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| 20090051793 | MULTI-ARRAY SENSOR WITH INTEGRATED SUB-ARRAY FOR PARALLAX DETECTION AND PHOTOMETER FUNCTIONALITY - Methods and systems of imaging to correct parallax. Color information is received from multi-array sensors. Luminance information is received from a sub-array sensor arranged with the multi-array sensors. Color information received from at least one of the multi-array sensors is correlated with the luminance information received from the sub-array sensor. Color information is shifted among the multi-array sensors, based on the correlation, to correct the parallax. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20100134662 | IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE AND METHOD - An image capture device ( | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100194938 | Imaging apparatus and imaging method - An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging section receiving color light and interpolation light including at least a part of a wavelength range of the color light in order to interpolate the brightness of the color light and converting the received color light and interpolation light into a signal; a control section controlling a first exposure time of the color light and a second exposure time of the interpolation light separately according to the brightness of an object to be imaged; and an image creating section creating an image on the basis of a color signal, which is output when the imaging section receives the color light, during the first exposure time controlled by the control section and on the basis of an interpolation signal, which is output when the imaging section receives the interpolation light, during the second exposure time controlled by the control section. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100214453 | BACKSIDE ILLUMINATION IMAGE SENSOR, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF AND IMAGE-CAPTURING DEVICE - A backside illumination image sensor equipped with a plurality of pixels disposed in a two-dimensional pattern, includes: image-capturing pixels; and focus detection pixels. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100271515 | IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS AND IMAGE GENERATION METHOD - To provide an image generation apparatus that generates a visually-favorable target video sequence in color using input video sequences of color components and that is least likely to have an insufficient transfer rate when obtaining the input video sequences. The image generation apparatus includes: an image receiving unit ( | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100328502 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A frequency component comparing unit performs frequency component comparison for each of the image signals corresponding to the wavelength components subjected to resolution reconstruction. An image synthesizing unit performs image synthesis with an image signal that is selected according to a comparison result of the frequency component comparing unit as a component. The wavelength component that is subjected to frequency component comparison by frequency component comparing unit is selected according to the modulation transfer function characteristic of the optical system. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20120002086 | Optically Projected Mosaic Rendering - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, are described for rendering a mosaic from digital images using information about location and orientation of an image capturing device, and further about optics settings for the image capturing device when the digital images were captured. In one aspect, methods include generating respective virtual image sheets for frames captured from different camera locations and different camera orientations. Generating the virtual image sheets includes projecting texture maps of the captured frames over wire frames corresponding to optics settings of the camera. The methods further include positioning the generated virtual image sheets at locations and orientations within a viewing space that correspond to the different camera locations and the different orientations. The methods also include rendering the positioned virtual image sheets into a mosaic viewed from a reference point of the viewing space. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120044394 | DIGITAL CAMERA - A multi-spectral imaging device includes pixels R, G, B, λ1, λ2, . . . , λ12 composing color sensors for four or more colors having mutually differing spectral sensitivity characteristics. In a first signal readout mode, an image signal including all of four or more types of signals read from the pixels composing the color sensors for the four or more colors is read from the multi-spectral imaging device. In a second signal readout mode, an image signal having a smaller number of colors than that of the first signal readout mode is read such that a narrower gamut than a gamut that can be reproduced by the image signal read in the first signal readout mode is formed. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120127351 | MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGING - A multi-spectral camera comprises a blocking element ( | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120176521 | IMAGE SENSOR WITH IMPROVED LIGHT SENSITIVITY - An image sensor for capturing a color image is disclosed having a two-dimensional array having first and second groups of pixels wherein pixels from the first group of pixels have narrower spectral photoresponses than pixels from the second group of pixels and wherein the first group of pixels has individual pixels that have spectral photoresponses that correspond to a set of at least two colors. Further, the placement of the first and second groups of pixels defines a pattern that has a minimal repeating unit including at least twelve pixels. The minimal repeating unit has a plurality of cells wherein each cell has at least two pixels representing a specific color selected from the first group of pixels and a plurality of pixels selected from the second group of pixels arranged to permit the reproduction of a captured color image under different lighting conditions. