Abstract: Three-dimensional point group data indicating three-dimensional coordinate sets of three-dimensional points included in a common imaging space of one or more cameras is received, one or more images captured by the one or more cameras are transmitted, the one or more transmitted images are received, initial camera parameters of each cameras are decided based on one or more mounting locations and one or more directions of the cameras, corresponding points in the one or more images are calculated for each of the three-dimensional points, based on the three-dimensional point group data and the initial camera parameters, and one or more camera parameters of the one or more cameras are calculated based on pixel values at the corresponding points in the one or more images.

Abstract: A camera parameter set calculation method including (a1) acquiring a first image captured by a first camera and a second image captured by a second camera, (a2) acquiring camera parameter sets of the first and second cameras, (a3) extracting, from the first image, a predetermined portion having assumed three-dimensional position information, (a4) calculating three-dimensional coordinate sets corresponding to the predetermined portion on a basis of the assumed three-dimensional position information, the first image, and the first camera parameter set, (a5) determining first pixel coordinate pairs and second pixel coordinate pairs corresponding to the predetermined portion in the first image and second image, respectively, on the basis of the three-dimensional coordinate sets, (a6) calculating an evaluation value on the basis of pixel values at the first pixel coordinate pairs and pixel values at the second coordinate pairs, (a7) updating the camera parameter sets on the basis of the evaluation value.

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus: calculates, for each of pairs of images, based on the pairs of images and camera parameters, position information including information specifying a three-dimensional position of a measurement point with respect to a pair of pixels respectively included in the pair of images, and information specifying a position of each of the pair of pixels; performs, based on the position information and the camera parameters, weighted addition on the information specifying the three-dimensional position of the measurement point in each of the pair of images, with information using an effective baseline length or a viewing angle, with respect to the three-dimensional position, of a pair of the cameras corresponding to the pair of images; and outputs position information of the measurement point to which a weighted addition value is applied.

Abstract: A camera parameter set calculation method includes acquiring a first image from a first camera, a second image from a second camera, first and second camera parameter sets of the first camera and the second camera, calculating three-dimensional coordinate sets on the basis of the first image, the second image, the first camera parameter set, and the second camera parameter set, determining first pixel coordinate pairs obtained by projecting the three-dimensional coordinate sets onto the first image and second pixel coordinate pairs obtained by projecting the three-dimensional coordinate sets onto the second image, calculating an evaluation value on the basis of the pixel values at the first pixel coordinate pairs and the pixel values at the second pixel coordinate pairs, and updating the first camera parameter set and the second camera parameter set on a basis of the evaluation value.

Abstract: In an imaging device, a difference calculation unit calculates a differential signal between charge signals that have been accumulated and are held by first and charge holding units with different timings. A multiple sampling unit performs multiple sampling processing on the differential signal, and an analog digital conversion unit converts a signal that has undergone multiple sampling processing to a digital signal. That is, multiple sampling processing is performed on a differential signal with a higher sparisty than that of an image signal.

Abstract: A camera calibration method which calculates camera parameters of at least three cameras (a1) acquires three-dimensional coordinate set of a calibration point and image coordinate pair of the calibration point in each camera image, (a2) acquires camera parameters of each camera, (a3) calculates a view angle-corresponding length corresponding to a view angle of each pair of cameras viewing the calibration point, (a4) calculates a three-dimensional position of a measurement point corresponding to a three-dimensional position of the calibration point for each camera pair using parallax of the calibration point between the cameras in the camera pair, (a5) weights the three-dimensional position of each measurement point using the view angle-corresponding length corresponding to the measurement point, (a6) calculates a three-dimensional position of a unified point of the weighted measurement points, and (a7) updates the camera parameters based on the three-dimensional coordinate set of the calibration point and the

