Lg Electronics Inc.

Lg Innotek Co., Ltd.

Changhwan Lee

Yunsup Shin

Ayoung Cho

Yungwoo Jung

Seongkeun Ahn

Sungmin Kim

Jinwon Kang

Salkmann Ji

Sunho Yang

Youngman Kwon

Minyoung Lee

Hangtae Kim

Youngwoo Park

Donghwa Yun

Gwanmo Koo

Yongwoo Jung

A camera apparatus and an electronic device including the same are disclosed. The camera apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a light source; a lens module configured to output light from the light source to the outside; an actuator configured to move the light source or the lens module; and an image sensor configured to convert external light into an electrical signal. Accordingly, it is possible to implement a high-quality 3D volume by dynamically moving output light.

Camera apparatus and electronic device including the same

The present disclosure relates to a camera having two or more cameras responsible for different illuminances. The present disclosure includes a first camera, a second camera, an illuminance sensor sensing an ambient light illuminance or a subject illuminance, an interface unit configured to connect to an external device, and a controller configured to photograph a first camera image through a first camera, photograph a second camera image through a second camera by performing a first camera operation switch when an illuminance sensed through the illuminance sensor is equal to or smaller than a first illuminance, photograph the first camera image through the first camera by performing a second camera operation switch when the illuminance sensed through the illuminance sensor is equal to or greater than a second illuminance higher than the first illuminance, and control one of the photographed first and second images to be transmitted to the external device through the interface unit.

Video camera and method for controlling the same

An optical device includes: a first light emitting device that emits a plurality of line pattern lights spaced apart from each other to a target area; at least one sensor device that detects a received light, which is the emitted line pattern light, that is reflected from the target area; and a controller that calculates a parallax distance from a pattern of the detected received light, and acquires depth information of the target area by using the calculated parallax distance, wherein the first light emitting device includes: at least one light emitting unit including at least one light emitting element and emitting light of a specific wavelength; and a first optical member that generates light emitted from the at least one light emitting unit into at least one line pattern light.

Optical device, camera device, and electronic apparatus including the same

Provided is an image acquiring device for easily acquiring a hyper spectral image in a small device and enhancing wavelength resolution, the device which includes a light source portion and a sensor portion. The light source portion includes an emitter portion having a plurality of groups of emitters configured to emit light of different wavelengths, a circuit portion dividing the emitter portion into a plurality of segments and configured to control the plurality of segments independently, and a driver portion configured to control the circuit part so that the plurality of segments are driven at different strengths or at different times.

Image acquiring device

The present invention relates to a mobile terminal and a method for controlling same, the mobile terminal comprising: a camera for recording a video; a display unit for displaying a recording screen of the video being recorded through the camera; and a control unit for, when a portion of the video being recorded satisfies a video upload requirement of at least one video upload service that can be provided from the mobile terminal, controlling to display an item indicating the video upload services for which the requirement is satisfied. The present invention provides the effect of allowing a user to quickly recognize an SNS to which a recorded portion of a video currently being recorded in real time can be uploaded, and easily upload the recorded portion to the SNS.

Mobile terminal, and 3D image conversion method thereof

The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal having a lighting unit and a control method thereof. A mobile terminal according to one implementation includes a lighting unit, a camera, and a controller configured to control the lighting unit to irradiate illumination light to a subject to be captured through the camera, and control the camera to capture the subject irradiated with the illumination light, wherein the controller is configured to determine a material of the subject based on information related to the illumination light irradiated on the subject captured through the camera.

Mobile terminal and method for controlling same

The present invention relates to a mobile terminal comprising a lighting device. The lighting device according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises multiple light-emitting elements and a diffractive optical element (DOE) for diffracting a part of the light which has been output from each of the multiple light-emitting elements, wherein the light, which has been output from the multiple light-emitting elements and has passed through the diffractive optical element, comprises multiple first kinds of light not diffracted by the diffractive optical element and multiple second kinds of light diffracted by the diffractive optical element, and the diffractive optical element diffracts the part of the light output from the multiple light-emitting elements such that at least some of the multiple second kinds of light is radiated into an area formed by connecting the multiple first kinds of light.

