Abstract: A method of preprocessing incoming video data of at least one region of interest from a camera collecting video data having a first field of view is disclosed herein that includes receiving the incoming video data from the camera; preprocessing the incoming video data, by a computer processor, according to preprocessing parameters defined within a runtime configuration file, with the preprocessing including formatting the incoming video data to create first video data of a first region of interest with a second field of view that is less than the first field of view; and publishing the first video data of the first region of interest to an endpoint to allow access by a first subscriber.

Abstract: A body part of a camera includes a display that is at least partially flexible. A display part of the display includes a first display part and a second display part that are integrally formed. A hinge part that connects the first display part to the second display part to be rotatable relative to each other is provided in the vicinity of a bendable part located at a boundary of each display part. The display is bendable in accordance with rotation of the hinge part with the bendable part as a starting point. An operation member is disposed on a back surface of the second display part, and the operation member is exposed to the outside in a bent state of the display.

Abstract: Optical systems for performing gaze tracking and imaging an external scene are disclosed. An example optical system may include light sources for emitting visible and non-visible light. The optical system may include a waveguide that is operatively coupled to the light sources. A volume holographic light coupling element may be disposed between the surfaces of the waveguide. The volume holographic light coupling element may include a grating medium and a first volume holographic grating structure within the grating medium. In some examples, the first volume holographic grating structure may be configured to reflect non-visible light of a first wavelength about a first reflective axis offset from a surface normal of the grating medium at a first incidence angle. The optical system may also include an optical filter. Another example optical system may include an imaging device that is configured to receive the light external to the optical system.

Abstract: A communication system includes: a plurality of cameras that generate image data by capturing images; a server that stores the image data generated by each of the plurality of cameras; and a plurality of transmission devices in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of cameras. Each of the plurality of transmission devices transmits light, including, as a visible light communication signal, information related to communication for accessing a storage location at which the image data generated by a corresponding one of the plurality of cameras is stored in the server.

Abstract: An extended reality (XR) system receives capture information from a first camera with a first image sensor that faces a first direction, for instance facing an environment. The capture information is associated with capture of first image data by the first image sensor, for instance including the first image data and/or first image capture settings used to capture the first image data. The XR system determines an image capture setting, such as an exposure setting, for a second image sensor based on the capture information. The second image sensor faces second direction, for instance facing a user of the XR system. In some examples, the XR system determines the image capture setting also based on information from a display buffer for a display that faces the second direction. The XR system causes a second image sensor to capture second image data according to the image capture setting.

Abstract: An electronic device, computer program product, and method are provided that prompt a person who is participating in a video communication session to gaze toward a local image capturing device. A controller of the electronic devices receives an image stream from an image capturing device configured to be spaced away from a display device and having a field of view that incorporates a person that is proximate to the display device. The controller communicates the image stream to a video communication session. The controller receives second image stream(s) from second communication device(s) and presents the second image stream(s) at a display device. In response to a trigger that indicates that the first image stream is being presented as a primary image stream by the at least one second electronic device, the controller presents a prompt indicating that the participant should gaze toward the image capturing device.

Abstract: Optical systems for performing gaze tracking and imaging an external scene are disclosed. An example optical system may include light sources for emitting visible and non-visible light. The optical system may include a waveguide that is operatively coupled to the light sources. A volume holographic light coupling element may be disposed between the surfaces of the waveguide. The volume holographic light coupling element may include a grating medium and a first volume holographic grating structure within the grating medium. In some examples, the first volume holographic grating structure may be configured to reflect non-visible light of a first wavelength about a first reflective axis offset from a surface normal of the grating medium at a first incidence angle. The optical system may also include an optical filter. Another example optical system may include an imaging device that is configured to receive the light external to the optical system.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and instructions on non-transitory computer readable media for automatically sending images to designated recipients based on context selection criteria (e.g., one or more of location, content, or quality). The system includes a camera and a user interface to trigger the camera to capture an image. The method includes identifying context selection criteria, identifying designated recipients, receiving the image captured by the camera, determining image data for the captured image, comparing the determined image data to the identified context selection criteria to identify a match, and sending the captured image to the set of designated recipients responsive to the identified match.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are disclosed to personalize image capture operations of imaging equipment according to models that correspond uniquely to subjects being imaged. According to these techniques, a subject's face may be detected from a first image supplied by an image source and a first model of the subject may be developed from the detected face. The first model of the subject may be compared to another model of the subject developed from other images. Image adjustment parameters may be generated from a comparison of these models, which may control image adjustment techniques that are applied to the newly captured image of the subject. In this manner, aspects of the present disclosure may generate image capture operations that are tailored to characteristics of the subjects being imaged and avoid artifacts that otherwise could cause image degradation.

