Abstract: A gear is configured such that: a ring gear, a drive pinion shaft having a pinion gear meshing with the ring gear, and rolling bearings supporting the drive pinion shaft such that the drive pinion shaft is rotatable are accommodated in a differential housing; the differential housing is divided into a differential mechanism chamber in which to accommodate the ring gear, and a pinion shaft chamber in which to accommodate the rolling bearings; and a feed oil passage configured to supply lubricant scooped up by the ring gear to the pinion shaft chamber, and a return oil passage configured to discharge the lubricant in the pinion shaft chamber to the differential mechanism chamber are provided in the differential housing. In the differential gear, an inlet of the feed oil passage is placed at a position that is offset from the ring gear in an axial direction of the ring gear.

Abstract: A gear is configured such that: a ring gear, a drive pinion shaft having a pinion gear meshing with the ring gear, and rolling bearings supporting the drive pinion shaft such that the drive pinion shaft is rotatable are accommodated in a differential housing; the differential housing is divided into a differential mechanism chamber in which to accommodate the ring gear, and a pinion shaft chamber in which to accommodate the rolling bearings; and a feed oil passage configured to supply lubricant scooped up by the ring gear to the pinion shaft chamber, and a return oil passage configured to discharge the lubricant in the pinion shaft chamber to the differential mechanism chamber are provided in the differential housing. In the differential gear, an inlet of the feed oil passage is placed at a position that is offset from the ring gear in an axial direction of the ring gear.

Abstract: Differential apparatus capable of guiding and supplying a sufficient amount of lubricant oil to the lubrication elements accommodated in the differential apparatus (6). The differential apparatus comprises a differential case (11), a differential carrier (21), a carrier cover (22), a differential mechanism housed in the differential case, and a ring gear (14) secured to the ring differential case. The differential case has a through bore (35,36,42) radially formed in differential case to have the inner space of the differential case held in communication with the outer space of the differential case. The differential carrier has a lubricant oil reservoir portion (28) positioned below the differential case to reserve the lubricant oil therein.

Abstract: To provide a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, containing: a positive electrode, which contains a positive electrode active material capable of inserting and detaching anions; a negative electrode, which contains a negative electrode active material capable of accumulating and releasing metal lithium, or lithium ions, or both thereof; and a nonaqueous electrolyte formed by dissolving a lithium salt in a nonaqueous solvent, wherein the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery contains a solid lithium salt at 25° C., and discharge voltage of 4.0 V.

Abstract: To provide a non-aqueous electrolyte storage element, including: a positive electrode which includes a positive-electrode active material capable of intercalating or deintercalating anions; a negative electrode which includes a negative-electrode active material capable of storing or releasing metallic lithium or lithium ion, or both thereof, a first separator between the positive electrode and the negative electrode; and a non-aqueous electrolyte which includes a non-aqueous solvent and a lithium salt dissolved in the non-aqueous solvent, wherein the non-aqueous electrolyte storage element includes a solid lithium salt at 25° C. and a discharge voltage of 4.0V, wherein the non-aqueous electrolyte storage element includes an ion-exchange membrane between the first separator and the positive electrode, between the first separator and the negative electrode, or between the first separator and the positive electrode and between the first separator and the negative electrode.

Abstract: Differential apparatus capable of guiding and supplying a sufficient amount of lubricant oil to the lubrication elements accommodated in the differential apparatus (6). The differential apparatus comprises a differential case (11), a differential carrier (21), a carrier cover (22), a differential mechanism housed in the differential case, and a ring gear (14) secured to the ring differential case. The differential case has a through bore (35,36,42) radially formed in differential case to have the inner space of the differential case held in communication with the outer space of the differential case. The differential carrier has a lubricant oil reservoir portion (28) positioned below the differential case to reserve the lubricant oil therein.

Abstract: In order to control a camera, so that when an image is displayed on screens an object being captured does not cross a border between the screens, a camera control unit is provided to included a position information acquisition unit, a capturing area determination unit, an angle of view/capturing direction computation unit, a camera control signal generation unit, and a camera control signal sending unit. The capturing area determination unit sets the capturing area of the camera so that the object does not cross the border between the screens, and that all captured objects are displayed in the screens. The angle of view/capturing direction computation unit computes the angle of view and the capturing direction based on the capturing area. The camera control signal generation unit generates a signal for controlling the camera to conform to the angle of view and the capturing direction.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide an access control apparatus for lessening the occasions of invading a place where no entry is permitted without setting any separate access condition for a temporary user of a visitor, etc., in a room entering and leaving management apparatus using personal identification information of an IC card, etc. The access control apparatus of the invention sets the master-slave relationship between identification information possessed by a guide and identification information possessed by a visitor and automatically sets the access permission of the visitor in response to the verification result of the guide.

Abstract: A teleconferencing device includes an image receiving section which receives images from corresponding base, a zoom magnification setting receiving section which receives zoom magnification setting information of a camera of the corresponding base, an image enlargement and reduction ratio derivation section which derives an enlargement or reduction ratio, at which each subject in an image captured by each camera of the corresponding base is displayed on a display of a host base in life-size, on the basis of the zoom magnification setting information and screen size information of the display of the host base, an image enlargement and reduction section which enlarges or reduces the image transmitted from the corresponding base on the basis of the enlargement or reduction ratio, and an image display control section which performs control such that the enlarged or reduced image from each corresponding base is displayed on the display of the host base.

