Abstract: The present invention provides a technique to accurately recognize a position of a vehicle even in a vicinity of a branch road or a junction road, neither of which is included in map data. The present invention provides a vehicle control device. When a vehicle is traveling on a road that is not described in map data, the vehicle control device is configured to determine whether or not the vehicle is traveling on a junction road or a branch road, based on a positional relationship between a position of the vehicle and a starting point of the junction road or a starting point of the branch road.

Abstract: The present invention provides a technique to accurately recognize a position of a vehicle even in a vicinity of a branch road or a junction road, neither of which is included in map data. The present invention provides a vehicle control device. When a vehicle is traveling on a road that is not described in map data, the vehicle control device is configured to determine whether or not the vehicle is traveling on a junction road or a branch road, based on a positional relationship between a position of the vehicle and a starting point of the junction road or a starting point of the branch road.

Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes: a transmitter; a receiver; a Doppler processor that detects a Doppler shift frequency resulting from a blood flow in a subject, based on a reception signal corresponding to a reflected wave from a sample gate position in the subject; and a velocity scale adjuster that adjusts a velocity scale determining a pulse repetition frequency, based on a Doppler waveform corresponding to the Doppler shift frequency during an observation target period. In a case where a recommendation value of the velocity scale calculated based on the Doppler waveform is larger than a critical value of the velocity scale at which a measurement state calculated based on the sample gate position transitions from a non-high-pulse-repetition-frequency state to a high-pulse-repetition-frequency state, the velocity scale adjuster sets the critical value as the velocity scale to be used in measurement.

Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes: a tomographic image generator that generates a tomographic image showing an inside of a subject, based on a received signal relating to an ultrasonic echo of a first ultrasonic beam transmitted to the subject; a Doppler processor that detects a Doppler shift in frequency from a transmission frequency of a second ultrasonic beam, based on a received signal relating to an ultrasonic echo of the second ultrasonic beam transmitted to the subject; a hardware processor that detects a blood vessel position in the subject based on image information about the tomographic image and sets an angle correction value relating to an intersection angle between a blood vessel extending direction at the blood vessel position and a beam direction of the second ultrasonic beam; and a display processor that generates a Doppler spectrum image representing a distribution of blood flow rate at the blood vessel position.

Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus includes: a frame data generation part that generates frame data by scanning of a subject; and an image generation part that applies image processing on the generated frame data to generate medical image data, wherein the image generation part includes: a region dividing part that divides the generated frame data into frame data of a plurality of sub regions; a pattern classification part that classifies frame data of each of the sub regions in accordance with a pattern; a parameter selection part that selects a parameter for image processing for each sub region in accordance with a classification result of each of the sub regions; and an image processing execution part that applies image processing on frame data of each of the sub regions with use of a selected parameter of each a the sub regions.

Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus that can combine image data and has a first image mode and a second image mode, includes: a hardware processor that sets a scan parameter of an image of a first image mode according to restriction information of the scan parameter, when the second image mode is turned on and generates control information; a transmitter that generates a drive signal and inputs the drive signal to an ultrasound probe that transmits transmission ultrasound to a test object and receives reflected ultrasound; a receiver that generates a reception signal of the images in the first and second image modes from an electric signal generated in the ultrasound probe; a first-image-mode image generator that generates first-image-mode image data; a second-image-mode image generator that generates second-image-mode image data; and a combiner that generates combined image data by combining the generated first-image-mode image data and second-image-mode image data.

Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus transmits ultrasound toward a subject by driving an ultrasound probe in which multiple transducers are arranged in an array, receives a reception signal that is based on waves reflected within the subject from the ultrasound probe, and generates an ultrasound image. The ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes: a scan control section that sets scan conditions so that trapezoidal scanning is performed by the ultrasound probe; and a transmission section that controls driving of the ultrasound probe based on the scan conditions. The scan control section sets the scan conditions so that the inter-acoustic line angles in or around the center of the ultrasound probe are smaller than the inter-acoustic line angles near the edges when viewed along the scan direction.

Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes: a first hardware processor that generates ultrasonic image data, based on a reception signal obtained by an ultrasonic probe that transmits and receives an ultrasonic wave; a storage that stores first image parameters associated with a depth corresponding to an ROI; and a second hardware processor that causes the first hardware processor to generate the ultrasonic image data, based on the first image parameters.

Abstract: A problem of the present invention is to provide a road specifying device which estimates an appropriate own vehicle position even when autonomous driving maps are not prepared for all roads in a driving assisting function which can automate and assist part or all of a driving operation of a passenger, and correctly perform traveling control of the autonomous driving. The road specifying device according to the present invention specifies a road on which an own vehicle is traveling based on autonomous driving map data including road data, navigation map data including data which is the road data and whose contents partially overlaps that of the autonomous driving map data, and position information of the own vehicle whose position is measured by an external positioning system.

Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic device generates a frame reception signal by compounding sub-frame reception signals acquired from a subject body through an ultrasound probe. The sub-frame reception signals are generated through sub-scans composing an ultrasound scan. Between the sub-scans, a range in the scanned subject body differs due to a different ultrasound beam steering angle used. The diagnostic device includes a control circuit with a reception signal acquirer acquiring sub-frame reception signals, and a map creator creating sub-frame enhancement maps corresponding to the sub-frame reception signals, the maps created by calculating, for a pixel region reception signal, an enhancement amount according to a characteristic value calculated based on the pixel region reception signal.

Abstract: A rotor manufacturing method for manufacturing a rotor including a rotor core, the rotor core having a permanent magnet mounted thereon throughout a circumferential direction, includes covering an outer circumference of the rotor core with a tubular rotor cover; and forming an angular portion conforming to an outer shape of the permanent magnet by pressing an open end of the rotor cover radially inward with use of a pressing member, the open end of the rotor cover axially projecting from an end of the rotor core before being pressed.

Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic device generating a frame reception signal by compounding sub-frame reception signals through spatial compounding, the ultrasound diagnostic device including a control circuit that includes a sub-frame enhancement map creator creating a plurality of sub-frame enhancement maps, each corresponding to one sub-frame reception signal, the creating of each of the sub-frame enhancement maps being performed by calculating, for a pixel region reception signal in a corresponding sub-frame reception signal, an enhancement amount in accordance with a characteristic value calculated based on the pixel region reception signal, the pixel region reception signal corresponding to a pixel region composed of one or more pixels, and an enhancement-applied reception signal generator generating an enhancement-applied frame reception signal by compounding pixel region reception signals included in the sub-frame reception signals based on pixel region positions, taking into account the enhancement amount in

Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes an ultrasound probe including a plurality of transducers arranged in a plurality columns and a switching element which switches input of a driving signal to the transducers and output of a receiving signal, a transmitter which outputs the driving signal to the transducers, a receiver which acquires the receiving signal corresponding to the transducers, and a hardware processor which generates ultrasound image data corresponding to each of the columns from the receiving signal, makes partial images in the ultrasound image data respectively have representations, synthesizes the ultrasound image data respectively including the partial images to generate composite image data, generates first identification information indicating to which position in a depth direction of the composite image data each of the representations of the partial images in the composite image data corresponds, and displays the generated first identification information and composite image data on

Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus includes: a frame data generation part that generates frame data by scanning of a subject; and an image generation part that applies image processing on the generated frame data to generate medical image data, wherein the image generation part includes: a region dividing part that divides the generated frame data into frame data of a plurality of sub regions; a pattern classification part that classifies frame data of each of the sub regions in accordance with a pattern; a parameter selection part that selects a parameter for image processing for each sub region in accordance with a classification result of each of the sub regions; and an image processing execution part that applies image processing on frame data of each of the sub regions with use of a selected parameter of each a the sub regions.

