Abstract: A vehicle driving support processing device, including a first data acquisition unit that acquires left rear image data, a second data acquisition unit that acquires right rear image data, and a lane departure detection unit having a lane departure detection state and a lane departure detection inhibition state, wherein the lane departure detection unit in the lane departure detection state estimates a first distance between a left-side boundary and the vehicle based on the left rear image data, estimates a second distance between a right-side boundary and the vehicle based on the right rear image data, and performs a signal generation operation to generate a signal for a warning or for controlling a steering gear or a braking device, and for transmitting a signal to other vehicles.

Abstract: A vehicle periphery monitoring device including a first data acquisition unit that acquires first frame image data imaged by a first imaging unit imaging a first region containing a rear side, a second data acquisition unit that acquires second frame image data imaged by a second imaging unit imaging a second region containing the rear side and different from the first region. First and second obstacle estimation processing units respectively estimate a first obstacle present in the first region based on the first frame image data and a second obstacle present in the second region based on the second frame image data, and a signal is output based on results of at least one of the first obstacle estimation processing and the second obstacle estimation processing, wherein conditions for the second obstacle estimation processing are changed based on the result of the first obstacle estimation processing.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a driving support apparatus includes a display device, a camera mounted on a vehicle, a vanishing line drawing processing unit that receives image information from the camera and generates a vanishing line by forming a set of vanishing points existing on a plane including the optical axis of the camera, the optical axis of the camera and the running direction of the vehicle being in parallel with each other, a vanishing point being defined as a virtual intersection point located at infinity of the optical axis of the camera and the running direction of the vehicle, and an image processing unit that converts the image information of the camera and the vanishing line into video signals, superimposes one of the video signals on the other and outputs the video signals to the display device.

Abstract: A headrest for a vehicle seat has a tubular stay to be attached to a seatback and a connector to be connected to an end of the stay. The stay includes a shaft hole, an attachment hole, and a notched surface. The attachment hole penetrates from an outer surface of the stay to the shaft hole in the radial direction. The notched surface is circumferentially adjacent to the attachment hole and is substantially orthogonal to the attachment hole. The connector includes a cantilevered locking strip to be inserted into the shaft hole while being resiliently deformed. The locking strip includes a projection. The projection fits in the attachment hole by being resiliently restored. And the projection includes an extending portion being wider than the circumferential width of the attaching hole and extending over the notched surface by being resiliently restored.

Abstract: A headrest for a vehicle seat has a base member attached to a seatback of the vehicle seat, a body frame attached to the base member so as to be capable of tilting, a locking device for locking the body frame with the base member so as not to be capable of tilting, and an unlocking device for unlocking the locking device. The unlocking device includes a swinging body attached to the base member so as to be capable of swinging and a moving body attached to the body frame so as to be capable of moving with respect thereto. The moving body moves with respect to the body frame by being pushed by the swinging body to unlock the locking device. The swinging body has a connecting portion to which one end of a cable is connected and an arcuate-shaped outer peripheral surface on which the cable is disposed. And the cable is retracted into a tubular portion provided on the base member from an entrance of the tubular portion when the cable is pulled to unlock the locking device.

Abstract: A process is provided for efficiently producing sustained-release tablets having superior sustained-release properties capable of inhibiting the initial elution of a drug and allowing the drug to be completely eluted after a prescribed amount of time has elapsed. A process for producing sustained-release tablets comprising: dry granulating a mixture composed of a hydroxyalkyl cellulose (A) having a viscosity of 1 to 50 mPa·s in a 2% by mass aqueous solution at 20° C., a hydroxyalkyl cellulose (B) having a viscosity of 100 mPa·s or more in a 2% by mass aqueous solution at 20° C., an active ingredient and an additive, and forming the resulting granules into tablets.

Abstract: A headrest for a vehicle seat has a tubular stay to be attached to a seatback and a connector to be connected to an end of the stay. The stay includes a shaft hole, an attachment hole, and a notched surface. The attachment hole penetrates from an outer surface of the stay to the shaft hole in the radial direction. The notched surface is circumferentially adjacent to the attachment hole and is substantially orthogonal to the attachment hole. The connector includes a cantilevered locking strip to be inserted into the shaft hole while being resiliently deformed. The locking strip includes a projection. The projection fits in the attachment hole by being resiliently restored. And the projection includes an extending portion being wider than the circumferential width of the attaching hole and extending over the notched surface by being resiliently restored.

Abstract: A headrest for a vehicle seat has a base member attached to a seatback of the vehicle seat, a body frame attached to the base member so as to be capable of tilting, a locking device for locking the body frame with the base member so as not to be capable of tilting, and an unlocking device for unlocking the locking device. The unlocking device includes a swinging body attached to the base member so as to be capable of swinging and a moving body attached to the body frame so as to be capable of moving with respect thereto. The moving body moves with respect to the body frame by being pushed by the swinging body to unlock the locking device. The swinging body has a connecting portion to which one end of a cable is connected and an arcuate-shaped outer peripheral surface on which the cable is disposed. And the cable is retracted into a tubular portion provided on the base member from an entrance of the tubular portion when the cable is pulled to unlock the locking device.

