Abstract: A getting-on/off determination apparatus determines rider's getting-on/off for an inverted two-wheel vehicle that travels while maintaining the inverted state. The getting-on/off determination apparatus includes an optical fiber laid in a step portion that a rider gets on/off, a light emitting unit that emits detection light and is connected to one end of the optical fiber, a light receiving unit that receives the detection light emitted from the light emitting unit and is connected to another end of the optical fiber, at least one transmitted light varying portion that varies an amount of transmitted light of the detection light passing through the optical fiber in conjunction with a vertical displacement of the step portion that occurs when the rider gets on/off the inverted two-wheel vehicle, and a determination unit that determines getting-on/off of the rider based on an amount of the detection light received by the light receiving unit.

Abstract: An image processing device includes: a data obtainment unit which obtains an input image captured from a first viewpoint, and depth information indicating a depth of a subject in the input image; a viewpoint transformation unit which generates, using the depth information, a plurality of first transformed images each of which is an image of the input image seen from a corresponding one of second viewpoints different from the first viewpoint; and a blank area analysis unit that analyzes a blank area which is included in each of the first transformed images and includes a pixel which does not have a corresponding pixel in the input image, and generate blank information which indicates, for each of the second viewpoints, a size of the blank area in the first transformed image corresponding to the second viewpoint.

Abstract: A three-dimensional video creating device (100) includes: a selection unit (123) which selects, from among frames constituting the 2D video, frames each of which has a common area whose proportion to the frame is greater than or equal to a predetermined value, as candidate three-dimensional partner frames that are candidate frames each constituting a three-dimensional image together with a target frame included in the frames constituting the 2D video; a determination unit (124) which determines, from among the candidate three-dimensional partner frames, a three-dimensional partner frame, based on the first criteria; and a three-dimensional pair creation unit (125) which creates a three-dimensional pair constituting the three-dimensional image corresponding to the target frame, using the target frame and the three-dimensional partner frame.

Abstract: A flexible cable includes a portion that is covered by a solder resist and an exposed portion that is not covered by the solder resist, in which the exposed portion contains a wiring terminal and at least continues to a position closer to an outside than an opening of a wiring member insertion side of a wiring vacant portion in a state in which the wiring terminal portion is connected to an element terminal of a piezoelectric element side and in which the wiring vacant portion is filled with an electrically insulating filling material in a state of covering a joining portion between the element terminal and the wiring terminal within the wiring vacant portion, and in a state in which a protective substrate, which forms the wiring vacant portion by partitioning, and the exposed portion of the flexible cable are not in contact with one another.

Abstract: Provided is a technique for packaging a sensor structure having a contact sensing surface and a signal processing LSI that processes a sensor signal. The sensor structure has the contact sensing surface and sensor electrodes. The signal processing integrated circuit is embedded in a semiconductor substrate. The sensor structure and the semiconductor substrate are bonded by a bonding layer, forming a sensor device as a single chip. The sensor electrodes and the integrated circuit are sealed inside the sensor device, and the sensor electrodes and external terminals of the integrated circuit are led out to the back surface of the semiconductor substrate through a side surface of the semiconductor substrate.

Abstract: An image processing device including: a motion amount estimating unit estimating a first motion amount indicating a displacement amount of a second picture with respect to a first picture; an area setting unit setting an area to be used for post-processing for each of the first picture and a first corrected picture, using feature points extracted from the first picture and the second picture; a post-processing unit generating a first cutout picture from the first picture and a second cutout picture from the first corrected picture and estimating a second motion amount indicating a displacement amount of the second cutout picture with respect to the first cutout picture; and a motion amount obtaining unit obtaining a motion amount indicating a displacement amount between the first picture and the second picture, from the estimated first motion amount and the estimated second motion amount.

Abstract: A picture processing device (100) includes: a mask generation unit (110x) which generates a masking picture (110aI) based on an edge in a first picture (101a); a feature point masking unit (111x) which masks extracted feature points with the generated masking picture (110aI); a rotation matrix calculation unit (112) which calculates a positional change between the first picture and a second picture (101a, 101b) using a feature point selected from the feature points as a result of the masking; and a picture correction unit (113) which uses the calculated change.

Abstract: A polymer sheet for a solar cell, including: a first polymer layer; a second polymer layer; and a polymer support, arranged in this order, wherein the first polymer layer includes a polymer selected from the group consisting of a fluorine polymer and a silicone polymer, the first polymer layer contacts the second polymer layer, and a roughness (Rz) of an interface between the first polymer layer and the second polymer layer is in a range of from 0.2 ?m to 3.0 ?m.

Abstract: A dynamic quantity sensor includes a force receiving portion, a first movable portion that rotates in a first rotational direction around a first rotational axis according to dynamic quantity in a first direction that the force receiving portion receives, and rotates in the first rotational direction around the first rotational axis according to dynamic quantity in a second direction different from the first direction that the force receiving portion receives; and a second movable portion that rotates in a second rotational direction around a second rotational axis according to the dynamic quantity in the first direction that the force receiving portion receives, and rotates in an opposite direction to the second rotational direction around the second rotational axis according to the dynamic quantity in the second direction that the force receiving portion receives.

Abstract: The picture processing device of the present invention includes: a rotational motion distance calculating unit which calculates a rotational motion distance of a second picture with respect to a first picture; a cutout picture generating unit which (i) generates a first cutout picture from the first picture, and (ii) and generates a second cutout picture from a first corrected picture, the first corrected picture being generated from the second picture whose rotational displacement amount, in a combination of directions in three axes, is corrected; a parallel motion amount calculating unit which calculates a parallel motion amount of a second cutout picture with respect to the first cutout picture; and a motion amount determining unit which determines a motion amount of the second picture with respect to the first picture.

