Abstract: An exemplary information processing system generates an assembled object by assembling a plurality of virtual objects based on an input by a user. The plurality of virtual objects include virtual power objects each configured to provide power to the assembled object and a virtual controller object. While the virtual power object and the virtual controller object are included in the assembled object, the information processing system causes the one or more virtual power objects to operate to move the assembled object in a predetermined traveling direction, and causes a moving direction of the movable object to change based on an input by the user.

Abstract: To provide a controller for AC rotary electric machine which can suppress the increase in the unwanted sound while reducing noise. A controller for AC rotary electric machine switches n pieces of zero phase candidate voltage values in order for every switching period and calculate as a zero phase voltage value; by defining a deviation between the zero phase voltage value and a time lag zero phase voltage value delaying by a j times value of the switching period, as a zero phase time lag deviation value; j is a natural number which minimizes a difference between a half period of a mechanical resonance period, and the j times value of switching period; an effective value of the zero phase time lag deviation value becomes small, compared with an effective value of AC component of the zero phase voltage value.

Abstract: A damping device includes: a housing; a drive-side actuator that includes a drive-side stator and a drive-side mover and is connected to the housing; a damping-side actuator that includes a damping-side stator and a damping-side mover and is connected to the housing; a first signal calculator that generates a drive signal for the drive-side actuator based on a control command; and a second signal calculator that generates, when the drive-side actuator changes from a large to a small jerk state, a drive signal for the damping-side actuator based on a signal obtained by subtracting a displacement suppression command suppressing a displacement of the damping-side mover from a vibration suppression command reducing or offsetting, by a vibration component of the housing produced by driving of the damping-side actuator, a natural frequency component of the housing produced by driving of the drive-side actuator based on the control command.

Abstract: A first offset correction and a second offset correction are switched between in a cycle Tc shorter than an electrical angle cycle of an alternating current rotating machine, the first offset correction is such that a first shift amount is fixed in such a way as to obtain an applied voltage such that at least n-2 phases among phase currents of the alternating current rotating machine can be detected, and the applied voltage is calculated by the first shift amount being subtracted equally from all voltage commands, and the second offset correction is such that a second shift amount is fixed in such a way that a sign of an average value in an electrical angle cycle is reversed with respect to that of an average value in an electrical angle cycle of the first shift amount, and the applied voltage is calculated by the second shift amount being subtracted equally from all the voltage commands.

Abstract: A permanent-magnet-synchronous electric motor control device includes: a reference voltage value calculation unit for calculating a reference voltage value; an output voltage value calculation unit for calculating an output voltage value on the basis of a voltage command; a current weakening command calculation unit for calculating a current weakening command on the basis of the reference voltage value and the output voltage value; a voltage command calculation unit for calculating the voltage command on the basis of the current weakening command; and a power converter for supplying power to a permanent-magnet-synchronous electric motor on the basis of the voltage command. The current weakening command calculation unit calculates the current weakening command in which a high-frequency component is amplified on the basis of the difference between the reference voltage value and the output voltage value.

Abstract: Magnetic sensors each disposed to face each of current paths for each of windings with 2n phases (n is a multiple of three) in an AC rotating machine are included, and when each of a DC component and an AC component in a d-axis sum current and a q-axis sum current obtained by performing a dq-transformation into a two-axis coordinate system on 2n detection currents on the assumption that all current amplitudes of the windings are the same is represented collectively with each of terms expressed by sine functions with different phases to one another, each of the current paths at each of 2n current path arrangement positions is arranged to have a positional relationship where error components are reduced by cancellation among coefficients included at least in one of the terms or by cancellation among values of the terms.

Abstract: To provide a motor controller and an electric power steering apparatus which can suppress torque fluctuation resulting from low detection resolution of angle, with simple calculation, even in condition where the rotational speed of motor is low. A motor controller estimates an angle error correlation value correlated with the angle detection error based on the current command value when a change frequency of the angle detection value is lower than a cutoff frequency of feedback control system which controls a rotation state; corrects the current command value or the angle detection value based on the estimation value of angle error correlation value; and changes the estimation value of angle error correlation value so that the absolute value of angle detection error increases with respect to increase in the current command value, and the absolute value of angle detection error decreases with respect to decrease in the current command value.

