Abstract: A dialogue device includes a controller configured to perform a control for a dialogue. The controller specifies a face image of a target person from a captured image, detects the presence or absence of a wearing object with respect to the face of the target person from the face image having been specified, determines a surrounding environment of the target person, based on predetermined reference information, and causes an output part such as a speaker or a display to output information that urges removal or wearing of the wearing object, based on the surrounding environment.

Abstract: A concentration-level estimation device includes an obtainer which obtains task information indicating a type of a task executed by a user among types of tasks; a sensor which outputs motion information indicating a feature of a motion of the user who executes the task, based on a result of sensing obtained from a sensing device; a storage which stores profiles concerning habits of the user for the types of tasks; and a calculator which calculates a concentration level of the user using the motion information and a profile corresponding to the type of the task indicated in the task information among the profiles stored in the storage.

Abstract: A sleepiness estimating device including an auxiliary information acquirer that acquires auxiliary information including at least one of five-sense information perceived by a person or emotion information indicating an emotion of the person; and a sleepiness estimator that estimates a sleepiness of the person based on the auxiliary information.

Abstract: A concentration degree measurement device includes: a concentration degree obtainer that obtains a degree of concentration of a person; a drowsiness degree obtainer that obtains a degree of drowsiness of the person; a corrector that corrects the degree of concentration, based on the degree of drowsiness; an outputter that outputs a corrected degree of concentration indicating the degree of concentration corrected by the corrector; a determiner that determines a factor for the corrected degree of concentration, based on the degree of drowsiness and the corrected degree of concentration; and a controller that controls an electronic device, based on a result of the determination by the determiner, the electronic device inducing the person to wake up or concentrate.

Abstract: A sleepiness estimating device including an auxiliary information acquirer that acquires auxiliary information including at least one of five-sense information perceived by a person or emotion information indicating an emotion of the person; and a sleepiness estimator that estimates a sleepiness of the person based on the auxiliary information.

Abstract: A sleepiness estimating device includes a biometric information acquirer that acquires biometric information of a person, an auxiliary information acquirer that acquires auxiliary information including at least one of five-sense information perceived by the person or emotion information indicating an emotion of the person, and a sleepiness estimator that estimates a sleepiness of the person based on the biometric information and the auxiliary information.

Abstract: A sleepiness estimating device includes a biometric information acquirer that acquires biometric information of a person, an auxiliary information acquirer that acquires auxiliary information including at least one of five-sense information perceived by the person or emotion information indicating an emotion of the person, and a sleepiness estimator that estimates a sleepiness of the person based on the biometric information and the auxiliary information.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements configured to perform photoelectric conversion on incident light. The device also includes a color filter array including at least three kinds of color filters different in filtering wavelength region. Any of the color filters is placed for each of the photoelectric conversion elements to filter the incident light. The spectral transmittances of the color filters are equal to each other in a predetermined wavelength region.

Abstract: Coding processing performed by an image coding device (100) includes: processing (S133) of performing coding by leaving surplus bit(s), when the digit number B of binary data of the difference value between (a) a value of a to-be-coded pixel and (b) a prediction value is smaller than the predetermined bit number M; and processing (S133) of performing coding by using the surplus bit(s), when the digit number B is greater than M and there are the surplus bit(s). Pieces of coded data each having a predetermined coding amount are generated, by performing processing for each of consecutive T pixels so as to perform the coding processing for each of U pixels among the consecutive T pixels (S136).

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements configured to perform photoelectric conversion on incident light. The device also includes a color filter array including at least three kinds of color filters different in filtering wavelength region. Any of the color filters is placed for each of the photoelectric conversion elements to filter the incident light. The spectral transmittances of the color filters are equal to each other in a predetermined wavelength region.

Abstract: Coding processing performed by an image coding device (100) includes: processing (S133) of performing coding by leaving surplus bit(s), when the digit number B of binary data of the difference value between (a) a value of a to-be-coded pixel and (b) a prediction value is smaller than the predetermined bit number M; and processing (S133) of performing coding by using the surplus bit(s), when the digit number B is greater than M and there are the surplus bit(s). Pieces of coded data each having a predetermined coding amount are generated, by performing processing for each of consecutive T pixels so as to perform the coding processing for each of U pixels among the consecutive T pixels (S136).

Abstract: Suppress deterioration in picture qualities while achieving expansion in a dynamic range. An image sensor readout method that reads out, from an area sensor where a plurality of image pickup elements are arranged in matrix, signal charges that are accumulated in the image pickup elements is constituted as follows. First, plural kinds of exposure time different in length from each other are set, and the exposure time is then individually allocated to each line of the area sensor. Next, the signal charges accumulated in the image pickup elements in the allocated exposure time are read out through a line unit of the area sensor. Then, the read out signal charges are synthesized through a screen unit of the area sensor.

