A method includes capturing, by a camera disposed behind a display panel of an electronic device, an original image through a semi-transparent pixel region of the display panel. The original image includes one or more color components. The method further includes determining, for a plurality of pixel regions of the original image, a point spread function (PSF) for each of the one or more color components. The method further includes performing, for the plurality of pixel regions of the original image, a deconvolution of each of the one or more color components of the original image based at least in part on their respective PSFs. The method thus includes generating a reconstructed image corresponding to the original image based on the deconvolutions of the one or more color components of the plurality of pixel regions of the original image.

A system includes a storage device storing a set of instructions and at least one processor in communication with the storage device. When executing the instructions, the at least one processor is configured to cause the system to obtain a first operation mode of the optical filter and determine a brightness value of visible light of ambient light. The at least one processor may also cause the system to obtain a brightness threshold related to the first operation mode, compare the brightness value of the visible light of the ambient light with the brightness threshold, and determine whether a switching condition is satisfied based on the comparison result. Upon the determination that the switching condition is satisfied, the at least one processor may further cause the system to switch the first operation mode of the optical filter to a second operation mode.

A traffic monitoring system generates a low-light image of a set of. The traffic system comprises a camera and a processing unit. The camera generates a first image comprising a set of pixels, each pixel comprising colour encoding values corresponding to a pixel colour, a saturation value, and a luma value. The processing unit is configured to, for each pixel corresponding to a first set of colours, reducing the saturation value of the pixel, and where the pixel colour corresponds to red and where the luma value of the pixel is below a first threshold, reducing the saturation value of the pixel, where the pixel colour corresponds to red and where the luma value of the pixel is equal to or above the first threshold, preserve the saturation value of the pixel, and generate the low-light image based on the modified colour encoding values of the first image.

A head-mounted extended reality (XR) display device includes a rigid mounting element coupled to a frame. The XR display device further includes right-side and left-side visible light cameras coupled to the rigid mounting element, right-side and left-side near-infrared (NIR) cameras coupled to the rigid mounting element, and an NIR light-emitting diode (LED) configured to illuminate a region within a field of view of the NIR cameras. The visible light cameras are configured to capture stereoscopic visible light images within a field of view of the user when the user is wearing the frame, and the NIR cameras are configured to capture stereoscopic NIR images within the field of view of the user when the user is wearing the frame.

The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging apparatus capable of suppressing occurrence of color mixing, a method for manufacturing the solid-state imaging apparatus, and an electronic device. The solid-state imaging apparatus includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a pixel region. Each of the pixels has: a first optical filter layer disposed on a photoelectric conversion unit; a second optical filter layer disposed on the first optical filter layer; and a separation wall separating at least a part of the first optical filter layer for each of the pixels. Either the first optical filter layer or the second optical filter layer in at least one of the pixels is formed by an infrared cut filter, while the other is formed by a color filter. The present technology can be applied to a CMOS image sensor including a visible light pixel.

The present invention is provided with an imaging unit (10) that has an imaging head (11) to be inserted into the digestive tract (112) and images a living body by applying a laser to the digestive tract (112) via the imaging head (11); a control unit (50) for controlling the imaging head (11) to move inside the digestive tract (112); and an image processing unit (70) for processing an image captured by the imaging unit (10). The imaging unit (10) captures a plurality of imaging regions (P) to be imaged along with the movement of the imaging head (11) such that a portion of adjacent imaging regions (P1, P2) overlap, and the image processing unit (70) overlaps regions (Pa) in which the plurality of imaging regions (P1, P2) are overlapped to generate a composite image.

The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging device, an imaging apparatus, and an electronic apparatus, which can suppress a color mixture without lowering the sensitivity. In pixels (red pixels (R pixels), green pixels (G pixels), and blue pixels (B pixels)) other than W pixels and adjacent to the W pixels, light shielding films thicker than those of the W pixels are formed at positions adjacent to the W pixels. Furthermore, the shorter the wavelength, the thicker the light shielding film in the RGB pixels other than the W pixels. The present technology is applicable to the solid-state imaging device.

An image processing device 100 comprises: an acquisition unit 110 that acquires a color image captured in accordance with incident light including visible light and near-infrared light, said color image including a first area and a second area that is captured with reduced near-infrared light in the incident light compared with the first area; an estimation unit f120 that estimates spectral characteristics of the incident light on the basis of color information of the acquired color image, and information modeling the spectral characteristics of the incident lights; a generation unit 130 that generates a visible light image and a near-infrared image on the basis of the estimated spectral characteristics; and a correction unit 140 that corrects the generated visible image and near-infrared image on the basis of the color information of the second area in the color image.

There is provided an image generation method and an image synthesis method each of which can achieve an entire image having excellent image quality. An image generation method according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: arranging an image taking apparatus, a first polarizing plate, an object, and a second polarizing plate in the stated order; arranging a retardation plate between the first polarizing plate and the second polarizing plate; and monochromatizing a color of the second polarizing plate recognized by the image taking apparatus to a color complementary to that of the object through use of the retardation plate.

An image sensor may optimize control of each pixel and/or each photodiode therein according to various pixel structures therein. An electronic apparatus may include the image sensor. The image sensor may include a plurality of pixels, each including a photodiode and a transfer transistor configured to transfer charges accumulated in the photodiode to a floating diffusion floating diffusion region, and transfer transistor lines respectively connected to gate electrodes of the transfer transistors of the pixels. The transfer transistor lines may receive voltages having different magnitudes.