A light field camera includes a lens module generating a middle image, a light field sensor having a lens array and an image sensor device, and a position adjuster adjusting a position of the light field sensor. The light field camera is between an object side and an image side. The lens array between the lens module and the image side generates a light field image according to the middle image. The image sensor device is arranged at the image side and senses the light field image. When the light field sensor is at a first or second position, the light field image includes a first or second light field sub-image. A relation of a focal length f.sub.MLA of the lens array and an exit pupil distance P.sub.EXP of the lens module satisfies

[00001]$0.7\le \frac{f_{\mathrm{MLA}}}{P_{\mathrm{EXP}}}\le 1.3.$

Imaging pixels may be operated in a rolling shutter scanning mode. Charge signal that is generated on a first chip may be capacitively coupled to signal processing circuits on a second chip. A capacitor may be placed in the signal path that provides signal coupling between the chips and stores overflow charge from pixels that have been exposed to high light level illumination. This enables high dynamic range using only a single charge integration time. The pixel may include an in-pixel negative feedback amplifier. The chip-to-chip electrical connections between the first and second chips may be realized at each pixel as a hybrid bond with a single bond per pixel. Image sensors fabricated using this technology may have small size pixels, high resolution, high dynamic range, and a single charge integration time.

An imaging apparatus includes a camera shake correction unit which uses a coil and a magnet to move a movable portion including an image pickup device relative to a fixed portion. A position detection section detects the position of the movable portion. A setting section sets a resolving power of the detection of the position by the position detection section to a first or second resolving power which is a resolving power higher than the first resolving power and at which an amount of deviation from a target position is less than or equal to a pixel shift amount. A drive control section performs pixel shifts to move the movable portion with the second resolving power set by the setting section. A photography control section causes the image pickup device to perform exposures by timing of the pixel shifting and which composes images obtained by the exposures.

A solid-state imaging element that detects address events captures high-quality images. The solid-state imaging element includes a pixel array section that has a plurality of pixels including a specific pixel arranged in a two-dimensional lattice pattern. The specific pixel includes a pixel circuit and two analog-digital converters. The pixel circuit outputs two analog signals proportional to an amount of charge produced by photoelectric conversion. The analog-digital converters convert the respective two analog signals into digital signals with different resolutions.

An image capturing device for forming a higher resolution image of an image target having a plurality of pixel areas respectively is disclosed. The image capturing device includes an image sensor having a plurality of sensing pixels corresponding to the plurality of pixel areas respectively; an in-plane motion motor coupled to the image sensor, and configured to cause the image sensor to take a plurality of raw images related to the image target one by one; and a controller configured to synthesize the plurality of raw images into the higher resolution image, wherein: the image sensor has a sensor surface; the in-plane motion motor incrementally moves a plurality of times the image sensor, each time with a distance equal to 1/N of a pixel pitch of one of the plurality of sensing pixels, along a first direction parallel to the sensor surface to respectively capture the plurality of raw images for forming the higher resolution image; and N is a positive integer being larger than 1.

An imaging system includes a base, an imaging lens fixedly attached to the base, a board, a first set of flexures flexibly attaching the board to the base, and a detector mounted on the board and positioned at an image plane of the imaging lens. The imaging system further includes a driving mechanism configured to scan the board via the first set of flexures in a plane substantially perpendicular to an optical axis of the imaging lens, thereby scanning the detector to a plurality of image positions in the image plane. The imaging system further includes electronic circuitry configured to read out a respective electrical signal output by the detector as the detector is scanned to each respective image position of the plurality of image positions in the image plane, and generate an image based on the electrical signals read out from the detector at the plurality of image positions.

In a display system, an imaging apparatus takes a video by shifting pixels in units of frames by moving a solid state image sensing device or an optical member physically. A projection video display apparatus acquires a video taken by the imaging apparatus, optically performs pixel shift corresponding to pixel shift performed in the imaging apparatus at the time of imaging, and projects the video acquired.

An imaging system includes an imaging optical system, an imaging device, an actuator, and control circuitry. The actuator changes a relative position of a plurality of pixel cells and an image of a subject. The pixel cells include a photoelectric converter and a charge accumulation region. The control circuitry sets the relative position to a first position, and a first signal charge obtained at the photoelectric converter during a first exposure is accumulated in the charge accumulation region. The relative position is set to a second position different from the first position, and a second signal charge obtained at the photoelectric converter during a second exposure time that is different from the first exposure time is accumulated in the charge accumulation region in addition to the first signal charge.

An image sensor operating in multiple resolution modes including a low resolution mode and a high resolution mode includes a pixel array including a plurality of pixels, wherein each pixel in the plurality of pixels comprises a micro-lens, a first subpixel including a first photodiode, a second subpixel including a second photodiode, and the first subpixel and the second subpixel are adjacently disposed and share a floating diffusion region. The image sensor also includes a row driver providing control signals to the pixel array to control performing of an auto focus (AF) function, such that performing the AF function includes performing the AF function according to pixel units in the high resolution mode and performing the AF function according to pixel group units in the low resolution mode. A resolution corresponding to the low resolution mode is equal to or less than ¼ times a resolution corresponding to the high resolution mode.

Systems and methods for implementing array cameras configured to perform super-resolution processing to generate higher resolution super-resolved images using a plurality of captured images and lens stack arrays that can be utilized in array cameras are disclosed. An imaging device in accordance with one embodiment of the invention includes at least one imager array, and each imager in the array comprises a plurality of light sensing elements and a lens stack including at least one lens surface, where the lens stack is configured to form an image on the light sensing elements, control circuitry configured to capture images formed on the light sensing elements of each of the imagers, and a super-resolution processing module configured to generate at least one higher resolution super-resolved image using a plurality of the captured images.