Abstract: A camera calibration method, which calculates camera parameters of two cameras using calibration points, includes: (a1) acquiring three-dimensional coordinate sets of the calibration points and image coordinate pairs of the calibration points in a camera image of each camera; (a2) acquiring multiple camera parameters of each camera; (a3) for each calibration point, calculating a view angle-corresponding length corresponding to a view angle of the two cameras viewing the calibration point; (a4) for each calibration point, calculating a three-dimensional position of a measurement point corresponding to a three-dimensional position of the calibration point using parallax of the calibration point between the two cameras; (a5) for each calibration point, weighting a difference between the three-dimensional coordinate set of the calibration point and the three-dimensional position of the measurement point corresponding to the calibration point using the view angle-corresponding length corresponding to the calibrati

Abstract: An imaging system serving as an image generation device is provided with: a random color filter array that has a plurality of concave lenses and a plurality of color filters having different transmission characteristics; a photodiode that receives light that has passed through the random color filter array; an AD converter that converts the light received by the photodiode into digital data; and a color image generation circuit that generates an image using the digital data and modulation information of the random color filter array, in which the plurality of concave lenses are located between the plurality of color filters and the photodiode, or the plurality of color filters are located between the plurality of concave lenses and the photodiode.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an optical imaging system that converges light from an object; an imaging device that includes a plurality of pixels, receives the converged light, and converts the received light to an electric signal; a filter unit that is disposed between the optical imaging system and the imaging device and includes a plurality of color filters having different light transmission rate characteristics; and a transmission data compressing circuit that codes the electric signal. An overall light transmission rate characteristic of the filter unit differs randomly in different pixels of the imaging device, and the transmission data compressing circuit weights and codes the electric signal of each of the pixels by using a reciprocal of a proportion of the overall light transmission rate characteristic of the filter unit corresponding to each of the plurality of pixels of the imaging device relative to a wavelength characteristic common among the pixels.

Abstract: An imaging system serving as an image generation device is provided with: a random optical filter array that has a plurality of types of optical filters and a scattering unit; photodiodes that receive light transmitted through the random optical filter array; an AD conversion unit that converts the light received by the photodiodes, into digital data; and a color image generation circuit that generates an image, using the digital data and modulation information of the random optical filter array, in which the scattering unit is located between the plurality of types of optical filters and the photodiodes, and in which the scattering unit includes a material having a first refractive index, and a material having a second refractive index that is different from the first refractive index.

Abstract: A crossing point detector includes memory and a crossing point detection unit that reads out a square image from a captured image in the memory, and detects a crossing point of two boundary lines in a checker pattern depicted in the square image. The crossing point detection unit decides multiple parameters of a function model treating two-dimensional image coordinates as variables, the parameters optimizing an evaluation value based on a difference between corresponding pixel values represented by the function model and the square image, respectively, and computes the position of a crossing point of two straight lines expressed by the decided multiple parameters to thereby detect the crossing point with subpixel precision. The function model uses a curved surface that is at least first-order differentiable to express pixel values at respective positions in a two-dimensional coordinate system at the boundary between black and white regions.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus in an embodiment includes lens optical systems each including a lens whose surface closest to the target object is shaped to be convex toward the target object, imaging regions which respectively face the lens optical systems and output a photoelectrically converted signal corresponding to an amount of light transmitting the lens optical systems and received by the imaging regions, and a light-transmissive cover which covers an exposed portion of the lens of each of the lens optical systems and a portion between the lens of one of the lens optical systems and the lens of another one of the lens optical systems adjacent to the one of the lens optical systems, the cover having a curved portion which is convex toward the target object. The optical axes of the lens optical systems are parallel to each other.

Abstract: Provided are: a point group obtainer that obtains three-dimensional point group data indicating three-dimensional locations of each of a plurality of three-dimensional points included in an imaging space of one or more cameras; a camera parameter calculator that (i) obtains corresponding points, for each of the plurality of three-dimensional points, in individual images captured using the one or more cameras, based on the three-dimensional point group data and an initial camera parameter of each camera, and (ii) calculates a camera parameter of each camera on the basis of the initial camera parameter of each camera and pixel values, included in the individual images, at the corresponding points; and a camera parameter outputter that outputs the calculated camera parameter of each camera.

