Fujifilm Corporation

Tomoyuki Kawai

Hitoshi Sakurabu

Ryo Hasegawa

Makoto Kobayashi

Seiji Tanaka

Kazufumi Sugawara

Koichi Tanaka

Kenkichi Hayashi

Junya Kitagawa

Yuya Nishio

Junji Hayashi

Yoshinori Furuta

Katsutoshi Izawa

Noriko Kawamura

Hidekazu Kurahashi

Tomonori Masuda

Hisashi Endo

Tetsuro Ashida

Takehiro Kouguchi

Takashi Aoki

Tomoki Inoue

Yasuhiro Shinkai

Takehiro Koguchi

Shuji Ono

Hirokazu Kobayashi

Kazuya Oda

Hiroshi Endo

Kazuki Inoue

Hiroyuki Oshima

Hirofumi Horii

Yoichi Iwasaki

Kenshi Imamura

Shigeru Kondo

Masaaki Koshiba

Takeshi Miyashita

Kousuke Irie

Mitsuru Okigawa

Daisuke Kusuda

Yoshiyasu Nishida

Hidehiko Yamura

Yasunari Kato

Kousuke Takahashi

An imaging control device that controls an imaging unit including an imaging element in which a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric conversion unit and a charge holding unit which holds electric charges to be transferred from the photoelectric conversion unit are two-dimensionally disposed, includes a processor, and the processor is configured to: perform a first control of starting exposure of the plurality of pixels at a first timing and of transferring electric charges accumulated in the photoelectric conversion units of the plurality of pixels by the exposure to the charge holding units at a second timing; perform a second control of reading out signals corresponding to the electric charges transferred to the charge holding units by the first control; and perform a third control as defined herein.

Imaging control device, imaging apparatus, imaging control method, and imaging control program

A video creation method includes a first recording step of reading out the pixel signals from the plurality of pixels, creating a video of a first angle of view at a first thinning-out rate, and recording first video data, and a second recording step of, in a case where a target subject exists in the first angle of view, creating a video of a second angle of view including the target subject and having a second angle of view smaller than the first angle of view at a second thinning-out rate lower than the first thinning-out rate, and recording second video data.

Video creation method

An imaging control device that controls an imaging element including a plurality of pixel rows in each of which a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric conversion unit and a charge holding unit which holds charges transferred from the photoelectric conversion unit are arranged in one direction includes a processor, and the processor is configured to: perform a first control as defined herein; perform a second control as defined herein; perform a third control as defined herein; and perform a fourth control as defined herein.

An imaging element includes a reading circuit that reads out pixel data obtained by imaging a subject at a first frame rate, a memory that stores the read pixel data, and an output circuit that outputs image data based on the stored pixel data at a second frame rate. The first frame rate is a frame rate higher than the second frame rate. The pixel data includes phase difference pixel data and non-phase difference pixel data different from the phase difference pixel data. The reading circuit reads out the pixel data of each of a plurality of frames in parallel within an output period defined by the second frame rate as a period in which the image data of one frame is output, and performs reading of the non-phase difference pixel data and a plurality of reading of the phase difference pixel data within the output period.

Imaging element, imaging apparatus, operation method of imaging element, and program

The imaging apparatus includes an imaging sensor, a detection sensor that detects rotational shake in the roll direction, a mechanical vibration-proof mechanism that corrects rotational shake, and a processor. The processor is configured to determine, based on a frame rate of motion picture imaging, a correction distribution ratio between mechanical vibration-proof processing using the mechanical vibration-proof mechanism and electronic vibration-proof processing of correcting the rotational shake. The processor is then configured to execute the mechanical vibration-proof processing and the electronic vibration-proof processing.

Imaging apparatus and operation method thereof

An imaging element incorporates a memory and a processor. The memory stores image data obtained by performing imaging at a first frame rate. The processor is configured to output the image data at a second frame rate. In addition, the processor derives shake degree information indicating a degree of shake included in an image indicated by the image data, using the image data, and outputs the derived shake degree information at a rate greater than or equal to the second frame rate. The first frame rate is a frame rate greater than or equal to the second frame rate.

An imaging element includes: a processing circuit that performs analog/digital conversion on captured image data; a memory that is capable of storing the captured image data obtained as a result of performing the analog/digital conversion by the processing circuit; and an output circuit that outputs output image data based on the captured image data to an exterior of the imaging element, wherein the output circuit includes a first output line and a second output line, the first output line is connected to a first signal processing circuit disposed at the exterior, the second output line is connected to a second signal processing circuit disposed at the exterior, and at least one of an output frame rate or an output data amount of the output image data is different between the first output line and the second output line.

