Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Kotaro Kashiwa

Kazuyuki Marukawa

Yukihiro Ohzeki

Mitsutoshi Shinkai

Junzo Tokunaka

Yukihiro Ozheki

Wataru Kato

Yukiriro Ohzeki

Kazuyuki Murakawa

To enable satisfactory simultaneous and widely varied pictures to be obtained, for example, by allowing a common user to obtain an overall picture while the common user performing desired image capturing, or the like. A first image capturing device image-captures a subject to record this image, and also transmits a trigger signal to a second image capturing device. The second image capturing device image-captures an image to record this image in accordance with the trigger signal. Thus, the first and second image capturing devices enable both of an overall image and a zoomed image to be obtained with simultaneous timing.

Image capturing system, image capturing device, and image capturing method

First image data captured by a first image pickup apparatus and second image data captured by a second image pickup apparatus are stored in storing means. Thus, it is possible to correlate images with each other by using identification information of a user or the image pickup apparatus and identification information of an image capturing time, an image capturing position, or an image pickup target (event). Further, the correlated image data is edited on the basis of editing structure data, thereby generating album image data.

Image processing systems and methods for automatically generating image album data from multiple cameras

A unit video representing device, which includes an input section inputting unit video information being information about unit video as an animation, a display section, a control section causing the display section to execute display representing contents of the unit video, on the basis of the unit video information inputted by the input section, and a self information notifying section capable of causing an external editing console to recognize self information when the self unit video representing device is placed on the editing console.

Unit video representing device, editing console, editing system, and animation editing method

Image editing apparatus, image pickup apparatus, image editing method, and program

Disclosed herein is a reproduction apparatus which includes a touch panel and vibrates the touch panel, including: a reproduction circuit configured to reproduce data in a unit of a frame in response to an operation of the touch panel by a user; and a driving circuit configured to vibrate the touch panel every time the data of each frame are reproduced.

Reproduction apparatus, reproduction method and program

A system for creating content using content project data selects a template containing a setting of a scene arrangement of a plurality of scenes of content and creates content project data for a scene included in the selected template by setting details of the scene using existing material data or newly created data. On an imaging apparatus, a scene is selected while checking the details of the content project data on a display, and an image is captured to generate a video image signal, and the video image signal is recorded. The recorded video image signal is managed by management information for the content project data so that the video image signal is allocated to the scene arrangement of the content project data. At the time necessary scenes are shot, the content project data becomes completed content.

System for creating content using content project data

A semiconductor memory device includes a memory array section configured to serve as an information storage area and an interface section configured to interface between an external memory controller and the memory array section, the memory array section and the interface section being sealed in a package. The interface section includes a plurality of interface modules configured to correspond to a plurality of memory types on a one-to-one basis, and a clock generation section configured to generate a plurality of clock signals based on a system clock signal supplied by the external memory controller. The generated clock signals are used by the plurality of interface modules. The interface section further includes a mode interpretation section configured to interpret an input mode designation signal as indicative of one of the memory types in order to output a mode signal denoting the interpreted memory type.

Semiconductor memory device and method for operating semiconductor memory device

A semiconductor memory device includes a memory array section configured to serve as an information storage area and an interface section configured to interface between an external memory controller and the memory array section. The memory array section and the interface section are sealed in a package. The interface section has a plurality of interface modules corresponding to a plurality of memory types on a one-to-one basis. The method includes the steps of: selecting one of the plurality of interface modules in accordance with the memory type complying with specifications of the external memory controller being connected; and causing the selected interface module to access the memory array section for either a write or a read operation in response to either a write or a read request issued by the external memory controller.

The present invention is directed to an image pickup method and apparatus. The image pickup apparatus may include a video signal generating device that generates video signals in a first direction and a second direction and a signal processing device that changes one of a frame rate and a compression rate of the video signals in the first and second direction. The apparatus may further include a detection device for detecting that a state of the apparatus matches a predetermined condition for changing the frame rate and/or compression rate of the video signal and a controller for controlling the signal processing device so as to change the frame rate and/or compression rate of the video signals in the first and/or the second direction on the basis of the detected condition.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Kotaro Kashiwa