Abstract: An anti-drunk driving apparatus for a vehicle including: an alcohol drinking determination device which determines whether or not a first person seated in a driver's seat is drunk; a driving restriction device which restricts driving of the vehicle in a case where it is determined that the first person seated in the driver's seat is drunk by the alcohol drinking determination device; a driving intention presumption device which presumes whether or not a second person seated in the driver's seat has an intention to drive; a photograph device which photographs the faces of the first and second persons; and a person identification device which determines whether or not the first and second persons are the same by comparing their faces in images, wherein if it is determined that the first and the second persons are not the same, the driving restriction device restricts driving of the vehicle.

Abstract: In a sight line vector detecting system comprising: an infrared light source for illuminating either an eye or a face; a camera for photographing either the eye or the face; and a computer for processing photographed image data of said camera so as to calculate a sight line vector, the computer includes an image processing unit for detecting the true luminance point and the center of the pupil from the photographed image data; and a calculating unit for calculating the sight line vector; and the image processing unit performs such a processing operation that the image processing unit determines a luminance point capable of satisfying a predetermined requirement as the true luminance point among luminance points having the pupils at near places, calculates a center of the pupils, and further, calculates a center of a cornea ball.

Abstract: A data converting device includes a first receiving section which receives vehicle driving data of a vehicle from an engine control unit for performing driving control of an engine mounted on the vehicle, and a control section which converts the vehicle driving data into a music performance format, and outputs the converted data.

Abstract: Microphones are provided at an air inlet of the engine and a vehicle-cabin-side wall surface of an engine room, and engine sounds are picked up. The engine sound is processed by a signal processing section, and the processed engine sound is output from a speaker provided in a vehicle cabin. The signal processing section is provided with a filter which simulates a sound insulation characteristic of the vehicle cabin and a transformation section for processing the engine sound according to driving condition. A spectrum transformation characteristic of the transformation section is determined according to values detected by a vehicle speed sensor, an engine speed sensor, and an accelerator depression sensor, and a spectrum of the engine sound is transformed by means of specification of the spectrum transformation characteristic, thereby enhancing an engine sound.

Abstract: An object such as a person is extracted from images captured by cameras (2R, 2L) to determine the degree of vertical symmetry of the object (step 33). In the case where the degree of vertical symmetry is determined to be high, the object is determined to be other than a living body (step 33a). In the case where the degree of vertical symmetry is determined to be low, the object is determined likely to be a living body (step 33b). In the case where determined likely to be a living body, the object is further determined to be a predetermined kind of living body (for example, a person) or not based on the image of the object (steps 34 and 35). This allows an extremely reliable and simple determination of whether the type of the object extracted from the image captured by the camera is a living body such as a person.

Abstract: A line of sight detection apparatus includes: a line of sight detection device which detects the line of sight of an occupant; an operation detection device which detects the operation of on-board equipment by the occupant; and a calibration device which calibrates a detection value of the line of sight detection device based on the operation of the on-board equipment by the occupant which is detected by the operation detection device and position data of the on-board equipment.

Abstract: A sight line vector detecting method includes: emitting LED light beams from LED light sources arranged on both sides of a camera to an eye; photographing the eye by the camera; acquiring a plane which includes one light source position of the LED light sources, a lens center position of the camera, and a spatial position on a photographed image as to one luminescent spot on a cornea spherical surface, and another plane which includes the other light source position, the lens center position of the camera, and a spatial position on the photographed image as to the other luminescent spot on the cornea spherical surface; acquiring a line of intersection between the two planes; acquiring a center of a cornea ball which is on the intersection line and satisfies a predetermined condition; and acquiring a center of a pupil.

Abstract: A line-of-sight detection method in an imaging system which includes a camera for photographing a face and right and left eyes and a light source for irradiating the right and left eyes with infrared rays, said line-of-sight detection method comprising: obtaining a center point of a pupil of at least one of the right and left eyes; obtaining a center point of a cornea spherical surface of said at least one of the right and left eyes; and obtaining a direction of a vector headed from said center point of said cornea spherical surface to said center point of said pupil, wherein a data based on a morphological information is used in obtaining said center point of said pupil.

Abstract: A high dielectric composite material obtained by subjecting submicron particles of an inorganic filler containing a metal as its essential component to an insulating treatment such as a chemical treatment, further subjecting to a surface treatment for improving their compatibility with organic resins, and then dispersing in an organic resin, has a dielectric constant of 15 or above, with its dielectric loss tangent in the frequency region of from 100 MHz to 80 GHz being 0.1 or less, and can therefore be used effectively for multilayer wiring boards and module substrates.

Abstract: An electronic device for high frequency signals having a small dielectric loss and a high efficiency is provided, in which a low dielectric loss tangent resin composition is used, for coping with high frequency signals, as an insulating layer. The electronic device is fabricated using an insulating layer containing a crosslinked structure of a crosslinking ingredient represented by the following general formula (I): (where R represents a hydrocarbon skeleton, R1, which may be identical or different from each other, represents a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group of 1 to 20 carbon atoms, R2, R3 and R4, which may be identical or different from each other, each represents a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group of 1 to 6 carbon atoms, m is an integer of 1 to 4 and n is an integer of 2 or greater).

