Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Woo-Seok Choi

Jeong-Won Lee

Tae-Kyung Kim

Il-Do Kim

Chong-sam Chung

Sang-min Lee

Tao Hong

Shuichi Shimokawa

Dong-min Kim

Seung-hyun Lim

Hee-Kyung Kim

Takafumi Usui

Kwi-Sung Yoo

Jae-hyoung Park

Il-do Kim

Byung-ho Kim

Kwon-jeong Kang

Beoung-ouk Min

A pixel array in an image sensor includes first, second, third, and fourth pixel groups adjacent to each other. The first pixel group includes a plurality of first subpixels adjacent to each other and arranged in a first pattern, and a first microlens shared by the plurality of first subpixels. The second pixel group includes a plurality of second subpixels adjacent to each other and arranged in a second pattern, and a second microlens shared by the plurality of second subpixels. The third pixel group includes a plurality of third subpixels adjacent to each other and arranged in a third pattern, and a third microlens shared by the plurality of third subpixels. The fourth pixel group includes a plurality of fourth subpixels adjacent to each other and arranged in a fourth pattern, and a fourth microlens shared by the plurality of fourth subpixels.

Pixel array included in image sensor, image sensor including the same and electronic system including the same

An image capturing apparatus includes: a first camera module and a second camera module having different optical characteristics and configured to capture a same subject; and a controller configured to set a region including the subject as a first region of interest (ROI) in a first image captured by the first camera module and to detect a second ROI matching the first ROI in a second image captured by the second camera module, based on a difference in optical characteristics of the first camera module and optical characteristics of the second camera module.

Image capturing apparatus and method of operating the same

A photographing apparatus for automatically detecting a focus via a phase difference detection scheme, the photographing apparatus including an image sensor comprising a plurality of phase difference pixels and configured to acquire an image of a subject; an addition processor configured to add output signals of the plurality of phase difference pixels; a controller configured to detect the focus of the image based on output signals of the plurality of phase difference pixels, and to set an addition range of the plurality of phase difference pixels added by the addition processor based on information of the detected focus and information of the acquired image of the subject.

Photographing apparatus and focus detection method using the same

An imaging apparatus is provided, which includes an image sensor which includes a plurality of image pixels and a plurality of sensing pixels, and is configured to capture images through collection of light that is incident through a lens and the plurality of phase sensing pixels; and a processor configured to divide a region of interest of the image sensor into a plurality of sub-regions of interest, calculate disparity information of objects that correspond to the plurality of sub-regions of interest using at least one of the plurality of phase sensing pixels included in the plurality of sub-regions of interest, and determine a focal region in the region of interest on the basis of the disparity information. Accordingly, user convenience is increased.

Photographing apparatus for automatically determining a focus area and a control method thereof

A digital photographing apparatus includes: an image sensor including a first pixel group and a second pixel group each pixel group including a plurality of pixels for generating an imaging signal by photoelectrically converting incident light, the image sensor being configured to acquire the imaging signal two or more times in the second pixel group and to acquire the imaging signal once in the first pixel group; and a processor configured to acquire an image in which a motion of a subject appears based on the imaging signal acquired by the image sensor, and to generate a motion-corrected image based on the imaging signal acquired in the second pixel group.

Digital photographing apparatus and digital photographing method

A solid-state image sensor of an electronic device includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form and having a plurality of phase difference pixel of the plurality of pixels. The plurality of phase difference pixels are arranged at locations of pixels that are commonly read out in a plurality of different skip readout modes.

Solid-state image sensor, electronic device, and auto focusing method

An image processing apparatus and method are provided. In the method, an image sensor including first pixels for detecting an image and second pixels for detecting a different type of signals, reads out values from at least one of the second pixels and at least one the first pixels, based on a predetermined rule, outputs a first sampling image, based on the read out pixels, restores values of the at least one of the second pixels to be image pixel values for locations of the at least one of the second pixels included in the first sampling image, outputs a restored image based on the restored values, performs binning on pixels of the restored image using a predetermined method; and outputs a reduced resolution image with a resolution reduced at a predetermined rate from the restored image, based on the binning.

Image processing apparatus and method

An apparatus for auto-focusing detection, a camera applying the same, and a method for calculating a distance to a subject are disclosed. The camera calculates a focusing control state based on synthetic image data output as an image passing through a pupil split unit provided with a filter arranged at one or more of the at least two holes as taken by an image pickup unit.

Apparatus for auto-focusing detection, camera applying the same, and method for calculating distance to subject

A camera and a method for performing auto-focusing applying thereto are provided. The camera adjusts a focus using two auto-focusing methods if specific photographing conditions are satisfied.

Camera and method for performing auto-focusing

A multilayer recording medium that prevents deterioration of a signal characteristic due to a mirror effect that may occur between recording layers and a method of manufacturing the same, the multilayer recording medium having at least two recording layers, wherein a thickness of at least one spacer layer between adjacent recording layers is different from a thickness of the other spacer layers such that a beam focusing on a recording layer is prevented from focusing on another recording layer corresponding to a mirror layer due to reflection. In the multilayer recording medium, a mirror effect is greatly reduced. In addition, the thickness of only a spacer layer exerting the most significant influence on the mirror effect is changed to prevent the deterioration of signal quality due to the mirror effect, and therefore, the structure of a multilayer recording medium is simplified.

Multilayer recording medium and method of manufacturing the same

Provided are an aberration-compensating liquid crystal device, a method of manufacturing the same, an optical pickup including the liquid crystal device, and an optical recording and/or reproducing apparatus employing the optical pickup. The method of manufacturing an aberration-compensating liquid crystal device comprises: positioning a gray scale mask having an absorption rate distribution corresponding to that of aberrations to be corrected on a liquid crystal cell containing a mixture of liquid crystals and monomers injected between a pair of transparent substrates; and irradiating the liquid crystal cell on which the gray scale mask has been positioned with UV light so that the monomers undergo photopolymerization into polymer and phase separation into a polymer-existing region and a liquid crystal-existing region, thereby forming a liquid crystal layer having a phase difference distribution corresponding to that of aberrations to be corrected.

Liquid crystal device for compensating for aberration, optical pickup including liquid crystal device, and optical recording and/or reproducing apparatus employing optical pickup

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