Abstract: A wireless charging device includes a plurality of elemental parts including a switch part and a conductor connecting between the adjacent elemental parts, and a coil forming part applied to a charging surface on which a charging target is placed. The control unit controls the switch part to form, on the charging surface, a coil including the switch part in an ON state and the conductor in a conducting state that allows current to flow that form a coil-shaped current path.

Abstract: A wireless charging device includes a power transmitting coil that performs power transmission to a power receiving device including a power receiving coil by wireless power transmission. A power transmitting control unit is configured to acquire a temperature of a secondary battery of a charging target that is transmitted from the power receiving device through a communication unit that receives data from the power receiving device and perform quick charging with first transmission power until the temperature of the secondary battery reaches an upper limit temperature, and perform weak charging with transmission power that is lower than transmission power for maintaining the temperature of the secondary battery not to be higher than the upper limit temperature and is lower than the first transmission power of which a charging state is uninterrupted when the temperature of the secondary battery reaches the upper limit temperature.

Abstract: A distance measurement image pickup apparatus has two measurement periods. In a first distance measurement period, short pulsed light (1T) is irradiated, and exposure is performed in a plurality of exposure periods (A, B, and C) in which exposure timings are shifted. In each exposure period, an exposure gate is opened a plurality of times to perform repetitive exposure, and a first non-exposure period is provided from when a last exposure gate is closed until subsequent pulsed light is irradiated. In a second distance measurement period, long pulsed light (4T) is irradiated, and exposure is performed in a plurality of exposure periods (A, B, and C) in which exposure timings are shifted. In each exposure period, exposure is performed by opening the exposure gate only once, and a second non-exposure period is provided from when a last exposure gate is closed until subsequent pulsed light is irradiated.

Abstract: A power transmission device that has a power transmission coil and transmits power to a power reception device having a power reception coil by wireless power transmission, includes positioning means for placing the power reception device, the power transmission coil being disposed to be substantially parallel to a lower part of a placement surface of the positioning means, in which when the power reception device is placed on the placement surface of the positioning means, the power reception coil is disposed to be substantially parallel to the placement surface and is disposed by sliding a center of the power transmission coil by a predetermined distance from a center of the power reception coil.

Abstract: A power transmission and reception system device includes: a first device including an outer surface on which a first image is represented; and a second device including an outer surface on which a second image is represented, the second device being placed on the first device. One of the first device and the second device is a power transmission device including a power transmission unit, and the other is a power reception device including a power reception unit. In a case where the power transmission device and the power reception device are positioned such that the first image and the second image are aligned, power can be fed such that a received voltage is greater than or equal to a predetermined value at the time of transmitting power to the power reception unit from the power transmission unit.

Abstract: A distance measuring device 1 includes a light emitting unit 11 that irradiates a subject with irradiation light, a light receiving unit 12 that receives reflected light from the subject, a distance calculating unit 14 that calculates a distance to the subject from an output signal of the light receiving unit, and an image processing unit 15 that generates a distance image of the subject from the calculated distance. The image processing unit 15 executes image processing within a period when the light emitting unit 11 stops the light emission and stops the image processing during a period when the light emitting unit 11 emits the light. When the image processing unit 15 stops the image processing, a clock frequency of an integrated circuit constituting the image processing unit 15 is further reduced as compared with an image processing time.

Abstract: A distance measurement apparatus 1 includes: a TOF camera 10 having a light-emitting unit 11, a light-receiving unit 12, and a distance-calculating unit 13 to measure a distance to the subject on the basis of light transmission time; and an image processing unit 17 that creates a distance image of the subject from distance data measured by the TOF camera 10. The image processing unit 17 determines whether or not there is a detection target in the created distance image. If there is no detection target in the distance image, the light emission intensity control unit 18 decreases the emitted light intensity from the light source of the light-emitting unit 11, and the operation mode is switched to a power saving mode in which the pixel addition control unit 19 increases an addition ratio of a neighboring pixel signal of the light-receiving unit 12.

