Sony Corporation

Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corporation

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Hiroshige Okamoto

Noboru Murabayashi

Sho Murakoshi

Masaru Miyamoto

Akihisa Kawamura

Toshiroh Nishio

Naoki Ejima

Hidekazu Suzuki

Tetsuya Hiroe

Tatsuya Narahara

Shunji Yoshimura

Hiroshi Yokoyama

Takamichi Mitsuhashi

Masataka Nishi

Tsutomu Akiyama

Tsutomu Seki

Tamotsu Kodama

Yasuhisa Nakajima

Alexander Berestov

Golnaz Abdollahian

Hiromasa Naganuma

Katsutoshi Sakao

Tadashi Saito

Daisuke Negi

Yoko Takahashi

Ken Someya

Muneaki Aminaka

Ryuichiro Hisamatsu

Hiraku Inoue

Kenichiro Kobayashi

Hirokazu Hashimoto

Nobuyuki Fujiwara

Harumi Watanabe

Tetsuo Nishigaki

Manabu Onishi

Yutaka Miki

Hideaki Okamura

Tatsuhiro Iida

Hirotada Taniuchi

Hirokazu Nagasawa

Kouji Takeuchi

Hironobu Yamauchi

Atsuko Tsukimura

Toyohiko Otsu

Takashi Kakuta

Provided is a locking/unlocking device that accurately detects an opening/closing state of an opening/closing device and optimizes timing to lock or unlock. The locking/unlocking device includes a drive unit that drives a lock mechanism of the opening/closing device, a magnetic detection unit that detects a change in a magnetic field based on a change in the relative position between a movable section and a fixed section of the opening/closing device, and a control unit that determines an open/closed state of the opening/closing device on the basis of the change in the magnetic field detected by the magnetic detection unit and activates the drive unit to lock or unlock the lock mechanism on the basis of the open/closed state.

Locking/unlocking device, locking/unlocking method, and locking/unlocking system

An apparatus includes a communications interface that receives first sensed data from a first sensor attached to a user and second sensed data from a second sensor attached to a user. That apparatus also includes circuitry that analyzes the first sensed data and the second sensed data and provides a display signal that causes a display to produce first visual information regarding a motion of the user and second visual information regarding the motion of the user, the first visual information being different than the second visual information.

Apparatus and method for automatically analyzing a motion in a sport

An image processing system and method of operation includes: a source image having source pixels; homogeneous blocks in the source image having a block color; a homogeneous region in the source image formed by merging the homogeneous blocks having the block color within a color threshold; a text background region having text pixels and background pixels in the homogeneous region with the text background region having a texture feature above a texture threshold and a region size above a region size threshold; and a binary text mask representing the text pixels and the background pixels for displaying on a device.

Image processing system for cluttered scenes and method of operation thereof

A text recognition system and method of operation thereof including: a storage unit for storing a text unit; and a processing unit, connected to the storage unit, the processing unit including: a communication interface for receiving the text unit, a feature detection module for determining an isolated feature of the text unit, an angle detection module for determining angle features of the text unit, a feature vector module for generating a feature vector for the text unit based on the isolated feature and the angle features, and a text recognition module for determining recognized text using the feature vector for display on a display interface.

Text recognition system with feature recognition and method of operation thereof

An original blanking period of a video signal is shortened to a set blanking period, and audio data is multiplexed into a resulting superimposing period. Table distinguishing data indicating the length of the superimposing period is inserted into the period as a blanking signal. With this configuration, it is possible to enable transmission and reception of an audio signal in a system capable of transmitting and receiving a video signal.

Information transmitting apparatus and method, information receiving apparatus and method, information transmitting and receiving system and method, recording medium and program

There is provided a power management system including a detecting apparatus configured to detect electromagnetic waves generated in relation to an operation of an appliance and a receiving apparatus including an appliance determining unit configured to determine a type of the appliance based on a power spectrum of the electromagnetic waves, an operation determining unit configured to determine the operation of the appliance based on the power spectrum of the electromagnetic waves, and a power estimating unit configured to estimate power consumption of the appliance based on the type and operation of the appliance.

Power management system and power management method

An information processing system includes a recording apparatus and a portable device, wherein the recording apparatus includes a recording control section, a selection section, a creation section, a digest information transfer control section, an operation information reception control section, and an operation information reflection section, and wherein the portable device includes a digest information reception control section, and an operation information transfer control section.

Information processing system, recording apparatus, portable device, information processing method, and program

An absorbent composite comprising: a base material and water-absorbent resin particles; wherein the following conditions (1) to (4) are fulfilled: (1) the weight ratio of water-absorbent resin relative to the total weight of the base material and water-absorbent resin is 65 to 99 wt %, (2) the water-absorbent resin particles adhering directly to the base material constitute 50 wt % or more of the total water-absorbent resin particles; (3) the average absorption capacity of the water-absorbent resin particles is 50 g/g or more; and (4) the amount of residual monomers in the water-absorbent resin is 200 ppm or less.

Absorbent composite material and method for manufacturing the same

Absorbent composite material comprising water-absorbent resin particles having specific surface strength, and method for manufacturing the same

An image processing apparatus includes a generating unit configured to generate image signals for displaying content on each of a plurality of screens; and a synthesizing unit configured to synthesize a plurality of sound signals corresponding to the plurality of image signals to cause positions where sounds based on the plurality of sound signals are localized to vary from each other.

Image processing apparatus and method and a recording medium

An information signal processing method is provided which is to be used for special playback operations to make summary (digest) playback of image/voice data signals of a broadcast program. The method includes the steps of detecting a voice level or predetermined voice characteristic of each predetermined section from a predetermined image/voice information signal or an image/voice information signal resulted from predetermined band compression of the predetermined image/voice information signal and processing the voice signal as a predetermined segment section correspondingly to the result of detection and a predetermined set value; extracting predetermined characteristic data of each section of an image signal from the image/voice information signal and generating predetermined characteristic data indicative of an image feature of the predetermined section from the characteristic data; segmenting the image/voice information signal correspondingly to the image characteristic data, a signal resulted from segmentation of the voice and a predetermined time length or section length setting data; and recording a predetermined voice characteristic signal extracted from the voice signal on the basis of a segment of the image/voice information signal and the image feature data into a predetermined recording medium or predetermined data memory.

Information signal processing method and apparatus, and computer program product

Absorbent composite material and bodily fluid-absorbing article comprising water-absorbent resin particles having specific surface strength

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Kanagawa, Japan

Hiroshige Okamoto