Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system for providing an electronic credential associated with electronic identification information of a user. The system comprises one or more electronic sensor devices configured to monitor an activity or a surrounding of the user and to generate user-specific sensor data, processing circuitry configured to analyze the user-specific sensor data to extract characteristic data associated with the user, and to generate a sensed electronic credential confirming the extracted characteristic data; and a memory configured to store the sensed electronic credential as part of the user's electronic identification information.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method. The method comprises, at a first user device, receiving user data from a tamper-proof second user device. Further, the method comprises, at the first user device, aggregating the user data according to a first logic and transmitting the aggregated user data and the user data to an external server. The method further comprises, at the external server, verifying whether the first logic, by which the aggregated user data and the user data are related to each other, corresponds to a predefined second logic for verifying a validity of the aggregated user data.

Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a program that enable display of an advertisement in an appropriate region within a captured image. The image processing apparatus sets, on the basis of density of people in a predetermined region within a captured image, an advertisement display region for superimposition of an advertisement image on the captured image. The present technology is applicable to a television (TV) broadcast system.

Abstract: A preamble-based collision detection mechanism for use in wireless local area networks (WLANS), having one or more full-duplex (FD) stations. In addition, a new collision resolution estimation and scheduling mechanism is described for prioritized communication. These techniques can allow for more rapid collision detection and resolution, without the need of performing self-interference (SI) estimation. The techniques includes use of orthogonal preambles, in the time domain and/or frequency domain, into which FD stations embed priority information.

Abstract: A surgical instrument unit includes a shaft having an end effector at the tip end, a hollow base, and a strain generating part that supports a root part of the shaft in the base. The strain generating part has a first-layer strain generating body and a second-layer strain generating body arranged in order in a long axis direction of the shaft, each of the first-layer strain generating body and the second-layer strain generating body including a multidirectional strain generating body supporting a root part of the shaft with a plurality of legs. The first strain generating body is inclined by a predetermined angle ? with respect to a plane orthogonal to a long axis of the shaft, and the second strain generating body is inclined by an angle?? opposite to each leg of the first strain generating body with respect to the plane.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a control device which enables a flight vehicle device to obtain a highly precise image. [Solution] Provided is the control device including an illuminating control unit configured to adjust a light amount of an illuminating device according to an inclination of a fuselage of a flight vehicle device that has an imaging device configured to photograph a photographing target and the illuminating device configured to illuminate the photographing target.

Abstract: To enable a plurality of speeches of a user to be appropriately concatenated. An information processing device according to the present disclosure includes: an acquisition unit (131) that acquires first speech information indicating a first speech by a user, second speech information indicating a second speech by the user after the first speech, and respiration information regarding respiration of the user; and an execution unit (134) that executes processing of concatenating the first speech and the second speech by executing voice interaction control according to a respiratory state of the user based on the respiration information acquired by the acquisition unit.

Abstract: A communications device comprises transmitter circuitry and controller circuitry configured to configure the transmitter circuitry to transmit signals representing data to one or more receiving communications devices via a sidelink interface forming part of a wireless access interface for device to device communications comprising a plurality of resource pool instances. The wireless access interface may be provided by a wireless communications network, the transmitter circuitry being configured to transmit signals to the wireless communications network when in a coverage area of a wireless communications network.

Abstract: To provide an information processing apparatus (100) including: a detection unit (110) that detects an object selected by a user with a finger-pointing gesture as a selected object, in which the detection unit detects the selected object on the basis of a first extension line extending from a first line segment connecting a first reference point indicating a position of a wrist of a hand of the user corresponding to the finger-pointing gesture and a second reference point corresponding to a height of the wrist on a first perpendicular line perpendicularly extending from a base of an arm of the user corresponding to the finger-pointing gesture to a floor surface toward a wrist side.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electronic device and method for wireless communication, and a computer-readable storage medium. The electronic device comprises: a processing circuit, configured to acquire a channel state information (CSI) resource configuration and a CSI report configuration from a base station, the CSI report configuration being associated with one or more CSI resource configurations, the CSI resource configuration comprising a resource configuration for a reference signal on one or more bandwidth parts (BWPs), and to send, on the basis of the CSI report configuration, to the base station a measurement result, obtained by measuring a reference signal specified in the associated CSI resource configuration, of a beam corresponding to the reference signal.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a processing circuit configured to: with regard to a primary user and at least one secondary user, determine a primary user protection area that surrounds the primary user, wherein the primary user protection area refers to an area where the at least one secondary user causes interference with the primary user; determine a buffer area that surrounds the primary user protection area; and monitor the location of the at least one secondary user, and when the at least one secondary user enters the buffer area, adjust the configuration of the at least one secondary user and/or the configuration of the primary user so as to suppress the interference, caused by the at least one secondary user, with the primary user. By using this approach, interference suppression involving a primary user and a secondary user can be optimized to ensure superior system performance of a primary system.

