Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing device and information processing method capable of recognizing an acquisition position of voice data on an image. A web server transmits image frame size information indicating image frame size of image data and audio position information indicating acquisition position of voice data. The present disclosure is applicable to an information processing system or other like system including file generation device, web server, and video playback terminal to perform tiled streaming using a manner compliant with moving picture experts group phase-dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH).

Abstract: A continuous sterilizing apparatus circulates, through members constituting a flow channel, a sterilizing medium that sterilizes the members to sterilize the members, circulates a sterilizing liquid subjected to sterilization treatment through pipes, performs a series of pieces of treatment including heating treatment, holding treatment, and cooling treatment on the sterilizing liquid, controls a flow rate, a temperature, and a pressure to be preset conditions, and switches a liquid to be circulated through the flow channel from the sterilizing liquid to a liquid to be sterilized.

Abstract: Provided are a process cartridge and an image-forming method each of which has a satisfactory cleaning property even at the initial stage of the use of a brand-new process cartridge or electrophotographic apparatus, and hence can suppress a reduction in image quality due to the contamination of a charging member. The charge transporting layer of an electrophotographic photosensitive member contains a specific polyarylate resin or polycarbonate resin, and a toner contains a specific fine particle on the surface of a toner particle.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for performing signal processing. The signal processing comprises demultiplexing input encoded data into data including information for a segment including frames and coefficient information for a coefficient selected in the frames of the segment, and low band encoded data, decoding the low band encoded data to produce a low band signal, selecting a coefficient of a frame to be processed from a plurality of the coefficients based on the data, calculating a high band sub-band power of a high band sub-band signal of each sub-band constituting a high band signal of the frame to be processed based on a low band sub-band signal of each sub-band constituting the low band signal of the frame to be processed and the selected coefficient, and producing the high band signal of the frame to be processed based on the high band sub-band power and the low band sub-band signal.

Abstract: The present technique relates to an encoding device and a method, a decoding device and a method, and a program capable of obtaining higher quality audio. An encoding unit encodes position information and a gain of an object in a current frame in multiple encoding modes. A compressing unit generates, for each combination of encoding modes of each pieces of position information and gains, encoded meta data including encoding mode information indicating the encoding modes and encoded data which are the encoded position information and gains, and compresses the encoding mode information included in the encoding meta data. A determining unit selects encoded meta data of which amount of data is the least from among the encoded meta data generated for each combination, thus determining the encoding mode of each pieces of position information and gains. The present technique can be applied to an encoder and a decoder.

Abstract: The present technology relates to an encoding device and method, a decoding device and method, and a program therefor capable of improving audio signal transmission efficiency. An identification information generation unit determines whether or not an audio signal is to be encoded on the basis of the audio signal, and generates identification information indicating the determination result. An encoding unit encodes only audio signals determined to be encoded. A packing unit generates a bit stream containing the identification information and encoded audio signals. As a result of storing only encoded audio signals in the bit stream and storing the identification information indicating whether or not the respective audio signals are to be encoded in the bit stream in this manner, the transmission efficiency of audio signals can be improved. The present technology can be applied to an encoder and a decoder.

Abstract: The present technology relates to an audio signal output device and a method, an encoding device and a method, a decoding device and a method, and a program for realizing audio reproduction with a more realistic feeling. In a case where an audio signal generated to be output as a sound from an ideal speaker that is a virtual speaker placed in an ideal position is input, the distance between the ideal speaker and a real reproduction speaker is determined. Gain adjustment is then performed on the audio signal with the gain corresponding to the determined distance, the audio signal subjected to the gain adjustment is reproduced by the reproduction speaker. Accordingly, even in a case where there is a difference in position between the ideal speaker and the reproduction speaker, audio reproduction with a more realistic feeling can be realized. The present technology can be applied to reproduction devices.

Abstract: A sheet manufacturing apparatus is provided with a defibrating unit configured to defibrate a defibration object in the atmosphere, a mixing unit configured to mix additive agents including resin into a defibrated material, a moisture-adjusting unit configured to adjust moisture in a mixture of the defibrated material and the additive agents, and a heating unit configured to heat the moisture-adjusted mixture.

Abstract: The performance of a semiconductor device is improved by preventing 1/f noise from being generated in a peripheral transistor, in the case where the occupation area of photodiodes, which are included in each of a plurality of pixels that form an image pickup device, is expanded. In the semiconductor device, the gate electrode of an amplification transistor is formed by both a gate electrode part over an active region and a large width part that covers the boundary between the active region and an element isolation region and the active region near the boundary and that has a gate length larger than that of the gate electrode part.

Abstract: To provide a semiconductor device having improved performance and reduce a production cost. The semiconductor device has a plurality of photodiodes placed in array form on the main surface of a semiconductor substrate, a p+ type semiconductor region surrounding each photodiode in plan view, and a plurality of transistors placed between the direction-Y adjacent photodiodes. A method of manufacturing the semiconductor device includes forming the p+ type semiconductor region by implanting a p type impurity into the semiconductor substrate through a mask layer opened at a p+ type semiconductor region formation region and implanting an n type impurity into the semiconductor substrate through the mask layer. In the latter step, in the main surface of the semiconductor substrate, an impurity ion is implanted into a region between photodiode formation regions adjacent in the Y direction but not into a region between the photodiode formation regions adjacent in the X direction.

