Abstract: A terminal for generating an augmented reality and a method thereof are provided. The terminal includes a camera property information providing server configured to store camera property information associated with one or more cameras, and the terminal is configured to receive, from the camera property information providing server, camera property information associated with a camera included in the terminal and generate an augmented reality based on the stored camera property information when an augmented reality-based application is driven and thus, may provide an augmented reality in which a virtual object is accurately matched to an image.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus which is effective to make it easier to manually adjust a focus is provided. An imaging apparatus has: a display unit; an image capturing unit configured to capture a subject image which is formed on an imaging plane and to output image data; a distance information obtaining unit configured to obtain distance information of a single subject or each of a plurality of subjects in the image data; and a display controller configured to display an image on the display unit. The display controller is configured to associate a plurality of different colors respectively with a plurality of areas partitioned according to distances from the imaging apparatus, determine based on the distance information to which one of the plurality of areas each subject corresponds, and display on the display unit each captured subject with the color associated with the area corresponding to the each captured subject.

Abstract: An illumination apparatus (10) for the generation of an illumination field (102) for an optoelectronic sensor (100) is provided which has at least one light source (12) and an illumination optics (14), in particular comprising a TIR lens (16) in order to guide the light of the light source (12) into the illumination field (102) in a directed manner, wherein the illumination optics (10) has a light entrance region (20), a light guidance region (22) having a jacket surface (24) and a light exit region (26) such that the light (28, 30) of the light source (12) is guided from the light entrance region (20) to the light exit region (26) in the illumination optics (14) by means of total reflection at the jacket surface (24). In this connection the illumination optics (10) has an adaptable optical beam forming element (18) at the light exit region (26) in order to set the light distribution of the irradiated light (28, 30).

Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a solid-state imaging apparatus having an imaging region. In the imaging region, a plurality of pixels are two-dimensionally arranged. The plurality of pixels include a first pixel and a second pixel. The first pixel is arranged near a center of the imaging region. The second pixel is arranged at a position farther away from the center of the imaging region than the first pixel. The first pixel includes a first micro lens having a substantially circular shape as viewed in a plan view. The second pixel includes a second micro lens having a substantially elliptical shape as viewed in a plan view and having an area larger than an area of the first micro lens.

Abstract: In accordance with an example embodiment a method, apparatus and computer program product are provided. The method comprises receiving a first set of frames corresponding to a scene captured by a color image sensor and a second set of frames corresponding to the scene captured by a panchromatic image sensor. A number of frames in the second set is greater than a number of frames in the first set. The method further comprises generating color frames corresponding to the scene at a frame rate higher than a frame rate of the first set of frames based at least in part on processing of the first set of frames and the second set of frames.

Abstract: A commodity recognition apparatus comprises an image capturing unit for capturing image of a commodity in an image capturing area, a first unit for illuminating a first illumination area closer to the image capturing unit within the image capturing area according to an exposure period of the image capturing unit, a second unit for illuminating a second illumination area including part of the first illumination area and an area further than the first illumination area from the image capturing unit within the image capturing area for an illumination period according to the exposure period, and a control module for controlling, if overexposure of the image is detected, an execution timing of the second unit so that a shifting amount of the illumination period of the second unit to an exposure period next to the exposure period in which the overexposure is detected is different from a predetermined reference value.

Abstract: A user detecting apparatus includes: a memory that stores a program including a procedure; and a processor that executed the program, the procedure including: obtaining an image captured by a camera, switching between a first mode in which a first user-associated area, which is associated with a user, is detected from the image according to a similarity between a color histogram of the image and a reference color histogram and a second mode in which a second user-associated area, which is associated with the user, is detected from the image according to a feature point extracted from the image, according to luminance of the image, and detecting, from the image, the first user-associated area in the first mode or the second user-associated area in the second mode.

Abstract: An image processing method executed in an image processing device, the image processing method including a to-be-updated pixel selection unit deciding, in response to a cyclic period serving as a frame period of a bright and dark stripe pattern of image frames configuring a moving image content, a group division form of constituent pixels of the image frames, dividing the constituent pixels of the image frames into a plurality of groups in accordance with the decided group division form, and generating, from each of the image frames, to-be-updated pixel information setting pixels of a specific group as to-be-updated pixels, and an output control signal generation unit selectively outputting, in accordance with the to-be-updated pixel information, to-be-updated pixels belonging to a specific group from each of the image frames, and generating an output control signal for causing pixels of a display image to be updated in units of groups.

Abstract: An image capture apparatus comprises a shake detection unit configured to detect a shake, a translational motion correction amount calculation unit configured to calculate a first correction amount for correcting a translational motion component, a perspective component correction amount calculation unit configured to calculate a second correction amount for correcting a perspective component, an image stabilization unit configured to correct the image blurring of the captured image based on the first and second correction amount, and a control unit configured to restrict, if a panning state of the image capture apparatus is determined, the translational motion correction amount calculation unit and the perspective component correction amount calculation unit so as to decrease correction capability for the translational motion component and the perspective component.

