Abstract: An alert system configured to output an alert about an occupant being left in a vehicle includes an external-environment camera, a determiner, and an alert controller. The external-environment camera captures images at least one of which includes the occupant outside the vehicle. The determiner determines whether a child including an infant is likely to have been left in the vehicle. The alert controller outputs an alert if the child is likely to have been left in the vehicle. The determiner determines whether the child is likely to have been left in the vehicle, based on a change in the images from one of a presence state and an absence state of a person or an object outside the vehicle in a first image of the images to another of the presence state and the absence state of the person or the object in a second image of the images.

Abstract: An alert system outputs one or more alerts about an occupant being left in a vehicle. The alert system includes an in-vehicle object detector and an alert controller. The in-vehicle object detector detects objects in a vehicle compartment, including the occupant. If the occupant is left in the compartment after a driver has left the vehicle, the alert controller controls outputting of the one or more alerts to mobile terminals of persons including the driver. If the driver has left the vehicle, the alert controller causes the in-vehicle object detector to begin a detection processing for detecting the occupant being left in the compartment. If the occupant is left in the compartment, the alert controller determines whether the mobile terminal of the driver is left in the compartment. The alert controller switches outputting of the one or more alerts to among the mobile terminals of the persons in accordance with whether the mobile terminal of the driver is left in the compartment.

Abstract: An alert system includes an in-vehicle object detector and an alert controller. The in-vehicle object detector detects objects in a vehicle compartment, including an occupant. The alert controller is configured to control execution of alert output operations if the occupant is left in the compartment after the vehicle's driver has left the vehicle. The alert output operations include at least an output operation of an alert to a mobile terminal of the driver. The alert controller is configured to cause the in-vehicle object detector to begin a detection processing for detecting the occupant being left in the compartment if the driver has left the vehicle, determine whether the mobile terminal of the driver is left in the compartment, and switch between the alert output operations in accordance with whether the mobile terminal of the driver is left in the compartment.

Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for objective-based compression level change is provided. The present invention may include storing a volume in a storage device, wherein the stored volume is compressed using an initial compression level. The present invention may also include checking a last access time of the stored volume in the storage device at a regular interval. The present invention may further include, in response to determining, based on the checked last access time, that the stored volume is not accessed at the regular interval, recompressing the stored volume in the storage device using a higher compression level, wherein the higher compression level includes a higher compression ratio than a compression ratio associated with the initial compression level.

Abstract: An alert system configured to output an alert about an occupant being left in a vehicle includes an external-environment camera, a determiner, and an alert controller. The external-environment camera captures images at least one of which includes the occupant outside the vehicle. The determiner determines whether a child including an infant is likely to have been left in the vehicle. The alert controller outputs an alert if the child is likely to have been left in the vehicle. The determiner determines whether the child is likely to have been left in the vehicle, based on a change in the images from one of a presence state and an absence state of a person or an object outside the vehicle in a first image of the images to another of the presence state and the absence state of the person or the object in a second image of the images.

Abstract: An attachment structure of a vehicular module to a ceiling of a vehicle cabin of a vehicle includes a design member. The design member is configured to attach, to the ceiling, the module including an in-cabin sensor configured to perform detection in the vehicle cabin, and includes a securing portion configured to be secured to a vehicle-body ceiling member of the vehicle or an interior ceiling member disposed on a vehicle cabin side of the vehicle-body ceiling member, a downward protrusion protruding downward from the securing portion, and a design constituent extending from the downward protrusion and covering the securing portion. In an accommodating space defined between the downward protrusion and the design constituent, the in-cabin sensor is supported by the design member in such a manner that, above the accommodating space, a gap is left between the in-cabin sensor and the vehicle-body ceiling member or the interior ceiling member.

Abstract: A vehicle-interior monitoring apparatus for a vehicle includes a millimeter-wave sensor, a determiner, and a movement sensor. The millimeter-wave sensor outputs a millimeter radio wave toward a vehicle cabin of the vehicle and detects a millimeter reflection wave from an in-vehicle object including either one of an occupant and baggage in the vehicle cabin. The determiner determines a type of the in-vehicle object based on a detection level of the detected millimeter reflection wave. The movement sensor detects movement of the vehicle. The determiner re-determines that a determined in-vehicle object is either one of the baggage and a child as the occupant based on a positional change of the determined in-vehicle object upon the movement sensor detecting the movement of the vehicle, the determined in-vehicle object being the in-vehicle object of which the determiner has determined the type based on the detection level of the millimeter reflection wave.

Abstract: An alert system includes an in-vehicle object detector and an alert controller. The in-vehicle object detector detects objects in a vehicle compartment, including an occupant. The alert controller is configured to control execution of alert output operations if the occupant is left in the compartment after the vehicle's driver has left the vehicle. The alert output operations include at least an output operation of an alert to a mobile terminal of the driver. The alert controller is configured to cause the in-vehicle object detector to begin a detection processing for detecting the occupant being left in the compartment if the driver has left the vehicle, determine whether the mobile terminal of the driver is left in the compartment, and switch between the alert output operations in accordance with whether the mobile terminal of the driver is left in the compartment.

Abstract: A system to detect an occupant left in a vehicle includes a sensor, a determiner, and a controller. The sensor outputs a radio wave and detects a wave reflected by the occupant being left in the compartment. The determiner determines whether the occupant is left in the compartment, at least based on a detection result from the detected reflected wave. The controller selects a radio wave to be output from the sensor from those of different frequencies including a first radio wave a second radio wave lower in frequency than the first radio wave. The controller is configured to switch from the first radio wave to the second radio wave when the occupant is leaving the vehicle, and cause the determiner to determine whether the occupant is left, based on a detection result from the reflected wave detected by the sensor which output the second radio wave.

