ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

    公开(公告)号:US20220385877A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-01

    申请号:US17824500

    申请日:2022-05-25

    发明人: Kazumasa Kimata

    摘要: Electronic equipment includes a processor, and a memory storing a program which, when executed by the processor, causes the electronic equipment to acquire a third image in which a first image captured via a first optical system and a second image captured via a second optical system and having parallax with respect to the first image are arranged side by side, apply predetermined processing to a target range included in the third image, and, wherein each of the first image and the second image is a circular region, set a rectangular region circumscribed around a circular region of the first image or a circular region of the second image as a movable region in which the target range included in the third image is movable.

    Image Sensor and Image Apparatus
    3.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220360759A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-10

    申请号:US17762298

    申请日:2019-09-25

    IPC分类号: H04N13/232 H04N9/04 H04N5/369

    摘要: An image capturing element according to the present disclosure includes a pixel array formed by a plurality of pixels arranged in an array on a substrate, each of the plurality of pixels including a photoelectric conversion element, a transparent layer formed on the pixel array, and a spectroscopic element array formed by a plurality of spectroscopic elements arranged in an array, and each of the plurality of spectroscopic elements is at a position corresponding to one of the plurality of spectroscopic elements inside or on the transparent layer. Each of the plurality of spectroscopic elements includes a plurality of microstructures formed from a material having a refractive index higher than a refractive index of the transparent layer. The plurality of microstructures have a microstructure pattern. Each of the plurality of spectroscopic elements separates incident light into deflected light beams having different propagation directions according to the wavelength and emits the deflected light beams.

    Integrated microoptic imager, processor, and display

    公开(公告)号:US11460706B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-04

    申请号:US17484128

    申请日:2021-09-24

    摘要: An optical system for displaying light from a scene includes an active optical component that includes a first plurality of light directing apertures, an optical detector, a processor, a display, and a second plurality of light directing apertures. The first plurality of light directing apertures is positioned to provide an optical input to the optical detector. The optical detector is positioned to receive the optical input and convert the optical input to an electrical signal corresponding to intensity and location data. The processor is connected to receive the data from the optical detector and process the data for the display. The second plurality of light directing apertures is positioned to provide an optical output from the display.

    Apparatus and a method for generating data representing a pixel beam

    公开(公告)号:US10902624B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-26

    申请号:US15761090

    申请日:2016-09-16

    申请人: THOMSON Licensing

    摘要: There are several types of plenoptic devices and camera arrays available on the market, and all these light field acquisition devices have their proprietary file format. However, there is no standard supporting the acquisition and transmission of multi-dimensional information. It is interesting to obtain information related to a correspondence between pixels of a sensor of said optical acquisition system and an object space of said optical acquisition system. Indeed, knowing which portion of the object space of an optical acquisition system a pixel belonging to the sensor of said optical acquisition system is sensing enables the improvement of signal processing operations. The notion of pixel beam, which represents a volume occupied by a set of rays of light in an object space of an optical system of a camera is thus introduce.

    Method and apparatus for restoring image

    公开(公告)号:US10902557B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-26

    申请号:US16197591

    申请日:2018-11-21

    摘要: Provided is a method and apparatus for restoring an image, the apparatus including a plurality of lenses configured to pass a plurality of rays, a sensor including a target sensing element configured to receive a target ray passing a first lens among the plurality of lenses, and a second sensing element configured to receive a second ray passing a second lens among the plurality of lenses, the first lens being different from the second lens, and a processor configured to determine the second sensing element based on a difference between a direction of the target ray and a direction of the second ray, and to restore color information corresponding to the target sensing element based on color information detected by the second sensing element.

    Image capturing apparatus, image processing apparatus, and control method therefor

    公开(公告)号:US10855887B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-12-01

    申请号:US16510724

    申请日:2019-07-12

    发明人: Masaki Okita

    摘要: In an image capturing apparatus, an image sensing device includes a plurality of groups of pixels each including a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, signals from the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements being readable separately for each photoelectric conversion element via a signal line used in common by each group of pixels. A reading unit performs, on a plurality of groups of pixels, a reading-out operation to reading out a signal as a first signal from part of the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements and a second reading-out operation to mix signals from the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements and read out a resultant mixed signal as an image signal. A generation unit generates one image file including the first signal, the image signal, and defect data indicating a group of pixels for which the first signal is defective while the image signal is not defective.

    Plenoptic sub aperture view shuffling with improved resolution

    公开(公告)号:US10834313B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-11-10

    申请号:US16314581

    申请日:2017-06-27

    摘要: A system and method for generating high resolution images using a plenoptic camera having a main lens in front of an array of microlenses and an image sensor, characterized in that it comprises: capturing a first set of images in a first unexcited state of operation by using a birefringent medium disposed between a said main lens and an said array of microlenses, said unexcited state of said birefringent medium providing an ordinary ray to each pixel; causing said first unexcited state to become a second excited state by applying a voltage across said birefringent medium; capturing a second set of images in said second excited state, said excited state of said birefringent medium splitting the light from said main lens into an ordinary ray and an extraordinary ray, said extraordinary ray being shifted by a distance of one half-pixel from the ordinary ray on said image sensor; subtracting pixel value associated with said first set of images from at least two times the pixel value associated with said second set of images, and generating a final set of images with high resolution from said subtraction and said first set of images.

    Cloaking systems and methods
    10.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10739111B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-11

    申请号:US15567805

    申请日:2016-04-21

    摘要: Digital cloaking is a method for practical cloaking, where space, angle, spectrum and phase are discretized. At the sacrifice of spatial resolution, a good approximation to an ideal cloak can be achieved—a cloak that is omnidirectional, broadband, and operational for the visible spectrum, three-dimensional (3D), and phase-matching for the light field, among other attributes. One example of a digital cloak is an active cloak that uses lenticular lenses, similar to integral imaging for 3D displays. With the continuing improvement in commercial digital technology, the resolution limitations of a digital cloak may be minimized, and a wearable cloak can be implemented.