Abstract: The present disclosure provides an information processing apparatus, a notification method, and a non-transitory computer readable medium that can contribute to relief from congestion in an airport facility. The information processing apparatus includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a position of a user and reservation information of an aircraft which the user plans to board; a calculation unit configured to calculate, based on the reservation information, a travel time including a spare time for a scheduled boarding time of the aircraft corresponding to a mode of transportation and a travel route from the position to a scheduled boarding place of the aircraft; and a notification unit configured to notify the user of the travel time corresponding to the mode of transportation and the travel route.

Abstract: A video decoding device and method, including extracting PCM block size information including a threshold, from a bitstream, determining the threshold based on the extracted PCM block size information; parsing a PCM header from the bitstream with respect to an encoded block, only when said encoded block is prediction mode of intra prediction and a block size of said encoded block is equal to or greater than the determined threshold, controlling an entropy decoding process and a PCM decoding process based on the parsed PCM header; parsing transformed data of a prediction error data of an image in the bitstream; and PCM-decoding PCM data of the image in the bitstream, wherein the decoding performs the decoding operation based on the prediction mode being intra prediction and based on the block size of the encoded block being equal to or greater than the determined threshold.

Abstract: In a video decoding device, a quantization step size decoding unit calculates a quantization step size that controls a granularity of the inverse quantization by, based on an image prediction, selectively using a mean value of at least a quantization step size assigned to a leftwardly adjacent neighboring image block already decoded and a quantization step size assigned to a upwardly adjacent neighboring image block already decoded or a quantization step size assigned to an image block decoded immediately before.

Abstract: A video encoding device includes: transform means 11 for transforming an image block; entropy encoding means 12 for entropy-encoding transformed data of the image block transformed by the transform means 11; PCM encoding means 13 for PCM-encoding the image block; multiplex data selection means 14 for selecting output data of the entropy encoding means 12 or the PCM encoding means 13, in a block of a block size set from the outside; and multiplexing means 15 for embedding a PCM header in a bitstream, in the block of the set from the outside block size.

Abstract: A signal detection device 10 includes a compression unit 11 which compresses an activation matrix by adding to each column an element of the row corresponding to a basis mapped to the information of the same acoustic element in an activation matrix computed by non-negative matrix factorization using a basis matrix, using the information of acoustic elements making up an acoustic event, mapped to the basis constituting the basis matrix.

Abstract: A correlation function having a clear peak is generated even in an environment in which an ambient noise level is high. A correlation function generation apparatus (100) includes a plurality of input signal obtaining units (101), a changing unit (102), a cross-spectrum calculator (103), a variance calculator (104), and a correlation function calculator (105). The input signal obtaining unit (101) obtains a wave generated by a wave source as an input signal. The transformer (102) obtains a plurality of frequency domain signals by transforming a plurality of input signals obtained by the plurality of input signal obtaining units. The cross-spectrum calculator (103) calculates a cross-spectrum based on the plurality of frequency domain signals. The variance calculator (104) calculates the variance of the cross-spectrum. The correlation function calculator (105) calculates and generates a correlation function based on the cross-spectrum and the variance.

Abstract: A video encoding device includes: a quantization step size encoding unit 11 for encoding a quantization step size for controlling quantization granularity; and a quantization step size downsampling unit 12 for downsampling one or more encoded quantization step sizes to generate a quantization step size representative value. The quantization step size encoding unit 11 predicts the quantization step size using the quantization step size representative value.

Abstract: Provided is a processing device capable of, on the basis of data prepared by a recorder that only has recording function, acquiring information related to a time when the data was prepared. The processing device includes an acquisition unit for acquiring the recorded audio data, and an identification unit for detecting a sound signal that is included in the audio data and transmitted from an information transmission device and allows the time at which the signal was recorded to be identified, and identifying the time when other signals included in the audio data were recorded on the basis of the sound signal.

Abstract: The present invention generates a correlation function having a clear peak even in an environment with a high ambient noise level. This correlation function generation device is provided with a plurality of input signal acquisition units for acquiring waves generated by a wave source as input signals, a conversion unit for converting the plurality of input signals acquired by the input signal acquisition units into a plurality of frequency-domain signals, a cross-spectrum calculation unit for calculating a cross spectrum on the basis of the frequency domain signals, frequency-specific cross-spectrum calculation units for calculating cross spectrums for each frequency on the basis of the cross spectrum, and an integrated correlation function calculation unit for calculating an integrated correlation function on the basis of the frequency-specific cross spectrums.

Abstract: In a video decoding device, a quantization step size decoding unit calculates a quantization step size that controls a granularity of the inverse quantization by, based on an image prediction, selectively using a mean value of at least a quantization step size assigned to a leftwardly adjacent neighboring image block already decoded and a quantization step size assigned to a upwardly adjacent neighboring image block already decoded or a quantization step size assigned to an image block decoded immediately before.

