Abstract: Image display device is used in a head-up display. Image display device includes an illumination unit, light guide plate, light beam controller, and display unit. The illumination unit includes a plurality of light sources. Light guide plate includes incident surface into which light from the illumination unit enters, incident surface including a plurality of convex surfaces each of which is opposed to each of the plurality of light sources, and output surface disposed in a direction intersecting incident surface and from which the light incident from incident surface is output. Light beam controller controls a traveling direction of the light output from output surface. Display unit transmits the light output from light beam controller to display an image.

Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a chip resistor that reduces a possibility of occurrence of a mounting failure. The chip resistor of the present disclosure includes: insulating substrate; a pair of first upper-face electrodes that is provided at both end portions of an upper face of insulating substrate; and resistor that is provided on the upper face of insulating substrate and is formed between the pair of first upper-face electrodes. The chip resistor also includes: a pair of second upper-face electrodes that is formed on upper faces of the pair of first upper-face electrodes and is connected to resistor; and protective film that is provided to cover exposed resistor and part of the pair of second upper-face electrodes.

Abstract: An imaging device including an imager that includes first pixels having sensitivity to a first light and second pixels having sensitivity to a second light, a wavelength of the first light being different from a wavelength of the second light, the imager acquiring first image data from the first pixels and acquiring second image data from the second pixels, each of the first image data and the second image data including an image of a code, the code being configured to output the second light; and an image processor. The image processor performs a differential processing based on the first image data and the second image data to generate third image data, and extracts an image of the code from the third image data.

Abstract: A control device for an autonomous driving vehicle includes a first input section, a second input section, and a travel state determination section. The first input section acquires a detection signal of a first sensor that detects another vehicle approaching the intersection. The second input section acquires a detection signal of a second sensor that detects at least one of a gesture of a driver of the other vehicle, a voice of the driver of the other vehicle, a motion of the other vehicle, and a radio signal output from the other vehicle. The travel state determination section generates, upon detection of the other vehicle based on the detection signal of the first sensor, a travel command signal for allowing or restricting entry of the autonomous driving vehicle into the intersection in accordance with an action of the other vehicle predicted based on the detection signal of the second sensor.

Abstract: An entertainment system for a vehicle for a vehicle accommodating a passenger with a personal electronic device executing a screen sharing application. The system information processing devices, with each information processing device including a data processor, and one or more of the information processing devices including a display monitor. The system includes a WLAN access point configured to establish a wireless data communications link with the personal electronic device. A screen sharing server executed by the data processor of one of the information processing devices is receptive to a display data stream generated on the portable electronic device based upon a redirected display output and transmitted to the screen sharing server over the wireless data communications link. The display data stream is transmitted following pairing of the screen sharing application with the information processing device including a display monitor, and the received display data stream rendered thereon.

Abstract: A ventilation fan humidity sensor and case includes a ventilation fan and a housing in which a suction port and an exhaust port are provided, a blowing part that guides air to the exhaust port from the suction port, an orifice that guides air sucked from the suction port to the blowing part via an air exhaust channel that communicates the suction port and the exhaust port, a humidity sensor for detecting humidity of air in the housing, and a humidity sensor case for accommodating the humidity sensor. The humidity sensor case includes a sensor base with a box shape having an opening, a first sensor cap that has a first ventilation hole and covers the opening, and a second sensor cap that has a second ventilation hole and covers the opening inside the first sensor cap.

Abstract: A voltage detection unit detects voltage between both ends of a power storage unit. A current detection unit detects current flowing through the power storage unit. A control unit estimates a state of charge (SOC) of the power storage unit using an open circuit voltage (OCV) method based on the voltage detected by the voltage detection unit and estimates the SOC of the power storage unit using a current integration method based on the current detected by the current detection unit. The control unit compares the SOC estimated using the OCV method with the SOC estimated using the current integration method to determine whether micro short circuit occurs in the power storage unit.

Abstract: A rotational manipulation detector includes: a magnetic material in the shape of a ring and including, disposed alternately in the circumferential direction of the magnetic material, first magnetic portions each having a first cross-sectional area in the circumferential direction and second magnetic portions each having, in the circumferential direction, a second cross-sectional area different from the first cross-sectional area; a first magnet disposed opposite to the magnetic material; and a first Hall element and a second Hall element which are disposed opposite to the magnetic material and detect a change in a magnetic field which occurs when the magnetic material is rotated. The first magnet, the first Hall element, and the second Hall element are disposed side by side along the circumferential direction of the magnetic material.

Abstract: An information processing method includes acquiring, from a device mounted on a vehicle, manual driving information indicating vehicle control for manual driving through a driving route section of the vehicle, acquiring from a device mounted on a vehicle, sensor information acquired via sensing on the vehicle through the driving route section. The information processing method further includes generating automated driving information indicating vehicle control for automated driving through the driving route section, based on the sensor information, and generating automated driving possibility information indicating a possibility of the automated driving through the driving route section, based on the manual driving information and the automated driving information.

