Abstract: An engine control device controls a cylinder direct fuel injection type spark ignition engine provided with a fuel injection valve configured to directly inject fuel to a cylinder and an ignition plug configured to perform spark ignition for a gas mixture inside the cylinder. In a case where it is necessary to warm up an exhaust gas purifying catalyst disposed in an exhaust passage, the engine control device executes a catalyst warm-up operation in which a fuel is injected at a timing during the compression stroke, and at a timing when the fuel spray colliding with the piston crown surface moves toward the ignition plug along the shape of the piston crown surface, and in which the ignition timing is after compression top dead center. The engine control device advances the fuel injection timing in accordance with an increase in an estimation amount of a liquid fuel remaining on the top surface of the piston during execution of the catalyst warm-up operation.

Abstract: An engine controller controls a direct fuel-injection engine including a fuel injection valve for directly injecting a fuel into a cylinder and a valve overlap period adjusting mechanism for adjusting a valve overlap period between an open period of an intake valve and an open period of an exhaust valve. The engine controller is provided with an acceleration request sensor for detecting an acceleration request of a driver, and when the acceleration request occurs and a top surface temperature of a piston in the cylinder is lower than a predetermined temperature, the engine controller extends the valve overlap period between the open period of the intake valve and the open period of the exhaust valve, ranging before and after an exhaust top dead center.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to use of digital predistortion in the context of full-duplex radio. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes one or more antennas and is configured to simultaneously transmit and receive wireless signals via at least partially overlapping frequency resources using the one or more antennas. In some embodiments, the apparatus includes receive chain circuitry that is configured to process both wireless signals transmitted by the apparatus via the one or more antennas and over-the-air wireless signals from one or more other computing devices. In some embodiments, the apparatus includes one or more processing elements configured to determine one or more digital predistortion parameters based on the wireless signals transmitted by the apparatus via the one or more antennas and processed by the receive chain circuitry and apply predistortion to transmitted wireless signals based on the one or more digital predistortion parameters.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to use of digital predistortion in the context of full-duplex radio. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes one or more antennas and is configured to simultaneously transmit and receive wireless signals via at least partially overlapping frequency resources using the one or more antennas. In some embodiments, the apparatus includes receive chain circuitry that is configured to process both wireless signals transmitted by the apparatus via the one or more antennas and over-the-air wireless signals from one or more other computing devices. In some embodiments, the apparatus includes one or more processing elements configured to determine one or more digital predistortion parameters based on the wireless signals transmitted by the apparatus via the one or more antennas and processed by the receive chain circuitry and apply predistortion to transmitted wireless signals based on the one or more digital predistortion parameters.

Abstract: A fuel injection control device controls fuel injection of a spark-ignition internal combustion engine for direct injection into a cylinder and independently controls circulation of a coolant in a head-side cooling channel and in a block-side cooling channel. The fuel injection control device is provided with a controller that sets a fuel injection timing for cooling the inside of the cylinder such that an intake valve closing timing occurs during a reduction in gas temperature inside the cylinder due to evaporative latent heat of the injected fuel, while the coolant circulates in the head-side cooling channel and the circulation of the coolant in the block-side cooling channel is stopped. The controller injects the fuel based on the fuel injection timing for cooling the inside of the cylinder.

Abstract: Techniques for transmitting data over a communications channel are generally described. A value of a property of an inverse of a channel matrix corresponding to the communications channel may be calculated and compared to a threshold value. If the value of the property a first one of greater than or less than the threshold value, at least one transmit message may be altered using a vector perturbation technique to generate data symbols and the data symbols may be precoded using a channel inversion technique to generate precoded data symbols. If the value of the property is the other of greater than or less than the threshold value, the at least one transmit message may be precoded using a channel inversion technique to generate precoded data symbols.

