Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Hiroyuki Shigei

Masatomo Kurata

QiHong Wang

Toru Amano

Naoko Kobayashi

Makoto Sato

Toshio Enokido

Tomoya Yamaura

Takeshi Itagaki

Yasunori Kamada

Yusuke Sato

Osamu Kozakai

Yu Tanaka

Takayuki Hirabayashi

Hitoshi Nakamura

Takashi Ogata

Takehiko Saito

Sota Matsuzawa

Katsunori Honma

Yu Togasaki

Masaki Kitano

Futoshi Takeuchi

Haruhiko Yata

Nobuaki Kawai

Rikiya Ishikawa

Masaaki Takesue

Ayaka Nishi

Hidekazu Kamimura

Provided is an imaging device that includes an element layer including an image forming element, an illumination element provided at the same position as that of the element layer or behind the element layer in the forward-and-rearward direction, and an imaging element provided behind the image forming element and the illumination element. The illumination element is provided at a position different from that of the image forming element when viewed from the forward-and-rearward direction.

Imaging device

An authentication device includes a deciding unit that, based on distribution information of the feature points included in a pattern present in some part of the body of the user, decides on the position of that part of the body to be used in authentication of the user. The authentication device further includes a guiding unit that, based on the decided position, guides the concerned part of the body to the decided position for the purpose of authentication of the user. The authentication device further includes an authenticating unit that performs authentication of the user based on feature information of the pattern as obtained due to the guiding.

Authentication device and recognition method

Provided is an imaging apparatus that includes an irradiation unit that irradiates a subject with light, an imaging unit that images the subject a plurality of times, a control unit that controls the imaging unit and the irradiation unit, and a combination unit that combines a plurality of imaged images obtained by the imaging unit. The imaging unit has a plurality of imaging elements disposed in a matrix when viewed from the side of the subject. The irradiation unit has a plurality of light emitting elements provided so as to correspond to the plurality of imaging elements. The control unit controls the irradiation unit to turn on the plurality of light emitting elements different for each imaging among the plurality of light emitting elements, and controls the imaging unit to drive the plurality of imaging elements corresponding to the plurality of light emitting elements that are not turned on.

Imaging apparatus and imaging method

An electronic device includes a plurality of light emitting units mounted on a substrate, and an opening that is provided so as to correspond to each of the light emitting units and guides light emitted from the light emitting units to an outside.

Wristband type electronic device

An electronic device including: a transparent panel section in which a plurality of transparent light-emitting elements is disposed; and an imaging section that is disposed under a partial region of the transparent panel section, and images, via the transparent panel section, an object which is in contact with or in proximity to the partial region of the transparent panel section.

Electronic device

An information processor including a sensor unit that recognizes an operating tool that comes into contact with a display unit, and a control unit that shows a guidance display for guiding an operation of the operating tool on the display unit.

Information processor, information processing method, program, and wearable device

An antenna device includes at least one antenna that transmits and receives communication signals, and a helix ground plate connected to the at least one antenna. The helix ground plate includes an overlapping part, and has a length of at least one-quarter of a wavelength of a lowest-frequency in the communication signals.

Antenna device

Communication is performed by selecting any one of or two or more paths from among multiple paths existing between a communication apparatus and the other party in communication. In addition to measuring an effective rate itself, the effective rate is estimated from a combination of Phy rate, received power, Phy rate, and statistics information. Then, on the basis of information about the effective rate of each path, a path used for data transmission is selected according to a single selection method for selecting a single path or a multi-selection method for selecting multiple paths at a time. The single selection method can be classified into a method for each session or a physically exclusive method. The multi-selection method includes weighting method and redundancy degree attaching method.

Communication apparatus, communication method, and communication system

[Object] To prevent or reduce the degradation in transmission characteristics caused by fast fading (fluorescent lamp interference) to achieve optimized throughput. [Solution] A process for detecting fast fading (fluorescent lamp interference) is performed (ST). Fast fading is detected by, for example, detecting a variable light source whose frequency is twice the frequency of an alternating current power supply. When fast fading is detected, a frame length update process is performed (ST, ST). In the case of 'subject transmission' in which the subject apparatus is the transmitter of a data frame, the setting of the maximum number of aggregations in frame aggregation (A-MPDU, A-MSDU) is changed to 'the recommended maximum number of aggregations'. &#x201c;The recommended maximum number of aggregations&#x201d; is set in advance so that the UDP throughput can be maximized under the conditions where fast fading has occurred. In the case of &#x201c;subject reception&#x201d; in which the subject apparatus is the receiver of a data frame, the subject apparatus sends a request message for limiting the maximum transmission length to the communication counterpart apparatus.

Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method

A remote control method includes: grouping a plurality of apparatuses to respond to a command from a single remote controller at the same time; broadcasting, by the remote controller, a command corresponding to an operation; receiving, by each of the plurality of apparatuses, the command and judging whether the received command is addressed to a group to which the apparatus itself belongs; and executing, when it is judged by each of the plurality of apparatuses that the received command is addressed to the apparatus itself, processing corresponding to the command.

Remote controller and remote control system

A communication method includes the steps of: establishing a session with one or two or more other communication terminals according to a set content before it is changed in a case where a change request for own set information about a radio communication is received; notifying a set content to be changed to the one or two or more other communication terminals with which the session is established; and changing the own set information from the set content before it is changed to the set content to be changed.

Communication method and communication terminal device

To provide an electronic apparatus capable of easily detecting a terminal that forms a loop connection state with a simplified configuration. A control unit counts the number of broadcast packet supplied from a switching hub to a communication unit within a predetermined time period and determines whether the number of packets exceeds a threshold value (ST, ST). If the number of packets exceeds the threshold value, the control unit determines that an abnormal connection state occurs, that is, a loop is detected and starts a process in which the control unit identifies a network terminal that forms the loop connection state (ST, ST). The control unit counts the number of broadcast packets that reach each of the network terminals, that is, broadcast packets input to each port of the switching hub. Thereafter, the control unit determines whether the network terminal that has received the number of packets exceeding the threshold value is present, that is, whether an abnormally connected terminal is present (ST, ST). If an abnormally connected terminal is present, the control unit displays a message indicating abnormal connection, the abnormally connected terminal, and a message prompting connection change (ST).

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Hiroyuki Shigei