Abstract: A first and a second control modules of a control apparatus of the present disclosure mutually monitor a state of the other end and send a reset request signal to a monitoring module when the other end should be reset. The monitoring module sends a reset signal to one of the first and second control modules when the monitoring module receives the reset request signal indicating that the one of the first and second control modules should be reset from the other and the monitoring module does not send the reset signal to the other. The monitoring module prohibits a reset of one of the first and second control modules when the monitoring module receives the reset request signal indicating that the one of the first and second control modules should be reset from the other and the monitoring module sends the reset signal to the other.

Abstract: There is provided a communication failure detection device configured to detect a communication failure of a two-wire CAN communication device that makes communication between nodes according to a CAN protocol. Each of the nodes is provided with two signal detection circuits configured to detect signals on the two communication lines. Each node makes communication for failure dentification to output signals of predetermined patterns onto the two communication lines when an execution condition is satisfied in response to the occurrence of a protocol error of CAN communication. Each node then performs failure identification to identify the type of a failure based on a combination of the signals respectively detected by the two signal detection circuits during the communication for failure identification.

Abstract: A resolver signal processing circuit for amplifying two phase signals output from a resolver includes first and second amplifier circuits configured to adjust an input in-phase voltage range to output an intended voltage even when a short-circuit arises in the resolver. The resolver signal processing circuit further includes first and second short-circuit detection circuits configured to detect the short-circuit arising in the resolver and short-circuits in first and second signal input paths from the resolver to the first and the second amplifier circuits, respectively, and first and second voltage adjusting units configured to adjust input in-phase voltage ranges of the first and second amplifier circuits when the first and second short-circuit detection circuits detect short-circuits, respectively. The first and second amplifier circuits are configured to adjust the input in-phase voltage ranges, respectively.

Abstract: There is provided a communication failure detection device configured to detect a communication failure of a two-wire CAN communication device that makes communication between nodes according to a CAN protocol. Each of the nodes is provided with two signal detection circuits configured to detect signals on the two communication lines. Each node makes communication for failure dentification to output signals of predetermined patterns onto the two communication lines when an execution condition is satisfied in response to the occurrence of a protocol error of CAN communication. Each node then performs failure identification to identify the type of a failure based on a combination of the signals respectively detected by the two signal detection circuits during the communication for failure identification.

Abstract: A first and a second control modules of a control apparatus of the present disclosure mutually monitor a state of the other end and send a reset request signal to a monitoring module when the other end should be reset. The monitoring module sends a reset signal to one of the first and second control modules when the monitoring module receives the reset request signal indicating that the one of the first and second control modules should be reset from the other and the monitoring module does not send the reset signal to the other. The monitoring module prohibits a reset of one of the first and second control modules when the monitoring module receives the reset request signal indicating that the one of the first and second control modules should be reset from the other and the monitoring module sends the reset signal to the other.

Abstract: A protection control apparatus includes a computer, communication controller, and shutdown circuitry. The computer monitors fail signals delivered from the power conversion circuitry to a first number of first signal lines, and creates reject information indicating whether each fail signal is enabled or rejected. The communication controller receives the reject information from the computer via a second number, which is smaller than the first number, of communication lines, and delivers reject signals to the first number of second signal lines, based on the reject information. The shutdown circuitry is provided on the same chip or module as the communication controller, and permits driving of the power conversion circuitry or shut down the power conversion circuitry, based on the fail signals from the first number of first signal lines, and the reject signals from the first number of second signal lines.

Abstract: A protection control apparatus includes a computer, communication controller and shutdown circuitry, The computer monitors fail signals delivered from the power conversion circuitry to a first number of first signal lines, and creates reject Info oration indicating whether each fail signal is enabled or rejected. The communication controller receives the reject information from the computer via a second number, which is smaller than the first number, of communication lines, and delivers reject signals to the first number of second signal lines, based on the reject information. The shutdown circuitry is provided on the same chip or module as the communication controller, and permits driving of the power conversion circuitry or shut down the power conversion circuitry, based on the fail signals from the first number of first signal lines, and the reject signals from the first number of second signal lines.

Abstract: A hybrid vehicle includes a first controller configured to output a first control signal for a first inverter, a second controller configured to output a second control signal for a second inverter and a third control signal for the first inverter, and a selection circuit configured to output either of the first control signal or the third control signal to the first inverter. The third control signal is a signal for simultaneously turning on either of upper arm switching elements or lower arm switching elements of a plurality of arms of the first inverter. The second controller starts an engine by outputting the third control signal while outputting the second control signal to drive a second motor generator when abnormality occurs in the first controller.

Abstract: In a monitoring system for mutually monitoring first and second control devices, when the first and second control devices detect an abnormality in a counterpart control device respectively, the first and second control devices output, to a monitoring reset unit, a reset request signal that matches a reference reset request signal for the counterpart control device, and the monitoring reset unit resets the counterpart control device when the reset request signal for the counterpart control device from the first and second control devices matches the reference reset request signal.

Abstract: A hybrid vehicle includes a first controller configured to output a first control signal for a first inverter, a second controller configured to output a second control signal for a second inverter and a third control signal for the first inverter, and a selection circuit configured to output either of the first control signal or the third control signal to the first inverter. The third control signal is a signal for simultaneously turning on either of upper arm switching elements or lower arm switching elements of a plurality of arms of the first inverter. The second controller starts an engine by outputting the third control signal while outputting the second control signal to drive a second motor generator when abnormality occurs in the first controller.

