Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor configured to acquire an image in which a subject is captured by a camera, calculate a plurality of spatial frequency characteristics on the basis of each of a plurality of regions included in the image, and perform determination of a tilt of the subject with respect to the camera in accordance with the plurality of spatial frequency characteristics.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for image processing, the method includes: acquiring an image of a body part captured by an imaging circuit; and determining, in a case where there is a region where luminance is saturated in the acquired image, a cause of the saturation of the luminance based on a distribution of the luminance in the acquired image. The cause is either the distance between the imaging circuit and the body part being shorter than a predetermined distance or an influence of external light.

Abstract: A failure detection apparatus for fuel systems of an engine includes a first failure determiner executing, while the engine is in each of a first injection form and a second injection form, a failure determination process on the corresponding fuel system, a second failure determiner executing, when the first failure determiner determines occurrence of a failure in one of the injection forms, a failure determination process on the fuel system corresponding to the other injection form, a failure locator determining whether or not the failure has occurred, for each of the fuel systems responsible for the first and second injection forms, based on a result by the second failure determiner, and a purge process prohibiter prohibiting execution of a purge process for the engine. The second failure determiner causes the purge process prohibiter to prohibit execution of the purge process, when executing the failure determination process on the fuel system.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a dynamo-electric machine driving an engine, and a calculator calculating an increment in a crank angular acceleration of the engine every certain period from a base time after the driving of the engine by the dynamo-electric machine. The apparatus further includes a determiner determining that the engine has started by the dynamo-electric machine on a condition that the increment calculated by the calculator exceeds a standard value.

Abstract: High-strength galvannealed steel sheet including any of a) an oxide containing Fe and Mn, b) an oxide containing Fe and Mn and an Fe oxide, c) an oxide containing Fe and Mn and a Mn oxide, d) an oxide containing Fe and Mn, an Fe oxide, and a Mn oxide, and e) an Fe oxide and a Mn oxide is present in a zinc coated layer. The total amount of oxide is 0.01 to 0.100 g/m2; the ratio by mass % of Mn to Fe, e.g., Mn/Fe, contained in the oxide is 0.10 to 10.00; an oxide of at least one selected from Fe and Mn is present in an amount of 60% or more; and an oxide of at least one selected from Fe and Mn is present in a surface layer portion of a steel sheet in an amount of 0.040 g/m2 or less (not including zero).

Abstract: A biometric information process device includes: an image device configured to capture an image of an object; a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to execute a process, the process comprising: detecting a touch point of the object with respect to a touch panel; extracting a biometric feature from the image of the object that is acquired by the image device; and correcting biometric information acquired from the image of the object based on a movement amount of the object on the touch panel and a movement amount of the biometric feature in the image of the object when the touch point detected in the detecting moves.

Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes an information input device that detects a coordinate value of an input operation position touched by a user, a biometric sensor that captures a capture area of a palm of the user at a time of an input operation to the information input device, to generate biometric data, and a processor. The processor performs a process including matching the biometric data to a corresponding portion of registered biometric data registered in advance and read based on the coordinate value, to compute a similarity of the biometric data to the corresponding portion.

Abstract: A biometric imaging device includes a processor that outputs an instruction of an operation position on an input device, in response to detection of a first input to the input device, and a camera that captures a biometric image after the detection of the first input.

Abstract: A biometric authentication device includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to execute a process, the process comprising: extracting a finger crotch from a palm image for comparison; extracting a finger root wrinkle from the palm image for comparison; adjusting at least one of a position of a biometric feature for comparison of the palm image for comparison and a position of an enrollment biometric feature of an enrolled palm image, based on position information of the finger crotch extracted in the extracting of the finger crotch and position information of the wrinkle extracted in the extracting of the finger root wrinkle; and comparing the biometric feature for comparison and the enrollment biometric feature after the adjusting.

Abstract: Control apparatus for an engine includes a failure determination unit which determines whether there is a failure in an operating engine, and an A/F (air-fuel ratio) feedback control unit which performs feedback control to bring actual A/F in the engine to a target set in advance. The failure determination unit includes a failure determination section, a failure code storing section, a similar operating condition recording section, and a return-to-normal control section. The A/F feedback control unit includes an A/F target setting section, and the target set is stored in the similar operating condition recording section as a factor defining the operating condition of the engine. The return-to-normal control section eliminates the failure code if the failure determination section does not determine that there is a failure when the engine is operating in an operating condition similar to that recorded in the similar operating condition recording section.

