Abstract: An imaging device, electronic equipment, and an imaging method capable of controlling a temperature rise are provided. The imaging device (CIS 2) according to the present disclosure includes an imaging unit (22), an information processing unit (DNN processing unit 23), a temperature detection unit (25), and a control unit (CIS control unit 21). The imaging unit (22) captures an image and generates image data. The information processing unit (DNN processing unit 23) performs processing with respect to the image data read from the imaging unit (22). The temperature detection unit (25) detects temperature. The control unit (CIS control unit 21) changes the processing performed by the information processing unit (DNN processing unit 23) according to the temperature detected by the temperature detection unit (25).

Abstract: An image capture device may capture a video. A part of the video may include depiction of an object of interest, and another part of the video may not include depiction of the object of interest. Stabilization of the video may switch between object stabilization and movement stabilization based on whether or not the video depicts the object of interest. The part of the video depicting the object of interest may be stabilized using object stabilization. The part of the video not depicting the object of interest may be stabilized using movement stabilization.

Abstract: A solid state image sensor of the present disclosure includes: a first semiconductor substrate provided with at least a pixel array unit in which pixels that perform photoelectric conversion are arranged in a matrix form; and a second semiconductor substrate provided with at least a control circuit unit that drives the pixels. The first semiconductor substrate and the second semiconductor substrate are stacked, with first surfaces on which wiring layers are formed facing each other, the pixel array unit is composed of a plurality of divided array units, the control circuit unit is provided corresponding to each of the plurality of divided array units, and electrical connection is established in each of the divided array units, through an electrode located on each of the first surfaces of the first semiconductor substrate and the second semiconductor substrate, between the pixel array unit and the control circuit unit.

Abstract: An apparatus configured to obtain an event signal that indicates a position of a pixel and a time at which a luminance change has occurred includes a detection unit configured to detect an object based on the event signal, and a control unit configured to perform control to change at least one parameter in a case where a time period during which the detection unit does not detect the object is longer than a predetermined time period.

Abstract: Disclosed are an optical lens, a camera module and a camera. From an object side to an image side along an optical axis, the optical lens includes: a first lens having a positive focal power and a convex object side surface; a second lens having a negative focal power; a third lens having a negative focal power; a fourth lens having a negative focal power; a fifth lens having a positive focal power, an object side surface of the fifth lens is convex at a paraxial region thereof, and an image side surface of the fifth lens is concave at a paraxial region thereof; a stop disposed between the second and third lens; and a filter disposed between the fifth lens and an imaging plane. The camera module includes the optical lens and an image sensor, and the camera includes the camera module.

Abstract: In a solid-state image sensor that detects an address event, the detection sensitivity for the address event is controlled to an appropriate value. The solid-state image sensor includes a pixel array unit and a control unit. In the solid-state image sensor, multiple pixel circuits are arranged in the pixel array unit, each detecting a change in luminance of incident light occurring outside a predetermined dead band as the address event. The control unit controls the width of the dead band according to the number of times the address event is detected in the pixel array unit within a fixed unit cycle.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an actuator system for determining and applying a voltage to a piezoelectric actuator (PEA) to achieve a given setpoint displacement. The method involves determining a relation dcal(V) between a PEA displacement measure (d) and voltage (V) and a relation ttcal(V) between transition time (tt) and voltage and combining the determined relations to calculate a relation d(tt) between the displacement measure and transition time during an initial calibration procedure. This relation is characteristic for the PEA, and by determining a new relation ttnew(V) after repeated biasing of the PEA, a compensated relation dc(V) can be calculated by substituting ttnew(V) in the calculated d(tt). The compensated relation dc(V) compensates for piezo creep effects due to the wear and can be used to determine the voltage to be applied directly, or be used in other compensation algorithms.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a sensor having an array of detectors. The sensor is configured to assign multiple detectors to a detector group corresponding to a block pixel. The sensor is also configured, for each frame of a set of frames, to apply a specified one of a set of mask patterns in order to select outputs of the detectors in the detector group and aggregate the selected outputs of the detectors in the detector group to determine pixel information for the block pixel. The apparatus also includes at least one processor configured to generate the frames using the pixel information for the block pixel, and upscale the portion of the at least one of the frames using the set of mask patterns to identify native pixels within the block pixel.

Abstract: A system and method are provided for automatically concatenating two or more audiovisual clips containing video input from multiple cameras, and producing a combined audiovisual file containing video that switches between the two video inputs. In some examples, two video inputs and an audio input are recorded synchronously and are synchronized. The audio input can be sampled to locate low-noise audio events. The audiovisual file contains video that switches between two or more camera angles at the low-noise audio events. In one aspect, pauses are automatically removed from the audiovisual files. In another aspect, the system detects switch-initiating events, and switches between camera angles in response to detecting a switch-initiating event.

