Abstract: A power control unit includes a plurality of power devices, a heat dissipation member disposed to face the power device with an insulating resin member interposed therebetween, and a plurality of plate-shaped bus bars each of which has one end connected to the power device, in which at least one of the plurality of bus bars is erected so that a direction along a plate width is aligned with a direction along a normal line of a surface of the heat dissipation member facing the power device, the power devices are arranged in a row along one direction in a straight line, an input bus bar is disposed on one side of the power device in a direction orthogonal to an arrangement direction of the power device, and an output bus bar is disposed on the other side of the power device in the orthogonal direction.

Abstract: A power conversion device includes a cooling structure capable of cooling down, by a coolant that flows through a first flow channel formed by a first wall portion and a second wall portion facing with each other, a first electronic component and a second electronic component mounted on an external surface of the first wall portion. The first wall portion is formed in a stepwise shape, and includes a first mount portion on which the first electronic component is mounted, a second mount portion which has a different height from the first mount portion, and on which the second electronic component is mounted, and a first connection portion that is extended between the first mount portion and the second mount portion.

Abstract: A power control unit includes a plurality of power devices, a heat dissipation member disposed to face the power device with an insulating resin member interposed therebetween, and a plurality of plate-shaped bus bars each of which has one end connected to the power device, in which at least one of the plurality of bus bars is erected so that a direction along a plate width is aligned with a direction along a normal line of a surface of the heat dissipation member facing the power device, the power devices are arranged in a row along one direction in a straight line, an input bus bar is disposed on one side of the power device in a direction orthogonal to an arrangement direction of the power device, and an output bus bar is disposed on the other side of the power device in the orthogonal direction.

Abstract: An information presentation device includes: an imager to image an area around a vehicle and generate a vehicle outside image; an imager to image an inside of the vehicle and generate a vehicle inside image; a display including multiple display portions; and circuitry to recognize one or more obstacles from the vehicle outside image, generate obstacle information indicating a result of the recognition, generate, from the vehicle inside image, line-of-sight information indicating a direction of a line of sight of a driver, make a determination regarding display on each display portion based on the obstacle information and line-of-sight information, and control display on each display portion based on the determination. The circuitry causes, for each obstacle, an image including the obstacle to be displayed on one of the display portions located in a direction of the obstacle or a direction close thereto as viewed from the driver.

Abstract: A physique estimation device determines a seat on which an occupant is seated on the basis of face information of the occupant detected from an image capturing a vehicle compartment, calculates the occupant's sitting height using a difference between a reference position and a face position for the determined seat, and estimates the occupant's physique on the basis of the occupant's sitting height.

Abstract: An on-vehicle display control system includes an image capturing means for capturing an image outside a vehicle, an angle detection means for detecting an angle between a direction of the vehicle at a predetermined timing of a past and a direction of the vehicle at present, a determination means to compare the angle detected by the angle detection means with a predetermined angle and to determine whether to display the image outside the vehicle captured by the image capturing means on a display on the basis of the comparison result, and a display control means to control display of the image on the display on the basis of a determination result of the determination means. Thus, it is possible to suitably control the display timing of the vehicle surrounding image in accordance with a situation of the vehicle.

Abstract: A power conversion device includes a cooling structure capable of cooling down, by a coolant that flows through a first flow channel formed by a first wall portion and a second wall portion facing with each other, a first electronic component and a second electronic component mounted on an external surface of the first wall portion. The first wall portion is formed in a stepwise shape, and includes a first mount portion on which the first electronic component is mounted, a second mount portion which has a different height from the first mount portion, and on which the second electronic component is mounted, and a first connection portion that is extended between the first mount portion and the second mount portion.

Abstract: A navigation device includes: a destination receiving unit for receiving information indicating a destination; a content searching unit for searching for video content related to the destination based on the information indicating the destination depending on the information indicating the destination received by the destination receiving unit; a selection receiving unit for receiving information on video content selected from among the video content searched for by the content searching unit; a route searching unit for searching for a guidance route to the destination using a location related to the video content received by the selection receiving unit as a waypoint; and an output processing unit for outputting the guidance route searched for by the route searching unit and outputting the video content received by the selection receiving unit during output of the guidance route.

Abstract: A power supply control apparatus includes: a control board that is configured to control a voltage of a battery module; and a bus bar module that is configured to electrically connect the control board to the battery module, the control board and the bus bar module are arranged in a stacked manner, and the bus bar module includes a plurality of bus bars that are made to be independent by cutting off junctions connecting the bus bars to each other and a resin member that supports the bas bars in a state where the junctions are exposed.

