Abstract: The quality of a communication cable can be efficiently determined. Therefore, a protocol conversion device includes a protocol converter for mutually converting between a message transfer part 2 message input/output from a public switched telephone network (PSTN) connector and an user peer-to-peer adaptation (M2PA) message input/output from an IP connector, a test signal output unit for outputting a test signal from the PSTN connector when a test instruction command is received, and a determination unit for outputting a determination result on the basis of whether or not the test signal has been received from the PSTN connector within a predetermined time from an output timing of the test signal.

Abstract: An oil dilution inhibiting apparatus is configured to inhibit oil dilution caused by mixture of fuel into engine oil. The oil dilution inhibiting apparatus includes a control unit. The control unit is configured to estimate friction of an engine and determine that the oil dilution occurs when the friction of the engine is decreased to a value lower than or equal to a predetermined threshold value to perform control so that the engine is operated at a higher speed.

Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit and a controller. The refrigerant circuit includes a main circuit and a bypass circuit. The bypass circuit is connected, by a pipe, to each of a plurality of parallel outdoor heat exchangers via a defrosting refrigerant pressure-reducing device, a defrosting flow passage switching device, and a backflow prevention device. The controller switches a flow passage for use in introduction of refrigerant using the defrosting flow passage switching device, to select one of the plurality of parallel outdoor heat exchangers as a defrosting target to be defrosted; and supplies defrosting refrigerant whose pressure is reduced by the defrosting refrigerant pressure-reducing device to the selected one of the plurality of parallel outdoor heat exchangers.

Abstract: With respect to an inference method performed by at least one processor, the method includes inputting, by the at least one processor, into a learned model, non-processed object image data of a second object and data related to a second process for the second object, and inferring, by the at least one processor using the learned model, processed object image data of the second object on which the second process has been performed. The learned model has been trained so that an output obtained in response to non-processed object image data of a first object and data related to a first process for the first object being input approaches processed object image data of the first object on which the first process has been performed.

Abstract: An information processing device mounted on a vehicle including a sensor includes an acquisition unit that acquires a surrounding image of the vehicle and information related to a behavior of the vehicle from the sensor, and an identification unit that identifies a moving object in the surrounding image of the vehicle based on a chronological change of the surrounding image of the vehicle and the information related to the behavior of the vehicle.

Abstract: A link management device with a special function is connected to the IP network, and the link management device controls a process of establishing a link between an IP converter device and a signal transfer point. The IP converter device transmits a request including a point code to the link management device, and the link management device determines the IP address and the like of the signal transfer point as a connection destination from the received point code. The link management device transmits information for identifying the signal transfer point to the IP converter device, and also transmits information for identifying the IP converter device to the signal transfer point as the connection destination. The port number of the IP converter device is determined by the link management device. The port number of the signal transfer point is determined by the link management device.

Abstract: A vehicle information processing system includes a vehicle information processing device mounted on a vehicle, a first external information processing device provided outside the vehicle, a plurality of vehicle control applications configured to output control commands to control target devices of the vehicle, and an arbitration unit provided in at least one of the vehicle information processing device and the first external information processing device. The vehicle control applications are installed in at least one of the vehicle information processing device and the first external information processing device. The arbitration unit is configured to arbitrate the control commands for a predetermined one of the control target devices to determine one control command. The control commands for the predetermined one of the control target devices are obtained by the vehicle control applications.

Abstract: An information processing device that performs communication via a network includes: a storage unit that stores a receiving unit that receives data acquired by a device; the data; and past data received by the receiving unit before the data; a calculating unit that calculates a delay time in the network; a determination unit that determines, based on the calculated delay time, one or more past data used for prediction of future data that is not received by the receiving unit from the past data stored in the storage unit; and a predicting unit that predicts the future data using the determined past data.

Abstract: An ultrasonic apparatus includes a transmitting circuit, an ultrasonic transducer, a receiving circuit, and a capacitance measuring circuit. The ultrasonic transducer is a three-terminal ultrasonic transducer that includes a transmitting electrode, a receiving electrode, and a common electrode. The transmitting circuit outputs a driving signal to the transmitting electrode to cause the ultrasonic transducer to transmit ultrasonic waves. The receiving circuit receives a receive signal from the receiving electrode. The capacitance measuring circuit is electrically connected to the receiving electrode to measure the electrostatic capacitance of the ultrasonic transducer.

Abstract: To effectively prevent a driver from being annoyed, provided is a driving assistance device (1) including: a target acquisition unit (30) configured to acquire a target existing in a periphery of an own vehicle; and a control unit (10) configured to execute, when the target acquired by the target acquisition unit (30) is determined as an object to be avoided which is highly likely to collide with the own vehicle, collision avoidance control of controlling travel of the own vehicle such that the collision between the own vehicle and the object to be avoided is avoided. The control unit (10) is configured to suppress the collision avoidance control when a specific target (ST) is detected between the own vehicle and the object to be avoided, and a positional relationship among the specific target (ST), the object to be avoided, and the own vehicle satisfies a predetermined condition.