Abstract: A novel functional panel that is highly convenient, useful, or reliable is provided. The functional panel includes a base material and a pair of pixels, and the base material covers the pair of pixels and has a light-transmitting property. The pair of pixels includes one pixel and another pixel, and the one pixel includes a light-emitting device and a first microlens. The light-emitting device emits light toward the base material, and the first microlens is interposed between the base material and the light emission and converges light. The first microlens includes a first surface and a second surface; the second surface is closer to the light-emitting device than the first surface is; and the second surface has a smaller radius of curvature than the first surface. The other pixel includes a photoelectric conversion device and a second microlens. The second microlens is interposed between the base material and the photoelectric conversion and converges external light incident from the base material side.

Abstract: An electronic view finder unit provided in an image pickup apparatus is movable between a retracted state in which the electronic view finder unit is retracted in a main body and a projecting state in which the electronic view finder unit projects from the main body. The electronic viewfinder unit includes a viewfinder having a display device, an eyepiece portion, and a lens holder. The eyepiece portion is slidable between an inserted position and an extracted position in the optical axis direction of the lens. At the position where, in the projecting state, the eyepiece portion is extracted, the viewfinder is rotatable around an axis orthogonal to the optical axis of the lens. Both during the rotating operation of the viewfinder and in a state in which the rotating operation has completed, the movement of the eyepiece portion from the extracted position to the inserted position is limited.

Abstract: Provided is a camera module, and a camera module including a core plate having a cavity for accommodating a conductive liquid and a nonconductive liquid; an electrode unit disposed on the core plate and electrically connected to the conductive liquid; an insulating unit disposed in the electrode portion and blocking contact of the nonconductive liquid; and a control unit for controlling voltages applied to the electrode unit, wherein the electrode unit includes a first electrode and a second electrode that change the interface between the conductive liquid and the nonconductive liquid by electromagnetic interaction, the first electrode includes a plurality of electrode sectors arranged sequentially along a circumferential direction about an optical axis, and the control unit sequentially controls voltages applied to the plurality of electrode sectors.

Abstract: A mirror comprises a mirror surface, a display device, an imaging and distance measuring device and a processor; the imaging and distance measuring device is used to acquire a first user image stream, detect a distance between a user and the mirror surface; the processor is configured to determine, from the first user image stream and the distance, a coordinate of a target position at which the user is gazing in a preset coordinate system, and to zoom in the first user image stream, with a position corresponding to the position coordinate in the first user image stream as the center, and to obtain a second user image stream; the display device is configured to display at least a portion of a central region of the second user image stream; the central region is centered on a location corresponding to the position coordinates in the second user image stream.

Abstract: A system and method setting an appearance of an earbud having a display attached to an outward facing surface of a support structure. The display has a curved edge having a perimeter that matches a perimeter of the support structure, the curved edge of the display screen conceals the support structure making only the display visible.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a display and a control unit. The display displays a plurality of images of a subject captured in a first image-capturing region of an image sensor. The control unit controls the image sensor so as to set image-capturing conditions for the first image-capturing region to be different from image-capturing conditions for a second image-capturing region of the image sensor by using an image selected from the plurality of images displayed on the display.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an image sensor that captures a subject image to generate image data; a recorder that records the image data into a recording medium; a controller that controls a moving image shooting operation in which the image data indicating a moving image based on a result of imaging by the image sensor is recorded into the recording medium by the recorder; and a display interface that enables to display a measured value of at least one parameter sequentially for each measurement time, the parameter indicating a factor that hinders the moving image shooting operation.