Abstract: An electrode active material of the present invention is made of a layered composition including organic backbone layers containing an aromatic compound that is a dicarboxylic acid anion having a naphthalene backbone; and alkali metal element layers containing an alkali metal element coordinated to oxygen contained in the carboxylic acid anion to form a backbone. The layered composition has an interplanar spacing between (002) planes of 0.42400 to 0.42800 nm, an interplanar spacing between (102) planes of 0.37000 to 0.37600 nm, an interplanar spacing between (211) planes of 0.32250 to 0.32650 nm, and an interplanar spacing between (112) planes of 0.30400 to 0.30700 nm, as measured by X-ray diffraction. Preferably, the layered composition has an interplanar spacing between (200) planes of 0.50500 to 0.50950 nm as measured by X-ray diffraction.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide an inexpensive non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery that allows reversible charge and discharge to be carried out and can be used for a long period because of a stable non-aqueous electrolyte used therein. The invention provides a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery including a positive electrode including a positive electrode active material and capable of storing and releasing sodium, a negative electrode capable of storing and releasing sodium, and a non-aqueous electrolyte, and the positive electrode active material includes sodium, nickel, manganese, and a transition metal that can exist in a hexavalent state. An example of the transition metal that can exist in a hexavalent state may include tungsten (W). An example of the negative electrode may include a sodium metal capable of storing and releasing sodium ions.

Abstract: A material (hereinafter referred to as “positive electrode material”) including sodium manganate powder as a positive electrode active material, carbon black powder as a conductive agent, and polytetrafluoroethylene as a binder is prepared. The positive electrode material is mixed in an N-methylpyrrolidone solution to produce slurry as a positive electrode mixture. A working electrode is produced by applying the slurry on a positive electrode collector. A negative electrode containing tin or germanium is produced. The non-aqueous electrolyte is produced by adding sodium hexafluorophosphate as an electrolyte salt in a non-aqueous solvent produced by mixing ethylenecarbonate and diethyl carbonate.

Abstract: A thin film transistor array is disclosed. The thin film transistor array includes plural gate electrodes formed on an insulation substrate, plural source electrodes formed above or under the gate electrodes via a gate insulation film so that the source electrodes cross the gate electrodes in a planar view, plural drain electrodes formed at corresponding positions surrounded by the gate electrodes and the source electrodes in a planar view in the same layer as that of the source electrodes, semiconductor layers formed via the gate insulation film to face the gate electrodes for forming corresponding channel regions between the source electrodes and the drain electrodes. The plural gate electrodes are linearly formed, and the channel regions are disposed to face the gate electrodes.

Abstract: There is provided an image processing device including functional blocks each including an input unit, an output unit, and at least one image processing circuit that performs a predetermined image process; first input switching units each of which is associated with the input unit of each functional block one-to-one, selects one piece of image data including image data output from the output unit of another functional block, and outputs the selected image data to the associated functional block; a second input switching unit which selects at least one piece of image data from input image data and outputs the selected image data to any of the first input switching units; an output switching unit which selects and outputs at least one piece of image data from the image data output from the output unit of each functional block; and a selection control unit which controls switching of the above selection.

Abstract: There is provided an imaging device including an image sensor that performs photoelectric conversion on subject light coming through a lens and generates an image signal, a first development unit that generates first image data having first resolution from the image signal, a second development unit that generates second image data having second resolution that is lower than the first resolution from the image signal or the first image data, and a display processing unit that selects image data of one of the first image data and the second image data as a range to be displayed on a screen for reviewing an image captured by the image sensor according to a size of a region cropped from an image of the first image data or an image of the second image data, and generates an image for display to be displayed using the selected image data.

Abstract: A fuel injection control device of an in-cylinder direct injection spark ignition-type internal combustion engine 1 in which fuel injection is carried out once or multiple times from an intake stroke to a compression stroke during homogeneous combustion, wherein a fuel injection timing at which a charging efficiency is improved in accordance with a pressure oscillation is calculated based on a frequency determined based on an in-cylinder volume of pressure oscillation generated in the cylinder in accordance with fuel injection, and one of the fuel injection(s) is carried out at the fuel injection timing.