Abstract: A base station device (20) includes a control unit (23). The control unit (23) performs operations including: receiving an acquisition request, which is a request for acquiring beam information related to a PDU session established with a terminal device (40); and transmitting beam group information including at least one piece of the beam information, the transmission being performed in association with the PDU session in response to the acquisition request.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system for generating a weather map. The system comprises a mobile device configured to move to first locations within an environment and obtain first weather data indicative of a weather condition at the first locations by using a sensor. Further, the system comprises a data processing circuitry configured to generate a weather map including a probability distribution of weather conditions between the first locations by applying a predetermined weather model to the first weather data. The data processing circuitry is further configured to determine second locations through a threshold comparison of the probability distribution. The mobile device is further configured to move to the second locations and obtain second weather data indicative of a weather condition at the second locations, by using the sensor, for increasing a confidence of the weather map using the second weather data.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing device that operates in a device including a display unit and causes the display unit to display a plurality of specific frame images constituting a moving image having a smaller data size than that of a moving image captured by another device different from the device including the display unit.

Abstract: The present technology relates to a communication apparatus and a communication method that permit realization of more reliable communication. Provided is a communication apparatus that includes a control section that performs control such that plural aggregated subframes are sent in a predetermined sequence for each frame included in each of spatially multiplexed streams when a frame is sent to another communication apparatus as plural spatially multiplexed streams. The present technology is applicable, for example, to a communication apparatus included in a wireless LAN system.

Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device including: a multilayer substrate including an optical element; a light-transmitting plate provided on the substrate to cover the optical element; and a lens of an inorganic material provided between the substrate and the light-transmitting plate. A structure having a same strength as a strength per unit area of the lens is provided at a portion outside an effective photosensitive region where the optical element is formed, when the substrate is viewed in plan.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for wireless communication. The apparatus includes processing circuitry: configured to receive a relay establishment request from a source communication device; configured to acquire historical energy information and current energy information about a candidate communication device as a relay candidate, and to determine one or more relay communication devices to be used as a relay based on the acquired information; and configured to send information about the relay establishment to the one or more relay communication devices, the source communication device, and a destination communication device.

Abstract: Controlling content in a video media stream is presented. The controlling comprises: imaging a scene with a camera (42) of an electronic device (10); detecting, using a face detection function (22, 113), one or more faces present in the imaged scene; identifying, using an identity recognition function (23, 114), an individual having a face from among the one or more detected faces by determining that the face is a face of an individual having a social relationship on social media with a user of the electronic device (10); seeking approval, using an approval function (24, 115), from the identified individual to participate in the video media stream; and upon an approval from the identified individual to participate in the video media stream, generating the video media stream, using the camera (42) of the electronic device (10), with the face of the identified individual being visible.

Abstract: A method to generate an appropriate reaction, by an NPC in an XR game, to a significant event in the game includes: compiling a record from a previously generated SMM of surfaces in the XR space, categorizing the surfaces; after the game begins, tracking in real time physical surroundings of the NPC, allowing 3D positions of the NPC relative to nearby physical surfaces to be continuously determined; and events occurring in the game, allowing detection of any event deemed to be significant. For each detected event deemed significant, occurring at a corresponding event time, an appropriate action is determined for the NPC to carry out in response, partly based on whether the NPC is positioned close to a physical surface at the event time, and the NPC is directed to carry out the appropriate action.

Abstract: To enable satisfactory decoding processing corresponding to a decoding capability on a reception side. Image data of pictures constituting moving image data are sorted into multiple hierarchies, image data of pictures of each of the sorted hierarchies are encoded, and video data including the encoded image data of the pictures of each of the hierarchies is generated. A container of a predetermined format including the video data is transmitted. The multiple hierarchies are divided into a predetermined number of hierarchy groups, the predetermined number being two or more, and identification information for identifying a hierarchy group to which encoded image data of each picture included in the video data belongs is inserted into a packet as a container of the video data.