Abstract: Provided is an optical lens formed by integrally molding a lens part that is an optically effective portion and has a light incidence/emission surface, and a lens edge part that is an optically ineffective portion and has a surface thereof except the light incidence/emission surface. The lens edge part includes a non-transparent region in part or all thereof, the lens part and the lens edge part include a thermoplastic resin, and the non-transparent region in the lens edge part contains a total of 0.1-5 mass % of one or more of a black dye and a black pigment.

Abstract: A fluoropolymer of a monomer (I) represented by the general formula (I), wherein a content of a polymerization unit (I) derived from the monomer (I) is 50% by mass or more based on all polymerization units constituting the fluoropolymer: CX2?CX—O—Rf—SO3M??General formula (I) wherein X is independently F or CF3; Rf is a fluorine-containing alkylene group having 1 to 40 carbon atoms or a fluorine-containing alkylene group having 2 to 100 carbon atoms and having an ether bond or a keto group; and M is —H, a metal atom, —NR74, imidazolium optionally having a substituent, pyridinium optionally having a substituent, or phosphonium optionally having a substituent, wherein R7 is H or an organic group. Also disclosed are an aqueous solution and coating composition containing the fluoropolymer.

Abstract: A travel controller detects objects from an environmental image representing surroundings of a vehicle capable of traveling under autonomous driving control satisfying a predetermined safety standard; detects a looking direction of a driver of the vehicle from a face image of the driver; identifies an object in the looking direction of the driver out of the objects; stores the identified object and a situation condition indicating the situation at detection of the identified object in a memory in association with each other when a danger avoidance action performed by the driver is detected during travel of the vehicle; and changes the predetermined safety standard so that the driver can feel safer, in the case where an object stored in the memory is detected during travel of the vehicle under the autonomous driving control and where the situation at detection of the object satisfies the situation condition.

Abstract: An apparatus for emotion estimation sets a face feature threshold based on a plurality of face features indicating a deviation from a reference state of a predetermined part of a face detected from each of a plurality of face images representing a face of a driver of a vehicle generated by a camera mounted on the vehicle in a predetermined time range, specifies face features larger than the face feature threshold among the plurality of face features detected from each of the face images generated by the camera at a time not included in the predetermined time range, and estimates an emotion of the driver by using normalized features obtained by normalizing the specified face features downward.

Abstract: An apparatus for determining a driver’s behavior includes a processor configured to detect a looking direction of a driver of a vehicle, based on an image obtained by a camera provided to capture the interior of the vehicle, calculate an angle formed between the looking direction and a normal direction of an operation screen of a portable device in the vehicle, the normal direction being indicated by information received from the portable device via a communication device capable of communicating with the portable device, and determine that the driver is operating the portable device when the angle is within a predetermined angle range.

Abstract: A device management system (1) includes a common certification information acquirer, a certifier, an identification information generator, and a setter. The common certification information acquirer acquires common certification information from a device (10) including a storage for storing the common certification information. The common certification information stored in the storage is shared with another device. The certifier certifies the device (10) based on the common certification information. The identification information generator generates identification information for identification of the device (10) certified by the certifier. The setter sets the identification information to the device (10).

Abstract: A parking assist apparatus according to an embodiment includes a memory and a hardware processor coupled to the memory. The hardware processor: sets a first circumference being in contact with a first straight line extending in a traveling direction of a vehicle and passing through a position of the vehicle; sets a second circumference being in contact with a second straight line extending in an exit direction from a parking target area of the vehicle and passing through the parking target area; sets a third circumference obtained by shifting the second circumference along the second straight line until the second circumference comes in contact with the first circumference; acquires a guidance route including part of the first circumference as a route for moving the vehicle forward and part of the third circumference as a route for moving the vehicle backward; and guides the vehicle along the acquired guidance route.

Abstract: An air conditioning system includes: outdoor units; indoor units each communicating with any one of the outdoor units by a first communication method; and a central control device communicating with each of the outdoor units by a second communication method and controlling the outdoor units and the indoor units. One of the outdoor units generates, by using a first address used for communication performed using the first communication method, a second address used for communication performed using a second communication method, generates a second address for one or more of the indoor units by using a first address, and obtains second addresses from another outdoor unit and the central control device. The central control device obtains, from each of the outdoor units, second addresses of the outdoor unit and each indoor unit, and controls operations of the outdoor units and the indoor units by using the second addresses obtained.

Abstract: An air conditioning system includes: outdoor units; indoor units each communicating with any one of the outdoor units by a first communication method; and a central control device communicating with each of the outdoor units by a second communication method and controlling the outdoor units and the indoor units. One of the outdoor units generates, by using a first address used for communication performed using the first communication method, a second address used for communication performed using a second communication method, generates a second address for one or more of the indoor units by using a first address, and obtains second addresses from another outdoor unit and the central control device. The central control device obtains, from each of the outdoor units, second addresses of the outdoor unit and each indoor unit, and controls operations of the outdoor units and the indoor units by using the second addresses obtained.

Abstract: At a time when it is possible for a user's own vehicle to pull out from a parking space, an assist control unit of a parking exit assist device terminates an assist control in the event that the user's own vehicle has traveled forward by a predetermined distance (a minimum forward distance) from a predetermined position (a most recent intermediate position or an assist starting position).