Abstract: A resolver excitation circuit includes a D/A converter configured to generate a sinusoidal excitation signal being supplied to a resolver outputting a resolver signal to detect a rotation angle of a target object with a predetermined sampling frequency; and an amplifier configured to be constituted with an operational amplifier amplifying the excitation signal generated by the D/A converter. The operational amplifier has a gain-frequency characteristic set so that the predetermined sampling frequency is a higher frequency than a cutoff frequency of a gain of the operational amplifier, and the gain of the operational amplifier at the predetermined sampling frequency is lower than 0 dB.

Abstract: A signal processing apparatus including: a first noise reduction processing section that performs first noise reduction processing on an image, in which each of multitudes of pixels has one of a plurality of color components and the color components are distributed regularly, based only on pixel arrangement to obtain a first processed image; a color component separation section that separates the first processed image into each of the color components to obtain a plurality of color component images; and a signal classification section that compares a signal value of a target pixel for processing with a signal value of each pixel included in a predetermined range of area around the target pixel and classifies each pixel within the predetermined range of area into one of a plurality of groups based on the comparison result.

Abstract: Workpieces, which are conveyed by a conveying device along a conveying path, are heated by a heating and degreasing coil. Then, resin powder is downwardly sprayed from a nozzle of a coating device to each corresponding one of the workpieces, which are conveyed by the conveying device. The workpieces are thereafter heated by a heating and curing coil. At each of the heating coils, a dummy member, which is made of an electrically conductive material, is displaced from a retracted position to a forward position, which is located between the corresponding heating coil and a corresponding adjacent part of the conveying path of the conveying device, when an empty one of mount locations of the conveying device reaches the forward position of the dummy member.

Abstract: A noise-reduction apparatus includes an image-noise-reduction means having an operation means and a judgment means. The operation means shifts the level of the signal-value of a target-pixel so that an average of the signal-values of the target-pixel and pixels in a predetermined area in the vicinity of the target-pixel becomes a value at the origin of a color-space of each of a plurality of color-components, performs an operation for noise-reduction processing on the target-pixel and restores the level of the signal-value thereof based on the shifted level. The judgment means estimates a noise-amount of the target-pixel, calculates a statistic representing the noise of the target-pixel based on the signal-values of the target-pixel and the pixels in the predetermined area, compares the estimated noise-amount and the statistic, and determines, based on the result of comparison, which of the estimated noise-amount and the statistic to use for the operation of noise-reduction processing.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus is equipped with: imaging means, for obtaining images of a subject; imaging control means, for controlling the imaging means to sequentially obtain a plurality of images; reference image selecting means, for selecting a single reference image from among the plurality of images; moving object region specifying means, for specifying moving object regions within corresponding images, which are the plurality of images other than the selected reference image; positioning means, for positioning the plurality of corresponding images with respect to the reference image in the case that the plurality of images have been imaged by flow shooting, the positioning being performed such that the amount of positioning is greater at the specified moving object regions than at non moving object regions; and combining means, for combining the plurality of corresponding images, which have been positioned by the positioning means, with the reference image.

Abstract: A photographing apparatus, such as a digital camera, provided with a scene recognition function is disclosed, in which images photographed according to a photographing mode or color candidate corresponding to a recognized scene are played back according to a predetermined classification. Live view data and actually-photographed image data representing a subject are acquired, and the live view data is analyzed to recognize at least one scene representing the subject. Then, a photographing mode or a color candidate corresponding to the scene is selected. The photographing mode or color candidate selected for each actually-photographed image data is recorded together with the actually-photographed image data acquired according to the selected photographing mode or color candidate. A photographing mode or color candidate for playing back the actually-photographed image data is specified to play back all the actually-photographed image data acquired according to the specified photographing mode or color candidate.

Abstract: There are disclosed: an image display device including a storage unit in which a plurality of items of image information are stored; a display unit that performs sequential display, in a predetermined order, of a plurality images represented by the plurality of items of image information; a reception unit that receives a stop instruction for stopping the sequential display; and a controller that controls the display unit such that, when the stop instruction is received by the reception unit during performance of the sequential display, the display unit performs a list display of images within a predetermined range using as a reference an image that is being displayed at a time when the stop instruction is received.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus displays and records any area in a synthesized image according to user's taste. The synthesized image is displayed based on the set display area and the record area is set to display the synthesized image, so that the display area is compared with the record area to enable easily confirming whether the actually acquired synthesized image satisfies the area desired by the user and assisting recording in an area where a better composition is provided even if the user is unfamiliar with the composition.

Abstract: A specific target included in an image is detected by a specific target detection unit based on a specific target evaluation value representing likeliness of the specific target. Using a first white balance correction value calculation unit for obtaining a first white balance correction value for the region of the image other than the specific target, a second white balance correction value calculation unit for obtaining a second white balance correction value for the specific target region, and a white balance correction value comparison unit for making a comparison between the first and second white balance correction values, white balance in the region other than the specific target is corrected using the first white balance correction value, and white balance in the specific target region is corrected using the second white balance correction value, if the white balance correction values are different from each other.

Abstract: An image forming system includes a first storage unit that stores identification information and storage information with the identification information mapped to the storage information, the identification information identifying a user, the storage information indicating a storage location where image data corresponding to the identification information is stored, an identifying unit that, in response to the identification information input by the user, identifies the storage location indicated by the storage information stored on the first storage unit with the identification information mapped thereto, a retrieval unit that retrieves, from the storage location identified by the identifying unit, the image data corresponding to the identification information, and an image forming unit that forms an image responsive to the image data retrieved by the retrieval unit.