Abstract: A camera control device capable of easily performing control even if more than one camera is provided. A common operation section performs a map operation and a camera operation with the same operation device. An operation management section switches between the map operation and the camera operation depending on the scale (display magnification) of a map and the imaging magnification of a camera to be operated. To perform the map operation, the operation management section sends an operation signal to a map control section, and to perform the camera operation, it sends an operation signal to a camera control section.

Abstract: A purpose of the invention is to provide an image display apparatus capable of allowing a user at its own location to recognize a position of a subsidiary display region on a display screen at a counterpart location. The image display apparatus can configure a plurality of display regions on the display screen. The image display apparatus receives, via a network 120, content display region information for configuring a plurality of display regions 201 and 202 on a display 140 of another image display apparatus, and provides the position of the subsidiary display region 202 in the plurality of display regions 201 and 202 in the another display apparatus based on the received content display region information.

Abstract: The present invention provides a video surveillance system which tracks a tracking target by a plurality of surveillance cameras. This system is capable of tracking completely the location of the tracking target even in case the camera picture is automatically changed in accordance with the moving of the tracking target. The system includes a moving direction detector for detecting the moving direction of a tracking target. Moreover, the system has storage units for storing the passage configuration of a surveillance zone and the camera location information. The system also has a camera selector for identifying a camera which will shoot the tracking target next in accordance with the moving direction information, passage configuration information and camera location information, and a screen composition unit for synthesizing on a screen a picture from a camera shooting the tracking target and a picture from a camera selected by the camera selector.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide an access control apparatus for lessening the occasions of invading a place where no entry is permitted without setting any separate access condition for a temporary user of a visitor, etc., in a room entering and leaving management apparatus using personal identification information of an IC card, etc. The access control apparatus of the invention sets the master-slave relationship between identification information possessed by a guide and identification information possessed by a visitor and automatically sets the access permission of the visitor in response to the verification result of the guide.

Abstract: Camera control apparatus enabling a user to intuitively understand a photographing direction and zoom magnification of a camera at the time of switching over an image, and enabling camera control to be started immediately. At camera control apparatus (120), camera image switching section (121) switches over images of cameras instructed to be switched over to by a user. Zoom magnification control sections (124, 125, 126) acquire zoom magnification of a camera instructed to be switched over to, set zoom magnification of a camera before switching of the camera image switching section (121) to a reference magnification lower than the acquired zoom magnification, and change zoom magnification of the camera after switching from the reference magnification to the acquired zoom magnification. Image display section (122) then displays the image of the camera image switching section (121) has switched over to.

Abstract: One objective of the invention is to simplify a calibration correction operation. According to the present invention, a camera calibration apparatus, which obtains camera parameters based on a correlation between world coordinates, in real space, and image coordinates, in an image recorded by a camera, includes: a calibration unit A113, for obtaining camera parameters by employing a set of coordinates for an index point, for which a coordinate value on the world coordinates is previously known, and a corresponding point on the image coordinates, which is correlated with the index point; a calibration correction unit A114, for detecting a correlation error for a correlation between the world coordinate value of the index point and an image coordinate value of the corresponding point; and a display controller A112, for displaying the detected correlation error on an image display device, by correlating the index point with the corresponding point.

Abstract: To control a camera so that when an image from the camera is displayed on plural arranged screens, an object that is being captured does not cross the border between the screens. A camera control unit includes a position information acquisition unit, a capturing area determination unit, an angle of view/capturing direction computation unit, a camera control signal generation unit, and a camera control signal sending unit. The capturing area determination unit sets the capturing area of the camera so that an object does not cross the border between plural displays, and so that all captured objects are displayed in the plural displays, based on geometric position information. The angle of view/capturing direction computation unit then computes the angle of view and the capturing direction of the camera based on that capturing area. The camera control signal generation unit generates a signal for controlling the camera to conform to the angle of view and the capturing direction.

Abstract: Camera control apparatus enabling a user to intuitively understand a photographing direction and zoom magnification of a camera at the time of switching over an image, and enabling camera control to be started immediately. At camera control apparatus (120), camera image switching section (121) switches over images of cameras instructed to be switched over to by a user. Zoom magnification control sections (124, 125, 126) acquire zoom magnification of a camera instructed to be switched over to, set zoom magnification of a camera before switching of the camera image switching section (121) to a reference magnification lower than the acquired zoom magnification, and change zoom magnification of the camera after switching from the reference magnification to the acquired zoom magnification. Image display section (122) then displays the image of the camera image switching section (121) has switched over to.

Abstract: A camera control device capable of easily performing control even if more than one camera is provided. A common operation section performs a map operation and a camera operation with the same operation device. An operation management section switches between the map operation and the camera operation depending on the scale (display magnification) of a map and the imaging magnification of a camera to be operated. To perform the map operation, the operation management section sends an operation signal to a map control section, and to perform the camera operation, it sends an operation signal to a camera control section.

Abstract: The surveillance system is configured of multi-camera including rotating cameras controllable for panning, tilting and zooming in and out, intruding object recognizing means for processing image signals from the rotating cameras and keeping track of a position of the intruding object, camera function determining means for allocating a tracking function to a first camera whose field of view is in a predetermined direction of the object of monitoring according to a state of the object of monitoring and allocating a wide angle shooting function for shooting a monitored space in a wide angle to a second camera, and camera control means for controlling the multi-camera according to actions of the camera function determining means.

Abstract: A camera control apparatus and method, in that angles required for cameras to train on a position designated by an operator, are calculated from the designated position and directions in which the cameras are currently oriented. On the basis of the thus-calculated angles, a camera requiring the minimum angle from among the plurality of cameras is determined as the camera capable of being trained on the designated position most quickly.