Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130088623 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CALCULATING WHITE BALANCE GAIN - A WB gain calculation unit | 04-11-2013 |
20130107019 | IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | 05-02-2013 |
20130286262 | COLOR IMAGING DEVICE - A color filter array includes a basic array pattern P | 10-31-2013 |
20130286263 | COLOR IMAGING DEVICE - A color filter array includes a basic array pattern constituted by a square array pattern that corresponds to 5×5 pixels, and the basic array pattern is repeatedly arranged in horizontal and vertical directions. In the basic array pattern, the G filters that are brightness system pixels are arranged on at least the both diagonal lines. As a result, the G filter is arranged in each line of horizontal, vertical, and diagonal directions of the color filter array, and the R and B filters are arranged in each line of the horizontal and vertical directions of the color filter array. In addition, a ratio of the number of G pixels that help most to obtain a brightness signal of the basic array pattern is greater than each ratio of the number of R pixels and the number of B pixels that correspond to the other colors, thereby executing demosaic processing effectively. | 10-31-2013 |
20130335603 | COLOR IMAGING DEVICE - A color filter array of a color imaging device is formed by repeatedly arranging a basic array pattern in which RGB filters are arrayed in an array pattern of 8×12 pixels, in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction. The basic array pattern is arranged in a matrix manner in the horizontal direction and/or the vertical direction and includes A array to D array having an array pattern of 4×4 pixels. In each of arrays, G filters are arranged in a checkered pattern and the arrangements of G filters have a mirror image relationship between arrays that are adjacent to each other. | 12-19-2013 |
20140022354 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING ELEMENT, DRIVING METHOD THEREOF, AND IMAGING DEVICE - A pixel pair ( | 01-23-2014 |
20140049668 | IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGING METHOD - An imaging device includes a control unit provided to perform first control or second control on the same type of plural pixel rows as phase difference pixel rows which are arranged in parallel in a column direction at regular intervals, in which pixel rows on which the first control is performed and pixel rows on which the second control is performed are alternately arranged in parallel in the column direction, in the first control, a signal is not read out from each pixel of the pixel rows to be controlled but a signal is read out from each pixel of two pixel rows which are adjacent to the pixel row to be controlled, in the second control, a signal is read out from each pixel of the pixel row to be controlled, and the control unit performs the first control at least on the phase difference pixel rows. | 02-20-2014 |
20140092220 | IMAGE CAPTURING ELEMENT CAPTURING STEREOSCOPIC MOVING IMAGE AND PLANAR MOVING IMAGE AND IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS EQUIPPED WITH THE SAME - A plurality of pixels 2 are arranged in a square lattice form, the color filters of RGB are arranged in a Bayer arrangement and a pair of a first phase difference detection pixel 3 which acquires a captured image signals for a right eye and a second phase difference detection pixel 4 which acquires a captured image signals for a left eye are provided on discrete and periodic positions in the square lattice form, the first phase difference detection pixel 3 is provided among the respective pixels of the square lattice form at 2n+1-pixel (n=1, 2, . . . ) intervals both in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction, and the second phase difference detection pixel 4 of the pair is provided on a pixel having the same color filter and spaced apart from the first phase difference detection pixel by two pixels. | 04-03-2014 |
20140125850 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP ELEMENT, AND METHOD FOR CORRECTING SENSITIVITY DIFFERENCE - In an image pickup element, basic array patterns are repeatedly arranged in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction, each of the basic array patterns being made of I×J color filters, the color filters of each of three or more colors being arrayed in a mixed state, an arrangement cycle (I×J) of a basic array pattern is different from an arrangement cycle (2×2) of a sharing configuration pattern, the basic array pattern includes at least one same-color square array pattern which is made of 2×2 color filters of a same color respectively arranged on the 2×2 pixels of the sharing configuration pattern, a characteristic information storage unit stores information on sensitivity calculated from output values of the 2×2 pixels, and a control unit and a digital signal processing unit correct a sensitivity difference between all the pixels of the image pickup element with use of the information on the sensitivity. | 05-08-2014 |
20140204178 | IMAGING DEVICE AND SHADING CORRECTION METHOD - An image pick apparatus includes: an imaging element that includes a first pixel group and a second pixel group that respectively photo-electrically converts luminous fluxes that pass through different areas of a single imaging optical system, generates a first image formed by an output value of the first pixel group and a second image formed by an output value of the second pixel group, and is built therein with a pixel addition unit that adds a pixel value of the first pixel group and a pixel value of the second pixel group to generate a two-dimensional image; and an image processing section that matches a shading shape of the first image and a shading shape of the second image with a shading shape of the two-dimensional image by calculating correction coefficients stored in a memory for the output values of the first pixel group and the second pixel group. | 07-24-2014 |
