An electronic device and method are disclosed. The electronic device includes a display, a camera module having first and second cameras having first and second viewing angles, respectively, and a processor. The processor implements the method, including: acquiring a first image with a first magnification using the first camera, and displaying the first image on the display, while acquiring the first image, receiving an input requesting changing an image acquisition magnification of the camera module from the first magnification to a second magnification, changing a distance between the first camera and the second camera in response to the input, upon detecting that the changed distance between the first camera and the second camera is less than or equal to a threshold distance, switching from the first camera to the second camera, and acquiring a second image using the second camera, and display the acquired second image on the display.

An image-processing method includes a measurement step, an index calculation step, a comparison step, and a selection step. A processor measures a distance at each of two or more points in one or more images of a subject in the measurement step. The processor calculates a first index or a second index on the basis of the distance in the index calculation step. The processor compares the first index or the second index with a threshold value in the comparison step. The processor selects at least one image included in the one or more images in the selection step when the first index is greater than the threshold value or the second index is less than the threshold value.

A lens drive device having a housing, a bobbin disposed within the housing, a coil disposed in the bobbin, a magnet disposed in the housing and facing the coil, a base disposed below the housing, and an elastic member coupled to the bobbin and the housing is provided. The base includes a groove formed in the upper surface thereof. At least a part of the elastic member is disposed in the groove of the base or above the groove. The groove of the base is disposed with a damping material.

A camera module of an embodiment includes: a liquid lens including a common electrode and a plurality of individual electrodes; and a control circuit electrically connected to the common electrode and the individual electrodes and configured to control the liquid lens, wherein, when a driving voltage for driving the liquid lens is changed, the control circuit floats at least one of the plurality individual electrode in a state in which a first voltage is applied to the common electrode.

Provided is an imaging unit that includes two or more imaging devices that are different from each other in imaging direction, and a substrate formed with each of the imaging devices. The substrate has a coupler formed between the imaging devices. The imaging unit including the plurality of imaging devices is able to yield a high-quality image when capturing an image of a wide range.

An electronic device includes a camera to capture an image, and a processor to input an image acquired by photographing a detergent container into a trained model to acquire detergent information corresponding to the detergent container, and to guide an amount of detergent dispensed based on washing information corresponding to the detergent information. The trained model is a neural network trained using images of a plurality of detergent containers.

The portable device is provided with a photograph unit to acquire, at a first time interval, images with a super wide angle of which a maximum value reaches all peripheral directions around the portable device; a traveling direction calculation unit to calculate a traveling direction of the portable device at a second time interval; an image segmentation unit to segment, as a traveling direction image, an image of a predetermined range where the traveling direction is positioned at a center thereof, from a latest acquired image every time the traveling direction calculation unit calculates the traveling direction; and a display control unit to display the traveling direction image on a predetermined traveling direction display region of a display of the portable device. The display control unit displays a video image designated by a user on a first display region, which is different from the traveling direction display region.

The present disclosure relates to an imaging device, a camera module, an electronic device, and an imaging system capable of optically correcting a peripheral light amount decrease caused by an optical characteristic of a lens instead of correcting by signal processing. An optical block includes a lens and a center gradation ND filter, and in the ND filter, at least a light transmittance of a peripheral portion corresponding to an outer peripheral portion of the lens is larger than a light transmittance in a vicinity of an optical axis of the lens. The present disclosure can be applied to a biometric authentication system.

There is provided an electronic device capable of suppressing a decrease in resolution of a captured image while increasing types of information obtained by an imaging unit. An electronic device includes an imaging unit that includes a plurality of pixel groups each including two adjacent pixels, in which at least one first pixel group of the plurality of pixel groups includes a first lens that condenses incident light, a first photoelectric conversion unit that photoelectrically converts a part of the incident light condensed through the first lens, and a second photoelectric conversion unit different from the first photoelectric conversion unit that photoelectrically converts a part of the incident light condensed through the first lens, and at least one second pixel group different from the first pixel group among the plurality of pixel groups includes a second lens that condenses incident light, a third photoelectric conversion unit that photoelectrically converts the incident light condensed through the second lens, and a third lens different from the second lens that condenses the incident light, a fourth photoelectric conversion unit different from the third photoelectric conversion unit that photoelectrically converts the incident light condensed through the third lens.

To provide a microscope device capable of efficiently or appropriately acquiring an image of a specific region of a living tissue.

The present technology provides a microscope device including: a first imaging element that images a target including a body tissue and acquires image data; and a second imaging element that images the target at a magnification different from a magnification of the first imaging element and acquires image data, in which the first imaging element includes a determination unit that determines a feature related to the target on the basis of the image data, and the second imaging element is controlled on the basis of a result of the determination. Furthermore, the present technology also provides an image acquisition system including the microscope device. Furthermore, the present technology also provides an image acquisition method performed in the microscope device.