Abstract: An intra-scene and inter-scene adaptive coding unit 6 converts an MPEG-2 video bit stream into a slave stream by using both coded data which is included in the coded data about scene video units in a master stream recorded in a data recording unit 2 and for which alternative coded data to be used for prediction reference has not been retrieved by an inter-scene prediction determining unit 5, and coded data retrieved by the inter-scene prediction determining unit 5 for the prediction reference.

Abstract: A power supply control device includes: a control board that is configured to control a voltage of a battery module; and a bus bar module that is configured to electrically connect the control board and the battery module, the control board and the bus bar module are arranged in a stacked manner, and connection terminals of the bus bar module which are connected to the battery module are exposed when viewed from the control board.

Abstract: An intra-scene and inter-scene adaptive coding unit 6 converts an MPEG-2 video bit stream into a slave stream by using both coded data which is included in the coded data about scene video units in a master stream recorded in a data recording unit 2 and for which alternative coded data to be used for prediction reference has not been retrieved by an inter-scene prediction determining unit 5, and coded data retrieved by the inter-scene prediction determining unit 5 for the prediction reference.

Abstract: A power supply control device includes: a control board that is configured to control a voltage of a battery module; and a bus bar module that is configured to electrically connect the control board and the battery module, the control board and the bus bar module are arranged in a stacked manner, and connection terminals of the bus bar module which are connected to the battery module are exposed when viewed from the control board.

Abstract: A power supply control apparatus includes: a control board that is configured to control a voltage of a battery module; and a bus bar module that is configured to electrically connect the control board to the battery module, the control board and the bus bar module are arranged in a stacked manner, and the bus bar module includes a plurality of bus bars that are made to be independent by cutting off junctions connecting the bus bars to each other and a resin member that supports the bas bars in a state where the junctions are exposed.

Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided with a power module capable of supplying an alternate current to a load, while a direct current is supplied from a battery to the power module for conversion into the alternate current, a cooling member capable of radiating heat generated by the power module, and a mounting member, integrally formed with a spring portion protruding in part therefrom and having elasticity, which allows the power module to be mounted on the cooling member under a state where one surface of the power module is caused to face the cooling member and the spring portion is pressed against the other surface of the power module in opposition to the one surface thereof.

Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided with a power module capable of supplying an alternate current to a load, while a direct current is supplied from a battery to the power module for conversion into the alternate current, a cooling member capable of radiating heat generated by the power module, and a mounting member, integrally formed with a spring portion protruding in part therefrom and having elasticity, which allows the power module to be mounted on the cooling member under a state where one surface of the power module is caused to face the cooling member and the spring portion is pressed against the other surface of the power module in opposition to the one surface thereof.

Abstract: An image discrimination apparatus includes an inter-frame distance calculating unit 2 for calculating an inter-frame distance which is a distance between features from the feature of a current frame extracted by a feature extracting unit 1 and the feature of an immediately-preceding frame stored in a feature buffer 3, and a cut-point-determination data calculating unit 4 for calculating statistics values of inter-frame distances and calculating a threshold for determination of cut points from the statistics values. The image discrimination apparatus compares the inter-frame distance of the current frame with the threshold for determination of cut points to determine a cut point from the comparison result.

Abstract: An image encoding apparatus includes a converter 1 for receiving an image signal, and for converting the image signal of individual blocks to DC components and AC components by orthogonal transformation of the individual blocks of an image frame; a predicted reference value generator 2 for receiving the image signal, and for generating a predicted reference value of each image frame from DC components resulting from the orthogonal transformation of left-edge blocks of the image frame; and a differential unit 3 for obtaining difference values between the DC components output from the converter 1 and the predicted reference value generated by the predicted reference value generator 2. The image encoding apparatus outputs a bit stream by quantizing and variable-length encoding the AC components and difference values obtained by the differential unit 3, and by quantizing and variable-length encoding the predicted reference value to be added to a header.

Abstract: An apparatus has a feature value extracting section 106 for extracting a feature value from a search key image; a distance calculating section 107 for calculating distances between the feature values of search target images and the feature value of the search key image; a distance analyzing section 108 for analyzing the distances calculated by the distance calculating section 107, and for selecting a feature value having a feature similar to the search key image as a feature value effective for the image search; and a search executing section 109 for arranging the search target images in a feature value space with coordinate axes to which a principal component analysis result of the feature value effective for the image search is assigned, and for searching for an image similar to the search key image from within the feature value space.

Abstract: Each of an image retrieval method and an image retrieval device in accordance with the present invention is provided with a means for extracting a color layout feature quantity, a dominant color feature quantity, a region division feature quantity, and a shape feature quantity from a query image which is a key of retrieval, and a means for specifying a region of interest of the image by carrying out mutual use of the above-mentioned feature quantities.