Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Pre-tech Co., Ltd.

Mitsuru Nakada

Tadahiro Ohmi

Keisuke Maeda

Dai Kobayashi

Yasuyuki Harada

Masaaki Takesue

Tatsuya Ishizuka

Mitsuhiko Tomita

There is provided an information processing method of the present disclosure includes performing processing to receive, on a predetermined coordinate system, input information including multiple scheduled points of shooting by a camera provided in a mobile body and information on respective camera attitudes at the multiple scheduled shooting points. The information processing method further includes performing processing to create a prior trajectory of the mobile body on a basis of the received input information.

Information processing method and information processor

A switch circuit includes: a first charge/discharge circuit having a fixed first time constant; a second charge/discharge circuit having a second time constant associated with the operation statuses of a plurality of switches; first and second input/output ports to which the first and second charge/discharge circuits are connected, respectively; and a control section adapted to measure the first and second time constants by charging or discharging the first and second charge/discharge circuits and determine the operation statuses of a plurality of switches based on the ratio of the measured first and second time constants.

Switch circuit

A nonvolatile memory and a data rewriting method of the nonvolatile memory that can readily detect a state of operation at a time of a system failure due to a power failure or the like and quickly and reliably restore the nonvolatile memory to a normal storage state by a simple method. In the nonvolatile memory including a physical block as a storage unit, the physical block having a data area () and a redundant area (), the redundant area () includes: a logical block address storing area () for storing an address of a corresponding logical block; a previously used physical block address storing area () for storing an address of a physical block to be erased; and a status information storing area () for storing status information for distinguishing a state of operation in each stage occurring in performing data rewriting operation on the physical block.

Non-volatile memory and non-volatile memory data rewriting method

There are disclosed an apparatus and method for cleaning a precision substrate through use of high-frequency- or ultrasonic-applied cleaning liquid. An object substrate is horizontally held and rotated. High-frequency- or ultrasonic-applied cleaning liquid is jetted toward the surface of the object substrate from first cleaning liquid jetting unit disposed above the object substrate, and the nozzle of the first cleaning liquid jetting unit is moved in parallel with the surface of the object substrate. Cleaning liquid is also fed toward the central portion of the surface of the object substrate from cleaning liquid feed-to-center unit during cleaning. In the cleaning apparatus and method, a sufficiently high cleaning speed is attained. Further, there is not involved the problem that the film of cleaning liquid becomes thin on the central portion of a substrate during cleaning due to the effect of a centrifugal force with a resultant difficulty in transmission of high frequency or ultrasonic vibration to the central portion and the problem that during cleaning, due to the effect of a centrifugal force, no liquid film is present on the central portion, which thus becomes dry and contaminated. The cleaning apparatus and method also proves a cost advantage.

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Tokyo, Japan

Mitsuru Nakada