An information processing apparatus and an information processing method in which each piece of data included in light field data including a plurality of pieces of data indicating an incidence position, an incidence direction, and an intensity of a ray incident on an imaging apparatus from an object is projected based on a plurality of pieces of data corresponding to an object that is the same as the object corresponding to the data in a light field space defined by the incidence position and the incidence direction of the ray. Thus, light field data with an amount of information increased in a predetermined space in the light field space.

Embodiments of the subject application disclose various light field capture control methods and apparatuses and various light field capture devices, wherein one light field capture control method comprises: acquiring depth information of a to-be-shot scene; determining target pixel density distribution information of an image sensor of a light field camera according to the depth information; adjusting pixel density distribution of the image sensor according to the target pixel density distribution information; and performing, by the adjusted image sensor, light field capture of the to-be-shot scene. The technical solution provided in the embodiments of the subject application can make full use of overall pixels of the image sensor of the light field camera to unevenly record light field information of different regions of the to-be-shot scene in a depth of field (DOF) direction, thereby improving light field capture efficiency.

The present technology relates to a signal processing device, a signal processing method, a solid-state image sensor, an imaging device, an electronic device, and a program capable of generating an interpolated pixel such that occurrence of jaggies may be inhibited without blurring an image with a small calculation amount. Two candidate lines are set in each of a horizontal direction and a vertical direction in positional relationship symmetrical about a current pixel. The candidate lines are narrowed to two lines in the horizontal direction or in the vertical direction according to a pattern to which the current pixel belongs. Furthermore, searched pixels on the candidate line are narrowed according to the pattern. A weight value is calculated on the basis of similarity between a current block and a block in the same phase at the same distance from the block by block matching by a block to which the current pixel belongs. A pixel value of the interpolated pixel is generated by weighted addition of a pixel value on the candidate line and the weight value. The present technology may be applied to an imaging device.

A method for preprocessing camera raw data of an image sensor of a camera. The method includes a step of reading in, a step of setting, a step of reducing, and a step of outputting. In the step of reading in, a raw data signal is read in, which encompasses camera raw data detected by the image sensor at a detection point in time. In the step of setting, a preprocessing algorithm for reducing the resolution of the camera raw data is set, using at least one setting signal. In the step of reducing, the resolution of the camera raw data is reduced, using the preprocessing algorithm set in the step of setting, to obtain a preprocessed camera signal which represents a preprocessed camera image. In the step of outputting, the preprocessed camera signal is output to an image processing unit.

An image signal processor is provided. The image signal processor includes a white balancing block which performs white balancing on a raw RGB image of a Bayer pattern received from an image sensor on a kernel basis or in a kernel unit, a green generation block which performs cross-binning on white-balanced G pixel to generate a first green pixel, and adds a high-frequency component to which a preset weight is applied to generate a binned green pixel, a red-blue generation block which generates a U pixel and a V pixel indicating directionality, on the basis of the binned green pixel, a white-balanced R pixel, and a white-balanced B pixel, and merges the binned green pixel to each of the U pixel and the V pixel to generate a binned red pixel and a binned blue pixel and an inverse white balancing block which performs an inverse white balancing on the binned red pixel, the binned green pixel, and the binned blue pixel to output a final binning image.

The present invention relates to an information processing device configured to perform a process of creating, on the basis of original content, at least a first content having a data size smaller than a data size of the original content and a second content having a data size smaller than the data size of the first content, and a process of transferring the original content, the first content, and/or the second content.

The present technology relates to an imaging apparatus and method, and an image processing apparatus and method that make it possible to control the resolution of a detection image.

A resolution is set, and a restoration matrix is set including coefficients used when a restored image is restored from output pixel values of a plurality of pixel output units, of an imaging element including the plurality of pixel output units that receives incident light entering without passing through either an imaging lens or a pinhole, and each outputs one detection signal indicating an output pixel value modulated by an incident angle of the incident light, depending on the resolution set. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an imaging apparatus, an image processing apparatus, an information processing apparatus, an electronic device, a computer, a program, a storage medium, a system, and the like.

A method to design miniature wide-angle and ultra-wide-angle lenses by using on-purpose distortion to have shorter focal length than usual for a given image sensor size and a desired image projection. This results in optical systems having miniaturization ratio, defined as the ratio between the total track length and the image footprint diameter, smaller than 0.8. The resulting image from these systems having on-purpose distortion can then be processed with a processor to remove the on-purpose distortion and to output an image with the targeted distortion profile.

An image capturing device in the present embodiment has a configuration that is provided with an image splitting unit 21 and an edge extracting unit 22 that acquire the edge component for each block image that has been divided from an image captured by an image sensor 10, a resolution controlling unit 23 that writes each block image into a frame memory 30 with a resolution in accordance with the amount of its edge component, an image enlarging unit 24 that reads out at least one block image that corresponds to a selected region from the frame memory 30 and enlarges the block image with a magnification in accordance with the size of the selected region, and an enlarged output unit 45 that outputs the enlarged block image that corresponds to the selected region that is supplied from the image enlarging unit 24.

An vehicle-mounted camera apparatus is an vehicle-mounted camera apparatus capable of imaging at least one of a front, a rear, and a side of a vehicle, and includes a lens, an image capture device unit that converts light imaged by the lens into an electrical signal to generate a captured image, and a light shielding unit that shields a light ray corresponding to a part of an image capture region of the image capture device unit on an incident surface side of the lens.