Abstract: A method of preprocessing incoming video data of at least one region of interest from a camera collecting video data having a first field of view is disclosed herein that includes receiving the incoming video data from the camera; preprocessing the incoming video data, by a computer processor, according to preprocessing parameters defined within a runtime configuration file, with the preprocessing including formatting the incoming video data to create first video data of a first region of interest with a second field of view that is less than the first field of view; and publishing the first video data of the first region of interest to an endpoint to allow access by a first subscriber.

Abstract: An electronic device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a temperature of an imaging apparatus, and at least memory and at least one processor which function as a calculation unit configured to calculate a time limit for recording a moving image based on the temperature acquired by the acquisition unit, and a control unit configured to perform control to display the time limit on a display unit in a standby state where a moving image is not recorded in a moving image recording mode.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for creating an adaptive mosaic pixel-wise virtual Bayer pattern. The method may include receiving a plurality of monochromatic images from an array of imaging elements, creating a reference ordered set at infinity from the plurality of monochromatic images, running a demosaicing process on the reference ordered set, and creating a color image from the demosaiced ordered set. One or more offset artifacts resulting from the demosaicing process may be computed at a distance other than infinity, the ordered set may be modified in accordance with the computed offsets.

Abstract: Provided is an imaging apparatus and an imaging method that sets a type of a subject as a focusing target in each imaging. The imaging apparatus includes an image sensor that acquires an image, and an operation unit that selects a type of the subject as the focusing target in each imaging of the image acquired by the image sensor. In the case where the type of the subject as the focusing target is selected by the operation unit, a microcomputer detects an area of the subject of that type from the image and sets the detected area as an in-focus area of the image.

Abstract: Provided are a data processing device, a display device, and deterioration compensation method of the data processing device to determine a burn-in occurrence region by recognizing a user's touch in a display device including a touch function and accurately perform a degradation compensation on the burn-in occurrence region.

Abstract: A mobile terminal is provided. The mobile terminal includes: a housing, a cover plate, a display panel and a photographing device, where an accommodation space is formed between the housing and the cover plate, the display panel and the photographing device are provided in the accommodation space, the photographing device is provided on a side of the display panel away from the cover plate; a first region of the display panel facing the photographing device is provided with a light shielding layer for shielding light at a predetermined wavelength, and the light at the predetermined wavelength is allowed to pass through a second region of the display panel facing the photographing device.

Abstract: An electronic viewfinder unit includes a finder unit and a base member. The finder unit includes a display unit, an eyepiece portion, and a lens holding member holding a lens that guides a light flux emitted from the display unit to the eyepiece portion. The base member includes a guide member configured to guide the electronic viewfinder unit to a housed state and a protruding state. The base member includes a holding portion and a turning member. The holding portion is provided with a first holding member and a second holding member that face each other with an optical axis of the lens in between. The turning member has one end held by the first holding member and another end held by the second holding member, and is turnable about an axis orthogonal to the optical axis of the lens.

Abstract: Systems and methods for capturing one or more images include a smart capture mode for detecting one or more reflective objects in an image to be captured by a device, and determining whether a display provided in the device will cause a disturbance when the image is captured, the disturbance based on one or more reflections of the display on the one or more reflective objects. A brightness of the display is adjusted prior to capturing the image based on determining that the display will cause the disturbance, where adjusting the brightness of the display reduces the disturbance in the image when the image is captured. The brightness of the display can be adjusted by dimming or turning off the display. The display can be returned to a previous state upon capturing the image, the previous state being prior to the brightness of the display being adjusted.

Abstract: A display device and a driving method for a display device are provided. The display device uses a second storage capacitor and stably moves the threshold voltage of the driving transistor to a positive value in a diode-connected driving circuit. Accordingly, a compensation performance of a threshold voltage of a driving transistor may be improved.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus that generates a wide-angle image on the basis of images from a plurality of imaging units and is capable of decreasing a likelihood of a subject becoming a double image. The imaging apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine an imaging range of at least one of a first imaging unit and a second imaging unit on the basis of information relating to a subject designated by a user in a case in which a switching instruction from a non-composition mode to a composition mode and information relating to a subject designated by the user are received from an external device.

