A housing for an intermediate signal transmission unit for wireless communication between a camera and at least one remote flash device, the housing comprising a first housing part and a second housing part which are connected. The second housing part is configured to accommodate signal transmission components of the intermediate signal transmission unit. The housing also comprising a connector by means of which the housing is physically connectable to a camera, said connector being arranged on the second housing part. The first housing part is displaceable in relation to the second housing part, and the first housing part comprises at least one actuator configured to control at least one switch, said switch being part of the signal transmission components and located in the second housing part. The at least one actuator is movable between at least two positions in relation to the second housing part, comprising a first position in which the actuator can control the switch to be in a first state, and a second position in which the actuator can control the switch to be in a second state, by means of displacing the first housing part and the actuator in relation to the second housing part. An intermediate signal transmission unit comprising a housing and signal transmission components is also described.

According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, an asynchronous control system of a camera built-in lamp may include a headlight module including a one-side headlight module integrated with a first camera and a first light source, and an other-side headlight module integrated with a second camera and a second light source, and transmits a sync signal for controlling driving of the first light source and the second light source to the one-side headlight module and the other-side headlight module, causes the first light source and the second light source to be turned off when the shutters of the first camera and the second camera operate to be opened, and causes the first light source and the second light source to be turned on when the shutters of the first camera and the second camera operate to be closed.

According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, an asynchronous control system of a camera built-in lamp may include a headlight module including a one-side headlight module integrated with a first camera and a first light source, and an other-side headlight module integrated with a second camera and a second light source, and transmits a sync signal for controlling driving of the first light source and the second light source to the one-side headlight module and the other-side headlight module, causes the first light source and the second light source to be turned off when the shutters of the first camera and the second camera operate to be opened, and causes the first light source and the second light source to be turned on when the shutters of the first camera and the second camera operate to be closed.

Described herein are high intensity illumination systems including lighting arrays of lights, such as light emitting diodes, configured to illuminate a surface. The lighting arrays are configured to illuminate the surface with illumination comparable to or multiple times brighter than the ambient illumination, such as sunlight. Also described herein are methods of using a high intensity illumination system to illuminate a surface for applications including imaging, object detection, and object localization. The systems and methods described herein may be applied to a range of industries including farming, agriculture, construction, and autonomous vehicles.

In order to obtain an inspection image without blown-out highlights generated due to specular reflection or the like or blocked-up shadows generated at a position to which light hardly reaches, an image processing device includes a plurality of light sources that irradiates an object with light and a control circuit that controls light emission of the plurality of light sources, a camera that photographs the object, and a processor that controls switching of a light emission pattern of the plurality of light sources and controls photographing execution timing of the camera, controls the plurality of light sources to emit light with a plurality of light emission patterns, performs photographing at timings during at least two or more patterns among the plurality of light emission patterns to obtain a plurality of intermediate images, and generates one final image based on the plurality of obtained intermediate images.

An image recording method in an image processing apparatus, includes the steps of acquiring, from a plurality of cameras, respective video images which the plurality of cameras start capturing in the sea before a first light that is lit in a first color is turned on and end capturing after a second light that is lit in a second color is turned on after the first tight is turned on, detecting, for each of the video images, a difference in luminance between chronologically adjacent frames in the video image, associating times of frames between the video images on the basis of the difference, and recording the video images with the associated times in a recording medium.

The present invention makes it possible to perform good illumination and obtain a good captured image when a plurality of users each having a camera-equipped portable information terminal device gather in the same place. A camera-equipped portable information terminal device is provided with: an imaging unit that captures an image of a subject; a first illumination means for illuminating the subject; a first communication unit that communicates with other portable information terminal devices; and a first control unit that controls the imaging unit and the first communication unit. The first control unit transmits a light emission instruction signal to the other portable information terminal devices via the first communication unit, and causes a second illumination means of each of the other portable information terminal devices to emit light in tandem with an imaging operation of the imaging unit.

A working vehicle is capable of autonomously traveling on a target traveling route and appropriately performing illumination during autonomous traveling to enable an operator to reliably confirm the presence of obstacles or the like on the target traveling route. The working vehicle includes a traveling body to autonomously travel on the target traveling route, illumination lamps located on the traveling body to respectively illuminate different directions, and a controller to change a control relating to a way of turning on the illumination lamps during the autonomously traveling.

The present invention makes it possible to perform good illumination and obtain a good captured image when a plurality of users each having a camera-equipped portable information terminal device gather in the same place. A camera-equipped portable information terminal device is provided with: an imaging unit that captures an image of a subject; a first illumination means for illuminating the subject; a first communication unit that communicates with other portable information terminal devices; and a first control unit that controls the imaging unit and the first communication unit. The first control unit transmits a light emission instruction signal to the other portable information terminal devices via the first communication unit, and causes a second illumination means of each of the other portable information terminal devices to emit light in tandem with an imaging operation of the imaging unit.

A system for controlling a plurality of lighting assemblies and a plurality of imagers configured to capture image data in a plurality fields of an operating region comprises a collapsible armature comprising a plurality of linkages configured to extend between an extended arrangement and a collapsed arrangement. The extended arrangement positions the lighting assemblies in a first spacing, and the collapsed arrangement positions the lighting assemblies in a second spacing. A controller is configured to control lighting emissions from light sources of the lighting assemblies based on the predetermined first spacing and detect at least one object in the fields of view and control the lighting assemblies to illuminate the at least one object.