An imaging device is implemented that corrects contour distortion of the telephoto and wide-angle ends of zoom lens and a reflex lens where the way the contour is distorted significantly differs between the centerward and receding directions. A UHDTV imaging device with a landscape aspect ratio such as 16:9 uses a high-power zoom lens or a reflex lens, obtains type information and aperture ratio information of the lens, obtains and stores coma aberration information of the lens, and individually and independently calculates the amounts of left and right horizontal contour correction in proportion to a distance from the center of a screen (hH/2), based on the obtained type information and aperture ratio information of the lens and the stored coma aberration information, and individually and independently performs left and right horizontal contour correction, using one of multi-stage horizontal contour correction, multi-stage vertical contour correction, and multi-stage oblique contour correction.

The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging device, a method of manufacturing the same, and an electronic device capable of improving sensitivity in a certain wavelength band and at the same time reducing color mixture of light of other wavelength bands in a photoelectric conversion unit. The solid-state imaging device is provided with a first photoelectric conversion unit which generates a signal charge corresponding to a light amount of light of a first color component on a short wavelength side out of incident light, a second photoelectric conversion unit which generates a signal charge corresponding to a light amount of light of a second color component on a long wavelength side out of the incident light, and a first optical interference film provided between the first photoelectric conversion unit and the second photoelectric conversion unit formed below the first photoelectric conversion unit which transmits the light on the long wavelength side while reflecting the light on the short wavelength side out of the incident light. The present technology may be applied to a CMOS image sensor, for example.

Provided are an image sensor and an imaging device including the same. The image sensor is configured to generate illuminance data by receiving a light signal including image information of an object and ambient light information and includes a sensing module including a pixel array including a plurality of unit pixels, configured to sense the light signal irradiated to the pixel array and to generate pixel data corresponding to the sensed light signal, and an illuminance data generator configured to generate illuminance data corresponding to ambient light based on the pixel data, wherein the illuminance data generator is configured to generate the illuminance data based on pixel data when the light signal is not focused on the pixel array.

A method for operating an electronic display includes receiving, using a controller, sensor data related to operational parameters of the electronic display based at least in part on illuminating a sense pixel of at least one row of pixels of the electronic display, wherein a first set of pixels below the at least one row of pixels renders a portion of a first image frame and a second set of pixels above the at least one row of pixels renders a portion of a second image frame. The method also includes adjusting, using the controller, image display on the electronic display based at least in part on the sensor data.

An image sensor and an image pick-up apparatus including the same are provided. The image sensor includes a plurality of phase difference detection pixels and a plurality of image detection pixels arranged in a lattice pattern together with the phase difference detection pixels, wherein the phase difference detection pixels are arranged at an interval of a predetermined number of pixels in the lattice pattern, and the predetermined number of pixels has a maximum value of 16. In a phase difference detection type auto focus (AF) system, focus accuracy is improved without deterioration of image quality.

A system for obtaining color imagery using SPADs includes a SPAD array that has a plurality of SPAD pixels. Each of the plurality of SPAD pixels includes a respective color filter positioned thereover. The system is configurable to capture an image frame using the SPAD array and generate a filtered image by performing a temporal filtering operation using the image frame and at least one preceding image frame. The at least one preceding image frame is captured by the SPAD array at a timepoint that temporally precedes a timepoint associated with the image frame. The system is also configurable to, after performing the temporal filtering operation, generate a color image by demosaicing the filtered image.

An imaging apparatus comprising an image sensor including a plurality of focus detection pixels for generating a focus detection image and a plurality of imaging pixels for generating a captured image, a color ratio detection unit detecting a color ratio based on a pixel value output from a pixel in a position surrounding a processing target pixel, a color conversion unit generating a first pixel value by applying color conversion with the color ratio to a pixel value output from a pixel that is located in the predetermined direction of the processing target pixel, and an adding unit generating a third pixel value by adding a second pixel value output from the processing target pixel with the first pixel value having the same color as the second pixel value.

The disclosure extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for widening dynamic range within an image in a light deficient environment.

A sensor unit (100) provided with a substrate (101), a plurality of light-receiving units (102) that are provided on the substrate (101) and detect light, and a diffraction grating layer (103) that is provided on the substrate (101) and the light-receiving units (102) and has at least two diffraction means for diffracting light of corresponding wavelengths and condensing the light onto the light-receiving units, wherein at least two of the diffraction means are composed from holograms formed on a first diffraction grating layer and at least a portion of the plurality of holograms formed on the first diffraction grating layer overlap at least partially with another adjacent hologram.

An imaging device is implemented that corrects contour distortion of the telephoto and wide-angle ends of zoom lens and a reflex lens where the way the contour is distorted significantly differs between the centerward and receding directions. A UHDTV imaging device with a landscape aspect ratio such as 16:9 uses a high-power zoom lens or a reflex lens, obtains type information and aperture ratio information of the lens, obtains and stores coma aberration information of the lens, and individually and independently calculates the amounts of left and right horizontal contour correction in proportion to a distance from the center of a screen (hH/2), based on the obtained type information and aperture ratio information of the lens and the stored coma aberration information, and individually and independently performs left and right horizontal contour correction, using one of multi-stage horizontal contour correction, multi-stage vertical contour correction, and multi-stage oblique contour correction.