Abstract: A method and device are provided for positioning a mounted camera. The device includes a holding element that secures the mounted camera to the device, a wireless linkage at which remote attitude commands representing attitude changes of a remote driver are received, a local controller that interprets the remote attitude commands and generates local attitude commands that move the camera to mimic an orientation of the remote driver, and an attitude sensing element that senses a local attitude of the device. The attitude sensing element includes a gyro, an accelerometer, or a magnetometer, and jitter present in the remote attitude commands is removed and not passed on to the local attitude commands.

Abstract: A system and camera device for displaying collected sensor data together with images comprises an image capturing unit, a communication interface, and processing circuitry. The image capturing unit is configured with a variable zoom level. The method comprises capturing, by the image capturing unit, images depicting a scene; communicating, by the communication interface, with a user interface for displaying the images and with a sensor device for obtaining collected sensor data from the sensor device for display on the user interface together with the images; and configuring, by the processing circuitry and via the communication interface, the sensor device to provide the collected sensor data at a higher frequency of occurrence when the image capturing unit captures images with a zoom level above a zoom threshold value and depicting the sensor device than when the image capturing unit captures images with a zoom level is below the zoom threshold value.

Abstract: Systems and methods for transferring data between a server and a system of cameras. One embodiment provides a low-power radio frequency (“RF”) network for a system of cameras. The network comprises a server configured to access information related to the system of cameras, wherein the server receives a signal indicating a user input, and a first camera of the system of camera. The first camera is configured to receive a status report from a second camera of the system of cameras, update a cache of the first camera based on the status report from the second camera of the system of cameras, and transmit the updated cache of the first camera to the server.

Abstract: The application provides a shooting device with slide rails, comprising a support component, a tabletop arranged on the support component, a display screen arranged on one side of the tabletop, and a shooting rotational station arranged on the other side of the tabletop; a fill light arranged between the shooting rotational station and the tabletop; a slide rail component used for loading the shooting rotational station and the fill light, and a rotating component installed on the support component; the rotating component is rotatably installed on the support component, the display screen is arranged on one end of the rotating component, the slide rail component is arranged on the other end of the rotating component, the shooting rotational station and the fill light are slidably installed on the slide rail component, and the slide rail component is flippable relative to the rotating component.

Abstract: An imaging system for an autonomous vehicle comprises a camera for capturing images within a first field of view, a transparent disc arranged in front of the camera such that the transparent disc covers the field of view of the camera, an actuator configured to rotate the transparent disc, and a mounting arrangement configured to mount the camera, the transparent disc and the actuator on an autonomous vehicle. Also described is an imaging system comprises a camera for capturing images within a first field of view through a transparent surface, and a fluid dispenser constructed and arranged to spray a fluid onto the transparent surface within the first field of view. Also described is an image capture system for an autonomous vehicle comprising two such cameras with respective transparent discs and actuators.

Abstract: An image processing device includes: a circuit block in which an operation period is predetermined and intermittent operation is performed according to the operation period; a plurality of SRAMs; and a dummy control circuit configured to increase an intensity of a dummy operation of an unused SRAM among the plurality of SRAMs for a certain period of time before the operation period of the circuit block, and to decrease the intensity of the dummy operation of the unused SRAM among the plurality of SRAMs for a certain period of time after the operation period of the circuit block.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus has: an imaging optical system; an imaging element configured to receive light transmitted through the imaging optical system to generate an electric signal; a main body; a display device provided on a back face of the main body and capable of displaying an image generated on the basis of the electric signal generated by the imaging element; and an electronic viewfinder provided inside the main body and capable of displaying the image generated on the basis of the electric signal generated by the imaging element, wherein an eyepiece part of the electronic viewfinder is provided to a transmissive region of the display device.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus acquires an image capturing instruction, performs an image capturing processing in a case where a position of an eye of a user is a first condition upon acquiring the image capturing instruction, and requests a second imaging apparatus, which is different from the imaging apparatus, to perform the image capturing processing in a case where the position of the eye of the user is a second condition upon acquiring the image capturing instruction.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus to which an accessory is detachably attached, the electronic apparatus includes a receiving unit and a processing unit. In a case where a first accessory is attached to the electronic apparatus via a second accessory, the receiving unit receives, from the first accessory, first information indicating whether or not an operation of the first accessory attached to the electronic apparatus via the second accessory is to be permitted, and the processing unit makes different control over the operation of the first accessory in accordance with the first information.

Abstract: A shooting method includes: receiving N inputs performed by a user on a preset marquee; and updating a display position of the marquee and sequentially shooting N target images in response to the N inputs. The target image is an image of a target area on a shooting preview interface, and the target area is a whole area of the shooting preview interface or an area selected by the marquee; and N is a positive integer.

