Generating virtual reality content based on corrections to stitching errors

    公开(公告)号:US10600155B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-24

    申请号:US15893547

    申请日:2018-02-09

    摘要: Some embodiments of the invention include methods and systems to generating virtual reality content based on corrections to stitching errors. The method includes receiving at a cloud-based server through a network interface, raw virtual reality video data recorded by camera modules of a camera array. The method further includes stitching the raw virtual reality video data, at the cloud-based server, to generate an initial virtual reality render. The method further includes determining that the initial virtual reality render has stitching errors. The method further includes transmitting the initial virtual reality render from the cloud-based server to a user device. The method further includes receiving a correction to the initial virtual reality render from the user device. The method further includes generating virtual reality content based on the correction.

    ACTIVE-PIXEL IMAGE SENSOR
    95.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200092498A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-19

    申请号:US16134035

    申请日:2018-09-18

    IPC分类号: H04N5/341 G02B27/09 G02B27/30

    摘要: There is provided an active-pixel image sensor that uses a method of offsetting and interleaving to increase its resolution. In a basic configuration of the active-pixel image sensor, light from one optical transmitter is diffracted to create one diffraction pattern, and then light from another optical transmitter is diffracted to create another diffraction pattern. Light from further optical transmitters may also be diffracted to create further diffraction patterns sequentially after that. These diffraction patterns are offset from one another and then interleaved using time division multiplexing so as to create a single pixel output that has higher resolution than is feasible with an active-pixel image sensor that only utilizes one optical transmitter per pixel or that does not use diffraction patterns to create a larger field of view.

    PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT HAVING PHOTODIODE AND SEMICONDUCTOR REGIONS

    公开(公告)号:US20200084409A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-12

    申请号:US16560742

    申请日:2019-09-04

    发明人: Hideo Kobayashi

    IPC分类号: H04N5/3745 H04N5/341

    摘要: A photodiode that includes a first semiconductor region of a first conductive type and a second semiconductor region of a second conductive type opposite to the first conductive type, a third semiconductor region of the first conductive type holding a charge supplied from the first conductive region, a transistor that includes a gate connected to a node including the third semiconductor region, a fourth semiconductor region of the first conductive type as a drain, and a fifth semiconductor region of the first conductive type as a source, and a switch connecting the node and the drain are included, and one of the second and fifth semiconductor regions is a p-type semiconductor region supplied with first potential, the other of the second and fifth semiconductor regions is an n-type semiconductor region supplied with second potential, and the second potential is higher than the first potential.

    ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CAPTURING VIEW

    公开(公告)号:US20200084354A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-12

    申请号:US16558912

    申请日:2019-09-03

    摘要: Embodiments herein provide a method for capturing view in an electronic device comprising at least two image sensors. The method includes determining a folding angle between a first side of the electronic device including a first image sensor and a second side of the electronic device including a second image sensor. Further, the method also includes capturing a first view of a scene using the first image sensor and capturing a second view of the scene using the second image sensor. Further, the method includes determining whether the first view and the second view partially overlap with each other, completely overlap with each other, or do not overlap with each other based on the folding angle.

    Programmable state machine
    100.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10582143B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-03

    申请号:US15990124

    申请日:2018-05-25

    申请人: IMEC VZW

    摘要: An image sensor comprises: an array (102) of pixels (104) arranged in rows and columns; readout circuitry (110) for reading out image information from pixels (104) in the array (102) of pixels (104); signal lines (112) for providing control signals to the pixels (104) in the array (102) and/or the readout circuitry (110); a programmable sequence controller (114) configured to control the control signals provided on the signal lines (112), said programmable sequence controller (114) comprising: at least one programmable signal controlling state machine (140), which is configured to define a sequence of states and to define control parameters for the states in the sequence, wherein the control parameters include the control signals to be provided on at least one signal line (112) for controlling at least one of a row of pixels (104) or the readout circuitry (110).