Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device and method, and a program that enable generation of an appropriate composition. The information processing device determines, based on an output aspect ratio of an output image and a predetermined part aspect ratio of a predetermined part-containing area including a predetermined part of a subject determined based on an input image, whether a predetermined part composition candidate corresponding to the predetermined part is to be set as an output composition of the output image. The present technology can be applied to an imaging system.

Abstract: The present invention provides: a metal patterning material which exhibits excellent heat resistance and is suppressed in the formation of a metal thin film on a film surface; an amine compound; a method for forming a metal pattern using these; and an electronic device.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that enable appropriate recording of information written on a writing object. A region setting unit sets, in a writing image that shows the writing object on which written information is written, a writing region that includes the written information, and a recording control unit controls recording of the writing image in response to a change in the writing region. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a board writing recording system.

Abstract: A handheld blur evaluating apparatus is configured to evaluate a handheld blur of an imaging unit. The handheld blur evaluating apparatus includes an excitation unit configured to excite the imaging unit configured to image an object, a detector configured to detect disturbance in a change amount in measurement data of an image imaged by changing an imaging condition relating to exposure time or luminance, and a driving state indicating that the excitation unit is in a stationary state or in an excitation state, and a corrector configured to correct the disturbance.

Abstract: An evaluation method for an image stabilization effect of an imaging apparatus comprising: acquiring a first image obtained by imaging an object in a state in which the imaging apparatus is vibrated; acquiring a second image obtained by imaging the object in a state in which the imaging apparatus is stationary; and calculating an evaluation value indicating an image stabilization effect in a peripheral region of the imaging apparatus, based on a difference in blur amounts between the first image and the second image in the peripheral region deviated from the center of an optical axis.

Abstract: The present invention provides an evaluation method for more precisely determining the blur correction capability of an image capturing apparatus. The method for evaluating the blur correction effect of the image capturing apparatus comprises acquiring a first change amount for each image capture from a predetermined captured number of subject images that have been captured by an image capturing apparatus that has been vibrated; dividing the predetermined number of captured images into a plurality of segments, and calculating a second change amount for each segment by performing statistical processing on the first change amounts in each of the plurality of segments; determining the largest second change amount from among the second change amounts in each segment to serve as a third change amount; and performing evaluation of the blur correction effect based on the third change amount.

Abstract: An electric bicycle includes: a sleeve to which power for driving the electric bicycle is input; a rear wheel; and a power transmission mechanism that transmits the power input to the sleeve to the rear wheel. The electric bicycle determines an abnormality of the power transmission mechanism or prevents or prohibits driving performed by using the power transmission mechanism based on a reference composite gear ratio of the power transmission mechanism acquired at a first time and current composite gear ratio of the power transmission mechanism acquired at a second time subsequent to the first time.

Abstract: An electric bicycle includes: a sleeve to which power for driving the electric bicycle is input; a rear wheel; and a power transmission mechanism that transmits the power input to the sleeve to the rear wheel. The electric bicycle determines an abnormality of the power transmission mechanism or prevents or prohibits driving performed by using the power transmission mechanism based on a reference composite gear ratio of the power transmission mechanism acquired at a first time and current composite gear ratio of the power transmission mechanism acquired at a second time subsequent to the first time.

Abstract: A vehicle exterior environment recognition apparatus includes an object identifier and a barrier setting unit. The object identifier is configured to identify an object in a detected region ahead of an own vehicle. The barrier setting unit is configured to set a barrier located at a closest end of the object, with a relative distance from the object to the own vehicle in a traveling direction of the own vehicle being shortest at the closest end. The barrier is devoid of avoidability by the own vehicle with use of a traveling mode of the own vehicle.

Abstract: A data transfer circuit that can suppress a voltage drop in a start signal without narrowing a process margin. The data transfer circuit includes N stages of register sections that are connected in series. A register section at an nth stage includes: a first transfer gate that transfers an analog signal; a second transfer gate that transfers one clock out of a clock signal, thereby generating an (n+1)th start signal for a register section at an (n+1)th stage; a control signal generation circuit that generates control signals for the first transfer gate and the second transfer gate; and a holding capacitor. The control signal generation circuit includes a third transfer gate that transfers an nth start signal that is input from a register section at an (n?1)th stage, and the third transfer gate is formed as a CMOS logic circuit.

