Abstract: A vehicle includes: a travel state sensor configured to acquire information about a travel state of the vehicle; one or more processors; and a memory connected to the one or more processors and storing a plurality of instructions to be executed by the one or more processors. The instructions are configured to cause the one or more processors to: communicate with an autonomous driving device configured to calculate a target track for the vehicle; subject the vehicle to automated travel in accordance with the target track received from the autonomous driving device; and calculate an evaluation value of performance of the autonomous driving device based on the information acquired by the travel state sensor.

Abstract: In an electric power device and a method for controlling the same, a first circuit is electrically connected to a first battery tray and a second battery tray, a second circuit is electrically connected to the first battery tray, and a third circuit is electrically connected to the second battery tray. Between the first circuit and the second circuit, a first resistor unit is connected in series with the first battery tray, and a first interrupting unit is connected in parallel with the first resistor unit. Between the first circuit and the third circuit, a second resistor unit is connected in series with the second battery tray, and a second interrupting unit is connected in parallel with the second resistor unit.

Abstract: A control apparatus (10) includes a position information acquiring unit (110) and a control unit (120). The position information acquiring unit (110) acquires information (position information) indicating a position of a person in a store. The position information acquiring unit (110) generates position information by, for example, acquiring and processing image data generated by an image capture apparatus installed in the store in real time. The control unit (120) controls a plurality of speakers (22 and 24) in the store independently of each other by using the position information generated or acquired by the position information acquiring unit (110). A target of control to be performed herein includes, as described above, at least one of selection of sound data to be supplied, a timing of supplying sound data, and a sound volume.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a Schottky barrier diode. The Schottky barrier diode includes: a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type; a semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type and having a region of the first conductivity type and an impurity region of the first conductivity type; a first electrode layer; a second electrode layer; a first external terminal electrically connected to the first electrode layer; and a second external terminal electrically connected to the second electrode layer. The first electrode layer includes a first base portion, a first extending portion and a second extending portion. The second electrode layer includes a second base portion and a third extending portion located between the first extending portion and the second extending portion in a second direction.

Abstract: A water-based ink composition for an aqueous ballpoint pen that maintains smooth writing feel even when stored for a long time with a pen tip facing downward and is excellent in suppressing abrasion of a ball receiving seat is provided. Such an ink composition for an aqueous ballpoint pen includes an ink composition for an aqueous ballpoint pen, the ink composition comprising at least a coloring material; fine particles having a new Mohs hardness of 3 or greater and an average particle size of 30 ?m or less; a polyoxyethylene polycyclic phenyl-based surfactant; and a water-soluble solvent.

Abstract: Provided is a separation and recovery apparatus for continuously separating and recovering, from a resin mixture containing a resin containing a hydrolyzable polymer and a resin containing a nonhydrolyzable polymer, a hydrolytic component a of the hydrolyzable polymer A and the nonhydrolyzable polymer B, the apparatus including: a crushing unit that crushes the resin mixture a melting/discharging unit that melts a crushed product obtained by the crushing unit to form a fluid and discharges the fluid at a high pressure; and a hydrothermal reaction treatment unit that continuously subjects the fluid discharged from the melting/discharging unit to a hydrothermal reaction treatment, wherein, in the melting/discharging unit, the hydrolyzable polymer A is hydrolyzed, and the hydrolytic component a thereof is dissolved and transferred into water permeating a sintered alloy diaphragm, thereby separating the nonhydrolyzable polymer B.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a display device and a processor. The processor is configured to generate a first screen for display on the display device and on which one of a plurality of malfunctioning part candidates of the image processing apparatus and one of a plurality of timings at which a particular sound was output by the image processing apparatus that malfunctioned, are selectable, when a first malfunctioning part candidate and a first timing are selected on the first screen, generate a second screen for display on the display device and on which one or more reference sounds corresponding to the particular sound are selectable, and when one of the reference sounds is selected on the second screen, generate error information indicating the first malfunctioning part candidate and the selected reference sound.

Abstract: A maintenance support system includes a network interface, a memory, and a processor configured to, upon receipt of first information indicating a status of a first apparatus via the network interface, store the first information in the memory, upon receipt of second information indicating a status of a second apparatus via the network interface, store the second information in the memory, and determine a priority of on-site maintenance between the first and second apparatuses based on the first and second information stored in the memory.

Abstract: [Problem] To Provide a fabric-like sensor in which an output signal can be improved when in use and damage or fracture of a sensor element hardly occurs, and a fabric-like sensor device using it. Solution In a fabric-like sensor S having a fabric base material 1 and a line-shaped sensor element 2, at least one line-shaped cavity portion 11 is provided inside the fabric base material 1, and at least a part of the cavity portion 11 is composed of a raw fabric at least a part of the cavity portion has no elasticity in a line direction of the cavity portion 11, and further the line-shaped sensor element 2 is arranged in a state of not being substantially constrained or fixed in at least one of cavity portions in a fabric 1.

