In a line sensor including color filters that are periodically disposed in a light-receiving-element row, a problem called a “mixture of colors” occurs. A “mixture of colors” occurs when light that has been transmitted through a color filter differing from a color filter corresponding to a light receiving element is incident upon the light receiving element. In a CMOS sensor 107 including a light-receiving-element row in which a plurality of photodiodes 1204 are disposed side by side in a main scanning direction and a plurality of color filters 1202 that are disposed in correspondence with the plurality of photodiodes 1204, the center of each color filter 1202 is displaced in a direction of the center of the light-receiving-element row from the center of the photodiode 1204 corresponding to the color filter.

A residue identification system including an image gathering unit that gathers at least one representation of a field and stiches the images together to produce a large single image of the field, an image analysis unit that generates residue map of the field and a residue analysis unit that processes the residue map to calculate a carbon emission of each area of the field.

An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing device that has a plurality of photoelectric converting elements, and a light restricting portion that has a plurality of light inlets and a plurality of light outlets provided to each of the plurality of photoelectric converting elements, that emits, to each of the plurality of photoelectric converting elements, light that can reach each of the plurality of light inlets among light incident on each of the plurality of light outlets and that restricts light that cannot reach each of the plurality of light outlets among the light incident on the light inlets from being emitted to each of the plurality of photoelectric converting elements.

According to one embodiment, an optical imaging apparatus includes: an image-forming optical portion, a wavelength selection portion, and an imaging portion. The image-forming optical portion forms an image of an object by means of light beams that include a first wavelength and a second wavelength different from the first wavelength. The first wavelength selection portion has wavelength selection regions. The wavelength selection regions are an anisotropic wavelength selection opening having a different distribution of the wavelength selection regions depending on a direction along a first axis and a direction along a second axis. The imaging portion is configured to simultaneously acquire an image of the first light beam and the second light beam.

A device including an array of pixels and a filter wheel may capture a plurality of images by exposing the array of pixels. The device may spin, while capturing the plurality of images, the filter wheel, and the filter wheel may include filter segments. In some implementations, a portion of the filter wheel in front of the array of pixels includes two or more filter segments.

An apparatus includes an RGB-IR image sensor, a structured light projector, and a control circuit. The control circuit may be configured to control a shutter exposure time of the RGB-IR image sensor and a turn on time of the structured light projector to obtain a sequence of images captured by the RGB-IR image sensor, wherein the sequence of images comprises at least one image including a structured light pattern and at least one image where the structured light pattern is absent.

The present disclosure relates to a solid state image sensor and electronic equipment that enable degradation in image quality of a captured image to be suppressed even if any pixel in a pixel array is configured as a functional pixel for obtaining desired information in order to obtain information different from a normal image. In a plurality of pixels constituting subblocks provided in an RGB Bayer array constituting a block which is a set of color units, normal pixels that capture a normal image are arranged longitudinally and laterally symmetrically within the subblock, and functional pixels for obtaining desired information other than capturing an image are arranged at the remaining positions. The present disclosure can be applied to a solid state image sensor.

A solid-state imaging apparatus includes a pixel array part in which a plurality of pixels are two-dimensionally arranged, in which each pixel has a first photoelectric conversion region formed above a semiconductor layer, a second photoelectric conversion region formed in the semiconductor layer, a first filter configured to transmit a light in a predetermined wavelength region corresponding to a color component, and a second filter having different transmission characteristics from the first filter, one photoelectric conversion region out of the first photoelectric conversion region and the second photoelectric conversion region photoelectrically converts a light in a visible light region, the other photoelectric conversion region photoelectrically converts a light in an infrared region, the first filter is formed above the first photoelectric conversion region, and the second filter has transmission characteristics of making wavelengths of lights in an infrared region absorbed in the other photoelectric conversion region formed below the first filter the same.

The generation device includes: an illuminating unit including light-emitting units simultaneously illuminate a surface of a medicine from irradiation directions different from each other; an imaging unit acquires a plurality of first images of the medicine corresponding to the respective wavelength bands from an imaging element; an image generating unit generates, based on the first images acquired by the imaging unit, a second image to which emphasis processing for emphasizing the engraved mark or the print has been applied; and a processing control unit controls the image generating unit to generate the second image when two or more of output values of the respective first images are equal to or more than a threshold, and controls the image generating unit not to generate the second image when less than two of the output values of the respective first images are equal to or more than the threshold.

A solid-state imaging apparatus includes a pixel array part in which a plurality of pixels are two-dimensionally arranged, in which each pixel has a first photoelectric conversion region formed above a semiconductor layer, a second photoelectric conversion region formed in the semiconductor layer, a first filter configured to transmit a light in a predetermined wavelength region corresponding to a color component, and a second filter having different transmission characteristics from the first filter, one photoelectric conversion region out of the first photoelectric conversion region and the second photoelectric conversion region photoelectrically converts a light in a visible light region, the other photoelectric conversion region photoelectrically converts a light in an infrared region, the first filter is formed above the first photoelectric conversion region, and the second filter has transmission characteristics of making wavelengths of lights in an infrared region absorbed in the other photoelectric conversion region formed below the first filter the same.