Abstract: A driving support device uses a camera mounted on a vehicle for imaging a blind spot area created by a pillar of the vehicle and displays an image taken by the camera on the interior surface of the pillar. A virtual plane passing through boundaries of the blind spot area is set, and an image plane of the camera is set at a predetermined position where a non-displayed area or an excess area, created by deviation between the virtual plane and the image plane of the camera, is reduced. Image data input from the camera is subjected to coordinate transformation on the virtual plane, and an image corresponding to the blind spot area created by the pillar is displayed on the interior surface of the pillar, based on the image data subjected to coordinate transformation on the virtual plane.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for producing a semi-transmissive liquid crystal display device which allows sufficient polymerization reaction in the liquid crystal layer in each of the reflection region and the transmission region.

Abstract: A driving support method and a driving support apparatus clearly project an image of a specific target object onto a pillar within a vehicle. The apparatus includes a camera installed on the vehicle that captures a dead-angle area created by the pillar and a projector projecting the image captured by the camera onto the interior surface of the pillar. The driving support unit also includes an image processor that sets a reference point Pc on an indicator on a road surface, sets a virtual plane VP passing through the reference point Pc, performs coordinate conversion for image data input from the camera onto the virtual plane VP, and outputs to a projector the image data for which the coordinate conversion has been performed.

Abstract: A driving support unit captures an image of a driver's blind spot due to presence of a pillar of a vehicle includes at least first and second cameras which are mounted on the vehicle, a display device for displaying the image on the interior surface of the pillar and a control section for detecting position of the head of the driver, calculating a blind spot angle due to the presence of the pillar in accordance with the position of the head of the driver, and for selecting, based on the calculated angle, one of the cameras to capture the image. The first camera captures an image the major portion of which is an area to the side of the vehicle, and the second camera captures an image the major portion of which is an area to the front of the vehicle.

Abstract: A driving support device, a driving support method, and a computer program provide an image of the peripheral environment of a vehicle which is captured by a camera. The traveling state of the vehicle is obtained and, based on same, a blind spot region for a driver created by a right front pillar, as it would appear after a predetermined period of time, is calculated by taking into consideration the time lag between capture of an image by the camera and projection of that image by a projector. An image corresponding to the calculated blind spot region is extracted from the image captured by the camera, and the extracted image is projected onto the inside surface of the right front pillar.

Abstract: Each pixel of a liquid crystal display device 100 of the present invention includes: a first electrode 12; a second electrode 22; a liquid crystal layer 32 provided between the first electrode and the second electrode; a first vertical alignment film 14 provided between the first electrode and the liquid crystal layer; a second vertical alignment film 24 provided between the second electrode and the liquid crystal layer; and a pair of alignment-sustaining layers 16 and 26 of photopolymerization products 16a and 26a formed on one surface of the first vertical alignment film that is closer to the liquid crystal layer and one surface of the second vertical alignment film that is closer to the liquid crystal layer, wherein the photopolymerization products 16a and 26a of the pair of alignment-sustaining layers each cover 30% or more and 60% or less of an area of the transmission region of a corresponding one of the first and second vertical alignment films 14 and 24.

Abstract: A driving support method and apparatus for displaying, on a medial side of a pillar of the vehicle, an image of an area which is hidden as a blind spot in a rear-view mirror mounted on or in a vehicle, when looking in the mirror from the driver's position and which is created by the pillar. The apparatus detects a head position of a driver, detects the angle of the rear-view mirror, calculates the area which is hidden as the blind spot on the basis of the detected driver's head position and the detected angle of the rear-view mirror, and projects an image of the area corresponding to the blind spot onto the pillar, the projected image being formed from image data which is obtained from a blind spot camera mounted on the vehicle.

Abstract: A CPU obtains road shape information regarding a shape of a road ahead of a vehicle from map information stored in a map information DB. Further, the CPU calculates a blind spot region for a driver generated by a right front pillar. In addition, when it is determined that at least a part of the calculated blind spot region is overlapped with a road ahead in a traveling direction, the CPU displays a shot image corresponding to the blind spot region shot by the camera on a pillar display. Thereafter, when the calculated blind spot region is determined not to be overlapped with the road ahead in the traveling direction within five seconds, the CPU stops the display of a video on the pillar display.

Abstract: A driving support device, a driving support method, and a computer program provide an image of the peripheral environment of a vehicle which is captured by a camera. The traveling state of the vehicle is obtained and, based on same, a blind spot region for a driver created by a right front pillar, as it would appear after a predetermined period of time, is calculated by taking into consideration the time lag between capture of an image by the camera and projection of that image by a projector. An image corresponding to the calculated blind spot region is extracted from the image captured by the camera, and the extracted image is projected onto the inside surface of the right front pillar.

Abstract: Apparatuses and methods provide an image pick-up device for picking up an image outside a vehicle, an apparatus body including an installation portion installed to an interior-side surface of a pillar of the vehicle, and a display device provided integrally with the apparatus body and including a display screen disposed on an interior side with respect to the installation portion. An image pick-up element of the image pick-up device is provided such that a roll angle of the image pick-up element is substantially equal to a roll angle of the display screen of the display device.