Abstract: The present solid-state imaging apparatus includes: a light receiving element with a photoelectric conversion function; a readout circuit that reads out pixel information from the light receiving element, and outputs an output voltage; a CDS circuit that is composed of three-stage common source circuits, and generates a pixel signal based on a difference between an output voltage output from the readout circuit at the time of reset and an output voltage output based on the readout of the pixel information, the three-stage common source circuits being connected in series to one another and provided with direct-current cut elements that are each disposed on a corresponding one of input paths of the three-stage common source circuits; and a bias voltage supply circuit that supplies a direct-current bias voltage to gates of transistors of the three-stage common source circuits.

Abstract: A vehicle exterior environment recognition apparatus includes an object identifier and a barrier setting unit. The object identifier is configured to identify an object in a detected region ahead of an own vehicle. The barrier setting unit is configured to set a barrier located at a closest end of the object, with a relative distance from the object to the own vehicle in a traveling direction of the own vehicle being shortest at the closest end. The barrier is devoid of avoidability by the own vehicle with use of a traveling mode of the own vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle exterior environment recognition apparatus includes a computer configured to serve as a target region setting unit, an edge counter, and a wheel determiner. The target region setting unit sets, as one or more target regions, one or more predetermined ranges of a screen. The edge counter provides setting of a plurality of divided sections, by dividing each of the one or more target regions with borderlines radiated from a center of each of the one or more target regions, and counts the number of predetermined slant edges and the total number of blocks in each of the plurality of divided sections. The wheel determiner determines wheel-likeliness of each of the one or more target regions, based on a rate of the number of the slant edges to the total number of blocks in each of the plurality of divided sections.

Abstract: The present solid-state imaging apparatus includes: a light receiving element with a photoelectric conversion function; a readout circuit that reads out pixel information from the light receiving element, and outputs an output voltage; a CDS circuit that is composed of three-stage common source circuits, and generates a pixel signal based on a difference between an output voltage output from the readout circuit at the time of reset and an output voltage output based on the readout of the pixel information, the three-stage common source circuits being connected in series to one another and provided with direct-current cut elements that are each disposed on a corresponding one of input paths of the three-stage common source circuits; and a bias voltage supply circuit that supplies a direct-current bias voltage to gates of transistors of the three-stage common source circuits.

Abstract: A vehicle exterior environment recognition apparatus includes a computer configured to serve as a target region setting unit, an edge counter, and a wheel determiner. The target region setting unit sets, as one or more target regions, one or more predetermined ranges of a screen. The edge counter provides setting of a plurality of divided sections, by dividing each of the one or more target regions with borderlines radiated from a center of each of the one or more target regions, and counts the number of predetermined slant edges and the total number of blocks in each of the plurality of divided sections. The wheel determiner determines wheel-likeliness of each of the one or more target regions, based on a rate of the number of the slant edges to the total number of blocks in each of the plurality of divided sections.

Abstract: A data transfer circuit that can suppress a voltage drop in a start signal without narrowing a process margin. The data transfer circuit includes N stages of register sections that are connected in series. A register section at an nth stage includes: a first transfer gate that transfers an analogue signal; a second transfer gate that transfers one clock out of a clock signal, thereby generating an (n+1)th start signal for a register section at an (n+1)th stage; a control signal generation circuit that generates control signals for the first transfer gate and the second transfer gate; and a holding capacitor. The control signal generation circuit includes a third transfer gate that transfers an nth start signal that is input from a register section at an (n?1)th stage, and the third transfer gate is formed as a CMOS logic circuit.

Abstract: A vehicle exterior environment recognition device includes a three-dimensional position deriving module that derives three-dimensional positions of subject parts in a real space based on an image obtained by imaging a detection area, an object identifying module that groups the subject parts of which differences in the three-dimensional positions are within a predetermined range to identify an object, a positional point deriving module that derives a positional point based on positional information of the object, an appearance point deriving module that derives an appearance point based on appearance information of the object, and a pedestrian identifying module that identifies the object to be a pedestrian when a pedestrian point that is obtained by at least adding the positional point to the appearance point equals to or greater than a predetermined threshold.

Abstract: A vehicle exterior environment recognition device includes a three-dimensional position deriving module that derives three-dimensional positions of subject parts in a real space based on an image obtained by imaging a detection area, an object identifying module that groups the subject parts of which differences in the three-dimensional positions are within a predetermined range to identify an object, a positional point deriving module that derives a positional point based on positional information of the object, an appearance point deriving module that derives an appearance point based on appearance information of the object, and a pedestrian identifying module that identifies the object to be a pedestrian when a pedestrian point that is obtained by at least adding the positional point to the appearance point equals to or greater than a predetermined threshold.