Abstract: First transmission information in which an optimum transmitting voltage and a transmitting waveform are associated with each other for each display mode, and second transmission information in which a plurality of transmitting voltage candidates and pulse-width modulation transmitting waveforms that are pulse-width-modulation controlled to respectively correspond to the plurality of transmitting voltage candidates are associated with each other for each display mode are used to extract a maximum transmitting voltage candidate that does not exceed an optimum transmitting voltage of a first display mode from a plurality of transmitting voltage candidates included in the second transmission information of a second display mode so as to determine a common transmitting voltage used in common for the first display mode and the second display mode based on the optimum transmitting voltage of the first display mode and/or the maximum transmitting voltage candidate.

Abstract: A distance factor learning device includes: a first learner that updates a first estimated value for the distance factor and a first parameter, based upon a measurement quantity, which is calculated based upon the vehicle speed pulses and the GPS information, the first estimated value for the distance factor and the first parameter; a second learner that updates a second estimate a value for the distance factor and a second parameter, based upon the measurement quantity, which is calculated based upon the vehicle speed pulses and the GPS information, the second estimated value for the distance factor and the second parameter; a difference calculation unit that calculates a difference between the first estimated value and the second estimated value; and an arithmetic operation control unit that overwrites the first parameter and the first estimated value at the first learner with the second parameter and the second estimated value at the second learner when the difference between the first estimated value and

Abstract: The rotor includes the rotor core unit and a single cylindrical rotor cover. The rotor core unit has the rotor core fixed to a rotation axis so as to be able to rotate integrally therewith and a plurality of permanent magnets mounted on the rotor core along a circumferential direction thereof. The single cylindrical rotor cover has the upper surface portion and the bottom portion so as to cover an outer circumference of the rotor core. The upper surface portion is in contact with an outer circumferential edge portion of on one end surface in an axial direction of the permanent magnets. The bottom portion is in contact with at least one of the permanent magnets and the rotor core so that the rotor core unit is held in the axial direction by the upper surface portion and the bottom portion.

Abstract: Lateral sides of an engine and a fuel tank are covered with a tank cowling formed by connecting a front cowling and a rear cowling. The front cowling is provided with a flange in which a through hole is formed. The long sides of the through hole are formed in parallel with a cylinder axis of a cylinder section. A gate provided on a lower connecting edge portion of the rear cowling with which the flange overlaps is inserted into the through hole and connected by the clip. The front cowling and the rear cowling are fastened through a bolt on a vehicle body side above and below the connecting section by the clip. With this structure, the force applied to the connecting section is reduced and the connecting section is decreased in size.

Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, including a transceiver for sequentially generating multiple received signals, a color flow mapping signal processing unit that generates blood flow velocity data based on the multiple received signals, and a residual image processing unit that includes an aliasing determination unit and a persistence calculation unit and performs residual image processing on blood flow velocity data, an aliasing determination unit that adds the blood flow velocity data Vcurrent for the most recent frame and the blood flow velocity data Vout-1 for the frame preceding the most recent frame, performs aliasing determination on the frame that was determined by a frame before the most recent frame based on the aliasing determination results of the blood flow velocity data, and a persistence calculation unit that performs a persistence calculation after performing a correction to the blood flow velocity data in which aliasing has occurred.

Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus that can combine image data and has a first image mode and a second image mode, includes: a hardware processor that sets a scan parameter of an image of a first image mode according to restriction information of the scan parameter, when the second image mode is turned on and generates control information; a transmitter that generates a drive signal and inputs the drive signal to an ultrasound probe that transmits transmission ultrasound to a test object and receives reflected ultrasound; a receiver that generates a reception signal of the images in the first and second image modes from an electric signal generated in the ultrasound probe; a first-image-mode image generator that generates first-image-mode image data; a second-image-mode image generator that generates second-image-mode image data; and a combiner that generates combined image data by combining the generated first-image-mode image data and second-image-mode image data.