Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Chiaki Inoue

Yuichi Kusumi

Yoshiaki Ida

Koshi Hatakeyama

Kaoru Eguchi

Ko Ichihara

Tomohiro Nishiyama

Takashi Oniki

Hiroki Nakayama

Tsunefumi Tanaka

Masaru Sakamoto

Kiyokatsu Ikemoto

Tsuyoshi Wakazono

Yoshinori Kimura

Atsushi Takata

Kouga Okada

Naoto Fuse

Ichiro Kanazashi

Kazuhiro Kochi

An imaging apparatus includes a first reflection optical system and a second reflection optical system having mutually different optical axes, each of the first and second reflection optical systems includes a plurality of reflecting surfaces, a first imaging portion configured to receive an imaging light reflected by the first reflection optical system, a second imaging portion configured to receive an imaging light reflected by the second reflection optical system, a first member, a second member, and a frame. A part of the plurality of reflecting surfaces of the first reflection optical system are reflecting surfaces provided on the frame. Among the plurality of reflecting surfaces of the first reflection optical system, a final-stage reflecting surface configured to reflect the imaging light toward the first imaging portion is a first reflecting surface formed on a surface of the first member.

Imaging apparatus and manufacturing method of imaging apparatus

An apparatus configured to acquire a plurality of spectral images of an object includes at least one processor configured to execute a plurality of tasks including a selection task configured to select a recording wavelength band according to an input by a user, and a control task configured to store in a memory information on a spectral image corresponding to the recording wavelength band. The apparatus acquires the plurality of spectral images by imaging the object through a plurality of lens units each configured to form an image of the object, and a plurality of filters each of which is disposed on a corresponding one of optical axes of the plurality of lens units.

Image pickup apparatus and image pickup system

An apparatus includes an imaging element for obtaining a plurality of parallax images by receiving a plurality of light flux that passes through different areas of a pupil of an optical system by different pixels, and a processor for performing image processing on an image that is obtained by using the imaging element. The processor includes a first obtaining unit that obtains first shape information based on a plurality of photometric stereo images that are shot by using the imaging element in light source conditions that include at least three different light source conditions, a second obtaining unit that obtains second shape information by using the plurality of parallax images, and a third obtaining unit that obtains third shape information by using the first shape information and the second shape information.

Imaging apparatus, method of processing image, and storage medium

An image processing method includes the steps of acquiring a first image, acquiring a second image that has a noise amount larger than that of the first image and has high frequency components of an object more than those of the first image, and inputting the first image and the second image into a neural network, and generating a third image having the high frequency components of the object more than those of the first image and having the noise amount smaller than that of the second image.

Image processing method, image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, and storage medium

An image processing apparatus processes a first image and a second image so as to detect a corresponding pixel in the second image which corresponds to a target pixel in the first image. The first image has a first parameter value, and the second image has a second parameter value different from the first parameter value. The first parameter value and the second parameter value are values of optical parameters of image capturing systems used to capture the first image and the second image. The image processing apparatus includes an area setter that sets a two-dimensional search area as a partial area in which the corresponding pixel is to be searched in the second image, based on a predetermined range in which each of the first and second parameter values can change, and a detector that detects the corresponding pixel by searching the two-dimensional search area.

Image processing apparatus, image capturing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium

An imaging apparatus includes an image sensor configured to photoelectrically convert an object image formed by an imaging optical system in at least three states in which positions of light sources configured to emit light are different from each other, and to output at least three image data, and a luminance distribution acquirer configured to acquire information on a plurality of luminance distributions of the image data based on common information on a common light amount distribution regarding the at least three states.

Imaging apparatus, accessory, processing apparatus, processing method, and storage medium

A control apparatus includes a focus information calculator configured to calculate focus information by using an image signal obtained via a first image capturer, a distance information calculator configured to calculate distance information on a distance to an object by using an image signal obtained via a second image capturer, a correction value calculator configured to calculate a correction value by using the focus information of the first image capturer, and a controller configured to provide a focus control to the first image capturer using the correction value and the distance information.

Control apparatus, image capturing apparatus, control method, and storage medium

A control apparatus includes a controller configured to switch a simultaneous light emission mode that causes all of the at least three light source units to emit lights and a sequential light emission mode that causes the at least three light source units to sequentially emit the lights in association with imaging. The controller causes the at least three light source units to sequentially emit the lights in synchronization with each of at least three imaging signals transmitted from the imaging apparatus in the sequential light emission mode. The controller is configured to switch between the simultaneous light emission mode and the sequential light emission mode based on information from a selector provided in at least one of the imaging apparatus and the accessory and configured to select the simultaneous light emission mode and the sequential light emission mode.

Control apparatus, accessory, imaging apparatus, and imaging system capable of switching light emission modes for imaging

A control apparatus includes a write unit configured to write additional information on an imaging state in acquiring an image captured with at least three light sources located at different positions by correlating the additional information with the image. The additional information is information configured to identify at least one of information on an incident angle of light from each light source toward the object on the image and light amount distribution information of the light emitted from each light source on the image.

Control apparatus, imaging apparatus, illumination apparatus, image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium

A processing apparatus includes an input image acquirer configured to acquire an input image obtained by capturing an object, a normal information acquirer configured to acquire normal information of the object, a first renderer configured to generate a first rendered image about the object based on a light source condition in capturing the input image and the normal information, and an area detector configured to detect a target area corresponding to a portion where an error of the normal information in the object is larger than a predetermined value based on the input image and the first rendered image.

Processing apparatus, processing system, imaging apparatus, processing method, and storage medium

An image processing apparatus () includes a first obtainer () that obtains a plurality of input images () obtained by photographing an object a plurality of times while at least one of a light source position and a viewpoint is changed, and a second obtainer () that obtains a plurality of diffuse images () based on the same pixel areas of object images in the plurality of input images ().

Image processing apparatus, image pickup apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

One or more image processing apparatuses, imaging apparatuses, image processing methods, image processing programs, and recording mediums are provided herein. At least one image processing apparatus includes a hue obtaining unit configured to perform a noise reduction process on an input image or a first hue of the input image so as to obtain a second hue having reduced noise, an extraction unit configured to extract a plurality of pixels from the input image based on the second hue having the reduced noise, and an estimation unit configured to estimate diffuse reflection components based on the plurality of extracted pixels.

Image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, image processing method, image processing program, and recording medium

An image capturing apparatus () includes a focus detector () that performs focus detection based on a plurality of parallax image signals obtained via a second image capturer () with an angle of field that is wider than an angle of field of a first image capturer (), and a controller () that performs focus control of the first image capturer () based on an output signal from the focus detector ().

Image capturing apparatus, image capturing system, method of controlling image capturing apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

A processing apparatus includes a photographed image obtainer configured to obtain a plurality of photographed images of an object, the images being photographed by sequentially irradiating light onto the object from a plurality of different light source positions, a first shadow map generator configured to generate a first shadow map by determining a shadow area in the plurality of photographed images, a second shadow map generator configured to generate a second shadow map based on the first shadow map, and a normal information obtainer configured to obtain normal information of the object calculated based on the second shadow map and the plurality of photographed images.

Processing apparatus, processing system, image pickup apparatus, processing method, and storage medium

A processing apparatus includes a corrector that, when the object is sequentially irradiated with light from three or more light sources with mutually different positions, corrects a light source condition to calculate surface normal information of an object on the basis of brightness of each of the light sources.

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Chiaki Inoue