Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Sony Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Yoshinori Matsui

Makoto Hagai

Tadamasa Toma

Tatsuya Ohnishi

Hideaki Fukushima

Seiji Horii

Satoshi Kondo

Akihiro Miyazaki

Shinya Kadono Kadono

Tomoyuki Okada

Wataru Ikeda

Tatsuya Shimoji

Hiroshi Yahata

Masayasu Iguchi

Masayuki Kozuka

Naohisa Kitazato

Yoshiharu Dewa

Shinji Inoue

Hideto Motomura

Kazuo Okamura

Masahiro Oashi

Toshiya Takahashi

Junichi Hirai

Naoya Takao

Takashi Kakiuchi

Yoshihiro Mimura

Yoshiyuki Miyabe

Yuki Kusumi

Ikuo Minakata

Youji Notoya

Takanobu Ojima

Rina Akaho

Takahiro Nishi

Toshiyasu Sugio

Hisao Sasai

Hiroshi Arakawa

Junichi Sato

Takao Yamaguchi

Hiroyuki Furuya

Eiichi Muramoto

Takashi Matsumoto

Masataka Sugiura

Susumu Uragami

Daiji Ido

Koji Imura

Kazuya Fujimura

Yuta Moriura

Tomoaki Itoh

Hironobu Ukitsu

Michiyo Goto

Takanori Ishida

Naoto Otake

Yoji Notoya

Yoshiharu c/o Sony Corporation Dewa

Naohisa c/o Sony Corporation Kitazato

Provided are an inspection method, a program, and an inspection system capable of improving accuracy of inspecting a color of a surface of an object. The inspection method includes acquisition step and comparison step. Acquisition step is a step of acquiring a target image of a surface of an object obtained by an imaging system imaging the surface of the object illuminated by an illumination system. Comparison step, is a step of comparing a color of an attention region on the target image with a color of a reference region. The reference region is a region of a reference image of a surface of a reference object as a reference of a color of the object, and a region corresponding to a combination of an incident angle of light from the illumination system and a reflection angle of light to the imaging system in the attention region.

Inspection method and inspection system

A mounted object detection device includes: a load sensor in which a plurality of sensor parts each configured to detect a load are disposed in a matrix shape; and a controller configured to detect a situation of a mounted object on the load sensor on the basis of an output from the load sensor. The controller: detects a load distribution on a detection region of the load sensor on the basis of an output from the load sensor; discerns which of a person or animal and a thing the mounted object is, on the basis of the load distribution; and when having discerned that the mounted object is a thing, discerns whether or not a person or an animal is mounted on the thing, on the basis of temporal change in the load distribution.

Mounted object detection device and vehicle control system

Provided are an inspection method, a program, and an inspection system capable of improving accuracy of inspecting a color of a surface of an object. The inspection method includes acquisition step and comparison step. Acquisition step is a step of acquiring a target image of a surface of an object obtained by an imaging system imaging the surface of the object illuminated by an illumination system. Comparison step is a step of comparing a color of an attention region on the target image with a color of a reference region. The reference region is a region of a reference image of a surface of a reference object as a reference of a color of the object, and a region corresponding to a combination of an incident angle of light from the illumination system and a reflection angle of light to the imaging system in the attention region.

A communication control method includes: receiving data, acquired by respective terminals, through a communication network; accumulating the received data in an information recording medium; obtaining an intra-network transmission time, which is an estimated value of a maximum time taken for transmission from when the data are acquired by the respective terminals until the data are received through the communication network; determining, of the accumulated data, the data whose time from an acquisition time point when the data is acquired by the terminal until a current time is shorter than the intra-network transmission time; excluding, of the accumulated data, the data whose time is determined to be shorter than the intra-network transmission time from data used for predetermined processing; and executing the predetermined processing by using the data excluding the data whose time is determined to be shorter than the intra-network transmission time.

