A method for operating an image sensor with a 4 rows×4 columns pixel group including 4 sub-pixel groups each including 4 pixels of 2 rows×2 columns includes: selecting and reading out a first pixel among 4 pixels in a first row of the pixel group; selecting and reading out, in a second row of the pixel group, a second pixel from a sub-pixel group other than a sub-pixel group including the first pixel; selecting and reading out, in a third row of the pixel group, a third pixel from a column other than a column including the first pixel and a column including the second pixel; and selecting and reading out, in a fourth row of the pixel group, a fourth pixel from a column other than the columns including the first pixel, the second pixel and the third pixel.

A method for operating an image sensor with a 4 rows×4 columns pixel group including 4 sub-pixel groups each including 4 pixels of 2 rows×2 columns includes: selecting and reading out a first pixel among 4 pixels in a first row of the pixel group; selecting and reading out, in a second row of the pixel group, a second pixel from a sub-pixel group other than a sub-pixel group including the first pixel; selecting and reading out, in a third row of the pixel group, a third pixel from a column other than a column including the first pixel and a column including the second pixel; and selecting and reading out, in a fourth row of the pixel group, a fourth pixel from a column other than the columns including the first pixel, the second pixel and the third pixel.

A vehicular vision system includes a camera fixedly mounted at a vehicle. The camera has a central viewing axis that bisects a total available field of view exterior of the vehicle of the camera into an at least 90 degrees zone to the left and to the right of the central viewing axis. During a driving maneuver of the vehicle, a video display screen displays video images representative of a reduced field of view of the camera that is less than the total available field of view exterior of the vehicle. During the driving maneuver of the vehicle, and as the steering angle of the vehicle is adjusted toward the right side or left side of the vehicle, the reduced field of view of the camera digitally pans toward the respective right side or left side of the total available field of view exterior of the vehicle of the camera.

A vehicular vision system includes a camera fixedly mounted at a vehicle. The camera has a central viewing axis that bisects a total available field of view exterior of the vehicle of the camera into an at least 90 degrees zone to the left and to the right of the central viewing axis. During a driving maneuver of the vehicle, a video display screen displays video images representative of a reduced field of view of the camera that is less than the total available field of view exterior of the vehicle. During the driving maneuver of the vehicle, and as the steering angle of the vehicle is adjusted toward the right side or left side of the vehicle, the reduced field of view of the camera digitally pans toward the respective right side or left side of the total available field of view exterior of the vehicle of the camera.

An electronic device includes an image sensor that generates first image data upon receiving external light, generates second image data based on the first image data, and outputs the first image data and the second image data, and an application processor that increases resolution of at least a region of an image that corresponds to the first image data using a machine learning algorithm and outputs third image data that includes at least a portion of the first image data with increased resolution and at least a portion of the second image data.

An electronic device includes an image sensor that generates first image data upon receiving external light, generates second image data based on the first image data, and outputs the first image data and the second image data, and an application processor that increases resolution of at least a region of an image that corresponds to the first image data using a machine learning algorithm and outputs third image data that includes at least a portion of the first image data with increased resolution and at least a portion of the second image data.

An imaging apparatus includes a storage portion that stores image data obtained by imaging, and a processing portion that processes the image data, in which the processing portion performs processing of reducing the image data, performs first detection processing of detecting a specific subject image showing a specific subject from a reduced image indicated by reduced image data obtained by reducing the image data, and in a case where the specific subject image is not detected by the first detection processing, performs second detection processing on pre-reduction image data that is the image data before reduction stored in the storage portion.

An image sensor includes: a first imaging region that captures an image of light entering through an optical system under a first imaging condition and generates a detection signal to perform focus detection of the optical system; and a second imaging region that captures an image of the light entering through the optical system under a second imaging condition other than the first imaging condition and generates an image signal.

An image sensor includes: a first imaging region that captures an image of light entering through an optical system under a first imaging condition and generates a detection signal to perform focus detection of the optical system; and a second imaging region that captures an image of the light entering through the optical system under a second imaging condition other than the first imaging condition and generates an image signal.

An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging sensor; a lens mount to which a lens is attached; and a processor is configured to read out an imaging signal from the imaging sensor and generate a raw image. The processor is configured to determine a length of a second focal length in a second direction which intersects with an extending direction of an optical axis of the lens and a first direction which intersects with the extending direction, relative to a first focal length in the first direction, and make a resolution ratio, which is a ratio of a resolution of the raw image in the first direction to a resolution of the raw image in the second direction, higher than a resolution ratio of the imaging sensor in a case where the second focal length is longer than the first focal length.