Sony Corporation

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Saturn Licensing LLC

Takashi Yokokawa

Toshiyuki Miyauchi

Makiko Yamamoto

Satoshi Okada

Naoki Yoshimochi

Ryoji Ikegaya

Hidetoshi Kawauchi

Masayuki Hattori

Hiroo Takahashi

Osamu Shinya

Naohiro Koshisaka

Yuji Shinohara

Yasuhiro Iida

Takuya Okamoto

Yuken Goto

Lachlan Bruce Michael

Hiroyuki Kamata

Lui Sakai

Sonfun Lee

Hitoshi Sakai

Kenichi Kobayashi

Jun Murayama

Hideki Mitsubayashi

Kazuhiro Shimizu

Kouhei Yamamoto

Takashi Horiguti

Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri

Tamotsu Ikeda

Atsushi Kikuchi

Hideyuki Matsumoto

Toshihisa Hyakudai

Tatsuya Sugioka

Samuel Asanbeng Atungsiri

Satoru Hori

Kohei Yamamoto

Makiko Kan

Suguru Houchi

Hironobu Konishi

Tadaaki Yuba

Lothar Stadelmeier

Nabil Sven Loghin

Takahiro Okada

Kazuo Watanabe

Matthew Paul Athol Taylor

John Nicholas Wilson

Joerg Robert

Takashi Hagiwara

Yuichi Hirayama

Hiroaki Hayashi

Takanori Minamino

Naoya Haneda

Yuichi Mizutani

Kenichi Maruko

Kazuhisa Funamoto

Koji Naniwada

Tetsuhiro Futami

Hirofumi Maruyama

Kazuhiro Oguchi

Takahiro Miyazaki

Atsushi Makita

Misa Nakane

Tomoharu Honda

Doan Tien Dung

Takafumi Maehara

Mathew Paul Athol Taylor

Taylor Matthew

Yutaka Nakada

Dung Tien Doan

There is provided an imaging device which includes a photoelectric conversion section including a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, each of the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements photoelectrically convert incoming light into an electrical signal, a first detection section that detect a detection signal in a case where an absolute value of an amount of change in the electrical signal generated by each of the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements exceeds a predetermined threshold, a flicker determination section that determines whether or not a detection signal caused by a flicker of a light source is included in the detection signals detected by the first detection section, and a second detection section that detects a detection signal caused by a factor other than the flicker, in a case where it is determined that the detection signal caused by the flicker is included.

Imaging device and imaging method for preventing an unnecessary event

A bus system of the disclosure includes three or more devices that include one or a plurality of imaging devices, and transmit or receive data signals in a time-division manner; and a bus to which the three or more devices are coupled.

Bus system and communication device

Provided is a communication device, including: a transmission and reception unit that transmits and receives a signal with an other communication device; an error detection unit that detects an occurrence of an error by having the transmission and reception unit receive a preamble specifying a type of data to be transmitted next, and comparing a bit sequence of a signal received following the preamble to a bit sequence that should be transmitted for the type specified for transmission by the preamble; and a conflict avoidance unit that, if the occurrence of an error is detected by the error detection unit, instructs the transmission and reception unit to transmit a clock corresponding to a certain number of bits following the preamble, and then transmit an abort signal giving an instruction to terminate communication partway through.

Communication device, communication method, program, and communication system

A transmission device of the disclosure includes: a generator unit that generates, on the basis of a control signal, a transmission symbol signal that indicates a sequence of transmission symbols; an output control unit that generates an output control signal on the basis of the transmission symbol signal; and a driver unit that generates, on the basis of the output control signal, a first output signal, a second output signal, and a third output signal. The generator unit generates the transmission symbol signal on the basis of the control signal, to allow the first output signal, the second output signal, and the third output signal to exchange signal patterns with one another.

Transmission device, reception device, and communication system

Provided is a processing apparatus including a processing unit that is connected to a data bus, and performs control involved with an image which is output by each of a plurality of image sensors connected to the data bus, through the data bus.