Abstract: A high-resolution sensor of magnetic field sensor system and materials for use in such a system are described. The sensor systems measure a magnetic field using inorganic and/or organic magneto-optically active materials, e.g. polymer material and have an interferometer based on Faraday rotation. The polymer material is preferably in the form of a film. The polymer material has an optical property that is sensitive to the magnetic field, eg the Faraday rotation effect. The present invention also provides a sensor head structure comprising the above polymer material. The sensor head may be designed for use with an optical fiber or with mirrors In particular the present invention provides a fiber Sagnac interferometer to measure the rotation of polarized plane of light. The present invention provides a fiber or mirror based Sagnac interferometer with passive phase bias applied to magnetic field sensing.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an image obtainment unit that obtains an image; an information obtainment unit that obtains embedment information that is to be embedded into a region within the image obtained by the image obtainment unit; a depth information obtainment unit that obtains depth information indicating a depth value of each pixel in the image obtained by the image obtainment unit; and an embedment region determination unit that determines, using the depth information, an embedment region into which the embedment information is to be embedded.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus is an image processing apparatus which derives an angle of inclination of an image and includes: an edge angle calculation unit which calculates a plurality of edge angles corresponding to a plurality of pixels in the image by calculating, in each of the pixels, an edge angle that is an angle of an edge; a use angle identification unit which identifies one or more use angles that are each the edge angle and are each a candidate for the angle of inclination, using the edge angles and a plurality of depth values that correspond to the pixels and each indicate a depth of a corresponding one of the pixels; and an inclination angle derivation unit which derives the angle of inclination from the one or more use angles.

Abstract: Provided are multiple normal stress detection sensor units capable of detecting a normal stress, and a sheet layer portion. The sheet layer portion includes an exterior sheet layer portion, a force detection sheet layer portion incorporating normal stress detection units, and an intermediary layer sandwiched between the exterior sheet layer portion and the force detection sheet layer portion. The exterior sheet layer portion and the force detection sheet layer portion include multiple protrusions protruding in directions opposed to each other, and are disposed such that the protrusions engage each other with the intermediary layer interposed therebetween. Each normal stress detection sensor unit includes a central portion detection sensor device disposed immediately below a central portion of the protrusion provided on the force detection sheet portion, and at least two edge detection sensor devices disposed immediately below edge portions of the protrusion provided on the force detection sheet portion.

Abstract: A high-resolution sensor of magnetic field sensor system and materials for use in such a system are described. The sensor systems measure a magnetic field using inorganic and/or organic magneto-optically active materials, e.g. polymer material and have an interferometer based on Faraday rotation. The polymer material is preferably in the form of a film. The polymer material has an optical property that is sensitive to the magnetic field, e.g. the Faraday rotation effect. The present invention also provides a sensor head structure comprising the above polymer material. The sensor head may be designed for use with an optical fiber or with mirrors. In particular the present invention provides a fiber Sagnac interferometer to measure the rotation of polarized plane of light. The present invention provides a fiber or mirror based Sagnac interferometer with passive phase bias applied to magnetic field sensing. This invention has the following three major aspects each being an embodiment of the present invention: 1.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a substrate, a stationary electrode provided above the substrate, a movable electrode that is provided to face the stationary electrode, a wall portion that is provided on the substrate and surrounds the movable electrode and the stationary electrode, a film member that is fixed to the wall portion and seals space including the movable electrode and the stationary electrode, and a support portion that is provided, on an inner side of the wall portion on the substrate, in addition to the movable electrode and the stationary electrode to support the film member from within the space.

Abstract: This image processing apparatus is an image processing apparatus for measuring a subject distance using a plurality of captured images acquired by capturing the same subject in a plurality of imaging states in succession of time, and includes a target motion amount estimation unit that estimates a target motion amount representing an amount of shift in subject position between first and second images among the captured images, the first image being captured in a first imaging state and a second image being captured in a second imaging state different from the first imaging state, a corrected image generation unit that generates a corrected image by performing motion compensation on the second image based on the target motion amount, and an image processing unit that performs image processing such as measuring a subject distance or generating an HDR image, using the first image and the corrected image.

Abstract: A motion estimation apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention is a motion estimation apparatus for estimating, using a set of multi-focus images which correspond to a single scene and have different focuses, motion for each of the first regions included in the scene, including: a cost value computing unit configured to compute, using the set of multi-focus images, for each of the first regions, a cost value indicating a difference between a blur amount of the first region and a standard blur amount determined for each of distances in a depth direction; and a motion estimation unit configured to estimate, using the cost value, the motion of the first region corresponding to the cost value.

Abstract: A motion vector calculation unit calculates inter-frame movement amounts. A masked region specification unit separates the entire edge image of frame feature data into (i) an edge image showing relatively large movement amounts and (ii) an edge image showing relatively small movement amounts. The masked region specification unit then specifies the edge image showing relatively large movement amounts as a region to be masked. This way, a correction parameter is detected from a region other than the masked region. When the correction parameter is a slang angle, a slant correction unit performs slant correction on a frame picture obtained by an image sensor.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a electrode foil composed of a valve metal layer of a first valve metal and a metal foil of a second valve metal supporting the valve metal layer, the method includes coating fine particles of the first valve metal with a resin to form composite fine particles, forming the composite fine particles into an aerosol, jetting the aerosol to the metal foil in an atmosphere under a reduced pressure, depositing the composite fine particles onto the metal foil to form a aerosol deposition layer, and removing selectively the resin from the aerosol deposition layer to form the valve metal layer.