Sony Corporation

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation

Qingdao Haier Washing Machine Co., Ltd.

Aqua Co., Ltd

Shinichi Yoshimura

Mitsuharu Ohki

Hideshi Yamada

Masayuki Tachi

Shuichi Konami

Hirotaka Shinozaki

Mayuko Maruyama

Ryoji Suzuki

Toshinobu Sugiyama

Kazuhiro Hoshino

Yusuke Oike

Tadayuki Taura

Masanori Kasai

Hideharu Koizumi

Hisao Miyao

Kuniaki Ohkuma

Atsushi Toda

Hiroki Sato

Kazuya Yonemoto

Toshio Suzuki

Akihiko Kato

Shigeyuki Baba

Ikuhiro Yamamura

Shin Yoshimura

Masayasu Arakawa

Daisuke Kawazoe

Teruyuki Ushiro

Kazuyoshi Sakuma

Taiki Mori

Toyoaki Hayashi

Jungo Katsuki

Taichi Hayashida

Reiji Nakagawa

Yoshitake Miwa

An information processing system that acquires first image data captured by a first camera unit disposed on a first side of a housing; acquires second image data captured by a second camera unit disposed on a second side of the housing, which is opposite to the first side of the housing; and modifies the second image data based on the first image data.

Image processing devices, image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium

Image processing device, photographing control method, and program

An in-image capturing unit captures an image of a subject in a direction facing a front surface of an image processing apparatus, as an in-image, and an out-image capturing unit captures an image of a subject in a direction facing a back surface of the image processing apparatus, as an out-image. A signal processing unit obtains a binary image as additional information, the binary image being obtained by binarizing the in-image, for example, and adds the additional information to image data of the out-image. Additionally, the signal processing unit combines the binary image serving as the additional information with the out-image when the out-image is reproduced, and displays the resultant image. In such a manner, information obtained from the in-image is added to the out-image as additional information, and thus it is possible to more effectively display an image and improve convenience.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program

Image processing system, image processing method, and program

There is provided an image processing apparatus including an image processing unit which performs image processing on each of a plurality of images of a same subject having different resolutions, and an image combining unit which combines an image processing result of each of the plurality of images obtained by the image processing unit.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

Disclosed herein is a solid-state image taking apparatus, includes: a pixel array section including unit pixels laid out two-dimensionally to form a matrix to serve as unit pixels each employing an opto-electric conversion device, a transfer transistor, a first electric-charge accumulation section, a read transistor, a second electric-charge accumulation section, a reset transistor, and an amplification transistor; a driving section; and a correction section.

Solid-state image taking apparatus, method for driving solid-state image taking apparatus and electronic apparatus

An apparatus and a method which enable effective removal of flicker are provided. Under an illumination environment such as a fluorescent lamp with luminance variation, flicker that occurs in images shot with an X-Y address scanning type imaging device such as a CMOS is effectively removed or reduced. The integral value of the row-by-row signal intensity of an image to be corrected from which to remove flicker is calculated, and this integral value is used to detect flicker components contained in individual rows of an image frame. The detected flicker components represent data according to the actual flicker waveform of the illumination, and a correction process is executed using flicker correction coefficients formed by an anti-phase pattern of the flicker components. Effective flicker removal becomes possible through this process.

Image processing apparatus, signal processing method and computer-readable medium for image flicker correction

An image acquisition unit acquires multiple image data sets of pixels in array, having subject distortion due to focal plane shutter effects, corresponding to images taken at continuous exposure timings; a coefficient storage unit stores coefficients, determined by which number-in-order of multiple images that the image data set corresponds to, and by each pixel position in the image; a multiplying unit multiplies a pixel value of a predetermined pixel in the image data sets, by the coefficient stored in the coefficient storage means; and an adding unit adds each pixel value of a predetermined number of the image data sets. The coefficients include a coefficient wherein, at the earliest image data set, pixels exposed earlier are weighted less and pixels exposed later are weighted more, and a coefficient wherein, at the latest image data set, pixels exposed earlier are weighted more and pixels exposed later are weighted less.

Image processing device, image processing method recording medium, and program

Image processing device, image processing method, recording medium, and program

A solid-state imaging device including an array of a plurality of first pixels and a plurality of second pixels with higher sensitivity than the first pixels, a first control signal line that controls the first pixels, and a second control signal line that controls the second pixels, wherein the first control signal line and the second control signal line are driven independent of each other.

Solid-state imaging device, method for driving solid-state imaging device and camera

An arithmetic circuit, which is retained by each pixel in a conventional image sensor, is shared by each column. Signal processing circuits of different configurations are provided on signal transmission paths in an upward direction and a downward direction of a vertical signal line for extracting an image signal from each pixel, whereby image output processing and arithmetic processing are performed completely separately by the different circuit blocks. Thus, image quality of an actual image is improved and optimum design for arithmetic processing is made possible. Specifically, an I-V converter circuit unit, a CDS circuit unit and the like are provided on the image output side. A current mirror circuit unit, an analog memory array unit, a comparator unit, a bias circuit unit, a data latch unit, an output data bus unit and the like are provided on the arithmetic processing side.

Method of manufacturing a solid state image pickup apparatus having multiple transmission paths

Solid-state image pickup apparatus and control method thereof

A floodlight section emits light with a predetermined blinking pattern. The emitted light is reflected by a reflecting object. An image capturing section captures the light reflected by the reflecting object. A surveillance apparatus compares the pattern of the reflected light captured by the image capturing section and the blinking pattern of the light emitted by the floodlight section to determine that there is no invader in a surveillance area between the surveillance apparatus and the reflecting object while the predetermined blinking pattern is detected, and that there is an invader in the surveillance area when the predetermined blinking pattern is not detected. The present invention can be applied to surveillance apparatuses.

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

The invention provides an image processing apparatus and method wherein image signals can be arithmetically processed on the real-time basis. Infrared rays introduced into a light reception section are photoelectrically converted in synchronism with a reset pulse signal supplied from a timing generator and are outputted to an amplification section in synchronism with a light reception section transfer pulse signal supplied from the timing generator. The signal inputted to the amplification section is amplified to a level necessary for processing in an apparatus in the following stage in synchronism with an amplification section drive pulse signal supplied thereto from the timing generator, and outputted to an arithmetic operation section. The signal inputted to the arithmetic operation section is temporarily stored into a storage section, and a predetermined arithmetic operation designated by an arithmetic operation selection signal from an arithmetic operation control section is performed for the signal by a comparison section to produce a binary digitized signal. The binary digitized signal is outputted to an outputting section. The signal inputted to the outputting section is outputted as a pixel signal over a common signal line in synchronism with a selection signal from a horizontal scanning circuit.

Image processing apparatus and method

A pixel operable within a photographing device includes a light receiving portion for generating an electric signal corresponding to an intensity of received light, an amplifying portion for amplifying an output signal of the light receiving portion, a number of storing portions for storing, as a current signal, an electric signal amplified by the amplifying portion, a load portion for converting current outputs of the number of storing portions into voltages, a bias portion for supplying an offset current to an input of the load portion, and a calculating portion for calculating an output of the load portion, wherein a number of the pixels are arranged in a matrix. The storing portions and the photographing device are disposed on the same circuit, thereby expediting pixel processing. Additionally, with a bias, the output becomes stable.

Processing apparatus and photographing device

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Shinichi Yoshimura