Abstract: A color conversion LUT creation apparatus includes a derivation unit that derives an output value corresponding to a signal value in an input image for a plurality of virtual color materials whose number is smaller than a number of actual color materials used in an image forming apparatus; a setting unit that sets a target number of dots printed per unit area of the actual color material; and a conversion unit that converts an output value of the plurality of virtual color materials into an output value of the actual color material and creates a color conversion LUT in which the input value and the output value of the actual color material are associated with each other. The setting unit sets the target number of dots based on dispersibility of a dot pattern corresponding to each tone level of a dither matrix used for halftone processing.

Abstract: The image processing apparatus of the present invention includes: an edge determination unit configured to detect an edge pixel to which a white pixel and a black pixel are adjacent in a first direction in an image in which each pixel is represented as a white pixel or a black pixel; a first detection unit configured to detect a number of consecutive pixels up to the edge pixel in the first direction in the image; a second detection unit configured to detect a number of consecutive pixels whose number of consecutive pixels in the first direction is larger than a first threshold in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction in the image; and a type determination unit configured to determine a type of the edge pixel based on detection results by the first detection unit and detection results by the second detection unit.

Abstract: An automated driving controller that decides an action plan for a vehicle is selectable between an ordinary driving mode and a hurried driving mode that is used in a case in which a driver is in a hurry as compared with the ordinary driving mode. In an automated driving mode the vehicle is automatically controlled, the hurried driving mode is a mode in which it is possible to arrive at a destination earlier than in the ordinary driving mode, and the driver being in a hurry appears in behaviors in the vehicles, the vehicle is accompanied with an information acquisition unit that acquires the state in which the driver is in a hurry and delivers information to the automated driving controller, and the automated driving controller selects the hurried driving mode when the information acquisition unit acquires the state in which the driver is in a hurry.

Abstract: A control apparatus includes a switching control unit that switches a traveling mode of a vehicle from an automated driving mode to a manual driving mode if an automated drive canceling request to cancel the automated driving mode to switch to the manual driving mode is submitted while the vehicle is traveling in the automated driving mode. The switching control unit performs transmission gear setting control in which a transmission gear of an automatic transmission is set to a highest transmission gear among transmission gears within a range of a predetermined allowable driving force in the switching from the automated driving mode to the manual driving mode.

Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus including an electric control unit having a microprocessor and a memory. The microprocessor is configured to perform detecting that a first wheel of one of a front and rear wheels has ridden over a level difference; calculating a target vehicle speed required for a riding over of a second wheel of the other of the front and rear wheels when it is detected that the first wheel has ridden over the level difference, and controlling the actuator so that a vehicle speed immediately before the second wheel rides over the level difference after the first wheel has ridden over the level difference becomes the target vehicle speed.

Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus configured to control a vehicle capable of switching between a manual drive mode for driving manually and a self-drive mode for driving autonomously. The vehicle control apparatus includes an electric control unit having a microprocessor and a memory. The microprocessor is configured to perform detecting a failure of the vehicle while traveling in the manual drive mode, and switching a drive mode from the manual drive mode to the self-drive mode when the failure is detected.

Abstract: The image processing apparatus of the present invention includes: an edge determination unit configured to detect an edge pixel to which a white pixel and a black pixel are adjacent in a first direction in an image in which each pixel is represented as a white pixel or a black pixel; a first detection unit configured to detect a number of consecutive pixels up to the edge pixel in the first direction in the image; a second detection unit configured to detect a number of consecutive pixels whose number of consecutive pixels in the first direction is larger than a first threshold in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction in the image; and a type determination unit configured to determine a type of the edge pixel based on detection results by the first detection unit and detection results by the second detection unit.

Abstract: In color separation processing by a method that combines a multidimensional LUT and interpolation processing, smooth gradation is implemented by reducing errors accompanying interpolation processing. An image processing apparatus includes a color separation processing unit configured to perform, by interpolation processing using a lookup table having a plurality of dimensions in accordance with signal components of an input image, color separation of an input value that is each pixel value of the input image into an output value corresponding to each of signal components handled by an output device, and each grid point of the lookup table is associated with information representing change characteristics at each portion between adjacent grid points for each dimension of the plurality of dimensions, and in the color separation processing, the interpolation processing is performed based on the information representing the change characteristics.

Abstract: If the driver operates the operation tool while the vehicle is traveling under the automated drive control, override control is performed in which the acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle is controlled according to the operation of the operation tool, when an automated drive target gear position selected based on automatic control of the acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle equals a manual drive target gear position determined according to the operation of the operation tool by the driver.

