Abstract: A data collector calculates, for each of vehicles, a score indicating the quality of data representing the surroundings of the vehicle obtained by a sensor mounted on the vehicle; stores the score in a memory; and requests vehicles, of the vehicles that have traveled through a predetermined region, to transmit the data obtained in the region when an expected number of pieces of data expected for the case where the data is collected from all of the vehicles that have traveled through the region is greater than a desired number of pieces of data preset for the region. The requested vehicles rank higher than a rank corresponding to the ratio of the desired number to the expected number in a distribution of the score stored in the memory for each of the vehicles.

Abstract: A feature detection device includes a processor configured to determine whether a vehicle is parked, based on at least one of the speed, steering angle, and shifter position of the vehicle; detect one or more predetermined features from a first image representing a first area around the vehicle in a section of road in which the vehicle is traveling, the first image being generated by a first camera provided on the vehicle, and detect the one or more predetermined features from a second image representing a second area closer to the vehicle than the first area in a section of road in which the vehicle is parked, the second image being generated by a second camera provided on the vehicle.

Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to achieve a roll flight of a wireless controlled airplane with a simple control operation. An arithmetic processing device according to the present invention includes an arithmetic section configured to calculate control amounts for correcting a change amount around a pitch axis and a change amount around a yaw axis for a wireless controlled airplane depending on a change amount for a roll axis for the wireless controlled airplane.

Abstract: An apparatus for determining sections for map update includes a processor configured to calculate a score indicating the degree of improvement of drivers' convenience provided by generating or updating map information regarding two or more road sections selected from road sections where the map information is unavailable, based on handover costs between autonomous driving and manual driving, calculate the score while replacing one or more of the two or more selected road sections with one or more unselected road sections, and identify the two or more selected road sections corresponding to a score for the case where the degree of improvement of drivers' convenience is the highest among the scores calculated before the score satisfies a predetermined end condition, as target road sections for generating or updating the map information.

Abstract: An apparatus for determining sections for map update includes a processor configured to select, for each of pairs of two locations selected from among a plurality of locations at which vehicles can enter or exit a predetermined region, a series of road sections connecting the two locations from among a plurality of road sections as a route between the two locations, calculate, for each of the pairs, a score indicating the degree of improvement of drivers' convenience provided by generating or updating map information, based on one or more candidate sections where the map information is unavailable among individual road sections included in the route between the two locations, and identify the candidate sections included in the route of each of a predetermined number of pairs among the pairs of two locations in descending order of the score as target road sections for generating or updating the map information.

Abstract: An apparatus for estimating a road edge includes a processor configured to estimate a trajectory of a vehicle, estimate the position of an edge of a road from images generated during travel of the vehicle by a camera, identify an undetected section when an image from which the edge of the road is not detected was generated, determine whether the road in the undetected section has a structure with a road edge, estimate the position of the edge of the road in the undetected section, based on the positions of the edge of the road in the sections in front of and behind the undetected section, when the road in the undetected section has a structure with an edge, and omit to estimate the position of the edge of the road in the undetected section when the road in the undetected section has a structure without an edge.

Abstract: (Object) When a cyclocarbonate group-containing (meth)acrylate monomer is applied for a polymer used as a paint or the like, it is to provide the cyclocarbonate group-containing (meth)acrylate monomer in which the increase of the viscosity over time is suppressed so that it can used stably for a long time. (Solution) It is provided a cyclocarbonate group-containing (meth)acrylate monomer (A) represented by a formula (1) as follows, wherein a content of di(meth)acrylate monomer (B) represented by a formula (2) as follows is 3 weight % or lower. (R1 represents hydrogen atom or methyl group, R2 represents an alkyl group having a number of carbons of 2 to 10, and X is 0 or 1.) (R3 represents hydrogen atom or methyl group, R4 represents an alkyl group having a number of carbons of 2 to 10, and X is 0 or 1.

Abstract: A system for treating moisture in exhaust gas uses a cooling trap to remove the moisture contained in the exhaust gas. The system includes a tank that stores, as liquid water, the moisture flown out of the cooling trap and a water level measurement means that measures a water level in the tank. A pipe is connected to a drainage port for draining the water stored in the tank to outside and a valve is disposed in the pipe. Aa valve control means opens the valve to start drainage when the water level in the tank measured by the water level measurement means exceeds a first water level and closes the valve to stop the drainage when a second water level set lower than the first water level is reached. The second water level is provided at a position higher than the drainage port.

Abstract: A driving control device for a remote controlled helicopter includes an rpm detection unit that detects an rpm of a main rotor, a gyro sensor that detects angular velocities of control axes including roll, pitch and yaw axes, and a control unit that generates a control signal of a control actuator for controlling movements of the control axes based on the angular velocities detected by the gyro sensor and a steering signal sent from a transmitter. The control unit has information on the gyro sensitivities of the control axes and information on a set rpm of the main rotor which are preset for each of the flight states of the remote controlled helicopter, and corrects the gyro sensitivities based on a difference between the set rpm corresponding to a selected flight state among the flight states and an rpm of the main rotor detected by the rpm detection unit.

Abstract: A data updating device sets, with respect to map data in which road links are represented as line segment sequences, a plurality of first straight lines extending in a first direction and a plurality of second straight lines extending in a second direction that intersects with the first direction, to thereby generate mesh map data. Then, the data updating device sets a set L of points or line segments that represent the update location, sets a set V including a plurality of first straight lines, and sets a set H including a plurality of second straight lines. Then, the data updating device sets the state of each mesh based on the set L, the set V, and the set H.