Abstract: In a communication device, a communicator communicates with a communication counterpart using a first communication mode or a second communication mode. When a communication by the communicator with the communication counterpart using the second communication mode is reset due to a first cause, if the communication with the communication counterpart using the second communication mode is acceptable, a communication controller causes the communicator to resume communication with the communication counterpart using the second communication mode, and if the communication with the communication counterpart using the second communication mode is unacceptable, the communication controller causes the communicator to start a communication with the communication counterpart using the first communication mode.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device is provided with a row control circuit, in order to dissolve a Row Hammer issue. The row control circuit is configured to: (A) latches one of (a) a target address upon issuing of an ACTIVE command to the semiconductor memory device, and (b) a row address of a victim cell in which data of a memory cell is affected by the target address, as a victim address by using a predetermined row address latch method; and then, (B) refreshes the victim cell having the victim address by a predetermined refresh method upon issuing of a REFRESH command.

Abstract: A parking support apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a memory configured to store in advance a plurality of movement routes having different turning radii of a vehicle; and a hardware processor coupled to the memory, the hardware processor being configured to: select one movement route from the plurality of movement routes based on magnitude of difference between a direction of the vehicle to a target position at a turning-back position where the vehicle turns back and a direction of the vehicle to the target position when the vehicle is positioned on the movement route; and move the vehicle based on the selected movement route.

Abstract: A communication apparatus is connected to another communication apparatus via a power source line, a signal line, and a shared line. The communication apparatus includes a detector and a communicator. The detector detects the phase of an alternating-current voltage applied between a first terminal for connecting to the power source line and a second terminal for connecting to the shared line. The communicator communicates with the other communication apparatus by executing at least one of transmission or reception of an electric current signal generated by opening and closing a circuit including the signal line and the shared line except when the phase detected by the detector is within a specific range. The specific range is defined as a range in which an induced electric current flowing through the signal line due to the alternating-current voltage is greater than a reference value.

Abstract: A parking support apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a hardware processor being configured to: calculate, when turning-back is performed for a vehicle to enter a parking frame, a steering angle such that a position of a turning center of the vehicle is, along a first direction that is vertical to a going-in direction of the vehicle with respect to the parking frame, more away from the parking frame than an outer edge that is opposite to an advancing direction of the vehicle on a turning-back position of the vehicle is; acquire, based on the calculated steering angle and the turning-back position, a moving path of the vehicle; and provide stationary steering control, based on the acquired moving path, in which the vehicle is steered while being stopped, so as to allow the vehicle to move.

Abstract: A voltage application circuit including a photocoupler and a resistor applies, to a reception terminal, a voltage corresponding to an intensity of a communication current flowing through a transmission path. A reception control unit determines whether the communication current is flowing, by comparing the voltage applied to the reception terminal with a predetermined voltage threshold. A voltage adjustment circuit including a resistor and a transistor adjusts the voltage that is applied to the reception terminal by the voltage application circuit. A switch control unit switches a current threshold used for determining whether the communication current is flowing by controlling the voltage adjustment circuit in accordance with an intensity of the communication current during an on-control period.

Abstract: A parking assist apparatus according to an embodiment includes a memory and a hardware processor coupled to the memory. The hardware processor: sets a first circumference being in contact with a first straight line extending in a traveling direction of a vehicle and passing through a position of the vehicle; sets a second circumference being in contact with a second straight line extending in an exit direction from a parking target area of the vehicle and passing through the parking target area; sets a third circumference obtained by shifting the second circumference along the second straight line until the second circumference comes in contact with the first circumference; acquires a guidance route including part of the first circumference as a route for moving the vehicle forward and part of the third circumference as a route for moving the vehicle backward; and guides the vehicle along the acquired guidance route.

Abstract: A voltage application circuit including a photocoupler and a resistor applies, to a reception terminal, a voltage corresponding to an intensity of a communication current flowing through a transmission path. A reception control unit determines whether the communication current is flowing, by comparing the voltage applied to the reception terminal with a predetermined voltage threshold. A voltage adjustment circuit including a resistor and a transistor adjusts the voltage that is applied to the reception terminal by the voltage application circuit. A switch control unit switches a current threshold used for determining whether the communication current is flowing by controlling the voltage adjustment circuit in accordance with an intensity of the communication current during an on-control period.

Abstract: A communication apparatus is connected to another communication apparatus via a power source line, a signal line, and a shared line. The communication apparatus includes a detector and a communicator. The detector detects the phase of an alternating-current voltage applied between a first terminal for connecting to the power source line and a second terminal for connecting to the shared line. The communicator communicates with the other communication apparatus by executing at least one of transmission or reception of an electric current signal generated by opening and closing a circuit including the signal line and the shared line except when the phase detected by the detector is within a specific range. The specific range is defined as a range in which an induced electric current flowing through the signal line due to the alternating-current voltage is greater than a reference value.

Abstract: In a communication device, a communicator communicates with a communication counterpart using a first communication mode or a second communication mode. When a communication by the communicator with the communication counterpart using the second communication mode is reset due to a first cause, if the communication with the communication counterpart using the second communication mode is acceptable, a communication controller causes the communicator to resume communication with the communication counterpart using the second communication mode, and if the communication with the communication counterpart using the second communication mode is unacceptable, the communication controller causes the communicator to start a communication with the communication counterpart using the first communication mode.