Abstract: A laminated image pickup device includes: a sensor including a plurality of pixels configured on a sensor substrate and configured to continuously acquire image data at a predetermined frame rate; and a processor. The processor is provided on a substrate other than the sensor substrate, and is configured to perform, based on the image data, region judgement processing of obtaining a priority region including some pixels of the plurality of pixels and to obtain outputs of the some pixels included in the priority region at a higher frame rate than the predetermined frame rate.

Abstract: A learning management device comprising an inference engine that is input with image data and acquires output for performing guidance display to a user using an inference model that has been specifically learned, and a processor that confirms if there is a specified relationship between a trial input image and trial guidance display for this trial input image under conditions that have been assumed at the time of use, and that determines whether or not it is necessary to relearn the inference model that has been learned based on the result of this confirmation.

Abstract: An image pickup device, in which a plurality of pixels photoelectrically convert incident light and generate a plurality of pieces of pixel data, includes a vertical scanning section configured to generate a pixel data sequence composed of pixel data having a same characteristic, a pixel section, an analog processing section, an ADC processing section, a memory section, a horizontal scanning section, and an output section configured to add additional information indicating the characteristic of the pixel data sequence to the pixel data sequence.

Abstract: A learning device, comprising a reception circuit that receives requests indicating photographs the user likes from external device, a machine learning processor that extracts images that match the requests and that have received a given evaluation from a third party, from within an image database, performs machine learning using these images that have been extracted, and outputs an inference model, and a transmission circuit that transmits an inference model that has been output from the learning processor to the external device.

Abstract: An image file generating device that generates image files constituting training data candidates, comprising a processor that has a metadata generating section for generating metadata in order to designate (1) if inference is for detecting a physical object within an image, and (2) whether inference is for predicting change in images that are continuous in time, wherein the metadata generating section generates the metadata based on information corresponding to times before and after the images have been acquired.

Abstract: A shooting device, comprising: an operation member for setting parameters, and a controller having a parameter preliminary setting section and a parameter calculation section for each condition, wherein the parameter preliminary setting section, before continuous shooting comprised of a series of a plurality of frames, performs preliminary parameter setting as a result of operation of the operation member for at least one point of shooting predetermined positions of the plurality of frames, and the parameter calculation section for each condition calculates parameter at the time of shooting the plurality of frames in accordance with the parameters that have been set in the parameter preliminary setting section.

Abstract: A learning management device comprising an inference engine that is input with image data and acquires output for performing guidance display to a user using an inference model that has been specifically learned, and a processor that confirms if there is a specified relationship between a trial input image and trial guidance display for this trial input image under conditions that have been assumed at the time of use, and that determines whether or not it is necessary to relearn the inference model that has been learned based on the result of this confirmation.

Abstract: A learning device, comprising a reception circuit that receives requests indicating photographs the user likes from external device, a machine learning processor that extracts images that match the requests and that have received a given evaluation from a third party, from within an image database, performs machine learning using these images that have been extracted, and outputs an inference model, and a transmission circuit that transmits an inference model that has been output from the learning processor to the external device.

Abstract: An imaging device comprising: an imaging sensor; a processor including a magnification processing section which magnifies a part of an image captured by the imaging sensor to generate a magnified image, a display device to display an image, and a transmission circuit to transmit an image to an external device, wherein the display device displays the magnified image generated by the magnification processing section of the processor, and wherein the transmission circuit transmits a non-magnified image not subjected to magnification processing by the magnification processing section of the processor.

Abstract: An interface device includes a control circuit configured to (1) acquire from a capture device related data for checking a content of recording data recorded in a recording medium of the capture device, and (2) play back the related data to be viewable on a setting screen, an operation unit configured to accept an operation of setting of playback specifications on the setting screen, and a communication circuit configured to transmit playback specification information indicating the set playback specifications to the capture device.

Abstract: An image pickup device, in which a plurality of pixels photoelectrically convert incident light and generate a plurality of pieces of pixel data, includes a vertical scanning section configured to generate a pixel data sequence composed of pixel data having a same characteristic, a pixel section, an analog processing section, an ADC processing section, a memory section, a horizontal scanning section, and an output section configured to add additional information indicating the characteristic of the pixel data sequence to the pixel data sequence.

Abstract: An imaging device includes an imaging unit, a display controller, a first selector, a second selector, and a record controller. The imaging unit acquires a plurality of items of image data captured by repeatedly imaging an object. The display controller displays images based on the plurality of items of the captured image data on a display after user's imaging operation. The first selector selects first image data among the displayed images in accordance with a user's select operation. The second selector selects second image data among the items of the captured image data based on the first image data. The record controller records the first image data, movie data including the second image data, characteristic information of the first image data, and characteristic information of the movie data in a recording medium.