Abstract: A non-aqueous battery with improved volume energy density and enhanced load characteristics is made available even when using olivine-type lithium phosphate as a positive electrode active material. The non-aqueous electrolyte battery of the present invention is provided with a positive electrode (1) containing lithium iron phosphate as a positive electrode active material, a negative electrode (2), and a non-aqueous electrolyte (4). In the positive electrode (1), a positive electrode active material-containing layer that is made of the positive electrode active material, a conductive agent, and a binder agent is formed on a positive electrode current collector. The positive electrode current collector has a thickness of less than 20 ?m and its surface that is in contact with the positive electrode active material-containing layer has a mean surface roughness Ra of greater than 0.026.

Abstract: Techniques are generally described here for communicating channel state information using predictive vector quantization. In some examples, a method may include measuring channel state information based, at least in part, on signals received over a communications channel. An error vector may be calculated between the measured channel state information and predicted channel state information. The error vector may be quantized, and subsequent channel state information may be predicted based, at least in part, on the quantized error vector.

Abstract: An electrode active material of the present invention is made of a layered composition including organic backbone layers containing an aromatic compound that is a dicarboxylic acid anion having a naphthalene backbone; and alkali metal element layers containing an alkali metal element coordinated to oxygen contained in the carboxylic acid anion to form a backbone. The layered composition has an interplanar spacing between (002) planes of 0.42400 to 0.42800 nm, an interplanar spacing between (102) planes of 0.37000 to 0.37600 nm, an interplanar spacing between (211) planes of 0.32250 to 0.32650 nm, and an interplanar spacing between (112) planes of 0.30400 to 0.30700 nm, as measured by X-ray diffraction. Preferably, the layered composition has an interplanar spacing between (200) planes of 0.50500 to 0.50950 nm as measured by X-ray diffraction.

Abstract: An electric power storage system 10 of the present invention includes a lithium secondary battery; a detection device to detect the temperature of the lithium secondary battery; and a control device to decrease a remaining capacity of the lithium secondary battery based on an increase of the detected temperature and a temperature Tbx of the lithium secondary battery. When a self-heating rate of the lithium secondary battery at a temperature T (K) and a remaining capacity x (%) is represented by Hs(x, T) (K/min), and a heat dissipation rate at a temperature T (K) of the lithium secondary battery is represented by Hd(T) (K/min), the temperature Tbx is a temperature at which Hs(x,Tbx)>Hd(Tbx) holds. That is, this temperature Tbx is a temperature at which the heat generating rate is higher than the heat dissipation rate and at which the battery temperature T starts to increase.

Abstract: Using a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery containing lithium iron phosphate as a positive electrode active material and graphite as a negative electrode active material, a low-cost, high energy density battery is provided that exhibits good performance at high rate current and good cycle performance even at high temperature. The non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery has a positive electrode having a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode active material-containing layer formed on a surface of the positive electrode current collector, the positive electrode active material-containing layer containing a conductive agent and a positive electrode active material including lithium iron phosphate, a negative electrode containing a carbon material, and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The non-aqueous electrolyte contains vinylene carbonate.

Abstract: An exhaust manifold connected to exhaust ports of at least three straightly-arranged cylinders of an internal combustion engine is constructed by a primary exhaust pipe which extends from the foremost cylinder of the cylinders in the rearward direction of the engine along the direction of the straight arrangement of the cylinders and a plurality of secondary exhaust pipes which extend from the other cylinders except for the foremost cylinder to the primary exhaust pipe. The secondary exhaust pipes are collected to the primary exhaust pipe so that downstream end portions of the secondary exhaust pipes are wound into the center axis of the primary exhaust pipe at a plurality of points on the center axis, respectively.

Abstract: An image processing device includes a detecting unit configured to detect an external light reflection region from an input image, and a determining unit configured to determine the glossiness of said external light reflection region, and determines whether or not the reflection of the external reflection region is specular reflection, and extracts a gloss region based on the determination result.