Abstract: According to one embodiment, a camera module includes an image sensor and a liquid crystal panel. The liquid crystal panel includes an aperture portion in which first and second regions are formed, a liquid crystal layer disposed in a position overlapping the aperture portion, a first electrode disposed in a position overlapping the first region and a second electrode disposed in a position overlapping the second region, a driver which drives the liquid crystal layer, a non-aperture portion which surrounds the aperture portion, a first pad that electrically connects the first electrode to the driver and a second pad that electrically connects the second electrode to the driver.

Abstract: A camera module includes a liquid crystal panel that has an incident light control area, a lens, an imaging device that acquires information of light transmitted through the incident light control area and the lens, and a control circuit. The liquid crystal panel includes a first guest-host liquid crystal cell that has a black state and a transparent state, a second guest-host liquid crystal cell that has a black state and a transparent state, and a liquid crystal device that is provided between the first guest-host liquid crystal cell and the second guest-host liquid crystal cell and has the incident light control area. The control circuit sets the first guest-host liquid crystal cell and the second guest-host liquid crystal cell to the black state to use the first guest-host liquid crystal cell and the second guest-host liquid crystal cell as polarizing plates.

Abstract: A depth is estimated regardless of an imaging target and an imaging condition. An imaging device with a three-dimensional information measurement function includes: a pattern projection unit including a light source and a pattern forming unit that forms a projection pattern of a light beam; an imaging unit including a lens group including at least one lens, a coded aperture that limits external light passing through the lens group in a predetermined coded pattern, a shutter, and an image sensor; and a depth calculation unit configured to obtain, based on a pattern image imaged by the imaging unit and a known point spread function related to the coded pattern, a depth distribution of an image imaged by the imaging unit.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an optical device includes a liquid crystal panel which displays a coded aperture pattern, an optical system including a lens, an imaging device including a plurality of sensor elements and a plurality of color filters, and a controller connected to the liquid crystal panel, the optical system, and the imaging element, wherein the liquid crystal panel comprises a polarizer which modulates infrared light and transmits visible light.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a camera includes a lens, a liquid crystal display panel, an imaging device on which light is made incident through the lens and the liquid crystal display panel, a first driver configured to drive the imaging device to capture an image of an object, a camera substrate on which the imaging device and the first driver are arranged, and a second driver configured to drive the liquid crystal display panel to display a specific image. The liquid crystal display panel is between the lens and the imaging device.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel (LCP), an optical system, an imaging element (IE), a memory, and a controller. The LCP selectively forms a first and a second geometric patterns. The optical system forms an image of light from a subject on a light-receiving surface of the IE. The IE converts the light from the subject that has passed through the LCP and the optical system into an electrical signal to obtain image data. The controller controls the LCP and the IE such that exposure and reading of image data into the memory in the IE are started in synchronization with a time point when a first time period has elapsed from a start of switching of a geometric pattern in the LCP, and switching of the geometric pattern in the LCP is started in synchronization with completion of reading of the image data into the memory.

Abstract: An imaging system module includes a first lens, a second lens disposed on an optical axis of the first lens, a liquid crystal panel disposed between the first lens and the second lens, and a cylindrical member having a cylindrical shape and supporting the first lens, the second lens, and the liquid crystal panel inside a cylinder. The liquid crystal panel is controlled externally to form an aperture having a designated pattern such as a coded aperture. A panel surface of the liquid crystal panel has an N-polygonal shape or a circular shape. Here, N is a natural number greater than four.

Abstract: A depth map generation system generates a depth map based on a plurality of captured images acquired by using an imaging device including a diaphragm unit in which a coded aperture is formed by a liquid crystal panel. The plurality of captured images including at least a first frame, a second frame acquired after acquisition of the first frame, and a third frame acquired after acquisition of the second frame. The depth map generation system includes: a combination unit configured to acquire a combined frame based on the first frame and the third frame; and a depth map generation unit configured to generate a depth map based on the combined frame and the second frame.

Abstract: An imaging device having a lens, an optical sensor and an aperture placed close to the lens, the aperture is constituted by a liquid crystal aperture, which has a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer therebetween; a lower layer electrode, an interlayer insulating layer, and an upper layer electrode are formed in this order on the first substrate; the upper layer electrode having a first electrode, which is formed in an area which includes a center of the pattern area, and a second electrode disposed from the first electrode with a space, a columnar spacer is formed between the first electrode and the second substrate in a plan view.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a lateral-electric-field liquid crystal display device includes a light-emitting display layer including OLEDs and a driving circuit controlling light emission of the OLEDs, a moisture impermeable film provided to be laminated on the light-emitting display layer to prevent infiltration of moisture into the light-emitting display layer, an optical substrate provided separately from the moisture impermeable film and subjecting light from the light-emitting display region to optical processing, a first touch electrode group serving as one electrode group of touch electrodes and provided on a back surface of the optical substrate, and an extraction electrode group formed to be laminated on the moisture impermeable film, the extraction electrode group and the optical substrate have an overlapping part in plan view, and electrodes of the first touch electrode group being electrically connected to electrodes of the extraction electrode group in the overlapping part.