Abstract: A shooting device, comprising: an operation member for setting parameters, and a controller having a parameter preliminary setting section and a parameter calculation section for each condition, wherein the parameter preliminary setting section, before continuous shooting comprised of a series of a plurality of frames, performs preliminary parameter setting as a result of operation of the operation member for at least one point of shooting predetermined positions of the plurality of frames, and the parameter calculation section for each condition calculates parameter at the time of shooting the plurality of frames in accordance with the parameters that have been set in the parameter preliminary setting section.

Abstract: An imaging device comprising: an imaging sensor; a processor including a magnification processing section which magnifies a part of an image captured by the imaging sensor to generate a magnified image, a display device to display an image, and a transmission circuit to transmit an image to an external device, wherein the display device displays the magnified image generated by the magnification processing section of the processor, and wherein the transmission circuit transmits a non-magnified image not subjected to magnification processing by the magnification processing section of the processor.

Abstract: An image pickup device includes a pixel section in which image pixels and phase difference pixels are arranged in a matrix shape, an image-signal generating section that stores pixel signals outputted from the pixel section in a memory section for one or more rows of unit rows, which are rows of unit pixels configured by a plurality of pixels adjacent to each other, combines, for each of the unit rows, the pixel signals of the unit pixels as combined pixel signals, and extracts phase difference pixel signals from the unit row, and an image-signal readout section that reads out, as signals of one row, the combined pixel signals and the phase difference pixel signals of one unit row generated by the image-signal generating section.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus including an image pickup device having a pixel section with a plurality of two-dimensionally arranged pixels and a frame memory which temporarily stores, in an analog manner, analog image data read out from the pixel section and first to third readout control sections which perform first readout control that reads out image data of all pixels obtained through one exposure from the pixel section and stores the image data in the frame memory and perform second readout control that nondestructively reads out a piece of image data of a smaller number of pixels than all the pixels from the image data of all the pixels stored in the frame memory a plurality of times such that the piece of image data each has different object region size.

Abstract: An image pickup device includes a pixel section in which image pixels and phase difference pixels are arranged in a matrix shape, an image-signal generating section that stores pixel signals outputted from the pixel section in a memory section for one or more rows of unit rows, which are rows of unit pixels configured by a plurality of pixels adjacent to each other, combines, for each of the unit rows, the pixel signals of the unit pixels as combined pixel signals, and extracts phase difference pixel signals from the unit row, and an image-signal readout section that reads out, as signals of one row, the combined pixel signals and the phase difference pixel signals of one unit row generated by the image-signal generating section.

Abstract: The invention relates to an image pickup apparatus including a pixel section in which plural pixels are arrayed two-dimensionally, an exposure amount control section that determines an exposure amount and controls the pixel section to be continuously exposed plural times, a memory section that can store a pixel signal from the pixel section for plural frames of an output image, a vertical scanning circuit that reads out the pixel signal of the pixel section and stores the pixel signal in the memory section, and a column processing section that reads out the pixel signal stored in the memory section. The vertical scanning circuit sequentially reads out respective pixel signals related to the plural times of exposures and stores the pixel signals in the memory section.

Abstract: The invention provides an image pickup apparatus including: an image pickup device including a memory portion for analog storage and a pixel portion; a first read-out control and processing portions that, in a first frame-period, read out a first-image-signal from a first-pixel-region of the pixel portion, and in a second frame-period longer than the first frame-period, read out a second-image-signal from a second-pixel-region of the pixel portion including the first-pixel-region, and store the read-out signals in the memory portion; a second read-out control and processing portions that read out from a memory portion an AF image signal related to the first-image-signal and a display image signal related to the second-image-signal; a focal point detecting portion that carries out contrast focal point detection based on the AF image signal; and an image display portion that displays an image based on the display image signal.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus including an image pickup device having a pixel section with a plurality of two-dimensionally arranged pixels and a frame memory which temporarily stores, in an analog manner, analog image data read out from the pixel section and first to third readout control sections which perform first readout control that reads out image data of all pixels obtained through one exposure from the pixel section and stores the image data in the frame memory and perform second readout control that nondestructively reads out a piece of image data of a smaller number of pixels than all the pixels from the image data of all the pixels stored in the frame memory a plurality of times such that the piece of image data each has different object region size.