Abstract: Provided is test fish handling equipment capable of reliably holding a test fish by preventing damage to the test fish, and a test fish handling method using the test fish handling equipment. The test fish handling equipment includes a holder for holding the test fish, and guiding means for guiding the test fish to the holder together with water. The holder includes a posture maintaining groove for maintaining the test fish in a predetermined posture. At least an inner surface of the posture maintaining groove is made of a flexible material. One end of the guiding means includes a supply port, and the other end includes a discharge port.

Abstract: An arithmetic operation device executes a test using a partially reconfigurable programmable logic unit, the programmable logic unit includes a test target circuit which is a user circuit, and a non-test circuit which is a user circuit which is not the test target circuit, and the arithmetic operation device includes a configuration control unit which causes the programmable logic unit to form, by partial reconfiguration, a test partition unit which separates the test target circuit and the non-test circuit, and a partition control unit which controls the test partition unit to test the test target circuit.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an imaging device whereby enhanced sensing precision and reduced computational load can both be achieved at the same time even when a plurality of objects as sensing subjects are present. In order to achieve this purpose, the present invention has: a first object detection processing unit having a plurality of imaging units, the first object detection processing unit performing first object detection processing for sensing, by stereo processing, a distance for each of a plurality of image elements in partial region of interest in an image acquired by the imaging units, then extracting a group of the image elements on the basis of the sensed distances and detecting an object; and a second object detection processing unit for performing second object detection processing for detecting the distance of the object by stereo processing for a partial region of another region of interest in the image.

Abstract: An objective of the present invention is, in a stereo camera device, to determine an accurate image position in a direction of progress to detect at an early stage an obstacle or a preceding vehicle on a road. Provided is a stereo camera device for measuring the distance to a solid object from images photographed with a plurality of cameras, said device characterized by: a wide-angle image cropping part for cropping a portion of the images; a distance image cropping part for cropping and enlarging a portion of the images; a road shape determination part for determining a road shape, including slope information, of a road being traveled; and determining, on the basis of the road shape in a prescribed distance, which has been derived with the road shape determination part, the cropping position and/or range of the distance image cropping part.

Abstract: An image processing device mounted to a vehicle includes a motion feature extracting unit is configured to create motion information indicative of a motion of an observation target from a captured image including the observation target around the vehicle, a distance feature extracting unit is configured to calculate a distance from the vehicle to the observation target based on the captured image, and a recognition unit is configured to execute a recognition process of the observation target based on process results of the motion feature extracting unit and the distance feature extracting unit. The motion feature extracting unit and the distance feature extracting unit have respective operation processing amounts changed based on a predetermined vehicle state.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an imaging device capable of both improving object detection accuracy and reducing calculation load. The present invention comprises: a plurality of imaging units; an object information acquisition unit that obtains object information including distance information for objects; a search conditions setting unit that sets conditions for searching for image elements corresponding to specific image elements inside a standard image captured by one of the plurality of imaging units, same being searched for inside a reference image captured by another imaging unit; and a stereo distance detection unit that performs said search on the basis of conditions set by the search conditions setting unit and detects the object distance on the basis of parallax obtained by the search. The search conditions setting unit sets the search range for searches, on the basis of the detection information for the object.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an object detection device which is capable of accurately estimating the height of a road surface and is capable of reliably detecting an object present on the road surface.

Abstract: An active material having a high capacity for negative electrodes of nonaqueous secondary batteries is provided by pyrolysis of a composite resin (A) which has a silanol group and/or a hydrolysable silyl group and which contains a polysiloxane segment (a1) and a polymer segment (a2) other than the polysiloxane segment (a1), and furthermore, a negative electrode using the above active material and a nonaqueous secondary battery including the above negative electrode are also provided. In addition, by pyrolysis of a dispersion liquid obtained from the composite resin (A), silicon particles, and an organic solvent, an active material having a high capacity for negative electrodes of nonaqueous secondary batteries is provided, and furthermore, a negative electrode using the above active material and a nonaqueous secondary battery including the above negative electrode are also provided.

Abstract: An objective of the present invention is, in a stereo camera device, to determine an accurate image position in a direction of progress to detect at an early stage an obstacle or a preceding vehicle on a road. Provided is a stereo camera device for measuring the distance to a solid object from images photographed with a plurality of cameras, said device characterized by: a wide-angle image cropping part for cropping a portion of the images; a distance image cropping part for cropping and enlarging a portion of the images; a road shape determination part for determining a road shape, including slope information, of a road being traveled; and determining, on the basis of the road shape in a prescribed distance, which has been derived with the road shape determination part, the cropping position and/or range of the distance image cropping part.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image-capturing device capable of fulfilling a complementary role to a vehicle behavior sensor when a failure occurs in the vehicle behavior sensor. The invention is characterized by being provided with: an image acquisition unit for acquiring images of the surroundings of a vehicle; a vehicle behavior inference unit for inferring vehicle behavior information on the basis of the images acquired by the image acquisition unit; a vehicle behavior acquisition unit for acquiring vehicle behavior information which has been detected by a vehicle behavior sensor; and an abnormality detection unit for detecting an abnormality in the vehicle behavior sensor by comparing the behavior information acquired by the vehicle behavior acquisition unit and the behavior information inferred by the vehicle behavior inference unit.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an imaging device whereby enhanced sensing precision and reduced computational load can both be achieved at the same time even when a plurality of objects as sensing subjects are present. In order to achieve this purpose, the present invention has: a first object detection processing unit having a plurality of imaging units, the first object detection processing unit performing first object detection processing for sensing, by stereo processing, a distance for each of a plurality of image elements in partial region of interest in an image acquired by the imaging units, then extracting a group of the image elements on the basis of the sensed distances and detecting an object; and a second object detection processing unit for performing second object detection processing for detecting the distance of the object by stereo processing for a partial region of another region of interest in the image.

