Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Sukehiro Kimura

Daisuke Okada

Jun Yoshida

Hiroki Kubozono

Tabito Suzuki

Yohichiroh Ohbayashi

Yuji Takahashi

Sadao Takahashi

Hiroyoshi Sekiguchi

Soichiro Yokota

Masayuki Fujishima

Seiya Amano

Izumi Itoh

Yuu Yamada

Shintaroh Kida

According to an aspect of the present invention, an information processing apparatus includes an object region detecting unit, a local region detecting unit, an object specifying unit. The object region detecting unit is configured to detect an object region based on one of distance information and luminance information. The local region detecting unit is configured to, when a divided area obtained by dividing the detected object region meets a predetermined condition, detect the divided area as a local region. The object specifying unit is configured to specify, as a specification target object, the object region in which the local region is continuously detected.

Information processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, apparatus control system, movable object, information processing method, and computer-readable recording medium

An information processing device includes an image analyzing unit. The image analyzing unit includes an object region setting unit configured to set an object region, for image information obtained by capturing an imaging range, the object region corresponding to an object existing in the imaging range; a luminance information acquiring unit configured to acquire luminance information indicating luminance in the imaging range; and a correcting unit configured to correct the object region based on the luminance information in a luminance detection region set in a lower part of the object region.

Information processing device, imaging device, apparatus control system, movable body, information processing method, and computer program product

To achieve an image pickup element that can utilize polarized light as well as non-polarized light to image or capture an object, an image pickup element is provided to an imaging apparatus that forms an image of an object to be imaged onto a light-receiving surface of an image sensor, acquires a polarized filter image together with a regular luminance image, and executes image processing on the acquired images. The image pickup element includes, on a light-receiving surface LRS of the image sensor IMS, a polarizing filter PFL including at least two kinds of pixels having different transmission and polarization properties from each other.

Image pickup element, imaging apparatus, and image recognition system using non-polarized light

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Kanagawa, Japan

Sukehiro Kimura