Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Yumiko Kato

Jun Ozawa

Takahiro Kamai

Tsuyoshi Inoue

Yoshihide Sawada

Yasuhisa Inada

Shinobu Adachi

Koji Morikawa

Atsushi Ishikawa

Taichi Sato

Yoshifumi Hirose

Yasuhiro Mukaigawa

Hiroyuki Kubo

Kazuya Hisada

Kiyotaka Tsuji

Takuya Funatomi

Satoshi Sato

Katsuyoshi Yamagami

Yumi Wakita

Hideyuki Yoshida

Kenji Matsui

Natsuki Saito

Fusataka Kuniyoshi

Toshiyasu Sugio

Noritaka Iguchi

Kunio Nobori

Kazuki Kozuka

Taku Hirasawa

Mizuho Sakakibara

Kenji Mizutani

Toru Nakada

Masahiro Iwasaki

Yoshihisa Nakatoh

Ayako Maruyama

Yoshihisa Terada

Kenichi Inoue

Yuichi Ogawa

Motoki Yako

Kohei Kikuchi

Tetsuhito Suzuki

Masakatsu Hoshimi

Yoshifumi Kariatsumari

Naoshi Kondo

Noriyo Hara

Hiroshi Nittono

Hoshimi Masakatsu

Toshio Mochida

A light emitting device includes a light source that emits an optical beam in response to a control signal, an optical deflector that changes a direction of the optical beam in response to a driving voltage, and a control circuit that controls a timing of emission of the optical beam and the direction of the optical beam. The optical deflector is configured to change the direction of the optical beam along a first direction and a second direction different from the first direction and a rate of change in the direction of the optical beam along the first direction is lower than a rate of change in the direction of the optical beam along the second direction.

Light emitting device, photo-detection system, and vehicle

A load transport system includes multiple transporters transporting a load. The transporters include a first transporter and a second transporter. The second transporter measures a size of the first transporter and outputs size information on the size of the first transporter to outside. The first transporter acquires the size information and makes a travel plan of the first transporter in accordance with the size information.

Load transport system and transporter

A processing apparatus is connected to one or more terminals including a hyperspectral sensor that generates compressed image data which is hyperspectral information of a target compressed as two-dimensional image information over a network. The processing apparatus includes a storage device that stores data sets of samples and a first reconstruction table for generating hyperspectral data from the compressed image data, the data set of each sample includes hyperspectral data of the sample and data indicative of a property value of the sample; and a processing circuit that generates a statistical model for estimating the property value from the hyperspectral data on the basis of the data sets of the samples and generates a second reconstruction table by editing the first reconstruction table in accordance with the statistical model thus generated.

Processing apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium

An object recognition apparatus includes a light source, an image sensor, a control circuit, and a signal processing circuit. The control circuit causes the light source to emit first light toward a scene and subsequently emit second light toward the scene, the first light having a first spatial distribution, the second light having a second spatial distribution. The control circuit causes the image sensor to detect first reflected light and second reflected light in the same exposure period, the first reflected light being caused by reflection of the first light from the scene, the second reflected light being caused by reflection of the second light from the scene. The signal processing circuit recognizes an object included in a scene based on photodetection data output from the image sensor, and based on an object recognition model pre-trained by a machine learning algorithm.

Object recognition apparatus, object recognition method, and non-transitory computer readable medium

A method for processing image data according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes obtaining first image data indicating a hyperspectral image of a target captured in first background light, generating, on a basis of the first image data, first spectral data indicating an estimated spectrum of the first background light, and generating, from the first image data, at least one piece of second image data indicating at least one image of the target in at least one type of second background light, which is different from the first background light, using at least one piece of second spectral data indicating at least one spectrum of the at least one type of second background light and the first spectral data.

Method for processing image data, image data processing apparatus, and image data processing system

An optical scan device includes an optical waveguide array, including a plurality of optical waveguides each of which propagates light along a first direction, that emits a light beam, the plurality of optical waveguides being arranged in a second direction that intersects the first direction, a phase shifter array including a plurality of phase shifters connected separately to each of the plurality of optical waveguides, a control circuit that controls a phase shift amount of each of the plurality of phase shifters and/or inputting of light to each of the plurality of phase shifters and thereby controls a direction and shape of the light beam that is emitted from the optical waveguide array, a photodetector that detects the light beam reflected by a physical object, and a signal processing circuit that generates distance distribution data on the basis of output from the photodetector.

