A method includes capturing, with an image capture device, a first image of a scene while a portion of the scene has a first alignment with a first detector of a focal plane array and a first bandpass filter is between the portion of the scene and the first detector. The method includes, in response to determining that the portion of the scene has a second alignment with a second detector of the focal plane array, the second alignment substantially matching the first alignment, and that a second bandpass filter having a second frequency range that is distinct from a first frequency range of the first bandpass filter is between the portion of the scene and the second detector, initiating storage of a second image of the scene, the second image captured while the portion of the scene has the second alignment with the second detector.

The functional effect of having additional color-sensing cone types in the human eye is implemented by an encoding of some spectral information differently for the left and right eyes. This different encoding for identical features seen by the left and right eyes is interpreted as a perceptively different feature by the human brain, allowing additional spectral information to be conveyed through the limited tristimulus sensitivity of the human eye.

An image quality adjustment device includes: a lighting controller that controls a display panel including a plurality of pixels, each including arrangement of a plurality of subpixels such that the display panel displays a measurement image in which a part of the plurality of subpixels is lit; and a first electric filter that removes at least a spatial frequency component greater than or equal to fd/2 from a first image obtained by capturing the measurement image displayed on the display panel using an capture device when a panel spatial frequency determined by a pixel pitch of the pixel in a direction in which the plurality of subpixels are arrayed is set to fd.

An optical filter that suppresses the occurrence of color mixing due to wavelength components on the short wavelength side relative to the desired transmission component. The optical filter includes a metal thin-film filter in which a plurality of openings are periodically arranged, and a first dielectric layer that coats a surface of the metal thin-film filter and coats or fills an interior of the opening of the metal thin-film filter. The optical filter also includes a second dielectric layer having a refractive index lower than a refractive index of the first dielectric layer and formed at least on an incidence surface side of the metal thin-film filter. The present technology can be applied to a hole array filter.

A solid-state imaging device includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion portions each provided to correspond to each of a plurality of pixels in a semiconductor substrate and receiving incident light through a light sensing surface, and a pixel separation portion that is embedded into a trench provided on a side portion of the photoelectric conversion portion and electrically separates the plurality of pixels in a side of an incident surface of the semiconductor substrate into which the incident light enters. The pixel separation portion is formed by an insulation material which absorbs the incident light entering the light sensing surface.

Apparatus for capturing a wide-color-gamut image includes a broadband electronic image sensor; optics gathering light from a scene and focusing an image formed by the gathered light along a light path onto the electronic image sensor; a filter interposed in the light path, constructed and arranged so as to allow individual wavelengths of the wide-gamut-color to pass through it in narrow bands of wavelengths having bandwidths narrower than a few tens of nanometers at each point in time; and a processor connected to the image sensor to capture a sequence of images synchronous with each narrow-band wavelength passed by the filter at each point in time, the processor combining the sequence of images into the wide-gamut-color image. Apparatus for projecting a wide-gamut-color image includes a wide-spectrum image source; optics projecting light from the image source to a display surface along a light path; a filter unit interposed in the light path, constructed and arranged so as to allow each individual wavelength of the wide-gamut-color to pass through it one, narrow-band wavelength at each point in time; and a processor connected to the image source to present a sequence of images synchronous with each narrow-band wavelength passed by the filter at each point in time, thus projecting the wide-gamut-color image.

Examples of an image sensor are disclosed. In one example, the image sensor comprises a pixel cell, a switchable optical filter, and a controller. The switchable optical filter is configured to select a optical frequency range and allow incident light of the selected optical frequency range to reach the pixel cell. The controller is configured to operate the switchable optical filter to enable the pixel cell to: receive, at different times, information related to incident light of different optical frequency ranges, and generate, at the different times, intensity measurements of the incident light of different optical frequency ranges.

A solid-state imaging device includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion portions each provided to correspond to each of a plurality of pixels in a semiconductor substrate and receiving incident light through a light sensing surface, and a pixel separation portion that is embedded into a trench provided on a side portion of the photoelectric conversion portion and electrically separates the plurality of pixels in a side of an incident surface of the semiconductor substrate into which the incident light enters. The pixel separation portion is formed by an insulation material which absorbs the incident light entering the light sensing surface.

The present disclosure relates to an imaging apparatus, an imaging method, and a program that allow control of an invisible light component of a captured image without a mechanism that inserts and removes a filter that shields the invisible light component. A luminance composition unit combines a luminance signal of a visible light component of a pixel signal of a captured image including an invisible light component and the visible light component with the pixel signal. A chroma gain amplifier attenuates a chrominance signal of the visible light component. The present disclosure can be applied to an imaging apparatus and the like that include, for example, an optical filter that transmits visible light and infrared light, have pixels in an RGBW array, and perform a Bayer conversion process on a captured image.

An image processing apparatus having a plurality of Bayer arrays each including 4 pixels sharing a common electrode connected to a vertical signal line wherein: each of the pixels has a pixel electrode connected to a horizontal signal line; and the location of each of the horizontal signal lines and the location of each of the pixel electrodes each connected to one of the horizontal signal lines are determined so that the locations in a neighboring Bayer array are a mirror image of counterpart locations in another Bayer array adjacent to the neighboring Bayer array.