Abstract: A processing server detects an incident of a vehicle by analyzing one of position information about the vehicle, image information about the periphery of the vehicle, and traveling data about the vehicle, which are acquired from the vehicle, and selects a new function corresponding to the detected incident. Then, the processing server gives notice of the proposal for the new function to the vehicle, as an estimated timing when a user having encountered the incident has cooled down while the user's memory about the incident is clear.

Abstract: A Multi-Link access point apparatus uses multiple combinations of link offset information and information of the number of links to notify, by using only a small amount of information, whether a frame is buffered that is addressed to a Multi-Link station apparatus operating in a Power Management mode and information of a link, the use of which is indicated or recommended.

Abstract: A piezoelectric film laminated body includes a base member and a scandium-containing aluminum nitride film. The base member has a base surface. The scandium-containing aluminum nitride film is disposed in contact with the base surface of the base member. A surface roughness of the base surface is 0.5 nm or less in arithmetic average roughness.

Abstract: An electrostatic actuator includes a fixed electrode and a movable electrode arranged to face the fixed electrode. The movable electrode is configured to be displaceable with respect to the fixed electrode and a fixed portion. An attractive force acts between the movable electrode and the fixed portion. In the electrostatic actuator, a non-linear vibration of the movable electrode when a voltage is applied to the fixed electrode and the movable electrode is reduced by the attractive force acting between the movable electrode and the fixed portion.

Abstract: An electroacoustic transducer includes a vibrating portion, a slit and an elastic film. The vibrating portion has a fixed end portion and a free end portion, and extends as a cantilever from the fixed end portion toward the free end portion along an extending direction orthogonal to a directivity axis to vibrate in a manner that the free end portion moves along the directivity axis. The slit is formed at two ends of the vibrating portion in a width direction orthogonal to the directivity axis and orthogonal to the extending direction. The elastic film is provided to close the slit in an axial direction that is aligned with the directivity axis. The slit includes a wide portion provided on a free end side and a narrow portion narrower than the wide portion. The elastic film is provided to close the wide portion while not closing the narrow portion.

Abstract: A piezo-electric element includes a piezo-electric element part, a support part, and a stretchable film. The piezo-electric element part includes a piezo-electric film and electrodes between which the piezo-electric film is sandwiched in a thickness direction. The support part supports a peripheral portion of the piezo-electric element part. The stretchable film is provided in an oscillation region located inside of the peripheral portion of the piezo-electric element part. The stretchable film also has a higher elasticity than that of the piezo-electric element part.

Abstract: A piezoelectric device includes a base member, a first conductive film arranged above the base member in contact with an upper surface of the base member, a piezoelectric film arranged above the first conductive film in contact with an upper surface of the first conductive film, a second conductive film arranged on the piezoelectric film, and an insulating portion provided inside a trench penetrating through the piezoelectric film and the first conductive film. The insulating portion has a higher electrical resistivity than the piezoelectric film.

Abstract: A micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) sensor includes a substrate, a diaphragm portion and a piezoelectric film. The diaphragm portion is located at the substrate. The piezoelectric film is located on the diaphragm portion. The piezoelectric film is made of scandium aluminum nitride. A carbon concentration of the piezoelectric film is 2.5 atomic percent or less while an oxygen concentration of the piezoelectric film is 0.35 atomic percent or less.

Abstract: A tracking device includes full-spherical cameras arranged on the right and left. The tracking device pastes a left full-spherical camera image captured with the full-spherical camera on a spherical object, and is installed with a virtual camera inside the spherical object. The virtual camera may freely rotate in a virtual image capturing space formed inside the spherical object, and acquire an external left camera image. Similarly, the tracking device is also installed with a virtual camera that acquires a right camera image, and forms a convergence stereo camera by means of the virtual cameras. The tracking device tracks a location of a subject by means of a particle filter by using the convergence stereo camera formed in this way. In a second embodiment, the full-spherical cameras are vertically arranged and the virtual cameras are vertically installed.

Abstract: A piezoelectric film laminated body includes a metal film, an amorphous film, and a scandium aluminum nitride film. The amorphous film has an insulation property and is disposed on the metal film. The scandium aluminum nitride film is disposed on the amorphous film and is in contact with a surface of the amorphous film.

Abstract: A piezoelectric element includes a support member, a vibrator, a through electrode and a seed layer. The vibrator is disposed on an insulation film of the support member, and includes a piezoelectric film and an electrode coating film electrically connected to the piezoelectric film. The vibrator has a support region and a vibration region. The through electrode is electrically connected to the electrode coating film at the support region, and is disposed in a stacking direction of the support member and the vibrator. Between the piezoelectric film and the insulation film, the seed layer is disposed at a portion of the electrode coating film facing another portion of the electrode coating film connected to the through electrode in the stacking direction. The seed layer is made of material having a lattice constant closer to the piezoelectric film or material easier to cause the piezoelectric film to be self-aligned.

