The present disclosure relates to an information processing device and method, an imaging apparatus and method, a program, and an interchangeable lens that enable acquisition of viewpoint images in accordance with an imaging mode.

For a captured image generated by an image sensor that has different positions irradiated with the respective irradiation light beams having passed through a plurality of monocular optical systems that have optical paths independent of one another, viewpoint image regions that are the regions of the respective viewpoint images corresponding to the respective monocular optical systems are set in accordance with the imaging mode of the captured image. The present disclosure can be applied to an information processing device, an electronic apparatus, an interchangeable lens or a camera system that includes a plurality of monocular optical systems, an information processing method, an imaging method, a program, or the like, for example.

Power consumption in realizing a convolutional neural network (CNN) is reduced.

A solid-state imaging element according to the present technology includes a photoelectric conversion element that photoelectrically converts received light into signal charge corresponding to the amount of received light, a floating diffusion that holds the signal charge obtained by the photoelectric conversion element, a transfer control element that controls transfer of the signal charge from the photoelectric conversion element to the floating diffusion, and a control unit that controls application of a drive voltage to the transfer control element on the basis of a convolution coefficient in a CNN.

Provided is an imaging device including: an imaging unit (130) that generates a one frame image by sequentially receiving each reflected light reflected by a subject by intermittently and sequentially irradiating the subject with each irradiation light having a different wavelength according to a position of the moving subject, temporarily and sequentially holding signal information based on the reflected light of each wavelength, and collectively reading the held signal information; and a combining unit (140) that generates a combined image by cutting a subject image corresponding to the reflected light of each wavelength from the one frame image and superimposing a plurality of the cut subject images.

To improve the sensitivity of the imaging element. An imaging element includes pixels and a light guide wall. The pixels each include: a photoelectric conversion unit arranged in a semiconductor substrate to perform photoelectric conversion on incident light, an on-chip lens that concentrates the incident light on the photoelectric conversion unit, a color filter that transmits incident light having a predetermined wavelength within the concentrated incident light, and an interlayer film disposed between the semiconductor substrate and the color filter. The light guide wall is disposed at a boundary of the pixels and formed in a shape of surrounding the color filter, the light guide wall having an end portion disposed in a recess surrounding the pixel formed in the interlayer film at the boundary of the pixels to guide the incident light.

Provided is a solid-state imaging device and an electronic apparatus capable of achieving both of a high dynamic range operation and an auto focus operation in a pixel configuration in which a plurality of unit pixels includes two or more subpixels. The solid-state imaging device includes a first pixel separation region that separates a plurality of unit pixels including two or more subpixels, a second pixel separation region that separates each of the plurality of unit pixels separated by the first pixel separation region and an overflow region that causes signal charges accumulated in the subpixels to overflow to at least one of adjacent subpixels, in which the overflow region is formed between a first subpixel and a second subpixel.

There is provided a system (100) for performing image motion compensation. The system comprises a light source (110), an imaging unit (120), and a control unit (130). The light source is configured to provide multiplexed illumination to an object in a plurality of color channels, the imaging unit is configured to capture a first image and a second image of the object in the plurality of color channels, and the control unit is configured to determine an estimated motion of pixels between the first image and the second image in a first color channel, and to generate a first motion compensated image by extrapolating the estimated motion of pixels between the first image and the second image to at least another one of the plurality of color channels.

A first multiplier multiplies a correction value by an adjustment coefficient and generates an adjusted correction value, the correction value being read from the correction value table, and the adjustment coefficient being determined from a zoom magnification and a focus distance. A second multiplier multiplies the adjusted correction value by a cosine of an angle formed between a position of each target pixel and the center of the frame and generates a horizontal correction value that corrects the target pixel in a horizontal direction. A horizontal filter adds all multiplication results obtained by multiplying a plurality of pixels in a left-right direction with each target pixel as a center, by left-right asymmetric coefficients, generates a horizontal high-pass filter component, adds, to each target pixel, a horizontal correction component obtained by multiplying the horizontal high-pass filter component by the horizontal correction value, and corrects each target pixel in the horizontal direction.

Provided are an imaging apparatus and a method capable of capturing a high-quality multi spectral image. The imaging apparatus includes: an optical system that has three or more aperture regions at a pupil position or near the pupil position, each of the aperture regions being provided with a different combination of a polarizing filter and a bandpass filter such that the aperture region transmits light having a combination of a different polarization angle and a different wavelength range; an image sensor in which three or more types of pixels that receive light having different polarization angles are arranged two-dimensionally; and a processor that performs interference removal processing on a signal output from the image sensor and generates an image signal for each of the aperture regions. In a case where the optical system has three or more types of the polarizing filters and the polarizing filters are arranged in an order of the polarization angles, at least one of differences in the polarization angles of the adjacent polarizing filters is different from the others.

A system for obtaining color imagery using SPADs includes a SPAD array that has a plurality of SPAD pixels. Each of the plurality of SPAD pixels includes a respective color filter positioned thereover. The system is configurable to capture an image frame using the SPAD array and generate a filtered image by performing a temporal filtering operation using the image frame and at least one preceding image frame. The at least one preceding image frame is captured by the SPAD array at a timepoint that temporally precedes a timepoint associated with the image frame. The system is also configurable to, after performing the temporal filtering operation, generate a color image by demosaicing the filtered image.

An image sensor including an image signal processor and an operating method of the image sensor are provided. An image sensor may include a pixel array configured to convert a received optical signal into electrical signals, a readout circuit configured to analog-digital convert the electrical signals to generate image data, and an image signal processor configured to perform one-dimensional filtering in each of a first direction and a second direction on the image data to remove noise of the image data, the second direction being different than the first direction.