Abstract: The vehicle controller performs gear position switch control in which a gear position of an automatic transmission set based on the automated drive control is changed to an upper-level gear position if the driver operates the accelerator pedal under the automated drive control.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a target value calculation unit configured to calculate a target value to be output in a predetermined region in input image data based on pixel values of pixels included in the region, a distribution order determination unit configured to determine a distribution order of output values for distributing output values corresponding to the target value in the region based on a pixel value of each pixel included in the region and a threshold value in the threshold matrix corresponding to the pixel, and an output value determination unit configured to determine an output value of each pixel included in the region by allocating the target value to at least one pixel included in the region in the distribution order.

Abstract: In order to implement preferred sharpness recovery processing for an image, an image processing apparatus which generates, based on input image data, halftone image data used for an image forming process of forming an image on a print medium. The apparatus converts the input image data into color material amount data used for the image forming process; performs, on the color material amount data, gamma correction to compensate for non-linearity of an input/output density in the image forming process; performs, on the color material amount data after the gamma correction, recovery processing to compensate for sharpness degradation of an image formed by the image forming process; and performs halftone processing on the color material amount data after the recovery processing to generate halftone image data.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus according to the present invention includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire an output condition when an image forming apparatus forms an image on a recording medium based on image data, and a processing unit configured to perform image processing on the image data for improving sharpness of the image by using a parameter based on the output condition. The parameter to be referred to by the processing unit represents such a characteristic that the image formed by the image forming apparatus has a luminous characteristic in relation to spatial frequency that remains constant or decreases continuously without causing any inflection point or any discontinuous point in a frequency band from a predetermined frequency to a limit frequency of the image forming apparatus.

Abstract: A vehicle control device performs a drive mode switching control including switching a drive mode, when a request for switching to a manual drive control is made during execution of an automated drive control, to one of a plurality of drive modes that allows a driving force to accord with a required driving force based on an operation of the driver of the vehicle, over a wide range.

Abstract: If an automated drive release request to release the automated drive mode and switch to the manual drive mode is made while the vehicle is travelling in an automated drive mode, a traveling control unit performs control that gradually shifts a vehicle driving force from the vehicle driving force in the automated mode to the vehicle driving force requested by the driver in the manual drive mode.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus converts, according to light on an image printed based on input image data, the input image data into image data for illumination output superimposed on the image, includes a deriving unit deriving an observing condition, an estimating unit estimating luminance characteristics based on the observing condition and reflectance characteristics corresponding to print image data, an introducing unit introducing target luminance characteristics based on the print luminance characteristics, a setting unit setting illumination converting characteristics converting the input image data into the image data for illumination output based on the print luminance characteristics and the target luminance characteristics, and a converting unit converting gradation of the input image data using the illuminance characteristics, and the introducing unit introducing the target luminance characteristics such that, when reproducing ranges in the print luminance characteristics are different, a linear r

Abstract: A vehicular control apparatus includes: a drive power control unit that controls drive power from a drive unit that drives drive wheels of a vehicle; a brake switch (a brake action detection unit) that detects a brake action performed on a brake unit, the brake action including decelerating and stopping the vehicle; a wheelspin detection unit that detects spinning of the drive wheels; a time measurement unit that, when the drive wheels being stopped start to rotate, measures time elapsed since the start of the rotation; and a control unit that enables the wheelspin detection unit to perform detection after a preset detection disabled period elapses since the time measurement unit has started measuring the time.

Abstract: The present invention is a color conversion processing apparatus that converts an input image signal value into an output value of an actual color material used in an image forming apparatus, and includes: a derivation unit configured to derive an output value corresponding to the input image signal value for a plurality of virtual color materials smaller in number than the number of actual color materials; and a conversion unit configured to convert the derived output values of the plurality of virtual color materials into the output values of the actual color materials, and each of the plurality of virtual color materials has a density corresponding to each wavelength band obtained by dividing a wavelength range reproduced by the actual color materials being output into a plurality of wavelength bands, and the derivation unit derives the output value corresponding to the input image signal value based on the density corresponding to each of the wavelength bands for the plurality of virtual color materials.

Abstract: A color conversion LUT creation apparatus includes a derivation unit that derives an output value corresponding to a signal value in an input image for a plurality of virtual color materials whose number is smaller than a number of actual color materials used in an image forming apparatus; a setting unit that sets a target number of dots printed per unit area of the actual color material; and a conversion unit that converts an output value of the plurality of virtual color materials into an output value of the actual color material and creates a color conversion LUT in which the input value and the output value of the actual color material are associated with each other. The setting unit sets the target number of dots based on dispersibility of a dot pattern corresponding to each tone level of a dither matrix used for halftone processing.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus of the present invention acquires first correction characteristics representing an output density for an input gradation value at a reference position in a main scanning direction and second correction characteristics representing a relative relationship of an output density at a predetermined position in the main scanning direction with the output density at the reference position in the main scanning direction. Then, the image forming apparatus corrects image data corresponding to the predetermined position in the main scanning direction based on the first correction characteristics and the second correction characteristics.