Sony Corporation

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation

Saturn Licensing LLC

Shiro Omori

Masayuki Nishiguchi

Jun Matsumoto

Kazuyuki Iijima

Masahiro Nakano

Takashi Tsurumoto

Kazumoto Kondo

Tatsushi Banba

Yasuhisa Nakajima

Kazuhiko Ueda

Kazuyuki Sakoda

Tomoya Yamaura

Mitsuhiro Suzuki

Takashi Usui

Tetsuya Naruse

Kazuyoshi Suzuki

Jun Iwasaki

Masayuki Tachi

Masahide Hirama

Daisuke Yoshioka

Yuichi Hamaguchi

Asako Tamura

Hajime Numata

Kazuhide Fujita

Yasumasa Oda

Kazuhito Kobayashi

Hidemi Tomitsuka

Shoyu Tanaka

Yasuhiro Chigusa

Takeshi Kozasa

Naoto Hayashida

The present disclosure relates to a solid-state imaging device that makes it possible to suppress deterioration of phase difference information, and an electronic device. There is provided a solid-state imaging device including a pixel array unit in which a plurality of pixels is two-dimensionally arrayed. The plurality of pixels includes a phase difference pixel for phase difference detection, the pixel array unit has an array pattern in which pixel units including neighboring pixels of a same color are regularly arrayed, and the phase difference pixel is partially not added when horizontal/vertical addition is performed on a pixel signal of a predetermined pixel in a horizontal direction and a pixel signal of a predetermined pixel in a vertical direction, in reading the plurality of pixels. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a CMOS image sensor having a phase difference pixel.

Solid-state imaging device and electronic device

An image capture device assembly includes a light source that emits a reference light pattern, an image capture device, and a control device that controls the light source and the image capture device. The light source emits the reference light pattern to a subject with high brightness and low brightness, respectively, under the control of the control device. The image capture device captures an image of the reference light pattern and the subject in a high brightness irradiation state and outputs a first image signal to the control device. The image capture device captures an image of at least the subject in a low brightness irradiation state and outputs a second image signal to the control device. The control device generates a reference light pattern image signal from a difference between the first image signal and the second image signal.

Capture device assembly, three-dimensional shape measurement device, and motion detection device

The present disclosure relates to an imaging apparatus, an image sensor, and an image processor capable of reducing a load on an image processing unit related to image recognition processing. An imaging apparatus according to a first aspect of the present disclosure includes: an image sensor adapted to output image data including pixel signals generated in accordance with incident light by photoelectric conversion elements vertically and horizontally arranged on an imaging surface, adapted to divide the imaging surface into a plurality of areas, and adapted to generate image recognition support information for each of the areas on the basis of the pixel signals generated by the photoelectric conversion elements belonging to the area; and an image processing unit adapted to apply predetermined image processing to the image data output from image sensor by using the image processing support information output from the image sensor. The present disclosure is applicable to, for example, a camera having a face detection function.

Imaging apparatus, image sensor, and image processor

An operational terminal device may include a control unit to control display on a display screen of at least one operation button to control a display control device, based on button information associated with the operation button and received from the display control device.

Operational terminal device, display control device, method of operating terminal device, method of operating display control device, and system

An information processing system includes: a physical measurement apparatus measuring the body of a user and radio-transmitting measurement data; and an information processing apparatus receiving the measurement data radio-transmitted from the physical measurement apparatus, displaying information on the measurement data of the user on a screen, and displaying a notice prompting the user to conduct measurement when no measurement data is received by a predetermined time for measurement.

Information processing system and information processing apparatus

An image display apparatus is provided which includes an image display unit for displaying a still image or a moving image, an imaging unit for capturing an image in a direction in which the image display unit is displaying the still image or the moving image, a detecting unit for detecting a light emitting unit of a remote controlling device included in the image captured by the imaging unit, and detecting a movement amount of the light emitting unit within the captured image, the remote controlling device controlled by a user, and a control unit for controlling a movement amount of a pointer displayed on the image display unit, depending on the movement amount of the light emitting unit detected by the detecting unit.

Image display apparatus and detection method

An object of the invention is to process image data the quality by simply uploading the image data prepared by the user himself himself to a server of a provider without using a particular hardware equipped with an image quality correction function, without the need of purchasing and using a software for correcting the image quality, and without caring about anything. In a system including personal computers, - - - of the clients and a serverof a provider, when image data are uploaded to the serverof the provider from the personal computers, - - - of the clients, the quality image of the image data is corrected by the server

Image quality correction method, image data processing device, data storing/reproducing method, data batch-processing system, data processing method, and data processing system

A speech encoding method and apparatus in which an input speech signal is divided in terms of blocks or frames as encoding units and encoded in terms of the encoding units, whereby explosive and fricative consonants can be impeccably reproduced, while there is an attenuation of the occurrence of foreign sounds being generated at a transient portion between voiced (V) and unvoiced (UV) portions, so that the speech with high clarity devoid of 'stuffed' feeling may be produced. The encoding apparatus includes a first encoding unit for finding residuals of linear predictive coding (LPC) of an input speech signal for performing harmonic coding and a second encoding unit for encoding the input speech signal by waveform coding. The first encoding unit and the second encoding unit are used for encoding a voiced (V) portion and an unvoiced (UV) portion of the input signal, respectively. Code excited linear prediction (CELP) encoding employing vector quantization by a closed loop search of an optimum vector using an analysis-by-synthesis method is used for the second encoding unit. A corresponding decoding method and apparatus is also provided.

