Abstract: A method for inspecting a surface (12) of a piece of nuclear power plant equipment includes scanning the surface (12) with an acquisition field (20) of a matrix array camera (14). The acquisition field (20) moves relative to the surface (12) at a movement speed. The method also includes acquiring, by means of the matrix array camera (14), an image (22) of the acquisition field (20), with a certain acquisition frequency. Each image (22) includes a first number of lines of pixels. The method also includes extracting, from each image (22), a first set of lines, the first set comprising a second number of continuous lines of pixels, the second number being between 2 and the first number; and constituting a final image (32) of the surface (12) by juxtaposing the lines extracted from each image (22). The movement speed, the acquisition frequency, the first number of lines and the second number of lines are chosen such that the final image (32) covers the entire surface (12) without interruption.

Abstract: Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed that use super-resolution (SR) processes to use information from a plurality of low resolution (LR) images captured by an array camera to produce a synthesized higher resolution image. One embodiment includes obtaining input images using the plurality of imagers, using a microprocessor to determine an initial estimate of at least a portion of a high resolution image using a plurality of pixels from the input images, and using a microprocessor to determine a high resolution image that when mapped through the forward imaging transformation matches the input images to within at least one predetermined criterion using the initial estimate of at least a portion of the high resolution image.

Abstract: A dual-aperture zoom digital camera operable in both still and video modes. The camera includes Wide and Tele imaging sections with respective lens/sensor combinations and image signal processors and a camera controller operatively coupled to the Wide and Tele imaging sections. The Wide and Tele imaging sections provide respective image data. The controller is configured to combine in still mode at least some of the Wide and Tele image data to provide a fused output image from a particular point of view, and to provide without fusion continuous zoom video mode output images, each output image having a given output resolution, wherein the video mode output images are provided with a smooth transition when switching between a lower zoom factor (ZF) value and a higher ZF value or vice versa, and wherein at the lower ZF the output resolution is determined by the Wide sensor while at the higher ZF value the output resolution is determined by the Tele sensor.

Abstract: A hydraulic excavator has a first stereo camera and a second stereo camera. The first stereo camera has an imaging unit and an imaging unit. The second stereo camera has an imaging unit and an imaging unit. A case accommodates imaging unit and imaging unit inside. Case accommodates imaging unit and imaging unit inside. Case and case are attached to the outside of cab.

Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first camera group including a first camera disposed in a first optical axis direction and a second camera disposed in a second optical axis direction, and having a first field of view (FOV), a second camera group including a third camera disposed in a third optical axis direction and a fourth camera disposed in a fourth optical axis direction, and having a second FOV covering an area at least partially different from an area covered by the first FOV, a first processor configured to process images acquired through the first camera group, a second processor configured to process images acquired through the second camera group, and a designated processor configured to control the first processor and the second processor.

Abstract: A fingerprint sensing device includes a fingerprint sensor and a processor. The fingerprint sensor is configured to acquire a plurality of fingerprint reference frames. The processor is coupled to the fingerprint sensor. The processor is configured to superimpose the plurality of fingerprint reference frames. The processor analyzes the plurality of fingerprint reference frames to determine multiple first regions and multiple second regions of the plurality of fingerprint reference frames. The processor calculates multiple reference pixel values of the plurality of fingerprint reference frames according to multiple weight value functions to generate a superimposed fingerprint frame. The weight value functions corresponding to the first regions of the plurality of fingerprint reference frames are linearly changed.

Abstract: An image system for generating depth maps and color images includes a plurality of image sensors, at least one image processor, and at least one depth map generator. An image processor of the at least one image processor is coupled to at least one image sensor of the plurality of image sensors for generating luminance information represented by a first bit number and at least one color image represented by a second bit number according to at least one image captured by the at least one image sensor, wherein the at least one color image corresponds to the at least one image. A depth map generator of the at least one depth map generator is coupled to the image processor for generating a depth map corresponding to the at least one image according to the luminance information represented by the first bit number.

