Various embodiments of the present invention relate to an electronic device and a recording method thereof. The electronic device may comprise: a touch screen; an image sensor for capturing an image; a processor operatively connected to the touch screen and the image sensor; and a memory operatively connected to the processor, wherein the memory stores instructions which, when executed, cause the processor to designate at least a partial screen area of the touch screen as a motion detection area, determine whether a motion is detected in the motion detection area, and control the image sensor, in response to detecting the motion in the motion detection area, so as to perform super slow recording. Various other embodiments are also possible.

An image processing apparatus which superimposes an indicator image on a picked-up image, with inhibition of a subject from deteriorating in visibility. At least one processor of the image processing apparatus executes the set of instructions to: specify two points of a subject in a picked-up image; acquire three-dimensional positional information about the two points; detect a change about a state of the image processing apparatus; generate an indicator image corresponding to a length between the two points and the change, based on the three-dimensional positional information and the change; and superimpose the indicator image onto the picked-up image, to acquire a retouched image.

An image processing apparatus which superimposes an indicator image on a picked-up image, with inhibition of a subject from deteriorating in visibility. At least one processor of the image processing apparatus executes the set of instructions to: specify two points of a subject in a picked-up image; acquire three-dimensional positional information about the two points; detect a change about a state of the image processing apparatus; generate an indicator image corresponding to a length between the two points and the change, based on the three-dimensional positional information and the change; and superimpose the indicator image onto the picked-up image, to acquire a retouched image.

It is an object to realize a correcting process for correcting a defective image in a region of interest (ROI) that is a partial region segmented from a captured image. A transmitting apparatus includes a controlling section that controls the holding of defect correcting information for use in correcting a defect in an image included in a ROI and a transmitting section that sends out image data of the image included in the ROI as payload data and sends out ROI information as embedded data.

It is an object to realize a correcting process for correcting a defective image in a region of interest (ROI) that is a partial region segmented from a captured image. A transmitting apparatus includes a controlling section that controls the holding of defect correcting information for use in correcting a defect in an image included in a ROI and a transmitting section that sends out image data of the image included in the ROI as payload data and sends out ROI information as embedded data.

An image processing apparatus comprises an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image, an evaluation value acquisition unit configured to acquire an evaluation value of the image, a reliability acquisition unit configured to acquire reliability of the evaluation value, an evaluation unit configured to evaluate the image based on the evaluation value; and a recording unit configured to add a rating result of the image to the image and record the rating result, wherein the evaluation unit performs rating in accordance with the evaluation value excluding an evaluation value the reliability of which is relatively low.

An image processing apparatus comprises an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image, an evaluation value acquisition unit configured to acquire an evaluation value of the image, a reliability acquisition unit configured to acquire reliability of the evaluation value, an evaluation unit configured to evaluate the image based on the evaluation value; and a recording unit configured to add a rating result of the image to the image and record the rating result, wherein the evaluation unit performs rating in accordance with the evaluation value excluding an evaluation value the reliability of which is relatively low.

A camera system includes two or more sensor arrays and an optical path. The sensor arrays are on the same sensor chip. Each sensor array includes the same field of view (FOV) as each other sensor array. The optical path includes a main lens and a metalens that are shared by each sensor array, and a microlens associated with each sensor array. The metalens splits incident light into different spectrums of light and directs each respective spectrum to a corresponding sensor array. The different spectrums of light include at least two of visible light, near infrared light, shortwave infrared and longwave infrared, and at least one sensor array includes single-photon avalanche diodes. The image processor that provides image processing, object recognition and object tracking and/or image fusion functionality may be on the same sensor chip as the sensor arrays.

A camera system includes two or more sensor arrays and an optical path. The sensor arrays are on the same sensor chip. Each sensor array includes the same field of view (FOV) as each other sensor array. The optical path includes a main lens and a metalens that are shared by each sensor array, and a microlens associated with each sensor array. The metalens splits incident light into different spectrums of light and directs each respective spectrum to a corresponding sensor array. The different spectrums of light include at least two of visible light, near infrared light, shortwave infrared and longwave infrared, and at least one sensor array includes single-photon avalanche diodes. The image processor that provides image processing, object recognition and object tracking and/or image fusion functionality may be on the same sensor chip as the sensor arrays.

A stereo-endoscope for observation and analysis of an object, comprising a shaft with distal and proximal ends, illuminating means for illuminating the object, and stereoscopic imaging means which transfer light radiated by the object from the distal end to the proximal end. Light of a first imaging channel is fed into a first sensor, and light of a second imaging channel is fed into a second sensor. Both sensors contain mutually different beam splitters, which split the light into four light beams. One light beam from each of the sensors is deflected onto one sensor each; these two sensors are identical. The signals detected there are assembled to form a stereoscopic image. The stereo-endoscope comprises mutually different manipulating means for the other two light beams; by means of suitably-tuned image-processing algorithms, two different monoscopic images containing information complementary to each other and to the stereoscopic image are generated.