The present invention relates to a photographing system. The photographing system may include a photographing device having a lens for capturing image data of a human; a display panel having a screen configured to display the image data of the human; and a semi-transparent mirror disposed between the human and the photographing device and at an angle to the screen of the display panel. The photographing device may capture the image data of the human through the semi-transparent mirror. The semi-transparent mirror may be disposed to reflect the image data of the human on the screen of the display panel so that a reflection of the image data of the human appears on the semi-transparent mirror.

An image processing device (2A) comprises: an input means for inputting a brightfield image representing cell morphology in a tissue section, and a fluorescence image representing, by fluorescent bright spots, the expression of a specific protein in the same range of the tissue section; a first generation means for generating a cell image obtained by extracting a specific site of a cell from the brightfield image; a second generation means for generating an image obtained by extracting bright spot regions from the fluorescence image, creating a brightness profile for each bright spot region, and generating a fluorescent particle image obtained by extracting the fluorescent particles in the bright spot regions on the basis of the fluorescence profile for one fluorescent particle, which serves as a fluorescence bright spot source; and a calculation means for superimposing the cell image and the fluorescent particle image on one another.

Virtual reality parallax correction techniques and systems are described that are configured to correct parallax for VR digital content captured from a single point of origin. In one example, a parallax correction module is employed to correct artifacts caused in a change from a point of origin that corresponds to the VR digital content to a new viewpoint with respect to an output of the VR digital content. A variety of techniques may be employed by the parallax correction module to correct parallax. Examples of these techniques include depth filtering, boundary identification, smear detection, mesh cutting, confidence estimation, blurring, and error diffusion as further described in the following sections.

A system and method for human motion detection and tracking (10) are disclosed. In one embodiment, an optical sensing instrument (16) monitors a stage (24). A memory (182) is accessible to a processor (180) and communicatively coupled to the optical sensing instrument (16). The system (10) captures a depth frame (150) from the optical sensing instrument (16). The depth frame (150) is converted into a designated depth frame format (152), which includes at each image element second coordinate values relative to the depth frame (150). Probability distribution models are applied to the designated depth frame format (152) to identify a respective plurality of body parts. The position of each of the respective plurality of body parts in the designated depth frame format (152) is calculated as is the position of each of the respective plurality of body parts in the depth frame (150).

A method for decoding a compressed image stream, the image stream having a plurality of frames, each frame consisting of a merged image including pixels from a left image and pixels from a right image. The method involves the steps of receiving each merged image; changing a clock domain from the original input signal to an internal domain; for each merged image, placing at least two adjacent pixels into an input buffer and interpolating an intermediate pixel, for forming a reconstructed left frame and a reconstructed right frame according to provenance of the adjacent pixels; and reconstructing a stereoscopic image stream from the left and right image frames. The invention also teaches a system for decoding a compressed image stream.

Camera control and image streaming are described, including at least one camera or an apparatus associated with at least one camera. The camera or apparatus is configured to establish a first communication with a first device, where the first communication allows the first device to control the camera, including one or more of zooming the camera, panning the camera, and tilting the camera. The camera or apparatus is configured to establish a second communication with a second device, where the second communication allows the second device to control the camera, including one or more of zooming the camera, panning the camera and, tilting the camera. The first communication and/or the second communication may include streaming a view from the camera to a device or user. The camera may be carried by an unmanned flying object.

One embodiment includes a sequential spectral imaging system with a color filter disposed over imaging sensor. The color filter includes zones of multiple color elements of discrete or continuous spectra. The color filter is configured to have multiple cycles of wavelength bands along diagonal lines of the imaging sensor, each cycle of wavelength bands includes a full spectra from red to blue. Another embodiment combines an imaging sensor of a wide FOV with pixelated color filters and a spectra sensor of smaller FOV. A calibration technique acquires imaging sensor's spectral response. The sequential spectral imaging system acquires a sequence of continuous frames of spatial and spectral data during recording an object moving relatively to the camera. Multiple frames of the moving object are tracked sequentially. Image processing to correct distortion and extract features enables identification and tracking of the object. The object's full spectra is established by connecting different frames.

One embodiment includes a sequential spectral imaging system with a color filter disposed over imaging sensor. The color filter includes zones of multiple color elements of discrete or continuous spectra. The color filter is configured to have multiple cycles of wavelength bands along diagonal lines of the imaging sensor, each cycle of wavelength bands includes a full spectra from red to blue. Another embodiment combines an imaging sensor of a wide FOV with pixelated color filters and a spectra sensor of smaller FOV. A calibration technique acquires imaging sensor's spectral response. The sequential spectral imaging system acquires a sequence of continuous frames of spatial and spectral data during recording an object moving relatively to the camera. Multiple frames of the moving object are tracked sequentially. Image processing to correct distortion and extract features enables identification and tracking of the object. The object's full spectra is established by connecting different frames.

A high-illumination numerical aperture-based large field-of-view high-resolution microimaging device, and a method for iterative reconstruction, the device comprising an LED array (1), a stage (2), a condenser (3), a microscopic objective (5), a tube lens (6), and a camera (7), the LED array (1) being arranged on the forward focal plane of the condenser (3). Light emitted by the i-th lit LED unit (8) of the LED array (1) passes through the condenser (3) and converges to become parallel light illuminating a specimen (4) to be examined, which is placed on the stage (2); part of the diffracted light passing through the specimen (4) is collected by the microscopic objective (5), converged by the tube lens (6), and reaches the imaging plane of the camera (7), forming an intensity image recorded by the camera (1). The present device and method ensure controllable programming of the illumination direction, while also ensuring an illumination-numerical-aperture up to 1.20 and thus achieving a reconstruction resolution up to 0.15 μm.

A high-illumination numerical aperture-based large field-of-view high-resolution microimaging device, and a method for iterative reconstruction, the device comprising an LED array (1), a stage (2), a condenser (3), a microscopic objective (5), a tube lens (6), and a camera (7), the LED array (1) being arranged on the forward focal plane of the condenser (3). Light emitted by the i-th lit LED unit (8) of the LED array (1) passes through the condenser (3) and converges to become parallel light illuminating a specimen (4) to be examined, which is placed on the stage (2); part of the diffracted light passing through the specimen (4) is collected by the microscopic objective (5), converged by the tube lens (6), and reaches the imaging plane of the camera (7), forming an intensity image recorded by the camera (1). The present device and method ensure controllable programming of the illumination direction, while also ensuring an illumination-numerical-aperture up to 1.20 and thus achieving a reconstruction resolution up to 0.15 μm.