Abstract:
An imaging apparatus includes a condenser lens optical system and a solid-state imaging device so that a pencil of incident light rays passing through the condenser lens optical system and then incident on the solid-state imaging device can be converged in a conical shape with a result that an image of the pencil of incident light rays can be formed on one point of a light receiving surface of the solid-state imaging device due to light condensing effect of the condenser lens optical system, and the imaging apparatus further includes a correcting portion which performs image quality correction on a taken image signal outputted from the solid-state imaging device in accordance with set correction quantities; and each of the correction quantities is defined in accordance with an image height direction angle width and an incidence angle as defined herein.
Abstract:
An imaging apparatus (10) includes: an image pickup device (14) including plural photoelectric conversion elements arrayed in a predetermined first direction and second direction; a color filter that has a repeatedly disposed basic array pattern that includes a first filter corresponding to a first color that contributes most to obtaining a brightness signal, and second filters corresponding second colors, placed in a predetermined pattern; a drive section (22) that drives the image pickup device (14) such that, for an array of pixels to read from the image pickup device (14), pixel data of pixels placed at a set cycle in at least one direction of the first direction or the second direction is read to give a second array that is different from a first array expressing an array of all the pixels read from the image pickup device (14); and an image processing section (20) that corrects pixel data of a subject pixel for color mixing correction based on pixel data of a pixel that is the same color as an adjacent pixel in adjacent contact with the subject pixel in the first array, and that is a pixel that has the shortest distance from the adjacent pixel in the first array.
Abstract:
When a color-filter-array of a color-imaging-element is a Bayer-array, outputs of pixels prior to color-mixture correction are acquired from the color imaging element when red light is incident onto the color-imaging-element through a photography optical system, the outputs of the green pixels adjacent to the red pixels, among the acquired outputs of each pixel, are regarded as components of color mixture caused by the red pixels, and ratios of color mixture are calculated. In a central portion of an imaging surface of the color-imaging-element, ratios of color mixture, which do not depend on directions of the color mixture caused by the red pixels, are calculated. In end portions of the imaging surface of the color-imaging-element, separate ratios of color mixture according to the directions of the color mixture caused by the red pixels are respectively calculated. The calculated ratios of color mixture are subjected to interpolation calculation.
Abstract:
In an aspect of the present invention, only by storing the first correction coefficients corresponding to the colors of the color filters of the image pickup element and the second correction coefficients corresponding to the relative positions of the pixels to the position of the specific circuit element of the image pickup element, in the storage device, an adequate combination of the first correction coefficients and the second correction coefficients is selected for each pixel, and a calculation with it is performed with respect to the signal value of each of the pixels. Therefore, with an essential minimum number of correction coefficients, it is possible to quickly and accurately correct the variation in signal values caused by the color array for the color filters of the image pickup element and the variation in signal values caused by the structure in which multiple pixels share the specific circuit element.
Abstract:
An imaging apparatus includes: a lens-interchangeable type imaging apparatus body which includes a solid-state imaging device; and an interchangeable lens as defined herein; and the interchangeable lens is provided with a first storage portion which stores individual difference information about brightness of the interchangeable lens; and the lens-interchangeable type imaging apparatus body is provided with a second storage portion which stores information about a change of incident light sensitivity of the solid-state imaging device relative to each diaphragm value, and a control portion which uses the individual difference information about the brightness read from the first storage portion of the mounted interchangeable lens and the information about the change of the sensitivity in the second storage portion to thereby correct exposure at a time of imaging the photographic subject.