Abstract:
A first wide angle image, a second wide angle image, a first telephoto image, and a second telephoto image are acquired from a first imaging unit 11L and a second imaging unit 11R at the same time, and particularly, optical axes of the wide angle optical system and the telephoto optical system constituting the first imaging optical system 12L match each other, and the second imaging optical system is similarly configured, and therefore, it is possible to position the main subject at a center position of the first telephoto image and the second telephoto image by independently performing pan and tilt control on the first and the second imaging unit so that the main subject is captured on the respective optical axes of the first imaging optical system and the second imaging optical system on the basis of the first wide angle image and the second wide angle image.
Abstract:
Provided are an imaging device, an imaging method, a program, and a non-transitory recording medium which simultaneously image a plurality of images having different imaging characteristics, and detect blurring of the plurality of images. Image signals having imaging characteristics different from each other are simultaneously obtained by an imaging unit including an imaging optical system constituted by a first optical system and a second optical system which are provided in different regions and have imaging characteristics different from each other and a directional sensor, true movement vectors are extracted from movement vectors detected from the image signals and degrees of certainty thereof, and blurring of an image resulting from a shake of the imaging unit is detected from the true movement vectors.
Abstract:
An imaging apparatus comprises: an imaging optical-system that includes a first optical-system and a second optical-system having imaging characteristics different from each other and being arranged concentrically; and an image sensor that has a plurality of pixels composed of photoelectric conversion elements two-dimensionally arranged, respectively pupil-divides light incident through the optical-systems, and selectively receives the light by the pixels. With the imaging apparatus, the light amount of the light incident on the image sensor through each of the optical-systems is adjusted, and interference is prevented. The imaging apparatus further comprises a stop including an annular light blocking section of which an inner diameter and an outer diameter can be increased or decreased, and adjusting a light amount of light passing through each of the optical-systems by increasing or decreasing the inner diameter and the outer diameter of the light blocking section at a boundary between pupil regions of the optical-systems.
Abstract:
The imaging device includes a multiple-property lens that includes a first area having a first property and a second area having a second property different from the first property, an image sensor in which a first light receiving element 25A having a first microlens and a second light receiving element 25B having a second microlens having a different focusing degree from the first microlens are two-dimensionally arranged, and a crosstalk removal processing unit that removes a crosstalk component from each of a first crosstalk image acquired from the first light receiving element 25A of the image sensor and a second crosstalk image acquired from the second light receiving element to generate a first image and a second image respectively having the first property and the second property of the multiple-property lens.
Abstract:
A device for measuring distances to multiple subjects includes an imaging optical system, a pupil orientation sensor having multiple pixels including photoelectric conversion elements arranged two-dimensionally, the pupil orientation sensor selectively receiving a light flux passed through any of the multiple regions, an image acquisition device configured to simultaneously acquire each of multiple images corresponding to the multiple regions from the pupil orientation sensor, a focusing control device configured to independently drive the physically-separated multiple lenses of the imaging optical system on the basis of the multiple images acquired by the image acquisition device to control the lenses to be focused on multiple subjects each having a different focusing distance, and a first calculation device configured to calculate each of the focusing distances to the multiple subjects respectively subjected to focusing control by the focusing control device.
Abstract:
An aspect of the present invention is an imaging method using a multifocal lens having a plurality of regions, the plurality of regions having different focal lengths, and the imaging method includes a focusing state control step of controlling a focusing state of the multifocal lens, and an imaging step of obtaining an image of a subject in the controlled focusing state. In the focusing state control step, the focusing state is controlled so that a main subject is focused via a region with a shortest required focusing time among the plurality of regions in response to a picture taking instruction.
Abstract:
In an imaging apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention, the light-shielding member performing light shielding so that the light beam passing through the second region does not enter the first light-receiving element is provided only to the first light-receiving element. That is, no light-shielding member is provided to the second light-receiving element. Therefore, the number and types of light-shielding members can be reduced, and pupil division can be performed with a simple structure. Also, various products can be easily supported.
Abstract:
An imaging device for an imaging apparatus adapted to image an object through an image formation lens includes: a light receiving section having a plurality of light receiving elements; a microlens section having a plurality of microlenses respectively provided corresponding to a plurality of the light receiving elements to make the corresponding light receiving elements receive an object light beam that passed through the image formation lens; a control section adapted to control shapes of the plurality of the microlenses so as to control pupil regions in an exit pupil of the image formation lens that pass a light beam that should be received by each of the plurality of the light receiving elements; and an image signal generation section adapted to generate an image signal of an image of the object based on imaging signals of the plurality of the light receiving elements.
Abstract:
An imaging apparatus, including: an image formation lens having focal lengths different in every region; a light receiving section having light receiving elements; optical elements corresponding to a plurality of the light receiving elements to make the corresponding light receiving elements receive an object light beam that passed through predetermined pupil regions in an exit pupil of the image formation lens; and an image generation section, wherein in the case of selecting, for generation of the image of the object, any one of the pupil regions in the exit pupil through which an object light beam passes, the image generation section selects, based on an object distance and focal lengths each corresponding to a plurality of the pupil regions of the exit pupil, at least one of the pupil regions through which an object light beam that forms an image at a position of the light receiving section passes.