Method and apparatus for speech encoding and decoding by sinusoidal analysis and waveform encoding with phase reproducibility

An image processing apparatus capable of obtaining a high resolution image from a low resolution image without making processing in a camera signal processor complicated, wherein a CCD image sensor is moved by a CCD drive and a plurality of received light signals having mutually different sampling phases are generated in accordance with imaging results in the CCD image sensor, the received light signals are converted to image signals in an AD converter, the image signals are transformed to a frequency domain signal in a signal processor and multiplied with a plurality of respectively corresponding complex numbers stored in a memory, and the multiplied results are added to generate an image signal free from aliasing components.

Signal processing apparatus, method of the same, an image processing apparatus and method of same

In a sound synthesizer, a noise adder generates a noise signal having a frequency band of 3,400 to 4,600 Hz, adjusts the gain of the noise signal, and adds the gain-adjusted noise signal to an excitation source after being filled with zeros by a zero-filling circuit, thereby providing a wide-band excitation source which is rather flat. The signal gain is adjusted by determining a narrow-band excitation source or a power of the wide-band excitation source after being filled with zeros and fitting the gain to the narrow-band excitation source or the power.

Sound synthesizing apparatus and method, telephone apparatus, and program service medium

In order to improve the accuracy of an excitation source for a band-spreading apparatus and to generate a wide-band signal having no gaps, an &agr; band-widening section generates a prediction coefficient &agr; of a wide-band speech signal from a prediction coefficient &agr; of a narrow-band speech signal. An oversampling apparatus oversamples a narrow-band speech signal snd . An interpolation section generates an adaptive signal exc of a wide-band speech signal from an adaptive signal exc of the narrow-band speech signal. A zero-filling section generates a noise signal of a wide-band speech signal from a noise signal exc of the narrow-band speech signal. A noise addition section adds a noise signal which is a gap of the wide-band speech signal and generates a noise signal exc . An adder generates an excitation source exc for the wide-band speech signal from the adaptive signal exc and the noise signal exc of the wide-band speech signal. A wide-band LPC combining section generates a wide-band speech signal. A band suppression section suppresses a frequency band contained in the narrow-band speech signal within the wide-band speech signal. An adder outputs a wide-band speech signal snd from the wide-band speech signal and the oversampled narrow-band speech signal.

Information processing apparatus and method, and recording medium

An echo canceller is provided in which a down-sampling circuit converts a 16-kHz sampling frequency of a wide-band voice signal output to an 8-kHz sampling frequency of a narrow-band voice signal supplied at an input terminal, an adaptive filter estimates, from the wide-band voice signal whose sampling frequency has been down-sampled to 8 kHz in the down-sampling circuit, an echo signal coming from a speaker to a microphone and having an echo path characteristic imparted to the echo signal by an echo path filter, and a subtraction circuit subtracts from the microphone input signal the echo signal having been estimated by the adaptive filter.

Echo canceling apparatus and method, and voice reproducing apparatus

A bandwidth expanding method and apparatus in which frequency characteristics of high-frequency components of broad band signals can be adjusted to the liking of the user, overflow due to addition is prevented from occurring without power variations being perceived by a user, the number of broad band formants is reduced, and emphasis is attached to the rough structure of the spectrum, so that the produced broad band speech signals can be improved in quality. To this end, in a speech bandwidth expansion device, frequency characteristics of the frequency components not less than 3400 Hz are adjusted by preset alterable parameter values and summed to the original narrow band speech components. If overflow has occurred in a sample, the high-range gain of the sample is lowered to a level below the overflow level before proceeding to addition. Also, broad band autocorrelation &ggr;w is generated and inverse-transformed in an inverse parameter conversion unit to produce broad band linear prediction coefficient &agr;W to synthesize the broad-band speech in a linear predictive coding synthesis unit.

Signal band expanding method and apparatus and signal synthesis method and apparatus

A signal processing method enabling reproduction of a broadband signal free of aliasing which transforms a plurality of discrete signals obtained by sampling an identical continuous signal using sampling phases different in a one-dimensional direction and containing a basic spectral component contained in the continuous signal and imaging components other than the basic spectral component to the frequency domain in a Fourier transforming circuit and shifts the phase in a spatial shift circuit, then solves predetermined simultaneous equations in a basic spectrum calculation circuit, finds complex numbers to be multiplied with the phase shifted plurality of signals, multiplying the calculated corresponding complex numbers with the plurality of signals, and adding the results of the multiplication to generate a signal free of the aliasing.

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