Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a technology for estimating a traveling direction of a lane by using accuracy of external environment information. An information processing device (100) of the present invention includes at least one memory (102 and 103) including a program code and at least one processor (101) configured to execute the program code. The processor is configured to acquire external environment information including at least information regarding a peripheral region of a vehicle, and determine a traveling direction of at least one lane by using a first accuracy (A1) indicating the level of precision of the external environment information.

Abstract: Provided are: a thermoelectric conversion body that has high electrical conductivity, achieving high thermoelectric conversion efficiency when used in a thermoelectric conversion module, and is less susceptible to warpage during manufacture; a method for manufacturing the same; and a thermoelectric conversion module using the same. A thermoelectric conversion body that is a fired product of a composition containing a thermoelectric semiconductor material and a heat resistant resin, wherein, with the heat resistant resin being subjected to temperature elevation and a weight of the heat resistant resin at 400° C. being defined as 100%, a temperature at which the heat resistant resin undergoes a further 5% reduction in weight is 480° C. or lower; a thermoelectric conversion module including the thermoelectric conversion body; and a method for manufacturing the thermoelectric conversion body.

Abstract: This on-vehicle system is to be mounted in a vehicle and is provided with an electronic control device and an externality recognition sensor. The externality recognition sensor is equipped with a sensing unit for acquiring pre-processing externality information through sensing operations. The on-vehicle system is further equipped with: a condition calculation unit that, on the basis of a vehicle position, a vehicle traveling direction, and map information, calculates a processing condition in which information specifying an area on a map is associated with processing priority of the pre-processing externality information acquired by the externality recognition sensor; and a processing object determination unit that, on the basis of the pre-processing externality information and the processing condition, creates externality information having a smaller amount of information compared with the pre-processing externality information.

Abstract: An electronic control device comprises a sensor information acquisition unit which acquires state quantities including a position of an object to be measured using an output of a plurality of sensors, or calculates the state quantities of the object to be measured by using the output of the plurality of sensors, a storage unit which stores position determination information as a condition of a classification related to the position, a position determination unit which classifies the object to be measured by using the position determination information, and a fusion unit which determines, by referring to the state quantities, a match among a plurality of the objects to be measured which are classified identically by the position determination unit and which were measured by different sensors, and fuses the positions of the plurality of objects to be measured determined to be a match, wherein the objects to be measured are objects that can be measured by each of the plurality of sensors.

Abstract: An electronic control device is mounted on a vehicle equipped with a plurality of hardware capable of operation, and comprises an information collection unit which collects external information of the vehicle, a storage unit which stores a plurality of processing specifications which prescribe processing to be executed by each of the plurality of hardware and the external information to be used by the plurality of hardware for performing operation, and an applied condition, which is a condition related to the external information and a status of the plurality of hardware for applying each of the plurality of processing specifications, and a processing control unit which determines one processing specification among the plurality of processing specifications from a correspondence to the condition based on the collected external information and the status of the plurality of hardware, and controls the plurality of hardware based on the determined processing specification.

Abstract: This on-vehicle system is to be mounted in a vehicle and is provided with an electronic control device and an externality recognition sensor. The externality recognition sensor is equipped with a sensing unit for acquiring pre-processing externality information through sensing operations. The on-vehicle system is further equipped with: a condition calculation unit that, on the basis of a vehicle position, a vehicle traveling direction, and map information, calculates a processing condition in which information specifying an area on a map is associated with processing priority of the pre-processing externality information acquired by the externality recognition sensor; and a processing object determination unit that, on the basis of the pre-processing externality information and the processing condition, creates externality information having a smaller amount of information compared with the pre-processing externality information.

Abstract: The present invention provides a malfunction detecting device with which, even if an error exceeding a scope of guarantee occurs in the position or speed of a peripheral object output by a sensor which monitors the periphery of a vehicle, the output from the sensor in which the error exceeding the scope of guarantee has occurred in the position or speed of the peripheral object is detected as abnormal. This malfunction detecting device is characterized in that the malfunction detecting device detects an object using two sensors A, B, and if a difference equal to or greater than a prescribed value arises between state quantities of the detected object, the malfunction detecting device uses standard information relating to the state quantity of the object to determine in which of the two sensors A and B the measurement failure has occurred.

