Abstract: [Object] To provide a mechanism that enables flexible design in relation to communication timing. [Solution] A communication apparatus including: a communication control unit that controls a transmission timing of a sub frame that is transmitted to another communication apparatus, which is a communication counterpart; and a setting unit that sets a control mode of the communication control unit to a first mode or a second mode. The communication control unit controls the transmission timing on the basis of a first parameter that is unique to the communication apparatus and a second parameter that is unique to the other communication apparatus in a case in which the first mode is set and controls the transmission timing on the basis of the second parameter in a case in which the second mode is set.

Abstract: A surgical assistance apparatus includes circuitry configured to generate a first image to be displayed in a first display region and including a first operative field image of a surgical subject and a first visual annotation image superimposed on a predetermined region in an operative field of the first operative field image that corresponds to a physical region of the surgical subject. The circuitry is also configured to generate a second image to be displayed in a second display region and including a second operative field image and a second visual annotation image superimposed on an estimated region of the second operative field image that corresponds to the physical region of the surgical subject.

Abstract: A method of operating a first terminal device to transmit data to a second terminal device by performing device-to-device communication includes selecting radio resources, on which to transmit the data based on a priority status associated with the data, whereby certain radio resource are reserved for use in association with data classified as high priority. A method of operating the second terminal device to receive data from the first terminal device includes: receiving data from the first terminal device using the selected radio resources; determining if another terminal device is transmitting data on a radio resource which is not selected for transmitting data by the first terminal device and which is reserved for transmitting data classified as having a high priority; and, if so, stopping reception of data from the first terminal device on the selected radio resources and instead seeking to receive further transmissions from the other terminal device.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method capable of improving processing efficiency with pipeline processing in encoding or decoding of a motion vector. In a motion vector encoding unit, such configuration is adopted that when a spatial prediction motion vector is derived according to AMVP or Merge mode, the use of a motion vector of a PU adjacent to a top right of a PU in question is prohibited. Therefore, the motion vector encoding unit performs encoding processing of a motion vector by using only motion vector information of B1, B2 which are PUs located at Top with respect to the PU in question and A0, A1 which are PUs located at Left with respect to the PU in question. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus.

Abstract: A functional material is provided and includes a porous carbon material derived from a plant-derived material as a raw material, wherein a bulk density of the porous carbon material is in a range of 0.2 grams/cm3 to 0.4 grams/cm3, a value of a cumulative pore volume in a range of 0.05 ?m to 5 ?m in pore size of the porous carbon material based on a mercury press-in method is in a range of 0.4 cm3 per 1 gram of the porous carbon material to 1.2 cm3 per 1 gram of the porous carbon material, and a value of a pore volume of the porous carbon material based on an MP method is in a range of 0.04 cm3 per 1 cm3 of the porous carbon material to 0.09 cm3 per 1 cm3 of the porous carbon material.

Abstract: A data encoding method comprises: encoding an ordered array of data values as data representing a data value magnitude and data representing a data value sign; predicting, for a set of data values comprising at least some of the data values, the respective data value sign from a property of one or more other data values in the ordered array; and encoding the data value sign for the set of data values in dependence upon the respective predicted value.

Abstract: An information processing system (1) that provide an agent service to users includes: a database that stores a plurality of agents optimized for respective users when the agent service is used; and a control unit (100) that selects a base agent candidate from the plurality of agents stored in the database according to an attribute or feature of a new user who newly uses the agent service.

Abstract: Image data encoding and/or decoding apparatus comprises an inter-image predictor configured to predict samples of a current image region, of a plurality of regions of an image in a sequence of images, with respect to a reference image region of another, reference, image of the sequence of images, according to a direction vector indicating a spatial displacement of the reference image region from the current image region; an interpolation filter configured to generate the predicted samples of the current image region by spatial interpolation of samples of the reference image region, at least in instances where the direction vector indicates a spatial displacement of a non-integer number of samples, in which the interpolation filter is configured to operate according to a set of filter parameters each defining the spatial frequency response of a set of filters providing interpolation at a spatial displacement resolution of 1/m sample, where m is an integer greater than one; and a filter response selector config

Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus which is capable of more efficiently designing a neural network which is fit for processing by a plurality of hardware devices, and an information processing method. The information processing apparatus includes: an acquiring unit configured to acquire restrictions relating to a plurality of hardware devices; and a determining unit configured to perform determination as to whether or not a neural network satisfies the restrictions.

