Abstract: A problem with conventional distortion pulse shift circuits is that the output timing of a pulse signal cannot be controlled unless a reset signal is used.

Abstract: A microwave module includes an RF device and a multilayer resin substrate. The device includes a metal cover covering at least an internal circuit. The substrate includes a first end face on a side of the device, a second end face on a side opposite to the first end face, a signal through-holes surrounding the circuit and connected to the circuit, ground through-holes surrounding the signal through-holes and connected to the cover, a first surface ground provided on the first end face and connected to the cover, an inner layer surface ground connected to ground through-holes, and an RF transmission line surrounded by the ground through-holes, the first surface ground, and the inner layer surface ground, and connected to the signal through-hole.

Abstract: As a layout requirement imposed on an in-phase corporate-feed circuit, there is provided only a layout requirement to equalize the electric length of a transmission line (4) between one of N T-branch units (6) which is m-th when counted from a start point of a path A, and another one of the T-branch units (6) which is (m+1)-th when counted from the start point of the path A, to that of a transmission line (8) between one of N T-branch units (10) which is m-th when counted from an end point of a path B, and another one of the T-branch units (10) which is (m+1)-th when counted from the end point of the path B. Therefore, the in-phase corporate-feed circuit can be formed in a space smaller than that in which its circuit configuration of tournament type is formed, and downsizing of the circuit size can be achieved.

Abstract: A signal generator according to the invention includes: a reference signal source configured to output a clock signal; a phase locked loop (PLL) circuit configured to generate a chirp signal as a feedback loop type circuit including a frequency divider using the clock signal; and a linearity-improvement processor configured to detect a frequency of a chirp signal of an M-th period generated by the PLL circuit where M is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and to control a division ratio of the frequency divider such that a difference between a frequency of a chirp signal generated in (M+1)-th and subsequent periods in the PLL circuit and a desired frequency becomes smaller than a difference between the detected frequency and the desired frequency.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a pattern recognition device is configured to divide an input signal into a plurality of elements, convert the divided elements into feature vectors having the same dimensionality to generate a set of feature vectors, and evaluate the set of feature vectors using a recognition dictionary including models corresponding to respective classes, to output a recognition result representing a class or a set of classes to which the input signal belongs. The models each include sub-models each corresponding to one of possible division patterns in which a signal to be classified into a class corresponding to the model can be divided into a plurality of elements. A label expressing a model including a sub-model conforming to the set of feature vectors, or a set of labels expressing a set of models including sub-models conforming to the set of feature vectors is output as the recognition result.

Abstract: A lead frame includes: a second terminal that is disposed to surround terminals on a package plane and can be grounded; and a conductive member that covers molded resin and is electrically connected to the second terminal.

Abstract: A signal generating circuit includes a control voltage setting unit (CVSU) configured to set a control voltage for a chirp signal using voltage-frequency characteristics indicating characteristics of an output frequency versus voltage; a VCO configured to alter the frequency of its output signal by the control voltage; a quadrature demodulator configured to perform quadrature demodulation of the output signal of the VCO to generate an inphase signal and a quadrature signal orthogonal to each other; and a frequency detector configured to detect the frequency of the output signal of the VCO on the basis of the inphase signal and quadrature signal. The CVSU corrects the control voltage by using the voltage-frequency characteristics derived from relationships between the control voltage and the frequency of the output signal of the VCO. The VCO generates the chirp signal based on the control voltage corrected by the CVSU.

Abstract: A desired effective voltage can be ensured with certainty in a preheating control. An operation control part 52 reads a correction value c with respect to a battery voltage Vb at the time of performing correction based on preliminarily stored correlation between a battery voltage Vb of a vehicle-use battery and a correction value c (S104, S106), and compensates for lowering of an effective value of a pulse voltage by adding a correction value c to a duty ratio calculated by a predetermined arithmetic expression thus ensuring a desired effective voltage with certainty in a preheating control.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a voice synthesizer includes a content selection unit, a content generation unit, and a content registration unit. The content selection unit determines selected content among a plurality of pieces of content registered in a content storage unit. The content includes tagged text in which tag information for controlling voice synthesis is added to text serving as a target of the voice synthesis. The content generation unit applies the tag information in the tagged text included in the selected content to designated text to generate new content. The content registration unit registers the generated new content in the content storage unit.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information processing device includes a storage unit, a reception unit, a recognition unit, and a specification unit. The storage unit stores therein accumulated information containing entry information of multiple types of forms accumulated by form type and entry field. The reception unit receives a form. The recognition unit recognizes the entry information contained in the form received by the reception unit. The specification unit compares the accumulated information and the entry information recognized by the recognition unit to specify the type of the form received by the reception unit.