Abstract: A control method of controlling, using a distributed ledger, locking or unlocking of one or more storage units, in each of which an item is storable, includes: operating a first smart contract and one or more second smart contracts by a code, stored in the distributed ledger, being executed by a computer, the first smart contract managing the one or more second smart contracts that are in one-to-one correspondence with the one or more storage units; controlling, by each of the one or more second smart contracts, locking or unlocking of a corresponding one of the one or more storage units, the controlling being performed under the management by the first smart contract; and controlling, by the first smart contract, whether to place each of the one or more second smart contracts under the management.

Abstract: A plurality of pixels in a solid-state imaging device each include: a light receiving circuit that includes a light receiving element performing photoelectric conversion, sets, by an exposure signal, a photoelectric time for performing the photoelectric conversion, and outputs a light reception signal depending on whether or not incident light has reached the pixel within the photoelectric time; a counter circuit that counts, as a count value, the number of times the incident light has reached the pixel, based on the light reception signal; a comparison circuit that sets a value corresponding to the count value as a threshold, and sets a comparison signal to an on state in the case where the count value is greater than the threshold; and a storage circuit that stores, as a distance signal, a time signal when the comparison signal is in the on state.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material comprising: a compound which has a crystal structure belonging to space group Fm-3m and which is represented by the following composition formula: LixMeyO?X?. In the formula, the Me represents one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Mn, Ni, Co, Fe, Al, Sn, Cu, Nb, Mo, Bi, Ti, V, Cr, Y, Zr, Zn, Na, K, Ca, Mg, Pt, Au, Ag, Ru, Ta, W, La, Ce, Pr, Sm, Eu, Dy, and Er. The X represents one element selected from the group consisting of Cl, Br, I, N, and S. The following conditions are satisfied: 0.5?x?1.5; 0.5?y?1.0; 1??<2; and 0<??1.

Abstract: An electronic prepared slide includes: an image sensor that has a light receiving surface and receives, on the light receiving surface, light that has passed through a specimen disposed above the light receiving surface; and a removable nonvolatile transparent film that is disposed on the light receiving surface and seals the light receiving surface.

Abstract: A motor vehicle includes a window and a body having a storage space with an opening facing toward the window. A flexible electronic display is movable from a first position overlying the window and a second position within the storage space. The window may be a windshield, and the storage space may be within a roof of the vehicle.

Abstract: A display device includes a light source, a first optical system, a first mirror, a changing element, and a second optical system. The light source emits a light beam. The first optical system converts the light beam emitted from the light source into a collimated light beam. The first mirror reflects the light beam coming through the first optical system while rotating around a first axis. The changing element changes a traveling direction of the light beam reflected by the first mirror. The second optical system deflects the light beam coming through the changing element. The changing element changes the traveling direction of the light beam such that an angle of the light beam in the traveling direction which has been reflected by the first mirror is changed more greatly in a peripheral section than in a central section.

Abstract: A monitoring video analysis system includes a wearable camera that is held or possessed by a user, and a back end server that receives a captured video. The wearable camera records a captured video by capturing a video of a scene for each ten minutes. The back end server determines a face of a person appearing in n (n is an integer of two or more) captured videos by using a plurality of captured videos of the scene for each 10 minutes, and displays a thumbnail list UI in which the determined face of the person is registered, on a monitor.

Abstract: The control unit controls the converter unit not to cause transfer of power between the transformer circuit unit and the converter unit in the first time period including the reversal time period in which a reversal of polarity of the voltage across the primary winding occurs. The control unit controls the converter unit to cause transfer of power in the first direction from the transformer circuit unit to the converter unit or the second direction opposite to the first direction in the second time period different from the first time period.

Abstract: A storage battery rack includes bottom frame portion, ceiling frame portion, long support posts, and side panels installed facing the support posts. Each support post has a plurality of attachment holes with a predetermined pitch along the longitudinal direction. Side panel has a plurality of female screw holes with a pitch corresponding to the predetermined pitch. Each side panel is attached to a pair of the support posts with screws fastened to attachment holes and the female screw holes. Side panel has a plurality of parallel support portions. A distance between support portions is set substantially equal to a total value of a predetermined height dimension of a refrigerant passage formed between a plurality of storage batteries and a predetermined height dimension of each storage battery.

Abstract: A ventilation grille has an annular shape, and includes a panel and a lamp unit. The panel includes an intake opening provided around a central part of the annular shape, and a frame provided around the intake opening. The lamp unit is provided in the central part of the annular shape. The panel has a structure for attaching and detaching the lamp unit.

Abstract: A chip resistor having a predetermined resistance value is manufactured by the following method. A resistive element is provided on an upper surface of an insulating substrate. The resistive element includes a wide portion, a first narrow portion extending from the wide portion, and a part extending from the wide portion, the first narrow portion has a smaller width than the wide portion. First and second electrodes are provided on the upper surface of the insulating substrate. The first electrode is located away from the wide portion. The first electrode contacts the first narrow portion. The first electrode overlaps the first narrow portion when viewed from above. The second electrode contacts the part of the resistive element. The second electrode overlaps the part of the resistive element when viewed from above. A distance between the narrow portion and the wide portion is determined so as to cause a resistance value between the first and second electrodes to be the predetermined resistance value.