Abstract: An object position detection apparatus 1 includes a distance image generation unit 10 which generates a two-dimensional distance image by measuring a distance to a subject including an object on the basis of a light transmission time, an object image generation unit 16 which generates an object image in which the object is extracted from the distance image of the subject, and an installation angle detection unit 20 which detects an installation angle of the distance image generation unit 10. The object image generation unit 16 includes a differentiator 17 which performs a process of removing a background other than the object from the distance image of the subject and a threshold value d for removing the background in the differentiator 17 is set in response to the installation angle of the distance image generation unit 10 detected by the installation angle detection unit 20.

Abstract: A distance measurement image pickup apparatus has two measurement periods. In a first distance measurement period, short pulsed light (1T) is irradiated, and exposure is performed in a plurality of exposure periods (A, B, and C) in which exposure timings are shifted. In each exposure period, an exposure gate is opened a plurality of times to perform repetitive exposure, and a first non-exposure period is provided from when a last exposure gate is closed until subsequent pulsed light is irradiated. In a second distance measurement period, long pulsed light (4T) is irradiated, and exposure is performed in a plurality of exposure periods (A, B, and C) in which exposure timings are shifted. In each exposure period, exposure is performed by opening the exposure gate only once, and a second non-exposure period is provided from when a last exposure gate is closed until subsequent pulsed light is irradiated.

Abstract: A distance measurement device 1 has a light emitting unit 11, a light receiving unit 12, and a distance calculation unit 13, and outputs distance data for each pixel position to the subject. A saturation detection unit 14 detects that the light reception level in the light receiving unit 12 is saturated. In a case in which the saturation is detected, an interpolation processing unit 15 performs an interpolation process using the distance data of a non-saturation region close to a saturation region on the distance data of the saturation region among the distance data output from the distance calculation unit 13. In the interpolation process, the distance data is replaced with the distance data of one pixel of the non-saturation region, or linear interpolation or curve interpolation is performed using the distance data of a plurality of pixels.

Abstract: A distance measurement apparatus 1 includes: a TOF camera 10 having a light-emitting unit 11, a light-receiving unit 12, and a distance-calculating unit 13 to measure a distance to the subject on the basis of light transmission time; and an image processing unit 17 that creates a distance image of the subject from distance data measured by the TOF camera 10. The image processing unit 17 determines whether or not there is a detection target in the created distance image. If there is no detection target in the distance image, the light emission intensity control unit 18 decreases the emitted light intensity from the light source of the light-emitting unit 11, and the operation mode is switched to a power saving mode in which the pixel addition control unit 19 increases an addition ratio of a neighboring pixel signal of the light-receiving unit 12.

Abstract: An object position detection apparatus 1 includes a distance image generation unit 10 which generates a two-dimensional distance image by measuring a distance to a subject including an object on the basis of a light transmission time, an object image generation unit 16 which generates an object image in which the object is extracted from the distance image of the subject, and an installation angle detection unit 20 which detects an installation angle of the distance image generation unit 10. The object image generation unit 16 includes a differentiator 17 which performs a process of removing a background other than the object from the distance image of the subject and a threshold value d for removing the background in the differentiator 17 is set in response to the installation angle of the distance image generation unit 10 detected by the installation angle detection unit 20.

Abstract: An imaging device (100) is provided with: an imager (1) that includes an imaging element with multiple pixels arranged two-dimensionally, and that outputs an image signal in accordance with setting of either a pixel addition readout method or a cutout readout method; a signal processor (2) that processes the image signal from the imager (1); an operator (3) that inputs operation information; a lightness detector (4) that detects a subject lightness; and a controller (5). The controller (5) includes a zoom setter (51) that sets a zoom magnification for a subject based on a zoom signal that is input by the operator (3), and a readout-method switching controller (52) that switches between the pixel addition readout method and the cutout readout method according to the zoom magnification set by the zoom setter (51) and the lightness detected by the lightness detector (4).

