The present disclosure relates to an image processing method and device, a camera component, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The component includes a first camera module sensing first-band light to generate a first image, a second camera module sensing the first-band light and second-band light and generating a second image, an infrared light source emitting the second-band light and a processor. The second image includes a bayer subimage and an infrared subimage. The processor is coupled with the first camera module, the second camera module and the infrared light source respectively. The processor is configured to perform image processing on at least one of the bayer subimage or the infrared subimage and the first image. In the embodiments, a depth image may be acquired without arranging any depth camera in a camera module array, so that the size of the camera component may be reduced, a space occupied by the component in an electronic device may be reduced, and miniaturization and cost reduction of the electronic device are facilitated.

The method comprises a step of processing pixel values provided at the output of an image sensor comprising a two-dimensional array of pixels including a mix of IR pixels and color pixels. The step of processing includes, for each color pixel, determining a local color-related ratio indicative of a part of infrared light reception in the color pixel, and estimating an infrared portion value from a color pixel value based on the local color-related ratio. The method further includes generating an infrared image from pixel values from the IR pixels and the estimated infrared portion values from the color pixels.

A depth sensing system includes a sensor having first and second sensor pixels to receive light from a surface. The system also includes a filter to allow transmission of full spectrum light to the first sensor pixel and visible light to the second sensor pixel while preventing transmission of infrared light to the second sensor pixel. The system further includes a processor to analyze the full spectrum light and the visible light to determine a depth of the surface. The filter is disposed between the sensor and the surface.

An apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a first control value related to white balance based on an input image, a determination unit configured to determine whether a first area including the acquired first control value is changeable, a control unit configured to change the first area to a second area based on a result of determination by the determination unit, and a calculation unit configured to calculate a second control value related to the white balance to be applied to the input image in the second area in a case where the first area is changed to the second area, wherein the control unit changes the first area to the second area by stages.

A 3 MOS camera includes a first prism that has a first reflection film which reflects IR light that causes a first image sensor to receive the IR light, a second prism that has a second reflection film which reflects A % (A: a predetermined real number) visible light and that causes a second image sensor to receive the A % visible light, a third prism that causes a third image sensor to receive a (100−A)% visible light, and a video signal processor that combines a first video signal, a second video signal, and a third video signal of an observation part. The video signal processor performs pixel shifting on one of the second video signal and the third video signal having substantially same brightness to generate a fourth video signal and outputs a video signal obtained by combining the fourth video signal and the first video signal.

A ranging device and a ranging method are provided. The ranging device includes a light source, an image sensor, and a processor. The light source projects a plurality of projection patterns onto a surface of an object to be measured at different times. The image sensor senses the surface of the object to be measured in synchronization with projection times of the projection patterns to obtain a plurality of sensing images respectively corresponding to the projection patterns. The processor analyzes the sensing images to determine depth information of the object to be measured. The processor performs trigonometric calculations to obtain the depth information.

An electronic device includes one or more processors and memory storing instructions for execution by the one or more processors. The stored instructions include instructions for: receiving infrared image information for a three-dimensional area; receiving non-infrared image information for the same three-dimensional area; performing nonlinear intensity adjustment for the received infrared image information; performing nonlinear intensity adjustment for the received non-infrared image information; blending the intensity-adjusted infrared image information and the intensity-adjusted non-infrared image information to obtain a merged image information; and providing the merged image information for determining a depth map. Also disclosed are a corresponding method performed by the electronic device and a computer readable storage medium storing instructions for execution by one or more processors of an electronic device.

A sensor includes a first image pixel array including first image pixels and a second image pixel array including second image pixels. A polarization layer is disposed between the first image pixels and the second image pixels. Scene light incident upon the second image pixels propagates through the first image pixels and the polarization layer to reach the second image pixels.

Image sensor, mobile terminal, image capturing method are provided. Pixel array of image sensor includes preset quantity of pixel units, pixel unit includes first and second pixels that are dual pixel focusing pixels, first pixel includes red, green, and blue subpixels, second pixel includes green subpixel and infrared subpixel, and at least one of red and blue subpixels, and each subpixel is arranged in four-in-one manner; position of infrared subpixel in second pixel is same as position of red subpixel, green subpixel, blue subpixel, first combination of subpixels, or second combination of subpixels in first pixel; or position of half the infrared subpixel in second pixel is same as position of half the red subpixel, half the green subpixel, or half the blue subpixel in first pixel, and half an infrared subpixel in each of two adjacent second pixels is combined to form entire infrared subpixel.

The present technology relates to an imaging device, an imaging method, and an electronic device enabling to improve image quality.

Two or more imaging units capable of imaging or sensing a same subject are included, in which at least one first imaging unit among the two or more imaging units includes a first filter configured to transmit a plurality of wavelength bands, and at least another one second imaging unit other than the first imaging unit among the two or more imaging units includes a second filter capable of varying a wavelength band. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a compound-eye camera module, an imaging device including a compound-eye camera module, a device that includes an imaging device and provides virtual reality or the like.