Abstract: A biometric information process device includes: an image device configured to capture an image of an object; a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to execute a process, the process comprising: detecting a touch point of the object with respect to a touch panel; extracting a biometric feature from the image of the object that is acquired by the image device; and correcting biometric information acquired from the image of the object based on a movement amount of the object on the touch panel and a movement amount of the biometric feature in the image of the object when the touch point detected in the detecting moves.

Abstract: A method performed by a computer for biometric authentication includes: obtaining, by a processor of the computer, a first image group including a plurality of images that are sequentially captured by a biometric sensor configured to capture at least a part of a region of a body of a user; obtaining, by the processor of the computer, a movement amount of the body and a distance between the body and the biometric sensor; and selecting, by the processor of the computer, a second image group from the first image group in accordance with the movement amount and the distance, the second image group including images to be used in authentication processing with respect to the body, wherein the size of a common region between images to be included in the second image group is adjusted according to the distance.

Abstract: A biometric authentication apparatus includes: a biometric sensor configured to capture an image of a hand of a user; a touch panel configured to output a contact signal indicating contact positions of fingers of the user in response to the reception of an operation by the fingers of the user; and control circuitry configured to display, on the touch panel, a plurality of marks each of which indicates position at which any of the fingers of the user is intended to come into contact with the touch panel, acquire the contact signal output from the touch panel, and reduce in size one or more marks among the plurality of marks during acquiring biometric information from the image captured by the biometric sensor when the control circuitry detects, in accordance with the contact signal, that the fingers of the user are in contact with the plurality of marks.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a touch panel; a camera; and a processor coupled to the touch panel and the camera and configured to: display first guide information on the touch panel, display second guide information at a location different from a location of the first guide information on the touch panel when an operation to the first guide information is detected, acquire a plurality of images of a first palm photographed during a period from when a finger touching to the first guide information has been detected to when a finger touching to the second guide information has been detected, and extract a first authentication image for use in authentication of a user from the plurality of images of the first palm.

Abstract: A processor obtains characteristics information of a biometric image captured while casting first or second illumination light onto an authentication target. The first illumination light includes light of a first wavelength, and the second illumination light includes light of the first wavelength and light of a second wavelength. The processor reads characteristics information of a biometric image captured while casting illumination light cast onto the authentication target from a memory that stores first characteristics information of a first biometric image and second characteristics information of a second biometric image. The first biometric image is captured while casting the first illumination light onto a registration target, and the second biometric image is captured while casting the second illumination light onto the registration target.

Abstract: A biometric image processing device includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to execute a process, the process comprising: capturing a biometric image of an object by a camera; obtaining a histogram of brightness values from the biometric image; correcting the biometric image by expanding a dynamic range of a partial histogram of the histogram of which an appearance frequency is equal to or more than a threshold; and calculating a distance between the camera and the object on a basis of a high frequency component of the biometric image corrected in the correcting.

Abstract: An exposure device includes: a substrate that includes a plate-shaped main body that extends in one direction, a plurality of light emitting elements that are mounted on one surface of the main body, and a heating element that is mounted on the other surface of the main body generates heat in accordance with a light emitting operation of the light emitting elements; a housing that includes resin and that extends in the one direction, has a frame shape in which a through hole is formed, and to an inside of the through hole of which the substrate is fixed so that a thickness direction of the substrate is a penetrating direction of the through hole; and a suppression member that extends in the one direction, is fitted in the through hole, and suppresses thermal deformation of the housing.

Abstract: A biometric authentication apparatus acquires biometric information of a user, extracts a boundary candidate where a state of the biometric information changes, to extract a region in a vicinity of the boundary candidate and having a threshold area or greater, extracts a state feature quantity having a value that changes according to a change in the state of the biometric information, from the extracted region, and judges the state of the biometric information using the state feature quantity of the extracted region.

Abstract: A disclosed illumination apparatus includes first and second light sources that generate light for an illumination area to be illuminated; a first substrate on which the first and second light sources are mounted; and a second substrate that is disposed in an illumination direction of the light of the first and second light sources with respect to the first substrate, the second substrate having first and second diffraction grating elements formed integrally therewith, the first diffraction grating element being provided for the first light source, and the second diffraction grating element being provided for the second light source.

Abstract: A camera captures an image of a subject, and a light source illuminates with light a plane intersecting an optical axis of the camera at a prescribed angle. The processor generates guidance information related to a distance between the subject and the light source on the basis of a pixel value distribution of the image of the subject which is illuminated with the light, and outputs the generated guidance information.