Abstract: A driving device includes: a frame disposed in the driving device to support a driven unit driven by the driving device, the frame including a first portion, a distance from which to an outer wall of an accommodation device that accommodates the driving device is shorter, and a second portion, a distance from which to the outer wall is longer than the distance from the first portion to the outer wall; and a driving unit disposed between the second portion and the outer wall, at least a part of the driving unit being away from the outer wall by the distance between the first portion and the outer wall or more.

Abstract: A document reading device includes an imaging unit that images a document, a placing portion that includes a first placing portion and a second placing portion and that has a placing surface on which the document is placed, the placing surface being formed by the first placing portion and the second placing portion, and a detector that detects an edge of the document that is placed on the placing surface by using a color difference or a luminance difference between the placing surface and the document. An end portion of the first placing portion adjacent to the second placing portion extends toward the second placing portion beyond an end portion of the second placing portion adjacent to the first placing portion.

Abstract: A sheet containing apparatus includes a first container unit that contains a sheet having a first size and that tilts with respect to a horizontal direction such that a first end and a second end in a width direction of the apparatus are located at different heights with the first container unit installed in a sheet containing apparatus body when viewed in a first direction, and a covering portion that is movable to a covering position at which the covering portion covers at least a part of the first container unit in the first direction and an open position at which the covering portion uncovers the first container unit in the first direction. When viewed in the first direction, a tilting division line is adjacent to the first container unit and tilts with respect to the horizontal direction, and at least a whole of the tilting division line is covered by the single covering portion in the first direction with the covering portion positioned at the covering position.

Abstract: A road sign interpretation system includes a front-facing camera mounted on or in a vehicle collecting image data of multiple road signs. A first convolutional neural network (CNN) receives the image data from the front-facing camera and yields a set of sign predictions including one or more sign text instances. A second CNN defining a text extractor receives the image data from the front-facing camera and extracts text candidates including the multiple sign text instances. Sign and sign data localization is provided in the second CNN to compute a text order from the multiple sign text instances. A sign text synthesizer module receives individual sign text instances from the first CNN and individual ones of the sign text instances in digitized forms from an optical character recognizer (OCR). A semantic encoding and interpretation module receives the sign text instances and identifies semantics of the multiple road signs.

Abstract: Using an apparatus for manufacturing a thin steel sheet including the followings which are arranged in order: a continuous casting machine (1) for a thin slab having a slab thickness of 70 mm to 120 mm at a lower end of a mold; a holding furnace (2) that is configured to maintain a temperature of a cast slab (10) and/or heats the cast slab (10); and a rolling stand (3) by which finish rolling is performed, the casting speed of the thin slab is set to 4 to 7 m/min, the slab (10) is reduced at a rolling reduction of 30% or more by the reduction roll (4) after solidification is completed and when a center temperature of the slab is 1300° C. or higher, and the slab (10) is held at a temperature of 1150° C. or higher and 1300° C. or lower for five minutes or longer in the holding furnace (2).

Abstract: Connection terminals, corresponding to a plurality of channels, are configured to be connectable to light-emitting units so that driving currents can be supplied to the light-emitting units via the connection terminals individually for each channel. During a non-supply period of the driving currents to the light-emitting units, a sensing process is executed to sense a particular fault. The sensing process includes a first comparison process whereby, with a pull-up current fed toward one of two connection terminals, the voltage at the other connection terminal is compared with a judgment voltage and a second comparison process whereby, with a pull-up current fed toward the other of the two connection terminals, the voltage at the one connection terminal is compared with the judgment voltage.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of producing a SiC—Si composite component. The method includes preparing a first molded body containing SiC particles by a 3D printing method, wherein the first molded body has a first average pore diameter M1; forming a second molded body, in which the first molded body and a dispersion containing carbon particles are brought into contact so that the pores are impregnated with the carbon particles, wherein the carbon particles have a secondary particle having an average particle diameter M2, and the carbon particles satisfy the following formula: M2?M1/10; and forming a SiC—Si composite component by carrying out that the second molded body is impregnated with a metallic si and is reactively sintered; wherein the content of Si is in the range of 5% by mass to 40% by mass in the SiC—Si composite component.

Abstract: A control apparatus performing a wireless communication with a supervisory apparatus that acquires battery information indicating a battery state and transmits the acquired battery information, and controlling the supervisory apparatus based on the battery information. The control apparatus includes a wireless communication unit that wirelessly transmits a plurality of commands which are combined to the supervisory apparatus corresponding to a control period set for a control of monitoring the battery state.

Abstract: As an example of an EC element in which vertical color separation is suppressed, the present disclosure provides an EC element including a pair of electrodes, a solvent, an anodic EC compound, and a cathodic EC compound. In the EC element, the difference between a solvation free energy of an oxidized form of the anodic EC compound in water and a solvation free energy of the oxidized form in octanol is 35 kcal/mol or more, and the cathodic EC compound has a substituent containing any one element selected from halogens, sulfur, boron, phosphorus, and silicon.

