Abstract: A printer includes: a head; a lamp; a condenser lens; a platen; and a lamp cover. The head is configured to eject a light-curable ink onto a printing object. The lamp is movable relative to the printing object in a main scanning direction, and is configured to emit light to irradiate the printing object. The condenser lens is configured to focus the light emitted from the lamp. The platen is configured to support the printing object and to move in a sub scanning direction relative to the head. The lamp cover has translucency, and includes one end portion and the other end portion in the sub scanning direction. Each of the one end portion and the other end portion has an adjustment part. The adjustment part is configured to adjust the light transmitted through the lamp cover by blocking part of the light or diffusing the light.

Abstract: A curing device includes a light emitting member, and a control device. The light emitting member has a light source configured to emit light to cure liquid on a printing medium. The light source and the printing medium are configured to be located with a gap therebetween. The gap is variable among a plurality of distances including a first distance and a second distance greater than the first distance. The control device is configured to perform: controlling the light source to emit light of an intensity based on the gap so that the intensity when the gap is the second distance is greater than when the gap is the first distance.

Abstract: Provided are an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and an image processing program capable of achieving high accuracy in an index representing vegetation. An image processing apparatus (1) includes a normal map generation unit (12) and a reflection characteristic model generation unit (18). The normal map generation unit (12) obtains a normal vector characteristic based on a polarized image acquired. The reflection characteristic model generation unit (18) estimates a reflection characteristic model based on the normal vector characteristic obtained by the normal map generation unit (12).

Abstract: A driving assist method and a driving assist device is provided for controlling a transmission ratio of a continuously variable transmission, which steplessly shifts gears and outputs an engine rotation speed. The driving assist method and a driving assist device continuously performs downshifting until an upshift occurs, when the transmission ratio of the continuously variable transmission is controlled so that the engine rotational speed increases in conjunction with an increase in a vehicle speed and the upshift will be performed after the vehicle has accelerated.

Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes: a head, a radiation unit, a movement mechanism, and a controller. The controller is configured to: acquire a radiation distance for each of a plurality of areas defined on a surface of a recording medium; control the movement mechanism and the head to discharge the liquid to the surface of the recording medium; and control the radiation unit to radiate the light onto the plurality of the areas of the recording medium so that the longer the radiation distance for each of the plurality of areas, the stronger a light emission intensity of each of the plurality of light sources which faces each of the plurality of areas in the first direction.

Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes: a head which has nozzles configured to discharge a photocurable liquid that is curable by light toward a recording medium, the recording medium including a first base material and a second base material having a surface state different from a surface state of the first base material; a light irradiator which is configured to irradiate the light onto the photocurable liquid disposed on the recording medium; a movement mechanism which is configured to relatively move the recording medium, and the head and the light irradiator in a movement direction; and a controller configured to execute a recording process; an information acquiring process; an irradiation light amount acquiring process; and a first light irradiation process.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus and an image processing method for processing far-infrared ray images are provided. Specific temperature ranges constituted by pixels having values falling within a temperature range characteristic of a specific target are extracted from a far-infrared ray image captured of the same target. Of the specific temperature ranges, those having motion vectors close to each other are integrated so as to generate integrated ranges. The integrated ranges having motion vectors close to a global motion vector indicative of the motion of the image as a whole are excluded to obtain excluded integrated ranges. Visible light ranges corresponding to the specific temperature ranges in the excluded integrated ranges are extracted from the visible light image to generate visible light motion ranges. The positions of the visible light motion ranges are corrected on the basis of the motion vector of the excluded integrated ranges as a whole.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a head which discharges liquid onto a printing medium; and a light irradiation unit which is aligned with the head in a first direction and which irradiates the liquid on the printing medium with light. The light irradiation unit has light source arrays arranged in the first direction, each of the light source arrays includes light sources aligned in a second direction, and the light source arrays include a first light source array which is disposed most closely to the head in the first direction. The light, which is radiated by each of the light sources included in the first light source array, has an intensity that is smaller than an intensity of the light which is radiated by each of the light sources included in the light source arrays different from the first light source array.

Abstract: An automated lane change control detects a preceding vehicle that is traveling in a same travel lane as a host vehicle, determines whether a predetermined condition is satisfied between the host vehicle and the preceding vehicle, and executes an automated lane change in the host vehicle after a first predetermined time has elapsed from determining that the predetermined condition is satisfied. The automated lane change of the host vehicle is executed after a first predetermined time has elapsed after determining that the predetermined condition has been satisfied. A second predetermined time is set that is longer than the first predetermined time as a time for prohibiting the automated lane change upon assessing the presents of a previous driver lane change. The automated lane change is prohibited in an interval that starts when a prohibiting condition is satisfied and ends when the second predetermined time elapses.

Abstract: An information transmission apparatus includes: a mode instruction unit configured to instruct a first mode to permit a voice output by the voice output unit or a second mode to prohibit the voice output; an image control unit configured to control a display image of a display unit so as to display an agent image including a face image of an agent; and an output determination unit configured to determine whether or not output of information to the user is necessary. The image control unit controls the display image so as to display, when the output determination unit determines output of information is necessary without being input a voice of an utterance by the user in a state where the second mode is instructed, a second agent image including a second face image.

