Abstract: An obstacle detecting and notifying device according to an embodiment is to be installed in a vehicle, to issue an alarm upon detecting a moving obstacle. The device includes a moving-obstacle detector that detects a moving obstacle in a given monitoring area; a first calculator that calculates an expected moving route of the moving obstacle; a second calculator that calculates an expected moving route of the vehicle; a setter that sets an alarm area in the monitoring area in accordance with the expected moving route of the vehicle, the alarm area in which the alarm is to be issued; an excluder that excludes, from alarming moving obstacles, the moving obstacle unlikely to reach the alarm area, in accordance with the expected moving route of the moving obstacle and the expected moving route of the vehicle; and an alarm that issues an alarm against the alarming moving obstacles.

Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication device that is a base station device or a terminal station device in a wireless communication system that includes the base station device having a plurality of antenna elements and a plurality of terminal station devices, the wireless communication device including: a high-frequency circuit that performs signal processing including frequency conversion between a signal in a radio frequency band and a signal in a baseband band or an intermediate frequency band; and an analog signal processing circuit that performs gain adjustment such that a gain for each of the plurality of antenna elements, in case of a signal transmission or in case of a signal reception, is a predetermined value being dependent on a position of the antenna element, wherein the analog signal processing circuit includes a splitter/combiner that establishes 1-to-(N×M) connection by performing splitting or combining between the high-frequency circuit and the plurality of antenna elements for an integer N o

Abstract: A receiving station (3) performs first signal detection processing on a received radio signal, performs a retransmission request to a transmitting station (2) in a case in which a code error is detected in a detected radio packet for user data, and enqueues the radio packet for user data in a reception buffer in a case in which no code error is detected. In parallel with the first signal detection processing, the receiving station (3) performs second signal detection processing on the received signal with a longer processing delay than that of the first signal detection processing, and in a case in which no code error is detected in the detected radio packet for user data, the receiving station (3) enqueues the radio packet for user data in the reception buffer. The receiving station (3) outputs, at a predetermined timing, the radio packet for user data with no code error detected, the radio packet being enqueued in the reception buffer.

Abstract: After one suction nozzle turns from one arrangement pitch ahead of a work position toward the work position and immediately before the suction nozzle starts descent at the work position, an image of a side portion of the suction nozzle is captured. Parameters are used for controlling the imaging operation. The parameters include descent start timing when each of the suction nozzles starts descent during mounting of an electronic component, and data required for determining an imaging time necessary from when a camera starts imaging of the suction nozzle until the camera ends the imaging. Imaging is completed immediately before the one suction nozzle starts descent at the work position.

Abstract: An obstacle detecting and notifying device according to an embodiment is to be installed in a vehicle, to issue an alarm upon detecting a moving obstacle. The device includes a moving-obstacle detector that detects a moving obstacle in a given monitoring area; a first calculator that calculates an expected moving route of the moving obstacle; a second calculator that calculates an expected moving route of the vehicle; a setter that sets an alarm area in the monitoring area in accordance with the expected moving route of the vehicle, the alarm area in which the alarm is to be issued; an excluder that excludes, from alarming moving obstacles, the moving obstacle unlikely to reach the alarm area, in accordance with the expected moving route of the moving obstacle and the expected moving route of the vehicle; and an alarm that issues an alarm against the alarming moving obstacles.

Abstract: A movement error detection apparatus includes a movable region inside mark made of a projected image arranged in a movable region of a movable conveyor of each of first and second substrate conveyance devices; and a pair of movable region outside marks respectively provided on both sides of the movable region inside mark and arranged at a position outside the movable region of the movable conveyor and outward of a substrate at a work position; an imaging device which moves together with a mounting head; and a control device that selects two marks, among the marks, which are positioned on both outer sides of the substrate and are closest to the substrate, and causes the first substrate recognition camera to image the marks, as well as obtaining a movement error of the first mounting head on the basis of the two mark images.

Abstract: A movement error detection apparatus includes a movable region inside mark made of a projected image arranged in a movable region of a movable conveyor of each of first and second substrate conveyance devices; and a pair of movable region outside marks respectively provided on both sides of the movable region inside mark and arranged at a position outside the movable region of the movable conveyor and outward of a substrate at a work position; an imaging device which moves together with a mounting head; and a control device that selects two marks, among the marks, which are positioned on both outer sides of the substrate and are closest to the substrate, and causes the first substrate recognition camera to image the marks, as well as obtaining a movement error of the first mounting head on the basis of the two mark images.

Abstract: Systems and methods for automatic user profile generation and authentication. One system includes a database storing user profile data for a plurality of users and an electronic processor communicatively coupled to the database. The electronic processor is configured to receive, from a computing device, a first usage indicator for a first user and a first user identifier for the first user, and to generate a probable user profile based on the first usage indicator and the first user identifier. The electronic processor is configured to retrieve, from the database, a plurality of previously-generated user profiles, and to determine, for each of the previously-generated user profiles, a confidence score based on the probable user profile. The electronic processor is configured to select an active user profile from the plurality of previously-generated user profiles when the confidence score exceeds a confidence threshold, and transmit, to the computing device, the active user profile.

Abstract: A display control device includes: an image acquisition unit acquiring a plurality of captured image data in a time series of output from an imagining unit imaging a periphery of a vehicle; an object detection unit detecting an object with respect to each of the plurality of captured image data; a movement calculation unit calculating a movement direction and speed of the object; a display information determination unit determining a position of display information corresponding to the object, displayed on a display area of second captured image data output from the imagining unit after the plurality of captured image data, based on the movement direction and speed; and a display controller causing a display unit to display the second captured image data, and to superimpose and display the display information on the display area based on the determined position.

