An augmented reality optical device includes an image generator receiving a preset wavelength range of light reflected by an affected part and generating an affected part image, an image output unit outputting a visible wavelength range of light corresponding to the affected part image, a first mirror unit reflecting the light output from the image output unit, a lens unit focusing the reflected light, a beam splitter reflecting a preset wavelength range of light incident from the outside in a preset direction and transmitting a portion of an incident visible wavelength range of light to a user's pupil (or in the preset direction) while reflecting another portion of the incident visible wavelength range of light in the preset direction (or to the user's pupil), and a second mirror unit re-reflecting the preset wavelength range of light reflected by the beam splitter to the image generator.

Methods for obtaining a shallow depth of field effect (DOF) and improved signal-to-noise (SNR) in an image through synthetically increase the camera aperture of a compact camera using at least one actuator included in such a camera for other known purposes, for example for providing optical image stabilization (OIS). The synthetically enlarged camera aperture enables to take a plurality of images at different aperture positions. The plurality of images is processed into an image with shallow DOF and improved SNR.

Methods for obtaining a shallow depth of field effect (DOF) and improved signal-to-noise (SNR) in an image through synthetically increase the camera aperture of a compact camera using at least one actuator included in such a camera for other known purposes, for example for providing optical image stabilization (OIS). The synthetically enlarged camera aperture enables to take a plurality of images at different aperture positions. The plurality of images is processed into an image with shallow DOF and improved SNR.

According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, an imaging system includes: an image sensor including a plurality of subpixels grouped into a plurality of pixels; a polarization system including: a rotatable linear polarizer; and a polarizer mask including a plurality of polarizer filters, the polarizer filters being aligned with corresponding ones of the subpixels, the subpixels of a pixel of the plurality of pixels being located behind polarizer filters at different angles of linear polarization; and imaging optics configured to focus light from a scene onto the image sensor.

A system control unit controls an action regarding imaging by an imaging unit according to an instruction from a user. The system control unit automatically controls the action regarding the imaging by the imaging unit based on a preset condition. The system control unit chronologically records details of the control of the action of the imaging unit according to the instruction from the user as operation information. The system control unit chronologically records details of the automatic control of the action of the imaging unit as change information. The system control unit plays back the chronological details of the control of the action of the imaging unit based on the recorded operation information and change information.

A lens device with which a network can be pulled out from a lens main body and connected to an operation terminal is provided. The lens device for capturing an optical image includes: a lens mechanism for forming the optical image, the lens mechanism being built into a lens main body; a drive control unit for drive-controlling the lens mechanism, the drive control unit being built into the lens main body; a central processing unit that outputs a drive control signal to the drive control unit; and a network that forms a power supply interface for the lens main body, and a communication interface for the central processing unit. Thereby, the lens and the operation terminal are connected via the network, so that it is possible to expand the connection mode between the lens and the operation terminal to an n-to-one or n-to-n connection mode.

An imaging apparatus includes a light source, a spatial light modulator, a Fourier transform optical system, a photodetector, and a control unit. The control unit sets a first region and a second region on a modulation plane, acquires a light intensity value by setting a light amplitude modulation pattern in the first region and setting a light amplitude modulation in the second region to a non-zero predetermined value, acquires the light intensity value by setting the light amplitude modulation pattern in the first region and setting the light amplitude modulation in the second region to zero, acquires the light intensity value by setting the light amplitude modulation in the first region to zero and setting the light amplitude modulation in the second region to the predetermined value, and acquires a complex amplitude image of a region of an object corresponding to the first region.

Provided are an imaging device, an imaging method, and an imaging program capable of easily acquiring a slow moving image with good image quality. In one aspect of the present invention, an imaging device includes an optical system, an imaging element, and a processor, and the processor performs detection processing of detecting a movement of a subject based on an image signal output from the imaging element, frame rate control of increasing a frame rate of a moving image output from the imaging element based on the detected movement, exposure control processing of maintaining a rate of an exposure time per frame of the moving image constant according to the increase in the frame rate, and dimming control processing of changing a degree of dimming of the optical system according to the exposure control processing.

An imaging apparatus includes: a face detection sensor configured to detect a face of a user; a control unit configured to change an operational state of the imaging apparatus to a first operational state and stop an operation of the face detection sensor; and a movement detecting unit configured to detect a movement of the imaging apparatus, wherein the control unit operates the face detection sensor in response to a detection of a movement of the imaging apparatus by the movement detecting unit in the first operational state, and in a case where the face of the user is not detected by the face detection sensor in the first operational state, the control unit changes the operational state of the imaging apparatus from the first operational state to a second operational state in which power consumption is lower than that in the first operational state.

An imaging system can include a first and second camera configured to capture first and second sets of oblique images along first and second scan paths, respectively, on an object area. A drive is coupled to a scanning mirror structure, having at least one mirror surface, and configured to rotate the structure about a scan axis based on a scan angle. The first and second cameras each have an optical axis set at an oblique angle to the scan axis and include a respective lens to focus first and second imaging beams reflected from the mirror surface to an image sensor located in each of the cameras. The first and second imaging beams captured by their respective cameras can vary according to the scan angle. Each of the image sensors captures respective sets of oblique images by sampling the imaging beams at first and second values of the scan angle.