Sony Corporation

Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Sony Group Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Powrex

Kazuhiro Uchida

Kenji Fujiwara

Takeshi Miki

Tetsuo Kaneko

Shigeo Nakatsuka

Yasuhiro Iizuka

Shinnosuke Usami

Masami Ikeda

Makoto Sakamoto

Takeo Nakata

Kazuhiro Watanabe

Koji Hasegawa

Naho Suzuki

Seigo Ozaki

Yosuke Tomita

Masashi Wakatsuki

Shunichi Otsuka

Dai Sato

Takuya Hanada

Kikuo Yamamoto

Yasuhiro Hotta

Tadashi Kawakami

Masami Sakiyama

Naotoshi Kinoshita

Tarou Endou

Shuichiro Fukuda

Hitoshi Kamada

Kazunori Wakabayashi

Tsutomu Shima

A device management apparatuscommunicates with a plurality of devices to be managed. When an imaging apparatus in which abnormality occurs is detected, or in a case where any imaging apparatus is specified by a user from the imaging apparatuses in which the abnormality occurs, the device management apparatuscommunicates with the imaging apparatus located within a specific range based on a position of the detected imaging apparatus in which the abnormality occurs or the imaging apparatus in which the abnormality occurs specified by the user, and performs the device specification display using a display unit of the imaging apparatus located within the specific range. By referring to the device specification display, the user may easily specify a desired device, for example, the device in which the abnormality occurs from a plurality of devices.

Device management apparatus, device managing method, and program

A multi-camera system, including a first camera apparatus, a second camera apparatus, and an information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a communication interface and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to receive a predetermined user input and in response to the predetermined user input, send, via the communication interface, a first control signal to the first camera apparatus that captures a first video, and send, via the communication interface, a second control signal to the second camera apparatus that captures a second video. The first control signal causes the first camera apparatus to assign first unique identifiers to frames of the first video captured by the first camera apparatus. The second control signal causes the second camera apparatus to assign second unique identifiers to frames of the second video captured by the second camera apparatus.

Multi-camera system, camera, processing method of camera, confirmation apparatus, and processing method of confirmation apparatus

An imaging apparatus having no synchronization support function by a time code and to cut down a system cost, in synchronizing respective moving images in the case of outputting and displaying moving images input from a plurality of imaging apparatuses through network transmission. A vertical synchronization signal input from a particular imaging apparatus among a plurality of imaging apparatuses is used as a reference to select frame image data items from moving image data input from the plurality of imaging apparatuses, and the selected frame image data items are integrated into a single stream and sent. Even in a case where the plurality of imaging apparatuses captures videos asynchronously, it becomes possible to select, from the respective moving images, frame images with a small imaging timing difference on the basis of the vertical synchronization signal of the particular imaging apparatus.

Image transfer apparatus and moving image generating system for transferring moving image data

An information processing apparatus, including circuitry configured to transmit a start instruction to a first camera apparatus and a second camera apparatus. The start instruction causes the first camera apparatus to start incrementing a first counter and the second camera apparatus to start incrementing a second counter for a video recording time period. The circuitry receives, from the first camera apparatus, a first recording-start frame identifier that indicates a value of the first counter and a second recording-end frame identifier that indicates the value of the second counter. The circuitry receives, from the second camera apparatus, a first recording-start frame identifier that identifies a value of the second counter and a second recording-end frame identifier that identifies the value of the second counter.

Multi-camera system, camera, processing method of camera, confirmation apparatus, and processing method of confirmation apparatus for capturing moving images

A multi-camera system, including a first camera apparatus, and second camera apparatus, and an information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a communication interface, and processing circuitry that receives a predetermined request from a user while the first camera apparatus captures a first video and the second camera apparatus captures a second video. The processing circuitry, in response to the predetermined request, transmits a first control signal to the first camera apparatus that causes the first camera apparatus to generate a first thumbnail of a frame of the first video, and transmits a second control signal to the second camera apparatus that causes the second camera apparatus to generate a second thumbnail of a frame of the second video. The processing circuitry receives the first thumbnail from the first camera apparatus and the second thumbnail from the second camera apparatus.

