Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation

Hiroshi Sumihiro

Masataka Ogawa

Naoki Kuzuya

Seiichi Emoto

Hiroaki Ono

Mitsuharu Ohki

Hideshi Yamada

Hideki Koyanagi

Takeshi Masuura

Tohru Wada

Koji Enoki

Kyoko Ishida

Tomohiro Takahashi

Satoshi Takagi

Jun Nishikawa

Masao Tanaka

Yasuhiro Matsui

Takashi Fukuyama

Yukinao Kenjo

Takahiro Ikarashi

Shojiro Asami

Akihiko Saotome

Takahiro Ilnuma

Takeo Ohishi

An imaging element, an imaging method, and an imaging device capable of acquiring a pixel signal of a high dynamic range without losing an information amount are provided. An imaging element according to an embodiment includes an imaging unit (or) and a generation unit (). The imaging unit includes a unit pixel that outputs a pixel signal corresponding to received light. The generation unit generates, on the basis of the pixel signal, a processing pixel signal corresponding to each of a plurality of luminance regions having continuous luminance.

Imaging element, imaging method, and imaging device

Provided are an information collection system, an electronic shelf label, an electronic POP advertising, and a character information display device that allow information with higher accuracy to be collected. An information collection device that collects information associated with a customer or a product is included for each product type. Alternatively, an information processing device that supplies information associated with a product and an information display terminal that displays information associated with a product supplied from the information processing device are included.

Information collection system, electronic shelf label, electronic pop advertising, and character information display device

The present technology relates to an information collection system, an electronic shelf label, an electronic POP advertising, and a character information display device that allow information with higher accuracy to be collected. An information collection device that collects information associated with a customer or a product is included for each product type. Alternatively, an information processing device that supplies information associated with a product and an information display terminal that displays information associated with a product supplied from the information processing device are included. The present disclosure can be applied, for example, to an electronic shelf label, an image pickup device, a communication device, an information processing device, electronic equipment, a computer, a storage medium, a system, and the like.

An imaging apparatus includes: a focus lens driving section; an imaging section; and a focus detecting section. The focus lens driving section moves a position of a focus lens from one of an image side and an object side to the other over a predetermined driving period. The imaging section generates image data by starting exposure for a plurality of lines simultaneously and then by ending the exposure for the plurality of lines simultaneously within the predetermined driving period. The focus detecting section detects an in-focus position of the focus lens on a basis of contrast of the image data.

Imaging apparatus and control method of imaging apparatus

[Problem] To provide a solid imaging apparatus that is able to shorten the time from the detection of an object to the completion of imaging processing. [Solution] A solid imaging apparatus includes a control unit that controls a shutter operation for a pixel area having a plurality of pixels arranged in matrix, and a reading operation from the pixel area at a first reading speed and a second reading speed. The control unit starts the shutter operation for at least one row of the pixel area after the reading operation at the first reading speed is completed, and during execution of detection processing of an object read from the pixel area.

Solid imaging apparatus, control method of solid imaging apparatus, and computer program

The present disclosure relates to an image sensor, an image processing method, and an electronic device capable of executing image processing with fewer resources. The image sensor is provided with a pixel region in which pixels each including a photoelectric conversion unit which converts light to a charge and an in-pixel memory unit which holds the charge generated in the photoelectric conversion unit are arranged in a matrix manner, a driving unit which drives to read out a pixel signal from the pixel, and an image processing unit which performs image processing based on a plurality of images read out by a plurality of times of readout from the pixel region according to driving of the driving unit. The present technology may be applied to, for example, an image sensor including a logic circuit.

Image sensor, image processing method, and electronic device

An image sensor and an electronic device are disclosed. They are configured to output, from the image sensor, a plurality of different pieces of image data based on a full-size original image. In one example, an image sensor includes: a pixel unit that generates a full-size original image corresponding to incident light with many photoelectric conversion elements; a holding unit that has a capacity capable of holding at least the full-size original image; an image processing unit that generates a full-size processed image by performing predetermined image processing with respect to the full-size original image; and a modification unit that generates a modified-size processed image by modifying a size of the full-size processed image. The full-size processed image and the modified-size processed image are output. Applications include a CMOS image sensor in which a DRAM is installed.

