A photographing apparatus that supported by a supporting assembly generates vibration when performing shake correction, the vibration sometimes affects the attitude control of the supporting assembly over the photographing apparatus. The present disclosure provides a control apparatus for controlling a photographing system including a photographing apparatus including an optical system, an image sensor, and a driving assembly, where when the photographing apparatus performs a shake correction, the driving assembly moves at least one of the optical system or the image sensor along a direction intersecting an optical axis of the optical system, and a supporting assembly rotatably supporting the photographing apparatus, the control apparatus including: a circuit configured to: obtain, based on a vibration signal indicating a vibration of the photographing apparatus, a driving signal of the driving assembly configured to perform the shake correction, and control the supporting assembly based on the vibration signal and the driving signal.

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for selecting a cropping area in a sequence of images captured by a camera. First external motion data including data of external factors affecting movement of the camera is correlated with internal motion data describing a movement of the camera. The first external motion data and the internal motion data are obtained during a first time interval. Second external motion data is obtained during a second time interval subsequent to the first time interval. A sequence of images being captured during a third time interval is stabilized by selecting a cropping area based on the correlation and the second external motion data. The cropping area remains constant and maximized in size with respect to the field of view of the images during the third time interval. The third time interval is subsequent to, or partly overlapping with, the second time interval.

A signal processing device includes an approximate curved surface conversion unit that includes a first stacked autoencoder pretrained on the basis of learning input data constituted by coordinate data acquired for each of multiple elements of an object, and that obtains approximate curved surface data indicating an approximate curved surface of the object in an intermediate layer of the first stacked autoencoder, on the basis of input data constituted by the coordinate data acquired for each of the elements, and a geometric modulation processing unit that includes a second stacked autoencoder having learned by machine learning on the basis of learning input data constituted by the approximate curved surface data and on the basis of training data constituted by a result obtained by coordinate conversion for each of the elements in a geometric modulation process performed for the object, and performs the geometric modulation process.

Provided in the present invention are a method for achieving a bullet time capturing effect and a panoramic camera. The method comprises: acquiring a panoramic video captured when a panoramic camera rotates around a capture target; acquiring from within the panoramic video hemispherical images close to the side of the capture target; splicing the hemispherical images to generate a spliced image; and fixing a viewpoint of the spliced image, thus achieving a bullet time capturing effect. According to the present invention, only one panoramic camera is needed to be able to capture the bullet time capturing effect, so that the capturing cost of the bullet time capturing effect in the present invention is low. Meanwhile, since the bullet time capturing effect is obtained by means of a panoramic video being captured when a panoramic camera rotates around a capture target and processing being carried out on the panoramic video, the precision is high.

The present invention relates to a camera module actuator movement sensing element required for camera shake correction, and a camera module flexible circuit board including the same. On the camera module flexible circuit board, there are mounted: a plurality of actuator movement sensing elements for sensing each of the movement distances of an actuator in the x-axis and y-axis directions perpendicular to the optical-axis (z-axis) direction of the actuator to which a lens assembly is coupled, and transmitting the same by a method using a two-wire interface; and an OIS controller IC for performing camera shake correction by receiving, from the plurality of actuator movement sensing elements, a feedback of the movement distances of the actuator by the method using a two-wire interface, wherein: the plurality of actuator movement sensing elements share a common serial data pin and a common serial clock pin with each other, and the common serial data pine and the common serial clock pin are connected to a serial data pin and a serial clock pin of the OIS controller IC, respectively; and the plurality of actuator movement sensing elements share a common power pin and a common ground pin with each other, or share only a common power pin or a common ground pin with each other.

A position detection device includes a background member, a reader, and processing circuitry. The background member has a higher absorption characteristic in an invisible wavelength region than in a visible wavelength region. The reader opposite the background member irradiates a recording medium having a mark and the background member with light of a visible wavelength to output a visible image or with light of an invisible wavelength to output an invisible image. The processing circuitry is configured to: detect an end position of the recording medium and a position of the mark on the recording medium from a read image output from the reader; and select the visible or invisible image as the read image used for position detection, according to an absorption characteristic of a color material forming the mark read by the reader and an absorption characteristic of the recording medium in the invisible wavelength region.

Provided is method for rectifying an image using an electronic device. The method includes simultaneously capturing a first image of a scene using a first image sensor and a second image of the scene using a second image sensor, a first field of view (FOV) of the first image sensor being different from a second FOV of the second image sensor; identifying a motion characteristic in the first image; determining a motion function based on one of the first image and a capture process of the first image that caused the motion characteristic in the first image; scaling the motion function from the first image by a scale of the first image sensor with respect to the second image sensor; and applying the scaled motion function onto the second FOV of the second image to obtain a rectified second image without the motion characteristic.

An image capturing device includes a housing and a processor. The processor is configured to determine whether a state of movement of the housing relative to an observation target is either a first state or a second state, and perform a control based on the state of the movement of the housing to cause change in electric energy for drive of the image capturing device.

An image capturing device includes a housing and a processor. The processor is configured to determine whether a state of movement of the housing relative to an observation target is either a first state or a second state, and perform a control based on the state of the movement of the housing to cause change in electric energy for drive of the image capturing device.

A video may be captured by an image capture device in motion. A stabilized view of the video may be generated by providing a punchout of the video. The punchout of the video may compensate for rotation of the image capture device during capture of the video. The size of the punchout of the video may be changed based on different rotational positions of to provide a view that includes different extents of the captured visual content. The changes in the size of the punchout may simulate changes in zoom of the visual content.