Abstract: Provided is a sheet winding molding method including winding a thermosetting prepreg around a substrate while heating the thermosetting prepreg, wherein the time taken to form a next layer of the thermosetting prepreg on a layer of the wound thermosetting prepreg is shorter than the gel time of the prepreg at the temperature of the wound thermosetting prepreg. The sheet winding molding method is advantageous not only in that the method has excellent productivity, but also in that a molded article having excellent physical properties, such as excellent interlaminar shear strength, can be obtained by the method.

Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus that is capable of suitably and efficiently monitoring both near and far regions, reducing the non-recognition rates of objects in both the near and far regions, and thus improving traveling safety, and that is suitably used as, for example, a periphery recognition apparatus mounted on a vehicle that accomplishes automatic driving. According to the present invention, an allocated resource changing unit allocates to a far object recognition unit a resource of which size is determined depending on the priority assigned thereto, even when the priority of a near object recognition process performed on a near region is higher than the priority of a far object recognition process performed on a far region.

Abstract: An image processing device is an image processing device mounted on a vehicle. The image processing device includes: a captured image input part to which a plurality of captured images having different photographing sensitivities are input; a combined image input part to which a combined image with high gradation generated using the plurality of captured images is input; a feature information generation part that generates predetermined feature information using an input image; and a determination part that determines an image to be input to the feature information generation part as one of the combined image and the captured images on a basis of at least one of a state of the vehicle and a state around the vehicle.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to enable precise calculation of the distance to a moving object that is detected in a monocular area even in the case where the road height varies between an overlapping area and the monocular area. According to the present invention, provided are a parallax-information obtaining unit that obtains parallax information about an overlapping area of a plurality of images captured by a plurality of cameras installed in a vehicle; and an object-distance calculating unit that calculates the distance between an object detected in a non-overlapping area and the vehicle, the non-overlapping area being an area other than the overlapping area in the images, on the basis of parallax information obtained from the overlapping area in the past.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image-capturing device capable of fulfilling a complementary role to a vehicle behavior sensor when a failure occurs in the vehicle behavior sensor. The invention is characterized by being provided with: an image acquisition unit for acquiring images of the surroundings of a vehicle; a vehicle behavior inference unit for inferring vehicle behavior information on the basis of the images acquired by the image acquisition unit; a vehicle behavior acquisition unit for acquiring vehicle behavior information which has been detected by a vehicle behavior sensor; and an abnormality detection unit for detecting an abnormality in the vehicle behavior sensor by comparing the behavior information acquired by the vehicle behavior acquisition unit and the behavior information inferred by the vehicle behavior inference unit.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an object detection device which is capable of accurately estimating the height of a road surface and is capable of reliably detecting an object present on the road surface.

Abstract: An image processing device mounted to a vehicle includes a motion feature extracting unit is configured to create motion information indicative of a motion of an observation target from a captured image including the observation target around the vehicle, a distance feature extracting unit is configured to calculate a distance from the vehicle to the observation target based on the captured image, and a recognition unit is configured to execute a recognition process of the observation target based on process results of the motion feature extracting unit and the distance feature extracting unit. The motion feature extracting unit and the distance feature extracting unit have respective operation processing amounts changed based on a predetermined vehicle state.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an imaging device capable of both improving object detection accuracy and reducing calculation load. The present invention comprises: a plurality of imaging units; an object information acquisition unit that obtains object information including distance information for objects; a search conditions setting unit that sets conditions for searching for image elements corresponding to specific image elements inside a standard image captured by one of the plurality of imaging units, same being searched for inside a reference image captured by another imaging unit; and a stereo distance detection unit that performs said search on the basis of conditions set by the search conditions setting unit and detects the object distance on the basis of parallax obtained by the search. The search conditions setting unit sets the search range for searches, on the basis of the detection information for the object.

Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus that is capable of suitably and efficiently monitoring both near and far regions, reducing the non-recognition rates of objects in both the near and far regions, and thus improving traveling safety, and that is suitably used as, for example, a periphery recognition apparatus mounted on a vehicle that accomplishes automatic driving. According to the present invention, an allocated resource changing unit allocates to a far object recognition unit a resource of which size is determined depending on the priority assigned thereto, even when the priority of a near object recognition process performed on a near region is higher than the priority of a far object recognition process performed on a far region.