Abstract: An organic metal complex exhibits high oscillator strength and high molecular stability since the organic metal complex contains a ligand in which a benzoisoquinoline ring and a benzene ring are bonded together via a five-membered ring structure.

Abstract: An onium salt having formula (1) is provided. A chemically amplified resist composition comprising the onium salt as a PAG has advantages including solvent solubility and improved lithography properties such as high sensitivity, high contrast, EL, and LWR when processed by photolithography using high-energy radiation.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an organic compound represented by the following general formula [1]: where Z1 and Z2 are each independently selected from an alkyl group that may have a substituent, an aryl group that may have a substituent, and an aralkyl group that may have a substituent; R11 to R17, R21, and R22 are each independently selected from a hydrogen atom and a substituent; Y1 to Y3 are each independently selected from a carbon atom, a N atom, and (N+-L)(X?); and L is any one of an alkyl group, an aryl group, and an aralkyl group.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: extract a first target image corresponding to a reading target having a glossy portion and a non-glossy portion from a first read image acquired by optically reading the reading target in a first reading environment, and extract a second target image corresponding to the reading target from a second read image acquired by optically reading the reading target in a second reading environment in which specular light acquired from the reading target by an image sensor is of higher intensity compared to the first reading environment; execute an alignment of the first target image and the second target image if positions of the first and second target images do not coincide with each other and if the first and second target images are alignable by translating or rotating at least one of the first target image or the second target image; and form a composite image by executing a composition process that composites a non-glossy region corresponding to

Abstract: Connection terminals, corresponding to a plurality of channels, are configured to be connectable to light-emitting units so that driving currents can be supplied to the light-emitting units via the connection terminals individually for each channel. During a non-supply period of the driving currents to the light-emitting units, a sensing process is executed to sense a particular fault. The sensing process includes a first comparison process whereby, with a pull-up current fed toward one of two connection terminals, the voltage at the other connection terminal is compared with a judgment voltage and a second comparison process whereby, with a pull-up current fed toward the other of the two connection terminals, the voltage at the one connection terminal is compared with the judgment voltage.

Abstract: A road sign interpretation system includes a front-facing camera mounted on or in a vehicle collecting image data of multiple road signs. A first convolutional neural network (CNN) receives the image data from the front-facing camera and yields a set of sign predictions including one or more sign text instances. A second CNN defining a text extractor receives the image data from the front-facing camera and extracts text candidates including the multiple sign text instances. Sign and sign data localization is provided in the second CNN to compute a text order from the multiple sign text instances. A sign text synthesizer module receives individual sign text instances from the first CNN and individual ones of the sign text instances in digitized forms from an optical character recognizer (OCR). A semantic encoding and interpretation module receives the sign text instances and identifies semantics of the multiple road signs.

Abstract: Provided is a power management circuit including power supply circuits of a plurality of channels, a register that stores a plurality of digital values corresponding to the power supply circuits of the plurality of channels, a plurality of voltage monitor circuits corresponding to the power supply circuits of the plurality of channels, each of the plurality of voltage monitor circuits comparing an output voltage of a corresponding one of the power supply circuits with a threshold voltage corresponding to a corresponding one of the plurality of digital values, a control logic that sweeps the plurality of digital values stored in the register, while maintaining the digital values to be the same value in a calibration mode, and a non-volatile memory that stores, for each of the plurality of channels, a digital value when a determination result of the voltage monitor circuit changes.

Abstract: An organic compound that absorbs light of a wavelength range from 450 nm to 580 nm in a reduction state and is colored and that is superior in high-temperature drive durability and that is expressed by the following formula [1]. Z1 and Z2 each represent a substituent. R11 to R18 each represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent. R12 and R13 are optionally bound to each other to form a ring. R21 and R22 each represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent. X? represents an anion, and n is an integer greater than or equal to 1. When n is 2 or greater, two or more X?s are the same or different from each other.

Abstract: A vehicle and a system and a method of operating the vehicle. The system includes a reasoning engine, an episodic memory, a resolver and a controller. The reasoning engine infers a plurality of possible scenarios based on a current state of an environment of the vehicle. The episodic memory determines a historical likelihood for each of the plurality of possible scenarios. The resolver selects a scenario from the plurality of possible scenarios using the historical likelihoods. The controller operates the vehicle based on the selected scenario.

Abstract: Described is a system for analyzing time series data. A sequence of symbols is generated from a set of time series input data related to a moving vehicle using automatic segmentation. A grammar is extracted from the sequence of symbols, and the grammar is a subset of a probabilistic context-free grammar (PCFG). Using the grammar, time series input data can be analyzed, and a prediction of the vehicle's movement can be made. Vehicle operations for an autonomous vehicle are determined using the prediction.

Abstract: An image reading device includes a single light source that irradiates an image reading target with light, a traveling change member that changes a traveling direction of the light from the light source and irradiates the image reading target with the light at an incidence angle different from an incidence angle of the light directly applied from the light source to the image reading target, and a switching mechanism that switches traveling of the light from the light source to an optical path for directly irradiating the image reading target or an optical path for irradiating the image reading target via the traveling change member.