Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a reproduction apparatus. The reproduction apparatus may comprise an optical filter and electric filters. The optical filter may be configured to provide electrical signals corresponding to regions of an optical beam returning from an optical medium, the optical beam being incident on the optical filter, the regions of the optical beam corresponding to different bands in a line density direction and/or a track density direction. The electric filters may be configured to provide outputs based, at least in part, on the electrical signals provided by the optical filter, wherein the reproduction apparatus is configured to obtain a reproduced signal by combining the outputs of the electric filters.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus may generate resource information used for playing back image content that can be divided into a plurality of zones. The information processing apparatus may include an image generator generating a still image from each of the plurality of zones, a face processor setting each of the plurality of zones to be a target zone and determining whether a face of a specific character which is determined to continuously appear in at least one zone before the target zone is contained in the still image generated from the target zone, and an information generator specifying, on the basis of a determination result obtained for each of the plurality of zones by the face processor, at least one zone in which the face of the specific character continuously appears as a face zone, and generating information concerning the face zone as one item of the resource information.

Abstract: A reproduction device includes a plurality of speakers each of which reproduces a sound corresponding to an audio signal, a plurality of light emission elements, a detection unit that analyzes the audio signal, and outputs a timing signal corresponding to an analysis result, a light emission control unit that allows the light emission elements to emit light in a first light emission mode or a second light emission mode, and a switching control unit that provides a switchable period for switching one of the light emission modes to the other of the light emission modes, and determines whether to switch the current light emission mode in response to a trigger of the timing signal input in the switchable period.

Abstract: There is provided a signal processing device including a feature amount extraction unit configured to extract, from a frequency-domain signal obtained by frequency conversion on a voice signal, a feature amount of the frequency-domain signal, and a determination unit configured to determine, based on the extracted feature amount, presence or absence of noise in the voice signal within a predetermined section. The feature amount is composed of a plurality of elements. The plurality of elements contain an element defined based on a correlation value between a feature amount waveform which is a waveform according to the frequency-domain signal in the voice signal within the predetermined section and a feature amount waveform within another section sequential in time to the predetermined section.

Abstract: The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging device, manufacturing method of a solid-state imaging device, and an electronic device, which can provide a solid-state imaging device having further improved features such as reduced optical color mixing and the like. Also, an electronic device using the solid-state imaging device thereof is provided. According to a solid-state imaging device having a substrate 12 and multiple photoelectric converters 40 that are formed on the substrate 12, an insulating film 21 forms an embedded element separating unit 19. The element separating unit 19 is configured of an insulating film 20 having a fixed charge that is formed so as to coat the inner wall face of a groove portion 30, within the groove portion 30 which is formed in the depth direction from the light input side of the substrate 12.

Abstract: An imaging device includes an exposure control unit, a determination unit, and an illuminance calculation unit. The exposure control unit is configured to control a plurality of exposure times. The determination unit is configured to determine whether or not saturation occurs using at least one data item of a plurality of data items obtained during the plurality of exposure times. The illuminance calculation unit is configured to calculate, if the determination unit determines that the saturation occurs, an illuminance using a data item different from the at least one data item used in the determination.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a first system and a second system. The first system and the second system each includes: hardware; a compensation section configured to provide execution environments for execution of a process using the hardware of the system to which the compensation section belongs; and a processing section configured to execute a predetermined process in the execution environments provided by the compensation section. The hardware of the first system and the hardware of the second system are different in nature from each other. The compensation section of one of the first system and the second system compensates for the differences between the hardware of the first system and the hardware of the second system to provide the processing section of the other with the execution environments which are not affected by the differences between the hardware of the first system and the hardware of the second system.

Abstract: An image processing system, and a method of operation thereof, including: a capture device for obtaining an input image block; and an image signal processing hardware coupled to the capture device, the image signal processing hardware including: a coding module including: a scaling correction module for generating a scaled wavelet block based on the input image block, a grey block detection module for determining the input image block to be a grey image block, a compression ratio module for determining the compression ratio of the input image block, a mode setting module for setting a PCM mode identifier based on the compression ratio, the coding module for generating a compressed image block by scanning and coding the input image block using PCM mode; and a decoding module for generating an output image block by decoding the compressed image block for display on a display device.

Abstract: Provided is an arithmetic operation device including a plurality of shift registers each constituted by first to (N+1)th registers and a control unit configured to cause the shift registers to move stored values. The control unit causes the stored values to be output from a predetermined pair of registers constituting the first shift register while causing the stored values to move so that all combinations of a pair of stored values selectable from the stored values are output, and causes the stored values to be output from a predetermined pair of registers constituting the other shift register while causing the stored values to move.

Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery is provided, including a battery element having a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a separator; an exterior member for the battery element including: a first layer; a second layer; a bending part for partitioning the first layer and the second layer from each other; a sealing part which is formed by a peripheral part of the first layer in contact with a peripheral part of the second layer and which seals the battery element; a thick-walled part that is a portion of the sealing part and includes at least a part of the bending part, wherein the thick-walled part has a greater thickness in a thickness direction of the battery element than a thickness of a portion of the sealing part other than the thick-walled part, and wherein the thickness direction of the battery element corresponds to a stacking direction of the battery element.