Abstract: An apparatus for a vehicle for protection of a colliding object is provided, which includes one of a collision prediction module that delivers a precautionary signal when the collision prediction module predicts a collision of the vehicle with the object and a collision detection module that delivers a collision signal when the collision detection module detects the collision, an air bag which deploys on either a hood of the vehicle or an outside of its windshield when the collision is either predicted by the collision prediction module or detected by the collision detection module, a camera for taking a forward image of the vehicle and a monitor disposed in a cabin of the vehicle. In the apparatus, the monitor displays the image taken by the camera when the monitor receives one of the precautionary signal and the collision signal.

Abstract: A thermosetting resin composition is produced by heat treating a mixture of a polyaddition thermosetting resin, a silicic compound of the formula wherein R is an organic group containing a functional group that causes an addition reaction with the curing agent and R5 and R6 are independently a methyl group or an ethyl group, and water and adding a curing agent of the polyaddition thermosetting resin to the mixture that has undergone heat treatment.

Abstract: A three-dimensional sound reproducing apparatus is configured by cascading a sound field effect adding unit and a crosstalk canceling unit. The sound field effect adding unit adds a predetermined three-dimensional sound field effect to an input audio signal, thereby generating audio signals respectively corresponding to left and right channels. The crosstalk canceling unit performs a calculation process on the audio signals of the two channels so that, when the audio signals are respectively generated by two loudspeakers positioned in front of a listener, the audio signals reach the left and right ears of the listener without producing crosstalk. The resulting audio signals are supplied to the loudspeakers, respectively.

Abstract: A three-dimensional sound reproducing apparatus is configured by cascading a sound field effect adding unit and a crosstalk canceling unit. The sound field effect adding unit adds a predetermined three-dimensional sound field effect to an input audio signal, thereby generating audio signals respectively corresponding to left and right channels. The crosstalk canceling unit performs a calculation process on the audio signals of the two channels so that, when the audio signals are respectively generated by two loudspeakers positioned in front of a listener, the audio signals reach the left and right ears of the listener without producing crosstalk. The resulting audio signals are supplied to the loudspeakers, respectively.

Abstract: A solvent-free thermosetting resin composition which comprises an epoxy resin (a) and a product (b) of the reaction of an organosilicon compound, represented by the general formula (1) (where R is an organic group containing a functional group reactive with an epoxy resin by addition reaction; and R1 is a methyl or ethyl group), with water, the product (b) containing organosilicon compound polycondensates formed in the epoxy resin (a) and having a degree of polycondensation of 2 or higher, and which has a low viscosity at a room temperature (25° C.) and gives a cured resin having intact material properties, especially intact high-temperature mechanical properties; a process for producing the resin composition; and a product obtained by applying the composition.

Abstract: An organic polymer film of low dielectric constant and high heating resistance which is applicable as an insulating layer of a semiconductor devices is provided, as well as a manufacturing method for the film and a semiconductor device incorporating the film.

Abstract: A line-of-sight detection method in an imaging system which includes a camera for photographing a face and right and left eyes and a light source for irradiating the right and left eyes with infrared rays, said line-of-sight detection method comprising: obtaining a center point of a pupil of at least one of the right and left eyes; obtaining a center point of a cornea spherical surface of said at least one of the right and left eyes; and obtaining a direction of a vector headed from said center point of said cornea spherical surface to said center point of said pupil, wherein a data based on a morphological information is used in obtaining said center point of said pupil.

Abstract: A high dielectric composite material obtained by subjecting submicron particles of an inorganic filler containing a metal as its essential component to an insulating treatment such as a chemical treatment, further subjecting to a surface treatment for improving their compatibility with organic resins, and then dispersing in an organic resin, has a dielectric constant of 15 or above, with its dielectric loss tangent in the frequency region of from 100 MHz to 80 GHz being 0.1 or less, and can therefore be used effectively for multilayer wiring boards and module substrates.

Abstract: An organic polymer film of low dielectric constant and high heating resistance which is applicable as insulating layers of semiconductor devices, a method of manufacturing the organic polymer film, and a semiconductor device using the organic polymer film.

Abstract: A three-dimensional sound reproducing apparatus is configured by cascading a sound field effect adding unit and a crosstalk canceling unit. The sound field effect adding unit adds a predetermined three-dimensional sound field effect to an input audio signal, thereby generating audio signals respectively corresponding to left and right channels. The crosstalk canceling unit performs a calculation process on the audio signals of the two channels so that, when the audio signals are respectively generated by two loudspeakers positioned in front of a listener, the audio signals reach the left and right ears of the listener without producing crosstalk. The resulting audio signals are supplied to the loudspeakers, respectively.