Sony Corporation

Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Kansai Paint Company, Ltd.

Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha

Takaaki Kato

Akihiko Kaino

Masaki Fukuchi

Masashi Eshima

Shingo Tsurumi

Yusuke Ishii

Tatsuki Kashitani

Minoru Kadowaki

Shunichi Homma

Suguru Aoki

Satoshi Endo

Takuto Motoyama

Tetsugo Inada

Osamu Shigeta

Shinichiro Abe

Sho Tamura

Jianing Wu

Yutaka Masuda

Hiroshi Katoh

Yuya Hanai

Jun Gomita

Kiyokazu Miyazawa

Eri Tateno

Yuya Yamaguchi

Isao Kamimori

Hiroyuki Nagano

Yuka Ariki

Takahiro Tsujii

Ryosuke Sawata

Sadao Shoji

Takeo Ichihara

Yasufumi Hayashida

Satoshi Fukushima

There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that improve detection accuracy in detecting a motion or posture of a person or an object using an inertial sensor. A posture of a measurement target is estimated based on a position and orientation of each of a plurality of measurement devices arranged at a plurality of parts of the measurement target and based on a connection relationship between the measurement devices that is set based on positions and orientations of the measurement devices, each measurement device including an inertial sensor. The present technology can be applied to a motion capture system.

Information processing device, information processing method, and program

To provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and an information processing system that make it possible to grasp a state of a certain region. An information processing apparatus includes an image acquisition section, a three-dimensional model generator, and a block generator. The image acquisition section acquires image information that includes image data and position information that are associated with each other, the position information being information regarding a position at which the image data is acquired. The three-dimensional model generator generates a three-dimensional model using the image information. The block generator generates a new block that is to be coupled to a blockchain that is formed by blocks being coupled, each block recording therein the image information used to generate the three-dimensional model.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method and information processing system

Provided is an information processing device that includes an acquisition unit that acquires characteristic information of an obstructer that is at least one of a person or an animal that obstructs an operation of a designated device designated in advance, and a generation unit that generates distraction-related information regarding a distraction device for distracting the obstructer and a distraction content of the distraction device according to the characteristic information, the distraction device being different from the designated device.

Information processing device, information processing method, and information processing system

There is provided an information processing apparatus and an information processing method capable of performing position estimation of a controller corresponding to a wearable device having an inside-out type. The information processing apparatus includes a user-position estimating unit that recognizes, based on a first captured image that is captured by a first image capturing unit provided to a wearable device mounted on a user, peripheral environment information of the user to execute position estimation of the user in a real space and a controller-position estimating unit that executes, based on a second captured image captured by a second image capturing unit that is provided to a controller being operated by the user, position estimation of the controller with reference to the recognized environment information.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

A mobile object according to the present technology includes a sensor, a map location estimation unit, a relative location estimation unit, a relative location estimation unit, a GNSS reception unit, and an absolute location estimation unit. The sensor acquires surrounding information. The map location estimation unit estimates a self location in a local map on the basis of an output of the sensor. The GNSS reception unit receives global navigation satellite system (GNSS) positioning information using a first carrier phase distance. The absolute location estimation unit estimates a self absolute location on the basis of the GNSS positioning information using the first carrier phase distance, GNSS positioning information using a second carrier phase distance, and a relative location, the GNSS positioning information using the second carrier phase distance being received by another mobile object.

Mobile object, positioning system, positioning program, and positioning method

An image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a program that permit camera calibration with high accuracy by using a known object in images captured by a plurality of imaging sections. An estimation section estimates a 3D position of a road sign included in each of images captured by a plurality of cameras with respect to each of the imaging sections. A recognition section recognizes a positional relationship between the plurality of cameras on the basis of the 3D position of the road sign with respect to each of the cameras estimated by the estimation section. The positional relationship between the plurality of cameras recognized by the recognition section is used to correct the images captured by the plurality of cameras.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program

The present disclosure relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program capable of performing continuous estimation of a self-position. An information processing device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a main imaging unit that includes a stereo camera mounted on a moving body, and captures moving images at a predetermined frame rate to output a pair of stereo main images as time-series images; a plurality of sub imaging units each of which is so mounted on the moving body as to have an imaging direction different from an imaging direction of the main imaging unit, and captures moving images at a predetermined frame rate; and a final pose determination unit that estimates a pose of the moving body on the basis of the pair of stereo main images captured by the main imaging unit, and sub images captured by the sub imaging units. For example, the present disclosure is applicable to a self-position sensor for in-vehicle use.

An information processing apparatus and an information processing method enables enhancement of accuracy in recognition of locations of a moving body. The information processing apparatus is arranged on a moving body and includes an own-location recognition block that recognizes, based on an image taken from the moving body, a first own location of the moving body. A moving body recognition block recognizes a relative location of another moving body relative to the moving body in the image taken from the moving body, and a communication block executes communication with the another moving body to obtain the absolute location of the another moving body, An own location computation block computes, based on the absolute location of the another moving body and the relative location of the another moving body, a second own location of the moving body.