Photodetection system

A distance measurement apparatus comprises a light emitter that emits a plurality of light beams toward a scene in different directions and at different timings, a light receiver that includes an array of a plurality of light-receiving elements and detects reflected light from the scene produced by the emission of each light beam with the plurality of light-receiving elements, and a signal processing circuit that generates and outputs output data including measurement data indicating the positions or distances of a plurality of points in the scene on the basis of a signal outputted by the light receiver. The output data includes the data of a plurality of blocks, and individual time data is attached to each of the plurality of blocks.

Distance measurement apparatus, information processing method, and information processing apparatus

A range-information acquiring apparatus includes a light source, an image sensor, a control circuit, and a signal processing circuit. The control circuit causes the light source to emit first light toward a scene and subsequently emit second light toward the scene, the first light having a first spatial distribution, the second light having a second spatial distribution. The control circuit causes at least a portion of plural photodetector elements of the photodetector device to detect first reflected light and second reflected light in the same exposure period, the first reflected light being caused by reflection of the first light from the scene, the second reflected light being caused by reflection of the second light from the scene. The signal processing circuit generates range data based on photodetection data output from the photodetector elements of the photodetector device.

Range-information acquiring apparatus, range-information acquiring method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium

An electric reaction measuring apparatus measures a potential of each of measurement electrodes, which are respectively disposed in chambers in a culture vessel, with respect to at least one reference electrode. The electric reaction measuring apparatus includes at least one control circuit. A measurement object is disposed in each of the chambers. The at least one control circuit calculates at least one principal component for each of the measurement electrodes by performing principal component analysis of the potential of each of the measurement electrodes; estimates, for each of the measurement electrodes, a potential corresponding to the principal component from the principal component of the measurement electrode, and synthesizes the estimated potential; subtracts the synthesized potential of the measurement electrode from a potential measured at the measurement electrode; and outputs a potential after subtraction.

Electric reaction measuring apparatus, electric reaction processing method, and recording medium

A method for evaluating drug responsiveness includes disposing a myocardial cell produced through differential induction onto a board including an electrode, administering a drug to the myocardial cell, continuously applying, after the drug is administered, a pulse current or a pulse voltage to the myocardial cell through the electrode for a certain period of time, measuring, after the certain period of time has elapsed, a pulsation characteristic of the myocardial cell, and evaluating responsiveness of the myocardial cell to the drug on a basis of the pulsation characteristic.

Method for evaluating drug responsiveness and drug responsiveness evaluation system

The present disclosure provides a technique which makes it possible to evaluate a state of a cell aggregation of one or more spheroids. In the culture state determination device according to the present disclosure, a plurality of light sources sequentially illuminate a plurality of cell aggregations put on an image sensor. The image sensor acquires captured images of the plurality of the cell aggregations each time when the plurality of the light sources illuminate the plurality of the cell aggregations. Control circuitry extracts a region including an image of the cell aggregation in the captured image; generates three-dimensional image information of the region using a plurality of the captured images; extracts an outer shape of the cell aggregation and a cavity part inside the cell aggregation using the three-dimensional image information; calculates a first volume that is a volume based on the outer shape of each of the cell aggregation and a second volume that is a volume of the cavity part based on the cavity part of each of the cell aggregation in the three-dimensional image information; and determines a culture state of the cell aggregations using the first volume and the second volume.

Culture state determination based on direction-dependent image information

A three-dimensional display device configured to display a main image and an additional image on a screen includes a display region candidate decider that decides one candidate region from a plurality of region candidates for the additional image to be superimposed on the main image on the screen, a depth suitability determiner that determines whether a difference between a depth of the main image displayed at a boundary region and a depth of the additional image is within a predetermined tolerance range, and an image composer that, when the difference in depth between the depth of the main image displayed at the boundary region and the depth of the additional image is within the tolerance range, superimposes the additional image upon the main image at the candidate region, thereby composing a composite image of the main image and the additional image, and displays the composite image on the screen.

Three-dimensional display device and three-dimensional display method

An image generating apparatus is provided with: first and second light sources that illuminate a material; an image sensor on which the material is disposed; a mask which includes a light-transmitting part that transmits light and a light-blocking part that blocks light, and which is positioned between the image sensor and the first and second light sources; and a light and dark image processing unit. The image sensor acquires first and second images of the material when illuminated by the first and second light sources, respectively. The light and dark image processing unit derives a difference between a luminance value of a pixel included in the first image and a luminance value of a pixel included in the second image at the same position as the pixel included in the first image, and thereby generates a third image of the material.

Image generating apparatus and image generating method

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Yumiko Kato