A camera flash device, method and computer program for communicating between a primary camera flash device and other camera flash devices comprising: detecting orientation and position of the camera flash device and range of a primary subject in focus on the camera flash device; locating other networkable camera flash devices for communication; receiving subject data for a real time image of a subject from one or more of the located networkable camera flash devices; determining from subject data which networkable camera flash devices are pointing at the primary subject; determining two or more camera flash devices for use in a picture; and synchronizing determined two or more camera flash devices for flash operation when one or more of the camera flash devices takes a picture of the primary subject.

A camera operation apparatus including a display unit; and a processor which is configured to: list and display a profile image that is identification information of each camera corresponding to each of a plurality of cameras capable of synchronous photographing on a screen display of the display unit; receive a live view image of the camera corresponding to the profile image selected according to a selection of the profile image listed and displayed; and display the received live view image on the display unit.

A received image displaying apparatus comprises: a wireless communication unit that wirelessly receives the frame images transmitted by the image transmitting apparatus with which the received image displaying apparatus has established a connection of wireless communication; and a displaying unit that displays the frame images, which were wirelessly received by the wireless communication unit, in an order in which the frame images were captured. At least one of the image transmitting apparatus and the received image displaying apparatus comprises: a reference sync signal generating unit that generates the reference sync signals; and a control unit that, if the wireless communication unit has received no reference sync signals for a certain time interval, controls the reference sync signal generating unit to generate reference sync signals and that further controls the wireless communication unit to wirelessly transmit the reference sync signals to the other apparatus included in the image transmitting/receiving system.

A method and an apparatus for generating a composite image in an electronic device are provided. The method includes identifying a first image element of a first event from first images successively captured by a first image sensor of the electronic device, and identifying a second image element of a second event from second images successively captured by a second image sensor of the electronic device, the first images and the second images being simultaneously captured. The method further includes combining the first image element with the second image element based on a synchronization parameter to generate the composite image.

Provided is a processing apparatus including a processing unit that is connectable to a data bus, and performs output control on respective images captured by a plurality of image sensors connected to the data bus during a predetermined period of time. A timing of output of the image performed by each of the plurality of image sensors is changed by the output control.

The present invention relates to a method for generating control signals for an image capture device, the method being performed in a communication device comprising a first slave time generator and a second slave time generator, the communication device being connected to a first remote time server and a second remote time server, the method comprising: synchronizing the first slave time generator with the first remote time server; synchronizing the second slave time generator with the second remote time server; generating a first control signal based on the first clock, and sending the first control signal to the image capture device; and upon detecting a loss of synchronization between the first slave time generator and the first remote time server, generating a second control signal based on the second clock, and sending the second control signal to the image capture device.

An apparatus includes a generating unit and a transmitting unit. The generating unit generates synchronization format information regarding a vertical synchronizing frequency and a horizontal synchronizing frequency of a first video synchronizing signal, and generates phase difference information indicating a phase difference between the first video synchronizing signal and a first reference signal synchronized with a grand master clock. The transmitting unit transmits the synchronization format information and the phase difference information to an external apparatus that can generates a second video synchronizing signal synchronized with the first video synchronizing signal.

A system for producing a continuous image from separate image sources. The system may include an image-capture unit including two or more image-capture devices arranged in an outward-facing arrangement. The image-capture devices may have overlapping fields-of-view, and a processing device may combine images captured by the individual image-capture devices into a single, continuous image. The system may also include a control device that may control each of the individual image-capture devices. The control device may also synchronize image-capture of the individual image-capture devices.

A method, apparatus and terminal device for synchronous exposure applicable to a primary camera in a multi-camera system is provided. The method includes: after receiving an instruction for synchronous exposure, obtaining a plurality of initial hardware time codes by acquiring an initial hardware time code of each camera in the multi-camera system, determining a synchronization reference value according to the plurality of initial hardware time codes and, based on the synchronization reference value and the initial hardware time code of each camera, determining a frame compensation value corresponding to each camera, and transmitting the frame compensation value of each secondary camera to the corresponding secondary camera, such that when the primary camera adjusts an image length according to the corresponding frame compensation value, each secondary camera adjusts an image length of the image according to the corresponding frame compensation value, to synchronize exposure time of all cameras.

A dual-aperture camera comprising a first camera having a first sensor and a first image signal processor (ISP), the first camera operative to output a first stream of frames, a second camera having a second sensor and a second ISP, the second camera operative to output a second stream of frames, and a synchronization and operation control module configurable to control operation of one camera in a fully operational mode and operation of the other camera in a partially operational mode and to output an output of the fully operational camera as a dual-aperture camera output, whereby the partially operational mode of the other camera reduces a dual-aperture camera the power consumption in comparison with a full operational mode of the other camera.