Nikon Corporation

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Nippon Kogaku K.k.

Sony Group Corporation

Tetsuro Goto

Hideo Kawabe

Yuji Takahashi

Tatsuya Suzuki

Toshiyuki Nakagawa

Tsubasa Tsukahara

Shinobu Kuriya

Masatoshi Ueno

Kenichi Kabasawa

Akira Katayama

Hisako Sugano

Masanori Hasuda

Daisuke Kawakami

Ken Kobayashi

Kazuyuki Kazami

Tsutomu Wakabayashi

Takashi Saegusa

Seiichi Yasukawa

Koichi Daitoku

Hiroshi Hasegawa

Tadao Takagi

Hiroyuki Iwasaki

Hiroto Kawaguchi

Osamu Ito

Shinichi Fukuda

Hideya Inoue

Norikazu Yokonuma

Hideo Tanaka

Hiroshi Sakamoto

Takayuki Tanaka

Kei Tsukamoto

Akira Ebisui

Kosho Miura

Akira Ezawa

Tomoko Katsuhara

Yoshiaki Sakakura

Hirotaka Ishikawa

Yasuhito Maki

Taizo Nishimura

Naoki Tomino

Yukio Uemura

Hayato Hasegawa

Toshio Kano

Shogo Shinkai

Masaaki Yanagisawa

Toshio Sosa

Yoshiaki Tanabe

Takashi Itaya

Tsutomu Narisawa

Asahiko Nogami

Manami Miyawaki

Yoshio Matsuzawa

Kenji Isono

Maki Sato

Hiroshi Masuda

Tadakuni Narabu

Akihiko Sato

Takeshi Iwatsu

Hiroyuki Abe

Masaru Muramatsu

Munetake Ebihara

Makoto Yamaguchi

Tomoaki Suzuki

Fumihiko Iida

Yoshiyuki Nakano

Akira Fujisawa

Yusaku Kato

Keiji Ohsawa

Fumiko Shiga

Yasushi Itoshiro

Noriaki Nakajima

Tomoki Kawabata

Shiro Sugimori

Masaya Takano

Kazuya Hirano

Kazuto Otsuka

Kazyuki Kazami

Tsutomu Wakabayshi

Sumiko Maruyama

Kimihiko Kogure

A sensor apparatus and a robotic apparatus that can detect a distribution of a shearing force. A sensor apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a sensor section, a separation layer, and a first viscoelastic body layer. The sensor section includes a first pressure sensor on a front side of the sensor section that faces and a second pressure sensor on a rear side of the sensor section, the sensor section detecting a force applied in an in-plane direction. The separation layer is between the first pressure sensor and the second pressure sensor, and is made of a viscoelastic material that is deformed by a load applied to the first pressure sensor. The first viscoelastic body layer is on a front surface of the first pressure sensor, and is made of a viscoelastic material that is deformable on the first pressure sensor in the in-plane direction.

Pressure sensor apparatus having a viscoelastic separation layer between a first pressure sensor and a second pressure sensor

A sensor according to the present technology includes a sensor unit and a separation layer. The sensor unit includes a first pressure sensor on a front side and a second pressure sensor on a rear side that are opposite to each other and detects, on the basis of pressure detection positions in an in-plane direction by the first pressure sensor and the second pressure sensor, a force in the in-plane direction. The separation layer has a gap portion and is interposed between the first pressure sensor and the second pressure sensor.

Sensor and electronic apparatus

A three-axis sensor includes: a first detection layer having a first surface, and a second surface on side opposite to the first surface, and including a first sensing section of a capacitive type; a second detection layer having a first surface opposed to the second surface of the first detection laver, and including a second sensing section of the capacitive type; a first electrically conductive layer provided to be opposed to the first surface of the first detection layer; a second electrically conductive layer provided between the first detection layer and the second detection layer; a separation layer provided between the first detection layer and the second electrically conductive layer to separate the first detection layer and the second electrically conductive layer from each other; a first deformation layer that is provided between the first electrically conductive layer and the first detection layer, and is elastically deformed in accordance with pressure acting in a thickness direction of a sensor; and a second deformation layer that is provided between the second electrically conductive layer and the second detection layer, and is elastically deformed in accordance with pressure acting in the thickness direction of the sensor. A 25% CLD value of the separation layer is 10 or more times a 25% CLD value of the first deformation layer, and the 25% CLD value of the separation layer is 10 or more times a 25% CLD value of the second deformation layer.

Three-axis sensor, sensor module, and electronic apparatus

A sensor module includes a sensor that includes a first sensor layer of a capacitance type including a plurality of first detection units arranged two-dimensionally and a second sensor layer of a capacitance type including a plurality of second detection units arranged two-dimensionally, the first sensor layer being provided on the second sensor layer, and a control unit that scans the plurality of first detection units and the plurality of second detection units.

