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 have variable sensitivity, and include a photoelectric converter and a charge accumulation region. The control circuitry sets the relative position to a first position, and also sets the sensitivity of each pixel cell to a first sensitivity. A first signal charge obtained at the photoelectric converter is accumulated in the charge accumulation region. The relative position is set to a second position different from the first position, and also the sensitivity of each pixel cell is set to a second sensitivity different from the first sensitivity. A second signal charge obtained at the photoelectric converter is accumulated in the charge accumulation region in addition to the first signal charge.

Described herein are systems and methods for noninvasive functional brain imaging using low-coherence interferometry (e.g., for the purpose of creating a brain computer interface with higher spatiotemporal resolution). One variation of a system and method comprises optical interference components and techniques using a lock-in camera. The system comprises a light source and a processor configured to rapidly phase-shift the reference light beam across a pre-selected set of phase shifts or offsets, to store a set of interference patterns associated with each of these pre-selected phase shifts, and to process these stored interference patterns to compute an estimate of the number of photons traveling between a light source and the lock-in camera detector for which the path length falls within a user-defined path length range.

An imaging apparatus includes a clamp level is multiplied by a first feedback gain, and correct a signal of a part of photoelectric conversion portions of a unit pixel in an opening region based on a result of multiplication in which an error amount between a signal of a part of a photoelectric conversion portions of the unit pixel in a light-shielded region and a clamp level is multiplied by a second feedback gain, and thus the signal of the unit pixel can be corrected precisely.

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.

A radiation image capturing apparatus includes scan lines of 1.sup.st to n.sup.th lines, scan driving units, a controller, an OE signal line and a CPV signal line. The OE signal line is to input OE signal by which an ON voltage is applied to a scan line. The CPV signal line is to input CPV signal by which the scan line, to which the ON voltage is applied by the input of the OE signal, is shifted to a next scan line. To the scan driving units, the controller inputs the CPV signal to sequentially shift the scan line from the 1.sup.st line to the n.sup.th line, and inputs the OE signal to apply the ON voltage only when the scan line is a scan line of an effective pixel region from which image data is read.

An image synthesis method for a mobile terminal and the mobile terminal are provided. The method includes: performing a phase focusing on an object to be photographed based on a preset pixel of a photosensitive element in the mobile terminal when a user photographs the object to be photographed with the mobile terminal; controlling the photosensitive element to generate a displacement at an initial location to replace the preset pixel by an original pixel, and obtaining a replaced pixel; collecting first photosensitive data of the object to be photographed based on the replaced pixel, and controlling the photosensitive element to return to the initial location; photographing the object to be photographed, and enabling the photosensitive element to collect second photosensitive data of the object to be photographed at the initial location; and synthesizing an image of the object to be photographed according to the first and second photosensitive data.

An image processing apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to detect a positional shift amount of each of a plurality of images; select a composite target image from the plurality of images based on the detected positional shift amount; and obtain a composite image based on the positional shift amount and the selected composite target image.

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 times a resolution corresponding to the high resolution mode.

An imaging device includes a focusing element, an image sensor, and an actuator configured to translate at least one of the image sensor and the focusing element relative to each other. A controller of the imaging device is configured to use the image sensor to capture an image frame including at least a portion of the image of the object, determine a current position of the image of the object in the image frame, determine a deviation of the current position from a target position of the image of the object in the image frame, and operate the actuator to reduce the deviation. In this manner, the image of the object may be brought to a center of a captured image frame. Such an imaging device may be used as a self-aligning eye-tracking camera in a near-eye display.

Analyte arrays such as solutes in a slab-shaped gel following electrophoresis, and particularly arrays that are in excess of 3 cm square and up to 25 cm square and higher, are imaged at distances of 5 cm or less by either forming sub-images of the entire array and stitching together the sub-images by computer-based stitching technology, or by using an array of thin-film photoresponsive elements that is coextensive with the analyte array to form a single image of the array.