An image pickup apparatus according to the present invention includes a plurality of pixels arranged in rows and columns, and each of the pixels includes a photoelectric conversion unit that accumulates signal charge generated by photoelectric conversion of irradiated light, a first holding unit and a second holding unit that hold the signal charge transferred from the photoelectric conversion unit, and an output unit that outputs, to a column signal line, a signal based on an amount of the signal charge held by the first holding unit or the second holding unit. The first holding unit and the second holding unit alternately hold the signal charge generated in the photoelectric conversion unit for each frame period, and in a period in which the signal charge is not transferred from the photoelectric conversion unit, the first holding unit and the second holding unit output the signal charge to the output unit.

Various examples are directed to systems and methods for detecting regions in video frames. For example, a computing device may receive a video comprising a plurality of frames and a video frame sequence of the plurality of frames. The computing device may select a plurality of scene point location from a first frame. The computing device may determine a plurality of columns in the first frame and fit a first sinusoidal function to a distribution of average column Y-axis displacements for the plurality of columns by column position. The computing device may determine a first difference based at least in part on the first scene point Y-axis displacement and an output of the first sinusoidal function at the X-axis position of the first scene point and determine that the first difference is greater than a threshold distance.

Described herein are methods and devices that employ a plurality of image sensors to capture a target image of a scene. As described, positioning at least one reflective or refractive surface near the plurality of image sensors enables the sensors to capture together an image of wider field of view and longer focal length than any sensor could capture individually by using the reflective or refractive surface to guide a portion of the image scene to each sensor. The different portions of the scene captured by the sensors may overlap, and may be aligned and cropped to generate the target image.

Embodiments of the present application disclose various light-communication sending methods and apparatus, various light-communication receiving methods and apparatus, and various light communication systems. A light-communication sending method comprises: acquiring a first region of an image; determining, according to the first region, information about density distribution of communication information that is to be modulated to light emitted by a light source; and controlling the light source to display the image, and during displaying of the image, modulating, according to the information about the density distribution of the communication information, the communication information to the light emitted by the light source. A light-communication receiving method comprises: acquiring a first region of an image; adjusting pixel density distribution of an image sensor according to the first region; and capturing the image by using the adjusted image sensor, and during capturing of the image, receiving communication information modulated by a transmit end to light emitted by a light source that displays the image. The present application helps implement capturing of an image of differentiated definition and receiving of differentiated communication information density by a receiver end, and improves the transmission efficiency of communication information.

A mechanism for radiation detection is disclosed. An integrated circuit usable in detecting radiation includes a plurality of readout circuits is described. A readout circuit of the plurality of readout circuits includes an integration capacitor and an averaging capacitor. The integration capacitor is coupled with a pixel of a photodetector pixel array. The pixel has a pixel area. An available area less than the pixel area is usable for layout of the integration capacitor. The integration capacitor has a capacitor area less than the available area. The averaging capacitor has an averaging capacitance greater than the integration capacitance of the integration capacitor. In some aspects, the integrated circuit further includes at least one cascaded averaging circuit coupled with the averaging capacitor.

Provided are an apparatus and method of converting a digital image signal, which is obtained through an image sensor comprising a plurality of pixels that are arranged in a matrix, into an analog image signal in order to transmit the analog image signal to a monitor device that outputs an image complying with a national television system committee (NTSC) standard or a phase-alternating line (PAL) standard. The method includes: generating a sample frequency based on the number of horizontal pixels of the digital image signal to comply with a horizontal scan period of the NTSC standard or the PAL standard; and converting image data of the horizontal pixels of the digital image signal into the analog image signal, according to the sample frequency.

An image processing apparatus comprises means for selecting, from a single image, a range where a target pixel is made to be a reference, means for approximating a distribution of pixel values of the selected range by a function that represents a curved surface, and means for calculating a vector related to the distribution of pixel values from a parameter of the function obtained as a result of the approximation.

Introduced here are multi-channel light sources able to produce a broad range of electromagnetic radiation. A multi-channel light source (also referred to as a “multi-channel emitter”) can be designed to produce visible light and/or non-visible light. For example, some embodiments of the multi-channel light source include illuminant(s) capable of emitting electromagnetic radiation within the visible range and illuminant(s) capable of emitting electromagnetic radiation in a non-visible range, such as the ultraviolet range or infrared range. By capturing images in conjunction with the visible and non-visible light, additional information on the ambient scene can be gleaned which may be useful, for example, during post-processing.

An electronic apparatus includes: an input unit that inputs data for imaging conditions for each of a plurality of imaging regions included in an image capturing unit, different imaging conditions being set for each of the imaging regions, and data for information relating to positions of the imaging regions; and a recording control unit that correlates the data for imaging conditions inputted from the input unit for each of the imaging regions with the information relating to the positions of the imaging regions and records correlated data in a recording unit.

An imaging element includes a plurality of imaging pixels each with a light receiver and a plurality of focus detection pixels each with a light receiver including an opening position different from opening positions in the imaging pixels. The imaging element includes a reading unit and a reading range setting unit. The reading unit reads pixel signals from the imaging pixels or the focus detection pixels. The reading range setting unit sets a reading range for the reading unit to read the pixel signals from the focus detection pixels.