Processing apparatus, image sensor, and system

Provided is a processing apparatus including a processing unit that is connectable to a data bus, and performs output control on respective images captured by a plurality of image sensors connected to the data bus during a predetermined period of time. A timing of output of the image performed by each of the plurality of image sensors is changed by the output control.

Processing apparatus, image device and system with image data via single common data bus

This disclosure relates to a communicating apparatus, a communication method, a program, and a communication system that each enable execution of more reliable communication. A communicating apparatus includes a transmitting and receiving part that executes transmission and reception of signals with at least one or more other communicating apparatuses through a data signal line and a clock signal line, and an error avoiding part that, in a state where a communication system configured to be able to execute communication through a bus already operates, executes a process of avoiding occurrence of any error occurring when a communicating apparatus is additionally connected to the communication system. This technique is applicable to, for example, a bus IF.

Communicating apparatus, communication method, program, and communication system

A master includes a transmission and receiving unit that transmits and receives signals to and from a slave, and the transmission and receiving unit receives read data read out from the slave, and typically drives the second bit of a preamble transmitted/received subsequent to the read data. The master can notify the slave that communication is or is not interrupted at some midpoint, on the basis of the second bit of the preamble. The present technology can be applied to a bus IF that communicates pursuant to, for example, the specification of I3C.

Communication apparatus, communication method, program, and communication system

The present disclosure relates to a data transmission apparatus and a data transmission method, a reception. device and a reception. method, a program, and a data transmission system capable of surely switching transmission systems. A transmission unit capable of transmitting data by switching the plurality of transmission systems transmits a switching command for instructing to switch the transmission system. Then, as a measure against an error generated when the switching command is generated, an error correction code for correcting the error generated in the switching command is transmitted or it is confirmed whether the switching command has been successfully received or reception of the switching command has failed on the basis of the result of error detection relative to the transmitted switching command. The present technology is applied to, for example, a bus IF.

Data transmission apparatus and data transmission method, reception device and reception method, program, and data transmission system

There is provided a communication apparatus, including: a transmission/reception unit that transmits/receives a signal to/from a different apparatus; a confirmation signal detection unit that detects one of a reception confirmation signal and a non-reception confirmation signal, the reception confirmation signal and the non-reception confirmation signal being transmitted from the different apparatus that has received the signal transmitted from the transmission/reception unit; and a conflict avoiding unit that instructs the transmission/reception unit to transmit an abort signal for instructing to interrupt communication after ignoring a predetermined number of bits following the non-reception confirmation signal when the confirmation signal detection unit has detected the non-reception confirmation signal.

A master includes a transmission/reception unit which transmits/receives a signal to/from a slave, and an error detection unit which detects error occurrence by performing parity check to data received by the transmission/reception unit. Then, the error detection unit performs error detection assuming one bit of 2-bit parity included in the data received by the transmission/reception unit as even parity, and the other bit as odd parity. The present technology can be applied to a bus IF which performs communication in compliance with, for example, an I3C standard.

A transmitting device of the disclosure includes a plurality of transmitters each of which includes a scrambler that performs a scrambling process on transmission data by using random data generated on the basis of an initial value and that transmits the transmission data on which the scrambling process has been performed. An initial value of a first scrambler in a first transmitter is different from an initial value of a second scrambler in a second transmitter, and the first transmitter and the second transmitter belongs to the plurality of transmitters.

Transmitting device, receiving device, and communication system

The present technology relates to a data processing device and a data processing method capable of appropriately processing a stream. NPs included in a division stream of a predetermined channel acquired by dividing an input stream configured by a plurality of packets into division streams of a plurality of channels are eliminated, and a NP-eliminated stream including DNP representing the number of eliminated NPs is generated. Then, a stream including the NP-eliminated stream and signaling as a size identifier representing a size of the DNP or a stream including the NP-eliminated stream and a buffer capacity of a buffer storing the NP-eliminated stream and signaling as read start time from the buffer so as to generate a NP-inserted stream acquired by inserting NPs corresponding to a number represented by the DNP into the NP-eliminated stream is generated. The present technology, for example, can be applied to a channel bonding (CB) technology for dividing an input stream into a plurality of channels and transmitting divided streams.

Data processing device and data processing method for processing a stream

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Takashi Yokokawa