Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus is provided, in which an electromagnetic wave in a VHF band of 100 MHz or higher is supplied to a chamber to form a plasma. The plasma processing apparatus includes a ceiling wall that defines a part of the chamber, and a central conductor for supplying the electromagnetic wave that is disposed in a hole formed in the center of the ceiling wall. A central position of the central conductor substantially coincides with a central position of a stage on which a workpiece is placed, and an outer diameter of the central conductor and a size of the hole of the ceiling wall are defined such that a cutoff frequency of a coaxial path composed of the central conductor and the ceiling wall is greater than a frequency of the electromagnetic wave.

Abstract: The present technology relates to a mobile object and a method for controlling the mobile object that can improve the distance measurement accuracy. A cooperative sensing section obtains sensing information by performing sensing in cooperation with another mobile object. A control section controls movement according to a cooperative distance measurement using the sensing information. The cooperative distance measurement is a distance measurement performed in cooperation with the another mobile object. The present technology can be applied to a package delivery system.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a program that permit camera calibration with high accuracy by using a known object in images captured by a plurality of imaging sections. An estimation section estimates a 3D position of a road sign included in each of images captured by a plurality of cameras with respect to each of the imaging sections. A recognition section recognizes a positional relationship between the plurality of cameras on the basis of the 3D position of the road sign with respect to each of the cameras estimated by the estimation section. The positional relationship between the plurality of cameras recognized by the recognition section is used to correct the images captured by the plurality of cameras.

Abstract: A device includes a battery case (42) that stores a battery (62A or 62B), a lock mechanism (133) that is capable of fixing and holding the stored battery (62A or 62B) in the battery case (42), and an operation member (44) that is capable of performing switching operation of the lock mechanism (133) between a battery-fixed state and a non-battery-fixed state. The lock mechanism (133) includes a movable block (160) which is supported by the battery case (42) in a displaceable manner. The movable block (160) has a battery restriction portion (160b or 160c) which restricts displacement of the battery (62A or 62B) in a separation direction in a state of being displaced to a battery fixing position, and a holding force receiving portion (160d) which receives a holding force for maintaining the movable block (160) at the battery fixing position from the operation member (44) in a state where the operation member (44) is operated within a predetermined positional range.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of performing position estimation of a controller corresponding to a wearable device having an inside-out type. [Solution] An information processing apparatus includes: a user-position estimating unit that recognizes, based on a first captured image that is captured by a first image capturing unit provided to a wearable device mounted on a user, peripheral environment information of the user to execute position estimation of the user in a real space; and a controller-position estimating unit that executes, based on a second captured image captured by a second image capturing unit that is provided to a controller being operated by the user, position estimation of the controller with reference to the recognized environment information.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program capable of performing continuous estimation of a self-position. An information processing device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a main imaging unit that includes a stereo camera mounted on a moving body, and captures moving images at a predetermined frame rate to output a pair of stereo main images as time-series images; a plurality of sub imaging units each of which is so mounted on the moving body as to have an imaging direction different from an imaging direction of the main imaging unit, and captures moving images at a predetermined frame rate; and a final pose determination unit that estimates a pose of the moving body on the basis of the pair of stereo main images captured by the main imaging unit, and sub images captured by the sub imaging units. For example, the present disclosure is applicable to a self-position sensor for in-vehicle use.

Abstract: A mobile object according to the present technology includes a sensor, a map location estimation unit, a relative location estimation unit, a relative location estimation unit, a GNSS reception unit, and an absolute location estimation unit. The sensor acquires surrounding information. The map location estimation unit estimates a self location in a local map on the basis of an output of the sensor. The GNSS reception unit receives global navigation satellite system (GNSS) positioning information using a first carrier phase distance. The absolute location estimation unit estimates a self absolute location on the basis of the GNSS positioning information using the first carrier phase distance, GNSS positioning information using a second carrier phase distance, and a relative location, the GNSS positioning information using the second carrier phase distance being received by another mobile object.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus and an information processing method enables enhancement of accuracy in recognition of locations of a moving body. The information processing apparatus is arranged on a moving body and includes an own-location recognition block that recognizes, based on an image taken from the moving body, a first own location of the moving body. A moving body recognition block recognizes a relative location of another moving body relative to the moving body in the image taken from the moving body, and a communication block executes communication with the another moving body to obtain the absolute location of the another moving body, An own location computation block computes, based on the absolute location of the another moving body and the relative location of the another moving body, a second own location of the moving body.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing device and an information processing method that are capable of estimating the self-position by accurately and continuously estimating the self-movement. The information processing device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a downward imaging section and a movement estimation section. The downward imaging section is disposed on the bottom of a moving object traveling on a road surface and captures an image of the road surface. The movement estimation section estimates the movement of the moving object in accordance with a plurality of images representing the road surface and captured at different time points by the downward imaging section. The present disclosure can be applied, for example, to a position sensor mounted in an automobile.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus to present, to a user, an additional image, which is a virtual object, in a manner superimposed on a real-space image at a position corresponding to a viewpoint in the real space, the image processing apparatus including a processing unit configured to display an additional image corresponding to a viewpoint of a user in the real world, and guide the user to the vicinity of the viewpoint in the real world where the additional image has been acquired.

