Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.

Renesas Electronics Corporation

Maxell, Ltd.

Hitachi-lg Data Storage, Inc.

Renesas Technology Corp.

Hitachi Maxell, Limited

Akinobu Watanabe

Toshihiro Kato

Susumu Yoshida

Yasuyuki Mimatsu

Takuya Imaide

Nozomu Shimoda

Naozumi Sugimura

Toshio Kamimura

Katsuyuki Nakamura

Toshio Yamada

Takaki Matsushita

Yoshinori Deguchi

Hiroyuki Marumori

Hiromi Nishiura

Hiroyasu Otsubo

Kazuo Tanaka

Toshio Sasaki

Shigezumi Matsui

Tamotsu Ito

Naoki Kobayashi

Motoo Suwa

Masayuki Kobayashi

Chiyo Ohno

Akihisa Uchida

Tsutomu Usui

Keiji Nagayama

Hiroyuki Hayakawa

Yuuichi Nonaka

Katsuhiko Tonami

Mitsuya Kinoshita

Shigeru Yamamoto

Yukio Hiraiwa

Hiroyuki Ikeda

The problem to be solved is to make it possible to download via a network, efficiently manage, retrieve, and reproduce an external content associated with a content recorded on a recording medium. To solve the problem, a program is used which controls reproduction of information located on a recording medium and related information. The program includes the steps of: obtaining from the outside specific information associated with predetermined information recorded on a recording medium; and obtaining medium identification information located on a recording medium; wherein if the specific information has been obtained, a storage unit in a reproducing apparatus is controlled to associate the specific information with the medium identification information for storage.

Program, recording medium, and reproducing apparatus

A position information server receives position information of a subject from a distance sensor, decides a position information generation process to be executed by the distance sensor on the basis of the received position information, and transmits instruction information related to the position information generation process to the distance sensor.

Position estimation system

A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate SB and a wiring structure formed on a main surface of the semiconductor substrate SB. The uppermost first wiring layer among a plurality of wiring layers included in the wiring structure includes a pad PD, and the pad PD has a first region for bonding a copper wire and a second region for bringing a probe into contact with the pad. A second wiring layer that is lower by one layer than the first wiring layer among the plurality of wiring layers included in the wiring structure includes a wiring line Marranged immediately below the pad PD, the wiring line Mis arranged immediately below a region other than the first region of the pad PD, and no conductor pattern in the same layer as a layer of the wiring line Mbelong is formed immediately below the first region of the pad PD.

Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same

A semiconductor device having a plurality of wiring layers including a first wiring layer and a second wiring layer, with the first wiring layer being the uppermost layer and including a pad PD that has a first region for bonding a copper wire, and a second region for bringing a probe into contact with the pad. The second wiring layer is one layer below the first wiring layer and includes a first wiring line arranged immediately below the second region of the pad, the second wiring layer having no conductor pattern at a region overlapping with the first region of the pad PD.

Semiconductor device including a pad and a wiring line arranged for bringing a probe into contact with the pad and method of manufacturing the same

The present invention discloses a posture estimation system including a range image camera for acquiring and outputting range image and an attitude estimation device connected via the network to the range image camera. The range image camera includes a range image sensor, a range image generator that extracts a region including foreground pixels from the input range image acquired from the range image sensor and generates a range image including the extracted area, a first posture estimator that estimates a first joint position from the range image, and a first communicator that transmits the range image and the estimated first joint position. The posture estimating device includes a second communicator that receives the range image from the range image camera and the first joint position, a range image receiver that receives the range image via the second communicator, a posture estimator that estimates recognizes a second joint position different from the first joint position based on the range image received by the range image receiving unit, and generates estimated posture information based on the first joint position and the second joint position, and an outputter that outputs the generated estimated attitude information, wherein the first communicator sends a range image used for extracting the second joint position to the network.

Posture estimation system, posture estimation device and range image camera

Provided is a technology for preventing a frame-out of a person from an image acquired through a camera in a behavior analysis technology using the acquired image. A behavior analysis apparatus includes: an image acquisition unit; a person image extraction unit; a person skeleton detection unit; a person behavior analysis unit; a frame-out determination unit configured to determine a frame-out of the person toward an outside of the predetermined field angle as to one of whether or not the frame-out has occurred and whether or not the frame-out is predictable through use of any one of the person image area and the person skeleton; and a frame-out notification unit configured to notify the person of the determination in one of a case where the frame-out has occurred and a case where the frame-out is predictable.

Behavior analysis apparatus and behavior analysis method

The present invention provides a quantification technique of an installation state of a range image camera in a range image camera system provided with a plurality of range image cameras. In the range image camera system provided with the plurality of range image cameras and the range image camera cooperative processing device for cooperatively processing the plurality of range image cameras, the installation information of the range image cameras is generated from a range distribution of the range image photographed by the range cameras and a luminance distribution of the luminance image to photograph the reflected light of the irradiation light of the range image camera arranged adjacently.

Range image camera, range image camera system, and control method of them

A data recording/reproducing device for recording data on a recordable area of a recording medium in an arbitrary recording unit, includes a control unit that controls the operation of the data recording/reproducing device. The control unit designates a recording unit where data on the recordable area is not recorded as a non-use area, determines whether data has been recorded, or unrecorded in the recording unit on the recordable area, determines the recording unit designated as the non-use area to have been recorded, and records data in the recording unit determined to be unrecorded when data is recorded on the recording medium, under the control.

Data recording/reproducing device, archive system, and recording control method

When scenes of a story are divided and dubbed to a plurality of recording media, the recording media are added with information about a total number of recording media used and sequential numbers of the recording media.

Recording apparatus and reproducing apparatus

The present invention relates to recording and reproducing methods, recording and reproducing apparatuses, and a recording medium. In conventional techniques, even when recorded program contents are 3D-(stereoscopic view)-corresponding contents or non-3D-corresponding contents, there has been no means to easily distinguish the difference therebetween. Furthermore, there has been a problem that a virtual play list in which 3D contents and non-3D contents are mixed is unintentionally generated. In the present invention, the above described problems are solved by recording a 3D flag in a play list file. Furthermore, upon generation of a virtual play list, the set value of the recorded 3D flag is obtained, and whether 3D contents and non-3D contents are mixed or not is checked, thereby solving the problems.

Recording apparatus/method/medium and reproducing apparatus/method

Signals outputted from an I/O buffer with a parallel drive configuration are stabilized for reliability enhancement. Each I/O cell has a complementary I/O cell that outputs one output signal as a complementary signal made up of a non-inverted signal and an inverted signal. Two I/O cells are coupled in parallel. Output portions of first inverters are coupled together through a first wiring; and output portions of second inverters are coupled together through a second wiring. The first wiring is formed on the lower side of the I/O cells so that it is astride the two I/O cells, and the second wiring is formed above the first wiring so that it is astride the two I/O cells. The wirings are laid out so that the wiring length of the first wiring and the wiring length of the second wiring are substantially equal to each other.

Semiconductor device including chip with complementary I/O cells

An apparatus which easily discriminates 3D (stereoscopic vision) contents from non-3D contents among recorded program contents can be provided. Further, a unit to prohibit unintentional generation of a virtual play list where 3D contents and non-3D contents are mixed can be provided. For these purposes, a 3D flag is recorded in a play list file. Further, upon virtual play list generation, the recorded 3D flag set values are obtained and it is checked whether or not 3D contents and non-3D contents are mixed.

Recording apparatus/method/medium and reproduction apparatus/method

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Akinobu Watanabe