Abstract: To reduce a dark current of an image sensor including a photoelectric conversion unit disposed on a back surface of a semiconductor substrate. The image sensor includes a photoelectric conversion unit, a through-electrode, a charge holding unit, a back-side high impurity concentration region, and a front-side high impurity concentration region. The photoelectric conversion unit is disposed on a back surface of a semiconductor substrate and performs photoelectric conversion of incident light. The through-electrode is formed in a shape penetrating from the back surface to a front surface of the semiconductor substrate and transmits a charge generated by the photoelectric conversion. The charge holding unit is disposed on the front surface of the semiconductor substrate and holds the transmitted charge.

Abstract: To provide a controller for AC rotary machine which can detect the field current flowing through the field winding with good accuracy and can suppress the heat generation of the current detection circuit. A controller for AC rotary machine is provided with a bus current detection circuit that detects a bus current which flows through a connection path between a DC power source and a converter; a converter switching control unit that switches a power supply path and a circulation path of the converter; and a current calculation unit that calculates a field current flowing into the field winding, based on a bus current in suppling power detected when switching to the power supply path and a bus current in circulating detected when switching to the circulation path.

Abstract: An error is reduced in phase difference detection of an imaging element including a phase difference pixel with an on-chip lens in common for a pair of pixels. The imaging element includes a pixel, an individual on-chip lens, a plurality of phase difference pixels, a common on-chip lens, and a pixel circuit. The individual on-chip lens individually collects incident light for each pixel. The phase difference pixels are arranged adjacent to each other to detect a phase difference. The common on-chip lens is arranged in common for the plurality of phase difference pixels and collects incident light in common. The pixel circuit is formed in a semiconductor substrate and generates an image signal on the basis of a transferred charge. Charge transfer units of the plurality of phase difference pixels are in a region between the common on-chip lens and the individual on-chip lens.

Abstract: To provide a controller for a rotary machine which can simplify a configuration required for checking the shutoff function of the switching device, and an electric power steering apparatus therewith. A controller for a rotary machine performs a high potential side forcible shutoff which forcibly shuts off a high potential side switching device of a diagnosis object phase in a drive state where the winding current of the diagnosis object phase becomes positive, or a low potential side forcible shutoff which forcibly shuts off a low potential side switching device of the diagnosis object phase in a drive state where the winding current of the diagnosis object phase becomes negative; and determines failure of the device shutoff unit based on a detection value of current or voltage when performing the high potential side forcible shutoff or the low potential side forcible shutoff.

Abstract: A control device for an AC rotary machine includes: a DC power supply; an inverter; a magnetic flux generator; an angle detector; and a control arithmetic unit; wherein the control arithmetic unit is configured to: calculate, based on a positional relationship between a current path and the angle detector, a correction signal for correcting signal errors of a cosine signal and a sine signal, which are caused by a noise magnetic flux component due to at least one of a DC current flowing between the DC power supply and the inverter and multi-phase AC currents flowing between the inverter and armature windings; and control the inverter by using angle information obtained from values after the correction by the correction signal.

Abstract: There is provided an electric power steering device, including: a reverse steering detection unit configured to determine start of reverse steering when a magnitude of a rotational speed of a motor is equal to or smaller than a set speed, a rotational acceleration of the motor is in a direction of causing the rotational speed of the motor to become 0, and a magnitude of the rotational acceleration of the motor is equal to or larger than a set acceleration; and a current command control unit configured to output a current command for the motor based on the steering torque or the rotational speed of the motor, in which the current command control unit is configured to increase a transfer gain from input to output by the current command control unit when the reverse steering detection unit determines start of the reverse steering.

