Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to: divide an input image into a plurality of areas to correspond to predetermined categories, using information of the image; set different image processing parameters for the divided areas corresponding to the predetermined categories, respectively; perform image processing on the divided areas using the image processing parameters corresponding to the divided areas; and combine the divided areas on which the image processing has been performed to form an image.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to detect a positional shift amount of each of a plurality of images; select a composite target image from the plurality of images based on the detected positional shift amount; and obtain a composite image based on the positional shift amount and the selected composite target image.

Abstract: An image-capturing device includes an image-capturing optical system; an image sensor; and processing circuitry configured to: control the image-capturing optical system to capture one or more preliminary images of an object to be tracked; analyze the one or more preliminary images; calculate tracking-control information using results of the analysis; and adjust at least one of the image-capturing optical system and the image sensor with movement of the object, in accordance with the tracking-control information to capture an image of the object that is being tracked.

Abstract: An image-capturing device includes an image-capturing optical system; an image sensor; and processing circuitry configured to: control the image-capturing optical system to capture one or more preliminary images of an object to be tracked; analyze the one or more preliminary images; calculate tracking-control information using results of the analysis; and adjust at least one of the image-capturing optical system and the image sensor with movement of the object, in accordance with the tracking-control information to capture an image of the object that is being tracked.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to: divide an input image into a plurality of areas to correspond to predetermined categories, using information of the image; set different image processing parameters for the divided areas corresponding to the predetermined categories, respectively; perform image processing on the divided areas using the image processing parameters corresponding to the divided areas; and combine the divided areas on which the image processing has been performed to form an image.

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes an image data acquirer configured to acquire pieces of image data at a plurality of relative movement positions to which an imaging surface of an imaging sensor is relatively moved with respect to an object light flux; an exposure changer configured to change an exposure when acquiring the pieces of image data at the plurality of relative movement positions; a dynamic range adjuster configured to adjust a dynamic range of the acquired pieces of image data; and an image data combiner configured to obtain composite image data of the pieces of image data, based on a positional shift amount between the pieces of image data and the dynamic range.

Abstract: There is provided an image capturing device including: an inputter configured to receive first image data and second image data; a pixel determiner configured to determine a second pixel included in the second image data and corresponding to a first pixel included in the first image data; and a corrector configured to correct a value of the first pixel with a value of the second pixel.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to detect a positional shift amount of each of a plurality of images; select a composite target image from the plurality of images based on the detected positional shift amount; and obtain a composite image based on the positional shift amount and the selected composite target image.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to detect a positional shift amount of each of a plurality of images; select a composite target image from the plurality of images based on the detected positional shift amount; and obtain a composite image based on the positional shift amount and the selected composite target image.

Abstract: There is provided an image capturing device including: an inputter configured to receive first image data and second image data; a pixel determiner configured to determine a second pixel included in the second image data and corresponding to a first pixel included in the first image data; and a corrector configured to correct a value of the first pixel with a value of the second pixel.

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes an image data acquirer configured to acquire pieces of image data at a plurality of relative movement positions to which an imaging surface of an imaging sensor is relatively moved with respect to an object light flux; an exposure changer configured to change an exposure when acquiring the pieces of image data at the plurality of relative movement positions; a dynamic range adjuster configured to adjust a dynamic range of the acquired pieces of image data; and an image data combiner configured to obtain composite image data of the pieces of image data, based on a positional shift amount between the pieces of image data and the dynamic range.

Abstract: An apparatus for imaging an object has a metering image sensor that comprises a plurality of pixels. The plurality of pixels is matrix-arrayed along vertical and horizontal directions. The apparatus also has an image sensor driver that drives the metering image sensor, which reads image-pixel signals of neighboring pixels among the plurality of pixels while mixing the image-pixel signals. The apparatus also has a pixel addition setting processor that sets a number of pixel addition of the metering image sensor with respect to at least one of at least one row and at least one column. The pixel addition setting processor sets different numbers of pixel addition to different pixel areas. The apparatus also has an exposure controller that controls an exposure of the metering image sensor and the photography image sensor.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to detect a positional shift amount of each of a plurality of images; select a composite target image from the plurality of images based on the detected positional shift amount; and obtain a composite image based on the positional shift amount and the selected composite target image.

