An electrical device includes: a camera assembly that includes an image sensor configured to capture an image of an object and to generate color image data, wherein the image sensor has the green element blocks, the blue element blocks, and the red element blocks arranged in an array of the Bayer format at each pixel position in order to generate color image data, the green element blocks, the blue element blocks, and the red element blocks includes Multiple physical pixel elements respectively, the green element block includes two green physical pixel elements and two white physical pixel elements, the blue element block includes two blue physical pixel elements and two white physical pixel elements, and the red element block includes two red physical pixel elements and two white physical pixel elements; and a main processor that performs image process.

Provided are an image sensor, an imaging apparatus, and a signal processing method. The image sensor includes a filter array, a pixel array, and a processing circuit. The filter array includes a plurality of filter regions each including a plurality of filter units. The processing circuit is configured to: combine the electrical signals generated by the pixels corresponding to each filter unit for outputting as a combined luminance value and forming a first intermediate image; generate a first color signal, a second color signal, and a third color signal based on the electrical signals generated by the pixels corresponding to each filter region; and process the first color signal, the second color signal, and the third color signal to obtain a plurality of second intermediate images representing chrominance values of the filter region, and fuse the first intermediate image and the second intermediate images to obtain a first target image.

An image capturing device includes: an image capturing element having a first image capturing region that captures an image of a photographic subject and outputs a first signal, and a second image capturing region that captures an image of the photographic subject and outputs a second signal; a setting unit that sets an image capture condition for the first image capturing region to an image capture condition that is different from an image capture condition for the second image capturing region; a correction unit that performs correction upon the second signal, for employment in interpolation of the first signal; and a generation unit that generates an image of the photographic subject that has been captured by the first image capturing region by employing a signal generated by interpolating the first signal according to the second signal as corrected by the correction unit.

Dual-aperture digital cameras with auto-focus (AF) and related methods for obtaining a focused and, optionally optically stabilized color image of an object or scene. A dual-aperture camera includes a first sub-camera having a first optics bloc and a color image sensor for providing a color image, a second sub-camera having a second optics bloc and a clear image sensor for providing a luminance image, the first and second sub-cameras having substantially the same field of view, an AF mechanism coupled mechanically at least to the first optics bloc, and a camera controller coupled to the AF mechanism and to the two image sensors and configured to control the AF mechanism, to calculate a scaling difference and a sharpness difference between the color and luminance images, the scaling and sharpness differences being due to the AF mechanism, and to process the color and luminance images into a fused color image using the calculated differences.

A color correction method is applied to an image correction apparatus having an image sensor, and includes searching a color deviation area within a detection image, analyzing the detection image to estimate a correction color value of the color deviation area, and calibrating the color deviation area by the correction color value to generate a calibrated detection image without color deviation.

An image sensor includes a pixel array including a plurality of pixels provided in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, and a signal processor configured to process first image data generated by the pixel array to generate a plurality of pieces of first full color image data, wherein the signal processor is further configured to split the first image data into a plurality of pieces of phase data, remosaic-process each of the plurality of pieces of phase data to generate a plurality of pieces of color phase data, merge the plurality of pieces of color phase data corresponding to a same color, respectively, to generate a plurality of pieces of preliminary color data, and compensate for the plurality of pieces of preliminary color data to generate the plurality of pieces of first full color image data.

Embodiments relate to a multi-mode demosaicing circuit able to receive and demosaic image data in a different raw image formats, such as Bayer raw image format and Quad Bayer raw image format. The multi-mode demosaicing circuit comprises different circuitry for demosaicing different image formats that access a shared working memory. In addition, the multi-mode demosaicing circuit shares memory with a post-processing and scaling circuit configured to perform subsequent post-processing and/or scaling of the demosaiced image data, in which the operations of the post-processing and scaling circuit are modified based on the original raw image format of the demosaiced image data to use different amounts of the shared memory, to compensate for additional memory utilized by the multi-mode demosaicing circuit when demosaicing certain types of image data.

An image postprocessor enhances the quality and detail of a rendered image by applying a photosite demosaicing technique directly to the pixels stored in the viewport of the rendered image. The image postprocessor detects a first subset of the viewport pixels having color values that deviate by more than a threshold amount from color values of a neighboring second subset of the viewport pixels. The image postprocessor maps the viewport pixels to a set of emulated photosites based on a position of each pixel in the viewport, and demosaics and/or interpolates the color values associated with a subset of the emulated photosites in order to generate new pixels for the gap. The image postprocessor replaces the first subset of pixels in the viewport with the new pixels, and presents a second visualization based on the modified pixels of the viewport.

An image capture device includes a plurality of independently formed camera channels. Each of the plurality of independently formed camera channels includes a respective lens that receives incident light and transmits the incident light to a respective sensor without transmitting the incident light to respective sensor of other camera channels within the plurality of independently formed camera channels. Further, a processor that is communicatively coupled to the respective sensor of each of the plurality of independently formed camera channels. The processor is configured to control an integration time of the respective sensor of each of the plurality of independently formed camera channels individually with the receive respective images from the respective sensor of each of the plurality of independently formed camera channels, and form a combined image by combing each of the respective images.

Devices, methods, and systems for detecting false color in an image. An edge preserving filter is applied to an image sensor output to generate a first demosaiced image. A low pass filter is applied to the image sensor output to generate a second demosaiced image. A hue difference between the first demosaiced image and the second demosaiced image is calculated. A false color region is detected responsive to the hue difference exceeding a threshold hue difference.