Abstract: An image sensor includes a body module including a refractive power controller that adjusts an application voltage applicable to a liquid lens in a lens module to control a refractive power of the liquid lens, a recognition processor that analyzes, after a preset period elapses from when the refractive power controller changes the application voltage to the liquid lens, image data from an imaging device in an imaging module, and an adjuster that reads first information from a memory in the lens module and second information from a memory in the imaging module and adjusts, based on the first and second information, the preset period to a period corresponding to a combination of the lens module and the imaging device. The first information indicates a specification for or a type of the lens module. The second information indicates a specification for or a type of the imaging device.

Abstract: An ultrasonic apparatus includes an ultrasonic transducer, a transmitting circuit, a receiving circuit, a Q-factor measuring circuit, and a frequency measuring circuit. The ultrasonic transducer is a three-terminal ultrasonic transducer that includes a transmitting electrode, a receiving electrode, and a common electrode. The transmitting circuit outputs a driving signal to the transmitting electrode to cause the ultrasonic transducer to transmit ultrasonic waves. The receiving circuit receives a receive signal from the receiving electrode. The frequency measuring circuit measures a resonant frequency of the ultrasonic transducer from a reverberation signal in the receive signal. The Q-factor measuring circuit measures a Q factor of the ultrasonic transducer from the reverberation signal in the receive signal.

Abstract: An image sensor includes an imaging device, an optical system including a liquid lens, a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of the liquid lens, a heater that heats the liquid lens, a temperature adjuster that controls the heater to adjust the temperature of the liquid lens to a predetermined temperature, a nonvolatile memory storing property information about the liquid lens, a refractive power controller that determines, based on a target refractive power and the property information stored in the nonvolatile memory, an application voltage applicable to the liquid lens adjusted to have the predetermined temperature and applies the application voltage to the liquid lens to control a refractive power of the liquid lens to match the target refractive power, and an image processor. The optical system, the nonvolatile memory, and the temperature sensor are disconnectable from a body module including the refractive power controller and the image processor.

Abstract: A vehicle control device includes communication equipment configured to transmit a plurality of signals to a vehicle using a plurality of communication paths, and a processor. The processor is configured to acquire a communication latency for each of the communication paths, and determine a communication path to allocate to each of the signals based on the communication latency that is acquired. The communication equipment is configured to execute transmission of each of the signals to the vehicle using the communication path that is allocated.

Abstract: An image sensor includes an imaging device, an optical system including a liquid lens to form an image of a subject on an imaging surface of the imaging device, and a controller that performs a refractive power control process of adjusting an application voltage applicable to the liquid lens to control a refractive power of the liquid lens, and a recognition process of analyzing image data from the imaging device to recognize predetermined information about the subject. The controller is operable in a plurality of operation modes each with a different wait period from a change in the application voltage to the liquid lens in response to the refractive power control process to a start of the recognition process.

Abstract: A vehicle control device includes one or more processors configured to perform communication with a plurality of vehicles, transmit and receive data to and from the vehicles, acquire a communication delay time between the vehicle control device and a controlled vehicle that is a target of remote control among the vehicles, based on the transmitted and received data, and generate a control signal to be transmitted to the controlled vehicle for the remote control based on the communication delay time.

Abstract: To achieve, when a common-channel signal of a public switched telephone network is connected to an IP network, the automation of the operation of allocating logical links for accommodating the common-channel signal, and thus increase the efficiency of the operation of a continuity test and the like. A link management device with a special function is connected to the IP network, and the link management device controls a process of establishing a link between an IP converter device and a signal transfer point (IP-STP). The IP converter device transmits a request including a point code to the link management device, and the link management device determines the IP address and the like of the signal transfer point as a connection destination from the received point code.

Abstract: An image sensor includes an imaging device, an optical system including a liquid lens, a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of the liquid lens, a heater that heats the liquid lens, a temperature adjuster that controls the heater to adjust the temperature of the liquid lens to a predetermined temperature, a nonvolatile memory storing property information about the liquid lens, a refractive power controller that determines, based on a target refractive power and the property information stored in the nonvolatile memory, an application voltage applicable to the liquid lens adjusted to have the predetermined temperature and applies the application voltage to the liquid lens to control a refractive power of the liquid lens to match the target refractive power, and an image processor. The optical system, the nonvolatile memory, and the temperature sensor are disconnectable from a body module including the refractive power controller and the image processor.

Abstract: A driving assist device is mounted on a vehicle. The driving assist device includes a derivation unit that derives driving characteristics of a user who drives the vehicle, a determination unit that determines, based on the driving characteristics, whether a driving operation by the user corresponds to a driving operation that falls outside the driving characteristics, and an inhibition unit that performs, in a case where the determination unit determines that the driving operation by the user corresponds to a driving operation that falls outside the driving characteristics, control for inhibiting traveling based on the driving operation by the user.

Abstract: In the case in which a blank panel (1A) having holes (11a and 21a) is mounted obliquely on a rack (2) having holes (f1a and f2a), the blank panel (1A) includes an alignment mechanism for aligning the holes (11a and 21a) with the holes (f1a and f2a) having a misalignment. For example, the alignment mechanism is a mechanism which causes the blank panel (1A) to have a shape in which corners of the blank panel (1A) are cut out.