Fujitsu Corporation

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Hiroshi Katayama

Katsuaki Abe

Masahiro Mimura

Yasumi Imagawa

Chiharu Kawai

Rika Nishiike

Takaaki Kishigami

Makoto Hasegawa

Hitoshi Sasaki

Toshiyuki Tsumura

Katsushi Yokozaki

Takehiro Nakai

Yoichi Yamaki

Yoshio Koyanagi

Yutaka Saito

Naoshi Matsuo

Koichi Kudo

Daisuke Maeda

Yasufumi Takahashi

Hirofumi Yoshida

Yoshihiro Tomita

Toshihiro Okamoto

Shoji Hayakawa

Ken Oikawa

Tomoaki Nishikido

Tamon Sadasue

Hideaki Kurihara

Tetsuharu Tanoue

Yasushi Yamazaki

Akifumi Miyano

Mutsumi Saito

Hisanari Kimura

Kazuhiro Nojima

Yukari Yamazaki

Hitoshi Matsuzawa

Mina Tsukahara

Kei Murayama

Hanako Bando

Kenichiroh Narita

Yuuichi Inamura

Urara Watanabe

Gaku Nakamura

Yoshitaka Nihira

An object of the present disclosure is to provide a solid-state imaging device capable of suppressing deterioration of image quality. The solid-state imaging device includes: a first pixel that has a plurality of photoelectric conversion units sharing a first color filter with each other and a plurality of on-chip lenses; a second pixel that is arranged adjacent to the first pixel and has a plurality of photoelectric conversion units sharing a second color filter with each other and a plurality of on-chip lenses; and a first light shielding region that is provided between the first pixel and the second pixel.

Solid-state imaging device with enhanced pixel structure and light shielding region for improving image quality

The present technology relates to a light receiving element, a distance measurement module, and an electronic device that enable signal degradation during charge transfer to be reduced. The light receiving element includes a pixel at least including: a first charge holding unit and a second charge holding unit each of which holds an electric charge generated by a photodiode; a first transfer transistor that transfers the electric charge to the first charge holding unit; and a second transfer transistor that transfers the electric charge to the second charge holding unit, in which the first and second transfer transistors each include a vertical transistor including a vertical gate electrode portion. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a light receiving element that performs distance measurement by an indirect ToF method, and the like.

Light receiving element, distance measurement module, and electronic device

An optical symbol includes a data portion in which a plurality of cells is arranged. Each of the plurality of cells is assigned with a linear gradient according to a value.

Optical symbol, information processing device, and code reading method

An imaging element according to an embodiment includes: a light receiving unit including a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged in a lattice-pattern array, and a plurality of lenses provided for respective sets of elements on a one-to-one basis, each set of elements including two or more of the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged adjacent to each other. In the light receiving unit, among a plurality of pixel sets each including the set of elements and one of the plurality of lenses provided in the set of elements, at least two pixel sets adjacent to each other are different from each other in pupil correction amount.

Imaging element and electronic device

A recognition apparatus includes one or more processors, a memory to store a plurality of instructions which, when executed by the processors, cause the processors to extract an optically-readable symbol from an optically captured image including an image of the optically-readable symbol, the optically-readable symbol including a first cell line having a plurality of first cells, and one or more second cell lines each having one or more second cells, each of the one or more second cell lines connected to respective ones of the plurality of first cells of the first cell line, recognize first information expressed by the first cell line included in the extracted optically-readable symbol, recognize second information expressed by the one or more second cell lines included in the extracted optically-readable symbol, and acquire identification information included in the optically-readable symbol based at least in part on the first information and the second information.

Recognition apparatus, recognition method, storage medium, management system, and conveyance system

An information providing apparatus includes a processor configured to input an inquiry for a change date candidate for changing specifications of hardware resources used in information processing related to a service; and a storage unit configured to store at least one among a planned backup date for a process result of the information processing related to the service and a planned restore date for the information processing related to the service using the process result. The processor is further configured to determine as the change date candidate, a date within at least one period among a first period from a date of input of the inquiry until the planned backup date and a second period after the planned restore date, by referring to the storage unit, and to output the determined change date candidate.

Information providing apparatus, information providing method, and computer product

A seismic isolation apparatus is provided between a structure and a foundation floor, and the seismic isolation apparatus includes: a support plate that is provided so as to face the structure at a predetermined interval; a base plate that is fixed to the foundation floor; and an elasto-plastic damper that is provided between the support plate and the base plate to be fixed to the support plate and the base plate. The elasto-plastic damper includes an inner cylinder inside which an elasto-plastic member is provided and an outer cylinder, and the inner cylinder and the outer cylinder are configured to mutually slide in an axis direction thereof.

