Abstract: In an image processing device, a color transformation circuit is configured to generate a color difference based on a first image of normal exposure and a second image of under exposure. A color fringe detection circuit is configured to detect color fringe in the first image, and to generate color fringe detection information based on the detected color fringe. A weight map formation circuit is configured to generate a weight map based on the color fringe detection information and the color difference. An image fusion circuit is configured to generate a third image, in which the detected color fringe is suppressed, based on the color difference and the weight map.

Abstract: The imaging device has a display section, an imaging section configured to generate an image of an object, an operation section configured to accept an operation, and a record control section. The record control section starts recording of video image data based on the generated image after a predetermined operation through the operation section is accepted and a predetermined period of time passes thereafter. Until the operation section accepts the predetermined operation, the display section displays a first mark in a first form. Until the predetermined period of time passes after acceptance of user operation thorough the operation section, the display section displays the first mark in a second form. After the predetermined period of time passes, the display section displays a second mark different from the first mark.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a light-enhancing component and a photographic device having the same. The light-enhancing component includes a light reflective unit and a light source. The light reflective unit includes a first reflecting surface and a second reflecting surface. The light source is disposed between the first reflecting surface and the second reflecting surface. An inclination of the first reflecting surface is different from an inclination of the second reflecting surface.

Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for gesture invoked image capture. An electronic device includes an image capture device. An initiation module enables the image capture device to capture images. A detection module recognizes an object held in a user's hands within a field of view of the image capture device. An imaging module captures an image of the object being held in the user's hands in response to recognizing that the user is holding an object.

Abstract: An image capture apparatus comprises a first shake detection unit configured to detect a shake of the image capture apparatus, a rotational shake calculation unit configured to calculate a rotational shake amount, a second shake detection unit configured to detect the shake of the image capture apparatus, a translational shake calculation unit configured to calculate a translational shake amount, a correction amount calculation unit configured to calculate, based on the rotational shake amount and the translational shake amount, a correction amount for correcting image blurring, and a correction unit configured to correct the image blurring, wherein the rotational shake calculation unit calculates a first translational motion component and perspective component, and wherein the correction amount calculation unit calculates a second translational motion component.

Abstract: A photographing apparatus includes an optical system, an imaging device that converts image light passing through the optical system into an electrical signal, and a light amount reduction filter that is disposed on a light path of the image light incident on the imaging device and reduces an amount of light having a wavelength of 450 nm to 600 nm.

Abstract: A camera module includes a main circuit board defining a nonopaque area, a lens socket, a lens assembly, a sub circuit board and an image-sensing chip. The lens socket is mounted on a top surface of the main circuit board. The lens assembly assembled in the lens socket, includes at least one imaging lens which makes an optical axis formed by the lens assembly penetrate through the nonopaque area. The sub circuit board is adhered to a bottom surface of the main circuit board and is electrically connected with the main circuit board. The image-sensing chip is fastened in and is electrically connected with the sub circuit board. The method for manufacturing the camera module is described hereinafter. Prepare a main circuit board. Prepare an image-sensing chip and a sub circuit board. Prepare a lens socket and a lens assembly.

Abstract: A block-based digital refocusing method includes a capturing step, a dividing step, a selecting step, a refocusing step and a combining step. The capturing step is for capturing at least one picture datum. The dividing step is for dividing the picture datum into a plurality of block data. The selecting step is for defining a regional datum according to each of the block data. The refocusing step is for conducting a refocusing computation to obtain a refocused block datum according to each of the regional data. The combining step is for combining each of the refocused block data based on each of the regional data to form a refocused picture datum.

Abstract: Image enhancement is achieved by separating image signals, e.g. YCbCr image signals, into a series of frequency bands and performing noise reduction on bands below a given frequency but not on bands above that frequency. The bands are summed to develop the image enhanced signals. The YCbCr, multi-band approach to denoising is able to operate independently—and in an optimized fashion—on both luma and chroma channels. Noise reduction is done based on models developed for both luma and chroma channels by measurements taken for multiple frequency bands, in multiple patches on the ColorChecker chart, and at multiple gain levels, in order to develop a simple yet robust set of models that may be tuned off-line a single time for each camera and then applied to images taken by such cameras in real-time without excessive processing requirements and with satisfactory results across illuminant types and lighting conditions.

Abstract: A method that includes: detecting, by the image acquisition apparatus, image data of a photographed subject in the case of current photographing parameters, where the photographing parameters include a photographing focal length and a focus, and the image data includes a position of the photographed subject in a formed image and an image size; adjusting the image acquisition apparatus based on the position of the photographed subject in the formed image, so that the position of the photographed subject in the formed image is a first position; determining a target value of the photographing focal length based on a photographing parameter-image data-photographing distance correspondence and according to a current photographing focal length, the image data, and a preset image size; and adjusting a photographing focal length of the image acquisition apparatus to the target value of the photographing focal length.