Abstract: A display device includes: a (k?1)-th scan line and a k-th scan line which are parallel to each other; a j-th data line which crosses the (k?1)-th scan line and the k-th scan line; and a subpixel connected to the (k?1)-th scan line, the k-th scan line, and the j-th data line, wherein the subpixel includes: a driving transistor configured to control a driving current flowing from a first electrode thereof to a second electrode thereof according to a data voltage applied to a first gate electrode thereof, the driving transistor having a second gate electrode connected to the (k?1)-th scan line; and a light emitting element configured to emit light according to the driving current.

Abstract: An information processing device, a program, and an information processing method are provided, capable of instructing an imaging device to start and end a predetermined operation through an operation via a GUI. The information processing device includes: a display control unit configured to control display of a slider on a display unit, the slider being configured such that a display object is movable between predetermined positions; and a process control unit configured to instruct an imaging unit to control photography in a predetermined mode when the process control unit receives an operation of moving the display object.

Abstract: There is provided with an information processing apparatus. A control unit performs tilt control for tilting an image capturing element with respect to a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of an image capturing optical system about a rotation axis, and perform focus control for moving a focus lens in a direction of the optical axis. A setting unit sets a target region in a captured image obtained by an image capturing unit. A determining unit determines, based on a position corresponding to a position of the rotation axis in the image and a position of the target region in the image, a correction amount of a position of the focus lens, wherein the focus lens is moved based on the correction amount.

Abstract: This disclosure pertains to systems, methods, and computer readable medium for mapping particular user interactions, e.g., gestures, to the input parameters of various image processing routines, e.g., image filters, in a way that provides a seamless, dynamic, and intuitive experience for both the user and the software developer. Such techniques may handle the processing of both “relative” gestures, i.e., those gestures having values dependent on how much an input to the device has changed relative to a previous value of the input, and “absolute” gestures, i.e., those gestures having values dependent only on the instant value of the input to the device. Additionally, inputs to the device beyond user-input gestures may be utilized as input parameters to one or more image processing routines. For example, the device's orientation, acceleration, and/or position in three-dimensional space may be used as inputs to particular image processing routines.

Abstract: Systems and methods for optical imaging are disclosed. An optical sensor for imaging a biometric input object on a sensing region includes a transparent layer having a first side and a second side opposite the first side; a set of apertures disposed above the first side of the transparent layer; a first set of reflective surfaces disposed below the second side of the transparent layer configured to receive light transmitted through the first set of apertures and to reflect the received light; a second set of reflective surfaces disposed above the first side of the transparent layer configured to receive the light reflected from the first set of reflective surfaces and to further reflect the light; and a plurality of detector elements positioned to receive the further reflected light from the second set of reflective surfaces.

Abstract: Systems and methods described herein are for transmitting a command to a remote system. A processing system determines the identity of the user based on the unique identifier and the biometric information. Thereafter, a sensor detects a gesture performed by the user. The sensor is configured to detect the gesture performed by the user when the user is located within the detectable range of the wireless antenna. The processing system determines an action associated with the detected gesture based on the identity of the user and sends a command to a remote computer system to cause it to perform the action associated with the detected gesture.

Abstract: Methods and systems for monitoring and regulating temperatures of neurostimulator programmers are provided herein. A neurostimulator programmer may include one or more sensors that may detect one or more temperatures associated with the neurostimulator programmer. Each of the one or more sensors may be associated with one or more respective threshold values. When these threshold values are exceeded, one or more courses of actions may be taken by the neurostimulator programmer. For example, the neurostimulator programmer may reduce functionality of one or more heat-generating components, increase monitoring of temperature, and/or initiate shutdown of the neurostimulator programmer. In some cases, two or more such methods may be performed simultaneously, for example, one method to deal with high temperatures and another method to deal with particularly excessive temperatures.

Abstract: A computing device can include a processor; memory accessible to the processor; a display panel operatively coupled to the processor; a housing that includes a protective layer that covers the display panel; and a camera assembly mounted to an edge of the housing, where the camera assembly includes a camera, a camera aperture and a recess, where the protective layer covers the camera aperture and extends into the recess.

Abstract: A file-processing apparatus 20 acquires (S104) access information that is used for requesting material data for generating a virtual viewpoint image that is generated based on a virtual viewpoint and captured images acquired from a plurality of imaging apparatuses, generates (S107) a virtual viewpoint image file that contains the acquired access information and a virtual viewpoint image data corresponding to the virtual viewpoint image, and outputs (S108) the generated virtual viewpoint image file.

