Sony Corporation

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Sony Group Corporation

Takuya Oshima

Tadashi Suzuki

Yoshiaki Hirano

Atsushi Miura

Hideki Akashika

Toyokazu Ota

Takashi Yamamoto

Takamichi Yamakoshi

Norihiro Tanabe

Ryu Narusawa

Seiji Wada

Yoshihiro Wakita

Takeshi Otsuka

Akira Honjo

Tetsujiro Kondo

Naoki Tagami

Yoichi Mizutani

Hiroshi Kyusojin

Shinji Arakawa

Shuichi Sekiya

Akira Fukada

Hironobu Tamai

A vehicle rear portion includes a resin rear exterior member, a metal exhaust finisher, and a reinforcing block. The rear exterior member is provided at a rear portion of a vehicle body. The exhaust finisher is provided at a terminating end portion of an exhaust pipe. The reinforcing block is fixed to the exhaust finisher and attached to the rear exterior member. The reinforcing block has an upper side portion that straddles an upper side of the exhaust finisher in a vehicle width direction, an inner side portion that extends downward from an inner region of the upper side portion in the vehicle width direction, and an outer side portion that extends downward from an outer region of the upper side portion in the vehicle width direction.

Vehicle rear structure

This information processing apparatus includes: a search image acquisition unit that acquires enlarged images at focal positions different from each other; a first feature amount calculation unit that obtains, for each of the multiple captured enlarged images, a first feature amount based on a direct current component and a dynamic range of an alternating current component of pixel values for each of blocks forming each of the enlarged images; and an in-focus position determination unit that determines an in-focus position of each enlarged image based on the first feature amount.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program

A digital microscope apparatus includes a first imaging unit including a first imaging device and a first optical system including an objective lens configured to enlarge first and second images of a preparation that holds a sample, the first image being formed on the first device through the first system, a second imaging unit including a second optical system that is branched from the first system and has a depth of field larger than the first system and a second imaging device on which the second image is formed through the second system, and a controller configured to calculate a provisional in-focus position of the lens based on the second image, determine an area of the first device, from which the first image is read, and search for, based on the read image, an in-focus position of the lens in a predetermined range based on the provisional in-focus position.

Digital microscope apparatus, method of searching for in-focus position thereof, and program

A client (such as a PC, portable telephone, PDA, electrical appliances), to which a device such as a IC card is connected, starts a handshake protocol to request a server to start communication. When communication is established via the handshake protocol, the initiative of communication is transferred to the server, and the state changes into a neutral state. In this neutral state, a control packet including a particular number of messages and a finished message is transmitted from the server to the client. If the client receives the control packet, the client performs a process according to the messages included in the control packet. This makes it possible to remotely control a device via a network in a highly reliable and efficient manner.

Control system and control method, method and apparatus for processing information, information processing terminal and method thereof, storage medium, and program

An information providing system and method and a storage medium which provide information services to each client apparatus on which a browser for browsing content and at least one object operate, through the cooperation with the operation of the object. A server apparatus has a view server for providing content to the browser, a communication server for making communication with the object, and an application sever for making the view server and the application server cooperate with each other. When a read operation from the object is performed, the communication server notifies the application server of a result of the read operation, thereby providing synchronization between the communication server and the view server.

Information providing system and method and storage medium

An apparatus for processing an informational signal includes a first processing section for receiving the informational signal, executing a first processing on the informational signal, and outputting the processed informational signal. The apparatus also includes a second processing section, which is located at a posterior stage of the first processing section, for receiving the processed informational signal and executing a second processing on the processed informational signal. The apparatus further includes transmitting device for transmitting meta-information corresponding to each predetermined period of time in the informational signal from the first processing section to the second processing section. The processing in the second processing section is controlled based on the meta-information transmitted by the transmitting device.

Apparatus and method for processing informational signal

An informational-signal-processing apparatus has a plurality of functional blocks and a control block that controls operations of the functional blocks. Each of the functional blocks performs a series of items of processing. The control block or a predetermined block among the control block and the functional blocks distributes a global command. Each of the functional blocks receives the global command and operates adaptively based on the received global command. The functional blocks output a block-to-block synchronizing signal at an output timing of a processed informational signal that has been performed on the basis of the global command.

Informational-signal-processing apparatus, functional block, and method of controlling the functional block

An effective electronic settlement system in which the number of checks is small. The electronic settlement system includes a data storage device such as an IC card in which value information is stored, a client device provided with an information input/output function to the data storage device, a store device for providing commodities or services, a settlement management device for managing settlement between the data storage device and the store device, and a communication system for connecting the client device, the store device, and the settlement management device so as to enable bidirectional communication. The settlement management device creates, based on settlement request information from the store device, settlement information for making settlement by the data storage device, subjects the settlement information to an encryption processing by using a common key shared by the settlement management device and the data storage device, and transmits the settlement information subjected to the encryption processing to the client device, and the client device outputs the settlement information received from the settlement management device to the data storage device.

Electronic settlement system, settlement management device, store device, client device, data storage device, computer program, and storage medium

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Takuya Oshima