An imaging apparatus and an imaging method are provided. The imaging apparatus includes an imager configured to output image data for a subject, a motion detector configured to detect motion of the imaging apparatus, and a controller configured to control the imager to suspend output of the image data in response to the motion detector detecting the motion.

A method includes receiving a sensing signal corresponding to an excursion of a camera; acquiring an ideal compensation value according to the sensing signal; controlling an optical image stabilization (OIS) component to execute an OIS stabilization operation to compensate for a first portion of the excursion of the camera, in which the OIS stabilization operation corresponds to an actual compensation value; and controlling an electronic image stabilization (EIS) component to execute an EIS stabilization operation according to the ideal compensation value and the actual compensation value to compensate for a second portion of the excursion of the camera.

An endoscope apparatus, comprising: an image pickup device; a detection device that detects whether or not an image region at which a part of an object region is edged along a direction parallel to the scan lines in a state that is different to a case where a plurality of the scan lines are simultaneously exposed exists in a frame image due to differences of exposure timings for each of the scan lines based on an image feature amount in the frame image that is obtained from the image data for each of the scan lines that is outputted from the image pickup device; and an exposure control device that lengthens an exposure time of each of the scan lines by the image pickup device in comparison to a case where the detection device does not detect the image region, if the detection device detects the image region.

Embodiments of the present application disclose various image capture control methods and apparatuses, wherein one of the methods comprises: acquiring motion information of an object during the process of image capture by an image sensor; determining, according to the motion information, a relative displacement of a sub-image that corresponds to the object on the image sensor within a first exposure duration; determining, in the image sensor, a first imaging region that corresponds to the relative displacement and that has not performed any image capture; adjusting an image capture control parameter of the first imaging region to shorten an exposure duration of the first imaging region; and performing, according to the image capture control parameter after being adjusted, image capture on the first imaging region. In the embodiments of the present application, overall quality of an image captured by an image sensor is improved.

Embodiments of the present application disclose various image capture control methods and apparatus. One of the image capture control methods comprises: acquiring motion information of an object; determining, according to the motion information, a relative displacement of an image that corresponds to the object on an image sensor within a first exposure duration; determining an imaging region that corresponds to the relative displacement in the image sensor; adjusting an image capture control parameter of the imaging region, to shorten the first exposure duration of the imaging region; and performing, by using the image sensor after being adjusted, an image capture on the object. In the embodiments of the present application, the degree of image blur for the imaging region due to motion of the object is reduced as far as possible, without affecting the quality of an image captured by another region of the image sensor, thereby improving overall quality of an image captured by the image sensor.

A method for reducing camera motion blur comprises, before acquiring an image frame for a video stream, a camera measurement unit measuring data related to a camera module motion during a time window; determining camera module motion based on the measured data and predicting a camera motion blur during acquisition of the image frame based at least on the determined camera module motion and the lens projection model; determining whether the predicted camera motion blur exceeds a threshold; in response to determining that the predicted camera motion blur exceeds the threshold, determining a reduction of the provisional exposure time determined to acquire the image frame so that the predicted camera motion blur reaches the threshold, determining whether a corresponding increase in the provisional gain determined to acquire the image frame is below a maximum gain value, adjusting the provisional exposure time and gain, and acquiring the image frame.

The image pickup apparatus of the present invention sets at least an imaging magnification of an optical system included in a second image pickup device or a sampling pitch of a signal in the second image pickup device; calculates, using image data of a plurality of frames captured by second image pickup device during exposure of first image pickup device for image data of a first frame, the amount of subject motion in the image data of the plurality of frames; and controls the exposure of the first image pickup device for the image data of the first frame, on the basis of the calculated amount of subject motion.

A camera for capturing video images in a series of frames includes an image sensor having an array of pixels. Each pixel receives an image and accumulates an electrical charge representative of the image during a frame. The camera also includes a pixel processor to sample a pixel output for each of the pixels of the image sensor during an intermediate portion of the frame to produce a signal representative of the image.

A system for three-dimensional image capture while moving. The system includes: an image capture device including at least two digital image sensors placed to capture a stereoscopic image; a processor for obtaining disparity information, associated with the digital images obtained by the image capture device and movement speed of elements in the digital images; a transmitter for sending the digital images to enable control of movement based on the digital images and the associated disparity information; and a controller for controlling the image capture device.

This imaging device is equipped with an interchangeable optical system, and includes: a sensor section that has a configuration allowing nondestructive reading of a signal from each pixel; a reading section that reads a signal from the sensor section in a nondestructive manner for each pixel; a signal storage section that is able to add up and store the signals for each pixel; and a correction control section that acquires shading characteristics and controls the reading section and the signal storage section. Each pixel has an organic layer that includes a photoelectric conversion layer. On the basis of the shading characteristics, the correction control section sets the number of operations of signal reading of peripheral pixels such that the number is greater than the number of operations of signal reading of central pixels, and generates image data from the signal of each pixel stored in the signal storage section.