An imaging system includes a processor, a memory, a visible light camera configured to record a first image of a scene, and an infrared camera configured to record a second image of the scene. The processor configured to execute instructions stored in the memory to input the first image and the second image into a neural network. The neural network relights the first image, based on characteristics of the second image, to correspond to an image of the scene under canonical illumination conditions.

An apparatus including a sensor for setting an exposure time or gain for each of pixel groups including at least one pixel includes an imaging unit including the sensor configured to capture a subject through an optical system to generate an image, an acquisition unit configured to acquire information about a specific image region in the generated image, a determination unit configured to determine a specific pixel region including at least one pixel group in the sensor and corresponding to the specific image region, based on the information about the specific image region, a change unit configured to change at least one of a number, a size, and a shape of pixel groups in the specific pixel region determined by the determination unit, and a control unit configured to control the exposure time or gain for each of the pixel groups.

According to an embodiment, an electronic device, comprises a display; a camera module disposed under the display and configured to generate an image by sensing light passing through the display; and a processor configured to determine an intensity of a light source in the image, determine whether the light source is present in a preset area in the image when the intensity of the light source is greater than a preset threshold value, and reduce one or more artifacts from or in the image when the one or more artifacts are detected in the image based on results of the determining.

An electronic apparatus comprises an image sensor including a first pixel group and a second pixel group, and capable of actuating the pixel groups with the same or different shooting conditions; a controller that switches between a first actuation control of actuating the first and second pixel groups with the same shooting conditions and a second actuation control of actuating the first and second pixel groups with different shooting conditions; a detector that detects flicker based on a signal read out from the image sensor; and a determination unit that determines whether or not the detector can detect flicker based on a signal read out from the image sensor by the second actuation control. If the determination unit determines affirmative, the controller controls to actuate the second pixel group with the shooting conditions for flicker detection in the second actuation control.

There is provided an imaging system including a camera and a control host. The camera identifies ambient light intensity and performs trigger event detection in a low power mode. When the camera detects a trigger event in the low power mode, the control host is woken up. The camera also determines an exposure mode according the ambient light intensity and informs the exposure mode to the control host such that an operating mode of the control host after being woken up matches the exposure mode of the camera.

An image capturing apparatus comprises an image sensor configured to be capable of outputting a plurality of images with different gains with a single exposure; an acquisition unit configured to acquire, by performing a plurality of times of image capturing with different exposure times using the image sensor, a plurality of images with different gains in each of the plurality of times of image capturing; and a combining unit configured to combine the images acquired by the acquisition unit, wherein the combining unit uses an image obtained by image capturing with a longer exposure time among the plurality of times of image capturing with the different exposure times for combining for a region of a flicker light source.

An optical processing apparatus and a light source luminance adjustment method adapted to detect a rotational displacement and a pressing state are provided. The optical processing apparatus includes a light source unit, a processing unit, and an image sensing unit, wherein the processing unit is electrically connected to the light source unit and the image sensing unit. The light source unit provides a beam of light. The processing unit defines a frame rate, defines a plurality of time instants within a time interval, and sets the light source unit to a luminance value at each of the time instants. A length of the time interval is shorter than the reciprocal of the frame rate. The luminance values are different and are within a range. The image sensing unit captures an image by an exposure time length at each of the time instants, wherein the exposure time lengths are the same.

An electronic apparatus includes an imaging element having a plurality of image capture regions, each of the image capture regions having a plurality of pixels for generating an image signal; a setting unit that sets different image capture conditions for the plurality of image capture regions; and a control unit that corrects a portion of an image signal of a photographic subject captured under first image capture conditions in an image capture region among the plurality of image capture regions so that it is as if the portion of the image signal was captured under second image capture conditions.

An image processing method includes: converting a red yellow blue RYB image into a grid image based on a red green blue RGB format; generating a first brightness layer of the grid image, and determining a reference gain compensation array used to adjust the first brightness layer; obtaining, based on a preset compensation array correspondence, a target gain compensation array that is associated with the reference gain compensation array and based on an RYB format; and adjusting a second brightness layer of the RYB image by using the target gain compensation array, to generate a corrected image.

A control circuit and a control method of an image sensor are provided. The image sensor generates a sensed data. The control circuit includes a statistical circuit, an auto exposure (AE) circuit, and a calculation circuit. The statistical circuit generates a luminance statistical data according to the sensed data. The AE circuit sets the image sensor and outputs an AE data which includes a target luminance of the image sensor. The calculation circuit controls an operation mode of the image sensor according to the luminance statistical data and the AE data.