Abstract: A driving support unit includes an image signal input section which receives image signals for an area around a vehicle from a camera, a sensor I/F section that detects the head position of a driver sitting in the driver's seat of the vehicle, and a control section. The control section judges whether the driver's head has entered into a projection range of light which is projected from a projector onto a pillar, and an image processor which outputs to the projector data designating the detected driver's head position and surrounding area as a non-projection region.

Abstract: A driving support method and apparatus for displaying, on a medial side of a pillar of the vehicle, an image of an area which is hidden as a blind spot in a rear-view mirror mounted on or in a vehicle, when looking in the mirror from the driver's position and which is created by the pillar. The apparatus detects a head position of a driver, detects the angle of the rear-view mirror, calculates the area which is hidden as the blind spot on the basis of the detected driver's head position and the detected angle of the rear-view mirror, and projects an image of the area corresponding to the blind spot onto the pillar, the projected image being formed from image data which is obtained from a blind spot camera mounted on the vehicle.

Abstract: A driving support device uses a camera mounted on a vehicle for imaging a blind spot area created by a pillar of the vehicle and displays an image taken by the camera on the interior surface of the pillar. A virtual plane passing through boundaries of the blind spot area is set, and an image plane of the camera is set at a predetermined position where a non-displayed area or an excess area, created by deviation between the virtual plane and the image plane of the camera, is reduced. Image data input from the camera is subjected to coordinate transformation on the virtual plane, and an image corresponding to the blind spot area created by the pillar is displayed on the interior surface of the pillar, based on the image data subjected to coordinate transformation on the virtual plane.

Abstract: A driving support method and a driving support apparatus clearly project an image of a specific target object onto a pillar within a vehicle. The apparatus includes a camera installed on the vehicle that captures a dead-angle area created by the pillar and a projector projecting the image captured by the camera onto the interior surface of the pillar. The driving support unit also includes an image processor that sets a reference point Pc on an indicator on a road surface, sets a virtual plane VP passing through the reference point Pc, performs coordinate conversion for image data input from the camera onto the virtual plane VP, and outputs to a projector the image data for which the coordinate conversion has been performed.

Abstract: A driving support unit captures an image of a driver's blind spot due to presence of a pillar of a vehicle includes at least first and second cameras which are mounted on the vehicle, a display device for displaying the image on the interior surface of the pillar and a control section for detecting position of the head of the driver, calculating a blind spot angle due to the presence of the pillar in accordance with the position of the head of the driver, and for selecting, based on the calculated angle, one of the cameras to capture the image. The first camera captures an image the major portion of which is an area to the side of the vehicle, and the second camera captures an image the major portion of which is an area to the front of the vehicle.

Abstract: A portion between a front end of an air guide plates, which forms an air duct portion, and the front exterior member of the vehicle is sealed by a seal portion. Therefore, hot air leaking from inside of an engine room, is positively prevented from being drawn into the air duct portion after it flows around the front end of the air guide plate.

Abstract: The invention provides a refrigerator oil composition comprising a base oil of a mineral oil and/or a synthetic oil, and containing (a) a partial ester of a polyalcohol and a fatty acid and (b) an acid phosphate or its amine salt; and a refrigerator oil composition comprising a base oil of a mineral oil and/or a synthetic oil, and containing any of (a) acid phosphates or their amine salts, (b) acetylene glycol alkylene oxide adducts, (c) potassium salts of fatty acids, etc., (d) organic acids, and (e) fatty acid amides. The refrigerator oil compositions have good lubricity and are especially effective for reducing the friction in both the oil region and the extreme-pressure region in the sliding area between aluminium materials and steel materials.

Abstract: The invention provides a refrigerating machine oil composition by which a capillary tube is hardly clogged when a hydrofluorocarbon type, a hydrocarbon type, an ether type, a carbon dioxide type or an ammonia type is used as a refrigerant. It is a refrigerating machine oil composition in which base oil containing at least one oxygen-containing synthetic oil selected from a polyvinyl ether and a polyol ester is mixed with 1 to 20% by weight, based on the total amount of the composition, of a specific polyalkylene glycol alkyl ether or 1 to 40% by weight, based on the total amount of the composition, of an alkylbenzene having a number average molecular weight of 100 to 1,000.

Abstract: A portion between a front end of an air guide plates, which forms an air duct portion, and the front exterior member of the vehicle is sealed by a seal portion. Therefore, hot air leaking from inside of an engine room, is positively prevented from being drawn into the air duct portion after it flows around the front end of the air guide plate.

Abstract: A double balanced mixer which may be used in communications devices, such as portable or cellular telephones. The mixer includes a first differential amplifier having a first transistor pair whose emitters are connected together, a second differential amplifier having a second transistor pair whose emitters are connected together, and a third differential amplifier having a third transistor pair whose emitters are connected together by way of a resistor. A first constant current source is connected between the emitter of one of the transistors of the third transistor pair and ground. A second constant current source is connected between the emitter of the other transistor of the third transistor pair and ground. A gate circuit is connected to one of the first and second current sources for selectively activating the one connected current source. By selectively activating the current source, the mixer has low power consumption.