Abstract: A voice output device includes a voice output controller configured to determine, when a message reception unit receives a message, whether a start condition to be satisfied when a person intended to receive the message normally listens to voice in the predetermined space is satisfied, and cause a voice output unit to start voice output of the message when the start condition is satisfied and suspend voice output of the message when the start condition is not satisfied. The voice output is not immediately performed in response to a reception of a message but is performed only when the person intended to receive the message normally listens to the message, and the voice output of the message is suspended in other cases.

Abstract: An operating device includes a control knob, an actuator, a first switch, a second switch, and a holder. An accommodating space of the holder is defined by a first accommodating portion extending in a first direction. A first arm is accommodated in a first accommodating portion. A second arm is accommodated in a second accommodating portion. The first arm or the first accommodating portion includes an allowance portion that allows for tilting of the actuator in the second direction, without interference between the first arm and the first accommodating portion. The second arm or the second accommodating portion includes an allowance portion that allows for tilting of the actuator in the first direction, without interference between the second arm and the second accommodating portion.

Abstract: The location system includes two measurers apart from each other and configured to measure first and second variables in accordance with times of arrival of radio waves and first reception strengths, respectively; a memory configured to store first data associating a plurality of zones with first and second reference variables corresponding to times of arrivals of radio waves with respect to the two measurers for a case where the radio waves are transmitted from the plurality of zones, and second data associating the plurality of zones with first and second reference reception strengths with respect to the two measurers for the case where the radio waves are transmitted from the plurality of zones; and a processor configured to identify from among the plurality of zones a zone having a highest probability of including a position from where radio waves are transmitted.

Abstract: An electrostatic-capacitive proximity detecting device includes an electrode unit including a plurality of electrodes linearly arranged along one direction; an electrostatic capacitance detector that drives the electrodes in a time division manner and detects detection values corresponding to electrostatic capacitances between a to-be-detected object and the respective electrodes; and a position detector that detects a position of the to-be-detected object in the one direction, based on arrangement positions of the respective electrodes in the one direction and a bias in magnitudes of the detection values detected for the respective electrodes by the electrostatic capacitance detector.

Abstract: The illuminated push-button switch device includes a shell-portion enclosing a switch element and a light source and having one or more opening-portions protruding from an upper surface of the shell-portion; a button-portion provided to cover the opening-portions, the button-portion being vertically movable along the opening-portions; and a panel-portion surrounding an outside of the button-portion and provided on the upper surface of the shell-portion, wherein gap is provided between the panel-portion and the button-portion in a top view, wherein the upper surface of the shell-portion extends along a plane perpendicular to a vertical movement direction of the button-portion, and a slope-portion at a predetermined angle with respect to the upper surface is formed on a portion of the upper surface situated under the gap, and wherein a height of the slope-portion along the vertical movement direction gradually decreases from a button-portion side to a panel portion side.

Abstract: An acoustic device includes a main body case, a vibrating body provided inside of the main body case, a magnetic circuit unit disposed in front of the vibrating body in a sound emitting direction of the vibrating body, a coil located inside of a magnetic gap of the magnetic circuit unit, a bobbin configured to support the coil and vibrate along with the vibrating body, and a damper configured to connect the main body case to the bobbin. The damper is disposed in the rear of the vibrating body, and a damper regulation unit is provided in the rear of the damper at a position facing the damper.

Abstract: An exchange-coupled film includes a antiferromagnetic layer and a pinned magnetic layer including a ferromagnetic layer stacked together, the antiferromagnetic layer having a structure including an IrMn layer, a first PtMn layer, a PtCr layer, and a second PtMn layer stacked in that order, the IrMn layer being in contact with the pinned magnetic layer. The second PtMn layer preferably has a thickness of more than 0 ? and less than 60 ?, in some cases. The PtCr layer preferably has a thickness of 100 ? or more, in some cases. The antiferromagnetic layer preferably has a total thickness of 200 ? or less, in some cases.

Abstract: A contactless input device includes a plurality of sensor electrodes and a determination unit. The plurality of sensor electrodes are configured to, when a hand performs an operational input over an operating surface of an operating part in a contactless manner, detect individual capacitances correlated to proximity of the hand to the operating surface. The determination unit is configured to calculate sharpnesses of the hand at a plurality of different locations in plan view based on the respective capacitances detected by the plurality of sensor electrodes and determine a location of the operational input based on the sharpnesses.

