Imaging apparatus and operation method thereof

    公开(公告)号:US12022193B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-25

    申请号:US18153353

    申请日:2023-01-12

    CPC classification number: H04N23/683 H04N23/667 H04N23/6812 H04N23/687

    Abstract: 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 execute: mechanical vibration-proof processing using the mechanical vibration-proof mechanism; electronic vibration-proof processing of correcting the rotational shake; driving processing of driving the imaging sensor in one mode selected from a plurality of modes including a first mode in which a motion picture is captured at a first frame rate and a second mode in which a motion picture is captured at a second frame rate; and correction distribution processing of distributing correction of a part of the rotational shake to the mechanical vibration-proof processing and correction of a part of the rotational shake to the electronic vibration-proof processing.

    IMAGING APPARATUS, DRIVING METHOD, AND IMAGING PROGRAM

    公开(公告)号:US20230209194A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-06-29

    申请号:US18171382

    申请日:2023-02-20

    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging sensor; and at least one processor. The processor is configured to execute: imaging processing of acquiring a plurality of first frames, which are imaged at a first frame rate in a first exposure mode, through the imaging sensor; correction processing of performing electronic shake correction on the plurality of first frames on the basis of an amount of shake delivered to the imaging apparatus; and generation processing of generating motion picture data, which has a second frame having a second frame rate lower than the first frame rate, by synthesizing the plurality of first frames. In the first exposure mode, the processor sets m as a positive integer, and makes an exposure time for an mth first frame constituting the second frame shorter than an exposure time for an (m+1)th first frame.

    Imaging apparatus and imaging sensor

    公开(公告)号:US12244946B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-03-04

    申请号:US18636278

    申请日:2024-04-16

    Abstract: 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, driving method of imaging apparatus, and program

    公开(公告)号:US12167143B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-12-10

    申请号:US18186207

    申请日:2023-03-20

    Abstract: 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.

    Display method and video recording method

    公开(公告)号:US12028616B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-02

    申请号:US18305178

    申请日:2023-04-21

    CPC classification number: H04N23/69 H04N23/951

    Abstract: Provided are a display method and a video recording method for a user to perceive a position of an extraction range moving within an angle of view, wherein the display method includes an acquisition step of acquiring a reference video that is a motion picture, an extraction step of extracting an extraction video set to be smaller than an angle of view of the reference video within the angle of view from the reference video, a movement step of moving an extraction range of the extraction video over time, a first display step of displaying the extraction video on a display device, and a second display step of displaying a support video based on a positional relationship between the angle of view and the extraction range on the display device, in which the second display step is executed during execution of the first display step.

    Imaging apparatus capable of changing thinning-out rates for different angles of view

    公开(公告)号:US11991449B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-21

    申请号:US17838250

    申请日:2022-06-12

    CPC classification number: H04N23/69 H04N23/58 H04N25/443

    Abstract: Provided is an imaging apparatus that obtains a video with a resolution of satisfactory quality and a small angle of view from a video with a large angle of view through real-time image processing. An imaging apparatus has an imaging element that captures an optical image of a standard video with a first angle of view, and a control unit that includes a first mode and a second mode as a video imaging mode and records video data of a video based on the optical image. The control unit executes first recording processing of recording video data of the standard video using the imaging element in the first mode. The control unit executes setting processing of setting a recording region with a second angle of view smaller than the first angle of view in the standard video and second recording processing of recording a video data of a recorded video of the recording region in the second mode. In the first recording processing and the second recording processing, thinning-out drive to thin out a part of readout of a plurality of pixels in the optical image is executed. A second thinning-out rate of the thinning-out drive of the second recording processing is set to be lower than a first thinning-out rate of the thinning-out drive of the first recording processing.

    IMAGING APPARATUS, DRIVING METHOD OF IMAGING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM

    公开(公告)号:US20230269497A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-24

    申请号:US18185353

    申请日:2023-03-16

    CPC classification number: H04N25/42 H04N25/533 H04N25/704

    Abstract: The imaging element has a first and a second phase difference pixel region each including the plurality of phase difference pixels, and an imaging pixel region between the first and the second phase difference pixel region in the first direction. The processor is configured to cause the imaging element to perform imaging at a frame cycle, execute first readout processing of reading out a signal from the first phase difference pixel region during a first frame period, and execute second readout processing of reading out a signal from the second phase difference pixel region during a second frame period subsequent to the first frame period. A first exposure time, during which the first phase difference pixel region is exposed, and a second exposure time, during which the second phase difference pixel region is exposed, are different from an exposure time of the imaging pixel region.

    Imaging apparatus and imaging sensor

    公开(公告)号:US11736829B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-22

    申请号:US17892127

    申请日:2022-08-22

    CPC classification number: H04N25/704 G02B7/34

    Abstract: 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.

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