Abstract: The present invention enables a receiving side to easily recognize a high-quality format corresponding to encoded image data included in an extended video stream. Two video streams including a basic video stream including encoded image data of basic format image data, and an extended video stream including encoded image data of high-quality format image data of one type selected from a plurality of types are generated. A container of a predetermined format including the basic video stream and the extended video stream is transmitted. Information indicating a high-quality format corresponding to the encoded image data included in the extended video stream is inserted into the extended video stream and/or the container.

Abstract: Provided is a method and apparatus for operating an autonomous driving controller, the method including generating route information for the vehicle based on a rule, transitioning from an autonomous driving mode to an autonomous driving disable mode, in response to the driving route information not being generated for an amount of time greater than or equal to a threshold, tracking at least one neighboring vehicle based on data sensed by a sensor, and generating temporary driving route information based on a movement of the at least one neighboring vehicle.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an electronic device that combines a plurality of images. The electronic device may include a first camera including a first view angle, a second camera including a second view angle that is smaller than the first view angle, a memory, and a processor, and the processor obtains a first image including a first brightness and corresponding to an external object, using the first camera, obtains a plurality of second images including a second brightness and corresponding to the external object, using the second camera, generates an image that is corrected to include a brightness corresponding to the first brightness, based at least on the plurality of second images including the second brightness, and generates a composite image corresponding to the external object, based at least on at least a part of the first image including the first brightness and at least a part of the corrected image. Also, other embodiments are possible.

Abstract: There is provided a method of processing digital images, comprising: selecting a reference digital image according to a uniform distribution requirement of pixel intensity values, performing for each certain overlapping image that overlaps with at least one other image at a respective overlapping region: computing a value for each respective gamma parameter for each channel of the certain overlapping image to obtain a correlation between pixel intensity values, corrected with the respective gamma parameters, of each channel of each overlapping region of the certain overlapping image, and pixel intensity values, corrected with respective gamma parameters, computed for each of the at least one other image, for each channel of each respective overlapping region, and creating corrected images by applying the computed value of each respective gamma parameter to the overlapping and non-overlapping regions of each certain overlapping image of the plurality of overlapping images.

Abstract: A camera assembly may include a first camera including a first light incident surface, a second camera including a second light incident surface, and a third camera including a third light incident surface. The first camera, the second camera, and the third camera may be spaced apart from each other in a same direction, and the second camera may be located between the first camera and the third camera. The first light incident surface and the second light incident surface may form a first preset angle in a range of 90° to 180°. The second light incident surface and the third light incident surface may form a second preset angle in a range of 90° to 180°.

Abstract: Migration configuration data for an organization migration to move application data and application services of a to-be-migrated organization hosted at a source system instance to a target system instance is received. Migration components respectively representing to-be-migrated systems of record in a to-be-migrated organization are registered. In response to receiving an instruction to enter a specific organization migration state, migration steps for each migration component in the migration components are identified for execution in the specific organization migration state. Each migration component in the migration components automatically executes migration steps determined for each such migration component for execution in the specific organization migration state.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for eye gesture recognition. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining an electrical signal that represents a measurement, by a photodetector, of an optical signal reflected from an eye and determining a depth map of the eye based on phase differences between the electrical signal generated by the photodetector and a reference signal. Further, the method includes determining gaze information that represents a gaze of the eye based on the depth map and providing output data representing the gaze information.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a fast scan-type panoramic image synthesis method and device. The device includes: simultaneously acquiring two original images of the same angle of view, wherein one is an exposure-locked image and the other is a non-exposure-locked image; performing HDR processing on the two simultaneously acquired original images by using the exposure-locked image as a reference image to obtain an HDR processed outcome image; performing exposure compensation on the HDR processed outcome image of the current frame based on the temporary panoramic outcome image of the previous frame; and performing image fusion and synthesis according to the temporary panoramic outcome image of the previous frame and the exposure compensated HDR processed outcome image of the current frame to generate a new temporary panoramic outcome image of the current frame.

Abstract: To achieve a reduction in the amount of coding taken in the use of an asymmetric partition and to implement efficient encoding/decoding processes exploiting the characteristics of the asymmetric partition. An image decoding device includes a motion compensation parameter derivation unit configured to derive a motion compensation parameter indicating either a uni-prediction scheme or a bi-prediction scheme. In a case that a prediction unit has a size less than or equal to a predetermined value, the motion compensation parameter derivation unit is configured to derive the motion compensation parameter by switching between the prediction schemes.

