Abstract: The disclosure provides an illumination control device and an illumination control method for a shifter of a vehicle, and the illumination control device includes a shifter disposed on a steering column and having a light source; a vehicle door open-and-closed detection part detecting an open-and-closed state of a door of the vehicle to generate a vehicle door open-and-closed signal; a control device controlling an illumination of the light source. After a driver driving the vehicle switches on an ignition switch, the control device performs a lighting control to turn on the light source, and when the ignition switch is in an OFF state and after a vehicle door open-and-closed signal indicating the door is switched from an open state to a closed state is detected, the control device performs the lighting control to turn on the light source.

Abstract: A driver is enabled to, even if a range selected by the driver and an actual range of the vehicle are different from each other, correctly recognize the actual range of the vehicle without occurrence of disagreement between an indicated range and the actual range of the vehicle. A display means is capable of indicating a range irrespective of a rotation operation of a shift member, and a range of the vehicle is capable of being switched to the range irrespective of the rotation operation of the shift member; and an instruction to the display means and an instruction to switch the range of the vehicle are provided from either one of first control means for indication control or second control means for vehicle range switching control.

Abstract: With an analyzer capable of carrying out a plurality of kinds of analyses, the device is suppressed from being increased in size. The analyzer includes a first measurement unit for holding a cuvette to which a biological sample is dispensed, and performing a first measurement of a content of the cuvette; a second measurement unit for holding a cuvette, and performing a second measurement different from the first measurement of the content of the cuvette; and a transport unit for gripping the cuvette, and transporting the cuvette to an attachment and detachment position of the first measurement unit or an attachment and detachment position of the second measurement unit. The transport unit moves along a guide rail, and the attachment and detachment position of the first measurement unit and the attachment and detachment position of the second measurement unit are provided on a line substantially along the guide rail.

Abstract: To provide such a shift apparatus that, at the time of electrically applying a reaction force to a rotation operation of the shift apparatus, a driver is not disabled to perform intended range switching when the application of the reaction force continues. If reaction force application means continues application of a reaction force for a predetermined time or more, reaction force application control means suppresses the application of the reaction force by the reaction force application means. When the reaction force application means has trouble, the driver may want to intentionally switch a range. In this case, the driver's intention to perform an operation is hindered. However, if application of a reaction force is suppressed when the application of the reaction force is continued for a predetermine time, it is possible to avoid the operation by the driver from being hindered.

Abstract: To provide a shift apparatus capable of preventing a vehicle from entering a different travel state even when a state in which a range position cannot be identified occurs due to the range position being set between ranges or due to a fault. A shift apparatus of a vehicle, the shift apparatus including: a shift member that is enabled to switch to any of a plurality of predetermined ranges by performing a rotation operation of a dial-type operation member; and range position detection means configured to detect a predetermined range position of the shift member; wherein, if a state in which the range position cannot be detected continues for a predetermined time or more, notification means is operated irrespective of the rotation operation.

Abstract: A driver is enabled to, even if a range selected by the driver and an actual range of the vehicle are different from each other, correctly recognize the actual range of the vehicle without occurrence of disagreement between an indicated range and the actual range of the vehicle. A display means is capable of indicating a range irrespective of a rotation operation of a shift member, and a range of the vehicle is capable of being switched to the range irrespective of the rotation operation of the shift member; and an instruction to the display means and an instruction to switch the range of the vehicle are provided from either one of first control means for indication control or second control means for vehicle range switching control.

Abstract: To provide such a shift apparatus that, even if, at the time of electrically applying a reaction force to a rotation operation of a shift apparatus, an abnormality occurs in a control device that provides an instruction to apply this reaction force, it is not enabled to switch to a range the operation of which is originally restricted. In a case where an abnormality occurs in reaction force application instruction means, reaction force application control means applies a reaction force against a rotation operation in a direction opposite to a parking range relative to a current range. Thereby, it is possible to reduce the possibility that a vehicle travels with an instruction to apply reaction force remaining in an abnormal state.

Abstract: An ACM-ECU executes a first switching control for switching from a phase fixed control to a phase variable control, or a second switching control for switching from the phase variable control to the phase fixed control, simultaneously with detecting or after having detected switching of a gear position by a gear position detecting function. A current waveform map is used at a time of execution of the phase variable control, and a correction map is used at a time of execution of the phase fixed control.

Abstract: A phase variable control is prohibited in the case that a rotational speed NE of the engine is less than a first predetermined rotational speed NE_th1.

Abstract: An ACM-ECU executes a first switching control for switching from a phase fixed control to a phase variable control, or a second switching control for switching from the phase variable control to the phase fixed control, simultaneously with detecting or after having detected switching of a gear position by a gear position detecting function. A current waveform map is used at a time of execution of the phase variable control, and a correction map is used at a time of execution of the phase fixed control.

Abstract: A phase variable control is prohibited in the case that a rotational speed NE of the engine is less than a first predetermined rotational speed NE_th1.

