Abstract: An internal combustion engine control apparatus is configured to control an internal combustion engine including a piston reciprocating in a cylinder and a fuel injector arranged to inject a fuel into a combustion chamber facing the piston in the cylinder. The internal combustion engine control apparatus includes an electronic control unit having a microprocessor and a memory. The microprocessor is configured to perform controlling the fuel injector so as to inject the fuel in an injectable area from a first crank angle at which an intake stroke is started to a second crank angle at which a compression stroke is ended, and setting an injection frequency of the fuel injected by the fuel injector in the injectable area. The microprocessor is configured to perform the setting including setting the injection frequency between once and four times.

Abstract: A fuel injection control apparatus including a microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform calculating a target injection time, determining a first crank angle defining a start of fuel injection and a second crank angle defining an end of fuel injection, controlling a fuel injector in a first injection mode in which the fuel is injected for the first target injection time from a first time point corresponding to the first crank angle or a second injection mode in which the fuel is injected for the second target injection time from a second time point corresponding to a target crank angle, and the controlling including controlling the fuel injector so as to inject the fuel in an intake stroke in the first injection mode, while inject the fuel in a compression stroke in the second injection mode.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine control apparatus including a microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform determining whether a warm-up of an exhaust catalyst device disposed on an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine is complete; acquiring an information on a temperature inside a cylinder of the internal combustion engine; switching an injection mode to a first injection mode or a second injection mode in accordance with an information on a temperature inside the cylinder when it is determined that a warm-up of the exhaust catalyst device is complete; and controlling a fuel injector so as to inject the fuel in accordance with an injection mode.

Abstract: There is provided with a vehicle following travel system configured to cause a following vehicle to perform following travel following a leading vehicle. A departure point and a destination desired by a user of the following vehicle and a rest condition desired by the user of the following vehicle is obtained. Based on the departure point and the destination, for the leading vehicle that the following vehicle follows is searched. A travel plan that includes a section of the following travel in at least a part between the departure point and the destination and further includes a rest complying with the rest condition is generated.

Abstract: There is provided with an information processing method performed by a vehicle following travel system configured to cause a following vehicle to perform following travel following a leading vehicle. A departure point and a destination desired by a user of the following vehicle and information representing a drivable distance of the following vehicle is obtained. Based on the departure point and the destination, for the leading vehicle that the following vehicle follows is searched. A travel plan including a section of the following travel in at least a part between the departure point and the destination while judging whether to stop by a facility for increasing the drivable distance in accordance with the drivable distance of the following vehicle is generated.

Abstract: There is provided with an information processing method performed by a vehicle following travel system configured to cause a following vehicle to perform following travel following a leading vehicle. An information representing motion performance of each of the following vehicle and the leading vehicle is obtained. Based on the information representing the motion performance of each of the following vehicle and the leading vehicle, for the leading vehicle that the following vehicle follows is searched.

Abstract: A control device of a vehicle is provided. The device controls traveling of the vehicle such that the vehicle follows another vehicle based on information received from the other vehicle; and determines whether to allow the vehicle to start to follow another vehicle based on at least one of whether a user of the vehicle is inside the vehicle or an instruction from the user. The processor starts to follow another vehicle in a case where the travel control circuit is allowed to follow the other vehicle.

Abstract: A control device of a vehicle is configured to control travelling of the vehicle such that the vehicle follows a preceding vehicle based on information received from the preceding vehicle, and determine, based on information regarding a cargo space of the preceding vehicle, an inter-vehicle distance to the preceding vehicle when the vehicles stop. Upon the preceding vehicle having stopped, the device stops the vehicle such that a distance between the vehicle and the preceding vehicle becomes the inter-vehicle distance determined by the device.

Abstract: A control device of a vehicle is provided. The device executes a following operation of controlling travelling of the vehicle such that the vehicle follows another vehicle based on information received from the other vehicle and a parking operation of controlling travelling of the vehicle to park the vehicle at a parking space, determines whether the vehicle is at a position at which the parking operation can be started; and notifies the other vehicle that leading can be finished, in a case where it is determined that the vehicle is at a position at which the parking operation can be started while the device is executing the following operation.

Abstract: A vehicle following traveling system including a leading vehicle and a following vehicle is provided. The leading vehicle is a two-wheel vehicle. The following vehicle determines the possibility that the leading vehicle turns over or understeers; and performs control such that the following vehicle is caused to execute a risk aversion operation based on the determined possibility that the leading vehicle turns over or understeers.

Abstract: A route planning apparatus configured to create a travel plan that includes a planned travel route for a leading vehicle to electronically tow a following vehicle using inter-vehicle communication, the route planning apparatus comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive a request to stop at a waypoint during traveling by the electronic towing, the stop-over request being input on a second information processing apparatus that is used by an occupant of the following vehicle; a searching unit configured to search, for a waypoint according to the request, the planned travel route and a surrounding region of the planned travel route; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit information regarding a found waypoint and a route to the waypoint to a first information processing apparatus that is used by an occupant of the leading vehicle.