Mobile terminal

A lighting device includes a printed circuit board (PCB), a submount mounted on the PCB, a die mounted on the submount and including a plurality of light emitting devices, and a pad inserted into a hole formed in the submount such that the die and the PCB are electrically connected through the submount, connected to the die by a wire bonding, and electrically connected to the PCB.

A mobile terminal having a lighting device including a light emitting element, a diffractive optical element (DOE) to diffract a part of light output from the light emitting element, and a driving unit to move the diffractive optical element so as to vary a distance between the light emitting element and the diffractive optical element.

Mobile terminal including diffractive optical element moved different distances to irradiate different light patterns on a subject

Provided in the present invention is a camera module comprising: an imaging lens on which incident light from an external environment is reflected; and an image sensor for obtaining image data related to the external environment by means of the light, and further comprising a filter portion, which is arranged on the image sensor to cut light having a predetermined wavelength, is sectioned into a center zone in which the incidence angle of the light is a first incidence angle, and a peripheral zone surrounding the center zone in which the incidence angle of the light is a second incidence angle that is bigger than the first incidence angle, wherein the filter portion having the center zone and the peripheral zone is formed so that light having wavelengths that differ from the incident light having the first and second incidence angle is cut.

Camera module

A 3D depth camera module, including a light transmitting portion having a laser for emitting light, and having a diffractive optical element for passing the light therethrough such that the light reaches a subject with a preset pattern; a light receiving portion configured to receive the light reflected from the subject; an analyzing portion configured to analyze a 3D shape of the subject, based on a shifted degree of the reflected light; and an operating portion configured to move part of the light transmitting portion such that a position of one region of the subject where the light reaches is changed. Further, the operating portion moves at least part of the light transmitting portion by a predetermined length being set to restrict repetitive arrival of the light onto one region of the subject; the diffractive optical element includes a plurality of spots spaced from each other by a predetermined spaced interval between two adjacent spots of the diffractive optical element; and the predetermined length is smaller than the predetermined interval.

3D camera module

The present invention relates to an RGB-IR sensor, and a method and an apparatus for obtaining a 3D image by using the same. The RGB-IR sensor according to the present invention comprises: a first pixel basic unit including one of each of R, G, B and IR pixels; and a second pixel basic unit in which the R, G, B and IR pixels are arranged in a different order from those in the first pixel basic unit, wherein the RGB-IR sensor is comprised by alternately arranging the first pixel basic unit and the second pixel basic unit in a horizontal direction, and wherein R, G, B and IR pixel arrangements in the first pixel basic unit and the second pixel basic unit are determined so that the position of IR-pixels in the RGB-IR sensor are not equidistance apart from each other.

RGB-IR sensor, and method and apparatus for obtaining 3D image by using same

Provided is a 3D camera module, comprising: a first camera lens group for forming a light path of a first light bundle so as to be one of a left-eye lens group and a right-eye lens group in the 3D camera module; a second camera lens group, disposed apart from the first camera lens group, for forming a light path of a second light bundle so as to be the other of the left-eye lens group and the right-eye lens group in the 3D camera module; an image sensor disposed on the movement path of the first and second light bundles so as to sense a first image by the first light bundle and a second image by the second light bundle; and a movement control unit configured to move the first camera lens group and the second camera lens group in at least one direction of a forward and backward direction and a left and right direction so as to control the first and second images.

An apparatus for obtaining a 3D image including a light transmitter configured to transmit infrared ray (IR) structured light to a recognized object; an RGB-IR sensor configured to receive infrared rays and visible light reflected from the recognized object; a processor configured to obtain 3D image information including depth information and a visible light image of the recognized object by using each of the infrared rays and the visible light, which are received by the RGB-IR sensor. The processor is further configured to obtain infrared differential images by subtracting infrared images obtained for a visible light measurement time period Tfrom infrared images obtained for an infrared measurement time period T

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Changhwan Lee