An apparatus and a method that perform a false color correction according to image characteristics of a color image in units of image regions are provided. Included therein is an image processor that receives inputs of a color image and a white (W) image photographed by a W array imaging element whose all pixels are placed in a white (W) pixel array and executes an image process that reduces false colors included in the color image. Together with a frequency-corresponding parameter calculation unit that receives an input of the white (W) image and calculates a frequency-corresponding parameter in units of image regions, and a positional deviation-corresponding parameter calculation unit that receives inputs of the white (W) image and the color image and calculates a positional deviation-corresponding parameter of the two input images in units of image regions, the image processor executes a blending process and calculates a corrected pixel value.

A method for rendering an image, called a final image, from at least one image acquired by a camera array, is provided. According to such a method, the determination of a color value for at least one pixel of the final image, called a current pixel, comprises: for at least one initial image acquired by the camera array, obtaining a color value of a pixel associated with said current pixel within said at least one initial image, acquiring at least one color value called a real color value; computing at least one interpolated color value, from said at least one real color value; determining the color value for said current pixel, as a function of said at least one real color value and said at least one interpolated color value.

Imaging systems providing high resolution, low light images with significant dynamic range are disclosed. The improvements to photo imaging sensors providing low costs and yet higher performance sensors may be obtained an enhanced photosensor generating a single color channel image per photosensor. The single color channel image contains luminence values corresponding to light focused onto the photosensor. The plurality of photosensors are constructed using Indium gallium nitride (InGaN) nanowire structures and nanopyrimid structures used in cells within an array of cells. Photosensors may be constructed as single color imaging devices as well as multi-color devices. The generation of various color channel images are controlled using metasurface filter structures as well as color filter layers setting a wavelength for absorbed light by controlling a concentration of indium gallium nitride (InGaN) within the color filter layers.

An object detection system includes color and infrared cameras, a controller-circuit, and instructions. The color and infrared cameras are configured to output respective color image and infrared image signals. The controller-circuit is in communication with the cameras, and includes a processor and a storage medium. The processor is configured to receive and transform the color image and infrared image signals into classification and location data associated with a detected object. The instructions are stored in the at least one storage medium and executed by the at least one processor, and are configured to utilize the color image and infrared image signals to form respective first and second maps. The first map has a first plurality of layers, and the second map has a second plurality of layers. Selected layers from each are paired and fused to form a feature pyramid that facilitates formulation of the classification and location data.

A three-dimensional (3D) measuring device may include a spherical laser scanner (SLS) structured to generate a 3D point cloud of an area; a plurality of cameras, each camera of the plurality of cameras being structured to capture a color photographic image; a controller operably coupled to the SLS and the camera; and a base on which the SLS is mounted. The controller may include a processor and a memory. The controller may be configured to add color data to the 3D point cloud based on the color photographic images captured by the plurality of cameras. The plurality of cameras may be provided on the base and spaced apart in a circumferential direction around a pan axis of the SLS. The plurality of cameras may be fixed relative to the pan axis.

Methods for auto white balance (AWB) processing are described herein. An image capture device includes a first image capture device to capture a first image, a second image capture device to capture a second image, and an image signal processor. The image signal processor is configured to generate a global AWB scale based on the first image and the second image, apply a first image capture device calibration factor to the global AWB scale to generate a first image capture device AWB scale, apply a second image capture device calibration factor to the global AWB scale to generate a second image capture device AWB scale, compensate the first image using the first image capture device AWB scale, compensate the second image using the second image capture device AWB scale, and output an image based on the compensated first image and compensated second image.

A system, method, and computer program product for generating a digital image is disclosed. In use, a first image is received from a first image sensor, where the first image sensor detects visible light color, and a second image and a third image are received from a second image sensor, where the second image sensor detects non-visible light intensity. Using an image processing subsystem, a resulting image is generated by combining the first image, the second image, and the third image, where at least one of the first image, the second image, or the third image is sampled under strobe illumination.

A method including providing a digital image from a camera imaging sensor wherein the image comprises both low resolution multispectral and panchromatic information; interpreting the digital image to obtain a low resolution multispectral digital image, interpreting the digital image to obtain a high resolution monochromatic digital, fusing the low resolution multispectral digital image and the high resolution monochromatic digital image to produce a high resolution colour image.

The present disclosure relates to methods and systems that may improve and/or modify images captured using multiscopic image capture systems. In an example embodiment, burst image data is captured via a multiscopic image capture system. The burst image data may include at least one image pair. The at least one image pair is aligned based on at least one rectifying homography function. The at least one aligned image pair is warped based on a stereo disparity between the respective images of the image pair. The warped and aligned images are then stacked and a denoising algorithm is applied. Optionally, a high dynamic range algorithm may be applied to at least one output image of the aligned, warped, and denoised images.

A signal processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a positioner and a synthesizer. The positioner generates, on the basis of two pieces of RAW data different in angle of view from each other, positioning data of the two pieces of RAW data. The synthesizer synthesizes the two pieces of RAW data with each other on the basis of the positioning data generated by the positioner.