Abstract: A battery management device to be mounted on an electric vehicle including a driving wheel, a traveling motor configured to generate a driving force for the driving wheel, and a battery configured to store electric power to be consumed by the traveling motor. The battery management device includes a detector configured to detect a state of the battery, and a controller configured to calculate a characteristic value indicating performance of the battery based on an output of the detector, and manage charging and discharging of the battery based on the characteristic value. The controller is configured to, when the characteristic value has deterioration, determine whether the deterioration of the characteristic value is reversible deterioration based on the output of the detector. The controller is configured to, upon determining that the deterioration of the characteristic value is the reversible deterioration, return the characteristic value to a value before the deterioration.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a blurring amount estimation unit configured to estimate a blurring amount of a medical image including a biological body motion of a subject; and a blurring correction processing unit configured to perform blurring correction processing so as not to remove a screen motion caused by the biological body motion, on a basis of the blurring amount. This configuration makes it possible to correct blurring without removing a screen motion caused by a biological body motion. Thus, an optimum image for observing a biological body motion can be obtained.

Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program capable of reducing a load of object recognition using sensor fusion. The information processing device includes an object region detection unit that detects an object region indicating ranges in an azimuth direction and an elevation angle direction in which there is an object within a sensing range of the distance measurement sensor on the basis of three-dimensional data indicating a direction of and a distance to each measurement point measured by a distance measurement sensor, and associates information within a captured image captured by a camera whose imaging range at least partially overlaps the sensing range with the object region. This technology can be applied, for example, to a system that performs object recognition.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes an acquisition unit and a recognition unit. The acquisition unit acquires image information and distance information with respect to a sensing region. The recognition unit performs integration processing according to a distance to a target object present in the sensing region and recognizes the target object by using the image information and the distance information as an input. Moreover, the integration processing is recognition processing in which first recognition processing using the image information as an input and second recognition processing using the distance information as an input are integrated.

Abstract: A camera lens attaching portion 30 is fitted into an opening provided in a vehicle window 20. A lens of a camera 40 is attached to a lens attaching surface 31a of the camera lens attaching portion 30. A surface opposed to the lens attaching surface 31a is a window surface 31b. The window surface 31b is an inclined surface different from a window surface 22 of the vehicle window 20. Furthermore, the window surface 31b may be an inclined surface same as the window surface 22 of the vehicle window 20. The camera 40 images outside of the vehicle through the camera lens attaching portion 30 with an angle of view set within the window surface 31b of the camera lens attaching portion 30. It is possible to prevent reflection of a reflected image generated on a vehicle inner side of the vehicle window.

Abstract: [Object] To make it possible to more stably perform communication. [Solution] There is provided a communication control device including: a communication status grasping unit configured to grasp a communication status of wireless communication of image information between an image shooting device and a surgical site image information acquiring unit on the basis of an operating room image showing a situation of an operating room, the image shooting device capturing an image of a surgical site of a patient, the surgical site image information acquiring unit acquiring information on a surgical site image captured by the image shooting device for display control of the surgical site image; and a communication method deciding unit configured to decide a communication method between the image shooting device and the surgical site image information acquiring unit on the basis of the grasped communication status.

Abstract: The present technology relates to an image processing device, an image processing method, an endoscope system, and a program that enable motion detection with higher accuracy. The endoscope system includes: a light source capable of performing a pulsed-light emission; a light-source control unit that controls the light source such that the light source performs the pulsed-light emission a plurality of times in an exposure time period of each captured image; an imaging unit that takes the captured images; and a motion detection unit that detects a motion of a photographic subject in the captured images. The present technology is applicable to the endoscope system.

Abstract: The present technology relates to a signal processing device, a signal processing method, a program, and an information processing device capable of reducing processing of folding correction of velocity measured by a radar. The signal processing device includes a measurement unit that measures, on the basis of an output signal from a radar, a distance and relative velocity of a reflector that reflects a transmission signal from the radar, and a correction unit that performs folding correction of measured velocity of the reflector on the basis of correlation between a measured distance and measured velocity of the reflector at a certain measurement time, and a measured distance and measured velocity of the reflector at a time before the measurement time. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a system that senses an object around a vehicle.

Abstract: To correct blurring without removing a screen motion caused by a biological body motion. [Solution] An image processing apparatus includes: a blurring amount estimation unit configured to estimate a blurring amount of a medical image including a biological body motion of a subject; and a blurring correction processing unit configured to perform blurring correction processing so as not to remove a screen motion caused by the biological body motion, on a basis of the blurring amount. This configuration makes it possible to correct blurring without removing a screen motion caused by a biological body motion. Thus, an optimum image for observing a biological body motion can be obtained.

Abstract: Provided are an information processing device and an information processing method for processing detection information of a sensor, a computer program, an information processing system, and a mobile device. The information processing device includes a processing unit that performs computation processing of a detection signal of a radar of FCM mode, and a control unit that controls the computation processing mode in the processing unit on the basis of the detection result of another sensor. The radar is mounted on a vehicle and used, and the another sensor is a vehicle-mounted sensor of the same vehicle. The control unit controls at least one of the computation area or the computation accuracy of computation processing in the processing unit on the basis of the detection result of the another sensor.

Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing apparatus, an assistance system, and an information processing method that enable suitable assistance to be performed on a surgeon. [Solving Means] An information processing apparatus includes a control unit. The control unit extracts, on the basis of a first image obtained by picking up an image of a surgical part including an affected part and metadata of a situation obtained from past surgery or examination, a parameter of assistance performed with respect to the situation, which is made to correspond to the metadata.

Abstract: The present technology relates to an image processing device, an image processing method, an endoscope system, and a program that enable motion detection with higher accuracy. The endoscope system includes: a light source capable of performing a pulsed-light emission; a light-source control unit that controls the light source such that the light source performs the pulsed-light emission a plurality of times in an exposure time period of each captured image; an imaging unit that takes the captured images; and a motion detection unit that detects a motion of a photographic subject in the captured images. The present technology is applicable to the endoscope system.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a blurring amount estimation unit configured to estimate a blurring amount of a medical image including a biological body motion of a subject; and a blurring correction processing unit configured to perform blurring correction processing so as not to remove a screen motion caused by the biological body motion, on a basis of the blurring amount. This configuration makes it possible to correct blurring without removing a screen motion caused by a biological body motion. Thus, an optimum image for observing a biological body motion can be obtained.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing device, and an image processing method that enable display of an endoscopic image in an easy-to-view manner, and a medical imaging system. The image imaged by an endoscope device is smoothed by LPF and lightness I, chromaticity r, g, and brightness Y are obtained from a smoothed image. A histogram is obtained in units of blocks using the brightness Y, and a frequency in a direction being an upper order is obtained as a gradient bias feature amount Bb. Furthermore, the lightness and the chromaticity are also obtained as feature amounts Ib, rb and gb of lightness and chromaticity in units of blocks.

Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing apparatus, an assistance system, and an information processing method that enable suitable assistance to be performed on a surgeon. [Solving Means] An information processing apparatus includes a control unit. The control unit extracts, on the basis of a first image obtained by picking up an image of a surgical part including an affected part and metadata of a situation obtained from past surgery or examination, a parameter of assistance performed with respect to the situation, which is made to correspond to the metadata.

Abstract: To provide an image analyzing technology capable of obtaining an image with less shading and with enough speckle contrast. An imaging apparatus includes: a light source that irradiates an imaging object with coherent light with a first irradiation condition and a second irradiation condition; a speckle imaging unit that captures a first speckle image obtained from scattered light of the imaging object irradiate at the first irradiation condition, and a second speckle image obtained from scattered light of the imaging object irradiate at the second irradiation condition; and an information processing unit that separates speckle images at boundaries of average luminance difference formed in the first speckle image and the second speckle image, connecting the separaged speckle images at the boundaries, and analyzes the combined speckle combined image.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and method and an image processing system that enable highly accurate observation. An intra-frame operation unit performs, as online processing, image processing of speckles generated by irradiation with laser light on a captured image in accordance with a relationship between an image output frame rate and a sampling rate. A high-precision operation unit performs, as offline processing, the image processing of speckles on the captured image in accordance with the relationship between an image output frame rate and a sampling rate. The present disclosure may be applied to an image processing system including, for example, a speckle imaging apparatus.

Abstract: There is provided a surgical system including a monitoring sensor configured to sense a characteristic of a surgical site within a body, in a sensing region of the surgical site which includes at least a part of a region outside a display field of an endoscope, and circuitry configured to detect an occurrence of a medical abnormality in the region outside the display field of the endoscope based on a result of the sensing by the monitoring sensor, and generate notification information regarding the detected medical abnormality.

Abstract: A camera lens attaching portion 30 is fitted into an opening provided in a vehicle window 20. A lens of a camera 40 is attached to a lens attaching surface 31a of the camera lens attaching portion 30. A surface opposed to the lens attaching surface 31a is a window surface 31b. The window surface 31b is an inclined surface different from a window surface 22 of the vehicle window 20. Furthermore, the window surface 31b may be an inclined surface same as the window surface 22 of the vehicle window 20. The camera 40 images outside of the vehicle through the camera lens attaching portion 30 with an angle of view set within the window surface 31b of the camera lens attaching portion 30. It is possible to prevent reflection of a reflected image generated on a vehicle inner side of the vehicle window.

Abstract: [Object] To make it possible to more stably perform communication. [Solution] There is provided a communication control device including: a communication status grasping unit configured to grasp a communication status of wireless communication of image information between an image shooting device and a surgical site image information acquiring unit on the basis of an operating room image showing a situation of an operating room, the image shooting device capturing an image of a surgical site of a patient, the surgical site image information acquiring unit acquiring information on a surgical site image captured by the image shooting device for display control of the surgical site image; and a communication method deciding unit configured to decide a communication method between the image shooting device and the surgical site image information acquiring unit on the basis of the grasped communication status.