Imaging element with output circuit that outputs to first and second circuits, imaging apparatus, image data output method, and program

An imaging element includes: a memory that stores captured image data obtained by imaging a subject at a first frame rate; an image processing circuit that performs processing on the captured image data; and an output circuit that outputs output image data obtained by performing the processing on the captured image data to an exterior of the imaging element at a second frame rate, wherein the image processing circuit performs cut-out processing with respect to one frame of the captured image data, the cut-out processing including cutting out partial image data indicating an image of a part of the subject in the captured image data from a designated address in the memory, the output image data includes image data based on the partial image data that is cut out from the captured image data, and the first frame rate is a frame rate higher than the second frame rate.

Imaging element, imaging apparatus, image data processing method, and program that performs imaging in a first frame rate and outputs data in a second frame rate

An imaging apparatus includes a plurality of imaging elements, at least one signal processing circuit, and a transfer path, in which each of the plurality of imaging elements includes a memory that is incorporated in the imaging element and stores image data obtained by imaging a subject, and a communication interface that is incorporated in the imaging element and outputs output image data based on the image data stored in the memory, the transfer path connects the plurality of imaging elements and a single signal processing circuit in series, and the communication interface of each of the plurality of imaging elements outputs the output image data to an imaging element in a rear stage or the signal processing circuit through the transfer path.

Imaging apparatus, image data processing method of imaging apparatus, and program

The pixel region includes a first phase difference pixel group including a plurality of the phase difference pixels of which the first side of the photoelectric conversion element is blocked by the light blocking layer in a first side region of the first side, and a second phase difference pixel group including a plurality of the phase difference pixels of which the second side of the photoelectric conversion element is blocked by the light blocking layer. The first phase difference pixel group includes a first A pixel and a first B pixel in which a light blocking area of the photoelectric conversion element using the light blocking layer is smaller than that of the first A pixel. The controller performs addition readout processing in which at least one of a pixel signal of the first A pixel or a pixel signal of the first B pixel is weighted in accordance with optical characteristics of the imaging lens.

Imaging apparatus and imaging sensor

Disclosed are a distance image acquisition apparatus and a distance image acquisition method capable of achieving high distance measurement accuracy and omitting wasteful imaging or calculation. The distance image acquisition apparatus () includes a distance image sensor (), a drive mode setting unit (A), a distance image generation unit (B), a pulse light emission unit (), and an exposure control unit (). The exposure control unit () controls emission and non-emission of pulse light emitted from the pulse light emission unit () according to a drive mode set by the drive mode setting unit (A), and controls exposure in the distance image sensor (). The distance image generation unit (B) performs calculation processing of a sensor output acquired from the distance image sensor () according to the drive mode set by the drive mode setting unit (A) to generate a distance image corresponding to a distance of a subject.

Distance image acquisition apparatus and distance image acquisition method

The imaging apparatus includes: a processor; and an imaging element that has column signal lines, which are for reading out signals and extend in a first direction, and that has a first pixel group and a second pixel group arranged in the first direction, the first pixel group including phase difference pixels and imaging pixels arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction and the second pixel group including imaging pixels arranged in the second direction. The processor is configured to set one of a first exposure time, during which the first pixel group is exposed, and a second exposure time, during which the second pixel group is exposed, shorter than the other, and determine which of the first exposure time and the second exposure time is made shorter than the other on the basis of information of a subject image.

Imaging apparatus, driving method of imaging apparatus, and program

An imaging element comprises a first communication interface that is incorporated in the imaging element and outputs first image data based on image data obtained by imaging a subject to an external processor, a memory that is incorporated in the imaging element and stores the image data, and a second communication interface that is incorporated in the imaging element and outputs second image data based on the image data stored in the memory to the external processor, in which an output method of the first communication interface and an output method of the second communication interface are different.

An imaging element incorporates a reading portion that reads out captured image data at a first frame rate, a storage portion that stores the image data, a processing portion that processes the image data, and an output portion that outputs the processed image data at a second frame rate lower than the first frame rate. The reading portion reads out the image data of each of a plurality of frames in parallel. The storage portion stores, in parallel, each image data read out in parallel by the reading portion. The processing portion performs generation processing of generating output image data of one frame using the image data of each of the plurality of frames stored in the storage portion.

Imaging element, imaging apparatus, imaging method, and program

An imaging element includes a storage portion that is incorporated in the imaging element and stores image data obtained by imaging, a control portion that is incorporated in the imaging element and controls storage of the image data in the storage portion and stores attribute information of the image data in the storage portion, an output portion that is incorporated in the imaging element and outputs the image data stored in the storage portion, and a reception portion that receives an instruction related to the attribute information, in which the output portion outputs the attribute information corresponding to the instruction received by the reception portion.

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Saitama, Japan

Tomoyuki Kawai