A camera module includes a lens barrel including at least one lens group; a moving frame that includes the lens barrel and moves in an optical axis direction and in a first direction and a second direction that are perpendicular to the optical axis direction; a fixed frame that movably supports the moving frame and provides the moving frame with a driving force in the optical axis direction, a driving force in the first direction, and a driving force in the second direction; and a base that fixes the fixed frame and includes an image sensor that is spaced apart from the at least one lens group in the optical axis direction.

An imaging device includes an imaging unit configured to image an object and output a captured image, a face recognition unit configured to recognize a face included in the captured image and detect a direction and a position of the recognized face, and a group detection unit configured to detect a group formed by the faces included in the captured image based on directions and positions of two faces being adjacent to each other among the faces included in the captured image.

A cognitive sensor and a method of operating the same. The cognitive sensor includes a sensor unit, which generates electric signals in response to outside stimulations; a signal processing unit, which generates sensed data regarding the outside stimulations by processing electric signals generated by the sensor unit; a cognitive circuit unit, which specifies an area of interest in the sensed data processed by the signal processing unit; and an output unit, which outputs the sensed data generated by the signal processing unit, wherein at least a portion of the sensed data output by the output unit is sensed data regarding the area of interest.

Systems and methods are provided for calibrating camera and measuring offsets for reducing distortions on images. The calibrating includes aligning an on-board image sensor and a lens barrel using a kinematic mount and affixing the onboard image sensor and the lens barrel to assemble a camera. The kinematic mount provides a predetermined number of degrees of freedom in aligning the on-board image sensor and the lens barrel. A device embeds the camera. The measuring includes receiving the camera in the kinematic mount and measuring an opposing pair of offset values as measured optical centers from the lens optical axis to the image sensor pointing reference at yaw orientations of the camera at 0 degree and 180 degrees. The method determines a total offset value by taking an average of the pair and canceling the rotationally symmetrical error. The method uses the offset value for reducing distortions on images by de-warping.

An imaging apparatus includes a reading unit, a display unit, and a control unit. The reading unit reads pixel signals from imaging pixels and focus detection pixels. The display unit displays an image. When both exposure/reading of the imaging pixels and the focus detection pixels are achievable within time corresponding to a display frame rate of the display unit, the control unit controls to alternate the exposure/reading of the imaging pixels and the exposure/reading of the focus detection pixels. When both the exposure/reading of imaging pixels and the focus detection pixels are not achievable within the time, the control unit controls to perform the exposure of the imaging pixels and the focus detection pixels at the same time and read the pixel signals of the imaging pixels and the focus detection pixels after the end of the exposure of the imaging pixels and the focus detection pixels.

An apparatus includes an image conversion unit suitable for converting a short exposure block according to an exposure ratio; a motion and saturation detection unit suitable for receiving a long exposure block and an L short exposure block converted by the image conversion unit, and detecting motion and saturation; a radiance map generation unit suitable for fusing the long and L short exposure blocks using a guided filter, and generating a radiance map; a luminance acquirement unit suitable for acquiring luminance of the radiance map, and generating luminance using the L short exposure block or respectively generating luminance using the long and L short exposure blocks; and a dynamic range compression unit suitable for performing global tone mapping using the luminance acquired by the luminance acquirement unit, and compressing a dynamic range.

A control apparatus includes a depth information acquirer (3) which acquires depth information of an object image, a position attitude acquirer (8) which acquires position information or attitude information of an apparatus, and an image processor (7, 9) which generates three-dimensional information based on information relating to an optical vibration-proof state of the apparatus, the depth information, and the position information or the attitude information.

A software routine detects a user selection of an icon on a touch screen of a portable digital image capturing device to communicate a digital image over a wireless network to a destination, and detects a selection of the digital image. The software routine further filters the digital image, identifies a user, and communicates the filtered digital image over the wireless network to the destination.

Reduced latency video stabilization methods and tools generate truncated filters for use in the temporal smoothing of global motion transforms representing jittery motion in captured video. The truncated filters comprise future and past tap counts that can be different from each other and are typically less than those of a baseline filter providing a baseline of video stabilization quality. The truncated filter future tap count can be determined experimentally by comparing a smoothed global motion transform set generated by applying a baseline filter to a video segment to those generated by multiple test filter with varying future tap counts, then settings the truncated filter future tap count based on an inflection point on an error-future tap count curve. A similar approach can be used to determine the truncated filter past tap count.

Wearable electronic devices, for example wearable camera systems, and methods for attaching electronic devices such as camera systems to eyewear or other wearable articles are described.