Abstract: In an image processing apparatus, an image signal of a plurality of polarized lights is input, for each set of image signals corresponding to the polarized lights, a maximum value of polarization intensities of polarization components of the image signals and a polarization angle at which the maximum value of the polarization intensities is obtained are found, and a target area to which polarization reduction is to be applied is found based on the image signal and a statistical area is set in the target area. Representative intensity and angle which are modes of the polarization intensities and angles of the sets included in the statistical area are found, and first correction processing for correcting each image signal of the sets included in the target area is performed using the representative intensity and angle according to the polarization angle of the each image signal.

Abstract: An acquisition unit acquires pieces of information including information related to a vehicle, information related to the environment inside and outside the vehicle, and information related to a driver on board the vehicle. A determination unit determines priorities of the pieces of information acquired by the acquisition unit on the basis of a service or the like used by the driver among services or the likes provided using information accumulated in a server device. A selection unit selects a piece of information to be transmitted to the server device from among the pieces of information acquired by the acquisition unit on the basis of the priorities determined by the determination unit. A communication unit transmits the piece of information selected by the selection unit to the server device.

Abstract: A light emitting component includes: a substrate; a plural light emitting elements that are provided on the substrate and respectively have light emission regions; and a plural thyristors that are turned on to cause the light emission regions of the respective light emitting elements to emit light, or that increase amounts of emitted light of the light emission regions, in which the light emitting elements absorb light emitted from a corresponding thyristor among the plural thyristors.

Abstract: A dual-bearing reel comprises a spool rotatably supported between a left side plate and a right side plate of a reel main body, a handle provided on one of the left and right side plates to rotationally drive the spool, and an adjustment dial provided on a side plate on the opposite side of the handle. The side plate on the opposite side of the handle rotatably supports the adjustment dial on substantially the same axis as a rotation axis of the spool, and comprises an opening that exposes an arc region above the supported adjustment dial, and a cover portion is formed on an upper surface side of the side plate on the opposite side of the handle, the cover portion covering an outer peripheral surface on a front side of the adjustment dial and exposing an outer peripheral surface on a rear side thereof.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus that performs machine learning of a learning model for improving the accuracy of inference of an image even in a case where the characteristics of an image are changed by correction applied to the image. The image processing apparatus includes an image processor configured to perform image processing on a training image and a teacher image according to each of a plurality of correction conditions. Machine learning of the learning model is performed using the training image and the teacher image. A plurality of parameters obtained by performing the machine learning of the learning model are stored in association with the plurality of correction conditions, respectively.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus that performs machine learning of a learning model for improving the accuracy of inference of an image even in a case where the characteristics of an image are changed by correction applied to the image. The image processing apparatus includes an image processor configured to perform image processing on a training image and a teacher image according to each of a plurality of correction conditions. Machine learning of the learning model is performed using the training image and the teacher image. A plurality of parameters obtained by performing the machine learning of the learning model are stored in association with the plurality of correction conditions, respectively.

Abstract: A management apparatus that manages a first database and a second database synchronized with each other includes a memory and a processor configured to perform a stop of synchronous processing between the first database and the second database in accordance with detection of a delay with respect to a first processing request received by the first database, output an error notification concerning uncompleted processing in the first database in which the delay is detected, and allocate a second processing request received after the detection to the second database.

Abstract: A measurement apparatus includes an optical emitter, an optical detector, and a controller. The optical emitter emits irradiation light onto a region. The optical detector detects scattered light from the region, the scattered light corresponding to the irradiation light. The controller causes first irradiation light of a first intensity and second irradiation light of a second intensity lower than the first intensity to be emitted from the optical emitter. The controller detects a predetermined signal on the basis of first scattered light detected by the optical detector in accordance with the first irradiation light and second scattered light detected by the optical detector in accordance with the second irradiation light.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus which is capable of, even when a flash band appears during a zooming operation, properly compensating for the flash band to generate a post-compensation image having no different levels of luminance. A lens unit has a zoom function. Image information generated based on image signals output from an image pickup device, which sequentially starts exposure and sequentially reads out signals for each row of pixels, is held in a memory unit. Based on the image information, the flash band caused by an external flash and extending across a plurality of frames is detected, and frames in which the flash band was detected are corrected to obtain an image having no different levels of luminance. The frames are corrected according to a calculated zoom change ratio of the lens unit when the zoom change ratio does not fall inside a first range determined in advance.

Abstract: In an apparatus, a control unit switches acquisition of a phase difference signal for each area in a sensing device, a correction unit selects defect information associated with a pixel signal acquired from the sensing device and corrects the pixel signal based on the selected defect information, and a memory stores the defect information. The defect information stored in the memory includes at least first defect information and second defect information in the same format as that of the first defect information. The correction unit switches defect information to be used based a change in an area in a frame for which the phase difference signal is to be acquired.

