Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Yoshinao Kawai

Takeo Azuma

Satoshi Sato

Nobuhiko Wakai

Hiroki Takeuchi

Kohsuke Yoshioka

Noritaka Shimizu

Takaaki Amada

Yoko Kawai

Takeshi Murai

Tomohiro Yui

Hirohito Mukai

Yasumichi Takai

Koji Suzuki

Yoshikazu Nishikawa

Yasutaka Uramoto

Yuji Kuwahara

Nobuhiro Takagi

Yukiteru Murao

Atsushi Taguchi

A depth acquisition device includes memory and processor performing: acquiring, from the memory, intensities of infrared light emitted from a light source and measured by imaging with the infrared light reflected on a subject by pixels in an imaging element; generating a depth image by calculating a distance to the subject as a depth for each pixel based on an intensity received by the pixel; acquiring, from the memory, a visible light image generated by imaging, with visible light, a substantially same scene with a substantially same viewpoint and at a substantially same timing as those of imaging the infrared light image; detecting, from the visible light image, an edge region including an edge along a direction perpendicular to a direction of movement of the visible light image; and correcting, in the depth image, a depth of a target region corresponding to the edge region in the depth image.

Depth acquisition device and depth acquisition method

A depth acquisition device includes a memory and a processor. The processor performs: acquiring timing information indicating a timing at which a light source irradiates a subject with infrared light; acquiring, from the memory, an infrared light image generated by imaging a scene including the subject with the infrared light according to the timing indicated by the timing information; acquiring, from the memory, a visible light image generated by imaging a substantially same scene as the scene of the infrared light image, with visible light from a substantially same viewpoint as a viewpoint of imaging the infrared light image at a substantially same time as a time of imaging the infrared light image; detecting a flare region from the infrared light image; and estimating a depth of the flare region based on the infrared light image, the visible light image, and the flare region.

Imaging device, imaging method, and information processing device

An object detection apparatus includes an input port that receives information on a plurality of objects in surroundings of a vehicle and information on a traffic environment of the vehicle, the plurality of objects being detected by a sensor installed on the vehicle, a controller that determines, based on the information on the plurality of objects and the information on the traffic environment, priority for each of the plurality of objects and determines first information based on the priority in a case where the total amount of information on the plurality of objects is greater than a determined value, the first information being information on part of the plurality of objects, and an output port that outputs the first information to an in-vehicle apparatus that controls the vehicle.

Object detection apparatus, and storage medium

A depth acquisition device includes a memory and a processor. The processor performs; acquiring timing information indicating a timing at which a light source irradiates a subject with infrared light; acquiring an infrared light image stored in the memory, the infrared light image being generated by imaging a scene including the subject with the infrared light according to the timing indicated by the timing information; acquiring a visible light image stored in the memory, the visible light image being generated by imaging a substantially same scene as that of the infrared light image, with visible light from a substantially same viewpoint and at a substantially same imaging time of those of the infrared light image; detecting a dust region showing dust from the infrared light image; and estimating a depth of the dust region based on the infrared light image, the visible light image, and the dust region.

Depth acquisition device and depth acquisition method including estimating a depth of a dust region based on a visible light image

A depth acquisition device includes a memory and a processor performing: acquiring, from the memory, intensities of infrared light measured by imaging with infrared light emitted from a light source and reflected on a subject by pixels in an imaging element; generating a depth image by calculating the distance for each pixel based on the intensities; acquiring, from the memory, a visible light image generated by imaging, with visible light, the substantially same scene from the substantially same viewpoint at the substantially same timing as those of the infrared light image; detecting a lower reflection region showing an object having a lower reflectivity from the infrared light image in accordance with the infrared light image and the visible light image; correcting a corresponding lower reflection region in the depth image in accordance with the visible light image; and outputting the depth image with the corrected lower reflection region.

Depth acquisition device and depth acquisition method for providing a corrected depth image

A driving lane detection device of the present disclosure includes: an object detector, a vehicle detector, and a driving lane detector. The object detector generates object data relating to a distance and direction from the vehicle to an object and a movement direction of the object based on one or more reflection waves that are a radar signal transmitted by a radar device and reflected by the one or more object. The vehicle detector detects each object as at least one of a parallel-running vehicle running in a same direction as the vehicle or an oncoming vehicle running in an opposite direction to the vehicle, based on the object data. The driving lane detector detects a driving lane based on the distance and direction from the vehicle to at least one of the detected parallel-running and the detected oncoming vehicles and lane information on at least one of lane widths and a number of lanes of a road on which the vehicle is running.

Driving lane detection device and driving lane detection method

The master apparatus includes a communicator that transmits a command to the one or more slave apparatuses in the first communication method, and that transmits a trigger to the one or more slave apparatuses and receives data that is transmitted by the one or more slave apparatuses in response to the trigger in the second communication method, and a controller that controls the communicator during execution of the first communication method to read negotiation information that indicates conditions for the second communication method from a memory and to transmit the negotiation information to the one or more slave apparatuses, wherein upon completion of communication that satisfies the conditions after the first communication method is switched to the second communication method, the controller performs switching from the second communication method to the first communication method.

Communication apparatus and communication system

A device apparatus carries out data transfer between a host-side device communication unit that supports a plurality of host-side communication modes and that communicates with a host apparatus and a device communication unit that supports a plurality of network-side communication modes respectively matching communication speeds of the plurality of host-side communication modes and that communicates with a communication device and switches a host-side communication mode that is used by the host-side device communication unit, in response to switching of a network-side communication mode that is used by the device communication unit.

Data transfer apparatus, host apparatus, data transfer system, and communication mode setting method

A wireless communication apparatus which switches between plural wireless communication schemes that are different from each other in maximum transmission frame size includes a means for selecting one of the plural wireless communication schemes, a means for generating a transmission frame, a means for dividing the generated transmission frame if the size of the transmission frame is larger than a maximum transmission frame size of the selected wireless communication scheme, and a means for transmitting the transmission frame or divided transmission frames according to the selected wireless communication scheme.

Wireless communication apparatus and transmission frame control method

The dynamic DC offset canceling apparatus includes: sectionthat detects dynamic DC offset in longest overlapping part sequences from the differences between the sampling values of a first longest overlapping part sequence and the sampling values of a second longest overlapping part sequence, the first longest overlapping part sequence and the second longest overlapping part sequence being overlapping part sequences in a training sequence of the received signal; sectionthat detects dynamic DC offset outside the longest overlapping part sequences from the difference between an average value of sampling values of a received signal which exists in a burst before the first longest overlapping part sequence, and an average value of sampling values of a received signal which exists in a burst after the second longest overlapping part sequence; and sectionthat adaptively subtracts a DC offset value from the received signal based on these results.

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Yoshinao Kawai