Abstract: A reference charge generator provided on an image capture element generates reference charge. The reference charge is transferred through a vertical transfer section as is signal charge of a pixel which is generated by a photoelectric converter. A reference signal corresponding to the reference charge is output from the image capture element. Data of a digital value obtained by conversion from the reference signal and a digital value which is obtained from the reference signal when the image capture element ideally operates are compared to estimate the state of a pulse for driving the image capture element. The state of the pulse is adjusted such that the pulse has optimum phase and duty.

Abstract: An imaging device includes a plurality of pixels each configured to convert incident light to an electric charge signal and output the electric charge signal as a pixel signal, and a pixel binning unit configured to bin pixel signals from pixels adjacent to each other and output the binned pixel signal. The pixel binning unit performs first pixel binning operation of binning pixel signals from pixels on the same column and second pixel binning operation of binning pixels on the same row.

Abstract: An imaging device includes a plurality of pixels which convert incident light to pixel signals which are electric charge signals and output the pixel signals, color filters which filter light incident to the respective pixels, and a pixel binning unit which bins pixel signals from pixels on adjacent lines and outputs a binned pixel signal. The color filters have a repeating pattern of a unit array corresponding to a unit of 16 pixels arranged in 4 rows×4 columns. In an image obtained from an output signal after pixel binning, the color filters constituting first pixels adjacent to each other in a row direction, and the color filters constituting second pixels having the same center-of-mass position in the row direction as that of the first pixels and being adjacent to each other in a column direction, have the same color component ratio.

Abstract: An image input device according to the present invention comprises an optical lens, an image sensor, a color filter disposed between the optical lens and the image sensor, a memory for temporarily memorizing the imaging signal from the image sensor, a color temperature measuring circuit for measuring a color temperature of the imaging signal read from the image sensor for each of measurement areas into which an entire area of the image sensor is optionally divided, a measurement result storing circuit for temporarily memorizing a result of the color temperature measurement obtained by the color temperature measuring circuit, and a color temperature circuit for inputting the imaging signal from the memory and the color temperature measurement result from the measurement result storing circuit and the color temperature of the imaging signal for each of divided correction areas based on a result of the per-area color temperature measurement.

Abstract: The solid-state image pickup device of the invention includes: a plurality of optoelectronic transducers arranged in an array; a plurality of vertical transfer sections each for reading charges from optoelectronic transducers and vertically transferring the read charges; a horizontal transfer section; a charge detection section for converting the horizontally transferred charges to signal voltages and the like; and a control section. The control section outputs signals so as to obtain either a signal corresponding to the sum of charges from an optoelectronic transducer belonging to one column and belonging to one of alternately selected rows and an optoelectronic transducer belonging to a column adjacent to the one column and belonging to a row other than the alternately selected rows, or a signal corresponding to the sum of charges from optoelectronic transducers belonging to a same column, every predetermined even number of continuous rows of optoelectronic transducers.

Abstract: A storing part stores contents data to be reproduced in switching an operational mode. A reproducing part reproduces data to be reproduced in each of a plurality of operational modes and the contents data stored in the storing part. A controlling part allows, in detecting operational mode switching, the reproducing part to reproduce the contents data until a contents reproducing time necessary for reproducing the contents data elapses, and allows the reproducing part to reproduce given data to be reproduced in the switched operational mode after the contents reproducing time has elapsed.

Abstract: A solid state imaging device of the present invention comprises a solid state imaging element which includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged in a matrix. In the solid state imaging device of the present invention, a pixel mixture unit area includes q pixels (q is a natural number equal to or greater than 2) in the first direction of the solid state imaging element and p pixels (p is a natural number equal to or greater than 2) in the second direction that crosses the first direction.

Abstract: An image processing device for performing image processing for an image signal output from an image sensor, including: a preprocessing circuit for generating a correction signal based on the image signal from the image sensor; a signal processing circuit for correcting the image signal using the correction signal and converting the corrected signal to a luminance signal and a color-difference signal; and a control block. The control block performs either first processing in which the signal processing circuit uses the correction signal generated based on an image of a frame preceding the frame of an image currently supplied to the signal processing circuit, or second processing in which the image signal obtained from the image sensor is stored in an external memory, the stored image is read and supplied to the signal processing circuit, and the signal processing circuit uses the correction signal generated based on the image of the same frame as the supplied image.