Abstract: An object detection apparatus 100 is provided with: a fish-eye image acquisition unit 10 configured to acquire a time series fish-eye image; a horizontal panorama image generation unit 20 configured to, for each frame, perform conversion to a horizontal panorama image in which a vertical direction in a real space is expressed in a perpendicular direction of the frame, and an azimuth is expressed equiangularly in a horizontal direction of the frame; an edge pair extraction unit 30 configured to extract a pair of edges in the perpendicular direction from the horizontal panorama image; a change rate extraction unit 40 configured to extract a change rate of an inter-edge distance between the pair of edges; a lower end region extraction unit 50 configured to extract a region of a lower end of an object providing the pair of edges; a distance change rate extraction unit 60 configured to calculate a distance from the object to the fish-eye camera based on the position of the region of the lower end of the object in

Abstract: The implementations of the present disclosure provide a method for displaying a shooting interface, which is applied to a terminal in which an image acquisition component is integrated into a touch screen. The method includes: receiving a first operation signal, where the first operation signal is a signal configured to enable the image acquisition component to perform shooting; enabling the image acquisition component according to the first operation signal; and displaying a shooting interface on the touch screen, where the shooting interface is provided with a component location information which is a prompt information configured to indicate the location of the image acquisition component. The present disclosure also provides a device for displaying a shooting interface, and the terminal.

Abstract: A CPU executes a zoom tracking control program to function as an acquisition unit that acquires a focal length of an imaging lens from a state of a zoom lens; and a control unit that performs first control of performing control to change a position of a focus lens along an optical axis direction according to the acquired focal length on the basis of a zoom tracking curve represented by tracking data representing a correspondence relationship between the focal length and a focus position according to a subject distance, and second control of acquiring contrast information representing contrast of a captured image a plurality of times during execution of the first control and performing control to change the zoom tracking curve used in the first control on the basis of a change of contrast values represented by a plurality of pieces of the acquired contrast information.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing, a flexible display, a camera, and a processor. The housing includes a first housing and a second housing coupled to and movable with respect to the first housing. The flexible display including an exposed area that is a first size when the electronic device is in a first state and a second size when the second housing moves and the electronic device is switched into a second state. The processor is configured to acquire an image having a designated aspect ratio through the camera. The processor is also configured to display a first area of the image on the exposed area corresponding to the first size when the electronic device is in the first state and display a second area of the image on the exposed area corresponding to the second size when the electronic device is in the second state.

Abstract: Implementations disclosed herein provide improved systems and methods for displaying video that has at least some content in the same position in consecutive frames. In some implementations, such content is low frame rate video content altered for display on a display at a higher refresh rate. Judder is reduced or avoided by selectively altering one or more of the consecutive frames, for example, so that the consecutive frames have differences in brightness, color, luminance, or dynamic range. For example, given three consecutive frames of repeated content, the first frame of may be displayed at a 100% brightness level, the second frame may be displayed at 50% brightness, and the third frame may be displayed at 25% brightness. Such differences in brightness or other display characteristics may reduce or avoid the appearance of judder while preserving the overall appearance of the video.

Abstract: An in-car cloud VR device includes: a GIS information acquisition unit that detects a location of a vehicle through a GPS sensor installed in a traveling vehicle and acquires the GIS information near the vehicle; an thing information acquisition unit that collects videos around the vehicle through at least one camera sensor installed in the vehicle and acquires surrounding thing information around the vehicle; a movement information acquisition unit that acquires movement information of a user in the vehicle through at least one gyro sensor; and an FOV video determination unit that determines a first FOV video based on the GIS information, updates the first FOV video based on the surrounding thing information, and determines a second FOV video within the first FOV video based on the movement information of the user.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods that provide feedback to a user of an image capture device that includes an artificial intelligence system that analyzes incoming image frames to, for example, determine whether to automatically capture and store the incoming frames. An example system can also, in the viewfinder portion of a user interface presented on a display, a graphical intelligence feedback indicator in association with a live video stream. The graphical intelligence feedback indicator can graphically indicate, for each of a plurality of image frames as such image frame is presented within the viewfinder portion of the user interface, a respective measure of one or more attributes of the respective scene depicted by the image frame output by the artificial intelligence system.

