Abstract: An optical sensor including: a semiconductor layer including a source region and a drain region; a gate electrode facing a region between the source region and the drain region; a photoelectric conversion layer between the region and the gate electrode; and a first transistor having a first gate coupled to one of the source region and the drain region.

Abstract: A fluoride ion conductor contains rubidium, magnesium, and fluorine. In an average composition of the fluoride ion conductor, the ratio of the number of moles of the magnesium to the total number of moles of the rubidium and the magnesium is less than 0.4.

Abstract: According to the present invention, an electrochemical device includes: a positive electrode containing, as a positive electrode active material, a conductive polymer that is to be doped and dedoped with anions, a negative electrode containing a negative electrode active material that occludes and releases lithium ions, and an electrolytic solution containing anions and lithium ions. In a charged state of the electrochemical device, an amount A (mol) of anions that are doped into the conductive polymer and are contained in the positive electrode and an amount B (mol) of the anions contained in the electrolytic solution satisfy a relational expression: 1.1?B/A?2.8.

Abstract: A refrigerant compressor comprises an electric component; and a compression component which is driven by the electric component and compresses a refrigerant. At least one of slide members included in the compression component is made of an iron-based material. An oxide coating film (150) is provided on a slide surface of the iron-based material, the oxide coating film including a first portion (151), a second portion (152), and/or a third portion (153). The first portion (151) contains at least fine crystals (155). The second portion (152) contains columnar grains (156). The third portion (153) contains layered grains (157).

Abstract: An apparatus includes a memory, and circuitry which, in operation, performs operations including, storing, in the memory, an object occurrence map defining an occurrence area where there is a possibility that an object appears, detecting the object included in a captured image of a scene seen in a running direction of a vehicle, switching a vehicle drive mode, based on a result of the detection of the object and the object occurrence map, from an automatic drive mode in which the vehicle is automatically driven to a manual drive mode in which the vehicle is driven manually by a driver, and controlling driving of the vehicle in the switched manual drive mode.

Abstract: A mold includes a rugged pattern layer, an inorganic sheet layer, and an elastic sheet layer. The inorganic sheet layer is formed of an inorganic material and supports the rugged pattern layer. The elastic sheet layer supports the inorganic sheet layer.

Abstract: A vehicle state determination device includes an input unit and a controller. The input unit receives sidewalk information indicating a state of a sidewalk region which a moving body passes through and roadway information indicating a state of a roadway region adjacent to the sidewalk region. The controller determines whether or not a sidewalk entering operation is possible based on the sidewalk information and the roadway information. The sidewalk entering operation is an operation in which a vehicle trying to enter the roadway region by crossing the sidewalk region enters the sidewalk region.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary cell comprising: a positive electrode having a positive electrode mixture layer that contains a first positive-electrode active material and a second positive-electrode active material; a negative electrode containing a lithium-titanium composite oxide as a negative-electrode active material; and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The volume per mass of pores in the first positive-electrode active material having a pore diameter of 100 nm or less is four or more times the volume per mass of pores in the second positive-electrode active material having a pore diameter of 100 nm or less. The content of the first positive-electrode active material is 30 mass % or less with respect to the total amount of the first positive-electrode active material and the second positive-electrode active material.

Abstract: A dome type surveillance camera includes a plurality of cameras, and a controller which causes to display, on a display, video data of images captured by the plurality of cameras. One camera of the plurality of cameras is movable so that an imaging direction of the one camera turns toward a top of a cover which covers the plurality of cameras. The controller places, horizontally in a line, the images from some of the plurality of cameras, which do not turn toward the top, on the display, and places, substantially in a middle of and beneath or above the line, the image from the one camera which is movable so as to turn toward the top.

Abstract: A light source unit includes a substrate and a light source. The light source is mounted on the substrate. At least one sensor is configured to detect the infrared light. The at least one sensor detects a wavelength component of the infrared light in a range of wavelengths from 920 nm to 960 nm better than a wavelength component of the infrared light out of the range. The light source device emits the infrared light having a peak wavelength smaller than 920 nm when the light source has a temperature of 25° C. or lower. The peak wavelength of the infrared light emitted from the light source device increases as the temperature of the light source increases from the temperature of 25° C.

Abstract: A projection apparatus includes a plurality of two-fluid nozzles, a projection-apparatus-side-gas-flow-path, a gas valve, a projection-apparatus-side-liquid-flow-path, a liquid valve, a projector, a mist concentration measurer, and a controller. The controller starts and stops spraying of a mist by controlling the gas valve and the liquid valve on the basis of an image or a video projected onto a screen from the projector. The controller receives a signal indicating a mist concentration from the mist concentration measurer, starts and stops spraying of the mist by controlling the gas valve and the liquid valve on the basis of the received signal, and thus controls the mist concentration.

