A moiré pattern imaging device includes a light-transmitting film and an optical sensor. The light-transmitting film includes a plurality of microlenses, and a light-incident surface and a light-exit surface opposite to each other. The plurality of microlenses are disposed on the light-incident surface, the light-exit surface or a combination thereof, and the plurality of microlenses are arranged in two dimensions to form a microlens array. The optical sensor includes a photosurface. The photosurface faces the light-exit surface of the light-transmitting film, the photosurface is provided with a plurality of pixels, and the plurality of pixels are arranged in two dimensions to form a pixel array. The microlens array and the pixel array correspondingly form a moiré pattern effect to produce an imaging magnification effect, and the photosurface of the optical sensor senses light and forms a moiré pattern magnification image.

A display system includes (i) a plurality of picture elements supported on a single semiconductor substrate and (ii) a backplane including electronic circuitry supported thereon and electronically connected with the picture elements. Each picture element includes a light steering optical element and an array of light emitting elements. The array of light emitting elements includes a first set, a second set, and a third set of inorganic LEDs that (i) are monolithically integrated on the single semiconductor substrate and (ii) emit, respectively, light at a first, a second, and a third wavelength, which are mutually distinct. The light steering optical element is configured for steering the light from the first set, second set, and third set of LEDs in a predetermined direction. The electronic circuitry is configured for individually driving each light emitting element of the array of light emitting elements.

An imaging apparatus includes an image sensor, a filter array disposed on an optical path from a target object to the image sensor and including two-dimensionally-arranged optical filters, and a processing circuit that generates at least four pieces of spectral image data based on an image acquired by the image sensor. The optical filters include various types of optical filters with different spectral transmittance. Each of the at least four pieces of spectral image data indicates an image corresponding to one of at least four wavelength bands. The filter array includes at least one characteristic section. The processing circuit detects a relative position between the filter array and the image sensor based on the at least one characteristic section in the image acquired by the image sensor, and compensates for deviation between the relative position and a preliminarily-set relative position when the processing circuit detects the deviation.

An optical sensor device may include an optical sensor that includes a set of sensor elements; an optical filter that includes one or more channels; a phase mask configured to distribute a plurality of light beams associated with a subject in an encoded pattern on an input surface of the optical filter; and one or more processors. The one or more processors may be configured to obtain, from the optical sensor, sensor data associated with the subject and may determine a distance of the subject from the optical sensor device. The one or more processors may select, based on the distance, a processing technique to process the sensor data, wherein the processing technique is an imaging processing technique or a spectroscopic processing technique. The one or more processors may process, using the selected processing technique, the sensor data to generate output data and may provide the output data.

Disclosed are systems, methods, and structures for monocentric multiscale gigapixel imaging systems and cameras employing a Galilean architecture wherein adjacent subimages do not overlap while advantageously producing a reduced system volume, improved relative illumination and image quality as compared with prior art systems.

A process and an apparatus for the plenoptic capture of photographic or cinematographic images of an object or a 3D scene (10) of interest are based on a correlated light emitting source and correlation measurement, along the line of “Correlation Plenoptic Imaging” (CPI). A first image sensor (Da) and a second image sensor (Db) detect images along a path of a first light beam (a) and a second light beam (b), respectively. A processing unit (100) of the intensities detected by the synchronized image sensors (Da, Db) is configured to retrieve the propagation direction of light by measuring spatio-temporal correlations between light intensities detected in the image planes of at least two arbitrary planes (P′, P″; D′b, D″a) chosen in the vicinity of the object or within the 3D scene (10).

A device and method for phase imaging and element detection based on wavefront modulation are provided to overcome the disadvantages of an existing interferometry such as twin image elimination, limit resolution, under-sampling wavefront measurement, and multi-modal measurement. From the perspective of light field encoding, the accurate measurement to a complex amplitude of a light field to be measured is completely achieved by the iterative calculation, and at the same time, a twin image problem may be effectively eliminated, and it has the multi-modal (multi-wavelength) reconstruction ability. Theoretically, it is able to reach the diffraction limit resolution, may be widely used in phase imaging, optical element surface-type detection, polarization distribution measurement and the like, and it has a wide range of applications.

An imaging device includes a plurality of pixels that receives incident light entering from an object after passing through neither an imaging lens nor a pinhole, and each outputs a detection signal indicating an output pixel value modulated in accordance with an incident angle of the incident light. The imaging device is attached to a vehicle so that a light receiving surface faces a side of the vehicle, and the average of the centroids of incident angle directivities indicating directivities of the plurality of pixels with respect to the incident angle of the incident light deviates in one direction from the center of the pixel. The present technology can be applied to an electronic sideview mirror, for example.

A plenoptic endoscope includes a fiber bundle with a distal end configured to receive light from a target imaging region, a sensor end disposed opposite the distal end, and a plurality of fiber optic strands each extending from the distal end to the sensor end. The plenoptic endoscope also includes an image sensor coupled to the sensor end of the fiber bundle, and a plurality of microlenses disposed between the image sensor and the sensor end of the fiber bundle, the plurality of microlens elements forming an array that receives light from one or more of the plurality of fiber optic strands of the fiber bundle and directs the light onto the image sensor. The plurality of microlens elements and the image sensor together form a plenoptic camera configured to capture information about a light field emanating from the target imaging region.

An imaging device may code light, passing through an imaging optical lens arranged in a multi-lens array (MLA), and may transmit the light to a sensing element, and the sensing element may restore an image based on sensed information.