Sony Corporation

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation

Kazuhiro Hongo

Tetsu Watanabe

Koji Fukumoto

Takashi Kinoshita

Nobuyuki Kuboi

Kazunari Yoshifuji

Takaaki Hirano

The present disclosure relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program for enabling more accurate prediction of a crack to be made. A model acquisition unit acquires a structure model Mfrom a model generation unit, an external device (not illustrated), or the like. Amplitude load energy A in an element Ehaving no cracks is set on the basis of a relationship between an equivalent stress &#x3c3; and an equivalent elastic strain &#x3b5; experimentally obtained according to a material constituting the element E. Since the equivalent elastic strain &#x3b5; depends on a crack variable &#x3c6;, the amplitude load energy A is expressed as a function of the crack variable &#x3c6;. A crack prediction unit predicts a crack to be generated in a structure D by calculating a differential equation having a term proportional to the amplitude energy. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a crack prediction device that predicts a crack.

Information processing device, information processing method, and program

Provided is an information processing apparatus including a crack leading edge candidate extraction unit configured to extract a crack leading edge candidate after progress of a crack in a structure, an elastic energy release rate calculation unit configured to calculate an elastic energy release rate that indicates an elastic energy released when the crack progresses to the extracted crack leading edge candidate, and a crack leading edge decision unit configured to decide a crack leading edge after the progress of the crack at least based on the elastic energy release rate. The crack leading edge candidate extraction unit extracts the crack leading edge candidate that satisfies a predetermined condition from crack leading edge candidates obtained in terms of a construction of the structure.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program

There is provided a camera module including an image sensor unit that is configured to include an image sensor and a mounting board, a sheet-shaped heat radiation member that comes into contact with a part of the image sensor unit and a component other than the image sensor unit and is elastically deformed so that an imaging surface of the image sensor unit is moved, and an actuator that elastically deforms the sheet-shaped heat radiation member so that the imaging surface of the image sensor unit is moved.

Camera module and electronic device for cooling image sensor

There is provided a polymeric actuator including: a pair of facing portions located so as to face each other; and a folded portion through which one end portions of the pair of facing portions are coupled to each other, wherein the pair of facing portions and the folded portion are composed of an inner electrode layer, an electrolyte layer, and an outer electrode layer which are laminated in order from an inside. Therefore, the displacements are generated in the pair of facing portions, respectively, to be added to each other, and the displacement is generated in the folded portion as well due to the bending. As a result, the large displacement is generated as a whole. Thus, it is possible to increase the displacement amount after the simplification of the structure is realized.

Polymeric actuator, actuator device, method of manufacturing polymeric actuator, and method of manufacturing actuator device

An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging unit in which a plurality of pixels receiving incidence light on a light receiving face are disposed in an imaging region of a substrate, wherein the pixel includes a thermocouple device group in which a plurality of thermocouples are aligned along the light receiving face, wherein, in the thermocouple device group, the plurality of thermocouples are arranged so as to be separated from each other such that the light receiving face has a grating structure, and wherein the thermocouple device group is disposed such that the incidence light is incident to the grating structure so as to cause plasmon resonance to occur on the light receiving face, and an electromotive force is generated due to a change in the temperature of a portion of the thermocouple device group, at which the plasmon resonance occurs, in each of the plurality of thermocouples.

Imaging apparatus, electronic apparatus, photovoltaic cell, and method of manufacturing imaging apparatus

Disclosed herein is a semiconductor laser element including: on a substrate, a laser structure section configured to include a semiconductor laminated structure having an n-type semiconductor layer, active layer and p-type semiconductor layer in this order, and a p-side electrode on top of the p-type semiconductor layer; a pair of resonator edges provided on two opposed lateral sides of the semiconductor laminated structure; and films made of a non-metallic material having a thermal conductivity higher than that of surrounding gas, and provided in the region of the top side of the laser structure section including the positions of the resonator edges.

Semiconductor laser element and manufacturing method of the same

Herein disclosed a digital image sender for transmitting a digital image signal including image signals for color image reproduction, a reference clock signal and parallel control signals, including: a parallel/serial converter configured to convert the parallel control signals into a serial control signal by time division multiplexing; a superposition element configured to superpose the serial control signal obtained by the conversion by said parallel/serial converter on the reference clock signal and output a resulting superposition signal; and an electro-optic converter configured to convert the superposition signal outputted from said superposition element from an electric signal into an optical signal.

Digital image sender, digital image receiver, digital image transmission system and digital image transmission method

A recording/reproducing apparatus includes an optical source and a near-field light generating unit. The near-field light generating unit includes two conductors facing to each other at a predetermined distance and generating near-field light between the two conductors by irradiation of light from the optical source. These two conductors are arranged so that a direction along which the two conductors face to each other is substantially in parallel with the longitudinal direction of a recording mark region. Here, the recording mark region is prepared from a predetermined recording material and having shape anisotropy when information is recorded on a recording medium on which the recording mark is independently formed.

Recording/reproducing apparatus and recording/producing system

An optical device includes: a base that transmits incident light; and a first conductive film formed on one surface of the base, and that includes an indentation pattern of a predetermined period formed on a base-side surface, wherein a side portion defining an edge portion irradiated with the incident light has a form of a protrusion or a straight line as viewed from the incident side of the incident light.

Optical device and optical apparatus

Recording/reproducing apparatus and recording/reproducing system

A recording/reproduction apparatus includes: a light source; and a near-field light production section that includes two conductor sections disposed opposite each other with a predetermined gap therebetween and that produces near-field light between the two conductor sections upon light irradiation from the light source, the two conductor sections being disposed such that when information is recorded on a recording medium using the near-field light, a direction from one of the two conductor sections to the other of the two conductor sections is generally perpendicular to a line direction of the recording medium.

Recording/reproduction apparatus and recording/reproduction system

An optical near-field generating device is provided. The optical near-field generating device includes: a light source; a light transmissive substrate; and a conductive scatterer irradiated with light from the light source to generate an optical near-field. The scatterer is formed across planes with different heights on the light transmissive substrate and includes a first area formed on a surface closest to an object to which the optical near-field is applied and a second area formed on a surface distant from the object as compared with the first area. The optical near-field is generated from the first area of the scatterer toward the object.

Optical near-field generating device, optical near-field generating method and information recording and reproducing apparatus

An optical near-field generating apparatus includes a conductive scatterer causing an optical near-field based on a surface plasmon to be generated by being illuminated by incident light, and a conductive body arranged in a vicinity of the scatterer and generating a surface plasmon by being illuminated by the incident light and by being influenced by the surface plasmon of the scatterer. An oscillation direction of the surface plasmon of the conductive body is approximately parallel to an oscillation direction of the surface plasmon of the scatterer, and a generation region of the surface plasmon of the conductive body exists in a position deviated from a region extending in an oscillation direction of the surface plasmon of the scatterer.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Kazuhiro Hongo