Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Toshiba Materials Co., Ltd.

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.

Nuvoton Technology Corporation Japan

Vlsi Technology Research Association

Hiroshi Iwai

Atsushi Yamamoto

Koichi Ogawa

Osamu Shibata

Kenichi Yamada

Hisayo S Momose

Yasuo Miyake

Kazuko Nishimura

Yoshiaki Satou

Masanobu Saito

Mizuki Ono

Takashi Yoshitomi

Yoshio Koyanagi

Tsutomu Sakata

Tatsuya Ohguro

Shinichi Nakamura

Akira Kato

Yasuhiro Katsumata

Shinji Kamaeguchi

Ken Takahashi

Ryosuke Shiozaki

Satoshi Maeda

Yukihiro Ushiku

Satoshi Matsuda

Tsukasa Takahashi

Yasushi Akasaka

Satoru Amari

Hideaki Nii

Kuniyuki Kakushima

Shuji Akamatsu

Toshiteru Hayashi

Shuichi Kameyama

Satoshi Shinozaki

Yoshio Ozawa

Akio Nakagawa

Ichiro Omura

Sanshiro Shishido

Hiroaki Kosugi

Mitsuhiko Kitagawa

Toshihiko Iinuma

Hiroomi Nakajima

Kouhei Morizuka

Kikuo Yamabe

Toyota Morimoto

Yoshio Nishi

Yoshinori Kataoka

Tomohiro Honda

Kazumi Inou

Kazuo Tsutsui

Toshihiro Asahina

Claudio Fiegna

Tatsuya Ooguro

Takaaki Kishigami

Wataru Saito

Shigeru Furumiya

Yasutoshi Okuno

Kaoru Ishida

Michihiro Yamagata

Toshifumi Nakatani

Hirofumi Nishimura

Masataka Matsui

Yuta Yamamoto

Shizuo Sawada

Masafumi Kubota

Takashi Enoki

Sadayoshi Hotta

Michikazu Matsumoto

Tomokuni Iijima

Toshimitsu Matsuyoshi

Akito Sasaki

Yoneharu Takubo

Hidenori Kitamura

Takayuki Ohtani

Jun-ichi Tsujimoto

Asako Hamada

Noritaka Shimizu

Hideyuki Oozu

Youichi Morinaga

Masayoshi Hirai

Makoto Yarino

Shoji So

Motohiko Sako

Hiroshi Iwamura

Motoyuki Okayama

Tomohito Nagata

Wei Li

Parhat Ahmet

Masami Konaka

Manabu Yumine

Kazuhiko Ohta

Kenji Iwahashi

Shotaro Nishimura

Hiroki Shinde

Hitoshi Wakabayashi

Chunmeng Dou

Hideo Ohtsuka

Yutaka Sonoda

Yoshimitsu Noguchi

Yusuke Nihei

Seiji Ueda

A detection system includes: an obtainer that obtains image data generated based on an amount of light received by each of a plurality of pixels from a detection target and event data generated based on a change in an amount of light received by each of a plurality of pixels from the detection target; a processor that extracts, from the event data as auxiliary information, information to be used to assist in detecting the detection target from the image data; and a detector that detects the detection target or a state of the detection target based on at least the image data and the auxiliary information.

Detection system and detection method

An imaging device including a first filter that passes a first light and a second light; a second filter that blocks the second light; photoelectric converters that have sensitivity to the first light and the second light; and a processor, in which one of the photoelectric converters detects a light passing through the first filter to generate a first signal, one of the photoelectric converters detects a light passing through the first filter and the second filter to generate a second signal, and the processor performs the second light sensing based on the first signal and the second signal.

Imaging device, imaging system, vehicle running control system, and image processing device

A light apparatus mounted on a vehicle includes a lamp that emits light into a first region through a first cover and a radar provided on a lower side or an upper side of the lamp. The radar includes a separator provided between the lamp and the radar, a circuit board having a board surface arranged in a substantially horizontal manner, and an antenna that is disposed on the board surface of the circuit board, transmits electromagnetic waves through a second cover in a second region that is at least partially different from the first region, and receives reflected waves through the second cover from objects outside the vehicle in the second region.

In-vehicle light apparatus

A camera system including an imaging device that captures a first image by a normal exposure including only one exposure and that captures a second image by a multiple exposure including a plurality of exposures; and a control circuit. The the imaging device captures the second image in a first frame period, and the control circuit determines, based on the second image captured in the first frame period, whether to capture an image by the normal exposure or capture an image by the multiple exposure in a second frame period following the first frame period.

Camera system and traveling control system

An imaging device having an imager that includes first pixels having sensitivity to a first light and second pixels having sensitivity to a second light, a wavelength of the first light being different from a wavelength of the second light. The imager being configured to acquire first image data from the first pixels and being configured to acquire second image data from the second pixels. Each of the first image data and the second image data including an image of a code, the code being configured to output the second light. The imaging device further including an image processor configured to extract an image of the code based on the first image data and the second image data.