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20120314108 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, CAMERA MODULE, AND IMAGING METHOD - According to embodiments, a solid-state imaging device includes a plurality of pixel cells. The plurality of pixel cells includes a first green pixel cell and a second green pixel cell. The first green pixel cell detects first green light of a first wavelength region. The second green pixel cell detects second green light of a second wavelength region. The second wavelength region includes the first wavelength region. A half-value width of a function representing a spectral sensitivity characteristic of the second green pixel cell is larger than a half-value width of a function representing a spectral sensitivity characteristic of the first green pixel cell. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20130063630 | IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND SIGNAL TRANSMITTING DEVICE - An image pickup device may include an image capturing unit that includes a solid-state image pickup device having a plurality of pixels arrayed in a matrix form and simultaneously outputting pixel signals of the plurality of pixels adjacent to each other in a row or column direction in sequence while sequentially shifting the pixels that output the pixel signals in the row direction, and that simultaneously outputs image capturing signals respectively corresponding to the simultaneously output pixel signals in sequence from corresponding output terminals, an image processing unit to which the image capturing signals respectively corresponding to the plurality of pixels adjacent to each other in the row or column direction of the pixels arrayed in the solid-state image pickup device are simultaneously input in sequence from corresponding input terminals, and which performs image processing on the input image capturing signals, and a signal transmitting unit. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130335603 | COLOR IMAGING DEVICE - A color filter array of a color imaging device is formed by repeatedly arranging a basic array pattern in which RGB filters are arrayed in an array pattern of 8×12 pixels, in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction. The basic array pattern is arranged in a matrix manner in the horizontal direction and/or the vertical direction and includes A array to D array having an array pattern of 4×4 pixels. In each of arrays, G filters are arranged in a checkered pattern and the arrangements of G filters have a mirror image relationship between arrays that are adjacent to each other. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20150146052 | IMAGING DEVICE AND AUTOMATIC FOCUS ADJUSTMENT METHOD - The present invention utilizes color mixings with angle dependencies from adjacent R pixels, and in the case where a subject color is red, uses first and second B pixels as phase-difference pixels, allowing for an accurate phase-difference AF based on the output signals of the first and second B pixels. Here, it is unnecessary to provide phase-difference pixels dedicated to the case where the subject color is red, and the phase difference is detected using ordinary B pixels of an imaging element. Therefore, the resolution is not sacrificed. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150296189 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLOR SENSING, STORAGE AND COMPARISON - A modular device includes base and color sensing portions. The color sensing portion has a face, a controlled light source offset from the face to define an interior, the face configured to engage a target surface about a perimeter of the device housing wherein ambient light is restricted from entering the interior. A color sensor receives light reflected from the target surface and generates output signals representative of a surface color. The base portion communicates with the color sensor and a user device having a hosted program which generates a user interface enabling users to provide control input for the color sensor. The program further receives the output signals from the color sensing device and displays a first image of the detected color, and displays a second image of a user-selected color beside the first image. Color data values are further displayed corresponding to the difference between displayed colors. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150373309 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGING OF LOW RADIANCE OBJECTS - An apparatus for optical imaging of a low radiance object is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a fixed polychromatic imaging device, the optical path between the polychromatic imaging device and the low radiance object being defined by a first section extending from the polychromatic imaging device to a fixed point, and a second section extending from the fixed point to the low radiance object. The apparatus also comprises a fixed high-sensitivity imaging device, the optical path between the high-sensitivity imaging device and the low radiance object being defined by a third section extending from the high-sensitivity imaging device to the fixed point, and the second section; and a focus controller arranged to control the focus of the high-sensitivity imaging device based on the focus of the polychromatic imaging device and the respective lengths of the first and third sections. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20160057396 | IMAGE DEVICE WITH IMPROVED CHROMINANCE QUALITY - The invention provides an image device with improved chrominance quality. The image device includes a plurality of RGBW pixels and a plurality of RGBY pixels. Each RGBW pixel includes a red sub-pixel, a green sub-pixel, a blue sub-pixel and a white sub-pixel. Each RGBY pixel includes a red sub-pixel, a green sub-pixel, a blue sub-pixel and a yellow sub-pixel. In a RGBW pixel, the blue sub-pixel has an area about the same as that of the other sub-pixels in the same RGBW pixel. In a RGBY pixel, the blue sub-pixel has an area larger than that of the other sub-pixels in the same RGBY pixel. The RGBW pixels and RGBY pixels are mixed in the image device. Therefore, a white balance status can be achieved within one RGBY pixel, and thus the chrominance quality of the display can be improved. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20190149713 | WIDE DYNAMIC RANGE USING MONOCHROMATIC SENSOR | 05-16-2019 |