20140204248 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMAGE PROCESSING AND STORAGE MEDIUM, AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - An image processing method includes: acquiring a mosaic image photographed by image pickup means including an image pickup element in which a basic array pattern is repeatedly arranged in horizontal and vertical directions, storing first correction data containing a coordinate of a defective pixel and correction information associated with a position of the defective pixel in the basic array pattern, and second correction data containing a correction pattern corresponding to the correction information and indicating positions, relative to the defective pixel, of plural peripheral pixels that have a same color as the defective pixel, reading the correction pattern based on the correction information, calculating coordinates of the peripheral pixels based on the first correction data and the read correction pattern, extracting pixel values corresponding to the peripheral pixels at the calculated coordinates from the mosaic image, and calculating the pixel value of the defective pixel. | 07-24-2014 |
20140210952 | IMAGE SENSOR AND IMAGING APPARATUS - An image sensor includes: a plurality of pixels arranged and formed in a two-dimensional array so that adjacent ones of the pixels constitute paired pixels and entrance pupils of a first pixel and a second pixel constituting the paired pixels are provided eccentrically in opposite directions to each other with respect to centers of the respective pixels; an incident angle of light from a subject in the first pixel is an incident angle θcA as defined herein; the incident angle in the second pixel is an incident angle −θcB as defined herein; and light sensitivity characteristics of the first pixel and the second pixel with respect to the incident angles of the first pixel and the second pixel are flat characteristics within an incident angle range of the θcA to the −θcB. | 07-31-2014 |
20140307130 | IMAGING DEVICE - In a color filter array of a color imaging element | 10-16-2014 |
20140307131 | COLOR IMAGING ELEMENT - A single-plate color imaging element, where a basic array pattern in which the color filters are arrayed according to an array pattern corresponding to M×N (M and N are even numbers equal to or more than 6) pixels in horizontal and vertical directions is formed, the basic array pattern includes two each of two types of a first sub array and a second sub array in which the color filters are arrayed according to an array pattern corresponding to (M/2)×(N/2) pixels, the color filters include first filters corresponding to a first color and second filters corresponding to a second color whose contribution rates are lower than a contribution rate of the first color, a ratio of a number of pixels of the first color being greater than a ratio of a number of pixels of each color of the second color. | 10-16-2014 |
20140307132 | COLOR IMAGING ELEMENT - A single-plate color imaging element where an array of the color filters includes a basic array pattern of M×N provided with first filters corresponding to a first color with one or more colors and second filters corresponding to a second color with two or more colors with contribution ratios for obtaining luminance signals lower than the first color, the first filters are arranged in a check pattern shape in the basic array pattern, one or more second filters corresponding to each color of the second color are arranged in each line in the horizontal and vertical directions of the array of the color filters in the basic array pattern, and a proportion of the number of pixels of the first color corresponding to the first filters is greater than a proportion of the number of pixels of each color of the second color corresponding to the second filters. | 10-16-2014 |
20140307133 | COLOR IMAGING ELEMENT - A single-plate color imaging element, where color filters of the same color are arranged on a predetermined number of vertically and horizontally adjacent photoelectric conversion elements, the color filter array includes a plurality of unit blocks including the color filters arranged on the predetermined number of vertically and horizontally adjacent photoelectric conversion elements, the color filter array includes a basic array pattern including the unit blocks arranged in a square grid shape, one or more first filters are arranged in the horizontal, vertical, upper right, and lower right directions of the color filter array, one or more second filters corresponding to each color of the second color are arranged in the horizontal and vertical directions of the color filter array, and a proportion of the number of pixels of the first color is greater than a proportion of the number of pixels of each color of the second color. | 10-16-2014 |
20140307135 | COLOR IMAGING ELEMENT - A single-plate color imaging element configured by disposing color filters on pixels formed with photoelectric conversion elements, where the first filters are arranged along at least a diagonal line of the sub arrays, one or more of the second filters corresponding to each color of the second color are arranged in the horizontal and vertical directions of the array of the color filters in a basic array pattern, the basic array pattern being repeatedly arranged in the horizontal direction and the vertical direction in the array of the color filters, and corresponding to arbitrary 2N×2N pixels included in the array of the color filters, and the M is set to such a value that one or more of the first filters are arranged in horizontal, vertical, diagonal upper right and diagonal lower right directions of the array of the color filters. | 10-16-2014 |
20140307136 | IMAGING DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING A CONTROL PROGRAM - An AF evaluation value is computed with excellent precision. | 10-16-2014 |
20140307137 | IMAGING DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING A CONTROL PROGRAM - Efficient thinned reading is performed in a case in which an image pickup device equipped with a color filter having an array different from a Bayer array is employed. | 10-16-2014 |
