Abstract: A thrust generating device has a simple structure and can effectively control the magnitude of a Magnus force generated at a cylindrical blade in accordance with the direction of a flow acting on the cylindrical blade. A Magnus-type thrust generating device includes a first member that has a first rotational axis and that can rotate about the first rotational axis; and a second member that is disposed at a rear surface side in an advancement direction of the first member 1. (M?L)/L<2 is satisfied, where L is the distance from the first rotational axis to the most distant part of the surface of the first member and M is the distance from the first rotational axis to the closest part of the surface of the second member in a plane perpendicular to the first rotational axis of the Magnus-type thrust generating device.

Abstract: A hydrogen system includes: a generator which generates hydrogen-containing gas; a storage which stores the hydrogen-containing gas generated by the generator; a first gas passage which connects the generator and the storage; a housing which houses the generator, the storage and the first gas passage; a second gas passage in which the hydrogen-containing gas discharged from the first gas passage to an outside of the housing flows; a first valve provided to the second gas passage; a third gas passage in which the hydrogen-containing gas discharged from the storage to the outside of the housing flows; a second valve provided to the third gas passage; and a controller which opens at least one of the first valve and the second valve.

Abstract: An image evaluation device includes a determination result acquisition unit acquires a result of determining the presence or absence of a difference between an object image that is one of a plurality of images that include three or more images obtained by imaging substantially the same spatial region and each of reference images that are images other than the object image among the plurality of images and an evaluation index acquisition unit configured to acquire an evaluation index for the plurality of images on the basis of at least one of the number of determinations of the presence of the difference between the object image and each reference image and the number of determinations of the absence of the difference between the object image and each reference image.

Abstract: A hydrogen system including: a hydrogen production apparatus that produces hydrogen; a hydrogen storage apparatus that stores produced hydrogen; a first flow path, wherein hydrogen discharged from the hydrogen production apparatus flows into the hydrogen storage apparatus through the first flow path; a second flow path, wherein hydrogen discharged from the hydrogen storage apparatus flows into a hydrogen-using apparatus through the second flow path; a casing that houses the hydrogen production apparatus, the hydrogen storage apparatus, the first flow path and at least part of the second flow path; a third flow path, wherein hydrogen discharged from at least one of the hydrogen production apparatus, the hydrogen storage apparatus, the first flow path and the at least part of the second flow path flows outside the casing through the third flow path; a first valve provided in the third flow path; and a controller that opens the first valve.

Abstract: An image encoding method that encodes an image so as to optimize estimated values of processing units which are a coding unit, a prediction unit, and a transform unit by selecting sizes of the individual processing units. The method includes a division step that divides an image having a size of the coding unit into a plurality of blocks; an activity computation step that computes activities pertaining to the individual blocks; and a transform unit size determination step that determines, based on the computed activities, a size pattern of the transform unit within the image having the size of the coding unit.

Abstract: An exhaust manifold cover is provided with a plate-shaped cover member for covering at least a part of a heat source. The cover member has a first affixation section and a second affixation section, which are affixed so as to be in contact with the heat source. A bellows section in which ridges and grooves extending in a transverse direction perpendicular to a centerline passing through the first and second affixation sections are alternately formed is provided on the cover member at a position between the first and second affixation sections. The bellows section has formed therein a groove pair composed of two grooves having different widths of the two grooves composing the groove pair, the first groove which is near the first affixation section has a greater width than the second groove which is near the second affixation section.

Abstract: The computational complexity when a block configuration in an encoding target region is determined is reduced while the degradation of coding efficiency is suppressed. A video encoding apparatus includes a block selecting unit which selects each of blocks obtained by recursively dividing an encoding target block as a target block in a predetermined sequence, a block size acquiring unit which acquires the smallest block size in an adjacent block for the selected target block, an evaluation value calculating unit which calculates an evaluation value of the target block if a block size of the target block matches any one of the acquired block size, the block size one level higher than the acquired block size, and the block size one level lower than the acquired block size, and a block configuration determining unit which determines a combination of the blocks constituting the region within the encoding target block based on the evaluation value.

Abstract: A module includes a wiring board, a plurality of components mounted on an upper surface of the wiring board, a sealing resin layer which seals the components provided on the upper surface of the wiring board, and a shield layer provided so as to cover a surface of the sealing resin layer. The shield layer includes an adhesion layer which is stacked on the surface of the sealing resin layer and includes a first adhesion film composed of a metal selected from the group consisting of Ti, Cr, Ni, TiCr, TiAl, NiAl, CrAl, and CrNiAl, a conductive layer which is stacked on the adhesion layer, and a protective layer which is stacked on the conductive layer and includes a protective film composed of a nitride, oxide, or oxynitride of a metal selected from the group consisting of Ti, Cr, Ni, TiCr, TiAl, NiAl, CrAl, and CrNiAl.

Abstract: The object is to provide a compressor housing which can suppress blowback of oil. A compressor housing (1) is used in a compressor which uses a compressor impeller (5) provided in an intake air flow path more to a downstream side than a blow-by gas inlet. The compressor housing (1) includes an impeller chamber (2), and an intake air duct (6) which extends along an axis line (C). The duct (6) includes an inner-wall face (61). A step part (67) that is arc shaped along a circumferential direction of the impeller (5) and has a distance along the radial direction of the impeller (5) from the axis line (C) that is farther at a downstream side than at an upstream side thereof is formed in the inner-wall face (61) more to an upstream side along the axis line (C) than the intake air inlet (22).