The present disclosure relates to an information processing device and an information processing method that are capable of estimating the self-position by accurately and continuously estimating the self-movement. The information processing device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a downward imaging section and a movement estimation section. The downward imaging section is disposed on the bottom of a moving object traveling on a road surface and captures an image of the road surface. The movement estimation section estimates the movement of the moving object in accordance with a plurality of images representing the road surface and captured at different time points by the downward imaging section. The present disclosure can be applied, for example, to a position sensor mounted in an automobile.

Information processing device and information processing method

There is provided an information processing apparatus to present, to a user, an additional image, which is a virtual object, in a manner superimposed on a real-space image at a position corresponding to a viewpoint in the real space, the image processing apparatus including a processing unit configured to display an additional image corresponding to a viewpoint of a user in the real world, and guide the user to the vicinity of the viewpoint in the real world where the additional image has been acquired.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method for guiding a user to a vicinity of a viewpoint

The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a program that permit decision as to whether or not calibration of images is necessary. A decision section decides, using a current image captured by a camera and a past image captured by the camera, whether or not it is necessary to calibrate images captured by the camera. The present disclosure is applicable, for example, to a vehicle-mounted camera system that includes an automobile vehicle, two cameras, mounted to a front roof of the automobile vehicle such that imaging regions overlap, and an image processing apparatus, and so on.

The present technology relates to a control device and a control method that make it possible to estimate a self-position reliably with lower power consumption. An activation determination unit selects some of a plurality of cameras as activation cameras to be used for self-position estimation, and on the basis of the selection result of the activation cameras, an activation switching unit sets cameras taken as the activation cameras among the plurality of cameras to an activation state and causes the cameras to photograph images, and suspends the activation of the other cameras. A self-position estimation unit performs self-position estimation on the basis of images photographed by the activation cameras. Further, the activation determination unit selects the activation cameras again at a predetermined timing. The present technology can be applied to a self-position estimation system.

Self-position estimation device and method

The present technique relates to an apparatus and a method for measurement, and a program each of which enables distance estimation to be more simply carried out with higher accuracy. A three-dimensional measurement apparatus has a rotation control portion controlling rotation of a photographing portion by a rotation mechanism in such a way that the photographing portion is rotated with a center of rotation as an axis in a state in which a distance from the center of rotation of the rotation mechanism portion to a focal point position of the photographing portion is a constant distance; and a distance calculating portion calculating a distance to an object on a space on the basis of a plurality of photographed images obtained through photographing in positions different from one another by the photographing portion in a state in which the photographing portion is rotated.

Apparatus and method for measurement, and program

A first estimating unit estimates at least one of a position and an attitude of a predetermined object on the basis of an image of a periphery of the object, the image being obtained from an imaging device, and generates an estimation result not including an accumulated error. A second estimating unit estimates at least one of the position and the attitude of the object on the basis of the image, and generates an estimation result including an accumulated error. A correcting unit compares the estimation result of the first estimating unit and the estimation result of the second estimating unit with each other, and corrects, on the basis of a result of the comparison, a subsequent estimation result of the second estimating unit, the subsequent estimation result being subsequent to the estimation result of the second estimating unit which estimation result is used for the comparison. An App executing unit performs predetermined data processing on the basis of the estimation result of the second estimating unit which estimation result is corrected by the correcting unit.

Information processing device, position and/or attitude estimiating method, and computer program

It is an object of the present invention to provide a composite oxide catalyst which can suppress the generation of COand CO and improve the yield of an unsaturated nitrile in a method for subjecting propane or isobutane to a vapor-phase catalytic ammoxidation reaction to produce a corresponding unsaturated nitrile, and a method for producing the composite oxide catalyst, and a method for producing an unsaturated nitrile using the composite oxide catalyst. A composite oxide catalyst used for a vapor-phase catalytic oxidation reaction or vapor-phase catalytic ammoxidation reaction of propane or isobutane, the composite oxide catalyst comprising a composite oxide represented by the following composition formula (1):MoVSbNbWZO&#x2003;&#x2003;(1),wherein the component Z is one or more element selected from the group consisting of La, Ce, Pr, Yb, Y, Sc, Sr, and Ba; a, b, c, d, e, and n represent atomic ratios of the elements; and 0.1&#x2264;a&#x3c;0.2, 0.15&#x2264;b&#x2264;0.5, 0.01&#x2264;c &#x2264;0.5, 0&#x2264;d&#x2264;0.4, 0&#x2264;e&#x2264;0.2, and 0.60&#x3c;a/b&#x3c;1.00.

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