Technology is described for generating a valid token control signal from control signals from a row driver. In one example, a matrix type integrated circuit includes a row driver module and a 2D array of cell elements. The row driver module includes a voting logic module and at least two row drivers configured to generate control signals on at least two communal lines for cell elements of a row of the 2D array. Each row driver is configured to generate control signals on at least three control lines where at least two control lines are the communal lines and coupled to a corresponding communal line of another row driver. The voting logic module is coupled to the at least three control lines of one of the row drivers and configured to generate an output based on the control signals on the at least three control lines.

An electronic device according to various embodiments of the present invention may comprise: a processor; and an image sensor module electrically connected to the processor, wherein the image sensor module comprises: an image sensor; and a control circuit electrically connected to the image sensor and connected to the processor via an interface, and the control circuit is configured to: receive a signal for capturing an image of an external object; acquire multiple pieces of raw image data of the external object, using the image sensor; generate pixel information data associated with control of the image capture by the processor, using at least a part of the acquired multiple pieces of raw image data; generate compressed data obtained by compressing at least a part of the multiple pieces of raw image data; transmit the pixel information data to the processor according to a transmission period designated by the processor or the control circuit; and transmit the compressed data to the processor.

A multispectral sensor device may include a sensor array comprising a plurality of channels and one or more processors to determine that a time-sensitive measurement is to be performed, wherein the time-sensitive measurement is to be performed using data collected by one or more channels of the plurality of channels; cause the data to be collected by a proper subset of channels, of the plurality of channels, wherein the proper subset of channels includes the one or more channels; and determine the time-sensitive measurement based on the data.

An apparatus and method are described in which image information is received from an image sensor relating to one image frame, one or more sub-images are produced from the received image information according to given cropping data; and the produced one or more sub-images are forwarded through an output.

A light source unit is provided with a first light source, a second light source, and a third light source that emit red light, green light, and blue light, respectively, as illumination light. A light source controller controls emission intensity and emission timing of the illumination light to make an emission period of the red light longer than an emission period of each of the green light and the blue light. An image sensor is capable of separately receiving the light of each color reflected from an object of interest irradiated with the illumination light and capable of separately changing a light-receiving period of the light of each color. An imaging controller makes the light-receiving period of at least the red light coincide with the emission period of the red light.

Imaging apparatus (2000, 2100, 2200) includes a photosensitive medium (2004, 2204) and an array of pixel circuits (302), which are arranged in a regular grid on a semiconductor substrate (2002) and define respective pixels (2006, 2106) of the apparatus. Pixel electrodes (2012, 2112, 2212) are connected respectively to the pixel circuits in the array and coupled to read out photocharge from respective areas of the photosensitive medium to the pixel circuits. The pixel electrodes in a peripheral region of the array are spatially offset, relative to the regular grid, in respective directions away from a center of the array.

An electronic apparatus includes: an input unit that inputs image data generated by an image capturing unit that has a plurality of imaging regions and that has different imaging conditions for each of the imaging regions and data for the imaging conditions for each of the imaging regions; and a recording control unit that records the image data and the data for the imaging conditions that are inputted from the input unit in a recording unit, wherein the recording control unit records the image data in a recording region of the recording unit which is read after the data for the imaging conditions for each of the image regions.

An image pickup apparatus includes: an interest area setter configured to input a signal for setting multiple interest areas inside an image pickup area of an image sensor; a readout area setter configured to set a readout area from which an image signal is read out from the image sensor; a sensor readout controller configured to control readout of a pixel signal of the readout area from the image sensor; an output signal generator configured to generate an image signal to be output based on the pixel signal read out by the sensor readout controller; and a boundary identifier configured to make identifiable a boundary of each of the multiple interest areas in an image formed by the image signal to be output.

An imaging device of the present disclosure includes a detection unit that detects a specific region in a taken image as a region of interest, a control unit that performs control to read out a pixel signal at first pixel resolution in a region including the region of interest and read out a pixel signal at second pixel resolution lower than the first pixel resolution in a region not including the region of interest, and an analog-digital conversion unit that converts the pixel signal read out by the control by the control unit into a digital signal.

A hand-held or otherwise portable or spatial or temporal performance-based image capture device includes one or more lenses, an aperture and a main sensor for capturing an original main image. A secondary sensor and optical system are for capturing a reference image that has temporal and spatial overlap with the original image. The device performs an image processing method including capturing the main image with the main sensor and the reference image with the secondary sensor, and utilizing information from the reference image to enhance the main image. The main and secondary sensors are contained together within a housing.