Abstract: A measuring instrument attachment assist device which includes: a coordinate detector which detects coordinates of predetermined feature points from an image obtained by capturing an image of a subject; a conversion parameter calculator which calculates a projection conversion parameter for converting the coordinates of the feature points in a model image into the coordinates obtained by the detection; a designating unit which designates a position of a measuring instrument attached to the subject in the model image; a coordinate converter which converts a coordinate of the position designated by using the designating unit, by using the projection conversion parameter; and a display which displays the coordinate obtained by the conversion by the coordinate converter, on the image obtained by the capturing.

Abstract: A content recording and sharing method is applied to a computing device. The method includes: obtaining a video in real time, the video capturing a physical scene for a time duration; generating supplemental contents synchronized with the video; receiving user information from a first user terminal device; determining first selected supplemental content according to the user information and a first selection rule, and sending the first selected supplemental content to the first user terminal device; determining second selected supplemental content according to a second selection rule; and sharing the video and the second selected supplemental content with one or more second user terminal devices.

Abstract: To provide an image capturing apparatus with distribution information on an image capturing signal suitable for a display apparatus, an image processing apparatus includes: an image data acquisition unit configured to acquire image data; a configuration information acquisition unit configured to acquire configuration information on a display apparatus which displays at least a part of an image indicated by the image data; a range determination unit configured to determine a range corresponding to the part of the image based on the configuration information; and a display control unit configured to cause a display unit to display the image with distribution information of pixel values corresponding to the range of the image.

Abstract: An image capture apparatus performs control such that when an approaching to a finder is not made, a touch operation with an area that is less than a first threshold on the touch operation surface is validated, and a touch operation with an area that is not less than the first threshold on the touch operation surface is invalidated, when the approaching to the finder is made, the touch operation with the area that is not less than the first threshold on the touch operation surface is validated even if the touch operation has the area that is not less than the first threshold on the touch operation surface.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus including an interface that receives an input identifying a subject, and a processor that controls a display to display information indicating a position of the subject in a graphic representation corresponding to a panoramic image based on an orientation of a device capturing image data for generating the panoramic image.

Abstract: Systems and methods provide editing operations in a smart editing system that may generate a focal point within a mask of an object for each frame of a video segment and perform editing effects on the frames of the video segment to quickly provide users with natural video editing effects. An eye-gaze network may produce a hotspot map of predicted focal points in a video frame. These predicted focal points may then be used by a gaze-to-mask network to determine objects in the image and generate an object mask for each of the detected objects. This process may then be repeated to effectively track the trajectory of objects and object focal points in videos. Based on the determined trajectory of an object in a video clip and editing parameters, the editing engine may produce editing effects relative to an object for the video clip.

Abstract: Image capture devices and methods may use field variable tone mapping for 360 content. An image capture device may comprise an image sensor and a processor. The image sensor may capture a hyper-hemispherical image that includes an image circle portion and a dark corner portion. The processor may perform local tone mapping (LTM) on a first area of the image circle portion and perform global tone mapping (GTM) on a second area of pixels of the image circle portion. The GTM may be performed on a condition that a portion of a predefined area of pixels overlaps with a stitch line. The processor may be configured to stitch the hyper-hemispherical image and a second hyper-hemispherical image at the stitch line to obtain a processed image. The processor may be configured to display, store, output, or transmit the processed image.

Abstract: A method includes capturing, by a camera disposed behind a display panel of an electronic device, a plurality of point spread functions (PSFs) through a semi-transparent pixel region of the display panel. Each of the plurality of PSFs is captured at a different exposure time. The method further includes determining, for each of the PSFs, pixel intensity data for each of a plurality of pixel locations of the PSF. The pixel intensity data is associated with the exposure time of the respective PSF. The method further includes calculating, for each pixel location, a weighted average pixel intensity value based on the pixel intensity data and the exposure time for the respective pixel location over the plurality of PSFs, and generating a high dynamic range (HDR) PSF utilizing the weighted average pixel intensity values.