Abstract: A method includes a coating step of coating a vulcanizing adhesive at a surface of a vulcanized centrum of a rubber bush; a heating step of heating a portion to be adhered of a stabilizer bar; a fitting step of fitting the centrum of the rubber bush at which the vulcanizing adhesive is coated on the heated portion to be adhered of the stabilizer bar; and an adhering step of clamping the rubber bush in a radial direction by a clamping device to adhere the rubber bush on the portion to be adhered of the stabilizer bar.

Abstract: A management apparatus that manages a first database and a second database synchronized with each other includes a memory and a processor configured to perform a stop of synchronous processing between the first database and the second database in accordance with detection of a delay with respect to a first processing request received by the first database, output an error notification concerning uncompleted processing in the first database in which the delay is detected, and allocate a second processing request received after the detection to the second database.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus which is capable of, even when a flash band appears during a zooming operation, properly compensating for the flash band to generate a post-compensation image having no different levels of luminance. A lens unit has a zoom function. Image information generated based on image signals output from an image pickup device, which sequentially starts exposure and sequentially reads out signals for each row of pixels, is held in a memory unit. Based on the image information, the flash band caused by an external flash and extending across a plurality of frames is detected, and frames in which the flash band was detected are corrected to obtain an image having no different levels of luminance. The frames are corrected according to a calculated zoom change ratio of the lens unit when the zoom change ratio does not fall inside a first range determined in advance.

Abstract: In an apparatus, a control unit switches acquisition of a phase difference signal for each area in a sensing device, a correction unit selects defect information associated with a pixel signal acquired from the sensing device and corrects the pixel signal based on the selected defect information, and a memory stores the defect information. The defect information stored in the memory includes at least first defect information and second defect information in the same format as that of the first defect information. The correction unit switches defect information to be used based a change in an area in a frame for which the phase difference signal is to be acquired.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus which is capable of, even when a flash band appears during a zooming operation, properly compensating for the flash band to generate a post-compensation image having no different levels of luminance. A lens unit has a zoom function. Image information generated based on image signals output from an image pickup device, which sequentially starts exposure and sequentially reads out signals for each row of pixels, is held in a memory unit. Based on the image information, the flash band caused by an external flash and extending across a plurality of frames is detected, and frames in which the flash band was detected are corrected to obtain an image having no different levels of luminance. The frames are corrected according to a calculated zoom change ratio of the lens unit when the zoom change ratio does not fall inside a first range determined in advance.

Abstract: A signal processing apparatus comprising: an analog-digital converter that uses reference signals having different slopes from each other; a supply unit that supplies analog signals of predetermined different output levels; and a calculation unit that calculates a slope ratio and an offset amount between the plurality of different slopes for correcting a converted digital signal based on digital signals respectively obtained by converting the analog signals of the different output levels using the reference signals. In a case where the conversion is performed using a reference signal with a steeper slope, the supply unit supplies at least one high level analog signal whose level is higher than a case where the conversion is performed using a reference signal with a gentler slope, and a digital signal obtained by converting the high level analog signal is further used when calculating the slope ratio.

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus comprises: an image sensor which has a plurality of pixels; and a plurality of processing circuits which correct images of different frames output from the image sensor. Each processing circuit includes: a first detection circuit which performs defective pixel detection on a portion of a region of the plurality of pixels which is different from portions of the region on which the other processing circuits perform defective pixel detection; and a memory which stores information on defective pixels for the entire region obtained by combining information on defective pixels detected by the first detection circuit and information on defective pixels obtained by the other processing circuits. Further, each processing circuit corrects the image of each frame output from the image sensor, using the information on defective pixels for the entire region stored in the memory.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises: a memory which stores an address of a defective pixel that satisfies a predetermined condition, among defective pixels included in an image sensor covered with color filters; and a correction circuit which corrects, among pixel data of an image obtained by exposing the image sensor, the pixel data of the defective pixel at the address stored in the memory. The defective pixel is a pixel having pixel data whose difference from a value determined using the pixel data of surrounding pixels is greater than a threshold value, and the predetermined condition includes at least one of a condition that a plurality of defective pixels among pixels corresponding to different or the same color filters are adjacent to each other.

Abstract: A data search device specifies a first cluster that is closest to an input query, specifies another cluster that is different from the first cluster that includes the target data and whose distance from the input query is within the first distance, by using a first distance indicating a distance from the position of the input query to the center of the first cluster, extracts the target data that belongs to the other cluster and whose distance from the input query is within the first distance or the target data that belongs to the other cluster and whose distance from the center of the other cluster is greater than a second distance and searches the target data similar to the input query from the target data that belongs to the first cluster and the target data that is extracted from the other cluster.