An optical compensation device includes a measurement part that measures a luminance of a reference point of a display panel displaying an image and a luminance of a neighboring point separated from the reference point to generate measurement data, a camera that photographs a surface of the display panel to generate a photographed image, and a compensation part that generates a scaling value of the neighboring point based on the measurement data of the reference point, a photographed data generated based on the photographed image of the reference point, the measurement data of the neighboring point, and a photographed data generated based on the photographed image of the neighboring point, and generates compensation data of the neighboring point based on the scaling value of the neighboring point and the photographed data of the reference point.

The present disclosure relates to systems, vehicles, and methods for detecting optical defects in an optical path of a camera system. An example system may include an image sensor configured to provide images of a field of view via an optical path that extends through an optical window. The system also includes at least one phase-detection device and a controller. The controller is configured to execute instructions stored in the memory so as to carry out various operations, including receiving, from the image sensor, first pixel information indicative of an image of the field of view. The operations additionally include receiving, from the at least one phase-detection device, second pixel information indicative of a portion of the field of view. The operations yet further include determining, based on the first pixel information and the second pixel information, at least one optical defect associated with the optical path.

An image sensor to which is provided an image sensing plane that receives light from a subject whose image has been formed by a lens, the image sensing plane having a flat shape portion and a curved shape portion.

An image processing apparatus includes a vibration-proof optical system driving amount acquiring section, a distortion aberration correcting section, and a deviation amount converting section. The vibration-proof optical system driving amount acquiring section acquires a driving amount of the vibration-proof optical system. The distortion aberration correcting section corrects a distortion aberration on based on a deviation amount to a captured image. The deviation amount converting section calculates the deviation amount corresponding to the driving amount on the basis of a correlation between a shape of the distortion aberration corresponding to the driving amount of the vibration-proof optical system and a shape of the distortion aberration corresponding to the deviation amount.

An image capturing apparatus includes an image sensor, an optical system that forms a subject image on an image sensing plane of the image sensor, a driving unit that curves the image sensor, and a control unit that controls the driving unit to curve the image sensor to a curvature according to aberration of the optical system and image capturing conditions.

An apparatus includes a sensor, at least one processor; and at least one memory coupled to the at least one processor, the memory having instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, perform to acquire lens information related to a lens apparatus, acquire array information related to an optical apparatus, acquire aberration correction information based on the lens information and the array information, cut out a plurality of images in a tile form from an image signal output by the sensor picking up a light beam incident from an object through a filter of the optical apparatus, and correct an aberration in the plurality of images, based on the aberration correction information.

An image processing apparatus (104) includes an acquirer (104b) configured to acquire information related to a lateral chromatic aberration, and a corrector (104c) configured to correct an image to reduce the lateral chromatic aberration based on the information related to the lateral chromatic aberration, the information related to the lateral chromatic aberration includes a first component related to a design value, and a second component related to a manufacturing error, each of the first component and the second component is a rotationally symmetric component.

The invention relates to a camera modeling and calibration system and method using a new set of variables to compensate for imperfections in line of sight axis squareness with camera plane and which increases accuracy in measuring distortion introduced by image curvature caused by geometric and chromatic lens distortion and wherein the camera image plane is represented from a full 3D perspective projection.

An imaging lens (PL) has an image surface (I) curved to have a concave surface facing an object and comprises, in order from the object along the optical axis (Ax): a first lens (L1) having positive refractive power; a second lens (L2) having negative refractive power; a third lens (L3) having positive refractive power; a fourth lens (L4) having positive or negative refractive power; and a fifth lens (L5) having at least one lens surface formed as an aspherical surface and having negative refractive power. The following conditional expression is satisfied:

0.005<f/|f4|<0.5 where, f denotes a focal length of the imaging lens (PL), and f4 denotes a focal length of the fourth lens (L4).

An imaging apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises a controller configured to transmit an image obtained by an image sensor to an external device via a communication circuit, and cause the external device to execute a predetermined image processing on the image. The controller obtains information indicating recommendation or non-recommendation for the execution of the predetermined image processing on the image by the external device, based on a state of at least one of an imaging optical system and the image sensor when capturing the image, and transmits an execution request for the predetermined image processing on the image to the external device via the communication circuit, if the obtained information indicates the recommendation.