Abstract: A process for treating ammonia containing wastewater includes bringing an ammonia-treating material and ammonia containing wastewater into contact with each other to remove ammonia in the wastewater continuously as nitrogen gas, the ammonia-treating material including a long carrier and complex bacterial sludge attached and immobilized on the biomass carrier, the carrier including a net, a nonwoven fabric or a woven fabric of fibers or filaments, the carrier being attached to a support, the complex bacterial sludge containing bacterial sludge including autotrophic anammox bacteria and bacterial sludge including autotrophic ammonia-oxidizing bacteria, the ammonia containing wastewater containing dissolved oxygen at a concentration of not less than 0.5 mg/l.

Abstract: In a game system, a player can displace direction of a view line disposed in a three-dimensional space coordinate system to change the corresponding perspective-projected image by changing the aim of the gun-type controller, by setting a specific region on a perspective projection plane; detecting a designated position with respect to a display plane, which is designated; determining whether or not the designated position is located in a specific region; displacing the view line direction or moving the view point position based on the positional relationship of the designated position and the specific region when the designated position is not positioned inside the specific region; and finding a two-dimensional image obtained by perspective projection in the new view line direction after the displacement of the view line direction or movement of the view point position and displaying two-dimensional images on the display device.

Abstract: In a game system, a player can displace direction of a view line disposed in a three-dimensional space coordinate system to change the corresponding perspective-projected image by changing the aim of the gun-type controller, by setting a specific region on a perspective projection plane; detecting a designated position with respect to a display plane, which is designated; determining whether or not the designated position is located in a specific region; displacing the view line direction or moving the view point position based on the positional relationship of the designated position and the specific region when the designated position is not positioned inside the specific region; and finding a two-dimensional image obtained by perspective projection in the new view line direction after the displacement of the view line direction or movement of the view point position and displaying two-dimensional images on the display device.

Abstract: A cyclic tertiary amine compound represented by a formula (1) and an organic luminescent device are disclosed. Use of the cyclic tertiary amine compound as a hole transport material, a hole injection material or an organic electroluminescent material can provide organic EL devices having high luminous efficiency and a long service life.

Abstract: An apparatus that detects an obstacle using images shot by an image shooting device mounted on a mobile object on a plane, the apparatus comprising: an image receiving unit configured to receive time-series images shot by the image shooting device; an area setting unit configured to set a plurality of processing areas in the images received by the image receiving unit; an object motion detector configured to detect objects moving within the areas set by the area setting unit and to detect motion trajectories of the objects; an obstacle candidate detector configured to detect the respective objects as obstacle candidates if a direction of a line connecting between the objects is a predetermined direction; and an obstacle determining unit configured to compare the motion trajectories of the respective obstacle candidates and to determine the obstacle candidates as an obstacle if the motion trajectories of the obstacle candidates satisfy a predetermined similarity condition.

Abstract: A charge transporting material, a light emitting material and an organic electroluminescent device having high efficiency using a specified diazapentacene derivative represented by the following general formula (1): (in the general formula (1), R1 to R10 each represents independently a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group of 1 to 6 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group, a substituted or not-substituted amino group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group, in which the substituted or not-substituted aryl group or heterocyclic group, when they are adjacent with each other, may be of a structure condensed to each other, X1 and X2 each represents independently an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom, and Y1 and Y2 each represents independently a substituted or not-substituted alkyl group of 1 to 6 carbon atoms, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cyclic tertiary amine compound represented by a formula (1) and an organic luminescent device.

Abstract: This invention relates to a borane derivative represented by the formula (1) and an organic electroluminescent device: wherein R1 to R8 and Z2 are each independently a hydrogen atom, a saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon group, an aromatic group, a heterocyclic group, a substituted amino group, a substituted boryl group, an alkoxy group or an aryloxy group; X, Y and Z1 are each independently a saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon group, an aromatic group, a heterocyclic group, a substituted amino group, an alkoxy group or an aryloxy group; substituents of Z1 and Z2 may be united to form a condensed ring; and n is an integer of 1-3; with the provisos that when n is two or more, Z1s may be different from each other; and that cases where n is 1, X, Y and R2 are each methyl, and R8 is hydrogen or substituted boryl and those where n is 3 and Z1 is methyl are excluded.

Abstract: A cyclic tertiary amine compound represented by a formula (1) and an organic luminescent device are disclosed. Use of the cyclic tertiary amine compound as a hole transport material, a hole injection material or an organic electroluminescent material can provide organic EL devices having high luminous efficiency and a long service life.

Abstract: Use of an organic EL device comprising a dipyridylthiophene derivative represented by the following general formula (1) has made it possible to provide an organic EL device with high luminous efficiency at low voltage.

Abstract: An organic EL device having an organic EL structure which moisture does not enter and maintaining stable luminescence characteristics for a long period of time. An anode (2), and organic substance layer (3), and a cathode (4) are formed on a transparent substrate (1). A combination (insulating layer-moisture reaction layer combination) including an insulating layer (5) and a moisture reaction layer (6) formed on the insulating layer (5) covers an organic EL structure including the organic substance layer, the cathode, and a portion of the anode. The material of the moisture reaction layer (6) is a metal having a Pauling's electronegativity of less than 1.2. There are large differences in the number of dark spots produced and the growth of the dark spots between a metal; e.g., Ca (1.0), whose electronegativity is less than 1.2 and a metal; e.g., Mg (1.2), whose electronegativity is 1.2.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device having a high luminous efficiency and a long life, which comprises a dithiafulvene derivative represented by Formula (1): wherein R1 and R2 represent an alkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group; R3 to R6 represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkylthio group, an arylthio group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group; and when R3 to R6 are an aryl group or a heterocyclic group adjacent to each other, they may be condensed to each other.