Abstract: An image capturing element comprising photoelectric converting elements that are arranged two-dimensionally and photoelectrically convert incident light into an electric signal; aperture masks that correspond one-to-one with the photoelectric converting elements; and color filters that correspond one-to-one with the photoelectric converting elements. Among n adjacent photoelectric converting elements, where n is an integer no less than three, apertures of the aperture masks corresponding to at least three of the photoelectric converting elements are included within each pattern of a color filter pattern formed from at least two types of the color filters that respectively pass different wavelength bands, and are positioned to respectively pass light from different partial regions within a cross-sectional region of the incident light, and photoelectric converting element groups that are each formed of the n photoelectric converting elements are arranged in series.

Abstract: To obtain image data including a parallax in the vertical direction and image data including a parallax in the horizontal direction, it has been necessary to prepare imaging devices individually at the positions corresponding to the respective viewpoints. Hence, provided is an image processing element including: photoelectric converting elements that are arranged two-dimensionally and convert incident light to electric signals, respectively; and aperture masks provided on the photoelectric converting elements, wherein photoelectric converting element groups each including n photoelectric converting elements are arranged cyclically where n is an integer equal to or larger than 4, and apertures in the aperture masks are positioned lopsidedly to be axisymmetric to each other with respect to each of two orthogonal axes defined on the two-dimensional arrangement of each photoelectric converting element group.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus including an image generating section that generates first parallax image data based on the output of the first pixel and second parallax image data based on the output of the second pixel. When the imaging element captures an image of an object point located in an unfocused region on the optical axis, a pixel value of a center pixel corresponding to the optical axis in the first parallax image data is greater than or equal to 50% of a pixel value of a peak pixel in the first parallax image data, and a pixel value of a center pixel corresponding to the optical axis in the second parallax image data is greater than or equal to 50% of a pixel value of a peak pixel in the second parallax image data.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus comprises an image-capturing element that outputs image signals representing a plurality of color components and an analyzing device that analyzes a captured photographic image based upon image signals with linearity, which are output from the image-capturing element.

Abstract: Provided is an imaging apparatus including an imaging section that generates, from a single scene, captured image data including reference image data, first parallax image data having a first parallax in one direction relative to a subject of the reference image data, and second parallax image data having a second parallax in another direction that is opposite the one direction; an adjustment condition acquiring section that acquires an adjustment condition relating to parallax amount adjustment; and an image processing device that processes the reference image data, the first parallax image data, and the second parallax image data, based on the adjustment condition, to generate third parallax image data having a third parallax that is in the one direction and different from the first parallax and fourth parallax image data having a fourth parallax that is in the other direction and different from the second parallax.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus, comprising: a receiving unit receiving a first image and image-capturing information associated with the first image; a determining unit determining, based on the image-capturing information, whether or not the first image is an image of a subject image in a view point direction corresponding to the aperture mask, using an output signal of an image sensor that includes a pixel array including first parallax pixels having the aperture mask with asymmetric directional properties in the long axis and short axis with respect to incident light flux of a single optical system and positioned to permit a portion of the light flux to pass; and an outputting unit outputting a corrected first image by carrying out a correction process having different frequency properties between the long axis direction and the short axis direction on the subject image in an unfocused region of the first image.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus is provided, that is configured to: extract a first pixel value corresponding to a first viewpoint that is one of a plurality of viewpoints to capture a subject image, at a target pixel position from image data having the first pixel value; extract second and third luminance values corresponding to second and third viewpoints that are different from the first viewpoint, at the target pixel position from luminance image data having the second and third luminance values; and calculate at least any of second and third pixel values of the second and third viewpoints such that a relational expression between the second or third pixel value and the first pixel value extracted by the pixel value extracting unit remains correlated with a relational expression defined by the second and third luminance values.

Abstract: A technique is disclosed to obtain first image data including a first pixel value of a first pixel having a no-parallax opening corresponding to a reference direction, a second pixel value of a second pixel having a parallax opening that causes parallax in one direction and a third pixel value of a third pixel having a parallax opening that causes parallax in the opposite direction, to calculate, for a pixel position of the second pixel, a fourth pixel value by averaging the second pixel value at the pixel position and a hypothetical third pixel value and to calculate, for a pixel position of the third pixel, a fifth pixel value by averaging the third pixel value at the pixel position and a hypothetical second pixel value, and to use the first pixel value, the fourth pixel value and the fifth pixel value to produce 2D second image data.

Abstract: A server apparatus includes: a communication unit that communicates with a user terminal and a manufacturer terminal; an additional information communication unit that transmits, when the communication unit receives additional function information indicating a function to be added to a basic device from the user terminal, the additional function information to the manufacturer terminal through the communication unit; a specification information communication unit that transmits, when the communication unit receives specification information indicating a specification of an additional device for realizing the function from the manufacturer terminal, the specification information to the user terminal through the communication unit; and a specification determination unit that determines, when the communication unit receives, from the user terminal, selection information indicating one specification selected from among specifications indicated by the specification information transmitted to the user terminal, the

Abstract: To produce both 2D image data and color parallax image data from image data output from a single-plate image sensor, the resolutions of the 2D image data and parallax image data may be both degraded. The image sensor has a primitive lattice that is a group of pixels including (i) at least four types of parallax pixels formed by photoelectric converter elements each of which is associated with one of combinations of two different types of aperture masks and two different types of color filters and (ii) no-parallax pixels configured to guide an incident luminous flux to photoelectric converter elements without limitation. In the group of pixels, the no-parallax pixels are more than the parallax pixels.