Abstract: A drive signal output section of a vibration generator outputs a one-shot drive signal, as a first drive signal, that rises on a positive side when a vibrator is vibrated, that has a voltage changing on the positive side, and that applies force to move the vibrator or a vibration target vibrated in conjunction with the vibration of the vibrator in a first direction, and thereafter, outputs a one-shot drive signal, as a second drive signal, such that a timing when a movement of the vibrator or the vibration target peaks in a second direction that is opposite to the first direction coincides with a timing of start of rise of the signal, so as to increase amplitude of the vibration of the vibrator or the vibration target by the one-shot signal that is not displaced on a negative side.

Abstract: A sensor interface circuit includes: an RF switch having a control node; a bias circuit electrically connected to the control node and applying, to the control node, a voltage at a first level or a second level corresponding to a linear region of a reflection characteristic; a first variable oscillation circuit electrically connectable to a first sensor; a second variable oscillation circuit electrically connectable to a second sensor; and a difference circuit electrically connected between the first variable oscillation circuit and the bias circuit, and between the second variable oscillation circuit and the bias circuit.

Abstract: A voice output from an i-th audio source apparatus is adjusted with a frequency transfer function Wii(f) set in an i-th noise reduction filter and is output from an i-th speaker. In the noise reduction filter, a frequency transfer function Wii(f) is set in which the sound is made smaller at frequencies where the gain of the frequency transfer function Cim(f) from the SPKi to a user tends to be relatively larger than the gain of the frequency transfer function Cii(f) from the SPKi to the user, and the sound is increased at frequencies where the gain of Cim(f) tends to be relatively smaller than the gain of Cii(f), where m is an integer excluding i from 1 to n.

Abstract: A reflectance/transmittance of an optical device disposed at a position through which image light emitted from a liquid crystal display displaying an icon passes is changed according to an anti-glare level to achieve anti-glare of the reflected image. A color of the icon displayed on the liquid crystal display is adjusted such that the higher the transmittance of the optical device is, the lower the lightness is, so that the icon of a similar color is visually recognized regardless of the reflectance/transmittance of the optical device.

Abstract: An input apparatus includes a detection unit that repeatedly generates a detection signal according to a degree of proximity of the object, a drift simulation unit that generates a drift simulated signal that undergoes a change having correlation with a drift in the detection signal due to repeated generation of the detection signal in the detection unit, and a correction unit that corrects the detection signal according to the change in the drift simulated signal at least one of when repeated generation of the detection signal in the detection unit is started and when an interval for repeatedly generating the detection signal in the detection unit is changed.

Abstract: One form of a displaying unit combines a first screen, a second screen, and a third screen generated by a rendering unit so as to be arranged in a horizontal direction, and displays the combined screens on a display unit. A timer counter circuit causes the abnormality monitoring unit to set the black screen layer ON of the screen in which normality of each part related to the screen cannot be detected at a time interval shorter than a predetermined time, and the displaying unit displays the screen in a black screen by superimposing and displaying a black screen layer on the screen in which the black screen layer of being ON has been set.

Abstract: A display device and a display system are provided with an anti-glare layer (AG layer) between a liquid crystal display on which to display a video and an optical device that is disposed at a position through which image light emitted from the liquid crystal display passes, has a reflective polarizing plate, and is capable of controlling reflectance/transmittance of incident light. Since light reflected by a color filter of the liquid crystal display is out of phase due to scattering in the AG layer, the degree of interference is reduced, leading to reduction in the appearance of an iridescent image due to interference light. In addition, since external light scattered or diffused by the AG layer and the reflected light of the external light do not have a polarization characteristic, and thus, most of a component thereof toward the outside is reflected by the reflective polarizing plate, which reduces a situation in which a region around a bright reflected image appears cloudy.

Abstract: A magnetic angle sensor outputs a component Vs in a Y direction where a vibration system of a synthetic vector of a magnetic vector of a magnetic circuit of a speaker and a magnetic vector of a displacement detection magnet fixed on the vibration system and a component Vc in an X direction orthogonal to the Y direction. A test signal is applied to the speaker, and collection of (Vs, Vc) and a measurement of a Y-direction displacement of the vibration system by a displacement meter are performed. A conversion equation “z=a1xVs+a2xVc” for the first principle component is obtained by principle component analysis on collected (Vs, Vc), and a conversion equation “y=b1xz2+b2xz+b3” for conversion to a displacement y is obtained by polynomial regression on the Y-direction displacement y of the displacement detection magnet obtained from a measurement value of the displacement meter and z calculated from collected (Vs, Vc).