An image capture control device includes a recognition unit that determines whether a peripheral situation corresponds to a predetermined situation based on image data, and a controller that controls an infrared light irradiation unit to increase a pulse number of transmission pulses to be emitted to a target, when the recognition unit determines that the peripheral situation corresponds to the predetermined situation.

Image capture control device, image capture control method, and recording medium

An imaging device includes a pixel. The pixel includes: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; a photoelectric conversion layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, the photoelectric conversion layer converting light into signal charge; and a charge accumulation region coupled to the second electrode, the charge accumulation region accumulating the signal charge. The pixel captures first data in a first exposure period and captures second data in a second exposure period different from the first exposure period, the first exposure period and the second exposure period being included in a frame period. A length of the first exposure period is different from a length of the second exposure period. The imaging device generates multiple-exposure image data including at least the first data and the second data.

Driving control system and driving control method

A light apparatus mounted on a vehicle includes a lamp unit having: a first cover, and a light source that emits light through a first cover into a predetermined area including a first direction. The light apparatus also includes: a radar unit provided on a lower side or an upper side of the lamp unit, and a separator provided between the lamp unit and the radar unit. The radar unit includes: a circuit board having a board surface arranged in a substantially horizontal state, and an antenna unit that transmits an electromagnetic wave in a range including a second direction different from the first direction and that receives a reflected wave from an object existing outside the vehicle. The antenna unit is arranged in the board surface.

An imaging apparatus that is mounted on a vehicle that runs on a road surface includes: a light source that emits illumination light which is infrared light; a solid-state imaging device that images a subject and outputs an imaging signal indicating a light exposure amount; and a computator that computes subject information regarding the subject by using the imaging signal. The solid-state imaging device includes: first pixels that image the subject by receiving reflected light that is the illumination light reflected off the subject; and second pixels that image the subject by receiving visible light. Information indicated by an imaging signal outputted from the first pixels is information regarding a slope of the road surface, and information indicated by an imaging signal outputted from the second pixels is information regarding an appearance of the road surface.

Imaging apparatus and solid-state imaging device used therein

A camera system includes an imaging device that acquires a first image by a normal exposure including only one exposure and that acquires a second image by a multiple exposure including a plurality of exposures; and an image processor that extracts a feature value of a first object in the first image and that identifies one or more locations corresponding to the feature value in the second image.

An antenna apparatus for transmitting and receiving electromagnetic waves via a cover member disposed outside, including: first and second antenna sections that are disposed adjacently to each other along a direction orthogonal to a predetermined direction to which the electromagnetic waves are transmitted and received and that transmit the electromagnetic waves, respectively; and first and second dielectric lenses that are disposed in the predetermined direction to which the first and second antenna sections transmit their electromagnetic waves and narrow beams of the electromagnetic waves transmitted by the first and second antennas, respectively, to transmit to the outside, in which an outer end face of first dielectric lens protrudes further forward in the predetermined direction than an outer end face of second dielectric lens.

Antenna apparatus

An in-vehicle light apparatus for a vehicle is provided and includes lamp radar units. The lamp unit includes a light source and a reflector arranged around the light source and outputting light from an opening area of the reflector to a predetermined region including in a first direction. The radar unit is provided on a lower or upper side of the lamp unit and includes a circuit board having a board surface arranged in a substantially horizontal state and an antenna unit that transmits an electromagnetic wave and receives a reflected wave in a second direction. The opening area extends in a third direction different from the first direction and the second direction in plan view, and a direction perpendicular to the second direction on the board surface is a direction intersecting the first direction and non-parallel to the third direction.

An image generation device includes a first reception unit and a control unit. The first reception unit receives travel information about the travel state of a moving body. The control unit sets, based on the travel information, a multiple-exposure region in an imaging region of an image sensor used on the moving body, and generates image data in which the multiple-exposure region in the imaging region is formed through a multiple exposure and a region other than the multiple-exposure region is not formed through the multiple exposure.

Image generation device, image generation method and recording medium

An objective is recognition of the travel direction of an object captured in an image frame. An image generating apparatus includes: a receiver circuit that receives a single exposure frame created by a single exposure and a multiple exposure frame created by multiple exposures after the single exposure frame, the single exposure frame and the multiple exposure frame being output from an image sensor; and a control circuit that specifies a starting point of a motion track of an object in the multiple exposure frame in accordance with a position of the object in the single exposure frame and a position of the same object in the multiple exposure frame.

Image generating apparatus, image generating method, and recording medium having the program stored thereon

An imaging device including an imager that includes first pixels having sensitivity to a first light and second pixels having sensitivity to a second light, a wavelength of the first light being different from a wavelength of the second light, the imager acquiring first image data from the first pixels and acquiring second image data from the second pixels, each of the first image data and the second image data including an image of a code, the code being configured to output the second light; and an image processor. The image processor performs a differential processing based on the first image data and the second image data to generate third image data, and extracts an image of the code from the third image data.

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