Abstract: A control apparatus is used in a vehicle that performs automatic travel control. The apparatus includes a search section which searches for an external unit, when information used for the automatic travel control is no longer available due to abnormality, the external unit providing assist information for complementing missing information that is the information no longer available due to the abnormality, an acquisition section which acquires the assist information from the external unit obtained as a result of the search of the search section, and a processing section which performs a process for performing assist travel control, which is the automatic travel control as a result of complementing the missing information with the assist information.

Abstract: In an automated driving control apparatus, an information acquirer is configured to acquire driving control information needed to control automated driving of a vehicle. A degradation information storage is configured to store information about accuracy degraded roads that are roads on which the accuracy of the driving control information is degraded to below a predetermined required level. An information updater is configured to acquire observed information concerning the information acquirer, and using the observed information, update stored contents of the degradation information storage. A route generator is configured to generate a route excluding the accuracy degraded roads stored in the degradation information storage. A driving controller is configured to conduct automated driving control of the vehicle according to the route generated by the route generator and the driving control information acquired by the information acquirer.

Abstract: A control apparatus is used in a vehicle that performs automatic travel control. The apparatus includes a search section which searches for an external unit, when information used for the automatic travel control is no longer available due to abnormality, the external unit providing assist information for complementing missing information that is the information no longer available due to the abnormality, an acquisition section which acquires the assist information from the external unit obtained as a result of the search of the search section, and a processing section which performs a process for performing assist travel control, which is the automatic travel control as a result of complementing the missing information with the assist information.

Abstract: In a distortion compensation apparatus, a monitor unit monitors a power value of a transmission baseband signal. An update control unit does not allow an updating unit to execute update processing when the power value monitored by the monitor unit is lower than a first threshold, and causes the updating unit to execute the update processing when higher than the first threshold. That is, the update control unit controls execution/non-execution of the update processing by the updating unit based on the monitored power value.

Abstract: A vehicle identification apparatus mounted in a vehicle provided with a detection unit configured to detect a speed of a first other vehicle and a communication unit configured to receive information indicative of a speed of a second other vehicle from the second other vehicle. In the apparatus, a calculation unit calculates an indicator value indicative of a likelihood that the first and second other vehicles are the same, where the indicator value is defined as a function of the speed of the first other vehicle detected by the detection unit and the speed of the second other vehicle indicated by the information received by the communication unit. A determination unit determines whether or not the first and second other vehicles are the same on the basis of the indicator value calculated by the calculation unit.

Abstract: A vehicle identification apparatus mounted in a vehicle provided with a detection unit configured to detect a speed of a first other vehicle and a communication unit configured to receive information indicative of a speed of a second other vehicle from the second other vehicle. In the apparatus, a calculation unit calculates an indicator value indicative of a likelihood that the first and second other vehicles are the same, where the indicator value is defined as a function of the speed of the first other vehicle detected by the detection unit and the speed of the second other vehicle indicated by the information received by the communication unit. A determination unit determines whether or not the first and second other vehicles are the same on the basis of the indicator value calculated by the calculation unit.

Abstract: A wireless communication method and apparatus for the same performs access control in the following manner, where an acquisition of a right to transmit is performed by CSMA access control method, and a collision of transmitted data packets among different communication apparatuses is prevented for facilitating a stable transmission of data packets from each of the apparatuses in a predetermined interval. The transmission of a data packet having a predetermined data length under a cyclical access control sets an access control start time at a time that is after a lapse of predetermined amount of time from the previous acquisition of the right to transmit. As a result, the competition of the right to transmit is resolved due to a different access control start time set for the next transmission.

Abstract: A controller 3 of a memory card is a provided with a command decoding circuit 6 for decoding commands issued by a host HT, a command enable register 8 in which the validity or invalidity of the received command, and a command detection signal generating circuit 7 for detecting a valid command on the basis of the result of decoding by the command decoding circuit 6 and a value set by the command enable register 8. If the command enable register 8 receives a validly set command, the command detection signal generating circuit 7 will supply a detection signal to a control unit 4 to execute processing prescribed for each command. the command enable register 8 receives an invalidly set command, no detection signal will be supplied, and the command will be ignored.

Abstract: A mother glass substrate is continuously heated by a first laser spot LS1 to a temperature which is lower than a softening point of the mother glass substrate, along a scribe line formation line SL on a surface of the mother glass substrate, along which a scribe line is to be formed, while an area close to the first laser spot LS1 is continuously cooled along the scribe line formation line SL; and an area which is close to the cooled area and is on an opposite side to the first laser spot LS1 is continuously heated by a second laser spot LS2 along the scribe line formation line SL to a temperature which is lower than the softening point of the mother glass substrate.

