Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Masatoshi Takashima

Eiji Ogura

Hiroshi Mori

Tetsu Ogawa

Daisuke Hiranaka

Yu Kitamura

Yoshihiro Murakami

Keitaro Yamashita

Hideo Miyamaki

Hideyuki Narita

Akira Matsui

Katsumi Tahara

Hiroshi Yasutomi

Shinji Negishi

Toshiyuki Ishii

Yoshiyuki Ito

Etsurou Sakamoto

Yuji Morimiya

Takehiko Saito

Mikita Yasuda

Tomihiro Nakagawa

Noriaki Oishi

Hajime Nitta

Yoshihiro Ishida

Keisuke Aoki

Mitsuaki Shiraga

Keisuke Unno

Hirofumi Morimoto

Hideki Date

Takayuki Ogura

Takayoshi Oomori

Haruyoshi Murayama

Disclosed is an information processing device, comprising: acquisition circuitry configured to acquire image data including a frame; and index calculation circuitry configured to: determine an average value of the frame, and predict a signal-to-noise ratio of the image data based on the average value of the frame.

Information processing device, information processing method, and program

Provided is an imaging apparatus including: a splitter that splits incident light into pieces of light of two or more wavelength bands; and two or more detectors that detect the pieces of light of two or more wavelength bands respectively and output signals from which wavelengths can be extracted tunably by post-processing.

Imaging apparatus, signal processing apparatus, signal processing method, and program

Provided are a device and a method for executing gain calculation processing and gain adjustment processing for matching an output of an imaging element of a multispectral camera with an output of a reference machine, on the basis of a reference machine band-corresponding pixel value that is a pixel value within a specific band acquired on the basis of an output value of an imaging element of the reference camera, and an adjustment machine band-corresponding pixel value that is a pixel value within a specific band acquired on the basis of an output value of an imaging element of the adjustment camera.

Image processing device and image processing method that reduce variation in output value among imaging devices

Provided is an image pickup apparatus including a multi-band pass filter that selectively transmits band light in a specific band, a color filter that transmits the band light in the specific band per pixel of an image pickup device, the image pickup device that receives light transmitted by the multi-band pass filter and the color filter, and a signal processing section to which a pixel value of the image pickup device is input and which executes a signal process on the pixel value. The multi-band pass filter is configured to selectively transmit band light corresponding to a plurality of color filter elements, and the signal processing section generates a pixel value corresponding to a band, of a pixel to be processed using a raw image base pixel value signal per pixel and a spectral characteristic parameter of the image pickup apparatus.

Image processing apparatus and image pickup apparatus

The present technique relates to an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a program that can easily execute a stitching process. Provided are: an image generation unit that generates a first reference image regarding a first imaging region on the basis of a plurality of first images regarding the first imaging region and that generates a second reference image regarding a second imaging region at least partially overlapping with the first imaging region on the basis of a plurality of second images regarding the second imaging region; and a processing unit that generates positioning information indicating a correspondence between the first imaging region and the second imaging region on the basis of the first reference image and the second reference image. The present technique can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus that executes a stitching process of a plurality of images.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program

Embodiments include a control apparatus, a control method, and a control system that can effectively utilize an index regarding light incident on a measured object by obtaining the index effective for the measured object. The control apparatus can effectively utilize an effective index by controlling improvement of an environment that affects calculation of the effective index on the basis of the effective index representing an index that is related to light incident on a measured object and that is effectively utilized for the measured object. The measured object may be a plant.