Abstract: A camera-parameter-set calculation apparatus includes a three-dimensional point group calculator that calculates a plurality of three-dimensional coordinates, based on first and second images respectively captured by first and second cameras and first and second camera parameter sets of the first and second cameras; an evaluation value calculator that determines a plurality of pixel coordinates in the second image, based on the plurality of three-dimensional coordinates and the second camera parameter set, determines a plurality of third pixel coordinates in a third image captured by a third camera, based on the plurality of three-dimensional coordinates and a third camera parameter set of the third camera, and calculates an evaluation value, based on pixel values at the plurality of second and third pixel coordinates in the second and third images; and a camera-parameter-set determiner that determines a fourth camera parameter set for the third camera, based on the evaluation value.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus in an embodiment includes lens optical systems each including a lens whose surface closest to the target object is shaped to be convex toward the target object, imaging regions which respectively face the lens optical systems and output a photoelectrically converted signal corresponding to an amount of light transmitting the lens optical systems and received by the imaging regions, and a light-transmissive cover which covers an exposed portion of the lens of each of the lens optical systems and a portion between the lens of one of the lens optical systems and the lens of another one of the lens optical systems adjacent to the one of the lens optical systems, the cover having a curved portion which is convex toward the target object. The optical axes of the lens optical systems are parallel to each other.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a photoelectric converter that converts light signals generated from light received by three or more pixels into electric charge signals, each of the electric charge signals corresponding to one of the three or more pixels; an electric charge holder that holds the electric charge signals; an analog selective adder that generates added electric charge signals by adding electric charge signals of certain pixels among the three or more pixels by using analog addition patterns which are rules of adding pieces of electric charge information corresponding to individual positions of the certain pixels; an analog-to-digital converter that converts the added electric charge signals into digital signals; and an addition data compressor that compresses the digital signals by using a total number of pixels for which pieces of electric charge information are added in the analog addition patterns and thereby generates compressed digital signals.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging optical system that forms an optical signal, an imaging device that includes a plurality of pixels and that converts the optical signal formed on the plurality of pixels into an electrical signal, a color filter that is arranged between the imaging optical system and the imaging device and that has a different optical transmittance for each of the plurality of pixels and each of a plurality of wavelength ranges, and a transmission data compression circuit that compresses the electrical signal obtained by the imaging device. The sum of products of an optical transmittance group relating to a plurality of optical transmittances of the color filter for each of the plurality of pixels in the plurality of wavelength ranges and coefficients common to the plurality of pixels is the same between the plurality of pixels.

Abstract: An image generating apparatus generates an image to be displayed on a display and includes at least one memory and a control circuit. The control circuit acquires a plurality of camera images captured by a plurality of cameras installed in a vehicle, calculates a distance between one of the cameras and a target to be projected in the camera images, detects a position of a light-transmissive object or a reflective object in the camera images, and generates an image from a point of view that is different from points of view of the plurality of camera images by using the plurality of camera images and the distance, the generated image including a predetermined image that is displayed at the position of the light-transmissive object or the reflective object.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging device, a first imaging optical system and a second imaging optical system that form respective input images from mutually different viewpoints onto the imaging device, and a first modulation mask and a second modulation mask that modulate the input images formed by the first imaging optical system and the second imaging optical system. The imaging device captures a superposed image composed of the two input images that have been formed by the first imaging optical system and the second imaging optical system, modulated by the first modulation mask and the second modulation mask, and optically superposed on each other, and the first modulation mask and the second modulation mask have mutually different optical transmittance distribution characteristics.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an optical imaging system that converges light from an object; an imaging device that includes a plurality of pixels, receives the converged light, and converts the received light to an electric signal; a filter unit that is disposed between the optical imaging system and the imaging device and includes a plurality of color filters having different light transmission rate characteristics; and a transmission data compressing circuit that codes the electric signal. An overall light transmission rate characteristic of the filter unit differs randomly in different pixels of the imaging device, and the transmission data compressing circuit weights and codes the electric signal of each of the pixels by using a reciprocal of a proportion of the overall light transmission rate characteristic of the filter unit corresponding to each of the plurality of pixels of the imaging device relative to a wavelength characteristic common among the pixels.