20140307138 | IMAGING DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING A CONTROL PROGRAM - In the present invention, effective thinned reading is performed when using an imaging device provided with a color filter other than a Bayer array. This imaging device ( | 10-16-2014 |
20140307140 | COLOR IMAGING APPARATUS - A single-plate color imaging element where the color filter array includes a basic array pattern with first filters corresponding to a first color and second filters corresponding to a second color with contribution ratios for obtaining luminance signals lower than the first color, the basic array pattern is repeatedly arranged in a diagonal grid shape, one or more first filters are arranged in horizontal, vertical, upper right, and lower right directions of the color filter array, one or more second filters corresponding to each color of the second color are arranged in the upper right and lower right directions of the color filter array in the basic array pattern, and a proportion of the number of pixels of the first color corresponding to the first filters is greater than a proportion of the number of pixels of each color of the second color corresponding to the second filters. | 10-16-2014 |
20140307141 | COLOR IMAGING ELEMENT AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A color imaging element comprising: first group pixels; second group pixels at positions shifted half; and color filters which are arrayed on each of the first and second group pixels, wherein the color filter array includes a basic array pattern in which first filters corresponding to a first color and second filters corresponding to a second color whose contribution rates for acquiring a brightness signal are lower than a contribution rate of the first color are arrayed, and is formed by repeatedly arranging the basic array pattern, one or more of the first filters are arranged in horizontal, vertical, diagonal upper right and diagonal lower right directions, one or more of the second filters are arranged in the basic array pattern, and a ratio of a number of pixels of the first color is greater than a ratio of a number of pixels of each color of the second color. | 10-16-2014 |
20140313368 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM AND IMAGING DEVICE - An image processing method according to an aspect of the present invention includes acquiring a mosaic image composed of pixels of a first color that contributes most to acquisition of a luminance signal among three colors for pixels, and pixels of second colors other than the first color, a first color image corresponding to pixels of the first color and a second color image corresponding to pixels of the second colors having respective different frequency ranges that are reproducible; extracting a region containing a spatial frequency at which the second color image is not reproducible while the first color image is reproducible, in an entire image area corresponding to the mosaic image; and reducing a chroma of an image corresponding to that region in an image acquired by demosaic processing on the mosaic image. | 10-23-2014 |
20140320710 | IMAGING DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING A CONTROL PROGRAM - An imaging apparatus includes: an image pickup device ( | 10-30-2014 |
20140327797 | IMAGING DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING A CONTROL PROGRAM - A large difference in exposure timing is prevented from arising in cases in which plural pixels have a common amplifier, even when image data is read by thinning | 11-06-2014 |
20150015677 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND IMAGING DEVICE - An image processing method according to the present invention acquires a first image and second image that are picked up through a single image-taking optical system, that are images after a pupil division, and that have a parallax to each other, and then performs a filtering process for each pixel of the first and second images, using first and second transform filters that correspond to the parallax for the pixel and that are of first and second transform filter groups to be respectively applied to the first and second images for the transform into third and fourth images in which the parallax amount and blur amount of the first and second images have been altered. | 01-15-2015 |
20150062400 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS - An imaging element | 03-05-2015 |
20150070539 | IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - An image capture element includes phase difference pixel groups (first and second pixel groups) corresponding to first and second images with a phase difference according to a focus shift, includes a third pixel group corresponding to a normal third image, outputs a first image and a second image with Bayer arrays from the first and second pixel groups, and outputs a third image with the same color array as a RAW image from the third pixel group. A color split image is generated based on the first and second images acquired from the image capture element, a color image for display is generated based on the third image, and the color split image is synthesized with part of the generated color image for display to thereby display a live-view image in which the split image is synthesized. | 03-12-2015 |
20150070551 | IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging device comprising an imaging optical system, a lens movement mechanism, an imaging element, a first interpolation device, a second interpolation devices, a photographic image generation device, a split image generation device using a first image formed by the outputs of the first phase difference pixels and the first interpolation pixels and a second image formed by the outputs of the second phase difference pixels and the second interpolation pixels to generate a split image, and a display device displaying the photographic image generated by the photographic image generation device, the display device displaying the split image generated by the split image generation device in a display area of the photographic image. | 03-12-2015 |