Abstract: A component mounting device mounts an electronic component on a printed circuit board, and includes a sideview camera which takes an image of a side surface of a target, a mounting head having a nozzle shaft, and a driving device which moves the mounting head to a planar direction on a base. The nozzle shaft includes a shaft main body movably supported to a vertical direction with respect to the mounting head, and a suction nozzle attached at a tip of the shaft main body to suction and hold the electronic component, and an identification mark which identifies the suction nozzle is provided on a side surface of the suction nozzle.

Abstract: After one suction nozzle turns from one arrangement pitch ahead of a work position toward the work position and immediately before the suction nozzle starts descent at the work position, an image of a side portion of the suction nozzle is captured. Parameters are used for controlling the imaging operation. The parameters include descent start timing when each of the suction nozzles starts descent during mounting of an electronic component, and data required for determining an imaging time necessary from when a camera starts imaging of the suction nozzle until the camera ends the imaging. Imaging is completed immediately before the one suction nozzle starts descent at the work position.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, the image processing device includes imagers disposed on an outer circumference of a mobile object for imaging surroundings of the mobile object to generate multiple images including mutually overlapping regions, and a processor that corrects the images on the basis of one color-value mean value and another color-value mean value to generate a peripheral image by combining the corrected images. The one color-value mean value is an average of color values of a target region set in an overlapping region of one of the images. Another color-value mean value is an average of color values of a target region set in an overlapping region of another one of the images.

Abstract: A thermal emission structure capable of exhibiting heat release characteristics reverse to those of a Phase-change material used therein includes a first conductor layer, a dielectric layer on the first conductor layer, and a second conductor layer on the dielectric layer and having a periodic geometry, at least one of the first conductor layer and the second conductor layer comprises a Phase-change material having an electrical conduction property that varies between a high-temperature phase and a low-temperature phase.

Abstract: Systems and methods for automatic user profile generation and authentication. One system includes a database storing user profile data for a plurality of users and an electronic processor communicatively coupled to the database. The electronic processor is configured to receive, from a computing device, a first usage indicator for a first user and a first user identifier for the first user, and to generate a probable user profile based on the first usage indicator and the first user identifier. The electronic processor is configured to retrieve, from the database, a plurality of previously-generated user profiles, and to determine, for each of the previously-generated user profiles, a confidence score based on the probable user profile. The electronic processor is configured to select an active user profile from the plurality of previously-generated user profiles when the confidence score exceeds a confidence threshold, and transmit, to the computing device, the active user profile.

Abstract: A display control device includes: an image acquisition unit acquiring a plurality of captured image data in a time series of output from an imagining unit imaging a periphery of a vehicle; an object detection unit detecting an object with respect to each of the plurality of captured image data; a movement calculation unit calculating a movement direction and speed of the object; a display information determination unit determining a position of display information corresponding to the object, displayed on a display area of second captured image data output from the imagining unit after the plurality of captured image data, based on the movement direction and speed; and a display controller causing a display unit to display the second captured image data, and to superimpose and display the display information on the display area based on the determined position.

Abstract: The wire harness as the circuit body is obtained as described below. In step S1, a long core wire constructed of a conductive metal is cut in a predetermined length. In step S2, a terminal part is molded in an end portion of the core wire and the core wire is bent in a predetermined shape. In step S3, a covering part is integrally molded in the center of the core wire. In step S4, a rubber stopper is integrally molded in an end portion of the covering part. In step S5, a conductor thin film sheet and a shield shell are assembled. In step S6, a connector housing is integrally molded. In step S7, packing is integrally molded. In step S8, a protective part is integrally molded.

Abstract: A photodetector disclosed herein comprises an avalanche transistor having a reference junction structure in which temperature characteristics of a current amplification factor are about the same as those of an avalanche photodiode and which is reverse-biased, and a current injection junction structure which injects a reference current to the reference junction structure and which is forward-biased. Voltages to be applied to the avalanche photodiode and the reference junction structure are controlled so that the amplification factor of the reference current amplified in the reference junction structure is retained at a predetermined value, whereby the temperature characteristics of the photodetector utilizing an avalanche effect can be stabilized.

Abstract: The wire harness as the circuit body is obtained as described below. In step S1, a long core wire constructed of a conductive metal is cut in a predetermined length. In step S2, a terminal part is molded in an end portion of the core wire and the core wire is bent in a predetermined shape. In step S3, a covering part is integrally molded in the center of the core wire. In step S4, a rubber stopper is integrally molded in an end portion of the covering part. In step S5, a conductor thin film sheet and a shield shell are assembled. In step S6, a connector housing is integrally molded. In step S7, packing is integrally molded. In step S8, a protective part is integrally molded.

Abstract: A photodetector disclosed herein comprises an avalanche transistor having a reference junction structure in which temperature characteristics of a current amplification factor are about the same as those of an avalanche photodiode and which is reverse-biased, and a current injection junction structure which injects a reference current to the reference junction structure and which is forward-biased. Voltages to be applied to the avalanche photodiode and the reference junction structure are controlled so that the amplification factor of the reference current amplified in the reference junction structure is retained at a predetermined value, whereby the temperature characteristics of the photodetector utilizing an avalanche effect can be stabilized.