Abstract: A control device applies voltages to an AC rotating machine based on voltage command values on stationary coordinates. Currents in a plurality phases flowing the rotating machine are detected as detection currents. Coordinate conversion is applied to those detection currents based on any phase in the rotating machine, for generate detection currents on rotational coordinates. Voltage command values on the rotational coordinates are generated based on current command values on the rotational coordinates and the detection currents. Coordinate conversion is applied to those voltage command values based on the any phase, for generate first voltage command values on the stationary coordinates. Phases of one of the first voltage command values and generated second voltage command values on the stationary coordinates are corrected to generate the second voltage command values. One of the second and the first voltage command values are selected as the voltage command values on the stationary coordinates.

Abstract: In a current detection apparatus which detects current flowing through the armature windings of plural phases of plural sets using each magnetic sensor which is disposed at a position the magnetic flux radially emitted from the rotor crosses, to provide a current detection apparatus which can suppress that the control accuracy of output torque is deteriorated by the current detection error which occurs due to the magnetic flux of the rotor. A current detection apparatus, wherein in each set, the magnetic sensors of n-phase are disposed so that an absolute value of a detection component of a rotor flux density which is a component of flux density of the rotor detected by the magnetic sensor of each phase become equal with each other.

Abstract: There has been a problem that a rotation second-order angle error due to a phase difference between a sine signal and a cosine signal deviating from ?/2 cannot be reduced. Therefore, provided is an angle detection device that can suppress a second-order angle error caused due to the phase difference between a first sine signal and a second sine signal deviating from ?/2, by calculating a detection angle from a first detection signal based on the sum of two sine signals having different phases and a second detection signal based on the difference of the two sine signals.

Abstract: A power conversion device is configured to acquire, from a current detector at a timing A, a first phase current detection value in a first phase being a phase corresponding to a phase voltage command to be compared to a first carrier wave signal, calculate a first phase current calculation value corresponding to the first phase based on an acquisition result, acquire, from the current detector at a timing B, a second phase current detection value in a second phase being a phase corresponding to a phase voltage command to be compared to a second carrier wave signal, and to calculate a second phase current calculation value corresponding to the second phase based on an acquisition result.

Abstract: Provided is an imaging element including a photoelectric conversion unit formed by stacking a first electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer and a second electrode. The photoelectric conversion unit further includes a charge storage electrode which is disposed to be spaced apart from the first electrode and disposed opposite to the photoelectric conversion layer via an insulating layer. The photoelectric conversion unit is formed of N number of photoelectric conversion unit segments, and the same applies to the photoelectric conversion layer, the insulating layer and the charge storage electrode. An nth photoelectric conversion unit segment is formed of an nth charge storage electrode segment, an nth insulating layer segment and an nth photoelectric conversion layer segment. As n increases, the nth photoelectric conversion unit segment is located farther from the first electrode. A thickness of the insulating layer segment gradually changes from a first to Nth photoelectric conversion unit segment.

Abstract: To provide a motor control device capable of reducing noise without requiring preparation of a plurality of PWM carrier waves, an offset voltage is added equally to each phase of three-phase voltage command values from an inverter to output modified three-phase voltage command values, which are compared to a PWM carrier wave to output three-phase terminal voltages to a motor, and an offset voltage is switched among n offset candidate voltages (n is a natural number of three or more) having different values at set time intervals for output to vary timings to turn on and timings to turn off the three-phase terminal voltages equally for all phases.

Abstract: Provided is a rotation angle detection device including: an intermediate signal generation unit configured to generate an intermediate signal based on a product of a sine signal and a cosine signal which are based on a rotation angle of a rotating body; a first multiplication unit; and a first rotation angle calculation unit. The intermediate signal generation unit includes: a first multiplier configured to calculate the product of the sine signal and the cosine signal; and a first low-pass filter configured to remove frequency components equal to or higher than twice a frequency of fundamental waves of the sine signal and the cosine signal from an output of the first multiplier.