Abstract: A passage direction detecting device includes: a detection processing unit that detects a passage direction in which a passage connected to an exit of a parking area of a vehicle extends and the vehicle has to travel after exiting from the parking area, based on a road surface marking provided on a road surface to illustrate the parking area.

Abstract: A parking assist apparatus includes: a setting unit that sets, within a captured image in which objects surrounding a moving vehicle have been imaged, a first search area for searching for a pair of partition lines disposed between parking spaces that are adjacent to each other; and a detecting unit that searches the first search area to detect a first partition line out of the pair of partition lines. When the detecting unit detects the first partition line, the setting unit sets a second search area for searching for a second partition line out of the pair of partition lines on the basis of the first partition line.

Abstract: A parking assistance device that recognizes a parking stall where a vehicle is to be parked, includes: at least three cameras that take images of an outside of the vehicle; a setting unit that sets, based on a preset setting condition, a camera which is to take an image used for recognizing the parking stall; and a detection unit that detects the parking stall based on the image taken by the set camera.

Abstract: A parking assist apparatus includes: a setting unit that sets, within a captured image in which objects surrounding a moving vehicle have been imaged, a first search area for searching for a pair of partition lines disposed between parking spaces that are adjacent to each other; and a detecting unit that searches the first search area to detect a first partition line out of the pair of partition lines. When the detecting unit detects the first partition line, the setting unit sets a second search area for searching for a second partition line out of the pair of partition lines on the basis of the first partition line.

Abstract: Provided is a technology of suppressing, in forming an initial ball by using an easily oxidizable conductive wire and pressing the initial ball onto a pad to form a press-bonded ball, an initial ball from having a shape defect, thereby reducing damage to the pad. To achieve this, a ball formation unit is equipped with a gas outlet portion for discharging an antioxidant gas and a discharging path through this gas outlet portion is placed in a direction different from a direction of introducing the antioxidant gas into a ball formation portion. Such a structure widens a region for discharging the antioxidant gas, making it possible to prevent a gas flow supplied from the side of one side surface of the ball formation portion from being reflected by the other side surface facing with the one side surface and thereby forming a turbulent flow.

Abstract: Provided is a technology of suppressing, in forming an initial ball by using an easily oxidizable conductive wire and pressing the initial ball onto a pad to form a press-bonded ball, an initial ball from having a shape defect, thereby reducing damage to the pad. To achieve this, a ball formation unit is equipped with a gas outlet portion for discharging an antioxidant gas and a discharging path through this gas outlet portion is placed in a direction different from a direction of introducing the antioxidant gas into a ball formation portion. Such a structure widens a region for discharging the antioxidant gas, making it possible to prevent a gas flow supplied from the side of one side surface of the ball formation portion from being reflected by the other side surface facing with the one side surface and thereby forming a turbulent flow.

Abstract: A mixer 20 of the invention has a plurality of LAN ports that are connected with a plurality of players 10 and input/output a control signal from/to the players 10, an input detection device 210 that detects that the control signal is input from connected one of the players 10, an ID determination device 220 that determines an ID pre-assigned to the detected one LAN port as an ID of the player 10 connected to the one LAN port, and an ID transmission device 230 that transmits the determined ID to the player 10 through the one LAN port.