Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Yuya Horiuchi

Shojiro Shibata

Takaaki Fuchie

Hiroshi Suzuki

Hiroto Kawaguchi

Kashu Takahashi

Daisuke Mizuta

Takuma Matsushita

Yoshinori Takagi

Kyohei Koyabu

Masahiro Sato

Hironobu Abe

Gakuho Fukushi

Kentaro Yoshida

Shinsuke Araya

Koji Fukumoto

Kazuhiro Hongo

A haptic sensation presenting device and a holding device that are capable of presenting a variety of haptic sensations with a simple mechanism; the haptic sensation presenting device according to the present technology includes: a casing; a film; and a flat plate member; wherein the casing has an opening such that the film closes the opening; the flat plate member has a main surface parallel to an opening surface of the opening, and is supported by the casing so as to be movable between a first position at which the main surface is located on the same surface as the opening surface and a second position at which the main surface is separated from the opening surface in a direction opposite to the film.

Haptic sensation presenting device and holding device

[Object] To provide a fluid control apparatus having a diaphragm structure and small flow path resistance. [Solving Means] A fluid control apparatus according to the present technology includes a first space, two flat plate members, a drive mechanism, a second space, a first check valve, and a second check valve. The first space has an inlet and an outlet. The two flat plate members face each other via the first space, and at least one of the flat plate members is an elastic body having flexibility. The drive mechanism bends the elastic body. The second space adjoins the first space, communicates with the first space via the inlet, and has a suction port. The first check valve allows fluid to flow from the suction port to the first space via the inlet. The third space adjoins the first space, communicates with the first space via the outlet, and has a discharge port. The second check valve allows the fluid to flow from the first space to the discharge port via the outlet. At least one of the suction port and the discharge port is positioned on an extension surface of at least one of the two flat plate members.

Fluid control apparatus and electronic apparatus

Provided is a valve module that includes a movable member and a support member. The movable member is constituted by a film elastically deformable by a fluid and having a first surface positioned on a side of a member having an opening through which the fluid passes and a second surface on a side opposite to the first surface. The support member has higher rigidity than rigidity of the movable member, covers a part of a region of the second surface, in which the opening is not located as viewed in a direction perpendicular to the second surface, and is fixed to the member.

Valve module, fluid control apparatus, and electronic apparatus

A phase computing device according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a coordinate determination unit and a computing unit. The coordinate determination unit determines space coordinates at which an interference pattern of wave motion emitted from a vibrator phased array is to be presented, the wave motion including ultrasonic waves, electromagnetic waves, or other waves. The computing unit calculates an initial phase of each vibrator, a sum of energy densities of the wave motion at respective points of the space coordinates being maximum in the initial phase.

Phase computing device, phase computing method, haptic presentation system, and program

There is provided an information processing device including an acquisition unit configured to acquire a date of prescription of a prescription drug and the number of days of prescription of the prescription drug, a calculation unit to carry out division based on the number of days of prescription of the prescription drug and the number of days of prescription of another prescription drug and identify whether or not the prescription drug is a long-acting medicine based on whether or not a result of the division satisfies a predetermined condition, and a medication schedule generation unit to generate medication schedule information of the prescription drug based on the date of prescription of the prescription drug and the number of days of prescription of the other prescription drug when the prescription drug is the long-acting medicine.

Information processing device and method

The present invention enables a circuit configuration to be simplified. An image encoding device () receives an input image () that is line-scanned in units of MBs as scan blocks, each constituted by a plurality of 4&#xd7;4 blocks, while being scanned in units of 4&#xd7;4 blocks as encoding blocks, each constituted by a plurality of pixels. The image encoding device () selects a VLC (variable length) table corresponding to a table selection index nC, which is an average value of the numbers nB and nA of nonzero coefficients as encoding values on which variable-length encoding is performed in upper-adjoining and left-adjoining 4&#xd7;4 blocks of a 4&#xd7;4 block as an encoding target in quantization coefficients as encoding target data based on the input image (). At this time, in a case where the 4&#xd7;4 block as an encoding target is at an upper end of an MB, the image encoding device () equates the number nB of nonzero coefficients of the upper-adjoining 4&#xd7;4 block with the number nA of nonzero coefficients of the left-adjoining 4&#xd7;4 block. The image encoding device () performs variable-length encoding on the number of nonzero coefficients of a 4&#xd7;4 block as an encoding target in quantization coefficients using the selected VLC table.

Image processing device and image processing method for reducing the circuit scale

The present invention can suppress the decline in video quality during encoding. The present invention generates, for each of the nine intra image prediction modes preset according to the AVC standard, a difference image data item containing a difference value from pixels surrounding a process-target pixel. Then, an encoding device () ranks the intra image prediction modes depending on the sum of absolute difference (SAD), which is the sum of differences that is based on the sum of absolute values of each process-target pixel of the difference image data item and a preference order of offset[n] preset for the intra image prediction mode.

Image processing device and image processing method

The present invention enables a reduction in circuit scale. In an image coding apparatus (), as for DCT coefficients as simple coded data obtained by coding an input image () by simple processing, the input image () is coded by at least quantizing the input image () as an input image on the basis of selected quantization parameters (QPl) discretely selected from quantization parameters (QP) as quantization factors, thereby computing generated code sizes of the input image () upon coding. The image coding apparatus () corrects an error in the generated code sizes of the input image upon coding which occurs in accordance with the simple processing, thereby computing low-precision generated code sizes. The image coding apparatus () computes low-precision generated code sizes when the input image () is coded on the basis of quantization parameters (QP) other than the selected quantization parameters (QPl), by an interpolation process with respect to the low-precision generated code sizes when the input image () is coded on the basis of the selected quantization parameters (QPl).

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

To stop the decline of the quality of image associated with encoding. The present invention multiplies a decoding rescaling factor (RFr) possibly used in the decoding process by only a transformation matrix (D), which is scale change, to calculate a rescaling factor (RF), which is a plurality of division factors, and then calculates, for each detection unit, the sum (&#x3a3;Y) of evaluation values (Y) based on a residue (r) obtained as a result of dividing an element of a DCT coefficient by a plurality of rescaling factors (RF). Moreover, the present invention compares correlations of the sum (&#x3a3;Y) of the evaluation values (Y) with a plurality of rescaling factors (RF), and detects, based on the rescaling factor (RF) whose sum (&#x3a3;Y) of the evaluation values (Y) is a minimum value, a quantization factor used in the previous process of encoding the input image data.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Yuya Horiuchi