Abstract: In a commutation system, a data packet is transmitted and received by radio among radio communication apparatuses. In the communication system, the data packet is started to be transmitted on a transmission right acquired on contention type access control in response to a transmission request for the data packet. It is detected that there is a predetermined state in which the transmission request is generated during or after reception of a long packet which is over a given packet length. When the predetermined state is detected, a start timing of the access control is shifted to a timing at which a desired delay time passes after completing reception of the long packet. One example is that an elapse time from a start of reception of the long packet to generation of the transmission request is measured and, as the desired delay time, a period of time calculated by multiplying the measured elapse time by a specified coefficient is set.

Abstract: A wireless communication method and apparatus for the same performs access control in the following manner, where an acquisition of a right to transmit is performed by CSMA access control method, and a collision of transmitted data packets among different communication apparatuses is prevented for facilitating a stable transmission of data packets from each of the apparatuses in a predetermined interval. The transmission of a data packet having a predetermined data length under a cyclical access control sets an access control start time at a time that is after a lapse of predetermined amount of time from the previous acquisition of the right to transmit. As a result, the competition of the right to transmit is resolved due to a different access control start time set for the next transmission.

Abstract: A loom restarting method restarts a loom stopped due to a loom stopping cause without entailing a “wavy set mark”. When a loom is stopped due to a loom stopping cause entailing faulty picking, the loom restarting method provides a loom stopping command, withholds the loom from a picking operation during a braking period for braking the loom to stop the same in a weaving cycle subsequent to a weaving cycle in which the loom stopping cause occurred, reverses the loom to the weaving cycle in which faulty picking occurred, removes a weft yarn picked by faulty picking, and restarts the loom to resume a normal weaving operation. The main shaft of the loom is positioned, after removing the weft yarn picked by faulty picking, at an angular position at which a picking operation is possible in the weaving cycle in which the weft yarn picked by faulty picking was removed and the reed of the loom is not in contact with a weft yarn inserted in the cloth fell of a fabric on the loom, and then the loom is restarted.

Abstract: A controller 3 of a memory card is a provided with a command decoding circuit 6 for decoding commands issued by a host HT, a command enable register 8 in which the validity or invalidity of the received command, and a command detection signal generating circuit 7 for detecting a valid command on the basis of the result of decoding by the command decoding circuit 6 and a value set by the command enable register 8. If the command enable register 8 receives a validly set command, the command detection signal generating circuit 7 will supply a detection signal to a control unit 4 to execute processing prescribed for each command. the command enable register 8 receives an invalidly set command, no detection signal will be supplied, and the command will be ignored.

Abstract: A control technique is capable of adjusting a weight of a pile fabric by adjusting consumption of a pile warp at a proper range with a more simplified system. In a pile loom, a tolerance relative to a value associated with consumption of the pile warp is set, and the value associated with consumption of the pile warp is measured during a pile weaving period. If the value associated with consumption of the pile warp exceeds the tolerance, the weaving condition parameter associated with the weight of the pile is corrected in a direction to approach a target value of the weight of a pile fabric.

Abstract: A mother glass substrate is continuously heated by a first laser spot LS1 to a temperature which is lower than a softening point of the mother glass substrate, along a scribe line formation line SL on a surface of the mother glass substrate, along which a scribe line is to be formed, while an area close to the first laser spot LS1 is continuously cooled along the scribe line formation line SL; and an area which is close to the cooled area and is on an opposite side to the first laser spot LS1 is continuously heated by a second laser spot LS2 along the scribe line formation line SL to a temperature which is lower than the softening point of the mother glass substrate.

Abstract: A controller 3 of a memory card is a provided with a command decoding circuit 6 for decoding commands issued by a host HT, a command enable register 8 in which the validity or invalidity of the received command, and a command detection signal generating circuit 7 for detecting a valid command on the basis of the result of decoding by the command decoding circuit 6 and a value set by the command enable register 8. If the command enable register 8 receives a validly set command, the command detection signal generating circuit 7 will supply a detection signal to a control unit 4 to execute processing prescribed for each command the command enable register 8 receives an invalidly set command, no detection signal will be supplied, and the command will be ignored.

Abstract: There is provided a control technique capable of adjusting a weight of a pile fabric by adjusting consumption of a pile warp at a proper range with a more simplified system. In a pile loom, a tolerance relative to a value associated with consumption of the pile warp is set, and the value associated with consumption of the pile warp is measured during a pile weaving period, wherein if the value associated with consumption of the pile warp exceeds the tolerance, the weaving condition parameter associated with the weight of the pile is corrected in a direction to approach a target value of the weight of a pile fabric.