Abstract: An apparatus for image conversion includes a processor configured to classify a reference region representing a predetermined feature into a shadowed region and an unshadowed region, the reference region being in an aerial image represented in RGB color space; determine a tone correction factor so that a difference between an average luminance of the shadowed region and an average luminance of the unshadowed region in the aerial image represented in predetermined color space to which the color space of the aerial image is converted from RGB color space is less than a difference between an average luminance of the shadowed region and an average luminance of the unshadowed region represented in RGB color space; correct tones of the aerial image with the tone correction factor; and convert the color space of the aerial image from RGB color space to the predetermined color space to generate a color conversion image.

Abstract: An apparatus for updating a map detects the positions of reference points corresponding to a feature on a road being traveled by a vehicle from surrounding data representing features around the vehicle, and updates probability distributions associated with the respective reference points so that the probabilities of existence of the reference points at the detected positions of the reference points increase. Each of the probability distributions indicates the probability of existence of the corresponding reference point as a function of position.

Abstract: An apparatus for collecting feature data includes a memory configured to store map information including a probability distribution of reliability indicating how likely a feature related to travel of vehicles exists as a function of position; and one or more processors configured to store feature data indicating the position of the feature in the memory whenever receiving the feature data from any of one or more vehicles via a communication circuit, update the probability distribution of reliability indicating how likely the feature exists as a function of position, based on the position of the feature indicated by each of one or more pieces of received feature data, and transmit an instruction to stop collecting the feature data to the one or more vehicles via the communication circuit for a feature regarding which the extent of the updated probability distribution is not greater than a predetermined threshold.

Abstract: An apparatus for collecting feature data includes a memory configured to store, for each of vehicles, a mileage of the vehicle or the amount of feature data transmitted by the vehicle and representing a feature related to travel of the vehicles; and one or more processors configured to set a transmission condition for permitting transmission of the feature data for each of the vehicles so that, of the vehicles, the transmission condition for a vehicle with a lower mileage or a vehicle having transmitted a smaller amount of the feature data is more relaxed, and notify each of the vehicles via a communication circuit of a collection instruction to instruct the vehicle to collect the feature data under the transmission condition set for the vehicle.

Abstract: An apparatus for updating a map includes one or more processors configured to: receive feature data from a vehicle traveling on a predetermined road section for a feature in the road section related to travel of vehicles via a communication circuit, the feature data indicating the position of the feature, measure the accuracy of the position of the feature indicated by feature data obtained by the vehicle, based on the difference between the position of the feature indicated by the received feature data and a reference position of a corresponding feature, determine whether the accuracy satisfies a predetermined accuracy condition, and set contribution of the feature data received from the vehicle to update of map information indicating the position of the feature. The contribution is set lower when the accuracy does not satisfy the accuracy condition than when the accuracy satisfies the accuracy condition.

Abstract: A partial image generating device has a processor configured to generate a partial image from an image in which the environment surrounding a vehicle has been photographed using an imaging device provided in the vehicle, and to assess whether or not the road represented in the image is straight. The processor is configured so that, when it has been assessed that the road represented in the image is straight, it generates a partial image by cutting out a first region in the image that is estimated to contain the road, based on the vanishing point of the road, and when it has assessed that the road represented in the image is not straight, it generates a partial image by cutting out a second region in the image determined based on the type of the vehicle.

Abstract: This communication system has a transmitter and a receiver for repeatedly transmitting a frame of steering signal having a plurality of channels. The transmitter stores an identification data of a control parameter of a specific operation object in a first empty channel within one frame and stores a characteristic data of the control parameter of the specific operation object in a second empty channel to transmit along with steering data of other channels. Since the identification data and the characteristic data are transmitted at the same time along with the control data, the control parameters can be changed during steering of the operation object. Since the characteristic data and the identification data are transmitted in the same frame as a pair, when at least the one frame is received, the setting of the control parameter can be changed.

Abstract: An apparatus for updating a map includes a communication interface configured to receive pieces of reliability information indicating degrees of reliability from a vehicle, the degrees of reliability each indicating how likely a feature at a first location is represented in an image obtained by a camera mounted on the vehicle; and a processor configured to determine that the feature at the first location is removed, when a ratio of the number of pieces of reliability information indicating the degrees of reliability less than a second threshold to the total number of received pieces of reliability information is not less than a predetermined ratio threshold, the second threshold being less than a first threshold for determining that the feature is detected, and update a map so as to delete information on the feature at the first location from the map when it is determined that the feature is removed.

Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to eliminate unnatural behaviors of a wireless controlled airplane during PID control. In a wireless controlled airplane, a receiving section receives a first operation signal for a first actuator, a second operation signal for a second actuator, and a third operation signal for a third actuator, wherein the first, second and third operation signals are provided as operation signals wirelessly transmitted. A first actuator control section is configured to generate an actuation signal for the first actuator by means of PID control depending on the first operation signal, and to reduce an integral element in the PID control depending on an operation value for the second or third operation signal. Alternatively, the first actuator control section is configured to perform switching to a control without an integral element from the PID control.

Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to achieve a roll flight of a wireless controlled airplane with a simple control operation. An arithmetic processing device according to the present invention includes an arithmetic section configured to calculate control amounts for correcting a change amount around a pitch axis and a change amount around a yaw axis for a wireless controlled airplane depending on a change amount for a roll axis for the wireless controlled airplane.