Abstract: A sound signal corresponding to a sound emitted by a sound source is inputted to a frequency analysis unit (101), and the frequency analysis unit (101) performs frequency analysis of the sound signal and generates a spectrogram. Spectrogram template information indicating spectrograms corresponding to each of at least a plurality of predetermined movement speeds, the spectrograms being for cases in which the sound source is moved, is stored in a model storage unit (102). An estimation unit (103) estimates the movement speed of the sound source on the basis of the spectrogram generated by the frequency analysis unit (101) and the plurality of spectrograms indicated by the spectrogram template information stored in the model storage unit (102).

Abstract: A signal detection device 10 includes a compression unit 11 which compresses an activation matrix by adding to each column an element of the row corresponding to a basis mapped to the information of the same acoustic element in an activation matrix computed by non-negative matrix factorization using a basis matrix, using the information of acoustic elements making up an acoustic event, mapped to the basis constituting the basis matrix.

Abstract: This wave source direction estimation apparatus is capable of highly accurately estimating the direction of a wave source even in an environment with a high surrounding noise level, and is provided with: a plurality of input signal acquisition means for acquiring signals generated at a wave source as input signals; a correlation function calculation means for calculating correlation functions on the basis of the input signals acquired by the input signal acquisition means; an envelope function extraction means for extracting envelope functions on the basis of the calculated correlation functions; a combined envelope function calculation means for calculating a combined envelope function by combining the extracted envelope functions; and an estimated direction information generation means for generating estimated direction information about the wave source on the basis of the calculated combined envelope function.

Abstract: There is provided a video encoding device capable of changing a quantization step size frequently while reducing an increase in code rate to enable high-quality moving image encoding, comprising a quantization step size encoding unit 10 for encoding a quantization step size that controls the granularity of quantization, the quantization step size encoding unit 10 includes a step size prediction unit 11 for predicting the quantization step size that controls the granularity of the quantization by using a quantization step size assigned to a neighboring image block already encoded.

Abstract: For detecting a crack formed on a structure surface without erroneously, an information processing device that detects a crack on a structure, includes a change detection unit that detects a change in positions of at least two measurement points on the structure; and a crack detection unit that detects a crack based on the change in the positions of the measurement points detected by the change detection unit.

Abstract: A video encoding device includes: transform means 11 for transforming an image block; entropy encoding means 12 for entropy-encoding transformed data of the image block transformed by the transform means 11; PCM encoding means 13 for PCM-encoding the image block; multiplex data selection means 14 for selecting output data of the entropy encoding means 12 or the PCM encoding means 13, in a block of a block size set from the outside; and multiplexing means 15 for embedding a PCM header in a bitstream, in the block of the set from the outside block size.

Abstract: A video encoding device includes: a transformer for transforming an image block; an entropy encoder for entropy-encoding transformed data of the image block transformed by the transformer; a PCM encoder for PCM-encoding an image block; a multiplexed data selector for selecting output data of the entropy encoder or output data of the PCM encoder, for each block of an externally set block size; and a multiplexer for embedding a PCM header into a bitstream, in a block of the externally set block size, wherein the number of successive PCM-encoded blocks is embedded into the PCM header, and PCM data for the number of successive PCM-encoded blocks is multiplexed into the bitstream.

Abstract: A video encoding device includes: pixel bit length increasing means for increasing a pixel bit length of an input image based on pixel bit length increase information; transform means for transforming output data of the pixel bit length increasing means; entropy encoding means for entropy-encoding output data of the transform means; non-compression encoding means for non-compression-encoding input data; multiplexed data selection means for selecting output data of the entropy encoding means or output data of the non-compression encoding means; and multiplexing means for multiplexing the pixel bit length increase information in a bitstream, wherein a pixel bit length of an image corresponding to the output data of the entropy encoding means and a pixel bit length of an image corresponding to the output data of the non-compression encoding means are different from each other.

Abstract: A video encoding device includes a planar prediction unit using planar prediction, and a noise injecting unit for injecting pseudo-random noise into a prediction image of a planar prediction block when a reconstructed prediction error value for planar prediction is less than a threshold determined by the size of the planar prediction block. The video encoding device then uses the pseudo-random noise in linear interpolation for calculating the prediction image, based on the conditions under which a gradient distortion occurs, to suppress the gradient distortion.

Abstract: Even a small sound for which a change in a histogram is small can be accurately detected. A signal detection device includes signal input means for inputting signals acquired by a plurality of sensors, cross-correlation function calculation means for calculating cross-correlation functions for each predetermined number of samples, based on the signals, and background noise model derivation means for deriving a background noise model, based on the cross-correlation functions; and detection means for detecting a change in the signals, based on comparison of values of the cross-correlation functions with the background noise model.