The present technology relates to an imaging apparatus, an imaging method, and a program that perform appropriate exposure control, to thereby enable a desired object to be appropriately imaged. The present technology includes: an imaging unit including a plurality of pixels having different spectral characteristics; and an exposure control unit setting information associated with exposure control on the plurality of pixels depending on specification information for specifying a kind of a measurement target. Alternatively, the present technology includes: an imaging unit including a plurality of pixels having different spectral characteristics; and an exposure control unit setting information associated with exposure control on the plurality of pixels on the basis of a predicted output value of each of the plurality of pixels based on a spectral characteristic related to a measurement target. The present technology is applicable to an imaging apparatus which senses vegetation, for example.

[Object] Provided is an electronic apparatus capable of Preventing image Quality deterioration of an image captured by a camera while reducing a bezel width.

[Solving Means] An electronic apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a display unit disposed on a first surface, a first imaging unit disposed on the side opposite to a display surface of the display unit, and a second imaging unit disposed on a second surface on the side opposite to the first surface. Sensitivity of the first imaging unit to a first wavelength band that includes blue light is higher than sensitivity of the second imaging unit to the first wavelength band. In addition, a ratio of blue light detection pixels in a pixel array of the first imaging unit may be higher than a ratio of blue light detection pixels in a pixel array of the second imaging unit.

Provided is an imaging apparatus that captures a multispectral image having a good image quality. An imaging apparatus (1) includes an imaging optical system (10) that includes a pupil region which is split into a plurality of regions including a first pupil region and a second pupil region different from the first pupil region, and a polarization filter which polarizes light beams passing through the first pupil region and the second pupil region in directions different from each other, an imaging element (100) that includes a first pixel which receives the light beam passing through the first pupil region and a second pixel which receives the light beam passing through the second pupil region, and a signal processing unit (200) that processes signals output from the imaging element (100), and outputs at least first image data consisting of an output signal of the first pixel and second image data consisting of an output signal of the second pixel. In the imaging optical system (10), wavelengths of the light beams passing through the first pupil region and the second pupil region are different from each other, and aberration characteristics of regions corresponding to the first pupil region and the second pupil region are different from each other.

An optical sensor device, includes an optical sensor that has a set of sensor elements, an optical filter that includes a plurality of regions, and one or more processors. A region, of the plurality of regions, includes a first set of optical channels comprising optical channels that are configured to pass light associated with respective subranges of a first wavelength range, a second set of optical channels comprising optical channels that are configured to pass light associated with respective subranges of a second wavelength range, and a third set of optical channels comprising optical channels that are configured to pass light associated with respective subranges of a third wavelength range. The one or more processors are configured to obtain, from the optical sensor, sensor data associated with a scene and determine image information associated with the scene based on the spectral information.

An imaging apparatus includes an image sensor, a filter array disposed on an optical path from a target object to the image sensor and including two-dimensionally-arranged optical filters, and a processing circuit that generates at least four pieces of spectral image data based on an image acquired by the image sensor. The optical filters include various types of optical filters with different spectral transmittance. Each of the at least four pieces of spectral image data indicates an image corresponding to one of at least four wavelength bands. The filter array includes at least one characteristic section. The processing circuit detects a relative position between the filter array and the image sensor based on the at least one characteristic section in the image acquired by the image sensor, and compensates for deviation between the relative position and a preliminarily-set relative position when the processing circuit detects the deviation.

Techniques are described for efficient high-resolution output of an image captured using a high-pixel-count image sensor based on pixel binning followed by luminance-guided umsampling. For example, an image sensor array is configured according to a red-green-blue-luminance (RGBL) CFA pattern, such that at least 50-percent of the imaging pixels of the array are luminance (L) pixels. Pixel binning is used during readout of the array to concurrently generate a downsampled RGB capture frame and a downsampled L capture frame. Following the readout, the L capture frame is upsampled (e.g., by upscaling and interpolation) to generate an L guide frame with 100-percent luminance density. An upsampled RGB frame can then be generated by interpolating the RGB capture frame based both on known neighboring RGB information (e.g., from the RGB capture frame and previously interpolated information), as adjusted based on local luminance information from the L guide frame.

An eye tracking system comprising a controller configured to receive a reference image of an eye of a user and a current image of the eye of the user. The controller is also configured to determine a difference between the reference image and the current image to define a differential image. The differential image has a two dimensional pixel array of pixel locations that are arranged in a plurality of rows and columns. Each pixel location has a differential intensity value. The controller is further configured to calculate a plurality of row values by combining the differential intensity values in corresponding rows of the differential image and to determine eyelid data based on the plurality of row values.

A multi-spectrum based image fusion apparatus is disclosed, which includes a light acquisition device, an image processor, and an image sensor having five types of photosensitive channels. The five types of photosensitive channels including red, green and blue RGB channels, an infrared IR channel and a full-band W channel. The light acquisition device acquires target light corresponding to incident light. The image sensor converts the target light into an image signal through the RGB channels, the IR channel and the W channel. The image processor analyzes the image signal into RGB color signals and a brightness signal, and fuses the RGB color signals and the brightness signal to obtain a fused image. The collection of the channels based on which the RGB color signals and the brightness signal are obtained includes the five types of photosensitive channels.

System and method for narrowing the transmission curves obtained using a spectral imager in which spectral images are acquired using a MEMS Fabri-Perot (FP) tunable filter. A method includes acquiring a first plurality of broad-band spectral images associated with respective MEMS FP etalon states and processing the first plurality of broad-band spectral images into a second plurality of narrow-band spectral images.

A first avalanche diode including a first semiconductor region and a second avalanche diode including a second semiconductor region are provided, a first isolation portion is arranged between the first semiconductor region and the second semiconductor region, the first isolation portion is constituted by a third semiconductor region, or a fourth semiconductor regions and the third semiconductor regions arranged to sandwich the fourth semiconductor region in plan view, and in the fourth semiconductor regions, an impurity concentration Nd of the third semiconductor region, an impurity concentration Na of the fourth semiconductor region, an elementary electric charge q, a dielectric constant ε of a semiconductor, a potential difference V between a P-N junction of the third semiconductor region and the fourth semiconductor region, and a length D of the third semiconductor region sandwiched by the fourth semiconductor regions satisfy Expression 1.

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