Abstract: Provided is an imaging device capable of further suppressing color mixing between pixels. The imaging device includes: a semiconductor substrate provided with a photoelectric conversion unit for each of pixels two-dimensionally arranged; a color filter provided for each of the pixels on the semiconductor substrate; an intermediate layer provided between the semiconductor substrate and the color filter; and a low refraction region provided between the pixels by separating at least the color filter and the intermediate layer for each of the pixels, the low refraction region having a refractive index lower than a refractive index of the color filter.

Abstract: An optical transmission system including an optical transmission device and an optical reception device that receives, via an optical transmission line, a signal transmitted from the optical transmission device, the optical transmission system including a transmission-mode selection unit that selects transmission mode information in descending order of priority out of transmission mode information, which is combinations of a plurality of parameters concerning transmission performance, the transmission mode information being a plurality of kinds of the transmission mode information common to the transmission performance of the optical transmission device and the optical reception device, a signal transmission unit that transmits, to the optical reception device, a signal modulated based on the selected transmission mode information, and a signal reception unit that receives the signal and modulates the received signal based on the transmission mode information selected by the transmission-mode selection unit.

Abstract: An autonomous moving apparatus includes a moving unit that moves the autonomous moving apparatus, a detector that detects distances from surrounding objects and shapes of the surrounding objects, a notifying unit that notifies surrounding persons, and a controller that controls the moving unit so that the autonomous moving apparatus moves so as to follow movement of a person recognized as a follow target by the detector and, when the person recognized as the follow target performs a specific action, controls the notifying unit to give a notification by a preset notification method in response to the specific action.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a nitride semiconductor element, a first diode, and a second diode; the nitride semiconductor element includes a conductive mounting bed, a semiconductor substrate formed on the mounting bed, a first nitride semiconductor layer, a second nitride semiconductor layer, a first major electrode, a second major electrode, a first gate electrode, and a second gate electrode; the first diode includes a first anode electrode electrically connected to the mounting bed, and a first cathode electrode electrically connected to the first major electrode; and the second diode includes a second anode electrode electrically connected to the mounting bed, and a second cathode electrode electrically connected to the second major electrode.

Abstract: A semiconductor device of an embodiment includes a semiconductor layer, a first insulating film provided on the semiconductor layer, a first electrode film provided on the first insulating film, a second electrode film provided on the first electrode film, and a first field plate electrode provided on the second electrode film. A lower end of the first field plate electrode is located on a second surface of the first electrode film, the second surface being in contact with the second electrode film, rather than a first surface of the first electrode film, the first surface being in contact with the first insulating film.

Abstract: A marker projector mounted on a vehicle forms a marker image on a forward road surface. A camera mounted on a wearable device, which is worn by a driver, captures an image of a landscape including the marker image. A device position and attitude sensor detects a position and an attitude of the wearable device based on a position of the marker image. The image processor determines a display position of the image on a display unit based on the detected position and attitude of the wearable device.

Abstract: An ink refill container includes a container main body including an ink storage chamber, an ink outlet-forming portion provided on an end portion of the container main body forming an ink outlet that allows the ink to flow out from the ink storage chamber, and a valve provided in the ink outlet-forming portion configured to openably seal the ink outlet, in which the ink outlet-forming portion includes a positioning portion on an outer side of the ink outlet-forming portion. in which the positioning portion is closer to the container main body than the valve is to the container main body in a central axis direction of the ink outlet, and in which the positioning portion partially abuts against an ink tank when the valve is opened for refilling the ink to the ink tank, to thereby position the valve relative to the ink tank.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a platooning operation system organizes a platoon by making a plurality of vehicles cooperate. The platooning operation system includes an application acceptance processor and a platoon organization processor. The application acceptance processor accepts an application of a vehicle for admission to the platoon. The platoon organization processor which selects a platoon to which the vehicle is to be admitted or determines possibility of admission of the vehicle to the platoon, based on at least one of information on a driver driving the vehicle and information on the vehicle.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first transistor, a first drive circuit including a second transistor, and a second drive circuit including a third transistor. The second transistor and the third transistor are connected in series; and a connection node of the second and third transistors is connected to a gate electrode of the first transistor. The first transistor, the second transistor, and the third transistor are normally-off MOS HEMTs formed in a first substrate that includes GaN. The first drive circuit charges a parasitic capacitance of the first transistor. The second drive circuit discharges the parasitic capacitance of the first transistor.

Abstract: A vehicle control device includes: a speech acquiring section that acquires speech data related to a speech of a speaker; a state acquiring section that acquires information indicating whether or not a driver attempting to start driving a vehicle is in an intoxicated state based on the speech data; and a control section configured to limit a start operation of the vehicle in a case in which the information indicates that the driver is in the intoxicated state, the start operation being an operation performed by the driver with respect to the vehicle to start driving the vehicle.

Abstract: An image display system includes a display configured to be attached to the head of a user who is an occupant of a vehicle, to display a subject image to be superimposed on a field of vision of the user; a SLAM camera fixed to the display to capture a SLAM image of surroundings of the display; one or more light on-vehicle displays disposed within a vehicle cabin to emit light that serves as an AR marker; and an image controller configured to determine a display position of the subject image based on the SLAM image including the AR marker.