Abstract: The present technique aims to provide a solid-state imaging device that reduces shading and color mixing between pixels. The present invention also provides a method of manufacturing the solid-state imaging device. The present technique further relates to a solid-state imaging device that enables provision of an electronic apparatus that uses the solid-state imaging device, a method of manufacturing the solid-state imaging device, and an electronic apparatus. The solid-state imaging device includes a substrate, pixels each including a photoelectric conversion unit formed in the substrate, and a color filter layer formed on the light incidence surface side of the substrate. The solid-state imaging device also includes a device isolating portion that is formed to divide the color filter layer and the substrate for the respective pixels, and has a lower refractive index than the refractive indexes of the color filter layer and the substrate.

Abstract: A control apparatus is operable to control capturing by an image capturing apparatus. The control apparatus comprises: a detection unit configured to detect a feature portion included in an image that was captured by the image capturing apparatus; and a determination unit configured to, based on a subject region that surrounds a subject including a feature portion detected by the detection unit, determine an exposure region for calculating an exposure. The determination unit determines the exposure region by extending the subject region in a first direction.

Abstract: A display control device for controlling a display panel is switchable between a first display mode in which a video is displayed at a first vertical resolution and a second display mode in which a video is displayed at a second vertical resolution that is lower than the first vertical resolution. The display control device comprises at least one memory and at least one processor which function as: a control unit configured, in a first case where a first operation is received in the first display mode, to change to the second display mode after changing a display update timing in the first display mode, and in a second case where a second operation is received in the second display mode, to change the display update timing after changing to the first display mode.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus obtains a plurality of pieces of image data with different exposure amounts and then performs a level-conversion of the image data by applying input/output characteristics thereto. The apparatus encodes the image data whose level has been converted and decodes the encoded image data. The apparatus further applies inverse characteristics of the input/output characteristics to the decoded image data and then generates combined image data. In generating the combined image, the input/output characteristics are set in accordance with a combining ratio of each of the image data.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect a flicker frequency of a subject light source by sampling an output signal of a sensor in first sampling processing, a determination unit configured to determine whether the detected flicker frequency falls within a detection target range, by sampling an output signal of the sensor in second sampling processing, and a control unit configured to perform control to notify a user in response to determination by the determination unit that the detected flicker frequency falls out of a detection target range in the first sampling processing.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a semiconductor substrate, a floating diffusion, an amplifying transistor, first and second contact plugs, a wire, and a metal portion. The semiconductor substrate has a first plane and a second plane to be entered by light, and includes a photoelectric conversion element. The amplifying transistor includes a first gate electrode. The first contact plug is connected to the floating diffusion. The second contact plug is connected to the first gate electrode. The wire is configured to electrically connect the first gate electrode and the floating diffusion to each other. The metal portion, which is arranged between the first plane and a third plane, covers at least a part of the photoelectric conversion element in a planar view, and has an opening over which at least a part of the wire is superimposed in a planar view.

Abstract: An image capture device, including: a heatsink, an integrated sensor and lens assembly (ISLA), and a battery cage. The heatsink includes a mounting flange. The ISLA extends through the heatsink. The battery cage being in communication with a finger mounting flange of the mounting flange to support the battery cage within the image capture device.

Abstract: A disclosed comparator includes a comparison circuit that performs comparison between an input signal and a reference signal and changes a level of a signal to be output to a first node in accordance with a result of the comparison; and a positive feedback circuit including an amplifier unit that includes a current source load and outputs a signal in accordance with a potential of the first node to a second node and a feedback unit that positively feeds back a signal in accordance with a potential of the second node to the first node. The feedback unit includes a first transistor to which output of the amplifier unit is fed back and a switch that controls turning on or off of the first transistor.

Abstract: A depth imaging system in a vehicle includes a lens that includes a polarization-coded aperture. The polarization-coded aperture includes a perpendicular polarization portion to pass incident light entering the perpendicular polarization portion of the polarization-coded aperture as perpendicularly polarized light. The polarization-coded aperture also includes a parallel polarization portion to pass the incident light entering the parallel polarization portion of the polarization-coded aperture as parallel polarized light. An image sensor provides a perpendicularly polarized image based on the perpendicularly polarized light and a parallel polarized image based on the parallel polarized light. A controller processes the perpendicularly polarized image and the parallel polarized image to identify one or more objects in a field of view of the depth imaging system and to determine a range to each of the one or more objects.

Abstract: Various embodiments include a camera with image sensor shifting capabilities and a flexure arrangement. In various embodiments, the flexure arrangement may include an upper flexure and a lower flexure. The upper flexure may include a suspension wire that extends between two sheets. The lower flexure may include one or more flexure arms that connect a moveable platform to a stationary platform.

Abstract: An imaging element comprising: an imaging unit that has: a plurality of groups each including at least one pixel; and a plurality of signal readout units that are each provided to each of the groups and read out a signal from the pixel; and a control unit that controls the signal readout unit in at least one group among the plurality of groups is provided. Each of the plurality of groups may include a plurality of the pixels. The control unit may select at least one group among the plurality of groups and control the signal readout unit by using a control parameter that is different from a control parameter that is used for another group among the plurality of groups.