Abstract: A gaze direction detection device according to the present technology includes a detector for detecting a gaze of a driver over a predetermined period of time, a determiner for outputting second gaze information indicating that the driver is gazing, from first gaze information detected by the detector, a generator for generating a gaze distribution from the second gaze information output by the determiner, and a corrector for correcting the first gaze information detected by the detector, where the corrector calculates a center of a reference distribution that is set in advance and a center of the gaze distribution generated by the generator, and causes the center of the reference distribution and the center of the gaze distribution to overlap each other, and then calculates a correction parameter based on a difference between the reference distribution and the gaze distribution, and corrects the first gaze information with the correction parameter.

Abstract: A semiconductor device is manufactured by forming an oxide layer, forming an insulating layer and a sacrificial layer over the oxide layer, forming a conductive layer over the insulating layer and the sacrificial layer, and performing heat treatment after the formation of the conductive layer so that a first mixed layer is formed in a region of the oxide layer that is in contact with the conductive layer and a second mixed layer is formed in a region of the sacrificial layer that is in contact with the conductive layer. The first mixed layer includes at least one of elements included in the conductive layer. The second mixed layer includes at least one of elements included in the conductive layer. The resistance value of the first mixed layer is smaller than that of the oxide layer.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a central processing unit capable of executing a vector instruction. The vector instruction is an instruction to calculate a vector register for every element, combine the additional information based on the calculated result for every element, shift the contents of a register different from the vector register to right or left, insert the combined additional information in an empty portion resulting from the shift, and accumulate the additional information in the register.

Abstract: In a vehicle display device including a HUD that displays a virtual image on a front field of a view of a driver and a viewpoint detecting camera that captures an image of the driver, a measuring camera is capable of capturing the virtual image. A calibration pattern is at a predetermined position with respect to a viewing angle of the virtual image and angles of view of the viewpoint detecting and measuring cameras. The calibration pattern is captured by the viewpoint detecting and measuring cameras, and the virtual image is captured by the measuring camera. The relative position and orientation between the viewpoint detecting camera and HUD are calculated as orientation information using an image captured by the viewpoint detecting camera and an image captured by the measuring camera. In addition, the position of the virtual image displayed by the HUD is adjusted using the calculated orientation information.

Abstract: Provided is a bicycle trainer that provides a riding sensation such as that when actually riding a bicycle outdoors. The bicycle trainer is for training by using a detachably installed bicycle (21) and is provided with the following: a main body (3) placed on the floor; a support shaft (5) in which one end is movably inserted into the main body and the other end is fixed to a fork end support means (7) that supports a fork end part (23) of the bicycle; and an elastic part disposed so as to surround at least a part of the support shaft from the center in the longitudinal center thereof to the other end. The support shaft elastically deforms due to the force imparted from the fork end part and therefore the bicycle can move forward and backward and incline to the left and right.

Abstract: To improve the flexibility of a power storage device, or provide a high-capacity power storage device. The power storage device includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, an exterior body, and an electrolyte. The outer periphery of each of the positive electrode active material layer and the negative electrode active material layer is a closed curve. The exterior body includes a film and a thermocompression-bonded region. The inner periphery of the thermocompression-bonded region is a closed curve. The electrolyte, the positive electrode active material layer, and the negative electrode active material layer are in a region surrounded by the thermocompression-bonded region.

Abstract: A semiconductor device including a miniaturized transistor is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first insulator, a second insulator, a semiconductor, and a conductor. The semiconductor is over the first insulator. The second insulator is over the semiconductor. The conductor is over the second insulator. The semiconductor includes a first region, a second region, and a third region. The first region is a region where the semiconductor overlaps with the conductor. Each of the second region and the third region is a region where the semiconductor does not overlap with the conductor. The second region and the third region each have a region with a spinel crystal structure.

Abstract: A vector data selection unit selects, from a vector file of a past line graph, each vector data of a time period where a new line graph overlaps. An attribute value setting unit sets, of the vector data selected, a high transparency degree value to oldest vector data, sets a low transparency degree value to newest vector data, and sets an intermediate transparency degree value to intermediate vector data. A graph display unit displays a portion of a time period of the past line graph where the new line graph overlaps, with a gradation.

Abstract: A secondary battery suitable for a portable information terminal or a wearable device is provided. An electronic device having a novel structure that can have various exterior forms and a secondary battery that fits the forms of the electronic device are provided. The problem that strong external force unintentionally bends a secondary battery or an electronic device with a built-in secondary battery beyond the limits, resulting in a too small radius of curvature can be solved. The secondary battery has a structure in which a positive electrode and a negative electrode are included with a separator interposed therebetween. Between this structure and an exterior body, a thermoplastic substance which becomes flexible in the range around a surface temperature of human skin, higher than or equal to 30 ° C. and lower than or equal to 37 ° C., is provided.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an image display apparatus that suppresses the load on the CPU and the internal storage and suppresses an increase in stress to the user. The image display apparatus of the present invention includes a display, an internal storage, an interface connectable to an external storage, a receiver, and a controller. The external storage stores at least one piece of image data and at least one piece of thumbnail image data obtained by reducing the image data. The controller switches between a thumbnail display mode in which thumbnail image data transferred from the external storage to the internal storage is displayed on the display and a full screen display mode in which original image data of thumbnail image data is transferred from the external storage to the internal storage and displayed on the display, on the basis of inputs to the receiver.