Abstract: A virtual machine control device that controls a C-Plane base station virtual machine for providing a base station function of a virtual base station. The virtual machine control device includes: a virtual machine controller configured to activate a clone of the C-Plane base station virtual machine that is a target of software update; and a virtual base station switching controller configured to assign a network assigned to the C-Plane base station virtual machine to the clone after performing the software update to the clone.

Abstract: A vehicle door lock control device that includes a communicator that performs communication with a portable communication device that has a wireless communication function, locking of a door of a vehicle being controlled in accordance with communication with the portable communication device; and a processor that is configured to: lock the door in accordance with presence/absence of communication with the portable communication device; acquire information regarding a vicinity of the vehicle; and lock the door based on the information acquired regarding the vicinity of the vehicle.

Abstract: An image difference detection device includes a detection unit configured to detect presence or absence of a difference between a first region within a first image and a second region corresponding to the first region within a second image on the basis of one or both of a code amount of each of encoded blocks in first and second encoded data obtained by encoding the first image and the second image and an index value obtained from encoding information of each of the encoded blocks.

Abstract: Provided is an in-vehicle light emitting apparatus that is able to use light to make a driver aware of the position of an operating part for opening a fuel lid. The in-vehicle light emitting apparatus is provided with a light emitting body provided in the interior of a vehicle that runs on fuel and a drive unit 6 that drives the light emitting body. The light emitting body is arranged in the operating part for opening the fuel lid of a refueling port provided in the vehicle or at a location from which the operating part can be illuminated.

Abstract: A method for driving an internal combustion engine is a method for reducing nitrogen oxides in emissions of the internal combustion engine, and includes a process of introducing air, which has a low oxygen concentration and contains no emissions, into the internal combustion engine, and a process of mixing humidifying water with a hydrocarbon fuel and injecting the mixture into a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine as an emulsion fuel.

Abstract: An image encoding apparatus capable of reducing the computational complexity in intra-prediction of an encoding optimization process is provided. The image encoding apparatus includes a reference pixel generation unit that generates reference pixels from predicted pixels of neighboring pixels and pixels of an original image for intra-prediction directions, a pseudo intra-predicted pixel generation unit that generates pseudo intra-predicted pixels from the reference pixels and the intra-prediction directions, a coding cost calculation unit that calculates coding costs for the intra-prediction directions from errors between the pseudo intra-predicted pixels and the pixels of the original image and generated bit amounts when the pseudo intra-predicted pixels are generated, and an intra-prediction direction setting unit that sets an intra-prediction direction corresponding to the lowest coding cost among the coding costs as an optimal intra-prediction direction.

Abstract: In an intra-picture, a predetermined region is set as a normal encoding region, and a region other than the predetermined region is set as a simplified encoding region. In a subsequent picture, the normal encoding region is set as a larger region including a normal encoding region of a previous picture, and a region other than the normal encoding region is set as a simplified encoding region. In each picture, normal encoding is performed on a block of the normal encoding region, and simplified encoding in which a generated code amount and a computation amount are smaller than in the normal encoding is performed on a block of the simplified encoding region.

Abstract: A video coding apparatus comprises a motion prediction unit configured to perform motion prediction for a plurality of coding unit sizes of an original image serving as the picture of an input video signal and evaluate results obtained by the motion prediction for the coding unit sizes so as to supply a first evaluation value; a merge mode evaluation unit configured to evaluate each of merge candidates on a coding unit of the merge size determined by a merge size determination unit so as to supply a second evaluation value of each of the merge candidates; and an inter-prediction mode determination unit configured to determine a mode used for coding on the basis of the second evaluation value obtained by the merge mode evaluation unit and the first evaluation value of the coding unit sizes.

Abstract: A thrust generating device has a simple structure and can effectively control the magnitude of a Magnus force generated at a cylindrical blade in accordance with the direction of a flow acting on the cylindrical blade. A Magnus-type thrust generating device includes a first member that has a first rotational axis and that can rotate about the first rotational axis; and a second member that is disposed at a rear surface side in an advancement direction of the first member 1. (M?L)/L<2 is satisfied, where L is the distance from the first rotational axis to the most distant part of the surface of the first member and M is the distance from the first rotational axis to the closest part of the surface of the second member in a plane perpendicular to the first rotational axis of the Magnus-type thrust generating device.

Abstract: A mobile communication system (100) in which a SON is implemented includes a load control unit (150). The load control unit (150) obtains D-SON apparatus information including at least a load state of the D-SON apparatus (190) from the D-SON apparatus (190) and also adjusts, based on the obtained D-SON apparatus information, a timing for instructing the D-SON apparatus (190) to execute the C-SON process so that a load on the D-SON apparatus is not concentrated on a time axis. In such a mobile communication system, it is possible to attempt to stabilize an operation of the entire SON even when the load on the D-SON apparatus is heavy.

Abstract: A module includes a wiring board, a plurality of components mounted on an upper surface of the wiring board, a sealing resin layer which seals the components provided on the upper surface of the wiring board, and a shield layer provided so as to cover a surface of the sealing resin layer. The shield layer includes an adhesion layer which is stacked on the surface of the sealing resin layer and includes a first adhesion film composed of a metal selected from the group consisting of Ti, Cr, Ni, TiCr, TiAl, NiAl, CrAl, and CrNiAl, a conductive layer which is stacked on the adhesion layer, and a protective layer which is stacked on the conductive layer and includes a protective film composed of a nitride, oxide, or oxynitride of a metal selected from the group consisting of Ti, Cr, Ni, TiCr, TiAl, NiAl, CrAl, and CrNiAl.