Abstract: A content addressable memory having a function for extending a data width to a plurality of words includes an entry configuration set unit which sets the number of words to form one entry, and a logical-segment-to-physical-segment converting circuit for converting the logical segments in one entry to the physical segments according to the setting of the entry configuration. The content addressable memory further includes a word circuit chain having the maximum number of one-word circuits belonging to each physical block which are combined to form one entry. The one-word circuits have CAM words associated therewith, and are connected in series over the physical block. A group of the words at the same number in entries where one entry is composed of a plurality of words forms a logical segment.

Abstract: A signal detection circuit detects the presence or absence of signals having the same logic in a plurality of arranged signal lines, can be used as a circuit suitable for multi-hit detection in a content addressable memory. The signal detection circuit includes a first signal transmission line to transmit a first signal indicating the presence of two or more logical signals to be detected and a second signal transmission line to transmit a second signal indicating the presence of one or more of the logic signals to be detected. Each of the first and second signal transmission lines includes logic circuits. The signal detection circuit may have a hierarchical structure.

Abstract: A CAM (content addressable memory) device capable of flexibly coping with a wide range of user requirements with respect to operation speed and/or power consumption has operation mode setting means, generates a higher or lower internal voltage than an external power-supply voltage depending on the setting, and at least part of the internal circuit is operated by the internal voltage. In particular, the high level of the search-bit line and/or the high level of the match line are preferably set to the internal voltage. Also, the CAM device has bit line amplitude adjusting means for adjusting the amplitude of the bit line depending on the setting of the operation mode setting means and/or match line amplitude adjusting means for adjusting the amplitude of match line on which a search result is output, and thus is capable of appropriately changing the operation speed and power consumption depending on the setting.

Abstract: A content addressable memory (CAM) device according to the present invention is configured with binary CAM cells capable of holding binary data “0” and “1”, and is capable of being used either as a binary CAM device with the binary CAM cells being used as binary CAM cells or as a ternary CAM device with the binary CAM cells being used as ternary CAM cells capable of holding ternary data in a way in which, in each pair of two bits of the binary CAM cells, three states, “0,” “1,” and “X (don't care)” are assigned to four states, “00,” “01,” “10,” and “11,” expressed by two-bit data stored in the pair.

Abstract: A ternary content addressable memory device is disclosed which writes data into a data cell and writes mask data into a mask data cell in a ternary CAM cell unit by a single write cycle when the ternary content addressable memory device is used as a binary content addressable memory device. The content addressable memory device includes at least the ternary content addressable memory cell unit which stores ternary data representing three states of “0”, “1”, and “don't care”. The ternary content addressable memory cell unit include the data cell for storing binary data of “0” and “1”, and the mask cell for storing mask data for masking the binary data from a searching operation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a signal detection circuit for detecting the presence or absence of signals having the same logic in a plurality of arranged signal lines, and more particularly to a signal detection circuit suitable for multi-hit detection in a content addressable memory. According to the present invention, the signal detection circuit includes a first signal transmission line to transmit a first signal indicating the presence of two or more logic signals to be detected and a second signal transmission line to transmit a second signal indicating the presence of one or more of the logic signals to be detected. Each of the first and second signal transmission lines includes logic circuits. The signal detection circuit may have a hierarchical structure.

Abstract: In a content addressable memory (CAM), a spare CAM word serving as a redundant circuit is mounted in addition to a plurality of CAM words, and a storage section for holding information indicating whether there is a defective CAM word in the plurality of CAM words, and if there is one or more defective CAM word, address information of the defective CAM word. Control is applied according to the address information of the defective CAM word such that the defective CAM word is replaced with the spare CAM word. The search output of the defective CAM word is replaced with that of the spare CAM word. The spare CAM word serving as a redundant circuit is mounted without increasing a circuit scale and an output delay time, and a produce yield is improved.

Abstract: A CAM (content addressable memory) device capable of flexibly coping with a wide range of user requirements with respect to operation speed and/or power consumption has operation mode setting means, generates a higher or lower internal voltage than an external power-supply voltage depending on the setting, and at least part of the internal circuit is operated by the internal voltage. In particular, the high level of the search-bit line and/or the high level of the match line are preferably set to the internal voltage. Also, the CAM device has bit line amplitude adjusting means for adjusting the amplitude of the bit line depending on the setting of the operation mode setting means and/or match line amplitude adjusting means for adjusting the amplitude of match line on which a search result is output, and thus is capable of appropriately changing the operation speed and power consumption depending on the setting.

Abstract: A ternary content addressable memory device is disclosed which writes data into a data cell and writes mask data into a mask data cell in a ternary CAM cell unit by a single write cycle when the ternary content addressable memory device is used as a binary content addressable memory device. The content addressable memory device includes at least the ternary content addressable memory cell unit which stores ternary data representing three states of “0”, “1”, and “don't care”. The ternary content addressable memory cell unit include the data cell for storing binary data of “0” and “1”, and the mask cell for storing mask data for masking the binary data from a searching operation.