Multi-camera system, camera, camera processing method, confirmation device, and confirmation device processing method

Focal plane distortion is prevented from standing out in the vicinity of a joint when a plurality of captured images are stitched and synthesized. A plurality of cameras are provided. Each camera includes an image sensor that outputs a signal by a raster scan scheme. Phases of a vertical synchronization signal supplied to the image sensors of the plurality of cameras are respectively shifted according to information of gap amounts of captured images of the respective cameras from a reference position in a vertical direction. Even if there are gaps in the vertical direction between the installed cameras, positional gaps between the installed image sensors due to variations in individual camera main bodies, and the like, there are no lines with largely different capture times in the vicinity of a joint of a synthesized image, and focal plane distortion is prevented from standing out in the vicinity of this joint.

Multi-camera system, method of controlling a multi-camera system, and camera

A sound processing device includes an amplifier, a current detector, and a controller. The amplifier amplifies a sound signal to drive a loudspeaker. The current detector detects a value of an electric current flowing into the amplifier. The controller controls whether to supply power to the amplifier based on a predicted current value and the current detected by the current detector. The predicted current value is predicted in accordance with a volume setting and a level of the sound signal.

Sound processing device, sound control device, and sound control method

A method of producing a metal pipe which can suppress quenching defects is provided. In the method, a bend of the metal pipe is straightened by a straightening machine. Next, both pipe end portions of the metal pipe whose bend has been straightened are cut off by a pipe cutting apparatus. Next, a plurality of the metal pipes whose both pipe end portions have been cut off are aligned in the axial direction thereof to be conveyed to a quenching apparatus, and the metal pipes are quenched by being cooled after being heated by induction heating.

Production method and production facility of metal pipe

A partition portion includes a proximal portion fixed to the outer periphery of the peripheral wall portion and a sealing member mounted to the proximal portion in a manner that the sealing member is allowed to move in inner and outer circumferential directions of the peripheral wall portion. When receiving a force toward an outer circumferential direction, the sealing member is moved in the outer circumferential direction, and a distal end portion thereof is held in press-contact with a sliding contact portion of a ventilation member with a force generated along with the above-mentioned force.

Coating device

An apparatus for determining a kind of a steel material includes an image pickup devicefor imaging a spark, which is produced when the steel materialis ground, continuously a plurality of times; a detection devicefor detecting an alloy spark zone, which corresponds to an alloy spark produced by the grinding of an alloying component contained in the steel material, from each of picked-up imagesimaged by the image pickup device; a calculation devicefor calculating the total number of alloy spark zones detected by the detection device; and a judgment devicefor determining that the steel material consists of a low-alloy steel if the total number is not smaller than a first threshold value, and determining that the steel material consists of a carbon steel if the total number is smaller than the first threshold value.

Apparatus and method for determining kind of steel material

An apparatusfor determining a kind of a steel material detects a spark pixel from a color picked-up imageof a sparkproduced when a steel materialis ground, and detects a pixel, in which the density of any one color component for judgment selected from among RGB color components is low, as a low-density pixel from the spark pixels. The apparatusdetermines that the steel material is a steel material consisting of the high-strength steel if the ratio of the total number of low-density pixels to the total number of spark pixels is not lower than a threshold value for judgment, and determines that the steel material is a steel material consisting of the ordinary steel if the ratio is lower than the threshold value for judgment.

A power feeding system includes: a power feeder including a mount, a primary coil, a moving means, a query output means outputting a query, a receiving means receiving notification information, a primary coil direct-current driving control means controlling the primary coil to be driven with a direct current, a query control means allowing the query output means to output a query, and a primary coil alternating-current driving control means controlling the primary coil to be driven with an alternating current; and a power-receiving equipment including a secondary coil, a sensing means disposed at a position where the sensing means can sense the query, a secondary coil direct-current driving control means controlling the secondary coil to be driven with a direct current, a notification information output means, and a secondary coil alternating-current driving control means controlling the secondary coil so that electromotive force induced by the primary coil is exerted.

Power feeding system, power feeder, power-receiving equipment, and positioning control method

An information signal comprised of a video component and a tracking information component which has been recorded in parallel oblique tracks on a record medium is reproduced by plural transducers which scan successive tracks. The tracking information component is separated from the reproduced information signal to derive error detection signals representing scanning errors of the transducers. Plural ones of the error detection signals are averaged to produce tracking control signals.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Kazuhiro Uchida