Sony Corporation

Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Sony Group Corporation

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp.

Alphatheta Corporation

Pioneer Dj Corporation

Shiro Suzuki

Jun Matsumoto

Yuuki Matsumura

Shuichiro Nishigori

Hirofumi Takeda

Keisuke Toyama

Minoru Tsuji

Yasuhiro Toguri

Mitsuyuki Hatanaka

Masaaki Yabe

Atsuyuki Kitamura

Satoshi Minezawa

Shinji Nakamura

Yuki Ogawa

Kazunobu Ohkuri

Masahiro Sato

Kohei Asada

Masayuki Nishiguchi

Takahiro Watanabe

Yuhki Mitsufuji

Tetsunori Itabashi

Akihiko Noda

Ikuo Yamano

Toshiyuki Nakagawa

Hirotoshi Yano

Yoshifumi Ozaki

Wataru Suzuki

Ichiro Maruyama

Taichi Yamada

Yuuji Maeda

Chisato Kemmochi

Masayuki Komatsu

Ryo Miyano

Keisuke Touyama

Shusuke Takahashi

Kyosuke Matsumoto

Tatsuo Okuno

Ryuji Tokunaga

Yasuhito Takahashi

Tadaaki Sakamoto

Kanenori Miura

Masaru Ono

Takafumi Hattori

Yuki Yamamoto

Toru Chinen

Akira Inoue

Yoshiaki Ito

Kazutoshi Yatsuda

Koichi Watanabe

Akemi Murakami

Takahiro Ito

Takahiro Ikeda

Koyuru Okimoto

Atsushi Ogihara

Tetsuji Okamoto

Tsutomu Shiihara

Masafumi Takahashi

Kiichiro Arikawa

Kaneaki Fujishita

Mitsuaki Kuroda

Ryuichi Namba

Mitsuyuki Ishida

Kazunari Komatsuzaki

Kaori Sato

Hiroharu Kato

Seiji Honda

Goro Shiraishi

Toshihiko Matsuo

Takuma Domae

Hiromitsu Tomioka

Hiroki Kawanishi

Hajime Yoshino

Toshihisa Sabi

Kei Sakagami

Benjamin Frederic Nettre

A decoder according to the present technology includes a first decoding unit configured to, for encoded data obtained by encoding a tactile signal, decode a first band signal being a signal of a first frequency band in the tactile signal, the encoded data including data obtained by encoding the first band signal and tactile strength information indicative of a tactile strength for a second frequency band different from the first frequency band in the tactile signal, a second decoding unit configured to decode a second band signal being a signal of the second frequency band in the tactile signal on the basis of the tactile strength information in the encoded data, and a synthesis unit configured to synthesize the first band signal decoded by the first decoding unit and the second band signal decoded by the second decoding unit.

Decoder for encoded tactile signal indicative of a tactile strength decoding frequency bands in the tactile signal

A data processing apparatus () includes a signal processing unit () and an insertion/deletion unit (). The signal processing unit performs predetermined signal processing on the wirelessly received data for each frame that includes a predetermined number of samples, and stores the data in the buffers (). In the case where an amount of the data accumulated in the buffer is out of a predetermined range, the insertion/deletion unit () performs insertion/deletion processing that inserts or deletes the data in units of samples.

Data processing apparatus, data processing method, and data processing program

A system related to tactile reproduction is made more efficient by achieving a data amount reduction of a tactile signal while ensuring reproducibility of a tactile sense. An encoding apparatus according to the present technology includes an encoding unit configured to encode tactile signals using different data formats between different regions of a human body. Therefore, for example, a data amount reduction of a tactile signal can be performed considering difficulty in perceiving tactile stimulation of a region, by reducing a data distribution of a tactile signal for a region with low tactile sensitivity using a difference in tactile sensitivity between regions of a human body, and the like.

Encoding apparatus, encoding method, decoding apparatus, decoding method, transmission system, receiving apparatus, and program

A tactile reproduction system is made more efficient by achieving a data amount reduction of a tactile signal while ensuring reproducibility of a tactile sense. A decoding apparatus according to the present technology includes a decoding unit configured to decode tactile coded data obtained by performing encoding of compressing an information amount, on a tactile signal using higher-order perception in a tactile sense. Therefore, a data amount reduction of a tactile signal can be performed in accordance with a tactile characteristic of a human.

Decoding apparatus, decoding method, and program

An object is to reduce the amount of data to be transmitted while ensuring tactile reproducibility. A decoding device according to the present technology includes: a first decoding unit that decodes first encoded data obtained by encoding a first signal section with a first bit rate, the first signal section being a part of a touch signal section which is a signal section indicating a touch state with an object in a tactile signal, the first signal section being a signal section including a boundary between the touch state and a non-touch state with the object; and a second decoding unit that decodes second encoded data obtained by encoding a second signal section with a bit rate lower than the first bit rate, the second signal section being a signal section except for the first signal section in the touch signal section.

Decoding device, decoding method, program, encoding device, and encoding method

A tactile reproduction system achieves a data amount reduction of a tactile signal while ensuring reproducibility of a tactile sense. A decoding apparatus includes a decoding unit configured to decode tactile coded data obtained by performing encoding of compressing an information amount, on a tactile signal using higher-order perception in a tactile sense. Therefore, a data amount reduction of a tactile signal can be performed in accordance with a tactile characteristic of a human.