Abstract: An apparatus for imaging an object has a metering image sensor that comprises a plurality of pixels. The plurality of pixels is matrix-arrayed along vertical and horizontal directions. The apparatus also has an image sensor driver that drives the metering image sensor, which reads image-pixel signals of neighboring pixels among the plurality of pixels while mixing the image-pixel signals. The apparatus also has a pixel addition setting processor that sets a number of pixel addition of the metering image sensor with respect to at least one of at least one row and at least one column. The pixel addition setting processor sets different numbers of pixel addition to different pixel areas. The apparatus also has an exposure controller that controls an exposure of the metering image sensor and the photography image sensor.

Abstract: An apparatus for imaging an object has an image sensor that comprises a plurality of pixels. The plurality of pixels is matrix-arrayed along vertical and horizontal directions. The apparatus also has an image sensor driver that drives the image sensor, and the image sensor driver is capable of reading image-pixel signals of neighboring pixels among the plurality of pixels while mixing the image-pixel signals. The apparatus also has a pixel addition setting processor that sets the number of pixel addition with respect to at least one of at least one row and at least one column. The pixel addition setting processor sets different numbers of pixel addition to different pixel areas. The image sensor driver reads the image-pixel signals in response to the set number of pixel addition.

Abstract: A photographing apparatus includes a photographing optical system having a diaphragm and a photographing lens; an image sensor; a driver which drives a shake-correction member in a plane orthogonal to the optical axis to make the object-emanating light rays incident on pixels of the image sensor that have different in detection colors to obtain an optical low-pass filter effect, wherein the image sensor and/or a lens element-constitutes the shake-correction member; a retriever which retrieves information on an aperture diameter of the diaphragm and on a resolving power of the photographing lens; and a drive controller which varies a range of the pixels, having different detection colors and on which the object-emanating light rays are incident, in accordance with the information on the aperture diameter of the diaphragm and/or on the resolving power of the photographing lens to vary the optical low-pass filter effect.

Abstract: An image-processing system including an image processor and a correction processor is provided. The imaging processor obtains a captured image. The correction processor produces a corrected image by correcting an aberration that emerges in the captured image. The correction processor produces: at least one or more processed images obtained by applying different processes to the captured image; a masking image by applying a predetermined process to one of the captured images or the at least one or more processed images; a composite image by synthesizing the masking image and either of the captured image or the at least one or more processed images, which are not used when producing the masking image; and the corrected image by synthesizing the composite image and the captured image.

Abstract: An autofocus device comprising includes a lens drive system for translating a lens, a first in-focus position detector for detecting a first in-focus position while translating the lens in a first direction by the lens drive system and a second in-focus position detector for detecting a second in-focus position while translating the lens in a direction opposite with respect to the first direction by the lens drive system, the second in-focus position detector operating after the first in-focus position is detected. A backlash detector detects a backlash in the lens drive system according to the first and the second in-focus positions.

Abstract: A photographing apparatus includes a photographing optical system having a diaphragm and a photographing lens; an image sensor; a driver which drives a shake-correction member in a plane orthogonal to the optical axis-to make the object-emanating light rays incident on pixels of the image sensor that have different in detection colors to obtain an optical low-pass filter effect, wherein the image sensor and/or a lens element-constitutes the shake-correction member; a retriever which retrieves information on an aperture diameter of the diaphragm and on a resolving power of the photographing lens; and a drive controller which varies a range of the pixels, having different-in detection colors and on which the object-emanating light rays are incident, in accordance with the information on the aperture diameter of the diaphragm and/or on the resolving power of the photographing lens to vary the optical low-pass filter effect.

Abstract: An autofocus device comprising includes a lens drive system for translating a lens, a first in-focus position detector for detecting a first in-focus position while translating the lens in a first direction by the lens drive system and a second in-focus position detector for detecting a second in-focus position while translating the lens in a direction opposite with respect to the first direction by the lens drive system, the second in-focus position detector operating after the first in-focus position is detected. A backlash detector detects a backlash in the lens drive system according to the first and the second in-focus positions.