From Photon to Pixel The Digital Camera Handbook [Hardcover]

The digital camera conceals remarkable technological innovations that affect the formation of the image, the color representation or automated measurements and settings.

** From photon to pixel photon ** describes the device both from the point of view of the physics of the phenomena involved, as technical components and software it uses. Based on the perceptual properties of the visual system as well as on standard transmission and representation, analyzes the solutions to meet the demands of the photographer on the development, contrast, white balance or stabilization of image.

 The advanced architectures adopted in mobile phones and developments of computational photography are also presented, foreshadowing the features of the future device.

Acknowledgments xiii

Chapter 1. First Contact  1

1.1. Toward a society of the image  1

1.2. The reason for this book 10

1.3. Physical principle of image formation  11

1.4. Camera block diagram  21

Chapter 2. The Photographic Objective Lens  25

2.1. Focusing  26

2.2. Depth of field  34

2.3. Angle of view 38

2.4. Centered systems 41

2.5. Fisheye systems  56

2.6. Incoherent diffraction 62

2.7. Camera calibration 73

2.8. Aberrations 78

Chapter 3. The Digital Sensor  87

3.1. Sensor size 88

3.2. The photodetector 91

3.3. Integrated filters in the sensor  102

Chapter 4. Radiometry and Photometry 109

4.1. Radiometry: physicall#&