As a bit stream generation method for generating a bit stream of transmission data in which a plurality of signals including at least a tactile signal is multiplexed, a signal transmission unrequired section of the tactile signal is determined and, in a case where the signal transmission unrequired section exists, the bit stream in which additional information other than the tactile signal is inserted into the signal transmission unrequired section is generated.

Bit stream generation method, encoding device, and decoding device

To reduce uncomfortableness in the transmission of sensory stimulation information, the uncomfortableness being caused by different recording and reproducing environments. An information processing device according to the present technique includes: a positional-relationship-information acquisition unit that acquires information on a first positional relationship between a recording device and a recording subject, the recording device performing recording in a recording environment for recording sensory stimulation information transmitted from the recording subject, and information on a second positional relationship between the recording subject and a user in the reproduction environment of the recorded sensory stimulation information; and a correction unit that corrects the output signals of reproducing devices for the reproduction of the sensory stimulation information on the basis of the information on the first positional relationship and the information on the second positional relationship.

Information processing device, information processing method, and recording/reproduction system

A music piece analyzer includes: a key candidate determiner configured to analyze music data to determine a plurality of key candidates; and a key selector configured to extract each one of the plurality of key candidates, detect keys corresponding to related keys from among remaining ones of the plurality of key candidates supposing that the extracted one of the plurality of key candidates is a main key, on each extracted one of the plurality of key candidates, calculate a related key score in accordance with the number of the keys corresponding to the related keys, and select a key of a music piece in accordance with the related key score from among the plurality of key candidates.

Musical piece analysis device, program, and musical piece analysis method

The present technology relates to a reception terminal and a method capable of achieving stable voice transmission regardless of the device. A reception terminal receives a packet transmitted from a transmission terminal, the packet including main data and redundant data generated on the basis of a redundancy degree determined on the basis of a retransmission timeout period that is a time determined by a combination of the transmission and reception terminals and in which retransmission processing of the main data can be repeatedly executed and used for restoration or interpolation of the main data, and decodes reproduction data by decoding the main data or the redundant data. The present technology can be applied to a communication system that performs voice transmission using BLE.

Reception terminal and method

A control apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes an audio control section and a vibration control section. The audio control section generates audio control signals of a plurality of channels with audio signals of the plurality of channels as input signals, the audio signals each including a first audio component and a second audio component different from the first audio component. The vibration control section generates a vibration control signal for vibration presentation by taking a difference between audio signals of two channels among the plurality of channels.

Control apparatus, signal processing method, and speaker apparatus

To reduce data amount while ensuring tactile reproducibility of a two-dimensional tactile signal, and improve the efficiency of a system related to tactile reproduction. Coding is performed to compress information amount by orthogonally transforming a two-dimensional tactile signal based on a time signal. By orthogonally transforming a two-dimensional tactile signal based on a time signal, it is possible to compress information amount by removing frequency components that are difficult for humans to perceive, as in the case of an image signal, for example. Accordingly, it is possible to reduce data amount while ensuring tactile reproducibility of a two-dimensional tactile signal, and improve the efficiency of a system related to tactile reproduction.

Coding device, coding method, decoding device, decoding method, and program

Provided is a decoding device including a decoding unit configured to decode a plurality of pieces of encoded data on the basis of encoding method information that has been received, received bitstream data including the plurality of pieces of encoded data in which a plurality of segments of a tactile signal has been respectively encoded, in which the encoding method information includes information indicating in which encoding method of a plurality of encoding methods the respective segments of the tactile signal have been encoded, the plurality of encoding methods includes a simple tactile encoding method corresponding to a simple tactile signal related to a beginning segment of the tactile signal, the plurality of pieces of encoded data includes simple tactile encoded data in which the simple tactile signal has been encoded in the simple tactile encoding method, and the decoding unit decodes the simple tactile encoded data, in a case where the encoding method information indicates the simple tactile encoding method.

Decoding device, decoding method, and program

To reduce a data amount required for tactile presentation while enabling driving of different types of tactile presentation devices corresponding to different physical amounts. An encoding device according to the present technology is provided with an encoding unit that generates coded data by performing encoding to compress an information amount by utilizing an interconversion property between physical amounts on a plurality of tactile signals representing different physical amounts. This makes it possible to obtain the tactile signals representing desired physical amounts within a range in which interconversion may be performed while compressing the information amount by utilizing the interconversion property between the physical amounts.

Encoding device, encoding method, decoding device, decoding method, and program

Provided is a control apparatus that includes a tactile control section and an audio control section. The tactile control section generates, on the basis of a tactile signal for tactile presentation, a tactile control signal for driving a tactile presentation unit. The audio control section generates, on the basis of a first audio signal and a second audio signal, an audio control signal for driving an audio output unit, the second audio signal containing sound components that are in an opposite phase to sound generated on the basis of the tactile signal and generated from the tactile presentation unit.

Control apparatus, loudspeaker apparatus, and audio output method

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Shiro Suzuki