outputs intermediate control data of N bits to the D/A converter. A data extraction unit divides the input control data into a first data having N bits from the MSB and a second data having (M?N) bits from the LSB. A counter accumulatively adds the second data to generate a count. A carry detection unit asserts a carry signal when a carry at the MSB of the count is generated by the counter. An output control unit 66 converts the intermediate control data into the first data or a third data, in which 1 LSB is added to the first data, according to the carry signal.

Abstract: Provided are a method of controlling photographing in a camera device such as a portable terminal, which automatically sets a photographing mode using at least one of location information of the device and subject information, and a camera device thereof. A camera captures an image during a photographing mode of the device. A controller acquires meta data corresponding to the image based on at least one of the location information and subject information included in the image. A camera setting value is determined based on the acquired meta data, and the camera is automatically set according to the determined camera setting value.

Abstract: A multiband camera comprises: a band-pass filter having four or more optical filters; a microlens array having arrayed microlenses; a photoelectric conversion element including a plurality of pixels; and a measurement unit for measuring spectral intensity. The multiband camera satisfies the expression below, where Pl is a pitch between the microlenses, Ps is a pitch between the pixels, n is a number of pixels corresponding to one microlens, u is an effective dimension in a prescribed direction of the pixels, t is a dimension in the prescribed direction of a real image that the band-pass filter forms on a plurality of two-dimensionally arrayed pixels, Na is a number of microlenses arrayed in the prescribed direction, L is a distance from an exit pupil to the microlens, and f is a focal length of the microlens.