Abstract: An imaging system such as an array camera may include an array of image sensors. The image sensors may each include an array of image pixels formed in a common image sensor substrate. A protective glass cover layer may be provided over the array of image sensors. The cover layer may be attached to the image sensor substrate using an adhesive. The adhesive may be formed on the image sensor substrate in a grid-like pattern in between adjacent image sensors in the array. A light blocking material may be formed on the adhesive grid to minimize optical crosstalk between neighboring image sensors. The light blocking material may fill or partially fill a trench in the adhesive, may coat the outer surfaces of the adhesive, and/or may coat the inner surfaces of the adhesive. If desired, light barriers may also be formed in openings in the glass cover layer.

Abstract: An apparatus including at least one processor; and at least one non-transitory memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to, during a digital zoom having increasing or decreasing zoom values for first frames taken by a camera, and based upon a sensor mode changing from a first sensor mode to a different second sensor mode, using at least one new different zoom value to one of the first frames captured by the camera before the sensor mode change to form at least one new second frame.

Abstract: An image sensor includes a first pixel and a second pixel. The first pixel includes a first light sensitive element, a first light filter, and a first microlens. The second pixel is disposed adjacent to the first pixel and includes a second light sensitive element, a second light filter, and a second microlens. The first pixel is configured to direct at least some of the light received at the first microlens to the second light sensitive element of the second pixel to increase optical crosstalk so as to reduce color aliasing.

Abstract: A video generating system and a video generating method, which combine images generated by a plurality of different image sensors to generate output images, are provided. In the inventive video generating system and method, the image sensors share a signal transmission interface to transmit image data and synchronization signals in a time-shared manner to reduce the complexity of the signal transmission interface.

Abstract: A method comprising receiving visual information from a camera module, causing display of a representation of, at least part of, the visual information, determining an autofocus point based, at least in part, on the visual information, capturing an image based, at least in part, on the visual information such that focus of the image conforms to the autofocus point, and causing display of the image and a shutter animation such that the shutter animation overlays the image and the shutter animation has a closing point that corresponds with a position on the image that correlates with the autofocus point is disclosed.

Abstract: An input rescale module for an image signal processor (ISP) that downscales sensor data in the horizontal and vertical dimensions. The module may demosaic the sensor data to generate RGB data. Horizontal filtering may be applied to horizontally downsize the RGB data. The RGB data is converted to YCC, chroma 4:4:4. The chroma 4:4:4 is then horizontally filtered to generate chroma 4:2:2. Dropping chrominance data by going to 4:2:2 may reduce hardware area cost and power usage in the vertical scaler. Vertical filtering may be applied separately to luma and chroma to vertically downsize the YCC data. Chroma may be filtered with stronger filters than luma. The chroma 4:2:2 data may then be horizontally interpolated to generate chroma 4:4:4 data. The YCC data is converted back to RGB, and the RGB data is remosaiced to generate downsampled sensor format data.

Abstract: An optical apparatus includes an operator rotationally operable about an optical axis of an image pickup optical system and configured to move, when rotationally operated, part of the image pickup optical system in an optical axis direction of the image pickup optical system and to change a focal length, an adjustor rotationally operable about the optical axis and configured to change, when rotationally operated, a pressure applied to the operator so as to change an operating load necessary to rotationally operate the operator, and an indicator prohibited from rotating about the optical axis and configured to move in the optical axis direction of the image pickup optical system, the indicator including part disposed between the operator and the adjustor. The operator indicates a plurality of zoom states, the part of the indicator has a pointer configured to select one of the plurality of zoom states.

Abstract: Relating to a switcher system that is capable of reducing time and trouble of setting video equipment. According to the present invention, there is provided a switcher system having a switcher and a plurality of view finders. The switcher outputs a digital video signal having a tally signal superimposed thereon. Each of the view finders has an external digital video input unit, which receives input of the digital video signal, and a tally display control unit, which controls tally display based on the tally signal superimposed on the digital video signal.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus for performing efficient signal processing depending on the operational mode. In the finder mode, a CCD interface 21a decimates horizontal components of image data supplied from an image generating unit 10 to one-third and moreover processes the decimated image data with data conversion and resolution conversion to produce Y, Cb and Cr image data which are routed to and written in an image memory 32 over a memory controller 22. In the recording mode, the CCD interface 21a causes the image data from the image generating unit 10 to be written in the image memory 32 via memory controller 22 after decimation and gamma correction etc. The camera DSP 21c reads out the image data via memory controller 22 from the image memory 32 to effect data conversion for writing the resulting data via memory controller 22 in the image memory 32.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device including a semiconductor substrate; plural photoelectric conversion units formed side by side on the semiconductor substrate to form a light receiving unit; a peripheral circuit formed in a portion on an outside of the light receiving unit on the semiconductor substrate; a wiring section formed on the light receiving unit and formed for connecting the plural photoelectric conversion units and the peripheral circuit; and a dummy wiring section formed on an opposite side of the wiring section for at least one photoelectric conversion unit among the plural photoelectric conversion units on the light receiving unit and formed for functioning as a non-connected wiring section not connected to the photoelectric conversion units and the peripheral circuit, wherein the dummy wiring section has a predetermined potential.

Abstract: A photographing device according to the present invention comprises: an imaging section that captures a subject image and outputs image data; a motion picture recording section that records a motion picture based on the image data; a parameter setting section that sets a photographing parameter to change a photographing state; and a parameter control section that automatically changes the photographing parameter during the recording of the motion picture regardless of the set photographing parameter.