Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Yohei Ogura

Kensei Jo

Kenichiro Oi

Takafumi Fujita

Provided is a floodlight control apparatus including a light receiving part which is provided with a plurality of light receiving elements which receives reflected light of light projected by a light projecting part, and an object detecting part which performs object detection targeted within a distance measurable range which is a range where the light receiving part is operable to receive the reflected light. The floodlight control apparatus further includes a control part which performs control of differentiating a light projection amount provided by the light projecting part in accordance with detection presence/absence of an object performed by the object detecting part and in a case where the object detecting part detects the object, differentiating a projection mode of the light projecting part between a detection region and a non-detection region of the object.

Floodlight control apparatus and floodlight control method

Provided are an imaging device and a monitoring device capable of accurately measuring a distance and a shape of a region of an object that is difficult to measure by one distance measuring camera. Provided is an imaging device including a sensor unit configured to irradiate an object with light and detect the light reflected by the object; a distance calculation unit configured to calculate a distance to the object on the basis of sensing data of the sensor unit; a specular reflector located on an opposite side of the sensor unit across the object; and a correction unit configured to correct an error included in the calculated distance, the error being caused by an interference between the light following a first path from the sensor unit toward the object and the light following a second path from the sensor unit, reflected by the specular reflector, and going toward the object.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Yohei Ogura