Abstract: A handheld platform includes an imaging device configured to obtain image data, a gimbal assembly coupled to the imaging device and configured to permit movement of the imaging device with respect to at least a first axis and a second axis that are non-orthogonal to each other, and a handheld support coupled to the gimbal assembly. The handheld support includes an input interface configured to receive a user input to control the imaging device or the gimbal assembly and a controller configured to generate one or more control signals based at least in part on the user input.

Abstract: The method includes simultaneously illuminating a scene by at least two light sources, each light source emitting structured light having a spatial pattern, a wavelength and/or a polarization, wherein the spatial pattern, the wavelength and/or the polarization of each structured light differ from each other, respectively, capturing an image of the scene simultaneously illuminated by the at least two light sources by an imaging sensor through a filter array, wherein one pixel of the imaging sensor captures the image through one filter of the filter array, calculating, for each pixel, intensity values of direct and global components of the light received by the pixel from a system of equations compiled for each joint pixel, and performing, for each pixel, image correction by assigning to each pixel its calculated intensity value of the direct component to obtain a corrected image.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging unit configured to capture an image of a subject; a main body having a grip region provided on a first surface on which the imaging unit is disposed so that a user is able to grip the grip region; and a stand portion provided at a first end portion of the main body and disposed with the grip region separated from the imaging unit. The grip region faces a long side of an imaging surface of the imaging unit. The stand portion is located on a first axis orthogonal to an optical axis of the imaging unit and is rotatable within a plane along the optical axis and the first axis.

Abstract: In an information processing apparatus, a captured image acquiring section acquires data of an image captured of a reference object while part of incident light applied thereto is being blocked. An incident light information acquiring section acquires, according to a predetermined model equation, a brightness distribution of partial incident light in each of light-blocked states on the basis of the image of the reference object, and acquires a brightness distribution of overall incident light by calculating brightness distributions of partial incident light. A target information acquiring section acquires the shape and material of a target by using the brightness distribution of overall incident light.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus according to the present invention sets a power mode of the electronic apparatus from among a plurality of power modes including a first power mode and a second power mode having maximum power consumption lower than maximum power consumption of the first power mode; determines, on a basis of a present power mode, a calculation method for calculating a remaining time which is a remaining usable time of the electronic apparatus; acquires the remaining time from information on a remaining amount of a battery supplying power to the electronic apparatus; switches from the second power mode to the first power mode according to an instruction from a user if a switching condition for switching to the first power mode is satisfied; and does not switch from the second power mode to the first power mode according to the instruction if the switching condition is not satisfied.

Abstract: The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging device that can improve imaging quality by reducing variation in the voltage of a charge retention unit, a method of driving the solid-state imaging device, and an electronic apparatus. A first photoelectric conversion unit generates and accumulates signal charge by receiving light that has entered a pixel, and photoelectrically converting the light. A first charge retention unit retains the generated signal charge. A first output transistor outputs the signal charge in the first charge retention unit as a pixel signal, when the pixel is selected by the first select transistor. A first voltage control transistor controls the voltage of the output end of the first output transistor. The present technology can be applied to pixels in solid-state imaging devices, for example.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for capturing video, an electronic device and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: receiving a video capture trigger operation from a user via a video playing interface for an original video; superimposing a video capture window on the video playing interface, in response to the video capture trigger operation; receiving a video capture operation from the user via the video playing interface: and capture a user video in response to the video capture operation, and displaying the user video via the video capture window. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, a user only needs to perform operations related to capturing a user video on the video playing interface, thereby implementing a function of combining video, and the operation process is simple and fast. The user video can represent the user's feelings, comments, or viewing reactions to the original video.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described which provide a camera system. A camera is in communication with a positioning device. The positioning device has a compass, gyroscope, and emits an infrared light beam. The camera has a sensor that receives reflected and/or scattered infrared light from a moving target. The camera changes its focus, zoom, and/or angle of a field of view of the camera based on information from its sensor, and gyroscope and compass information from the positioning device and/or camera.

Abstract: An eye-gaze information acquiring apparatus comprising at least one memory and at least one processor which function as: a first acquiring unit configured to acquire first eye-gaze information of an observer who observes display unit displaying an image; a pointer display unit configured to display a pointer indicating an eye-gaze position of the observer on the display unit when a display setting is set to on; and a second acquiring unit configured to acquire second eye-gaze information, based on the first eye-gaze information, wherein the second acquiring unit acquires the second eye-gaze information by a different method depending on the display setting of the pointer.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory media are provided for adjusting a posture of a subject being photographed. An example method can include obtaining, via a camera of a mobile device, an image depicting a subject posing in a first posture; determining a match between the first posture of the subject depicted in the image and a second posture from a set of stored user postures; and based on the match, generating a recommendation indicating one or more suggested adjustments to the first posture of the subject, the one or more suggested adjustments being estimated to increase a matching amount between the first posture of the subject and the second posture from the set of stored user postures.