An analog-to-digital conversion apparatus is provided. The analog-to-digital conversion apparatus includes an integrated circuit (IC) configured to generate a first interrupt request; and an analog-to-digital converter included in an integrated circuit, wherein the analog-to-digital converter is configured to receive a plurality of analog values from a plurality of channels, and convert at least a portion of the received analog values that correspond to at least a portion of channels of the plurality of channels, that are selected based on the first interrupt request into at least a portion of digital values.

An apparatus and a method for performing an Auto Focus (AF) function in an electronic device which does not perform the AF function while performing a camcorder function are provided. The apparatus includes a camera for receiving a photographing data, a camera processing unit for performing any one of a still picture acquisition function and an AF function, a recording processing unit for performing a function for recording the photographing data, a camera driver for operating the camera under control of the camera processing unit and the recording processing unit, and a processor for controlling the camera processing unit and the recording processing unit when detecting an AF request while photographing a moving picture to focus on the photographing data automatically and to record the focused photographing data.

A control apparatus includes a tilt driving unit configured to tilt at least one of an image sensor and an imaging optical system relative to a plane orthogonal to an optical axis, a focus driving unit configured to perform focus driving by moving a focus lens that constitutes at least part of the imaging optical system in an optical axis direction, and a controlling unit configured to control the focus driving unit and the tilt driving unit so as to adjust a focal plane to a predetermined surface. The controlling unit moves the focal plane in a vertical direction to the focal plane while maintaining the focal plane substantially parallel to the predetermined plane.

A depth measuring apparatus includes a camera assembly configured to capture a plurality of images of a target at a plurality of distances from the target. The depth measuring apparatus further includes a controller configured to, for each of a plurality of regions within the plurality of images: determine corresponding gradient values within the plurality of images; determine a corresponding maximum gradient value from the corresponding gradient values; and determine, based on the corresponding maximum gradient value, a depth measurement for a region of the plurality of regions.

An image capturing apparatus that allows a photographer to easily recognize whether or not a blurring generated in an image at the time of image capturing is due to a spherical aberration variable mechanism is provided. The image capturing apparatus, to/from which a lens barrel can be attached/detached, comprising a mounting unit configured to mount the lens barrel, a processor; and a memory storing a program which, when executed by the processor, causes the image capturing apparatus to obtain an adjustment amount of spherical aberration from the lens barrel mounted on the mounting unit, and control a display device to display information about the adjustment amount together with an image obtained through the lens barrel.

Provided are a polarization imaging apparatus, a polarization imaging method, a controller and a computer readable storage medium. The polarization imaging apparatus includes an optical rotation device, a lens device, an image sensor, an image processor, and a controller which are sequentially arranged along a ray direction of incident light. The controller is configured to control the optical rotation device to be in a first optical rotation state or a second optical rotation state, control the lens device to be in an in-focus state or an out-of-focus state, and control the image sensor to collect light passing through the optical rotation device and the lens device to obtain multiple images. The image processor is configured to obtain polarized image information according to the multiple images.

Multi-cameras and in particular dual-cameras comprising a Wide camera comprising a Wide lens and a Wide image sensor, the Wide lens having a Wide effective focal length EFL.sub.W and a folded Tele camera comprising a Tele lens with a first optical axis, a Tele image sensor and an OPFE, wherein the Tele lens includes, from an object side to an image side, a first lens element group G1, a second lens element group G2 and a third lens element group G3, wherein at least two of the lens element groups are movable relative to the image sensor along the first optical axis to bring the Tele lens to two zoom states, wherein an effective focal length (EFL) of the Tele lens is changed from EFL.sub.T,min in one zoom state to EFL.sub.T,max in the other zoom state, wherein EFL.sub.Tmin>1.5×EFL.sub.W and wherein EFL.sub.Tmax>1.5×EFL.sub.Tmin.

A device (1) for producing a photoactive system (10), in particular a deactivated photoactive system (10), characterised by: an imaging device (2) having at least one imaging arrangement (20), wherein the at least one imaging arrangement (20) has a beam passage plane (SE) and an optical axis (O), and the at least one imaging arrangement (20) is designed to generate electromagnetic beams which extend along a beam path and pass through the imaging arrangement (20) on the beam passage plane (SE) and to reflect the electromagnetic beams along the beam path at the photoactive arrangement (11) in order to image, on a first focal plane (B1) of the imaging arrangement (20), an evaluation image of a photoactive arrangement (11) of the photoactive system (10) to be produced, and the electromagnetic beams of the beam path are captured on the first focal plane (B1) in order to capture the evaluation image of the photoactive arrangement (11); and a first holding device (3a) having a first holding plane (Ha), on the first holding plane (Ha), an optical arrangement (12) of the photoactive system (10) to be produced; and a second holding device (3b) having a second holding plane (3b) for holding the photoactive arrangement (11) on the second holding plane (Hb); wherein the first holding device (3a) having the first holding plane (Ha) and/or the second holding device (3a) having the second holding plane (Ha) is/are movably positioned relative to the imaging device (2).

Disclosed is an image correction method, implemented in an image correction apparatus that corrects an image taken by a camera, the method including: obtaining a first image by taking an image of a chart including a plurality of circles, each of which includes one or more regions of interest (ROIs) in a tangential direction and a sagittal direction, through the camera; selecting and storing tangential and sagittal image blur correction data of the camera, based on image blur data in the tangential and sagittal directions of the camera measured using the obtained first image; and loading the stored tangential and sagittal image blur correction data and applying the loaded tangential and sagittal image blur correction data to correction for a second image taken by the camera. Thus, image distortion due to, in particular, tangential and sagittal image blurs is effectively corrected by taking individual characteristics of the camera into account.

An imaging device includes an image sensor configured to capture a subject image at a predetermined frame rate and generate imaging data for each frame; and a controller configured to control a display to display a captured image corresponding to the imaging data for each frame, wherein first follow-up information can be displayed on the captured image in the display with a frame delay to indicate a result of a first follow-up operation of following a subject on the captured image, and the controller generates second follow-up information that is displayed in a delay period shorter than the frame delay of the first follow-up information to indicate a result of a second follow-up operation different from the first follow-up operation.