Abstract: A behavior prediction device predicts behavior of another vehicle traveling around a host vehicle, and the behavior prediction device includes: a reference position setting unit that sets a reference position (reference line) along a shape of a road; a position detection unit that detects a position of the other vehicle; a distance calculation unit that calculates a distance from the reference position (reference line) to the other vehicle on the basis of information about the reference position (reference line) and information about the position of the other vehicle; and a prediction unit that predicts a trajectory of the other vehicle on the basis of information about the distance in time series calculated by the distance calculation unit.

Abstract: The present invention provides a control device including a recognizing unit that recognizes another vehicle present in an adjacent lane adjacent to a travel lane in which a self-vehicle travels, a determining unit that, on the basis of behavior of the other vehicle recognized by the recognizing unit and a determination standard set with respect to the behavior, determines whether or not the other vehicle will change lanes into the travel lane of the self-vehicle, and a controller that, in accordance with a result of the determination by the determining unit as to whether or not the other vehicle will change lanes, controls travel of the self-vehicle, wherein the determining unit changes the determination standard in accordance with a distance between the self-vehicle and the other vehicle in a travel direction of the self-vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding environment including a structure of a road near a vehicle and another vehicle, a deriver configured to derive a predicted probability that the other vehicle will travel in the future along each of routes which are assumed when a plurality of routes along which the other vehicle is able to travel are assumed on a road on which the other vehicle recognized by the recognizer travels, and a travel controller configured to control behavior of the vehicle based on the predicted probability derived by the deriver.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a surroundings recognition device includes an acquirer configured to acquire first road information including a road boundary near a host vehicle from map information on the basis of position information of the host vehicle, a recognizer configured to recognize a road boundary near the host vehicle on the basis of an output of an external environment sensor, and a determiner configured to determine that a first road boundary matches a second road boundary when the second road boundary included in second road information that is a recognition result of the recognizer is within a road boundary determination area based on a position of the first road boundary included in the first road information acquired by the acquirer. The determiner sets a size of the road boundary determination area on the basis of a predetermined condition.

Abstract: There is provided a travel control apparatus. A control unit controls a position of the self-vehicle in a width direction so as to ensure a first predetermined interval between the self-vehicle and the other vehicle and to ensure a second predetermined interval between the self-vehicle and the boundary of the first lane. In a case in which both the first predetermined interval and the second predetermined interval cannot be ensured, the control unit controls the position of the self-vehicle in the width direction to preferentially ensure the first predetermined interval when the other vehicle has crossed a first boundary between the first lane and the second lane and to preferentially ensure the second predetermined interval when the other vehicle has not crossed the first boundary.

Abstract: A behavior prediction device predicts behavior of another vehicle traveling around a host vehicle, and the behavior prediction device includes: a reference position setting unit that sets a reference position (reference line) along a shape of a road; a position detection unit that detects a position of the other vehicle; a distance calculation unit that calculates a distance from the reference position (reference line) to the other vehicle on the basis of information about the reference position (reference line) and information about the position of the other vehicle; and a prediction unit that predicts a trajectory of the other vehicle on the basis of information about the distance in time series calculated by the distance calculation unit.

Abstract: A purpose of the present invention is to implement, by specifying a process target area, an image generation device which generates an image (video) from which an image quality improving effect can be recognized and a display device which displays the image. An image generation device (1000) includes a screen duplication unit (1), a mask area determination unit (2), a composition unit (3), and an image quality adjustment unit (4). The screen duplication unit (1) extracts and outputs at least a part of an image area of an input image as a process target image. The mask area determination unit (2) determines a mask area of the process target image and generates a mask image specifying the mask area. The image quality adjustment unit (4) performs predetermined image process to the mask area, which is determined by the mask area determination unit (2) in the process target image and outputs the image, to which the image process is performed, as an image after image quality adjustment.