Abstract: An electronic control device comprises a sensor information acquisition unit which acquires state quantities including a position of an object to be measured using an output of a plurality of sensors, or calculates the state quantities of the object to be measured by using the output of the plurality of sensors, a storage unit which stores position determination information as a condition of a classification related to the position, a position determination unit which classifies the object to be measured by using the position determination information, and a fusion unit which determines, by referring to the state quantities, a match among a plurality of the objects to be measured which are classified identically by the position determination unit and which were measured by different sensors, and fuses the positions of the plurality of objects to be measured determined to be a match, wherein the objects to be measured are objects that can be measured by each of the plurality of sensors.

Abstract: An electronic control device is mounted on a vehicle equipped with a plurality of hardware capable of operation, and comprises an information collection unit which collects external information of the vehicle, a storage unit which stores a plurality of processing specifications which prescribe processing to be executed by each of the plurality of hardware and the external information to be used by the plurality of hardware for performing operation, and an applied condition, which is a condition related to the external information and a status of the plurality of hardware for applying each of the plurality of processing specifications, and a processing control unit which determines one processing specification among the plurality of processing specifications from a correspondence to the condition based on the collected external information and the status of the plurality of hardware, and controls the plurality of hardware based on the determined processing specification.

Abstract: The liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes: a thin-film transistor substrate, wherein the thin-film transistor substrate includes an organic insulating film disposed on a drain electrode and provided with a contact hole, the contact hole includes first, second, third, and fourth side wall portions in the given order, an inclination of an upper portion of the second side wall portion is gentler than an inclination of an upper portion of each of the first and third side wall portions, and the contact hole satisfies W2>L, wherein L is a distance from an upper end of the first side wall portion to an upper end of the third side wall portion on a first straight line, and W2 is a maximum distance between one and another upper end of the second side wall portion on a third straight line parallel to the first straight line.

Abstract: The liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes: a thin-film transistor substrate, wherein the thin-film transistor substrate includes an organic insulating film disposed on a drain electrode and provided with a contact hole, the contact hole includes first, second, third, and fourth side wall portions in the given order, an inclination of an upper portion of the second side wall portion is gentler than an inclination of an upper portion of each of the first and third side wall portions, and the contact hole satisfies W2>L, wherein L is a distance from an upper end of the first side wall portion to an upper end of the third side wall portion on a first straight line, and W2 is a maximum distance between one and another upper end of the second side wall portion on a third straight line parallel to the first straight line.

Abstract: The present invention provides a malfunction detecting device with which, even if an error exceeding a scope of guarantee occurs in the position or speed of a peripheral object output by a sensor which monitors the periphery of a vehicle, the output from the sensor in which the error exceeding the scope of guarantee has occurred in the position or speed of the peripheral object is detected as abnormal. This malfunction detecting device is characterized in that the malfunction detecting device detects an object using two sensors A, B, and if a difference equal to or greater than a prescribed value arises between state quantities of the detected object, the malfunction detecting device uses standard information relating to the state quantity of the object to determine in which of the two sensors A and B the measurement failure has occurred.

Abstract: The present invention provides: an object detection device that can appropriately specify, or estimate, the presence region (the vehicle length or the like) of an object, such as another vehicle, that is in the periphery of a vehicle; and a vehicle control system that comprises the object detection device. The present invention comprises: an external environment information acquisition unit 2 that acquires external environment information for different detection regions in the surroundings of a vehicle; and an object presence region setting unit 3 that associates detection results from the external environment information acquisition unit 2 for the different detection regions and specifies, or estimates, object presence regions in which an object is present or in which an object may be present in the surroundings of the vehicle.

