Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Other

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Hiroyoshi Komobuchi

Katsuhiro Kanamori

Hideto Motomura

Takeo Azuma

Takumi Yamaguchi

Takahiro Yamada

Toshiya Fujii

Kimiya Ikushima

Kenji Kondo

Taro Imagawa

Yuji Matsuda

Mikiya Uchida

Akira Fukumoto

Asako Baba

Yasuhiro Morinaka

Yuuji Matsuda

Masahiko Hashimoto

Shinichi Yamamoto

Yasutoshi Yamamoto

Minoru Kubo

Masayuki Masuyama

Takao Kuroda

Yusuke Okada

Masayuki Yoneyama

Michio Okajima

Sanzo Ugawa

Rieko Nishio

Yoshikazu Chatani

Hiroaki Uozumi

Kunio Nobori

Mikiya Nakata

Kazuyuki Inokuma

Sei Suzuki

Hiroshi Akahori

Kentaro Takakura

Junichi Onoue

Brahm Pal Singh

Akito Kidera

A polarization image sensor includes: photodiodes arranged on an image capturing plane; a color mosaic filter in which color filters in multiple different colors are arranged to face the photodiodes; an optical low-pass filter which covers the color mosaic filter; and polarization optical elements located closer to a light source than the optical low-pass filter is. Each polarization optical element covers an associated one of the photodiodes and makes light which is polarized in a predetermined direction in a plane that is parallel to the image capturing plane incident onto the optical low-pass filter. The color filters are arranged so that light that has passed through polarization optical elements is transmitted through an associated one of the color filters in a single color. Each color filter covers multiple photodiodes.

Polarization image sensor and endoscope

In an embodiment, a solid-state image sensor comprises: pixels arranged in columns and rows; read signal lines each connected to pixels arranged in a row direction; and output signal lines each connected to pixels arranged in a column direction. The read signal lines are classified into a first type of read signal lines each connected to a group of pixels on which R and B rays are incident, and a second type of read signal lines each connected to a group of pixels on which G rays are incident. Two pixels (R, B) on two adjacent columns are arranged on two opposite sides with respect to the first type of read signal line. Two pixels (Gr, Gb) on two adjacent columns are arranged on two opposite sides with respect to the second type of read signal line.

Solid-state image capture element and image capture device comprising said solid-state image capture element, and image capture control method and image capture control program

In a learning process, first, images having different resolutions are obtained from a target region of the subject (S). Further, the subject characteristic of the target region is obtained (S). Then, the resolution conversion rules are learned from the images having different resolutions, and those are recorded to a storage device along with the subject characteristics (S). When converting the resolutions, the resolution conversion rules learned for the corresponding subject characteristics are applied to each region of the original image so as to convert the resolutions of the original image.

Image processing method, image processing apparatus, image processing program, and image file format

In an embodiment, an image sensor includes pixels arranged in columns and rows, read signal lines connected to pixels arranged in the row direction. Each pixel is read in either a first exposure time or in a second exposure time shorter than the first exposure time. Each of a first type of read signal lines is connected to a group of pixels associated with the first exposure time, and each of a second type of read signal lines is connected to a group of pixels associated with the second exposure time. In two vertically adjacent horizontal pixel lines, the first type of read signal line is shared by two horizontally adjacent pixels associated with the first exposure time, and the second type of read signal line is shared by two horizontally adjacent pixels associated with the second exposure time.

Solid-state image sensor and image capture device including the sensor

A recording process records low-resolution video data while obtaining a high-resolution image in a window region being a portion of an entire image. Then, the process learns, as a resolution conversion rule, a resolution increasing parameter by using the high-resolution image. In a resolution increasing process, the resolution of the recorded low-resolution video data is increased by using the resolution increasing parameter learned in the recording process.