Image sensor and electronic device

A sensor module of the present disclosure includes a sensor section; a memory section having a plurality of memory regions; an arithmetic operation section that performs a predetermined arithmetic operation while accessing the memory section on a basis of a detection result of the sensor section; and a memory control section that controls the memory section to start access to the memory regions at different timings.

Sensor module, method of controlling the same, and electronic apparatus

Disclosed herein is a memory controlling device including: an address converting section configured to convert a logical address included in a request issued from a plurality of clients into a physical address of a memory; a request dividing section configured to divide a converted request converted by the address converting section by a command unit for the memory on a basis of the physical address of the converted request; and an arbitrating section configured to perform arbitration on a basis of the physical address indicated in a divided request output from the request dividing section.

Memory controlling device and memory controlling method

A bus arbitration system employs counters respectively provided for an encoding section and an decoding section that are started when there is a request signal from the respective encoding section and decoding section. The counter values are outputted to respective comparators that compare the counter values with predetermined values and the results of the comparisons are fed to an arbitration controller. The arbitration controller in turn determines priority rankings for the encoding section and the decoding section based on the signals inputted from the comparators and outputs an acknowledgement signal to the module that has the highest priority.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, recording medium and program

The horizontal address and the vertical address of a picture image are arrayed at the lower and upper order sides, respectively, and allocated to a lower order side column address and an upper order side column address of the synchronous DRAM employed as a picture memory, respectively. A bank switching address is allocated between the upper most bit of the horizontal address and the lower most bit of the row address to enable data to be read continuously to achieve high-speed accessing and improve the utilization efficiency of the data bus.

Moving picture decoding device

Picture decoding and encoding method and apparatus for controlling

A moving picture decoding device in which picture data is read from a picture memory responsive to a motion vector to perform decoding the motion-compensated moving picture and in which the picture data is also read in a pre-set sequence for display. With the present moving picture decoding device, the combination of data, that is a word format, for a word simultaneously read from four memory devices (DRAMs), is set so as to be different for the motion compensation and for display. That is, during motion compensation, simultaneous reading of a word consisting of luminance (Y) signal component data D0, D1, D2 and D3 is time-divisionally changed over to simultaneous reading of a word consisting of chroma (C.sub.b and C.sub.r) signal component data D2, D3, D0 and D1. During display, two luminance data D0 and D1 (or D2 and D3) are read out simultaneously with the chroma (C.sub.b and C.sub.r) signal component data D2, D3 (or D0 and D1).

A digital video signal that has been encoded using motion-compensated prediction, transform encoding, and variable-length coding, is decoded using parallel processing. Frames of the video signal are divided into slices made up of a sequence of macroblocks. The signal to be decoded is slice-wise divided for parallel variable-length decoding. Each variable-length-decoded macroblock is divided into its constituent blocks for parallel inverse transform processing. Resulting blocks of difference data are added in parallel to corresponding blocks of reference data. The blocks of reference data corresponding to each macroblock are read out in parallel from reference data memories on the basis of a motion vector associated with the macroblock. Reference data corresponding to each macroblock is distributed for storage among a number of reference data memories.

Apparatus and method for reproducing a prediction-encoded video signal

A disk-shaped recording medium has a control record region in each recording region of successive recording tracks and which is divided into a first preformat region, a second preformat region and a focusing servo region arranged in succession in the direction along the respective track and respectively providing traverse data, tracking and clock data, and focusing servo data. An apparatus for reproducing data recorded in the tracks of such disk-shaped recording medium samples a playback output from an optical head scanning a track to detect focusing data from the focusing servo region and tracking data from the second preformat region and, in response thereto, applies focusing servo or tracking servo to the optical head. Further, traverse data is detected in the first preformat region to effect traverse counting of the recording tracks.

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