Abstract: A light source estimating apparatus of embodiments has a sensitivity ratio spatial distribution calculating unit configured to extract a first color pixel and a second color pixel which have close spectral sensitivity and which have different sensor responses from a first picked up image picked up with an image sensor under an arbitrary light source, and calculate a ratio between a signal value of the first color pixel and a signal value of the second color pixel to acquire a first sensitivity ratio spatial distribution, and a similarity determining unit configured to estimate a type of the arbitrary light source based on similarity between a second sensitivity ratio spatial distribution group calculated using a second picked up image picked up with the image sensor under a known light source and the first sensitivity ratio spatial distribution.

Abstract: In an object detection apparatus, a range image generator, based on distance information indicative of distances from a given measurement point to objects in real space, generates a range image indicative of a distribution of distance information of objects located around the measurement point. A subgroup generator horizontally divides the range image into a number of column regions of prescribed width, and for each column region, generates one or more subgroups that extend continuously in a vertical direction of the range image and fall within a given range of distance information. A continuity determiner determines, for each of the subgroups, whether or not there is distance continuity between the subgroup and its horizontally adjacent subgroup in the range image. A merger merges together horizontally continuous-in-distance subgroups. An object detector detects an object in each of regions of the range image corresponding to the respective merged groups.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus of an embodiment includes a plurality of light receiving units arranged in an array to each detect light with a specific color and a specific polarization angle. In the plurality of light receiving units, both the color and polarization angle to be detected differ between the light receiving units adjacent to each other.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a solid-state imaging device includes an image sensor and a resolution reconstruction circuit. The image sensor captures an object image. The resolution reconstruction circuit performs a resolution reconstruction process on the object image. The resolution reconstruction circuit performs a filtering process as the resolution reconstruction process. A filter has a filter property of reducing a modulation transfer function relative to an ideal modulation transfer function in a frequency range of a frequency higher than a frequency set in advance.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a solid-state imaging device includes a demosaic processing unit. A pixel block includes a red pixel, a blue pixel, a first green pixel, and a second green pixel. A first green component detected by the first green pixel and a second green component detected by the second green pixel are green components of the same wavelength region. The demosaic processing unit generates image signals of four components. The four components are a red component, a blue component, the first green component, and the second green component.

Abstract: A method of purifying an exhaust gas, includes: disposing a NOx trapping catalyst in an exhaust pipe of an internal combustion engine, the NOx trapping catalyst including: a metal substrate including cells, a corner portion of each of cells having an acute angle; and a catalyst layer supported in the metal substrate and including a noble metal, a heat-resistant inorganic oxide and a NOx trapping material, the catalyst layer having pores formed by addition of a pore formation promoting material, and the NOx trapping catalyst: adsorbing NOx in the exhaust gas when an exhaust air-fuel ratio is in a lean state; and desorbing and reducing the adsorbed NOx when the exhaust air-fuel ratio is in a stoichiometric state or a rich state; and removing the NOx by the exhaust air-fuel ratio being shifted between the lean state and the rich state.

Abstract: An imaging device according to embodiments includes a lens support that fixes a set of optical lenses, a substrate that fixes the lens support, an imaging element arranged between the set of optical lenses and the substrate, and an elastic body connected to the imaging element and a member other than the imaging element. The substrate includes a Lorentz-force generating unit that generates a Lorentz force between the Lorentz-force generating unit and the imaging element. Furthermore, the substrate moves the imaging element to a position at which the imaging element has a desired optical property by adjusting the Lorentz force.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a first program code including a plurality of variables is converted to a second program code to be executed by a multi-core processor including a plurality of cores. Specifically, an access pattern of each variable in the first program code is decided. All variables in the first program code are classified into a plurality of groups each of which variables belong to the same access pattern. A member structure of each group having variables belonging to the same access pattern is created. Each member structure includes variables of one group. A route-pointer indicating an address (in a memory) of variables of the member structure is created. The variables in the first program code are converted to the member structure and the route-pointer (in the second program code) that indicate the variables. The second program code is outputted to the multi-core processor.

Abstract: An imaging device according to embodiments includes a lens support that fixes a set of optical lenses, a substrate that fixes the lens support, an imaging element arranged between the set of optical lenses and the substrate, and an elastic body connected to the imaging element and a member other than the imaging element. The substrate includes a Lorentz-force generating unit that generates a Lorentz force between the Lorentz-force generating unit and the imaging element. Furthermore, the substrate moves the imaging element to a position at which the imaging element has a desired optical property by adjusting the Lorentz force.

