Olympus Corporation

Tomoyuki Sengoku

Yoshinobu Tanaka

Takashi Yanada

Akira Ueno

Masami Shimamura

Ryusuke Tsuchida

An imaging device is provided which includes a solid-state imaging device that includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a form of a two-dimensional (2D) matrix, and outputs pixel signals corresponding to subject light incident on the plurality of pixels, and a plurality of image-acquiring units that acquire the pixel signals output from the solid-state imaging device, and output image data corresponding to the acquired pixel signals, wherein each of the plurality of image-acquiring units acquires pixel signals of one of divisional imaging regions obtained by dividing an imaging region in which all pixels arranged in the solid-state imaging device image the subject light by the number of image-acquiring units, and outputs image data corresponding to the acquired pixel signal of the divisional imaging region as divisional image data.

Imaging device dividing imaging region into first divided image data and second divided image data

A data processing apparatus may include a data conversion unit for, when converting a plurality of sequentially input data into conversion data of the same bit number as a data bus having a prescribed bit number and sequentially transferring the conversion data. The data conversion unit may include a first data generation unit, a second data generation unit for generating second data obtained by allocating a prescribed second number of input data in the input data not allocated to the first data, to the second bit range and a data coupling unit for coupling the first data and the second data to generate the conversion data having the bit number of the bus width of the data bus.

Data packet generation apparatus and data packet generation method

An imaging apparatus and an evaluation value generation apparatus can include an image data interface unit that outputs image data according to a pixel signal input from a solid-state imaging device as first image data, an image data reading unit that reads image data stored in a storage unit and outputs the read image data as second image data, an evaluation value generation unit that generates an evaluation value based on input image data, an image data selection unit that selects one of image data based on the first image data and image data based on the second image data as image data to be input to the evaluation value generation unit, and an image data writing unit that stores the image data based on the first image data in the storage unit.

Imaging apparatus and evaluation value generation apparatus

An imaging device includes an image data interface unit that outputs the first image data according to a pixel signal from a solid-state imaging device, an image data reading unit that reads image data from a storage unit and outputs the read image data as second image data, an image synthesizing unit that outputs third image data in which the first image data is synthesized with the second image data, an evaluation value generating unit that generates an evaluation value based on image data, a first image data selecting unit that inputs selected image data to the evaluation value generating unit, an image data writing unit that stores input image data in the storage unit via the data bus, a second image data selecting unit that inputs selected image data to the image data writing unit, and a display unit that displays an image corresponding to the third image data.

Imaging device

A data processing apparatus may include: a data conversion unit configured to designate one-transfer data as one transfer unit and designate a predetermined number of transfer units as one conversion unit when a plurality of input data sequentially input is converted into transfer data of which the number of bits is the same as that of a data bus having a predetermined number of bits, and the transfer data is sequentially transferred, and arrange the input data in the transfer data within the conversion unit. The data conversion unit may include: a data generation unit, a first data arrangement change unit, and a first data selection unit configured to sequentially select the changed data in which the position of the input data is changed by the first data arrangement change unit and output the selected changed data as the transfer data in the data conversion unit.

Data conversion apparatus and method

An imaging apparatus includes an image data interface unit that outputs first image data according to a pixel signal input from a solid-state imaging device, an image data reading unit that reads image data from a storage unit and outputs the read image data as second image data, an image synthesis unit that outputs third image data obtained by synthesizing the first image data with second image data, an evaluation value generation unit that generates an evaluation value based on image data, a first image data selection unit that inputs selected image data to the evaluation value generation unit, an image data writing unit that stores image data in the storage unit, a second image data selection unit that inputs selected image data to the image data writing unit, and a display unit that displays an image according to the third read image data read from the storage unit.

Imaging apparatus generating evaluation values at a high frame rate and having a live view function of displaying a video smoothly at a low frame rate

A data processing apparatus may include a data conversion unit that arranges the input data in each transfer data in the conversion unit using one transfer data as one transfer unit and a predetermined number of transfer units as one conversion unit when converting a plurality of input data input sequentially into transfer data having a bit number identical to a predetermined bit number of a data bus and sequentially transferring the converted transfer data. The data conversion unit may include a data generation unit and a first data arrangement changing unit. The first data arrangement changing unit may include a bit change number calculating unit, a bit change number analysis unit, a first data sorting unit, and a data coupling unit.

Data processing apparatus and data processing method

A data processing apparatus includes a data conversion unit for converting a plurality of sequentially input data into transfer data and sequentially transferring the transfer data, arranging the input data in each conversion unit using one transfer data as one transfer unit and a prescribed number of transfer units as one conversion unit, and the data conversion unit includes a first bit division unit for dividing the input data into first and second divided data, a bit comparison unit for comparing first divided data of an n-th time (n is a natural number equal to or more than 1) and an (n+1)-th time, a bit determination unit for determining whether the first divided data is to be inverted based on the determination result to output inversion information, a first bit inversion unit for outputting data selected based on the inversion information, and a first bit coupling unit.

A data-processing device includes a plurality of data generation units, a plurality of bit change number calculation units, a bit change number comparison unit, a first data selection unit, and a bit-coupling unit. The data generation unit arranges input data to generate first conversion data based on each prescribed arranging method. The bit change number calculation unit compares values of respective bits in the first conversion data output at the n-th time and the (n+1)-th time by the corresponding data generation unit, and calculates a bit number based on the comparison result as a bit change number. The bit change number comparison unit compares values of the respective bit change numbers, selects the data generation unit, and outputs selection information. The first data selection unit outputs any one first conversion data selected based on the selection information as selection data. Then, the bit-coupling unit couples the selection information.

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Tomoyuki Sengoku