Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Takanori Ishikawa

Yasuhide Hyodo

Isao Ohashi

Kazunari Yoshifuji

Shuichi Takahashi

Yota Komoriya

Satoshi Shioiri

Tetsujiro Kondo

Takashi Nakamura

Masaki Handa

Kazushi Yoshikawa

Kentaro Doba

Tomoyuki Otsuki

Yuta Aoki

Ryo Sasaki

Tsutomu Nigami

Yukinojo Kitakami

Yuta Kondo

A content presentation system, a content presentation device, and a content presentation method that reduce a burden on a user and present suitable contents to the user with high accuracy are provided. The present technology provides a content presentation system including a computer device that holds content information associated with emotion information indicating an emotion of a user, in which the computer device at least includes a machine learning model that, on the basis of a plurality of pieces of content information presented to the user corresponding to desired emotion information indicating emotion information desired by the user and content information selected by the user from the plurality of pieces of content information, performs machine learning so as to present the content information suitable for the emotion information.

Content presentation system, content presentation device, and content presentation method

A biological information measurement device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a control section that controls a first connection and disconnection and a second connection and disconnection, thereby inputting, to an AD conversion section, a plurality of first analog signals for changes in impedance or conductance between electrodes of individual electrode pairs and a second analog signal for a change in impedance or conductance between the electrodes of a plurality of the electrode pairs.

Biological information measurement device and biological information measurement system

A biological information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology is provided with a sphygmographic sensor unit, a plurality of calculation units, and an output unit. The sphygmographic sensor unit outputs a pulse wave signal. The plurality of calculation units respectively calculate heart rate candidate information with a reliability on a basis of the output pulse wave signal. The output unit outputs heart rate information on a basis of the heart rate candidate information and the reliability thereof calculated by each of the plurality of calculation units.

Biological information processing apparatus, biological information processing method, and information processing apparatus

A vital sign processing device according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a pulse-wave sensor unit, an output unit, and a first filter unit. The pulse-wave sensor unit outputs a pulse-wave signal. The output unit outputs a heart-rate information item on the basis of the output pulse-wave signal. The first filter unit sets a first frequency band on the basis of the output heart-rate information item, and allows the set first frequency band of the pulse-wave signal to pass through the first filter unit.

Vital sign processing device, vital sign processing method, and information processing device

A noise reduction processing circuit of the disclosure includes an adaptive filter that receives, as an input signal, a body motion signal that is filtered on a basis of a transfer function, that is calculated by modeling an influence of body motion on a blood flow, and a subtractor that outputs an error signal obtained by subtracting an output value of the adaptive filter from an observed signal.

Noise reduction processing circuit and method, and biological information processing device and method

The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that can improve the estimation accuracy of a motion amount of an object. A cross-correlation analysis unit performs a cross-correlation analysis between a first image and a second image obtained by capturing the same object as an object of the first image before the first image, a first motion estimation unit estimates a first motion amount corresponding to a motion blur in the first image, and a second motion estimation unit estimates a second motion amount different from the first motion amount between the first image and the second image on the basis of a result of the cross-correlation analysis and an estimation result of the first motion amount. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an apparatus for measuring a pulse.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program

According to some aspects, an image processing apparatus is provided, comprising circuitry configured to receive an input image, the input image being supplied as a stereoscopic image including a left image for a left eye and a right image for a right eye, calculate depth information for each of a plurality of sub-regions of the input image based at least in part on the right image and the left image, and determine, for each of the plurality of sub-regions of the input image, at least one luminance component based at least in part on the depth information and a function indicating a relationship between depth information and luminance value.

Image processing apparatus, method and computer program to adjust 3D information based on human visual characteristics

There is provided an image processing method including acquiring an original image and a disparity map, the disparity map indicating distribution of disparity values associated with respective pixels in the original image, causing a processor to decide a dynamic range of disparity on the basis of the acquired original image and the acquired disparity map, and converting the disparity map in a manner that each disparity in the disparity map is distributed within the decided dynamic range of the disparity.

Image processing method, image processing device, and electronic apparatus

There is provided an image processing method including acquiring a degree of attention of a viewer to a stereoscopic input image, acquiring a relation between the degree of attention and a disparity value for stereovision from each pixel of the input image, and weighting a disparity value of a pixel having the high degree of attention on the basis of the relation between the degree of attention and the disparity value, and increasing the disparity value of the pixel having the high degree of attention.

Image processing method, image processing device, and electronic device

An image processing apparatus includes: a luminance extraction means to extract luminance components of an input image; a contrast extraction means to extract contrast components of the input image based on the luminance components of the input image extracted by the luminance extraction means; a storage means to store a performance function indicating relation between the contrast components of the input image and depth amounts subjectively perceived, which is determined based at least in part on visual sense characteristics of human beings; and a contrast adjustment means to calculate present depth amounts of the input image from the contrast components of the input image extracted by the contrast extraction means based at least in part on the performance function with respect to region of the input image which are determined from depth information of the input image and adjusting contrast components of the input image.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method and program

An image processing method includes: calculating a first index value through back matching between a first image and a second image in relation to a first pixel which is one or a plurality of pixels of the first image and a second pixel which is one or a plurality of pixels located at a position corresponding to the first pixel in the second image; calculating a second index value by normalizing a correlation index value indicating correlation between the first pixel and the second pixel using a complexity index value indicating complexity of an image which is displayed by the first pixel; and calculating a third index value by multiplying the first index value by the second index value.

Image processing method, image processing device, and display apparatus

Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus, including: a representative-point storing section; an evaluation-value table generation section; a peak detection section; and a correlation determination section, wherein an operation carried out by the evaluation-value table generation section to generate the evaluation-value table on the basis of representative points stored in the representative-point storing section, an operation carried out by the peak detection section to detect the candidate vector, an operation carried out by the correlation determination section to determine the correlation between the representative point and the referenced point as well as an operation carried out by the correlation determination section to update the representative-point storing section in accordance with a result of the operation to determine a correlation between the representative point and the referenced point are repeated as long as existence of a significant candidate vector is determined.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method and image processing program

An image processing apparatus includes: a depth information extraction means for extracting depth information from an input 3D image; a luminance extraction means for extracting luminance components of the 3D image; a contrast extraction means for extracting contrast components of the 3D image based on the luminance components; a storage means for storing a performance function indicating relation between the contrast components and depth amounts subjectively perceived, which is determined based on visual sense characteristics of human beings; and a contrast adjustment means for calculating present depth amounts of the inputted 3D image from the contrast components based on the performance function with respect to at least one of a near side region and a deep side region of the inputted 3D image which are determined from the depth information and adjusting contrast components of the inputted 3D image based on the calculated present depth amounts and a set depth adjustment amount.

There is provided a display device including a display unit which periodically arranges and displays a plurality of images and a parallax barrier which is disposed in front of a pixel plane of the display unit and separates light from the display unit. The display device includes a disparity extraction unit which extracts information on a distribution of disparities between the view images, a parameter calculation unit which calculates a shift amount based on the disparity distribution information, a shift processing unit which performs shift processing on at least one of the view images based on the calculated shift amount, and a mapping processing unit which rearranges the at least one shift-processed view image on the display unit.

Display device and control method of display device

There is provided a display including a display unit which periodically arranges and displays a plurality of view images, an acquisition unit which acquires information on a position of an observer, a calculation unit which sets a target viewing zone based on the information on the position of the observer, and a control unit which selects an arrangement of the view images that gives a viewing zone similar to the target viewing zone.

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Takanori Ishikawa