Control apparatus, control method, and control system

Selection of an evaluation index based upon statistical values of respective evaluation indices is disclosed. In one example, an information processing apparatus comprises an evaluation index unit that determines a plurality of evaluation indices on a basis of imaging data obtained by imaging a subject, wherein the evaluation indices are respectively based upon different wavelength component combinations of the imaging data. An evaluation value unit determines an evaluation value based on a statistical value of each of the evaluation indices, for each of the evaluation indices. A selection unit then determines a selected evaluation index from the evaluation indices on a basis of the evaluation values.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program

The present technology relates to an imaging apparatus, an imaging method, and a program that perform appropriate exposure control, to thereby enable a desired object to be appropriately imaged. The present technology includes: an imaging unit including a plurality of pixels having different spectral characteristics; and an exposure control unit setting information associated with exposure control on the plurality of pixels depending on specification information for specifying a kind of a measurement target. Alternatively, the present technology includes: an imaging unit including a plurality of pixels having different spectral characteristics; and an exposure control unit setting information associated with exposure control on the plurality of pixels on the basis of a predicted output value of each of the plurality of pixels based on a spectral characteristic related to a measurement target. The present technology is applicable to an imaging apparatus which senses vegetation, for example.

Imaging apparatus, imaging method, and program

The present technology relates to an information processing device capable of obtaining an index effective for a measurement target as an index related to light incident on the measurement target, an information processing method, and a program. The information processing device can obtain an index effective for a measurement target as an index regarding light incident on the measurement target by calculating an effective index representing the degree of light effectively utilized for the measurement target in incident light as an index regarding the light incident on the measurement target, on the basis of a measured value regarding the measurement target which is obtained by sensing performed by a sensor. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an apparatus calculating an index of plants.

Vegetation change information properly indicating a time series change of a vegetation state can be generated. To this end, a data group including vegetation data of multiple time points respectively associated with ratio information which is a component ratio of ambient light is an object to be processed. This device includes an extraction section that extracts, from the data group, vegetation data for use by using ratio information, and a generation section that generates vegetation change information indicating a time series change of a vegetation state by using the vegetation data extracted by the extraction section. By use of ratio information, vegetation data obtained under similar ambient light conditions can be collected.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program, and information processing system

The present disclosure relates to an inspection apparatus, a sensing apparatus, a sensitivity control apparatus, an inspection method, and a program that perform inspection with improved accuracy. The inspection apparatus includes a detection section for detecting a plurality of different wavelength region components of ambient light reflected from an inspection target to be inspected, and a control section for controlling the sensitivity of each of the different wavelength region components. The control section controls the sensitivity by calculating a histogram indicating the detection level in every wavelength region of light reflected from the inspection target that is detected by the detection section, and determining, based on histograms of particular spectroscopic components, whether or not the sensitivity is properly set for the detection section. The present technology is applicable, for example, to an inspection apparatus that inspects vegetation.

Inspection apparatus, sensing apparatus, sensitivity control apparatus, inspection method, and program with pixel sensitivity control

To easily and accurately perform calibration with respect to environment light. In one example, an information processing device includes a memory configured to store detected values of illuminances of environment light; and a color temperature estimation unit configured to estimate a color temperature of the environment light, on a basis of detected values of illuminances of the environment light within a plurality of wavelength bands. The disclosed technology can, for example, be applied to a system that performs remote sensing on an agricultural land, and calculates an evaluation index such as a normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI).

Information processing device, information processing method, and program to perform calibration with respect to environment light

An object is to provide, for synthetic information such as synthetic images, images with few errors. Thus, for an acquired image including information regarding a specific wavelength region, for example, an image of a specific region corresponding to a specific positional range in a captured image is extracted. A plurality of pieces of information regarding the specific region extracted from respective captured images captured at different points in time is synthesized to generate a synthetic information. By performing synthesis on the captured images captured at the different points in time during movement, synthetic information with few errors is obtained from an object spanning a wide range.

A signal processing device has tunable wavelength extraction and detection of a narrow band, while maintaining resolution. The signal processing device includes an acquisition unit that acquires a signal of a first wavelength band in which wavelength extraction is possible in a tunable manner by means of postprocessing and a signal of a second wavelength band to be used for a special purpose; and a signal processing unit that performs signal processing using the signal of the first wavelength band and the signal of the second wavelength band.

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Masatoshi Takashima