Abstract: A communication system comprising computers and a management computer, wherein the computers include a communication control unit configured to control a communication using a session of a terminal. The communication control unit manages a database storing in a plurality of pieces of session information. The management computer includes property management information for managing a property of each of the plurality of pieces of session information. The session information migration control unit is configured to: detect a migration trigger of the plurality of pieces of session information stored in a first database; select the plurality of pieces of session information from the plurality of pieces of session information stored in the first database based on the property management information; determine a migration order for the selected plurality of pieces of session information based on the property of the each of the selected plurality of pieces of session information.

Abstract: A communication system comprising computers and a management computer, wherein the computers include a communication control unit configured to control a communication using a session of a terminal. The communication control unit manages a database storing in a plurality of pieces of session information. The management computer includes property management information for managing a property of each of the plurality of pieces of session information. The session information migration control unit is configured to: detect a migration trigger of the plurality of pieces of session information stored in a first database; select the plurality of pieces of session information from the plurality of pieces of session information stored in the first database based on the property management information; determine a migration order for the selected plurality of pieces of session information based on the property of the each of the selected plurality of pieces of session information.

Abstract: A mobile radio communication system having one or more relay stations and base stations, a gateway, an external device having a route selection function, and a policy control device which selects a main route and a sub route on the basis of residual resources in a radio communication device. The mobile station connected to one radio communication device can select another radio communication device having a large amount of residual resources as a new access point when the one radio communication device cannot be used, to prevent shortage of the radio resources. Also, it is possible to enable a process of selecting the radio communication device as a new access point to be omitted when switching one route to another by determining a sub route as the new access point when a main route is disconnected in advance, to shorten a service disconnection time.

Abstract: It is provided a control apparatus being configured to: calculate a number of groups to which plurality of data processing apparatus are to belong; determine an associated group of each of the plurality of data processing apparatus; determine an operational data item to be assigned to the associated group; determine as an assignment destination of the operational data item assigned to the associated group, any one of the data processing apparatus belonging to the associated group whose number is the minimum count or larger, and determine as an assignment destination of a redundant data item, the data processing apparatus that is different front the data processing apparatus corresponding to an assignment destination of the operational data item; and assign based on determination results, the group of operational data items and a group of the redundant data items to the plurality of data processing apparatus.

Abstract: A scale-out of a gateway server is realized according to a rapid increase in communication volume, without incurring system down. A high-quality communication is provided to priority users even during scaling out the gateway server. A high-quality communication is continuously provided to priority users without incurring the system down even if the scale-out/in of the gateway server is repeated. A bandwidth control apparatus transmits packets to plural virtual nodes equipped in a server device, reads the packets from any high priority queue and any low priority queue which are associated with the subject apparatus, and limits the packets to an upper limit bandwidth determined for each of the virtual nodes, and changes association of the high priority queues and the low priority queues with the virtual node bandwidth limiters according to an instruction from the control server for determining the scale-out/in of the virtual node.

Abstract: A management and orchestration server which manages a plurality of types of virtualized nodes included in server group includes a scaling executing unit configured to command the server group to scale virtual machines included in each of the plurality of types of virtualized nodes, a traffic load measuring unit configured to manage a traffic load of each of the virtual machines, and a scaling amount determining unit configured to determine a number of the virtual machines to be scaled. In this case, the traffic load measuring unit acquires a traffic load for each of the traffic types to be processed by each of the plurality of types of virtualized nodes, and the scaling amount determining unit determines the type of virtualized node for which virtual machines are to be scaled and a number of machines to be scaled based on the traffic loads of the traffic types.

Abstract: In a wireless communication system, when data communication is performed between a relay device and a terminal (in a second path), the same amount of data is required to be transferred between a base station and the relay device (in a third path). An amount of wireless communication resources required is obtained by adding an amount inversely proportional to a capacity of each of the second and third wireless transmission-paths. Therefore, the amount inversely proportional to the capacity of the third path is consumed in excess. Based on a channel quality of a first wireless channel between the base station and the terminal, a channel quality of a second wireless channel between the terminal and the relay station, and a channel quality of a third wireless channel between the base station and the relay station, it is determined whether data communication between the base station and the terminal is relayed.