Abstract: An apparatus for capturing digital stereoscopic images of a scene. The apparatus comprises a first pair of separated camera lens oriented such that a first imaginary line between the first pair of lens is substantially parallel with a horizon line a scene, wherein digital image data is capturable through the first pair of camera lens and storable in two separate digital image data bases corresponding to a left-eye horizontal view and a right-eye horizontal view respectively. The apparatus comprises a second pair of separated camera lens oriented such that a second imaginary line between the second pair of lens is substantially non-parallel with the horizon line, wherein digital image data is capturable through the second pair of camera lens and storable in two separate digital image data bases corresponding to a left-eye off-horizontal view and a right-eye off-horizontal view respectively.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus performs first calculation configured to calculate a conversion coefficient, with respect to images having a same exposure, with respect to a plurality of images, second calculation configured to calculate a conversion coefficient of images having different exposures, positional adjustment configured to execute positional adjustment with respect to the plurality of images by using the conversion coefficient calculated in the second calculation, and composition configured to execute composition with respect to the images to generate a composite image having a dynamic range and a viewing angle wider than the images, and in the second calculation an image used for detection with respect to a part of images from among the plurality of images is newly generated.

Abstract: A system for generating an image of a region of interest (ROI) of a target object, the system including a camera, a target stage configured to receive the target object, the target stage configured to provide a translational movement and a rotational movement of the target object, and a controller. The controller is configured to control the camera and target stage to iteratively shift the target along scan trajectories of sample locations to capture images of each of a plurality of concentric rings and sub-rings of a predefined radial pitch over the ROI, the sample locations represented by polar coordinates defining sectors of each of the sub-rings. The controller is further configured to extract super resolution (SR) pixels from the images to reconstruct an SR image of each of the rings in the polar coordinates, and project the SR images into Cartesian coordinate images.

Abstract: An apparatus includes an image sensor and a processor. The image sensor may be configured to generate a sequence of video frames based on a targeted view of an environment. The processor may be configured to (A) perform an image stabilization on the sequence of video frames and (B) generate video analytics for the sequence of video frames, wherein the image stabilization comprises maintaining a horizon of the targeted view and is performed prior to generating the video analytics.

Abstract: [Object] To obtain a more useful image when an image including a 360° view around the camera is used without being remapped. [Solution] Provided is an image processing device including: an image acquisition unit that acquires a 360° image; and a rotational angle computation unit that computes a rotational angle of the 360° image in a manner that a reference point included in the 360° image is positioned in a designated orientation with respect to a center of the 360° image.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a perceptual-cognitive-motor learning system. The system includes an apparatus for evaluating or improving perceptual-cognitive abilities of a subject during a training sequence. The system also has a training sequence controller for adding in at least a part of the training sequence at least one of (a) a first motor load add-on to the subject and (b) a second motor load add-on to the subject, the second motor load being heavier than the first motor load. A variant of the system has a user interface for allowing the subject to change at least one parameter of the training sequence. Methods for evaluating or improving perceptual-cognitive abilities of a subject are also disclosed.

Abstract: A stereo image capturing system includes two identical panorama image capturing units arranged at different end sections of a common support structure. Each panorama image capturing unit includes first image capturing sensors including corresponding first optical elements and a second image capturing sensor including corresponding second optical elements. A second imaging plane is determined by the second capturing image sensor and respective first imaging planes are determined by the first image sensors. The identical panorama image capturing units are arranged at different end sections of a common support structure. The end sections and the panorama image capturing units are arranged on a connection axis, such that the panorama image capturing units are aligned in such a manner that the two second imaging planes lie parallel to each other.

Abstract: Aspects of the invention relate to automated cell culture incubators. In some embodiments, automated cell culture incubators comprise an integrated manipulation having one or more cell scrapers.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus cuts out a plurality of background images and foreground images from a plurality of images, and stores a plurality of cutout foreground images and an alignment coefficient calculated from an image prior to cutout of each foreground image, the plurality of foreground images being stored in association with the alignment coefficient. Moreover, the image processing apparatus generates a background combined image by combining cutout background images, and selects any of the stored foreground images based on designation of a position in the background combined image. Then, image processing apparatus determines an alignment coefficient of the selected foreground image by using the alignment coefficient associated with the selected foreground image, and combines the selected foreground image and the background combined image.