Abstract: An electromagnetic wave transmission apparatus of the present invention includes a transmission unit whose voltage-current characteristics have a local maximum value and a local minimum value located on a higher voltage side than the local maximum value and which transmits an electromagnetic wave indicating a modulation signal, an acquisition unit which acquires a digital signal, and a modulation unit which modulates the digital signal into the modulation signal which is a signal using voltage values of three levels or more in an oscillation region which is a voltage region that is equal to or more than a voltage of the local maximum voltage and equal to or less than a voltage of the local minimum voltage. The transmission unit preferably transmits a synchronization signal as at least a part of the modulation signal.

Abstract: An aggregation control system for adjusting electric power between a plurality of facilities via a mobile storage battery apparatus, wherein each of the plurality of facilities includes a control apparatus that controls charging and discharging of the mobile storage battery apparatus, and the aggregation control system includes a server apparatus coupled to each control apparatus; and wherein the server apparatus: creates a charge-discharge condition for the mobile storage battery apparatus on the basis of management information for electric power demand and supply at a specified facility among the plurality of facilities; compares a charge-discharge request to a control apparatus of the specified facility with the charge-discharge conditions; and issues a command to the control apparatus to charge or discharge the mobile storage battery apparatus according to a result of the comparison.

Abstract: An electromagnetic wave transmission device according to the present invention includes: a transmission unit that has, in voltage-current characteristics, a local maximum value and a local minimum value located on a higher voltage side than the local maximum value and transmits an electromagnetic wave indicating a modulation signal; and a modulation unit which modulates an acquired digital signal to the modulation signal using first voltage values of two or more levels in a first voltage region, which is equal to or greater than a voltage of the local maximum value and is equal to or less than a voltage of the local minimum value, and a second voltage value in a second voltage region, which is less than the voltage of the local maximum value, and a third voltage value in a third voltage region, which is on a higher voltage side than the voltage of the local minimum value.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display panel in which a plurality of pixel regions are arranged in a matrix form, the display panel including a substrate, a plurality of pixel electrodes, a partition wall, a first functional layer, a first light emitting layer, a second functional layer, and a second light emitting layer. As viewed in plan, a ratio of an area of the first functional layer to an area of the pixel region in which the first functional layer is present being lower than a ratio of an area of the second functional layer to an area of the pixel region in which the second functional layer is present.

Abstract: Provided is a user-friendly power tool. The power tool 1 comprises: a battery pack mount 2c to which a battery pack 4 can be attached and detached; and a cover 17 that can cover the battery pack 4, mounted on the battery pack mount 2c, and the battery pack mount 2c so as to allow opening and closing. The wall 23 of the battery pack mount 2c is provided with a correcting part 23a that is capable of correcting inward warping of both the left and right side surfaces of the cover 17, which are the longitudinal direction surfaces. The lower edge of the correcting part 23a has a rounded shape.

Abstract: An aerobic biological treatment apparatus includes a reaction tank (tank body), a water permeation plate horizontally installed in a lower part of the reaction tank, a large-diameter particle layer formed on an upper side of the water permeation plate, a small-diameter particle layer formed on an upper side of the large-diameter particle layer, an oxygen dissolution membrane module disposed on an upper side of the small-diameter particle layer, a receiving chamber formed on a lower side of the water permeation plate, a raw water dispersion pipe supplying raw water into the receiving chamber, a diffuser pipe installed to perform gas diffusion in the receiving chamber and the like. A condensed water drainage pipe branches from an exhaust pipe from the oxygen dissolution membrane module, and a valve is provided.

Abstract: A display unit is provided with a plurality of pixels that are two-dimensionally arranged and each include an organic electroluminescence element emitting light of one of a plurality of colors. The pixels are arranged along one direction for each of light emission colors. The pixels each include a first insulating film, a second insulating film, and an organic layer. The first insulating film has openings for the respective pixels. The second insulating film extends along the arrangement direction for each of the light emission colors, in a region between pixels of different light emission colors, out of the plurality of pixels, on the first insulating film. The organic layer is formed in each of the openings, and includes a light-emitting layer. The first insulating film includes a recess that connects together the openings of pixels of the same light emission color, out of the plurality of pixels.

Abstract: An electromagnetic wave transmission device according to the present invention includes: a transmission unit that has, in voltage-current characteristics, a local maximum value and a local minimum value located on a higher voltage side than the local maximum value and transmits an electromagnetic wave indicating a modulation signal; and a modulation unit which modulates an acquired digital signal to the modulation signal using first voltage values of two or more levels in a first voltage region, which is equal to or greater than a voltage of the local maximum value and is equal to or less than a voltage of the local minimum value, and a second voltage value in a second voltage region, which is less than the voltage of the local maximum value, and a third voltage value in a third voltage region, which is on a higher voltage side than the voltage of the local minimum value.

Abstract: A contactless information medium is provided with a spiral wiring on an IC chip. The IC chip has first and second electrodes, and the spiral wiring has first and second end portions electrically connected to the first and second electrodes, respectively. A first relay wiring is connected to the first electrode via a first connecting hole. The first end portion is connected to the first relay wiring via a third connecting hole formed on an inner peripheral side of the spiral wiring. The first relay wiring includes a rectangular region diagonally including the first connecting hole and the third connecting hole.