Seismic isolation device and seismic isolation method

A noise suppressing device receives sound signals through a plurality of sound-receiving units and suppresses noise components included in the input sound signals. The noise suppressing device includes a detecting unit which detects a usage pattern of the noise suppressing device from a plurality of usage patterns in which positional relationships of the plurality of sound-receiving units and/or positional relationships between the plurality of sound-receiving units and a target sound source are different from each other, a converting unit which converts using environment information used in a noise suppressing process to each of the sound signals inputted by the plurality of sound-receiving units into using environment information in accordance with a usage pattern detected by the detecting unit and a suppressing unit which performs the noise suppressing process using the using environment information converted by the converting unit to the sound signals.

Noise suppressing device, mobile phone, noise suppressing method, and recording medium

A positioning receiver in which the circuit configuration of the receiving system corresponding to a plurality of positioning systems can be simplified and the current consumption and circuit size of which can be reduced. A positioning receiver () comprises first low-pass filters () which limit outputs of a first signal mixer () and a second signal mixer () to a first bandwidth, and second low-pass filters () which are provided on the output side of the first low-pass filters () and limit the outputs of the first low-pass filters () to a second bandwidth narrower than the first bandwidth and sets the filter bandwidth of the first low-pass filters () greater than that of the second low-pass filters ().

Positioning receiver

A portable terminal deviceof the invention having at least two or more cases joinable in a plurality of different joining shapes includes a magnetism detection sectionbeing provided in at least one of the two or more cases for detecting a magnetism quantity; a storage sectionfor storing the effect amount produced by magnetism from a magnetism generation source of the portable terminal devicein the detected magnetism quantities for each of the plurality of different joining shapes of the portable terminal device; a case shape detection sectionfor detecting a joining shape of the portable terminal device; a data processing sectionfor correcting the detected magnetism quantity based on the stored effect amount in the detected joining shape; and a position measurement sectionfor measuring an azimuth based on the corrected magnetism quantity.

Portable terminal device

A method for changing reproduction speed of speech sound, includes the steps of: storing an input sound signal in a buffer; leaving a sound signal from the buffer as it is or extending the sound signal from the buffer in a sound section where a power of the input sound signal exceeds a threshold value; leaving the sound signal from the buffer as it is, compressing the sound signal from the buffer, or extending the sound signal from the buffer, in a no-sound section, so that the reproduction speed of speech sound is changed; wherein a speech head protection section is set prior to the sound section being set to be a storing amount of the buffer limited by a designated limited value; and compression or deletion of the sound signal is adjusted by a compression ratio or prevented if there is the sound section in the speech head protection section, so that speech head protection is performed.

Apparatus and method for changing reproduction speed of speech sound

A collapsable portable wireless unit () comprises an upper case () and a lower case () coupled through a hinge member () to open/close freely. A planar conductor () is arranged on the upper case (). First and second power supply sections () are arranged on the planar conductor () at a specified interval. A harmonic signal distributor () is arranged on a circuit board () provided in the lower case () and distributes a harmonic signal to the first and second power supply sections (). A phase shifter () sets the exciting phase of the harmonic signal in the second power supply sections () at a value different from that of the exciting phase of the harmonic signal in the first power supply sections ().

Collapsable portable wireless unit

A voice speed control apparatus comprising: an utterance/non-utterance judging unit judging whether a processing target segment in inputted a voice signal is an utterance segment or a non-utterance segment; a non-utterance continuation length acquiring unit acquiring a non-utterance continuation length representing a length of the voice signal judged continuously to be the non-utterance; a determining unit determining a reproducing speed of the processing target segment in the voice signal in accordance with the non-utterance continuation length so that the reproducing speed gets higher as the non-utterance continuation length gets larger and so that an increase in reproducing speed is restrained to a greater degree as the non-utterance continuation length becomes smaller; and a changing unit changing the reproducing speed of the voice signal, corresponding to the reproducing speed.

Voice speed control apparatus

The present invention provides an acoustic echo canceler for use in a telephone set having a handsfree conversation function. This acoustic echo canceler simultaneously achieves both the stabilization and speedup of an estimation operation and also attains the more improvement of speech quality. Moreover, the present invention provides a handsfree telephone set employing this acoustic echo canceler. Furthermore, this acoustic echo canceler is operative to cancel an echo generated by inputting an output of an acoustic device to itself substantially simultaneously with the outputting the output thereof. Further, this acoustic echo canceler comprises an adaptive filter for performing an operation of estimating the frequency characteristic and the phase characteristic of a part, whose frequency characteristic and phase characteristic vary, on an acoustic path and a fixed coefficient filter for simulating a part, whose frequency characteristic and phase characteristic are fixed, on the acoustic path.

Acoustic echo canceler and handsfree telephone set

An echo canceler makes it possible to adaptably control a power of speech reception voice and to reduce distortion of a voice output from a speaker. The echo canceler has a basic structure includes a power control section controlling a power for a speech reception voice, a first filtering section removing a particular component from an output of the power control section, an echo canceling section removing echo components of a speech reception voice, which are added to a speech transmission voice, a second filtering section filtering particular components of the speech reception and transmission voices, and a state judgement section judging existences of the speech reception and transmission voices from an output of the second filtering section and controlling a power attenuation amount of the power control section based on the judgement result.

Echo canceler

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