Abstract: A method of operating an image sensor includes generating a plurality of ramping up/down signals, and comparing a correlated double sampled pixel signal produced from an output of a pixel with a correlated double sampled first ramping up/down signal among the plurality of ramping up/down signals in a reset interval. The method further includes comparing the correlated double sampled pixel signal with the correlated double sampled first ramping up/down signal at one sampling time or more in an image interval, and a step of outputting a selected ramping up/down signal among the plurality of ramping up/down signals based on a result of the comparison.

Abstract: A camera includes a housing, a digital video recorder, a camera lens, buttons, at least one port, a battery compartment, a holder for a removable storage device, a microphone connected, and a mounting rail.

Abstract: An image sensing device includes a ramp voltage generation block suitable for generating a ramp voltage adjusted by a predetermined voltage in each predetermined cycle, based on a bias signal and a plurality of first ramp control signals; and a ramp voltage correction block suitable for correcting the ramp voltage in each predetermined cycle based on the bias signal and at least one second ramp control signal.

Abstract: In a CMOS image sensor in which a plurality of pixels is arranged in a matrix, a transistor in which a channel formation region includes an oxide semiconductor is used for each of a charge accumulation control transistor and a reset transistor which are in a pixel portion. After a reset operation of the signal charge accumulation portion is performed in all the pixels arranged in the matrix, a charge accumulation operation by the photodiode is performed in all the pixels, and a read operation of a signal from the pixel is performed per row. Accordingly, an image can be taken without a distortion.

Abstract: A system that deters an unauthorized person from viewing the image in the display of a handheld electronic device. The handheld electronic device has a touch screen display. A touch security parameter requires a person to repeatedly tap the touch screen display with one or two fingers. The touch screen display will only accurately display an image for as long as the tapping continues. A camera security parameter senses the location of a face in the field of view of a camera. The touch screen display will only accurately show the image for as long as a face is detected in the camera's field of view. A position security parameter detects pitch and yaw with respect to the downward direction of gravity. The touch screen display will only accurately show the image for as long as the display is held within a range of acceptable positions.

Abstract: A semiconductor apparatus, a solid-state image sensing apparatus, and a camera system capable of reducing interference between signals transmitted through adjacent via holes, preventing an increase in the number of the via holes, reducing the area of a chip having sensors thereon and the number of mounting steps thereof. First and second chips are bonded together to form a laminated structure, a wiring between the first chip and the second chip being connected through via holes, the first chip transmitting signals obtained by time-discretizing analog signals generated by respective sensors to the second chip through the corresponding via holes, the second chip sampling the signals transmitted from the first chip through the via holes at a timing different from a timing at which the signals are sampled by the first chip and quantizing the sampled signals to obtain digital signals.

Abstract: It is intended to provide an imaging apparatus capable of selecting a contrast AF method immediately if a subject is judged not suitable for a phase difference AF method, as well as its focus control method. In an imaging apparatus which switches between a focus control by a phase difference AF method and focus control by a contrast AF method, whether to perform a focus control according to the phase difference AF method is determined according to a color of an image taken in an AF area selected from plural AF areas 52 that are set in a photodetecting surface 50.

Abstract: A device and a method for dynamically correcting camera module sensitivity variation using face data are disclosed. The method includes accessing a digital image frame of a scene where the digital image frame originates from a camera module. In response to detection of a face area in the digital image frame, a face chromaticity is calculated from the face area detected in the digital image frame by a processor. The method further includes determining a lighting condition at the scene associated with the digital image frame. Further, the method includes comparing the face chromaticity with a reference face chromaticity associated with the lighting condition to determine a chromaticity gain shift. Thereafter, the method includes correcting a gray point curve of the camera module based on the chromaticity gain shift to obtain a corrected gray point curve of the camera module.

Abstract: A camera mounting device and method including a rectangular frame fixed on a foldable stand, a turn table having a mounting attachment for a camera, a directional antenna and a laser rangefinder, a tilting platform placed within the rectangular frame and fixed to a driven elevation gear, an azimuth motor connected to the turn table and fixed on the tilting platform within the rectangular frame, an elevation motor mounted within the rectangular frame and connected to a driving elevation gear that engages with the driven elevation gear of the tilting platform, a camera mounting controller that controls the azimuth motor and elevation motor, and implements a process for determining an azimuth angle and an elevation, and a wearable remote control having the camera mounting controller, a display screen and an omnidirectional antenna that communicates with the direction antenna.

Abstract: An image sensor includes readout circuits coupled to read out integrated light signals from pixels via bitlines respectively. Each readout circuit includes a correlated double sampling (CDS) circuit, followed by an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). At least two pixels of a row share a bitline and an associated readout circuit. The ADC operates concurrently with the CDS circuit, such that their operating periods are substantially overlapped with each other.