Sony Corporation

Keisuke Chida

Kenichiro Hosokawa

Ohji Nakagami

Takahiro Nagano

Noriaki Takahashi

Masaru Ikeda

Takeshi Miyai

Takuro Kawai

Koji Nishida

Kazunori Kamio

The present technique relates to a control device and method and a program for enabling image capturing under optimum image-capturing conditions. A control section corrects preset image-capturing conditions on the basis of an analysis result of an image captured by an image capturing device included in a mobile body. A driving control section controls driving of the mobile body on the basis of the corrected image-capturing conditions. The present technique is applicable to a mobile-body control system that controls the mobile body.

Control device and method

The encoding apparatus encodes an input image by a non-reversible encoding method and transmits identification information for identifying match components that are, from among a plurality of texture components registered in a database, texture components that match with the input image and encoded data obtained by encoding the input image. The decoding apparatus receives the encoded data and the identification information, decodes the encoded data into a decoded image, and synthesizes the texture component as the match component identified by the identification information from among a plurality of texture components registered in a database and the decoded image. The present technology can be applied, for example, a codec or the like by which an image is encoded and decoded.

Encoding apparatus and encoding method as well as decoding apparatus and decoding method

The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and a method for information processing enabling alignment between imaged images to be more accurately performed. With respect to a detection result of a correspondence point between an imaged image including a pattern irradiated for alignment with other imaged image, and the other imaged image including the pattern, an evaluation value with which an occurrence rate of an error in the alignment when the imaged image and the other imaged image are composed with each other is evaluated is calculated; and an irradiated position of the pattern is updated on the basis of the evaluation value calculated. The present disclosure, for example, can be applied to an information processing apparatus, an irradiation device, an imaging apparatus, an irradiation imaging apparatus, a controller, an imaging system or the like.

Information processing apparatus and method

Provided is an encoding apparatus, an encoding method, a decoding apparatus, and a decoding method by which a transmission efficiency and picture quality can be improved. The encoding apparatus encodes an input image by a non-reversible encoding method and transmits identification information for identifying match components that are, from among a plurality of texture components registered in a database, texture components that match with the input image and encoded data obtained by encoding the input image. The decoding apparatus receives the encoded data and the identification information, decodes the encoded data into a decoded image, and synthesizes the texture component as the match component identified by the identification information from among a plurality of texture components registered in a database and the decoded image. The present technology can be applied, for example, to a codec or the like by which an image is encoded and decoded.

The present technology relates to an encoding apparatus and an encoding method as well as a decoding apparatus and a decoding method that make it possible to improve the compression efficiency. The encoding apparatus transmits reduction filter information that reduces tap coefficients for individual ones of a plurality of classes determined by learning that uses a student image equivalent to a first image obtained by addition of a residual of prediction encoding and a prediction image and a teacher image equivalent to an original image corresponding to the first image. The decoding apparatus accepts the reduction filter information and performs prediction arithmetic operation using tap coefficients obtained using the reduction filter information to perform a filter process for the first image to generate a second image. The present technology can be applied, for example, an encoding apparatus and a decoding apparatus of an image.

An interpolation processing unitperforms an interpolation process of a decimated pixel in an image signal. A signal generation pixel determination unitcalculates a feature value of a pixel of interest from the image signal to which the interpolation process is performed by the interpolation processing unit, and determines whether the pixel of interest is a decimated pixel or a non-decimated pixel on the basis of the calculated feature value, and generates signal generation pixel determination information indicating a determination result. A signal generation control unitperforms control to stop signal generation operation of the pixel that is determined to be the decimated pixel by the signal generation pixel determination information generated by the signal generation pixel determination unit, at a time of subsequent generation of an image signal. The degradation of image quality is prevented, and the electric power consumption is reduced, by performing decimation in a flat image region on the basis of a feature value.

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Saitama, Japan

Keisuke Chida