Communication control method and communication control apparatus

A moving image encoding method of encoding a moving image while switching between variable-length encoding schemes. In this method, a continuous unit to be continuously reproduced is determined (S), a stream is generated by encoding the moving image without switching between variable-length encoding schemes in the continuous unit (S), and management information is generated that includes a first flag information indicating that a variable-length encoding scheme is fixed in the continuous unit (S, and S).

Generation apparatus generating a stream including a flag, mode information and an encoded picture, and a generation method performing the same

A data transmission apparatus including a receiving unit for receiving transmitted packets; a priority decision unit; a retransmission packet storage unit; a retransmission instruction receiving unit for receiving a retransmission request from a terminal at the receiving end; a retransmission decision unit; a transmission queue management unit; and a transmission unit.

Data transmission method and data transmission apparatus

The present invention provided a content delivery system that can deliver content by way of the Internet. In the system, a browser requests a content server to deliver a startup file. The content server transmits the startup file to the browser. The startup file describes that the content is to be delivered by streaming or that it is to be delivered by downloaded files. A content reproducing section determines if the content is that to be delivered by streaming or that to be delivered by downloaded files according to the description of the startup file it receives from the browser. A television receiving set may be used as content processing apparatus for receiving the delivery of the content from a content delivery apparatus of such a system.

Content distribution system, distribution method, content processing device, and processing method

A BD-ROM on which a VC-1 video stream and an entry map (EP_map) are recorded. The VC-1 video stream includes: (a) picture data (I/P picture) whose first fields are the intra frame coding format and whose second fields are the inter frame predictive coding format; and (b) picture data (P/I picture) whose first fields are the inter frame predictive coding format and whose second fields are the intra frame coding format. The entry map indicates entry positions (SPN) of the I/P pictures, in correspondence with playback times (PTS), but does not indicate entry positions of the P/I pictures.

Recording medium, recording device, program, and recording method

Moving image encoding method and apparatus

To provide a mobile terminal device which can perform an operation reflecting the intention of a user when an event, such as the arrival of an incoming phone call or an email, occurs while a television broadcast is being displayed, and which can also improve the operability. A mobile terminal device is composed of: a TV reception unit which receives a television broadcast signal; an output control unit which controls outputs of video and audio of the television broadcast, auxiliary information of the television broadcast, the email, audio of the phone call, and video and audio of a video phone call, to a first display unit, a second display unit, and an audio reproduction unit; a recording control unit which records a television broadcast program onto a recording medium; a reproduction control unit which reproduces the television broadcast program recorded on the recording medium; a control unit which controls an operation performed when the email or the phone call is receives while the television broadcast is being displayed; and an unfold/fold detection unit which detects whether the mobile terminal device is folded or unfolded.

Mobile terminal device

A data reproduction device is provided for achieving seamless reproduction of a stream where a validity of a bandwidth extension function is switched in the stream. The data reproduction device includes an input frequency obtainment unit analyzing header information Hdr and obtaining an input frequency FSin, which is the frequency of basic data, an output frequency determination unit performing predetermined processing based on the input frequency FSin and determining an output frequency FSout, which is the sampling frequency of a decoded frame Fdata, and a decoding unit () which, if the SBR function is valid in a frame to be decoded, decodes sample data at the input frequency FSin and extends the bandwidth of the sampling frequency up to the output frequency FSout, while if the SBR function is not valid in the frame, upsamples the decoding result obtained at the input frequency FSin to the output frequency FSout.

Data reproduction device

Information relating to a playback of divided static media data included in static media transmission data is stored in static media transmission data previous than the static media transmission data, and transmitted, thereby making it possible to determine whether there is no divided static media data originally or lost when the divided static media data is not received. Accordingly, in the case where static media such as timed text and the like is used in distribution of streaming type, when receiving no static media data, a data receiving apparatus determines whether there is no media data to be next displayed or media data is lost in the course of transmission to notify a user of loss of media data correctly. Moreover, it is possible to reduce time required for packet loss detection to execute a retransmission request without increasing pre-buffering.

Transmission data structure, and method and device for transmitting the same

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Yoshinori Matsui