Abstract: A battery mount device may include a housing to which a battery pack is detachably attached, and a cover attached to the housing so as to cover the battery pack and configured to open and close by rotating around a rotation axis. Force in a direction closing the cover may act on the cover in a state where the battery mount device is placed on a horizontal plane. The battery-mounted device may further comprise a cover holding mechanism capable of holding the cover in an open state. The cover holding mechanism may include a cover holder configured to move, in response to an operation by a user, between a holding position where the cover holder interferes with a rotating motion of the cover and a released position where the cover holder does not interfere with the rotating motion of the cover.

Abstract: A backpack type device may include a body, a shoulder belt configured to be strapped on a shoulder of a user, and a waist belt configured to be wrapped around a waist of the user. The waist belt may be configured to switch between a state in which a lower end of the waist belt is below a lower surface of the body and a state in which the lower end of the waist belt is above the lower surface of the body. The backpack type device may be configured capable of being placed on a horizontal plane with the lower surface of the body in contact with the horizontal plane on which the backpack type device is placed in the state in which the lower end of the waist belt is above the lower surface of the body.

Abstract: A light-emitting device includes: a resin package including: a lead part including a first lead and a second lead, each including a main body portion and a raised portion connected to the main body portion, wherein an upper surface of each of the first lead and the second lead includes a first primary surface portion in the main body portion and a curved portion in the raised portion in a cross-sectional view taken in a direction perpendicular to an upper surface of the lead part, and wherein the curved portion is continuous with and curved upward from an end portion of the first primary surface portion, a resin portion, and a recess defined by a portion of the upper surface of the lead part and the resin portion; and a light-emitting element mounted in the resin package. The curved portion is buried in the resin portion.

Abstract: There is provided an overcurrent protection device configured to protect a load from an overcurrent. A first overcurrent detector configured to detect the overcurrent, based on a value of a current flowing through the load, time for which the current flows through the load, and an overcurrent cutoff characteristic upon non-operation of the load. An overcurrent breaker that cuts off the overcurrent to the load when the first overcurrent detector detects the overcurrent.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a program that permit decision as to whether or not calibration of images is necessary. A decision section decides, using a current image captured by a camera and a past image captured by the camera, whether or not it is necessary to calibrate images captured by the camera. The present disclosure is applicable, for example, to a vehicle-mounted camera system that includes an automobile vehicle, two cameras, mounted to a front roof of the automobile vehicle such that imaging regions overlap, and an image processing apparatus, and so on.

Abstract: The present technology relates to a control device and a control method that make it possible to estimate a self-position reliably with lower power consumption. An activation determination unit selects some of a plurality of cameras as activation cameras to be used for self-position estimation, and on the basis of the selection result of the activation cameras, an activation switching unit sets cameras taken as the activation cameras among the plurality of cameras to an activation state and causes the cameras to photograph images, and suspends the activation of the other cameras. A self-position estimation unit performs self-position estimation on the basis of images photographed by the activation cameras. Further, the activation determination unit selects the activation cameras again at a predetermined timing. The present technology can be applied to a self-position estimation system.

Abstract: A first estimating unit estimates at least one of a position and an attitude of a predetermined object on the basis of an image of a periphery of the object, the image being obtained from an imaging device, and generates an estimation result not including an accumulated error. A second estimating unit estimates at least one of the position and the attitude of the object on the basis of the image, and generates an estimation result including an accumulated error. A correcting unit compares the estimation result of the first estimating unit and the estimation result of the second estimating unit with each other, and corrects, on the basis of a result of the comparison, a subsequent estimation result of the second estimating unit, the subsequent estimation result being subsequent to the estimation result of the second estimating unit which estimation result is used for the comparison.

Abstract: The present technique relates to an apparatus and a method for measurement, and a program each of which enables distance estimation to be more simply carried out with higher accuracy. A three-dimensional measurement apparatus has a rotation control portion controlling rotation of a photographing portion by a rotation mechanism in such a way that the photographing portion is rotated with a center of rotation as an axis in a state in which a distance from the center of rotation of the rotation mechanism portion to a focal point position of the photographing portion is a constant distance; and a distance calculating portion calculating a distance to an object on a space on the basis of a plurality of photographed images obtained through photographing in positions different from one another by the photographing portion in a state in which the photographing portion is rotated.

Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a resin package including: a first lead including: at least one notch extending from an upper surface of the first lead to a lower surface of the first lead, a first groove formed in the upper surface of the first lead, and at least one second groove connecting the first groove with the at least one notch, and a second lead, and a resin body including: a first resin portion, a second resin portion, a part of the second resin portion being disposed in the first groove, a third resin portion disposed between the first lead and the second lead, and a first resin connecting portion connecting the first resin portion with the second resin portion, at least a part of the first resin connecting portion being disposed in the at least one second groove; a light emitting element; and a light reflecting member.