Abstract: The present technology relates to an imaging device, an imaging method, and a program capable of setting a resolution based on a distance to a subject. A control unit which changes a resolution of a captured image on the basis of distance information, corresponding to the captured image, regarding a detected distance to a subject included in the image is included. The control unit changes a resolution of a portion of a region of the captured image on the basis of the distance information. The portion of the region is a region distant from another region. The control unit changes the resolution of the portion of the region such that the portion of the region becomes higher than a resolution of another region.

Abstract: The present technology relates to an imaging device, an imaging method, and a program capable of setting a resolution based on a distance to a subject. A control unit which changes a resolution of a captured image on the basis of distance information, corresponding to the captured image, regarding a detected distance to a subject included in the image is included. The control unit changes a resolution of a portion of a region of the captured image on the basis of the distance information. The portion of the region is a region distant from another region. The control unit changes the resolution of the portion of the region such that the portion of the region becomes higher than a resolution of another region.

Abstract: The present technology relates to an imaging device, an imaging method, and a program capable of setting a resolution based on a distance to a subject. A control unit which changes a resolution of a captured image on the basis of distance information, corresponding to the captured image, regarding a detected distance to a subject included in the image is included. The control unit changes a resolution of a portion of a region of the captured image on the basis of the distance information. The portion of the region is a region distant from another region. The control unit changes the resolution of the portion of the region such that the portion of the region becomes higher than a resolution of another region.

Abstract: There is provided an image sensor, including a plurality of phase difference lines in which a plurality of pixels including phase difference pixels for detecting a phase difference are arranged, a plurality of normal lines in which a plurality of normal pixels not including the phase difference pixels are arranged, a row scanning section which selects each of the plurality of phase difference lines and each of the plurality of normal lines within a first period, and selects each of the plurality of phase difference lines within a second period different from the first period, and a column scanning section which outputs pixel values of the plurality of normal pixels in each of the lines selected within the first period, and outputs pixel values of the phase difference pixels in each of the lines selected within the second period.

Abstract: The present technology relates to an imaging device, an imaging method, and a program which are capable of setting a resolution based on a distance to a subject. A control unit which changes a resolution of a captured image on the basis of distance information, corresponding to the captured image, regarding a detected distance to a subject included in the image is included. The control unit changes a resolution of a portion of a region of the captured image on the basis of the distance information. The portion of the region is a region distant from another region. The control unit changes the resolution of the portion of the region such that the portion of the region becomes higher than a resolution of another region. The control unit sets a resolution of the subject to be high in a case in which the distance to the subject is longer than a predetermined reference, and sets the resolution of the subject to be low in a case in which the distance to the subject is smaller than the predetermined reference.

Abstract: There is provided an image sensor, including a plurality of phase difference lines in which a plurality of pixels including phase difference pixels for detecting a phase difference are arranged, a plurality of normal lines in which a plurality of normal pixels not including the phase difference pixels are arranged, a row scanning section which selects each of the plurality of phase difference lines and each of the plurality of normal lines within a first period, and selects each of the plurality of phase difference lines within a second period different from the first period, and a column scanning section which outputs pixel values of the plurality of normal pixels in each of the lines selected within the first period, and outputs pixel values of the phase difference pixels in each of the lines selected within the second period.

Abstract: There is provided an image sensor, including a plurality of phase difference lines in which a plurality of pixels including phase difference pixels for detecting a phase difference are arranged, a plurality of normal lines in which a plurality of normal pixels not including the phase difference pixels are arranged, a row scanning section which selects each of the plurality of phase difference lines and each of the plurality of normal lines within a first period, and selects each of the plurality of phase difference lines within a second period different from the first period, and a column scanning section which outputs pixel values of the plurality of normal pixels in each of the lines selected within the first period, and outputs pixel values of the phase difference pixels in each of the lines selected within the second period.

Abstract: To be provided is a control circuit including a horizontal synchronization clock counting unit that counts the number of clock cycles of a horizontal synchronization clock signal for instructing a timing of starting scanning pixels in a horizontal direction of a pixel group arranged in a two-dimensional lattice shape, so as to be used as a horizontal synchronization clock count value, a high frequency clock counting unit that counts the number of clock cycles of a high frequency clock signal with a higher frequency than the horizontal synchronization clock signal, so as to be used as a high frequency clock count value, and a timing determination unit that determines timings of starting and ending exposure for the pixels on the basis of the horizontal synchronization clock count value and the high frequency clock count value.

Abstract: An imaging device includes a main image sensor configured to obtain an image used for recording, a sub-image sensor configured to obtain a live view image, an input switching unit, and a signal processor. The input switching unit receives a plurality of sensor outputs including an output of the main image sensor and an output of the sub-image sensor, switches the plurality of received sensor outputs in a time-division manner, and outputs time-division switched signals of the plurality of sensor outputs to the signal processor. The signal processor receives the time-division switched signals from the input switching unit, and executes signal processing on the received time-division switched signals.

Abstract: To be provided is a control circuit including a horizontal synchronization clock counting unit that counts the number of clock cycles of a horizontal synchronization clock signal for instructing a timing of starting scanning pixels in a horizontal direction of a pixel group arranged in a two-dimensional lattice shape, so as to be used as a horizontal synchronization clock count value, a high frequency clock counting unit that counts the number of clock cycles of a high frequency clock signal with a higher frequency than the horizontal synchronization clock signal, so as to be used as a high frequency clock count value, and a timing determination unit that determines timings of starting and ending exposure for the pixels on the basis of the horizontal synchronization clock count value and the high frequency clock count value.