Abstract: Object depth estimation based on coded imaging is improved in terms of practicality. An imaging system is provided to include: an imaging apparatus including an optical system and an imaging apparatus and configured to perform coded imaging on an object under use of the optical system and the imaging apparatus; a temperature specifying section configured to specify an environmental temperature of the imaging apparatus; a function specifying section configured to specify a point spread function used for decoding a captured image on the basis of the specified environmental temperature; and a depth estimating section configured to estimate a depth of the object at each position from the optical system by decoding the captured image of the imaging apparatus under use of the specified point spread function.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a lateral-electric-field liquid crystal display device includes a light-emitting display layer including OLEDs and a driving circuit controlling light emission of the OLEDs, a moisture impermeable film provided to be laminated on the light-emitting display layer to prevent infiltration of moisture into the light-emitting display layer, an optical substrate provided separately from the moisture impermeable film and subjecting light from the light-emitting display region to optical processing, a first touch electrode group serving as one electrode group of touch electrodes and provided on a back surface of the optical substrate, and an extraction electrode group formed to be laminated on the moisture impermeable film, the extraction electrode group and the optical substrate have an overlapping part in plan view, and electrodes of the first touch electrode group being electrically connected to electrodes of the extraction electrode group in the overlapping part.

Abstract: An arithmetic control unit executes: an imaging process of controlling a coded imaging system to capture an image of a subject by coded imaging and obtain a first captured image; an image generation process of reducing resolution of the first captured image to obtain a second captured image; a partial region setting process of setting a partial region in the first captured image; a process of performing a first decoding process on a partial image corresponding to the partial region in the first captured image to obtain a first depth map; and a process of performing a second decoding process on the second captured image to obtain a second depth map.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a display panel on which a plurality of pixels are arranged, and an image capturing element configured to receive light through the display panel. The display panel includes a line formed in an area overlapping with the image capturing element and connected to the pixels. The line is shaped to meander in a plan view.

Abstract: A liquid crystal panel for forming an aperture for an incident light includes guest-host liquid crystals, and includes first and second cells arranged such that one cell surface of them are in contact with each other. The liquid crystals of the first cell can be oriented in a first direction vertical to a direction of an optical axis of the panel or the direction of the optical axis. The liquid crystals of the second cell can be oriented in a second direction vertical to both the direction of the optical axis and the first direction or the direction of the optical axis. In the panel, the orientation direction of the liquid crystals at each region is controlled by an electric field, to form an aperture with high contrast for range imaging and an aperture with high light transmissivity for general imaging.

Abstract: The liquid crystal panel forms a geometric pattern by controlling the voltage applied to the electrodes. The panel surface has a shape of regular N-sided polygon (N ?4). The geometric pattern includes a first aperture pattern and a second aperture pattern that can be used for stereo imaging. The first aperture is formed in one of the two regions on the panel surface that are spaced apart from each other by a distance greater than the diameter of a circular region, so as to interpose the specific circular region therebetween. The circular region has a center on the central axis of the cylindrical member and has the following diameter ?1. ?1=?2×r?2×d, where r: the radius of the inside of cylinder, d: the shortest distance from an end side of the array substrate to a circular electrode corresponding to the above circular area from a manufacturing design perspective.

Abstract: The invention relates to a lens assembly using a LC coded aperture, and the configuration is as follows. A lens assembly including: a front lens element, having a first lens, placed on a first surface of a LC coded aperture; and a rear lens element having a second lens placed on a opposite surface of the LC coded aperture, the rear lens element being housed in a lens barrel, in which the rear lens element includes an upper surface and a side wall, the LC coded aperture is placed over an upper surface of the rear lens element, a flexible circuit board is connected to the LC coded aperture, a notch is formed in the wall of the rear lens element at a place corresponding to the flexible circuit board, which is pulled out to an outside through the notch from an upper part of the lens barrel.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a processor configured to cause a liquid crystal panel to alternately display a first pattern and a second pattern, cause an image-capturing element to alternately capture first and second images of an object overlapped with the first and second patterns, after the second image being captured, measure a distance of the object based on the second image and the first image captured prior to the second image, and after the first image being captured, measure a distance of the object based on the first image and the second image captured prior to the first image.

Abstract: A liquid crystal panel for forming an aperture for an incident light includes guest-host liquid crystals, and includes first and second cells arranged such that one cell surface of them are in contact with each other. The liquid crystals of the first cell can be oriented in a first direction vertical to a direction of an optical axis of the panel or the direction of the optical axis. The liquid crystals of the second cell can be oriented in a second direction vertical to both the direction of the optical axis and the first direction or the direction of the optical axis. In the panel, the orientation direction of the liquid crystals at each region is controlled by an electric field, to form an aperture with high contrast for range imaging and an aperture with high light transmissivity for general imaging.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a camera module includes an imaging device, a liquid crystal panel, a lens, and a controller. The liquid crystal panel includes an aperture pattern that allows light to be made incident on the imaging device, and includes a liquid crystal layer and a driver driving the liquid crystal layer to form the aperture pattern. The lens is located between the imaging device and the liquid crystal panel. The controller calculates a distance to a subject in an image, based on light that is transmitted through the aperture pattern of the liquid crystal panel and the lens and that is made incident on the imaging device. The liquid crystal panel is arranged to surround the lens.