Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation

Masaki Handa

Tetsujiro Kondo

Hiroshi Ichiki

Takashi Nakanishi

Shunsuke Mochizuki

Ryosuke Araki

Masahiro Yoshioka

Masato Kikuchi

Takashi Nakamura

Hiroshi Sato

Takuto Motoyama

Hiroki Tetsukawa

Masahiko Toyoshi

Shinichiro Abe

Kenichiro Oi

Shun Lee

Tsutomu Ichikawa

Seiji Wada

Naoki Takeda

Hiroto Kimura

Tomoyuki Otsuki

Tomoo Mitsunaga

Tetsuo Ikeda

Yasutaka Hirasawa

Hiroaki Takahashi

Kenji Gotoh

Ken Tamayama

Katsuji Miyazawa

Takanori Ishikawa

Shoji Watanabe

Shin Yoshimura

Kosuke Yoshitomi

Yasushi Shibata

Kentaro Doba

Eisuke Fujinawa

Haruka Asai

Kohei Urushido

Junji Otsuka

Tamaki Eyama

An aerial vehicle according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a recording unit, a detection unit, and a reproduction unit. The recording unit records a flight parameter during flight in a state in which no sensor abnormality is detected. The detection unit detects the sensor abnormality. The reproduction unit reproduces the flight parameter on the basis of the sensor abnormality detected by the detection unit.

Aerial vehicle and control method

The present disclosure relates to action control device and an action control method and a program that enable more appropriate action control to be achieved. An EKF processing unit selects a self-position estimation unit used to estimate a position of a drone from a plurality of the self-position estimation units which is different in estimation accuracy on the basis of waypoints that are indexes when the drone acts, and obtains a state of the drone. Then, a navigator controls an action of the drone according to an action plan created in advance on the basis of the state of the drone. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a mission flight control device that controls a mission flight of a drone.

Action control device and action control method, and program

A controller includes an acquisition unit that acquires image data captured by an imaging device for photographing disposed in a moving body, and a calculation unit that calculates a relative position of a position of a subject, which is detected by a plurality of distance-measuring imaging devices provided in the moving body, based on the subject included in the image data.

Controller and control method

A control apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires captured data in which an object around a moving object is captured by an imaging unit, where the moving object is one of a moving object that is irradiated with spontaneous emission light and a moving object that moves with a predetermined pattern, and a determination unit that determines that the object is an obstacle if the captured data acquired by the acquisition unit includes a specific pattern.

Control apparatus and control method for specular object detection based on an unmanned aerial vehicle's reflection

Provided is an information processing apparatus including a processing unit that determines an angle between at least a part of an upper limb of a user and one of a vector or a plane. The processing unit further determines whether an operation of the user is a pointing operation or a hover operation on the basis of the angle that is between at least the part of the upper limb of the user and one of the vector or the plane.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

A subject information acquisition unitacquires imaged subject information indicative of attributes related to illumination for a subject from a taken image. A preset information selection unitselects preset information as illumination setting information for setting an illumination environment according to a user operation. An illumination setting information adjustment unit adjusts the illumination setting information selected by the illumination setting information selection unit to illumination setting information corresponding to the subject on the basis of the imaged subject information acquired by the subject information acquisition unit. By simply selecting the preset information, it is possible to set easily an illumination environment for relighting, for example.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method for setting an illumination environment

An image on which a noise reduction and a dynamic range expansion process have been performed is generated by a sequential synthesis process using continuous-photographed images of different exposure conditions. The continuous-photographed images of different exposure conditions are input, configuration pixels of an input image and an intermediate synthetic image are classified into a noise pixel, an effective pixel, or a saturation pixel, a synthesis processing method of a pixel unit is decided according to a combination of pixel classification results of the corresponding pixels, and the intermediate synthetic image is updated according to the decided method. A 3DNR process is performed when at least one of the corresponding pixels of the input image and the intermediate synthetic image is the effective pixel, the pixel value of the intermediate synthetic image is output without change when both of the corresponding pixels of the input image and the intermediate synthetic image are the saturation pixel or the noise pixel, and the 3DNR process is performed or the pixel value of the intermediate synthetic image is output when one is the saturation pixel, and the other is the noise pixel.

