Abstract: A robot control apparatus for controlling a robot manipulating a target object includes a measurement unit configured to measure a change of a gripping unit configured to grip the target object when the gripping unit contacts the target object, a first acquisition unit configured to acquire the change of the gripping unit measured by the measurement unit, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire a gripping state, which is a state of gripping of the target object by the gripping unit, based on the change of the gripping unit acquired by the first acquisition unit, and a control unit configured to control an action of the robot based on the gripping state acquired by the second acquisition unit.

Abstract: A universal test socket including a first sub-layer including a plurality of first through conductors, the plurality of first through conductors arranged at a first pitch in a first substrate, and a second sub-layer including a plurality of second through conductors, the second sub-layer stacked on the first sub-layer so that the plurality of first through conductors are in contact with the plurality of second through conductors, the plurality of second through conductors arranged at a second pitch in a second substrate, the second pitch being less than or equal to the first pitch may be provided.

Abstract: A catheter system includes an electronic console; a catheter having a proximal end attachable to the console and a distal end configured to house therein an optical probe; an optical fiber configured to transmit from the console to the optical probe excitation radiation of a first wavelength, and configured to return to the console an optical response signal having a second wavelength longer than the first wavelength; a detector configured to detect intensity of the optical response signal; and a processor configured to determine, based on the detected intensity of the optical response signal, whether the catheter is properly connected to the console. The optical response signal is generated within the optical fiber itself in response to transmitting the excitation radiation therethrough. The optical response signal is an auto-fluorescence signal and/or Raman scattering signal generated from the optical fiber itself.

Abstract: Apparatus, methods and systems relating to fluorescence imaging, and more particularly, to reducing or eliminating light sensitive and insensitive background noise in fluorescence spectroscopy systems, as well as optical coherence tomography (OCT) systems.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus that inspects a state of a target object using distance information obtained by measuring the target object includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire position information indicating a position of a part of the target object based on the distance information, and an output unit configured to output, in a case where a position of a part of the target object does not satisfy a predetermined condition, based on the position information and the condition, information regarding a direction in which the target object is to be moved from a current state of the target object to a state satisfying the condition.

Abstract: An interlocking occupant step apparatus and method for a vehicle, includes a powered door, a powered occupant step, a kick sensor, and a controller having processing circuitry. While in an interlocking state, the processing circuitry detects a first gesture signal from the kick sensor, for example resulting from a kick, upon detection of the first gesture signal, controls operation of the powered occupant step to move the occupant step to an extended position, and controls operation of the powered door to move to an opened position. The processing circuitry detects a second gesture signal from the kick sensor, for example resulting from a lateral swing, the second gesture signal being for a second gesture different from the first gesture. Upon detection of the second gesture signal, the processing circuitry switches to a non-interlocking state.

Abstract: An occupant step apparatus and method for a vehicle, includes a powered occupant step, a kick sensor mounted to the occupant step, and a controller having processing circuitry. The processing circuitry detects a kick gesture signal from the kick sensor, controls operation of the powered occupant step to move the occupant step, and upon detection of a step gesture signal from the kick sensor while the occupant step is being operated, halts operation of the occupant step.

Abstract: A method for processing an intravascular image including a plurality of image frames acquired during a pullback of an imaging catheter inserted into a vessel. The method includes obtaining positions of lumen borders detected in the intravascular image and positions of stent-struts detected in the intravascular image. Determining, at different positions in a range, a stent expansion value of the stent implanted in the vessel, based on the first information and the second information, wherein each image frame from image frames in which stent-struts are detected corresponds to a different position along the range. The method may also include displaying an image including positions of lumen borders and positions of the stent-struts detected and a first indicator indicating a level along the range, of the stent expansion value, with the image.

Abstract: An automobile window glass includes a glass substrate, a black ceramic layer and a water absorbing antifogging film. The black ceramic layer is formed in a peripheral portion on a vehicle-interior side main surface of the glass substrate. The water absorbing antifogging film is formed on the vehicle-interior side main surface of the glass substrate and is located in an inner peripheral side relative to the peripheral portion. A space of more than 1 mm and less than 30 mm exists between the black ceramic layer and the water absorbing antifogging film on the vehicle-interior side main surface of the glass substrate.

Abstract: A MEMS device which includes an adhesive which adheres a first substrate and a second substrate to each other, in which a first space which includes an electrode, an individual electrode, a common electrode, a bump electrode, and a piezoelectric element and which is configured as a closed space which is isolated from an atmosphere by the first substrate, the second substrate, and the adhesive is disposed in a space between the first substrate and the second substrate, and in which a second space which does not include any of the electrode, the individual electrode, the common electrode, the bump electrode, or the piezoelectric element and which communicates with the atmosphere due to a through-hole which penetrates at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate is disposed in the space between the first substrate and the second substrate.

Abstract: In a plan view from a perpendicular direction to a surface of a wiring substrate on which a wiring is provided, a buried wiring, a connection wiring, and a terminal portion of an external wiring are formed at an overlapping position, in which a recessed portion is provided at a position corresponding to the buried wiring on a surface of the connection wiring on an opposite side to the wiring substrate, and in which, in a direction intersecting an extension direction of the wiring on the surface of the wiring substrate on which the wiring is provided, a width of the connection wiring is larger than a width of the buried wiring, a width of the terminal portion of the external wiring is larger than a width of the recessed portion, and the terminal portion is provided across the recessed portion of the connection wiring.