Abstract: The present technology relates to a sound processing apparatus and a sound processing system for enabling more stable localization of a sound image. A virtual speaker is assumed to exist on the lower side among the sides of a tetragon having its corners formed with four speakers surrounding a target sound image position on a spherical plane. Three-dimensional VBAP is performed with respect to the virtual speaker and the two speakers located at the upper right and the upper left, to calculate gains of the two speakers at the upper right and the upper left and the virtual speaker, the gains being to be used for fixing a sound image at the target sound image position. Further, two-dimensional VBAP is performed with respect to the lower right and lower left speakers, to calculate gains of the lower right and lower left speakers, the gains being to be used for fixing a sound image at the position of the virtual speaker.

Abstract: The present technology relates to a sound processing apparatus and method, and a program for enabling more stable localization of a sound image. A virtual speaker is assumed to exist on the lower side among the sides of a tetragon having its corners formed with four speakers surrounding a target sound image position on a spherical plane. Three-dimensional VBAP is performed with respect to the virtual speaker and the two speakers located at the upper right and the upper left, to calculate gains of the two speakers at the upper right and the upper left and the virtual speaker, the gains being to be used for fixing a sound image at the target sound image position. Further, two-dimensional VBAP is performed with respect to the lower right and lower left speakers, to calculate gains of the lower right and lower left speakers, the gains being to be used for fixing a sound image at the position of the virtual speaker.

Abstract: Provided an electrophotographic image forming apparatus comprising an electrophotographic photosensitive member and a charging member. The electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a charge transport layer as a surface layer having a matrix-domain structure including specific resins. The charging member comprises an electro-conductive substrate, and an electro-conductive elastic layer. The electro-conductive elastic layer comprises a binder, and holding a bowl-shaped resin particle having an opening, so that at least a part of the bowl-shaped resin particle is exposed, and the charging member has a concavity derived from the opening of the bowl-shaped resin particle on the surface thereof, and a protrusion derived from an edge of the opening of the bowl-shaped resin particle on the surface thereof.

Abstract: The rotary electric machine includes concentrated winding coil that is configured by winding a conductor wire around a tooth for multiple laps so as to pass through a concave space that is formed by trunk portions and first and second flange portions of first and second insulators, a crossover points of the conductor wire being formed on a coil end of the concentrated winding coil that is positioned above the first insulator, slot-housed portions of the concentrated winding coil that are positioned on two circumferential sides of the tooth being configured such that the conductor wire is arranged in a staggered stacking pattern in multiple rows and in multiple layers, and a varnish being applied to the coil end that is positioned above the first insulator.

Abstract: The performance of a semiconductor device is improved by preventing 1/f noise from being generated in a peripheral transistor, in the case where the occupation area of photodiodes, which are included in each of a plurality of pixels that form an image pickup device, is expanded. In the semiconductor device, the gate electrode of an amplification transistor is formed by both a gate electrode part over an active region and a large width part that covers the boundary between the active region and an element isolation region and the active region near the boundary and that has a gate length larger than that of the gate electrode part.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes first electronic circuit and one or a plurality of second electronic circuits. The first electronic circuit has a first buffer for storing information, and is configured to execute predetermined first information processing by reading out information from a memory connected via a first transmission path, and write the information processed by the first information processing into the memory. The one or plurality of second electronic circuits have a second buffer for storing information, and are connected to the first electronic circuit via a second transmission path different from the first transmission path, and the one or plurality of second electronic circuits are configured to execute second information processing different from the first information processing. The first electronic circuit is configured to execute the first information processing, using the second buffer of the second electronic circuit that is in an unused state and the first buffer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a frequency band extending device and method, an encoding device and method, a decoding device and method, and a program, whereby music signals can be played with higher sound quality due to the extension of frequency bands. A bandpass filter 13 divides an input signal into multiple sub-band signals, a feature amount calculating circuit 14 calculates feature amount using at least one of the multiple divided sub-band signals and the input signal, a high frequency sub-band power estimating circuit 15 calculates an estimated value of a high frequency sub-band power based on the calculated feature amount, a high frequency signal generating circuit 16 generates a high frequency signal component based on the multiple sub-band signals divided by the bandpass filter 13, and the estimated value of the high frequency sub-band power calculated by the high frequency sub-band power estimating circuit 15.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing a sugar liquid includes a stirring tank for primary hydrolysis; a solid-liquid separation device; a secondary hydrolysis tank or press filtration device for secondary hydrolysis; a solid-liquid separation device(s) for the primary hydrolysate and secondary hydrolysate; and an ultrafiltration membrane device that separates the carbohydrase and the sugar liquid from the primary sugar liquid and/or the secondary sugar liquid.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an encoding device and method, and a decoding device and method, and a program which enable music signals to be played with higher sound quality by expanding a frequency band. A band pass filter divides an input signal into multiple subband signals, a feature amount calculating circuit calculates feature amount using at least any one of the divided multiple subband signals and the input signal, a high-frequency subband power estimating circuit calculates an estimated value of high-frequency subband power based on the calculated feature amount, and a high-frequency signal generating circuit generates a high-frequency signal component based on the multiple subband signals divided by the band pass filter and the estimated value of the high-frequency subband power calculated by the high-frequency subband power estimating circuit.