Abstract: An image processing device (1000) includes a luminance variation detection unit (1), an angular variation detection unit (2), an image region detection unit (3), and an image processing unit (4). The luminance variation detection unit (1) detects a degree of variation of pixel value in a pixel reference region including a pixel of interest and pixels around the pixel of interest. The angular variation detection unit (2) acquires a contour direction where the pixel value is constant in the pixel reference region for each pixel and detects a degree of variation of the acquired contour direction. The image region detection unit (3) acquires an image region detection signal representing characteristics of the image region including the pixel of interest based on the degree of variation of the pixel value and the degree of variation of the contour direction. The image processing unit (4) performs a predetermined image process on the pixel of interest based on the image region detection signal.

Abstract: Provided is an image processing device capable of performing appropriate noise removal or reduction on input images of various resolution. The image processing device includes a contour direction estimating unit (21) that estimates a contour direction in which a signal value is a constant value for each pixel, a low pass filter unit (20a) that smoothes the signal value of the pixel based on the signal value of each reference pixel serving as a pixel of a reference region according to the pixel and arranged in the contour direction of the pixel estimated by the contour direction estimating unit for each pixel, and a parameter deciding unit (20b) that decides intensity of smoothing by the low pass filter unit according to an enlargement factor obtained based on a ratio of resolution of an input image signal and resolution of an output image signal.

Abstract: A purpose of the present invention is to implement, by specifying a process target area, an image generation device which generates an image (video) from which an image quality improving effect can be recognized and a display device which displays the image. An image generation device (1000) includes a screen duplication unit (1), a mask area determination unit (2), a composition unit (3), and an image quality adjustment unit (4). The screen duplication unit (1) extracts and outputs at least a part of an image area of an input image as a process target image. The mask area determination unit (2) determines a mask area of the process target image and generates a mask image specifying the mask area. The image quality adjustment unit (4) performs predetermined image process to the mask area, which is determined by the mask area determination unit (2) in the process target image and outputs the image, to which the image process is performed, as an image after image quality adjustment.

Abstract: An image processing device (1000) includes a luminance variation detection unit (1), an angular variation detection unit (2), an image region detection unit (3), and an image processing unit (4). The luminance variation detection unit (1) detects a degree of variation of pixel value in a pixel reference region including a pixel of interest and pixels around the pixel of interest. The angular variation detection unit (2) acquires a contour direction where the pixel value is constant in the pixel reference region for each pixel and detects a degree of variation of the acquired contour direction. The image region detection unit (3) acquires an image region detection signal representing characteristics of the image region including the pixel of interest based on the degree of variation of the pixel value and the degree of variation of the contour direction. The image processing unit (4) performs a predetermined image process on the pixel of interest based on the image region detection signal.

Abstract: Provided is an image processing device capable of performing appropriate noise removal or reduction on input images of various resolution. The image processing device includes a contour direction estimating unit (21) that estimates a contour direction in which a signal value is a constant value for each pixel, a low pass filter unit (20a) that smoothes the signal value of the pixel based on the signal value of each reference pixel serving as a pixel of a reference region according to the pixel and arranged in the contour direction of the pixel estimated by the contour direction estimating unit for each pixel, and a parameter deciding unit (20b) that decides intensity of smoothing by the low pass filter unit according to an enlargement factor obtained based on a ratio of resolution of an input image signal and resolution of an output image signal.

Abstract: A signal processing device (201) includes noise reduction units (101), cascade-connected to each other, each of which includes: a signal selection section (31) for selecting a representative value from sampled signals obtained from an input signal by sampling a target signal and signals which are away from the target signal by given intervals; a voltage determination section (51) for determining which of a determined representative value and a voltage of the target signal is larger; and a signal output section (61) for increasing or decreasing the voltage of the target signal depending on a result of the determining and outputs the target signal as the output signal. A combination of intervals between the target signal and the signals excluding the target signal vary from noise reduction unit (101) to noise reduction unit (101). A noise reduction unit on a more upstream side has a larger maximum value of the intervals.

