Sony Group Corporation

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation

Sony Corporation

Takayoshi Ozone

Ryuichi Tadano

Hiroshi Yamamoto

Sho Nakagawa

Junichi Sakamoto

Toshinobu Sugiyama

Tsutomu Haruta

Yo Nonoyama

Naoko Hirashima

Provided is a solid-state imaging device that includes a plurality of pixels and an arithmetic section. Each of the plurality of pixels includes a photoelectric conversion section (SP) that generates a charge according to the amount of received light and a capacitor (C) provided so as to be able to share accumulation of the charge generated in the photoelectric conversion section (SP) with the photoelectric conversion section (SP). The arithmetic section subtracts a noise signal level according to noise occurring in the capacitor (C) due to temperature from a pixel signal level according to the charge generated in the photoelectric conversion section (SP) and accumulated in the photoelectric conversion section (SP) and the capacitor (C).

Solid-state imaging device, imaging device, processing method in solid-state imaging device, and processing method in imaging device

In an image processing device, shake modification processing of obtaining shake-modified image data by modifying a shake state of input image data constituting a moving image, user interface processing of acquiring operation information regarding shake modification, and parameter setting processing of setting a parameter of the shake modification processing on the basis of the operation information acquired in the user interface processing are performed.

Image processing device, image processing method, and program

An image processing apparatus performs shake information processing of outputting output shake information for input image data constituting a movie, shake information normalization processing of obtaining normalization shake information by normalizing the output shake information on the basis of angle of view information, and shake change processing of changing a shake state of the input image data using the normalization shake information.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

A degree of freedom in image production regarding tracking of a subject is improved. Designation of a placement position in a display area of a tracking target is received on a first screen in which a predetermined image is displayed in the display area. For example, a user is allowed to designate a position (a position within the display area) in which a tracking target subject is disposed in a state in which image content can be recognized on a display screen.

Information processing device and information processing method

Shake correction is performed using posture information corresponding to each frame of image data constituting a moving image on each frame, the frame having been subjected to processing of pasting to a celestial sphere model. Further, protrusion prevention processing for correcting an effective cropping area from each frame so that the effective cropping area does not protrude from a movable area in which the effective shake correction is maintained is performed on a requested cropping area to set an effective cropping area applied to each frame. Processing for generating an effective cropping area image is performed, the effective cropping area image being an image subjected to the shake correction and then projected onto a plane model from the celestial sphere model and being an image of the set effective cropping area.

An image processing device performs shake information adjustment processing for adjusting shake information at the time of imaging when input image data constituting a moving image is captured and generating adjusted shake information, shake modification processing for changing a state of shake of the input image data using the adjusted shake information to obtain shake-modified image data, and association processing for associating at least one of the input image data and the shake-modified image data, the shake information at the time of imaging, and shake modification information capable of specifying a processing amount of the shake modification processing with each other.

To simplify a configuration of an image pickup device that performs an output of an image signal and an audio signal in a partial area of an image pickup area. An image pickup control device includes a display area update unit and a localization audio signal generation unit. The display area update unit updates a position in a frame of a display area which is an area used for display among the frames including an image signal output from an image pickup element in accordance with a motion of an image pickup device in which the image pickup element is disposed. The localization audio signal generation unit generates a localization audio signal which is an audio signal for localizing an audio image in the updated display area on the basis of audio signals output from a plurality of microphones.

Image pickup control device, image pickup device, and image pickup control method

Information on posture data that can be used for processing on a frame basis can be acquired for moving image data to be captured. For the purpose, in an imaging apparatus including an imaging unit that captures an image by an optical system to generate image data, a posture data generation unit that generates posture data of a casing including the imaging unit at a timing corresponding to the image data, a notification unit that performs notification for correlating the image data with the posture data on the basis of a trigger, and a detector that detects the notification by the notification unit are provided.

Imaging apparatus and imaging method for improvement of reproduction image quality

It is possible to easily reproduce and edit image data that is a moving image obtained by capturing an image of a non-central projection method, in which distortion correction and blur correction are reflected. For this purpose, an information processing apparatus includes: a distortion correction processing unit that performs distortion correction processing for converting image data as a moving image acquired by capturing an image of a non-central projection method into an image of a central projection method; and a blur correction processing unit that performs blur correction processing of reducing the image blur generated in the image data using posture data of an imaging apparatus for image data that has been subjected to the distortion correction processing. In other words, the blur correction is performed after the distortion correction.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

The present technology relates to an image sensor, an image processing apparatus and method, and a program that enable a higher quality image to be obtained. An image processing apparatus includes: an extraction unit configured to, from a captured image having a first pixel having a first color component of visible light and an infrared component and a second pixel only having a second color component of visible light that is influenced by a color temperature more significantly than the first color component and less influences a luminance component than the first color component, extract the first pixel to generate an extracted infrared image; an infrared image generation unit configured to perform interpolation processing on the extracted infrared image to generate an infrared image; and a color image generation unit configured to generate a color image on a basis of a visible light low frequency image having a visible light component obtained from the captured image, and the infrared image. The present technology can be applied to an image processing apparatus.

Image sensor, image processing apparatus and method, and program

The present disclosure relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that enable appropriate imaging with the front camera of a smartphone or the like in the dark. An LCD backlight that is a white light emitting unit is made to emit intense light as white light, and an infrared light emitting unit that emits infrared light for capturing a live view image is turned off. In such a situation, an imaging unit captures a visible light image. The present disclosure can be applied to imaging devices.

Information processing device, information processing method, and program

The present disclosure relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that enable appropriate imaging with the front camera of a smartphone or the like in the dark. A visible light image and an infrared light image are captured. A face image is recognized from the infrared light image, and images of respective organs are extracted from the face image. The images of the respective organs are corrected in accordance with each extracted organ, using the visible light image and the infrared light image. The corrected images of the respective organs are combined. The present disclosure can be applied to smartphones.

Information processing device, information processing method, and computer-readable storage medium storing a program that extracts and corrects facial features in an image

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Kanagawa, Japan

Takayoshi Ozone