Image processing method, image recording method, image processing device and image file format

An imaging and processing device includes: an optical element; a single imager with a color filter array of a plurality of colors attached thereto for outputting a value according to an amount of light which has been guided by the optical element and transmitted through the color filter array, thereby enabling to obtain separate images of the plurality of colors for every frame time point; a first adder section for adding together values, associated with a first color of the plurality of colors, of different images obtained over a plurality of frame time points; a second adder section for adding together a plurality of values, associated with a second color of the plurality of colors other than the first color, of an image captured at a single frame time point; and an image restoring section for restoring an image including a plurality of colors at each frame time point from an image based on the first color which has been subjected to the addition by the first adder section, and an image based on the second color which has been subjected to the addition by the second adder section.

Imaging processor

For a first region being a portion of a storage section (), a read-out pulse produced by a progressive scanning shift register () is used to perform a progressive read-out operation of reading out signals from all rows of image-storing pixels (). For a second region including an entire region other than the first region, a read-out pulse produced by a skip scanning shift register () is used to perform a skip read-out operation of reading out signals from intermittently-selected rows of image-storing pixels (). The progressive scanning shift register () produces the read-out pulse so that the first region moves every frame and an entire region of the storage section () is scanned over a plurality of frames.

Imaging device for multi-resolution video data

In the present invention, an etching holeis formed in a polysilicon filmas a cavity-wall member. Through the etching hole, hydrofluoric acid is injected, so as to dissolve a silicon oxide film, thereby forming a cavity. In the cavity, a detecting unitof a sensor is in an exposed condition. Next, by sputtering, an Al filmis deposited in the etching holeand on an upper face of a substrate. Thereafter, a portion of the Al filmpositioned on the polysilicon filmis removed by etching back, thereby leaving only a metal closureof Al which closes the etching hole. The sputtering step is performed under a pressure of 5 Pa or less, so that the pressure in the cavity can be held to be low.

Electronic device and method of manufacturing the same

The present invention provides a display control method and a display control device capable of detecting a position and an orientation of an apparatus by a simple structure and controlling a display of a displayed image based on the detected position and orientation of the apparatus with ease. Two cameras are mounted on the apparatus. A user holds the apparatus in the hand, captures, by a first camera, a first image including the face of the user, and captures, by a second camera, a second image including a scene opposite to the user. A display control unit extracts features of the face from the first image and extracts scene feature points from the second image. Then, the display control unit compares the extracted results with reference graphics and the like, and calculates a user-to-apparatus distance ro and angles &#x3b8;o, &#x3c6;o which indicate a direction to the apparatus, and controls the display of the displayed image based on the calculated distance ro and angles &#x3b8;o, &#x3c6;o.

Display control device, display control method, program, and portable apparatus

An interpolated image obtained by enlarging and interpolating an image (IN) is subjected to predetermined vector transformation to calculate an image feature vector. Also, a characteristic of a subject is obtained to calculate a physical characteristic parameter of the interpolated image. The physical characteristic parameter is used to transform the image feature vector to sharpen the interpolated image. The transformed image feature vector is subjected to transformation inverse to the predetermined vector transformation to generate an enlarged image (ELI).

Image processing method, image processing apparatus, and image enlarging method

An image feature analyzing section performs an image feature analysis with respect to an input image to output an image feature vector. A parameter output section stores a plurality of image feature vectors and a plurality of parameters corresponding to the respective image feature vectors and outputs an original parameter value corresponding to an image feature vector. A parameter operation setting section determines contents of an operation of an illumination equation parameter, depending on a prescribed image conversion. A parameter operating section operates the original parameter value in accordance with a prescription of the parameter operation setting section, to obtain a new parameter value. An image generating section generates an output image based on the new parameter value.

Method and apparatus for image conversion

An electronic device according to the present invention includes: a cavity, which is surrounded with a cavity wall portion and which has a reduced pressure; a gettering thin film, which is arranged in the cavity and has the function of adsorbing a surrounding substance; and an activating portion, at least a part of which is arranged in the cavity and which has the function of activating the gettering thin film by generating heat.

Electronic device having infrared sensing elements

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Hiroyoshi Komobuchi