Abstract: There is provided an image sensor, including a plurality of phase difference lines in which a plurality of pixels including phase difference pixels for detecting a phase difference are arranged, a plurality of normal lines in which a plurality of normal pixels not including the phase difference pixels are arranged, a row scanning section which selects each of the plurality of phase difference lines and each of the plurality of normal lines within a first period, and selects each of the plurality of phase difference lines within a second period different from the first period, and a column scanning section which outputs pixel values of the plurality of normal pixels in each of the lines selected within the first period, and outputs pixel values of the phase difference pixels in each of the lines selected within the second period.

Abstract: An imaging device includes a main image sensor configured to obtain an image used for recording, a sub-image sensor configured to obtain a live view image, an input switching unit, and a signal processor. The input switching unit receives a plurality of sensor outputs including an output of the main image sensor and an output of the sub-image sensor, switches the plurality of received sensor outputs in a time-division manner, and outputs time-division switched signals of the plurality of sensor outputs to the signal processor. The signal processor receives the time-division switched signals from the input switching unit, and executes signal processing on the received time-division switched signals.

Abstract: The invention provides a data decoding apparatus and method by which the data rate can be discriminated at a high speed using a Viterbi decoding process. Receive data are successively Viterbi decoded beginning with the top thereof. At a point of time when receive data which may possibly be end bit position data required for data rate discrimination are Viterbi decoded, data necessary for the data rate discrimination are successively extracted, and the data rate is discriminated based on the extracted necessary data.

Abstract: A mobile telephone includes an expansion slot to which an expansion display unit is attached by insertion in a way as to be capable of being taken out and put in freely. The expansion display unit is provided with an expansion display section having a display surface larger than that of the main body display section of the mobile telephone. The mobile telephone then displays information on the expansion display section. The large display surface of the expansion display section can display most of the contents of the information to be displayed collectively, which makes it easy to confirm the contents of the information to be displayed and improves the usability of the mobile telephone.

Abstract: A decoding apparatus, decoding method, data-receiving apparatus, and a data-receiving method for performing a maximum-likelihood decoding process based on a Viterbi algorithm on a data train completing a convolution-encoding process. The apparatus includes a computation device for performing a trellis computation for decoding a data train completing the convolution-encoding process. The decoding apparatus further includes a control device for controlling the trellis computation to be carried out by the computation device with processing timings in processing units each corresponding to a process carried out on n bits of pre-encoding data, in which each of the processing units is parallel processing carried out on computation results obtained for 2n states with one of the processing timings immediately preceding a present one of the processing timings to find the computation results with the present processing timing for the 2n states.

Abstract: The invention provides a data decoding apparatus and method by which the data rate can be discriminated at a high speed using a Viterbi decoding process. Receive data are successively Viterbi decoded beginning with the top thereof. At a point of time when receive data which may possibly be end bit position data required for data rate discrimination are Viterbi decoded, data necessary for the data rate discrimination are successively extracted, and the data rate is discriminated based on the extracted necessary data.

Abstract: A decoding apparatus, decoding method, data-receiving apparatus, and a data-receiving method for performing a maximum-likelihood decoding process based on a Viterbi algorithm on a data train completing a convolution-encoding process. The apparatus includes a computation device for performing a trellis computation for decoding a data train completing the convolution-encoding process. The decoding apparatus further includes a control device for controlling the trellis computation to be carried out by the computation device with processing timings in processing units each corresponding to a process carried out on n bits of pre-encoding data, in which each of the processing units is parallel processing carried out on computation results obtained for 2n states with one of the processing timings immediately preceding a present one of the processing timings to find the computation results with the present processing timing for the 2n states.

Abstract: The invention provides a data decoding apparatus and method by which the data rate can be discriminated at a high speed using a Viterbi decoding process. Receive data are successively Viterbi decoded beginning with the top thereof. At a point of time when receive data which may possibly be end bit position data required for data rate discrimination are Viterbi decoded, data necessary for the data rate discrimination are successively extracted, and the data rate is discriminated based on the extracted necessary data.

Abstract: A decoding apparatus, decoding method, data-receiving apparatus, and a data-receiving method for performing a maximum-likelihood decoding process based on a Viterbi algorithm on a data train completing a convolution-encoding process. The apparatus includes a computation device for performing a trellis computation for decoding a data train completing the convolution-encoding process. The decoding apparatus further includes a control device for controlling the trellis computation to be carried out by the computation device with processing timings in processing units each corresponding to a process carried out on n bits of pre-encoding data, in which each of the processing units is parallel processing carried out on computation results obtained for 2n states with one of the processing timings immediately preceding a present one of the processing timings to find the computation results with the present processing timing for the 2n states.

Abstract: In a mobile phone which displays a target information item after sequentially displaying selected information items from an uppermost level to lower levels of a hierarchical tree structure in which a variety of items are classified in accordance with a user's operation, an information item with a high priority for each user is made to be found easily. A main LCD, a sub LCD and a microcomputer for controlling display on the main LCD and the sub LCD are provided. The microcomputer controls so that an information item selected by the user among information items displayed on the main LCD at a time of display selection is always displayed on the sub LCD.