Abstract: A driving assist method and a driving assist device is provided for controlling a transmission ratio of a continuously variable transmission, which steplessly shifts gears and outputs an engine rotation speed. The driving assist method and a driving assist device continuously performs downshifting until an upshift occurs, when the transmission ratio of the continuously variable transmission is controlled so that the engine rotational speed increases in conjunction with an increase in a vehicle speed and the upshift will be performed after the vehicle has accelerated.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to, when a second message specifying a portion of an original image included in a first message and having a link information associating the second message to the first message is received, display the portion of the original image specified in the second message with the original image based on the link information that identifies the first image being associated with the second message.

Abstract: A configuration is realized that can execute image processing reflecting data unique to camera, such as positional relation information between a mask and an image sensor of a lensless camera, to generate a highly accurate restored image. A signal processing unit that receives a photographed image as an output of the image sensor of the lensless camera to generate a restored image is included, and the signal processing unit executes image processing using data unique to camera generated based on at least the positional relation information of the mask and the image sensor of the lensless camera to generate the restored image. The data unique to camera is data generated in a comparison process of a photographed image, which is obtained by photographing one point light source in a forward direction of an optical axis of the lensless camera, and a reference image.

Abstract: There is provided a head unit including: head modules; a plurality of first tubes; and a plurality of second tubes. Each of the head modules includes: energy-applying mechanisms; supply buffer chambers; and return buffer chambers. The supply buffer chambers of the plurality of head module are connected in series via the plurality of first tubes. The return buffer chambers of the plurality of head modules are connected in series via the plurality of second tubes.

Abstract: An optical wavelength band to be detected is flexibly changed. An imaging device according to an embodiment includes a coded mask (103) including two or more kinds of band bus filters that are arranged in a two-dimensional grating pattern and that transmit light of different wavelength bands, a light receiving unit (10) that receives modulated light modulated by the coded mask and generates observation signal data, and an image reconstruction processing unit (52) that reconstructs the observation signal data generated by the light receiving unit to generate image data.

Abstract: A vehicle speed/headway control function and a lane-keeping function are provided as driving assist functions to assist in a driving operation by a driver. A mode-switching controller is provided for switching between the modes. In the lane-keeping assist mode, it is assessed whether or not a traveling condition has been met that an actual vehicle speed of the host vehicle exceeds a speed limit of a roadway on which the host vehicle is traveling during lane-keeping travel in which “hands-off mode,” which allows the driver to remove their hands from the steering wheel, has been selected. The mode is switched from “hands-off mode” to “hands-on mode,” which has as a condition that the driver has their hands on the steering wheel, upon assessing that the traveling condition that the actual vehicle speed exceeds the speed limit has been met.

Abstract: Provided are an imaging apparatus and an imaging method that make it possible to apply light having an optimum wavelength to capture an image without a user taking heed of a type of an imaging object. A wavelength of light optimum for analysis of a target is specified as an effective wavelength from a multispectral image of the target on which white light is applied, and light of the effective wavelength is applied upon the target. The target in this state is captured as a multispectral image, and the target is analyzed on a basis of a spectral image of an effective wavelength.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an imaging apparatus and an imaging method that permit capture of a bright image without using an expensive large-diameter lens. A mirror surface having an opening portion larger in area than an imaging element is formed at a former stage of the imaging element. The mirror surface concentrates light from a subject surface. The imaging apparatus captures an image formed by light that directly enters the imaging element and light that is reflected by the mirror surface and reconstructs a final image from the captured image. The present disclosure is applicable to an imaging apparatus.

Abstract: There is provided a light irradiator including: light sources forming first and second light source rows; a heat sink; a substrate including first and second traces connected to the first and second light source rows, respectively; and a fixing part configured to fix the heat sink to the substrate. The fixing part is arranged between adjacent light sources included in the first light source row and adjacent in the first light source row; and the fixing part is not arranged between adjacent light sources included in the second light source row and adjacent in the second light source row. The first trace includes a first circumventing part configured to circumvent the fixing part; and the second trace includes a second circumventing part configured to circumvent the fixing part and having a directional component different from the first direction.

Abstract: Provided is a blood flow measuring device that is provided with at least one AD conversion unit and processes a plurality of reflected light signals. Provided is a blood flow measuring device provided with at least one light source unit, a plurality of light reception units, a plurality of signal processing units, at least one multiplexing unit, and at least one AD conversion unit, in which the light source unit irradiates a living body with coherent light, each of the plurality of light reception units receives reflected light of the coherent light and converts intensity of the reflected light into a current signal, each of the plurality of signal processing units converts the current signal into a voltage signal, the multiplexing unit multiplexes a plurality of voltage signals into at least one multiplexed voltage signal, and the AD conversion unit samples the multiplexed voltage signal to obtain a multiplexed digital signal.