Abstract: In order to prevent occurrence of the significantly frequent transmission of messages, a user terminal is configured such that, when a reception power of a target cell is equal to or greater than a first threshold value ThLOW, the user terminal starts preparation for a handover to the target cell, and when the reception power is equal to or greater than a second threshold value ThHIGH, the user terminal performs the handover to the target cell, and that, until a waiting time has elapsed after performing the handover, the user terminal, by using a timer, performs a timing control for maintaining an immediate handover state in which the user terminal can immediately perform a handover, and, when the waiting time has elapsed, the user terminal ends the immediate handover state.

Abstract: A long-term predictor predicts long-term predicted power indicating temporal changes in consumed power of a customer using a long-term prediction model. A short-term predictor predicts short-term predicted power indicating temporal changes in the consumed power of the customer immediately after a current time, using a short-term prediction model, based on temporal changes in the consumed power of the customer immediately before the current time. A controller controls charging and discharging of a power storage apparatus at intervals based on the long-term predicted power and the short-term predicted power. The controller predicts temporal changes in charging power, discharging power, and charged electric energy of the power storage apparatus, and when the charged electric energy is predicted to reaches a lower limit due to discharging of the power storage apparatus, the controller charges power from the power network to the power storage apparatus in advance.

Abstract: A signal processing apparatus for a tool including a rotating body rotated by impacts delivered from a drive apparatus is provided with: a filter a calculation circuit and a control circuit. The filter receives a torque value signal indicating a torque applied to the rotating body, and filters the torque value signal. The calculation circuit sets a filter coefficient of the filter based on a number of impacts delivered to the rotating body. The control circuit controls the impacts delivered to the rotating body, based on the torque value signal filtered by the filter.

Abstract: A processing system sets up two or more circuits of a plurality of circuits as two or more processing circuits. The two or more processing circuits subject respective input signals from a sensor to signal processing. The processing system sets up at least one circuit of the plurality of circuits to serve as a reference circuit. The at least one circuit being smaller in number than the two or more processing circuits and being other than the processing circuits. The determination circuit is configured to perform abnormality determination for a determination target circuit which is any one of the two or more processing circuits based on a comparison result between an output signal of the determination target circuit and an output signal of the reference circuit.

Abstract: The user can readily determine a battery station where a battery exchange can be performed without fail. A management server searches a battery station that suits a battery configuration of an electric vehicle operated by each user according to management information on the battery configuration thereof, and to transmit a guidance screen for guiding the user to the searched battery station to the terminal device carried by the user. In particular, the user is guided to a station where the number of fully charged battery devices in a battery exchanger is equal to or greater than the number of battery devices used by the electric vehicle.

Abstract: One embodiment can provide a system for detecting anomaly for high-dimensional sensor data associated with one or more machines. During operation, the system can obtain sensor data from a set of sensor associated with one or machines, apply data exploration techniques on the sensor data to automatically process sensor data to identify a subset of feature sensors from the available set of feature sensors, apply an unsupervised machine-learning technique to the identified subset of feature sensors and the target sensor to learn a set of pair-wise univariate models, and determine whether and how an anomaly occurs in the operation of the one or more machines based on the set of pair-wise univariate models.

Abstract: A method, system, and medium used in unauthorized communication detection in an onboard network system having electronic control units connected to a network include: identifying, from information relating to an attack message on the onboard network system, a communication pattern indicating features of the attack message; determining whether a candidate reference message matches the communication pattern; and determining a reference message used as a reference in determining whether or not a message sent out onto the network is an attack message, using results of the determining of whether or not the candidate reference message matches the communication pattern identified in the identifying operation.

Abstract: To detect connection between a secondary battery and a charger, determine whether or not a state of the secondary battery is stabilized in a case of detecting the connection, measure a first open circuit voltage that is an open circuit voltage before charging of the secondary battery in a case of determining that a state of the secondary battery is stabilized, instruct the charger to start charging of the secondary battery, detect end of charging of the secondary battery, determine whether or not a state of the secondary battery is stabilized in a case of detecting end of charging of the secondary battery, measure a second open circuit voltage that is an open circuit voltage after charging of the secondary battery in a case of determining that a state of the secondary battery is stabilized, and notify the user of end of charging of the secondary battery.

Abstract: A content selection method using a computer includes: acquiring a plurality of images related to intensities of at least one emotion; displaying the plurality of images in a selectable manner in a display; acquiring an intensity of the at least one emotion to which an image that a user has selected from the plurality of images is related and designating the acquired intensity as a current emotional state that indicates a user's current emotional state; acquiring a target emotional state that indicates an emotional state that the user has set as a target; determining a content to be used to change the current emotional state to the target emotional state; and outputting the content.