Abstract: A microelectromechanical systems device includes a vibrator and a reinforcing film. The vibrator includes a piezoelectric element configured to convert pressure to an electrical signal. The reinforcing film is configured to reinforce strength of the vibrator. The vibrator further has a groove at which a portion of the reinforcing film is disposed.

Abstract: An image recognition device includes: an image processing device that acquires a feature amount from an image; and an identification device that determines whether a prescribed identification object is present in the image, and identifies the identification object. The identification device includes a BNN that has learned the identification object in advance, and performs identification processing by performing a binary calculation with the BNN on the feature amount acquired by the image processing device. Then, the identification device selects a portion effective for identification from among high-dimensional feature amounts output by the image processing device to reduce the dimensions used in identification processing, and copies low-dimensional feature amounts output by the image processing device to increase dimensions.

Abstract: An image processing device has a function for plotting a luminance gradient co-occurrence pair of an image on a feature plane and applying an EM algorithm to form a GMM. The device learns a pedestrian image and creates a GMM, subsequently learns a background image and creates a GMM, and calculates a difference between the two and generates a GMM for relearning based on the calculation. The device plots a sample that conforms to the GMM for relearning on the feature plane by applying an inverse function theorem. The device forms a GMM that represents the distribution of samples at a designated mixed number and thereby forms a standard GMM that serves as a standard for image recognition. When this mixed number is set to less than a mixed number designated earlier, the dimensions with which an image is analyzed are reduced, making it possible to reduce calculation costs.

Abstract: A piezo-electric element includes a piezo-electric element part, a support part, and a stretchable film. The piezo-electric element part includes a piezo-electric film and electrodes between which the piezo-electric film is sandwiched in a thickness direction. The support part supports a peripheral portion of the piezo-electric element part. The stretchable film is provided in an oscillation region located inside of the peripheral portion of the piezo-electric element part. The stretchable film also has a higher elasticity than that of the piezo-electric element part.

Abstract: An image recognition device involves successively extracting co-occurrence pairs in synchronization with a clock, setting a weighting for the portion connecting the input layer and the intermediate layer corresponding to the extracted co-occurrence pairs, and successively inputting a first vote to the input layer. Meanwhile, the intermediate layer adds and stores the successively inputted number of votes. By continuing this operation, a value the same as if a histogram were inputted to an input layer is achieved in the intermediate layer, without creating a histogram. In this way, the image recognition device of this embodiment can perform image recognition while avoiding the creation of a histogram, which consumes vast amounts of memory. As a result of this configuration, it is possible to save memory resources, simplify circuits, and improve calculation speed, and achieve an integrated circuit suitable to an image recognition device.

Abstract: An image processing device can use a calculation formula based on an ellipse to approximate a base function of a reference GMM. The burden rate according to a co-occurrence correspondence point can be approximately determined by a calculation in which the Manhattan distance to the ellipse and the co-occurrence correspondence point and the width of the ellipse are input to a calculation formula for the burden rate based on the base function. The width of the ellipse is quantized by the nth power of 2 (where n is an integer of 0 or greater), and the calculation can be carried out by means of a bit shift.

Abstract: An image processing device converts an image that is a recognition object image to high-resolution, medium-resolution, and low-resolution images. The device sets the pixel of interest of the high-resolution image, and votes the co-occurrence in a gradient direction with offset pixels, the co-occurrence in the gradient direction pixels in the medium-resolution image, and the co-occurrence in the gradient direction pixels in the low-resolution image, to a co-occurrence matrix. The device creates such a co-occurrence matrix for each pixel combination and for each resolution. The device executes the process on each of the pixels of the high-resolution image, and creates a co-occurrence histogram wherein the elements of a plurality of co-occurrence matrices are arranged in a line. The device normalizes the co-occurrence histogram and extracts, as a feature quantity of the image, a vector quantity having as a component a frequency resulting from the normalization.

Abstract: An image recognition device executes a Hilbert scan of frame image data constituting moving-image data to generate one-dimensional spatial image data, and further arrays the one-dimensional spatial image data in a time direction to generate two-dimensional spatio-temporal image data that holds spatial information and temporal information. The image recognition device converts the moving-image data into the two-dimensional spatio-temporal image data while holding the spatial and temporal information. By means of a CNN unit, the image recognition device executes a convolution process wherein a two-dimensional filter is used on the spatio-temporal image data to image-recognize a behavior of a pedestrian who is a recognition object.

Abstract: A hardware configuration is constructed for calculating at high speed the co-occurrence of luminance gradient directions between differing resolutions for a subject image. In an image processing device, a processing line for high-resolution images, a processing line for medium-resolution images, and a processing line for low-resolution images are arranged in parallel, and the luminance gradient directions are extracted for each pixel simultaneously in parallel from images having the three resolutions. Co-occurrence matrix preparation units prepare co-occurrence matrices by using the luminance gradient directions extracted from these images having the three resolutions, and a histogram preparation unit outputs a histogram as an MRCoHOG feature amount by using these matrices. To concurrently processing the images having the three resolutions, high-speed processing can be performed, and moving pictures output from a camera can be processed in real time.