Abstract: An image processing system for processing a target pixel to be processed, which target pixel corresponds to inputted image data, a plurality of pixels including the target pixel being arranged in a matrix manner, includes an NR circuit (106). The NR circuit (106) includes a signal processing process circuit (114) for carrying out subtraction or addition, with respect to a pixel value Aij of the target pixel, of a value equivalent to a noise quantity Er calculated in advance, in a case where the pixel value Aij of the target pixel is larger or smaller, respectively, than a first couple of estimated values Bij and Cij for the pixel value Aij of the target pixel, the first couple of estimated values Bij and Cij being estimated from pixel values of respective pixels adjacent to the target pixel, centered at the target pixel, in a temporal axis or in a spatial axis.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device (101) of the present invention includes an NR circuit (106) for carrying out a signal processing process in which a predetermined noise amount is added to or subtracted from data of a target pixel in accordance with a result of a comparison of signal levels between the target pixel and at least two surrounding pixels which are beside the target pixel, the NR circuit (106) adding or subtracting the predetermined noise amount to or from data of respective pixels adjacent to each other temporally or positionally in respective different signal processing processes. This allows providing a liquid crystal display device having a noise reduction effect. It is thus possible to provide a liquid crystal display device enabling less blur of an image after a noise reduction process.

Abstract: In a friction reducing device for a ship body by forming an air bubble curtain on a ship's bottom by generating air bubbles from air ejection holes formed on the bottom, the air ejection holes are arranged in a ship width direction to constitute a plurality of air-ejection hole groups. The air-ejection hole groups include at least a center air-ejection hole group formed at the center of the ship width direction at a bow side and a pair of side air-ejection hole groups formed at a stern side from the center air-ejection hole group at both sides of the center air-ejection hole group in the ship width direction. A length of the center air-ejection hole group in the ship width direction is formed to be longer than a length of each of the side air-ejection hole groups in the ship width direction.

Abstract: A ship-body frictional resistance reducing device for reducing frictional resistance of a sailing ship body by forming an air bubble curtain 8 on a ship's bottom by generating air bubbles includes an air chamber 22a provided on the ship's bottom 5 inside the ship body, a plurality of air ejection holes formed in an arrayed manner on the ship's bottom 5 that becomes a bottom portion of the air chamber 22a, and a sea chest 35 provided on the ship's bottom 5 inside the ship body in a manner such that the sea chest 35 covers the air chamber 22a. With this configuration, it is possible to perform maintenance of the air chamber 22a, and at the same time, it is possible to take a watertight structure to prevent ingress of the sea water into the ship body.

Abstract: An image processing system for processing a target pixel to be processed, which target pixel corresponds to inputted image data, a plurality of pixels including the target pixel being arranged in a matrix manner, includes an NR circuit (106). The NR circuit (106) includes a signal processing process circuit (114) for carrying out subtraction or addition, with respect to a pixel value Aij of the target pixel, of a value equivalent to a noise quantity Er calculated in advance, in a case where the pixel value Aij of the target pixel is larger or smaller, respectively, than a first couple of estimated values Bij and Cij for the pixel value Aij of the target pixel, the first couple of estimated values Bij and Cij being estimated from pixel values of respective pixels adjacent to the target pixel, centered at the target pixel, in a temporal axis or in a spatial axis.

Abstract: A signal processing device (201) includes noise reduction units (101), cascade-connected to each other, each of which includes: a signal selection section (31) for selecting a representative value from sampled signals obtained from an input signal by sampling a target signal and signals which are away from the target signal by given intervals; a voltage determination section (51), for determining which of a determined representative value and a voltage of the target signal is larger; and a signal output section (61) for increasing or decreasing the voltage of the target signal depending on a result of the determining and outputs the target signal as the output signal. A combination of intervals between the target signal and a the signals excluding the target signal vary from noise reduction unit (101) to noise reduction unit (101). A noise reduction unit on a more upstream side has a larger maximum value of the intervals.

Abstract: A sliding structure includes a guide rail formed on a first housing, a groove for the guide rail formed on a second housing, wherein the first housing and the second housing can engage each other and slide, an elastic body that expands and contracts in a longitudinal direction of the guide rail in parallel with the guide rail, and two pressing members that are located on ends of the elastic body and subjected to opposite pressing forces from the elastic body, are provided in the groove, at least one-by-one notch is formed on each elastic-body-disposed side of the guide rail and the groove for the guide rail such that the notches can be opposed to each other in a sliding action process, and the two pressing members can take such positions that the pressing members press respective different housings in opposite directions through the notches.