Sensor module and electronic device

An electronic apparatus includes: an exterior body; a pressure-sensitive sensor having a sensing face; and a support supporting the pressure-sensitive sensor such that inner faces the exterior body is opposed to the sensing face.

Sensor, input device, and electronic apparatus

Provided is a sensor including a sensor electrode unit including: a sensing unit of a capacitance type that detects pressing; and a temperature detection sensing unit of a capacitance type provided in an area corresponding to the sensing unit.

Sensor, input device, and electronic device

An information processing apparatus according to the present technology includes a housing, a display section, a pressure-sensitive sensor, and a control section. The housing has a front surface and a sub-surface including an operation area and is capable of being held by a user. The display section is arranged on the front surface. The pressure-sensitive sensor detects a pressure value with respect to the sub-surface. The control section identifies a status that the operation area is operated by the user and a status that the operation area is held by the user on the basis of the pressure value, and executes predetermined processing on the basis of an operation by the user with respect to the operation area in a case where the status is determined that the operation area is operated.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program

An electronic apparatus includes: an exterior body; a pressure-sensitive sensor having a first surface and a second surface; a support body supporting the pressure-sensitive sensor such that the exterior body faces the first surface; and a first deformation layer disposed at least either between the first surface and the exterior body or between the second surface and the support body. The pressure-sensitive sensor includes a capacitive sensor electrode unit including a sensing unit, a reference electrode layer, and a second deformation layer disposed between the reference electrode layer and the sensor electrode unit. The first deformation layer and the second deformation layer satisfy a predetermined relationship.

An input apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes an operation member, an electrode substrate, and a first support. The operation member includes a plurality of key regions and is configured to be deformable. The electrode substrate includes a first capacitive element arranged opposed to each of the plurality of key regions and a second capacitive element arranged around the first capacitive element. The electrode substrate is capable of electrostatically detecting a change of a distance from each of the plurality of key regions. The first support includes a plurality of first structures and a first space. The plurality of first structures connect between the electrode substrate and the operation member. The first space is formed between the plurality of first structures and capable of changing the distance between each of the plurality of key regions and the electrode substrate according to an input operation.

Deformable input apparatus and electronic apparatus including key regions

There is provided an information processing device including a capacitance variation detection unit configured to detect an operation input to each of a plurality of key regions as a capacitance variation amount of a capacitive element, the key region being provided on a sheet-like operation member, the capacitive element being provided in association with each of the key regions, the capacitance variation amount being dependent on a change in a distance between the key region and the capacitive element, and an input state determination unit configured to determine whether an input state of the key region is an ON state based on the detected capacitance variation amount, the ON state being a state in which the operation input to the key region is decided to be valid. The input state determination unit determines an end of the ON state based on a differential value of the capacitance variation amount.

Method and apparatus for controlling an input device

A control apparatus comprising a processor, a memory, and a communication circuit configured to communicate with an input apparatus is provided. The memory device stores instructions which when executed by the processor, causes the processor to receive displacement information from the input apparatus, and generate a displacement value for displacing an operation target on a display based on the displacement information, wherein a first set of instructions is used to calculate the displacement value if the displacement information is within a predetermined range, and a second set of instructions is used to calculate the displacement value if the displacement information is outside the predetermined range; and transmit a feedback signal to the input apparatus at a timing based on the displacement information, wherein the timing is calculated differently if the displacement information is within the predetermined range than if the displacement information is outside the predetermined range.

Operation method and control apparatus

An information processing apparatus includes: an operation unit configured to calculate, based on information on an acceleration detected by an acceleration sensor included in an operation device that is operated by a user, movement information as information on one of a velocity and a movement distance of the operation device; and a correction unit configured to correct, based on information obtained by the acceleration sensor within an acceleration period as a period between an acceleration start time and an acceleration end time of the operation device, the movement information of the operation device within a period between the acceleration end time of the operation device and a movement end time at which the movement ends, that is calculated by the operation unit.

Information processing for controlling movement of displayed object

The present disclosure is generally directed to an information processing apparatus, comprising: a processor configured to: detect a real object on a real space; receive first superimposition information that corresponds to superimposition of a virtual object on the real object, wherein the first superimposition information is generated based on a spatial position relationship of a second information processing apparatus and the real object; generate second superimposition information based on spatial positional information of the first information processing apparatus and the received first superimposition information; and display the virtual object based on the generated second superimposition information.

Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and information processing method

A head-mountable display device is provided including an image display device configured to be communicable with an input device and to display an operation image and an auxiliary image overlaid upon the operation image. The auxiliary image indicates three-dimensional positional information of a target object relative to an input operation surface of the input device.

Head-mounted display for visually recognizing input

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Tetsuro Goto