Abstract: A technique is disclosed to calculate a new pixel value of a particular color of second-viewpoint color image data in such a manner that a difference between the new pixel value of the particular color of the second viewpoint and the pixel value of the particular color of the first-viewpoint color image data maintains correlation with a sum of a difference between the pixel value of a first color component of the second-viewpoint color image data and the pixel value of the first color component of third-viewpoint color image data and a difference between the pixel value of a second color component of the second-viewpoint color image data and the pixel value of the second color component of the third-viewpoint color image data.

Abstract: In order to provide an image capturing apparatus with a simple configuration that can acquire a parallax image, the image capturing apparatus comprises an image capturing element including photoelectric converting elements that are arranged two-dimensionally and photoelectrically convert incident light into an electrical signal, and an aperture mask including apertures provided to correspond one-to-one with the photoelectric converting elements and positioned in a manner to pass light from different partial regions in a cross-sectional region of the incident light, and a diaphragm that changes shape while maintaining a state in which width of a diaphragm aperture in an arrangement direction of the different partial regions is greater than width of the diaphragm aperture in a direction orthogonal to the arrangement direction.

Abstract: To obtain image data including a parallax in the vertical direction and image data including a parallax in the horizontal direction, it has been necessary to prepare imaging devices individually at the positions corresponding to the respective viewpoints. Hence, provided is an image processing element including: photoelectric converting elements that are arranged two-dimensionally and convert incident light to electric signals, respectively; and aperture masks provided on the photoelectric converting elements, wherein photoelectric converting element groups each including n photoelectric converting elements are arranged cyclically where n is an integer equal to or larger than 4, and apertures in the aperture masks are positioned lopsidedly to be axisymmetric to each other with respect to each of two orthogonal axes defined on the two-dimensional arrangement of each photoelectric converting element group.

Abstract: There is a problem that fluxes of light to pass through a peripheral region of the pupil do not reach a peripheral region of an image capturing element due to vignetting.

Abstract: So as to obtain color parallax images, it has been necessary to prepare an image capturing optical system and an image capturing element that are complex, to capture the parallax images. In view of this, provided is an image processing apparatus including: an image obtaining section that obtains original image data including a pixel having a pixel value of any of primary colors constituting colors of a subject image and a pixel having a pixel value showing at least a parallax of the subject image; and an image generating section that generates, from the original image data, primary color image data made up of pixels having the pixel value of the primary color, and parallax image data made up of pixels having the pixel value showing the parallax.

Abstract: So as to provide this problem, provided is an image processing apparatus including: an image data obtaining section that obtains at least two pieces of parallax image data from an image capturing element that includes color filters and opening masks so that one color filter and one opening mask correspond to one of at least a part of photoelectric conversion elements and outputs the at least two pieces of parallax image data; and a correcting section that corrects color imbalance of a corresponding pixel caused between the at least two pieces of parallax image data, based on at least one of a position of the at least a part of photoelectric conversion elements in the image capturing element and an opening displacement of the opening mask.

Abstract: With a conventional stereoimage capturing device, it has been difficult to simply determine the present of a depth. An image capturing device includes an image capturing element in which a first parallax pixel group and a second parallax pixel group that output a first parallax image and a second parallax image, respectively, to cause a parallax are arranged at mutually different positions. The image capturing device computes a differential pixel value of each of a plurality of second parallax output pixels in the second parallax image positioned around a target pixel that is a first parallax output pixel of the first parallax image, the differential pixel value being computed with reference to the target pixel, and generates differential data in which a direction of each of the plurality of second parallax output pixels with reference to the target pixel is associated with the corresponding differential pixel value.

Abstract: So as to obtain color parallax images, it has been necessary to prepare an image capturing optical system and an image capturing element that are complex, to capture the parallax images. In view of the above, provided is an image processing apparatus including: an image obtaining section; a disparity amount operation section; and an image converting section.

Abstract: An image capturing element comprising photoelectric converting elements that are arranged two-dimensionally and photoelectrically convert incident light into an electric signal; aperture masks that correspond one-to-one with the photoelectric converting elements; and color filters that correspond one-to-one with the photoelectric converting elements. Among n adjacent photoelectric converting elements, where n is an integer no less than three, apertures of the aperture masks corresponding to at least three of the photoelectric converting elements are included within each pattern of a color filter pattern formed from at least two types of the color filters that respectively pass different wavelength bands, and are positioned to respectively pass light from different partial regions within a cross-sectional region of the incident light, and photoelectric converting element groups that are each formed of the n photoelectric converting elements are arranged in series.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus comprises an image-capturing element that outputs image signals representing a plurality of color components and an analyzing device that analyzes a captured photographic image based upon image signals with linearity, which are output from the image-capturing element.