Abstract: An imaging system for adaptively generating panoramic images and methods for manufacturing and using same are provided. The system includes an imaging device configured to capture digital images at a plurality of image capture positions. The system further includes a processor configured to identify an overlapping portion of first and second images captured at respective first and second image capture positions, determine a stitching position quality measure for a plurality of stitching positions in the overlapping portion of the first and second images, and select a stitching position based on the determined stitching position quality measures of the plurality of stitching positions of the first and second images. The processor is also configured to stitch the first and second images together at the selected stitching position to generate a panoramic image and determine a third image capture position based on the stitching position quality measure.

Abstract: A camera and associated method of operation, the camera comprising a plurality of sensor systems, each sensor system comprising at least one spatial sensor and at least one image sensor, wherein at least part of a field of view of one or more or each of the sensor systems differs to at least part of the field of view of at least one or each other of the sensor systems.

Abstract: An electronic device and method are disclosed herein. The electronic device includes a display, a memory and a processor. The processor implements the method, including displaying a first image through the display, storing screen information associated with the first image in a memory, detecting whether the electronic device is mounted on the wearable device, generating a second image corresponding to a view point of the first image based on the stored screen information, and displaying the generated second image through the display.

Abstract: A system for capturing a panoramic image of a shoe sole includes a processor and a panoramic image capturing device that is disposed apart from an attachment surface of the shoe sole. The panoramic image capturing device captures a panoramic image of the attachment surface and an inner surface of a sidewall of the shoe sole. The panoramic image capturing device outputs the panoramic image. The processor obtains the panoramic image outputted by the panoramic image capturing device.

Abstract: An active depth detection system can generate a depth map from an image and user interaction data, such as a pair of clicks. The active depth detection system can be implemented as a recurrent neural network that can receive the user interaction data as runtime inputs after training. The active depth detection system can store the generated depth map for further processing, such as image manipulation or real-world object detection.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating an extrapolated image from an existing film or video content, which can be displayed beyond the borders of the existing file or video content to increase viewer immersiveness, are provided. The present principles provide to generating the extrapolated image without salient objects included therein, that is, objects that may distract the viewer from the main image. Such an extrapolated image is generated by determining salient areas and generating the extrapolated image with lesser salient objects included in its place. Alternatively, salient objects can be detected in the extrapolated image and removed. Additionally, selected salient objects may be added to the extrapolated image.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes imaging techniques and devices having improved autofocus capabilities. The imaging techniques can include actively illuminating a scene and determining distances over the entire scene and so that a respective distance to each object or point in the scene can be determined. Thus, distances to all objects in a scene (within a particular range) at any given instant can be stored. A preview of the image can be displayed so as to allow a user to select a region of the scene of interest. In response to the user's selection, the imager's optical assembly can be adjusted automatically, for example, to a position that corresponds to optimal image capture of objects at the particular distance of the selected region of the scene.

Abstract: A computer implemented education and playbook system, method, and apparatus for providing an interactive, recursive and in situ coaching system. A coach can use a portable electronic device to transmit play information to a number of players via wearable electronic devices, including the claimed helmet apparatus, the play then being filmed and time stamped for subsequent review and storage in a coach's practice plan.

Abstract: A gain in multi-view coding is achieved as follows: the residual signal involved with coding a dependent view of the multi-view signal is predicted from a reference residual signal of the current picture of the reference view using block-granular disparity-compensated prediction, i.e. using disparity compensated prediction with a disparity defined at, and varying with, block granularity so that each block of the current picture of the dependent view has its own disparity displacement such as its own disparity vector, associated therewith. In other words, a remaining similarity between the residual signal involved with predictively coding the reference view is used in order to predict the residual signal involved with predictively coding the dependent view.

Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to image processing, and more particularly to generate a high resolution image from multiple low resolution images. In an embodiment, the system collects a plurality of low resolution images as input, processes the collected images, and generates a high resolution image as output. During this process, the system pre-processes the collected low resolution images, and during this process, at least one characteristic of each of the low resolution image is changed with respect to a reference image. After the pre-processing stage, the images are then enhanced based on a plurality of final enhancement factors that are dynamically determined. Further, the enhanced images are fused to generate the high resolution image.

Abstract: A conversion from a dynamic range conversion image into a desired image is performed in a favorable manner. A setting unit sets a plurality of items of knee position information about a conversion from a first dynamic range image into a second dynamic range image. An encoding unit encodes the second dynamic range image to generate encoded data. A determination unit determines priority order of the plurality of items of knee position information. An adding unit adds the plurality of items of knee position information to the encoded data of the second dynamic range image, with the priority order given to the plurality of items of knee position information.

Abstract: For causing a near-infrared light image obtained through imaging in a second imaging mode to be easily viewed while suppressing an increase in size and number of components, in a case where an imaging unit is operating in the second imaging mode, a change region where there is a change is detected through comparison with the second image data that the imaging unit has acquired before the second image data, from within the second image data acquired by the imaging unit. Combination image data obtained by combining the change region image data corresponding to the change region within the second image data with background image data of a color image generated on the basis of first image data acquired in a first imaging mode immediately before the second imaging mode by the imaging unit and corresponding to a background region different from the change region within the second image data is generated on the basis of the detection result of the change region.

Abstract: An example system includes a sensor housing defining a plurality of horizontal layers and a controller. The sensor housing includes a plurality of light-emitted diode (LED) light sources, a plurality of cameras, and a plurality of optical devices. Each camera of the plurality of cameras is positioned within a respective horizontal layer of the plurality of horizontal layers and configured to detect a respective range of wavelengths of light. The plurality of optical devices is configured to receive light reflected by the surface through a common input lens and direct the light to one of the cameras of the plurality of cameras depending on a wavelength of the light. The controller is configured to receive signals from the plurality of cameras indicative of the light reflected by the surface and determine whether there is any foreign object debris material on the surface using the signals from the plurality of cameras.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus capable of restricting the possibility that, in imaging after the orientation of a camera is adjusted, imaging is performed with the camera orientation deviated from the adjusted orientation, includes a display control unit configured to perform control to perform 2-area enlargement display for displaying live view images captured in two different areas horizontally or vertically separated from each other by an imaging unit, side by side on a display unit, and a control unit configured to perform control, in a live view display in a state where the 2-area enlargement display is not performed, not to display a display item for receiving an imaging instruction through a touch operation, and in a case where the 2-area enlargement display is performed, to display the display item for receiving an imaging instruction.

Abstract: An image capturing control apparatus includes a control unit and a plurality of image processing units. The control unit is configured to perform a read-out control of an image capturing unit such that image signals are read out in parallel, the image signals generated under different image capturing conditions for every pixel line group of a plurality of pixel lines of the image capturing unit. The plurality of image processing units are configured to process the image signals read out from the image capturing unit.

Abstract: A reconfigurable imaging apparatus, a computer-implemented method, and an imaging system are described. Generally, the apparatus includes platforms. Each platform houses one or more optical sensors. A pivotal connector is connected with at least two platforms and supports a relative movement of such platforms with respect to one another. Hence, the platforms can be arranged and switched between different arrangements based on the pivotal connector, thereby allowing a reconfiguration of the apparatus. In an example, arrangement, the optical sensors are pointed in different directions to cover different fields of views, thereby supporting monoscopic imagery. In another example arrangement, the optical sensors are pointed in substantially a same direction to cover substantially a same field of view, thereby supporting stereoscopic imagery.

Abstract: An image capture control method comprises: inclining a lens relative to a respective initial optical axis, to change a ratio of pixels distributed along first and second directions in an effective region of an image sensing unit that is in an imaging system and corresponds to the lens, wherein the effective region is a region in which light through the lens is imaged on the corresponding image sensing unit, the first and second directions are perpendicular to the initial optical axis and each other, the image sensing unit comprises pixels distributed in array, and the pixels are used for recording multidirectional view information of a same object of a scene; and capturing an image of the scene by using the imaging system. Proportions of parallax information recorded by the image sensing unit in the first and second directions are changeable, and view information can be differential captured in different directions.