Abstract: A vehicle-interior monitoring apparatus for a vehicle includes a sensor and a determiner. The sensor is configured to output a millimeter radio wave toward a vehicle cabin of the vehicle and detect a millimeter reflection wave from an in-vehicle object including an occupant in the vehicle cabin of the vehicle and baggage in the vehicle cabin of the vehicle. The determiner is configured to determine a type of the in-vehicle object in the vehicle cabin of the vehicle based on a detection level of the millimeter reflection wave detected by the sensor. The determiner is configured to perform a determination, the determination including determining that the in-vehicle object is either one of a child as the occupant or the baggage based on a tendency of a change in the detection level of the millimeter reflection wave detected by the sensor.

Abstract: An alert system outputs one or more alerts about an occupant being left in a vehicle. The alert system includes an in-vehicle object detector and an alert controller. The in-vehicle object detector detects objects in a vehicle compartment, including the occupant. If the occupant is left in the compartment after a driver has left the vehicle, the alert controller controls outputting of the one or more alerts to mobile terminals of persons including the driver. If the driver has left the vehicle, the alert controller causes the in-vehicle object detector to begin a detection processing for detecting the occupant being left in the compartment. If the occupant is left in the compartment, the alert controller determines whether the mobile terminal of the driver is left in the compartment. The alert controller switches outputting of the one or more alerts to among the mobile terminals of the persons in accordance with whether the mobile terminal of the driver is left in the compartment.

Abstract: Embodiments are provided for reducing data using a plurality of compression operations in a computing storage environment. A speed of data writing to a virtual tape device and an availability of one or more processor devices for the virtual tape device may be monitored. One or more requests may be received for writing data to the virtual tape device. Data to be written to the virtual tape device, corresponding to a selected number of the one or more requests for writing the data, may be compressed according to both the speed of data writing to the virtual tape device and the availability of one or more processor devices for the virtual tape device. The compressed data may be stored in the virtual tape device in record units. Non-compressed data may be compressed in the virtual tape device at a subsequent period of time (e.g., future time period).

Abstract: An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and system for saving data received from a host computing device to a storage system. The storage system includes at least one processor and at least one storage. An embodiment may include storing the received data to the storage on a record basis. A record includes a record header including information indicative of an implemented compression method of the record. An embodiment may include monitoring a processing load of the at least one processor. In response to the processing load being less than a predetermined level, an embodiment may include further compressing the record utilizing a high-ratio compression method based on the record requiring further compression. An embodiment may include updating the record header information to reflect details of the utilized a high-ratio compression method. An embodiment may include storing the further compressed record to the storage.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe automatically changing a time zone of a mobile device to a current time zone. The method detects a first event for a mobile device from a plurality of events. The plurality of events represents a possible time zone change from a first time zone. The method generates a time change value based on detection of the event. The method detects a subsequent event for the mobile device and modifies the time change value. The method determines the time change value exceeds a change threshold value and changes a time zone display of the mobile device from the first time zone to a second time zone based on at least one detected event for the mobile device.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for maintaining a storage volume in a virtual tape system includes writing one or more logical volumes associated with a first category and one or more logical volumes associated with a second category to a primary storage in a virtual tape system. The computer-implemented method further includes performing a first automatic removal process in order to free up space on the primary storage, wherein the first automatic removal process removes logical volumes associated with the first category in priority to logical volumes associated with the second category. The computer-implemented method further includes performing a second automatic removal process, wherein the second automatic removal process dynamically alters the priority of the first automatic removal process such that one or more virtual volumes associated with the second category are removed in priority to one or more virtual volumes associated with the first category.

Abstract: A storage system receives one or more records from a host system. The records are compressed in a first compression format that is native to the host system. The storage system identifies an incompatibility between the first compression format and a first operation of the storage system. In response to the identified incompatibility, the storage system decompresses the received records. The decompression is based on the first compression format. The storage system compresses the decompressed records in a second compression format. The storage system stores the secondarily compressed records onto a storage medium.

Abstract: An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and system for saving data received from a host computing device to a storage system. The storage system includes at least one processor and at least one storage. An embodiment may include storing the received data to the storage on a record basis. A record includes a record header including information indicative of an implemented compression method of the record. An embodiment may include monitoring a processing load of the at least one processor. In response to the processing load being less than a predetermined level, an embodiment may include further compressing the record utilizing a high-ratio compression method based on the record requiring further compression. An embodiment may include updating the record header information to reflect details of the utilized a high-ratio compression method. An embodiment may include storing the further compressed record to the storage.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes assigning one or more first-type tape cartridges to an upper tape layer of a hierarchical storage management system, assigning one or more second-type tape cartridges to a lower tape layer of the hierarchical storage management system, and moving, to the lower tape layer, data having lower access frequency and recorded in the first-type tape cartridge assigned to the upper tape layer. A length of a tape included in the second-type tape cartridge is longer than a length of a tape included in the first-type tape cartridge.

Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for objective-based compression level change is provided. The present invention may include storing a volume in a storage device, wherein the stored volume is compressed using an initial compression level. The present invention may also include checking a last access time of the stored volume in the storage device at a regular interval. The present invention may further include, in response to determining, based on the checked last access time, that the stored volume is not accessed at the regular interval, recompressing the stored volume in the storage device using a higher compression level, wherein the higher compression level includes a higher compression ratio than a compression ratio associated with the initial compression level.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe automatically changing a time zone of a mobile device to a current time zone. The method detects a first event for a mobile device from a plurality of events. The plurality of events represents a possible time zone change from a first time zone. The method generates a time change value based on detection of the event. The method detects a subsequent event for the mobile device and modifies the time change value. The method determines the time change value exceeds a change threshold value and changes a time zone display of the mobile device from the first time zone to a second time zone based on at least one detected event for the mobile device.