Image processing device, image processing method, and program

There are provided an apparatus and a method for executing calculation of a global motion vector (GMV) with a high degree of reliability. Local motion vectors (LMV) corresponding to blocks and block weights as reliability indicators of the LMVs of the respective blocks are calculated, and the global motion vector (GMV) is calculated on the basis of the block weights. By calculating a degree of reliability of the local motion vector (LMV) corresponding to each block of a target block and near-field blocks adjacent to the target block and a degree of similarity between the local motion vectors (LMV) of the target block and each near-field block, the block weight is calculated through arithmetic processing to which the degree of reliability and the degree of similarity are applied. With the present configuration, it is possible to efficiently calculate the global motion vector (GMV) with a high degree of reliability.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program

A planar antenna device includes a dielectric layer and two conductor layers vertically sandwiching the dielectric layer. The lower conductor layer is used as a ground, and the upper conductor layer forms a radiating element having a structure in which four or more radiating element pieces of different sizes are connected to a feeder line.

Antenna device

An image signal processing apparatus includes a detecting unit configured to detect a motion vector of a tracking point provided in an object in a moving image, a computing unit configured to compute a reliability parameter representing the reliability of the detected motion vector, a determining unit configured to determine whether the detected motion vector is adopted by comparing the computed reliability parameter with a boundary, an accumulating unit configured to accumulate the reliability parameter, and a changing unit configured to change the boundary on the basis of the accumulated reliability parameters.

Image signal processing apparatus, image signal processing method, and program

A connection method includes the step of connecting, using a line on a dielectric element, two points through which a signal flows, the two points having different heights and the widths of the line at the positions of the two points having been adjusted on the basis of the thickness of the dielectric element.

Connection method and substrate

A transmission apparatus includes a modulating section configured to modulate a baseband signal by using a carrier wave; a determining section configured to determine a pattern of the carrier wave, in accordance with a characteristic of a transmission channel on which a waveform represented by a signal value of a specific symbol is stationarily distorted according to a value of a symbol transmitted before or after the specific symbol; and a transmitting section configured to transmit a modulation signal through the transmission channel, the modulation signal being obtained by modulation using the determined carrier-wave pattern.

Transmission apparatus and method, reception apparatus and method, and program

A data access apparatus has a memory portion including plural memory banks. A data storage control portion stores the pixel data in the plural memory banks with the pixel data being divided into the plural memory banks based on information on an access pattern of plural pixels set on a predetermined screen. A data access control portion reads pixel data relative to the plural pixels specified by the access pattern at the same time from the plural memory banks at each set position in which the set position of the access pattern moves from the start position thereof toward a pixel row direction. A selector portion transmits pixel data corresponding to respective pixels constituting each of the groups of pixels based on correspondence information on input and output. Each group of pixels includes a center pixel and peripheral pixels positioned at a periphery of the center pixel.

Data access apparatus and method

A modulating device configured to perform modulation with the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing method, includes: a modulating unit configured to modulate main information with the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing method; and a determining unit configured to determine a subcarrier pattern employed when modulating the main information by the modulating unit based on additional information relating to the main information.

Modulating device and method, demodulating device and method, program, and recording medium

An image processing apparatus for correcting hand shake blur in a moving image includes a generation unit that generates, by setting an image among images constituting the moving image as a reference image and the remaining images as correction target images, a correction amount by which position displacement of a correction target image relative to the reference image is corrected; an estimation unit that estimates a hand shake blur area where hand shake blur relative to the reference image has occurred, on the basis of the correction amount; a detection unit that detects a composition changing operation on the basis of the correction amount; and an updating unit that updates a correction area to an area where hand shake blur in the correction target image relative to the reference image is corrected on the basis of the hand shake blur area and a detection result.

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Masaki Handa