Abstract: A porous carbon material composite formed of a porous carbon material and a functional material and equipped with high functionality. The porous carbon material composite is formed of (A) a porous carbon material obtainable from a plant-derived material having a silicon (Si) content of 5 wt % or higher as a raw material; and (B) a functional material adhered on the porous carbon material, and has a specific surface area of 10 m2/g or greater as determined by the nitrogen BET method and a pore volume of 0.1 cm3/g or greater as determined by the BJH method and MP method.

Abstract: A biological-information evaluating device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a signal processing circuit that generates a feature value of an observation target waveform for each of pieces of observation data obtained through observation of a living body for a predetermined period, on a basis of a plurality of pieces of partial observation data contained in each of the pieces of observation data and each having a period shorter than an observation period of the observation data. An observation target of this biological-information evaluating device includes, for example, a human or an animal.

Abstract: A transmission apparatus for use in a communication system comprises MAC layer processing circuitry and PHY layer processing circuitry. The MAC layer processing circuitry is configured to encode, on a MAC layer, N data units, each comprising payload data, into M parity units, each comprising parity data allowing the reconstruction of one or more erroneous data units among said N data units in a receiver apparatus, according to a parity rule, the N data units and the corresponding M parity units representing a parity block, and to form a MAC layer data stream from the data units and the parity units of the parity block. The PHY layer processing circuitry is configured to encode, on a PHY layer, bits of the MAC layer data stream into codewords of a code and to form a PHY layer data stream from the codewords.

Abstract: Provided is information processing apparatus that includes an information acquisition unit that obtains first state information regarding a state of a first user and a setting unit that sets, on the basis of the first state information, a display mode of a second virtual object in a virtual space in which a first virtual object corresponding to the first user and the second virtual object corresponding to a second user are arranged.

Abstract: The present technique relates to an image processing device and method which can suppress an increase in an operation time. The image processing device has: an encoding control unit which, upon encoding independently performed per slice for dividing a picture into a plurality of pictures, controls whether or not to adopt for motion information a merge mode of merging a relevant region of an operation target with a surrounding region positioned in a surrounding of the relevant region, based on information of surrounding regions which belong to a relevant slice to which the relevant region belongs; and an encoding unit which encodes the relevant region in the merge mode or a mode other than the merge mode under control of the encoding control unit. The present disclosure is applicable to the image processing device.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image decoding device capable of recognizing performance necessary for decoding more accurately and a method. Coded data of image data and decoding load definition information for defining a magnitude of a load of a decoding process of a partial region of an image of the image data are acquired; decoding of the acquired coded data is controlled based on the acquired decoding load definition information; and the acquired coded data is decoded according to the controlling. The present disclosure can be applied to an information processing device such as an image coding device that scalably codes image data or an image decoding device that decodes encoded data obtained by scalably coding image data.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus including circuitry configured to control a transmissivity of a transparent screen and a brightness of an image projected on the transparent screen, based on a motion of a user.

Abstract: An information processing method according to the present disclosure includes the steps of: evaluating, by a computer, a neural network having a structure held in a divided manner by a first device and a second device based on information on transfer of information between the first device and the second device in the neural network; and determining, by the computer, the structure of the neural network based on the evaluation of the neural network.

Abstract: A medical control device includes a display controller configured to display, in a display device configured to display images, a medical image generated from an imaging signal generated by an imaging device configured to receive light coming from an observation target; and a brightness controller configured to control the brightness of the imaging signal in such a way that the display controller displays the medical image having a predetermined brightness. When the dynamic range of the display device is set to a second value that is greater than a first value, the brightness controller is configured to perform control to lower the brightness of the imaging signal as compared to the brightness of the imaging signal for displaying the medical image at the predetermined brightness when the dynamic range is set to the first value.