Abstract: There is provided a positioning apparatus, a positioning method, and a program that make it possible to perform positioning with a high degree of accuracy using an acceleration sensor and an angular velocity sensor. A movement vector is estimated using a machine learning model on the basis of acceleration of a device and an angular velocity of the device, the movement vector indicating a movement amount and a movement direction of the device, the acceleration being detected by an acceleration sensor that is used to detect the acceleration, the angular velocity being detected by an angular velocity sensor that is used to detect the angular velocity. Then, the estimated movement vector is integrated, and a relative position of the device is calculated. For example, the present technology is applicable to a positioning apparatus that measures a position of, for example, a pedestrian.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus and information processing method to implement a more natural and flexible behavior plan of an autonomous mobile object, the information processing apparatus including a behavior planner configured to plan a behavior of an autonomous mobile object based on estimation of circumstances, wherein the behavior planner is configured to, based on the circumstances that are estimated and multiple sets of needs that are opposed to each other, determine the behavior to be executed by the autonomous mobile object. The information processing method includes, by a processor, planning a behavior of an autonomous mobile object based on estimation of circumstances, wherein the planning includes, based on the circumstances that are estimated and multiple sets of needs that are opposed to each other, determining the behavior to be executed by the autonomous mobile object.

Abstract: A transmitting apparatus including circuitry configured to generate caption data corresponding to content data and having elements defined in Extensible Markup Language (XML), and output the content data and the generated caption data to a reproducing device.

Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus and an image processing method for enabling suppression of an increase in a memory capacity required for orthogonal transform and inverse orthogonal transform. A second transformation matrix is derived using a first transformation matrix, a prediction residual of an image is orthogonally transformed using the derived second transformation matrix, and coefficient data obtained by orthogonally transforming the prediction residual is encoded to generate a bit stream. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus, an image encoding device, an image decoding device, or the like.

Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus and an image processing method for enabling suppression of an increase in a memory capacity required for orthogonal transform and inverse orthogonal transform. A second transformation matrix is derived using a first transformation matrix, a prediction residual of an image is orthogonally transformed using the derived second transformation matrix, and coefficient data obtained by orthogonally transforming the prediction residual is encoded to generate a bit stream. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus, an image encoding device, an image decoding device, or the like.

Abstract: A transmission apparatus including: a transport stream generation unit configured to generate a transport stream in which a first transport packet containing transport media in a payload and a second transport packet containing information about the transport media in a payload, are time-division multiplexed; a transport stream transmission unit configured to transmit the transport stream to a receiver through a predetermined transmission channel; and a time information insertion unit configured to insert time information for allowing the receiver to obtain decoding time and/or presentation time into the first transport packet or the second transport packet.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus to measure a distance in a real space with a simpler operation. The information processing apparatus includes: an acquisition section that acquires an image captured by a predetermined imaging section, and position information based on at least any of a position and a direction of the imaging section; an estimation section that estimates a first position and a second position in a real space, on a basis of a first image and a second image which are the image captured at each of a first viewpoint and a second viewpoint, and first position information and second position information which are the position information about each of the first viewpoint and the second viewpoint; and a measurement section that measures a distance between the first position and the second position on a basis of the estimation result.

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: An information processing apparatus and information processing method to implement a more natural and flexible behavior plan of an autonomous mobile object, the information processing apparatus including circuitry configured to plan a behavior of an autonomous mobile object based on estimation of circumstances, wherein the circuitry is configured to, based on the circumstances that are estimated with respect to multiple sets of needs that are opposed to each other, determine the behavior to be executed by the autonomous mobile object. The information processing method includes, by a processor, planning a behavior of an autonomous mobile object based on estimation of circumstances, wherein the planning includes, based on the circumstances that are estimated and multiple sets of needs that are opposed to each other, determining the behavior to be executed by the autonomous mobile object.

Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus and method that make it possible to suppress degradation of the encoding efficiency. In the case where primary transform that is a transform process for a prediction residual that is a difference between an image and a prediction image of the image is to be skipped, also secondary transform, which is a transform process for a primary transform coefficient obtained by the primary transform of the prediction residual, is skipped. The present disclosure can be applied, for example, to an image processing apparatus, an image encoding apparatus, an image decoding apparatus and so forth.

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.