Abstract: Provided is an estimation device that estimates a response at a position of a floating structure where a sensor detecting a structural response is not installed. The estimation device acquires a strain response spectrum at an installation position at which a strain sensor is installed on a floating structure, the strain response spectrum being calculated based on the strain sensor, a wave spectrum, and strain response functions at the installation position and at a non-installation position of the strain sensor, calculates a correction amount based on a predetermined formula expressing a relationship among the strain response spectrum, the wave spectrum, and the strain response functions, and adds the correction amount to a theoretical value of the strain response spectrum calculated from the strain response function and the wave spectrum at the non-installation position of the strain sensor to calculate the strain response spectrum at the non-installation position.

Abstract: A laminated piezoelectric element has excellent suppression effect on characteristics deterioration caused by a pyroelectric effect. Inside an element main body are a first internal electrode, a piezoelectric layer, and a second internal electrode that has different polarity from the first internal electrode, which are repeatedly layered a plurality of times along the lamination direction. A first external electrode is formed on a first side surface of the element main body. A second external electrode is formed on a second side surface of the element main body. A resistance layer connected to the internal electrodes is formed in at least part of a third side surface of the element main body in which the internal electrodes are exposed. An insulating layer is formed on a third side of the element main body so as to cover the resistance layer.

Abstract: An information processing system is connected to a first external device via a network. The information processing system includes circuitry configured to perform: obtaining voice information for operating the first external device; recognizing the voice information obtained at the obtaining; interpreting, from a recognition result obtained at the recognising, processing information indicating processing to be performed in the first external device, first address information identifying the first external device, and second address information identifying a second external device to which the first external device is to send a result of the processing; and sending instruction information including the processing information and the second address information, to the first external device identified by the first address information.

Abstract: A first communication section of an information processing device performs communication in a first segment of an IP network. A second communication section performs communication with other information processing devices via a non-IP wire interface. A proxy processing section generates a wire control command that is a control command using the wire interface on the basis of an IP control command that is a control command received from a first controller belonging to the first segment. The proxy processing section executes proxy processing on the basis of the wire control command by using the second communication section. The sharing processing section shares related information relating to a proxy control by the proxy processing section with a second information processing device belonging to a second segment.

Abstract: An accelerator pedal device according to the present invention is provided with: a pedal arm (30) having an accelerator pedal; a resin housing (10) for supporting the pedal arm such that the pedal arm is swivelable about a prescribed axial line (S) between a rest position and a maximum stepping position; and a return spring (40) that applies a biasing force for returning the pedal arm to the rest position. The housing includes: a boss section (11i) through which a bolt (B) for fixing the housing to a vehicle body is made to pass; and a full open stopper (11n) for specifying the maximum stepping position in the vicinity of the boss section.

Abstract: An imaging device acquires first dark image data in a state where an image sensor has been light shielded, acquires second dark image data in a state where the image sensor has been light shielded, based on completion of exposure, corrects fixed pattern noise of a reference combined image data based on at least one of the first dark image data and the second dark image data, and stores the reference combined image data that has been subjected to correction.

Abstract: An imaging device acquires first dark image data in a state where an image sensor has been light shielded, acquires second dark image data in a state where the image sensor has been light shielded, based on completion of exposure, corrects fixed pattern noise of a reference combined image data based on at least one of the first dark image data and the second dark image data, and stores the reference combined image data that has been subjected to correction.

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit reads data from a memory, which stores the data including a data portion and a parity bit, and makes an error correction to the data. The semiconductor integrated circuit includes a memory controller for reading the data from the memory; and an error correction controller having an error correction circuit having the ability to correct a predetermined number of bits of errors. The error correction controller applies an error correction to the read data by the error correction circuit, and determines whether all errors contained in the data are corrected, based on the data portion and the parity bit of the data after the error correction. When not all the errors contained in the data are determined to be corrected, the error correction controller applies an error correction by the error correction circuit, while sequentially inverting the data value of each bit of the data.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an imager including an imaging sensor configured to acquire an optical image; and a processor configured to: perform pixel displacement to displace a positional relationship between a subject and the imager in a unit of a pixel pitch or less; detect an amount and a direction of a shake; perform shake correction to correct the positional relationship between the subject and the imager based on a detection result; perform first imaging for a first predetermined number of times for each position of the pixel displacement to generate a first group of images; combine the images of the first group to generate a first high-resolution image; perform second imaging for a second predetermined number of times for each position of the pixel displacement to generate a second group of images; and combine the images of the second group to generate a second high-resolution image.

Abstract: A first communication section of an information processing device performs communication in a first segment of an IP network. A second communication section performs communication with other information processing devices via a non-IP wire interface. A proxy processing section generates a wire control command that is a control command using the wire interface on the basis of an IP control command that is a control command received from a first controller belonging to the first segment. The proxy processing section executes proxy processing on the basis of the wire control command by using the second communication section. The sharing processing section shares related information relating to a proxy control by the proxy processing section with a second information processing device belonging to a second segment.

Abstract: It is possible to perform favorable content reproduction on a reception side. An encoded stream including a plurality of pieces of encoded data having degree-of-priority information is acquired. Among the plurality of pieces of encoded data, decoding processing is performed with respect to a piece of encoded data having a predetermined or more degree of priority, and a decoded stream including decoded data is generated. Further, among the plurality of pieces of encoded data, an encoded stream including a piece of encoded data having less than the predetermined degree of priority is generated. The decoded stream and the encoded stream are simultaneously transmitted as a partially decoded stream to the reception side via a digital interface.