The apparatus comprises a camera (10) with a digital sensor read by a mechanism of the rolling shutter type delivering video data (S.sub.cam) line by line. An exposure control circuit (22) adjusts dynamically the exposure time (t.sub.exp) as a function of the level of illumination of the scene that is captured. A gyrometer unit (12) delivers a gyrometer signal (S.sub.gyro) representative of the instantaneous variations of attitude (φ, θ, ψ) of the camera, and a processing circuit (18) that receives the video data (S.sub.cam) and the gyrometer signal (S.sub.gyro) delivers as an output video data processed and corrected for artefacts introduced by vibrations specific to the apparatus. An anti-wobble filter (24) dynamically modifies the gain of the gyrometer signal as a function of the exposure time (t.sub.exp), so as to reduce the gain of the filter when the exposure time increases, and vice versa.

An image sensor generates first digital samples and second digital samples during respective first and second sampling intervals, the first digital samples including at least one digital sample of each pixel of a first plurality of pixels, and the second digital samples including at least one digital sample of each pixel of a second plurality of pixels. A sum of the first digital samples is accumulated within a first counter as the first sampling interval transpires, and a sum of the second digital samples is accumulated within the first counter as the second sampling interval transpires.

An imaging apparatus which communicates with an external apparatus via a network, includes an imaging unit; a first image processing unit configured to change, by image processing, a brightness of a captured image output from the imaging unit; a second image processing unit configured to change, by image processing that is different from the image processing by the first image processing unit, a brightness of a captured image output from the imaging unit; a receiving unit configured to receive, from the external apparatus, a single command in which first image processing information for controlling an operation of the first image processing unit and second image processing information for controlling an operation of the second image processing unit may be described; and a control unit configured to control the first image processing unit and the second image processing unit in accordance with the command received by the receiving unit.

Provided is an image pickup apparatus capable of reading out and outputting pixel data of a partial area of a rolling shutter type image sensor. The image pickup apparatus includes: a readout condition setter setting a readout condition for pixel data readout control from the image sensor; a charge time setter setting charge time of the image sensor; a skip setter setting, based on the readout condition, areas in which processing concerning one of readout and charge in an image pickup area of the image sensor is skipped; a controller controlling a charge of the image sensor and readout from the image sensor so as to achieve constant charge time of the image sensor within one frame based on the charge time and the areas set by the skip setter; and an image signal output unit outputting a pixel signal read out by the controller.

The invention relates to a method allowing the use of the information accessible by fluorescence imaging to be optimized. For this purpose, it implements the combination of a protocol for calibration and synchronization of a pulsed light for exciting a fluorescent marker, with the operation in “rolling shutter” mode of a fluorescence camera. An appropriate correction factor allows the complete signal integrated by all of the photodiodes of the camera to be used so that no image is lost.

An imaging apparatus including a frame buffer executes high-speed shooting consecutively in plural sessions. An imaging element includes a buffer, an image producing unit, a managing unit, and an output unit. The image producing unit produces an image in the case where an empty capacity of any of plural areas in the buffer exceeds a predetermined threshold value. The managing unit causes an area whose empty capacity exceeds the predetermined threshold value, of the plural areas to retain the image as a buffering image. The output unit extracts the buffering image from the buffer and outputting the buffering image, in order of the retention of the buffering image.

An identification apparatus includes: a plurality of light capturing units including light-capturing optical systems configured to capture a plurality of Raman scattered light fluxes from a sample, an optical fiber unit configured to include a plurality of optical fibers configured to respectively guide the captured Raman scattered light fluxes and in which the optical fibers are bundled at emission end portions thereof; a spectral element configured to disperse the guided Raman scattered light fluxes; an imaging unit configured to receive the dispersed Raman scattered light fluxes; and a data processor configured to acquire spectral data of the Raman scattered light fluxes from the imaging unit and configured to perform an identification process. The Raman scattered light fluxes dispersed by the spectral element are projected so that a spectral image formed on a light-receiving surface of the imaging unit extends along a main scanning direction of the imaging unit.

According to various, but not necessarily all, embodiments there is provided an apparatus comprising means for: capturing or causing capture of an image of an object using a rolling shutter having an aperture width and shutter scan speed; during the image capture, projecting or causing projection of electromagnetic radiation with a fixed-spatial, time-variable distribution onto the object, wherein the time-variable distribution of the projected electromagnetic radiation, the aperture width of the rolling shutter, and the shutter scan speed of the rolling shutter, are such that adjustment of one or more of these would not decrease a proportion of projected electromagnetic radiation captured which is directly reflected from a surface of the object.

An image sensor includes an active pixel array, at least one dummy reset array, a dummy read array, and an image processor. The image processor sequentially resets respective rows of pixels included in the at least one dummy reset array in a period in which pixels of the active pixel array do not perform a reset operation, and sequentially reads respective rows of pixels included in the dummy read array in a period in which the pixels of the active pixel array do not perform a read operation.

An electronic device, includes an input unit that inputs image data generated by an imaging unit that has a plurality of imaging regions with imaging conditions being different for each of the imaging regions, and data of the imaging conditions for each of the imaging regions; and an image processing unit that performs image processing upon the image data inputted from the input unit based on the imaging conditions for each of the imaging regions.