Abstract: A desired effective voltage can be ensured with certainty in a preheating control. An operation control part 52 reads a correction value c with respect to a battery voltage Vb at the time of performing correction based on preliminarily stored correlation between a battery voltage Vb of a vehicle-use battery and a correction value c (S104, S106), and compensates for lowering of an effective value of a pulse voltage by adding a correction value c to a duty ratio calculated by a predetermined arithmetic expression thus ensuring a desired effective voltage with certainty in a preheating control.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a display processing device includes a reader and a display controller. The reader is configured to read content data that is to be displayed on a display. The display controller is configured to display, on the display, virtual content data in which one end of a display target area of the content data and the other end opposite to the one end of the display target area are connected, when a width of the display target area is larger than a width of the display.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a stator includes preparing a stator core having a plurality of teeth, a plurality of coils having a plurality of lead lines, a substrate having a plurality of connecting portions, and a plurality of positioning jigs having restraining portions. The method includes positioning the substrate and the lead lines so that distal portions of the lead lines are separated from the connecting portions in at least one of a radial direction and a circumferential direction. The method further includes inserting the lead lines in the restraining portions, aligning the distal portions of the lead lines with the corresponding connecting portions using the positioning jigs, inserting the lead lines into the corresponding connecting portions, and electrically connecting the lead lines inserted in the connecting portions to the corresponding connecting portions.

Abstract: A wheel includes an axle, a motor, a hub and a rotational displacement detection mechanism. The axle is supported on a body frame of a wheelchair. The motor is mounted on the axle. The hub includes a wheel hub mounted on the axle and handrim base section relatively rotatably supported on the axle and rotatable relative to the wheel hub. The rotational displacement detection mechanism detects rotational displacements of the handrim base section relative to the wheel hub and has a center of rotation coinciding with an axle center of the motor.

Abstract: An image evaluation device includes: a partial area extracting section extracting plural partial areas from an original image; an extracted image generating section generating an extracted image corresponding to each of the partial areas and having pixels whose pixel values correspond to a gradient of pixel values in the image; an autocorrelation calculating section calculating plural autocorrelation coefficients for each extracted images; a representative coefficient value calculating section calculating a representative coefficient value for each of the autocorrelation coefficients among the partial areas; and a checking section checking the quality of the image based on a distribution of the representative coefficient values.

Abstract: A wheel includes an axle, a motor, a hub and a rotational displacement detection mechanism. The axle is supported on a body frame of a wheelchair. The motor is mounted on the axle. The hub includes a wheel hub mounted on the axle and handrim base section relatively rotatably supported on the axle and rotatable relative to the wheel hub. The rotational displacement detection mechanism detects rotational displacements of the handrim base section relative to the wheel hub and has a center of rotation coinciding with an axle center of the motor.

Abstract: Each of vibration dampers is separated from each circumferentially adjacent one of the vibration dampers upon cutting of each of a plurality of connectors, which is initially integrally formed with the vibration dampers to circumferentially join between corresponding circumferentially adjacent two of the vibration dampers to form a single closed loop body. At least a part of each of first and second circumferential end portions of each vibration damper is engaged with a corresponding one of outer protrusions of a centerpiece in a circumferential direction of a stator. A primary recess is radially inwardly recessed at an outer peripheral portion of the vibration damper and is engaged with a corresponding one of primary protrusions of the stator in the circumferential direction of the stator.

Abstract: A recognition object detecting portion detects a recognition object existing in each of images which are captured in series at different time points by a camera. Images of the detected recognition object are stored in a memory. A recognition object condition judging portion determines whether image areas of the recognition object are recognizable. A movement amount detecting portion detects a movement amount of the recognition object by using the image areas of the recognition object stored in the memory. A sub-area detecting portion detects a sub-area to be recognized, by using the image areas of the recognition object read out from the memory, in accordance with the movement amount of the recognition object. A recognition portion performs recognition processing on the sub-areas. A recognition result integration portion integrates recognition results of the sub-areas including recognized characters and/or recognized patterns and the corresponding reliabilities, respectively.

Abstract: To improve recognition accuracy of a traveling direction of a vehicle by accurately detecting a marking on a road surface which is photographed by a camera while a road environment where a vehicle travels is changing. A car navigation system 100 detects an image of a light-irradiated portion which is unnecessary for the recognition of a road marking, in an image behind a vehicle captured by a camera 6 mounted on the vehicle, clips out image areas in a predetermined shape excluding the detected image area, and sequentially stores the clipped images in a storage unit 7b. Then, the new clipped image and the clipped image already stored in the storage unit 7b are combined, and an image of a road marking is detected and recognized from the composite image.