Abstract: An electronic storage module includes a plurality of batteries, a primary monitoring circuit configured to detect an operating state of the plurality of batteries, a microcontroller unit connected to the primary monitoring circuit via a primary communication path, and a secondary monitoring circuit connected to the microcontroller unit via a secondary communication path. The secondary monitoring circuit is configured to detect the operating state of the plurality of batteries when a determination is made of an abnormality in the primary communication path, or an abnormality in the operating state of the primary monitoring circuit.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an imaging apparatus, an imaging method and a program, and a reproduction apparatus according to which an image sensor is divided into a plurality of areas and exposure control may be performed for each area according to the amount of camera shake. An imaging apparatus which is an aspect of the present disclosure includes an image sensor unit for generating pixel data of a pixel constituting a frame by photoelectric conversion, a calculation unit for calculating an amount of camera shake in each of areas obtained by dividing the frame, and a control unit for controlling exposure time of the image sensor for each of the areas according to the amount of camera shake calculated for each of the areas. The present disclosure is applicable to an electronic device such as a camera including an area ADC type image sensor, for example.

Abstract: An illumination device includes: an excitation light source that emits excitation light having a first wavelength; and a fluorescent member that includes a fluorescent substance that, when it is irradiated with the excitation light, emits light having a second wavelength longer than the first wavelength, transmits a part of the excitation light and reflects another part of the excitation light, and a first reflective film provided at a side of the fluorescent substance, which is opposite to an excitation light incidence side, the fluorescent member emitting multiplexed light including an excitation light component reflected from the fluorescent substance and the first reflective film and a light component emitted from the fluorescent substance.

Abstract: A communication control device includes circuitry that acquires system information indicating information to enable a device to communicate with another device via device-to-device communication, and that controls transmission of the system information to a terminal device.

Abstract: To accurately determine whether there is a sharp change in a frame. Provided is an image processing device including: a histogram generating unit configured to generate a previous histogram showing a distribution of pixel values in a previous frame that is generated before a predetermined frame and a current histogram showing a distribution of pixel values in the predetermined frame; a normalizing unit configured to perform normalization to match variations of the pixel values of the previous histogram and the current histogram; and a similarity determining unit configured to acquire a degree of similarity of shapes of the previous histogram and the current histogram after the normalization and determine whether the degree of similarity is greater than a predetermined similarity determining threshold value.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a content supply apparatus, a content supply method, a program, a terminal apparatus, and a content supply system that are capable of describing attribute information of each file stored in a packet transmitted by FLUTE session in other than an FDT. A content supply apparatus of the present disclosure includes: a fragmented stream generation unit that generates a fragmented stream on the basis of source data of content; a FLUTE stream generation unit that generates a FLUTE stream including ALC packets in which the generated fragmented stream is divided and stored, and describes attribute information on the fragmented stream in each of the ALC packets in which the fragmented stream is divided and stored; and a multicast distribution unit that distributes the FLUTE stream by FLUTE multicast. The present disclosure can be applied to a system in which content is distributed by FLUTE multicast.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for allocating transmission resources to MTC-type terminals and transmitting data in mobile telecommunication systems in dependence upon the capability of the RF receiver equipment of those terminals. Where a virtual carrier is established to carry data for a given MTC-type device, the position of the center frequency for that virtual carrier is assigned on the basis of both the capability of the RF receiver equipment of that terminal and the degree of traffic congestion on the frequency band at which the virtual carrier has been established.

Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device and method, a recording medium, and a program, which can improve a data transfer speed. In the recording medium, a recording area is divided into a plurality of simulated zones and a set of the plurality of simulated zones composes a simulated zone group. Then, an address is set to each area in the simulated zones so that the addresses are interleaved between the simulated zones composing the simulated zone group. By interleaving the addresses between the simulated zones in this manner, a local seek operation or a rotational delay can be reduced and the data transfer speed can be improved when recording or reproducing data to the recording medium in more than one channel at the same time. The present technology can be applied to an optical disk.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a semiconductor apparatus and a method of controlling a MOS transistor, with which a leak current of the MOS transistor can be suppressed. [Solving Means] A semiconductor apparatus includes a MOS transistor and a voltage application unit that applies, when the MOS transistor is off, a voltage for controlling a threshold value of the MOS transistor in a shallower direction onto a substrate of the MOS transistor.

Abstract: A communication system is a communication system that includes first and second information processing devices. The first information processing device performs control such that a signal (which is a signal having backward compatibility) serving as an index by which the second information processing device receiving a frame stops the reception of the frame is transmitted to the second information processing device. The second information processing device performs control such that the reception of the frame is stopped based on the signal (which is a signal having backward compatibility) serving as an index by which reception of the frame is stopped when the frame transmitted from the first information processing device is received.