Abstract: A print information processing system includes a print data recording apparatus and a print data reproducing apparatus. In the print data recording apparatus, a human-readable image generation unit generates a human-readable image representing first data, and a two-dimensional code image generation unit generates a two-dimensional code image representing second data. A print data generation unit combines the human-readable image and the two-dimensional code image to generate print data, and a printing unit prints the print data on a print medium. In the print data reproducing apparatus, a reading unit reads the two-dimensional code image included in the print data printed on the print medium, and a print data decoding unit decodes the two-dimensional code image read by the reading unit, to reproduce the second data.

Abstract: An information processing system which processes machine-readable code information which is printed, together with human-readable information, on a print medium. The apparatus includes a reading unit which reads the machine-readable code information, a decoding unit which decodes the machine-readable code information read by the reading unit, to generate decoded information, an information storing unit which stores at least a portion of the decoded information as stored information, and a processing unit which determines a processing operation to be performed, based on the decoded information and the stored information, and performs the determined processing operation.

Abstract: The present invention comprises an image reading unit for reading an image recorded on a medium, a gradation histogram generation unit for generating the gradation histogram distribution of the image data read by the image reading unit, a threshold value generation unit for calculating an appearance frequency ratio between the lowest gradation value and the highest gradation value from the image data read by the image reading unit, determining a threshold value level based on the calculated appearance frequency ratio and further determining the threshold value level based on the gradation histogram distribution generated by the gradation histogram generation unit, and a binarization unit for binarizing the read image data based on the determined threshold value level. Therefore, a threshold value can be generated based on the features of an image to be read, an optimal threshold value can be obtained depending on a medium and, as a result, a correct binarization process is available.

Abstract: A recurrence reflection sheet is provided to the outside of at least three sides of a quadrilateral display screen, two light send/receive units, which includes a light scanning element for scanning a light angularly in a plane which is substantially parallel with the display screen, and a light receiving element for receiving a reflected light from the recurrence reflection sheet, are arranged on the outside of the display screen. A cut-off region due to a finger as an indicator is obtained based on an angle of a scanning light in a timing of rise and fall of the received light level of the light receiving element, and a position of the indicator is calculated according to the obtained cut-off region.

Abstract: An optical device comprising an image formation unit consisting of a plurality of lens substrates each formed on the front and rear faces thereof with lens arrays and a display unit disposed on an object surface with respect to the image formation unit and displaying an image to be projected by the image formation unit, characterized in that the lens array is a cylindrical lens array and the generating line of a cylindrical array formed on the front face and the generating line of a cylindrical array formed on the rear face cross each other. The lens substrate formed on the front and rear faces thereof with cylindrical lens array is used to provide a small lightweight optical device of a full-size or magnified image system.

Abstract: An optical device comprising an image formation unit consisting of a plurality of lens substrates each formed on the front and rear faces thereof with lens arrays and a display unit disposed on an object surface with respect to the image formation unit and displaying an image to be projected by the image formation unit, characterized in that the lens array is a cylindrical lens array and the generating line of a cylindrical array formed on the front face and the generating line of a cylindrical array formed on the rear face cross each other. The lens substrate formed on the front and rear faces thereof with cylindrical lens array is used to provide a small lightweight optical device of a full-size or magnified image system.

Abstract: An information displaying apparatus having a display unit for displaying information on a display screen 10, an indicator detector provided in the vicinity of the display screen 10 for detecting a position in a predetermined area on the display screen 10 indicated by an indicator and a size of the indicator, and an image control unit 52 for displaying an image on the screen 10 of the display unit according to the detected result by the indicator detector, wherein the image control unit 52 displays images on the display screen 10 of the display unit in different manners according to the position and/or size of the indicator detected by the indicator detector. According to this apparatus, for example, a thickness of one line can be changed and can be changed in steps during the drawing without specifying a size of a point and a thickness of a line to be drawn before the drawing operation. Moreover, subtle blur, etc.

Abstract: An image reader apparatus includes an illuminating element to illuminate a document face to be read, an optical element to form an image of the document face illuminated by the illuminating element, an image sensor to photoelectrically convert the image formed by light passing through the optical element, and a running roller rotating in contact with the document face, wherein a horizontal distance between a document contact portion of the running roller where the running roller contacts the document and a center of imaging of the optical element is shorter than or equal to 10 mm.

Abstract: An optical device including an optical imaging system for forming a real image of an object on a light-receiving surface, the optical imaging system including first and second cylindrical lenses and first and second intermediate lenses, each of the intermediate lenses being composed of a plurality of lens elements arrayed in a line, the first and second cylindrical lenses being opposed to each other so that generatrices thereof are parallel to each other, the first and second intermediate lenses being arranged between the first and second cylindrical lenses in a direction of the generatrices so that a light beam emanated from the object is condensed onto the light-receiving surface through the first cylindrical lens, the first intermediate lens, the second intermediate lens and the second cylindrical lens, wherein each of the lens elements is formed of a one-dimensional binary lens having a light-condensing property only in the direction of the generatrices, whereby a real image by the first and second cylind