Abstract: A detector detects head postures and gaze directions from images of a person to be measured captured by an imaging unit; a generation unit generates a gaze direction distribution with respect to each of the head postures, from the head postures and the gaze directions detected by the detector; a calibration unit determines predetermined one of the head postures as a reference posture, and calculates calibration parameters to be used to calibrate the gaze direction distribution with respect to the reference posture; and a correction unit corrects the gaze direction distributions with respect to the head postures other than the reference posture by using the calibration parameters calculated by the calibration unit. This reduces the influence on the calibration which may vary due to change in the head posture.

Abstract: A gaze direction detection device according to the present technology includes a detector for detecting a gaze of a driver over a predetermined period of time, a determiner for outputting second gaze information indicating that the driver is gazing, from first gaze information detected by the detector, a generator for generating a gaze distribution from the second gaze information output by the determiner, and a corrector for correcting the first gaze information detected by the detector, where the corrector calculates a center of a reference distribution that is set in advance and a center of the gaze distribution generated by the generator, and causes the center of the reference distribution and the center of the gaze distribution to overlap each other, and then calculates a correction parameter based on a difference between the reference distribution and the gaze distribution, and corrects the first gaze information with the correction parameter.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to efficiently perform a data load process or a data store process between a memory and a storage unit in a processor. The processor includes: a plurality of storage units associated with a plurality of data elements included in a data set; and a control unit that reads the plurality of data elements stored in adjacent storage areas from a memory, in which a plurality of the data sets is stored, collectively for respective data sets, sorts the respective read data elements to a storage unit corresponding to the data element among the plurality of storage units, and writes the data elements to the respective data sets.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus (10) includes: an imaging device (20); an optical system (22); and a distance determining unit (16) determining an object distance between the optical system and the object based on a size of a blur developed on the image. The optical system (22) has a characteristic which simultaneously satisfies both of conditions that (i) variation in magnification is equal to or smaller than the predetermined number of pixels in the case where a focused point is set farthest from and closest to the optical system (22) in a range of the distance of the object determined by the distance determining unit (16) and (ii) variation in a PSF due to an image height of the optical system (22) is equal to or smaller than a predetermined degree so as not to affect the determination of the distance of the object by the distance determining unit (16).

Abstract: A distance measurement apparatus includes: an imaging device which captures an image; a diffractive optical device which diffracts a subject image; an optical system which forms, on the imaging device, the image from the subject image diffracted by the diffractive optical device; and a distance measurement unit which measures a distance to a subject using the image captured by the imaging device. The distance measurement unit measures the distance to the subject based on an interval between diffraction figures of the subject image which are created by the diffractive optical device. The interval is on the image captured by the imaging device.

Abstract: A video output device according to the present disclosure synthesizes a plurality of videos into a video to be displayed. The video output device includes image processing unit and output unit. The image processing unit extracts a plurality of reference frames from any one reference video selected from the plurality of the videos captured by an imaging unit, and extracts a corresponding frame, most similar to a respective one of the reference frames, from each of the videos excluding the reference video. The output unit outputs a synthesized frame which image processing unit synthesizes from the each of the reference frame and the corresponding frame.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a focus lens, an image sensor which captures an image and a controller which moves the image sensor or the focus lens. A distance measurer measures a distance to a subject based on a first image and a second image. A focal position moves for the first focal range by moving the image sensor or by moving the position of the focus lens during the first exposure time period, and the focal position moves for the second focal range by moving the image sensor or by moving the position of the focus lens during the second exposure time period.

Abstract: Provided is a bicycle trainer that provides a riding sensation such as that when actually riding a bicycle outdoors. The bicycle trainer is for training by using a detachably installed bicycle (21) and is provided with the following: a main body (3) placed on the floor; a support shaft (5) in which one end is movably inserted into the main body and the other end is fixed to a fork end support means (7) that supports a fork end part (23) of the bicycle; and an elastic part disposed so as to surround at least a part of the support shaft from the center in the longitudinal center thereof to the other end. The support shaft elastically deforms due to the force imparted from the fork end part and therefore the bicycle can move forward and backward and incline to the left and right.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a focus lens, an image sensor which captures an image and a controller which moves the image sensor or the focus lens. A distance measurer measures a distance to a subject based on a first image and a second image. A focal position moves for the first focal range by moving the image sensor or by moving the position of the focus lens during the first exposure time period, and the focal position moves for the second focal range by moving the image sensor or by moving the position of the focus lens during the second exposure time period.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an imaging unit which captures an image, and a focal range control unit which changes a focal position and a depth of field of a captured image by controlling an imaging device or a focus lens in the imaging unit. Further, the image processing apparatus includes a distance measurement unit which measures a distance to a subject, from a degree of blur in each of n images (where n ?2) captured by the imaging unit controlled by the focal range control unit and having focal ranges different from each other.