Abstract: A debugging support device includes: a plurality of CPU simulating units which simulates the operations of a plurality of CPUs which executes programs in parallel; a memory simulating unit of a memory to be shared by the plurality of CPUs; an event monitoring unit that detects a predetermined event occurring between each CPU simulating unit and the memory simulating unit; and a state judging unit that judges whether the state of the occurred predetermined event matches a predetermined condition and, if the predetermined condition is matched, records history information related to the state of the memory simulating unit.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, as to a first program code including a plurality of variables, an access pattern of each variable by a processor is decided. The first program code is converted to a second program code including a plurality of threads. Each thread is executed by one of a plurality of cores of the processor. The second program code includes, (a) a first member structure including variables decided as a first access pattern, (b) a first route-pointer indicating the first member structure, the first route-pointer having a first access property representing accessibility by a core to execute a first thread, (c) a second member structure including variables decided as a second access pattern, (d) a second route-pointer indicating the second member structure, the second route-pointer having a second access property representing accessibility by the core to execute the first thread and a core to execute a second thread.

Abstract: A debugging support device includes: a plurality of CPU simulating units which simulates the operations of a plurality of CPUs which executes programs in parallel; a memory simulating unit of a memory to be shared by the plurality of CPUs; an event monitoring unit that detects a predetermined event occurring between each CPU simulating unit and the memory simulating unit; and a state judging unit that judges whether the state of the occurred predetermined event matches a predetermined condition and, if the predetermined condition is matched, records history information related to the state of the memory simulating unit.

Abstract: A method of purifying an exhaust gas, includes: disposing a NOx trapping catalyst in an exhaust pipe of an internal combustion engine, the NOx trapping catalyst including: a metal substrate including cells, a corner portion of each of cells having an acute angle; and a catalyst layer supported in the metal substrate and including a noble metal, a heat-resistant inorganic oxide and a NOx trapping material, the catalyst layer having pores formed by addition of a pore formation promoting material, and the NOx trapping catalyst: adsorbing NOx in the exhaust gas when an exhaust air-fuel ratio is in a lean state; and desorbing and reducing the adsorbed NOx when the exhaust air-fuel ratio is in a stoichiometric state or a rich state; and removing the NOx by the exhaust air-fuel ratio being shifted between the lean state and the rich state.

Abstract: An exhaust gas purification catalyst includes a catalytic layer constituted by a heap of particles each obtained by applying a thin film of an oxygen storage material containing ceria to the surface of a base made of a material having a high-specific surface area, and allowing a precious metal to be supported on the surface of the thin film of the oxygen storage material.

Abstract: A program parallelization supporting apparatus determines a determinacy in at least one dependency relationship of a data dependency, a control dependency and a pointer dependency in a program, extracts a critical path in the program, and extracts a processing instruction which exists on the critical path and has a non-deterministic determinacy in the dependency relationship. Furthermore, if a process related to a path of the extracted non-deterministic processing instruction is parallelized and the path of the non-deterministic processing instruction is deleted, the program parallelization supporting apparatus outputs parallelization labor hour information depending on the number of dependency relationships disturbing the parallelization and parallelization effect information depending on the number of processing instructions which are shortened by the parallelization.

Abstract: By performing main fuel injection and sub fuel injection to perform rich operation of an engine, NOx purging of a NOx catalyst is carried out, and in the NOx purging, the ratio between the main fuel injection quantity and the sub fuel injection quantity is variably determined, within the range of 5:1 to 2:1 where the ratio of the sub fuel injection quantity is relatively great, such that the ratio of the sub fuel injection quantity is greater as the temperature of a three-way catalyst becomes higher.

Abstract: By performing main fuel injection and sub fuel injection to perform rich operation of an engine, NOx purging of a NOx catalyst is carried out, and in the NOx purging, the ratio between the main fuel injection quantity and the sub fuel injection quantity is variably determined, within the range of 5:1 to 2:1 where the ratio of the sub fuel injection quantity is relatively great, such that the ratio of the sub fuel injection quantity is greater as the temperature of a three-way catalyst becomes higher.

Abstract: In an image reading apparatus for reading an original image using a light source containing a plurality of color components, a control pulse for dimming the light source is generated by pulse-width modulation symmetrically with respect to a reference timing (for example, the central position in one storage time or the storage start timing) in one predetermined storage time of a line sensor.

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit system includes first and second semiconductor devices formed on a substrate and required to have properties the same as each other in operation. The first and second semiconductor devices respectively includes first and second channel regions arranged in a surface of the substrate, and first and second gate electrodes disposed on the first and second channel regions via gate insulating films. A relaxing structure is arranged to reduce fluctuations in the properties of the first and second semiconductor devices, the fluctuations being caused by the electrical effects of plasma when a plasma process is performed. The relaxing structure includes first and second short-circuiting elements respectively connected to the first and second wiring layers and equivalent to each other. The first and second short-circuiting elements are configured to short-circuit the first and second gate electrodes with the first and second channel regions, respectively.

Abstract: In an image reading apparatus for reading an original image using a light source containing a plurality of color components, a control pulse for dimming the light source is generated by pulse-width modulation symmetrically with respect to a reference timing (for example, the central position in one storage time or the storage start timing) in one predetermined storage time of a line sensor.