Abstract: A method for processing an intravascular image including a plurality of image frames acquired during a pullback of an imaging catheter inserted into a vessel. The method includes obtaining positions of lumen borders detected in the intravascular image and positions of stent-struts detected in the intravascular image. Determining, at different positions in a range, a stent expansion value of the stent implanted in the vessel, based on the first information and the second information, wherein each image frame from image frames in which stent-struts are detected corresponds to a different position along the range. The method may also include displaying an image including positions of lumen borders and positions of the stent-struts detected and a first indicator indicating a level along the range, of the stent expansion value, with the image.

Abstract: A tailgate interlocking occupant step apparatus and method for a vehicle, includes a powered tailgate, a powered occupant step, a kick sensor mounted to the occupant step, and a controller having processing circuitry. The processing circuitry detects a signal from the kick sensor, operates the powered occupant step to move the occupant step to an extended position, operates the powered tailgate to lower the tailgate to an opened position, and when a pinch force is detected either in the occupant step or the tailgate, stops the operation of both the occupant step and the tailgate.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit acquiring a first image and a second image, the first image being an image of a target area in an initial state, the second image being an image of the target area where a first object conveyed from a supply area is placed, an estimation unit estimating one or more second areas in the target area, based on a feature of a first area estimated using the first image and the second image, the first area being where the first object is placed, the one or more second areas each being an area where an object in the supply area can be placed and being different from the first area. A control unit controls a robot to convey a second object different from the first object from the supply area to any of the one or more second areas.

Abstract: A catheter system includes an electronic console; a catheter having a proximal end attachable to the console and a distal end configured to house therein an optical probe; an optical fiber configured to transmit from the console to the optical probe excitation radiation of a first wavelength, and configured to return to the console an optical response signal having a second wavelength longer than the first wavelength; a detector configured to detect intensity of the optical response signal; and a processor configured to determine, based on the detected intensity of the optical response signal, whether the catheter is properly connected to the console. The optical response signal is generated within the optical fiber itself in response to transmitting the excitation radiation therethrough. The optical response signal is an auto-fluorescence signal and/or Raman scattering signal generated from the optical fiber itself.

Abstract: A belt line portion sound insulation structure for an automobile between a door panel and door glass includes a viscoelastic member arranged on a lower portion of one of principal faces of a glass plate of the door glass. The door panel includes two panel plates facing each other, and the door glass is arranged between the two panel plates so as to be movable up and down. A hardness measured on a surface of the viscoelastic member is 10 to 80 in an Asker C hardness defined by SRIS 0101. In a closed state of the door glass, the viscoelastic member is restrained by a portion of a surface of one of the two panel plates facing the one of the principal faces and an area on one of the two panel plates where the viscoelastic member is disposed.

Abstract: One or more devices, systems, methods and storage mediums for performing continuously, full range optical coherence tomography (OCT) without losing A-lines are provided. Examples of such applications include imaging, evaluating and diagnosing biological objects, such as, but not limited to, for cardio and/or ophthalmic applications, and being obtained via one or more optical instruments, such as, but not limited to, optical probes (e.g., common path probes), catheters, endoscopes, phase shift units (e.g., galvanometer scanner) and bench top systems. Preferably, the OCT devices, systems methods and storage mediums include or involve a phase shift device including at least a galvanometer scanner. The galvanometer scanner is preferably applied with or to a voltage with a triangle shape, the voltage having continuity or absolute constant frequency to obtain continuous images without losing any A-lines.

Abstract: A piezoelectric driving device includes a vibrating plate, a first electrode, a piezoelectric layer, a second electrode layer provided above the vibrating plate. An active section is formed in a portion where the first electrode layer, the piezoelectric layer, and the second electrode layer overlap one another. The active section has a longitudinal direction and a latitudinal direction in plan view. At both ends in the latitudinal direction, ends of the first electrode layer are disposed in the same positions as ends of the wiring layer or further on the outer side than the ends, ends of the second electrode layer are disposed in the same positions as the ends of the wiring layer or further on the inner side than the ends, and the ends of the first electrode layer are disposed further on the outer side than the ends of the second electrode layer.

Abstract: A first optical axis of a first optical component is caused to be at a first angle with respect to a first precision surface of the first optical component. A second optical axis of a second optical component is aligned to be at a second angle to a second flat surface of the second optical component. The second angle is equal to or derived from the first angle. The first and second flat surfaces are caused to directly face each other to allow only sliding motion between the first and second flat surfaces. The sliding motion is performed between the first and second flat surfaces until the first and second optical axes are sufficiently collinear.

Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge head including a first wiring through which a drive signal is input to a wiring substrate, in which the wiring substrate has a substrate having a first surface and a second surface that opposes the first surface, a second wiring formed on the first surface, a third wiring formed on the second surface, a fourth wiring and a fifth wiring that pass through the substrate and electrically couples the second wiring with the third wiring, and an electrode provided on the second wiring and electrically couples the second wiring with the first wiring, and the electrode is positioned between a first coupling point at which the fourth wiring is electrically coupled to the second wiring and a second coupling point at which the fifth wiring is electrically coupled to the second wiring, in the second wiring.