Abstract: An imaging device (100) is provided with: an imager (1) that includes an imaging element with multiple pixels arranged two-dimensionally, and that outputs an image signal in accordance with setting of either a pixel addition readout method or a cutout readout method; a signal processor (2) that processes the image signal from the imager (1); an operator (3) that inputs operation information; a lightness detector (4) that detects a subject lightness; and a controller (5). The controller (5) includes a zoom setter (51) that sets a zoom magnification for a subject based on a zoom signal that is input by the operator (3), and a readout-method switching controller (52) that switches between the pixel addition readout method and the cutout readout method according to the zoom magnification set by the zoom setter (51) and the lightness detected by the lightness detector (4).

Abstract: The present invention evaluates the quality of an image shot by a terminal device in a state closer to that seen with the eye. A computer evaluates the quality of an image obtained by shooting a photographic subject including a periodic pattern that fluctuates periodically in one direction. A Fourier transform unit accomplishes a two-dimensional Fourier transform on the image to obtain two-dimensional spatial frequency spectrum components. An analysis unit analyzes the resolution of the image on the basis of spectrum components of spatial frequencies included in the periodic pattern, among the two-dimensional spatial frequency spectrum components obtained by the Fourier transform unit, and analyzes the deterioration of the image on the basis of spectrum components other than these.

Abstract: Image deterioration when image data containing scanning lines of the previous and next fields mixed together by video editing is displayed is prevented. An inter-field scanning line interpolating unit superimposes scanning line data of the previous and next fields of interlacing image data in a video stream input from a tuner or a memory card to perform inter-field scanning line interpolation, and generates progressive image data corresponding to that video stream. An IP-conversion selection signal indicating a determination result whether or not the reliability of the video stream meets a predetermined level is input into a back-end from a CPU. A selector refers to the IP-conversion selection signal, and when the CPU determines that the reliability of the video stream is lower than the predetermined level, image data having undergone interpolation by the inter-field scanning line interpolating unit is selected as an image to be displayed.

Abstract: The present invention evaluates the quality of an image shot by a terminal device in a state closer to that seen with the eye. A computer evaluates the quality of an image obtained by shooting a photographic subject including a periodic pattern that fluctuates periodically in one direction. A Fourier transform unit accomplishes a two-dimensional Fourier transform on the image to obtain two-dimensional spatial frequency spectrum components. An analysis unit analyzes the resolution of the image on the basis of spectrum components of spatial frequencies included in the periodic pattern, among the two-dimensional spatial frequency spectrum components obtained by the Fourier transform unit, and analyzes the deterioration of the image on the basis of spectrum components other than these.

Abstract: A mobile phone (101) includes a reader (110) for generating readout information from sensor information generated by an imaging sensor (105). The reader (110) can read out sensor information in different readout modes: a pixel addition mode; and a cutout mode. A readout mode is selected by a mode selector (111) on the basis of a zoom factor obtained on the basis of an instruction by a user. When the readout mode selected by the mode selector (111) requires a change of the readout mode, a switching image generator (125) generates switching image information, and a pre-set switching image is displayed on a display (103), until image information corresponding to the readout mode after the change is generated.

Abstract: The present invention evaluates the quality of an image shot by a terminal device in a state closer to that seen with the eye. A computer evaluates the quality of an image obtained by shooting a photographic subject including a periodic pattern that fluctuates periodically in one direction. A Fourier transform unit accomplishes a two-dimensional Fourier transform on the image to obtain two-dimensional spatial frequency spectrum components. An analysis unit analyzes the resolution of the image on the basis of spectrum components of spatial frequencies included in the periodic pattern, among the two-dimensional spatial frequency spectrum components obtained by the Fourier transform unit, and analyzes the deterioration of the image on the basis of spectrum components other than these.

Abstract: A video processing apparatus includes an input unit to which a video signal containing content is input, a first detector which detects a color of light in the surroundings, a second detector which detects whether a pattern portion formed of a single color of black or white is contained in the video signal input to the input unit, a corrector which corrects the video signal input to the input unit, and a controller. The controller conducts control so that the corrector corrects the video signal input to the input unit according to the color of light detected by the first detector if the second detector detects that the pattern portion formed of the single color of black or white is contained in the video signal input to the input unit.