Abstract: A wafer-level method for manufacturing yardless lenses includes (a) depositing light-curable lens resin between a mold and a first side of a transparent substrate, wherein the first side of the transparent substrate has an opaque coating with a plurality of apertures respectively aligned with a plurality of lens-shaped recesses of the mold, and (b) exposing a second side of the transparent substrate, facing away from the first side, to light, thereby illuminating portions of the light-curable lens resin aligned with the plurality of apertures to form a respective plurality of yardless lenses.

Abstract: The provided solution is an optical system comprising an image sensor and a collecting entrance lens having a predetermined field of view, the optical device further comprising a dynamically configurable light barrier having at least two masking elements, the dynamically configurable light barrier being configured so that only one of the masking elements can be set in a state in which light passes through, the at least two masking elements being configured so that images acquired by the image sensor when one of the at least two masking elements is configured in a state in which light passes through represent different portions of the predetermined field of view than images acquired by the image sensor when another one of the at least two masking elements is configured in a state in which light passes through.

Abstract: The present invention generally relates to a method for authenticating a finger of a user of an electronic device comprising a fingerprint sensor for sensing a fingerprint pattern, the method comprising the steps of: acquiring a candidate fingerprint image; determining, based on the candidate fingerprint image, a humidity level indication indicative of the humidity level of the finger; performing an authentication pre-process based on the humidity level indication; performing a fingerprint authentication process based on the pre-process to authenticate the user.

Abstract: A trajectory detection device includes a lens configured to receive an image of a field of view. An array of microlenses is configured to create an array of light field images based on the image. A detector array includes a plurality of photon sensitive photodetectors. The detector array is configured to generate output signals from each photodetector based on the array of light field images. A controller is configured to integrate the output signals over an integration period. At least a portion of the output signals are modulated at a modulating frequency having a modulating frequency cycle time that is smaller than the integration period. A three-dimensional image of motion in the field of view is generated based on the integration of the modulated output signals.

Abstract: An imaging device includes a unit pixel cell. The unit pixel cell captures first data in a first exposure period and captures second data in a second exposure period different from the first exposure period, the first exposure period and the second exposure period being included in a frame period. A sensitivity per unit time of the unit pixel cell in the first exposure period is different from a sensitivity per unit time of the unit pixel cell in the second exposure period. The imaging device outputs multiple-exposure image data including at least the first data and the second data.

Abstract: A camera for generating distortion free images and a method thereof is disclosed. The camera includes a plurality of lenses, wherein each of the plurality of lenses has a dedicated sensor. The camera further includes a processor communicatively coupled to the plurality of lenses. The camera further includes a memory communicatively coupled to the processor and having instructions stored thereon, causing the processor, on execution to capture a plurality of images through the plurality of lenses and to generate a single distortion free image from the plurality of images based on a deep learning technique trained using a mapping of each of a plurality of sets of low resolution images generated in one or more environments to an associated distortion free image, wherein one or more low resolution images in each of the plurality of sets are distorted.

Abstract: Enhancing image quality of an initial full image of a document page includes obtaining the initial full image of a document page, determining that at least a subset of text in the initial full image does not meet a predefined readability criterion, identifying at least one of a plurality of page fragments in the initial full image of the document page for enhancement, and sending an instruction to a mobile device to provide a photograph of the at least one of the page fragments. The photograph provides a separate fragment image for the at least one of the page fragments. The separate fragment image is then obtained from the mobile device and merged into the initial full image to provide an enhanced full image.

Abstract: A method for providing a user interface to stitch surveillance images of a scene is applied to an electronic device and includes providing a master camera and a slave camera for monitoring two surveillance regions of the scene, providing an identical feature in an overlapped area between the two surveillance regions to make the identical feature present in a master image captured by the master camera for one surveillance region and a slave image captured by the slave camera for the other surveillance region, the electronic device displaying the user interface, and the electronic device stitching the master image and the slave image according to the identical feature when a stitching function is triggered. The user interface has a master image zone displaying the master image, a stitching zone displaying the slave image, and a stitched zone displaying a stitched image for the master and slave images.