Abstract: The disclosure provides a vehicle window structure in which a light emitting device can be disposed outside the laminated glass. The disclosure also provides a vehicle window structure to be installed at an opening of a vehicle, which comprises a first glass plate and a light emitting device, wherein at least a part of the light emitting device is disposed in a space formed between the first glass plate, an adhesive bonding the first glass plate and a body flange of the vehicle, and an interior material of the vehicle.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel that includes a liquid-crystal panel and a backlight arranged behind the liquid-crystal panel, and a controller that controls a luminance of the backlight and a transmittance ratio of the liquid-crystal panel. The controller is configured to: when a refresh rate at which an image is displayed on the display panel is switched, vary the luminance of the backlight such that a variation of a luminance of the display panel between before and after switching of the refresh rate falls within a predetermined range; vary the transmittance ratio of the liquid-crystal panel such that the variation of the luminance of the display panel falls within the predetermined range within a time duration that lasts until the luminance of the backlight reaches a target value; and restore the original transmittance ratio of the liquid-crystal panel after elapse of the time duration.

Abstract: A microcapsule composition containing microcapsules coated with a deposition protein, e.g., a protein-silanol copolymer, a protein-silane copolymer, a protein-siloxane copolymer, or a cationically modified protein, is provided as is a method for making the microcapsule composition and using the microcapsule composition in consumer products, in particular rinse-off consumer product.

Abstract: Issue To make available clothing that supports the wearer's muscles to enable capacity for and flexibility in movement to be improved in situations such as during sports, during heavy lifting, or being under nursing care. Resolution Means Clothing 100 involving the present invention is furnished with an upper-body piece 10 for covering at least a portion of the upper half of the body, and an upper-body support unit 20 formed on the upper-body piece 10. The upper-body support unit 20 includes an upper-body first support section 21 situated in sites following at least a portion of the psoas major muscles (901), an upper-body second support section 22 situated in sites following the supraspinatus muscles (903), and an upper-body third support section 23 situated in sites following the teres major muscles (904).

Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a ceramic body and first to fourth external electrodes. The ceramic body has first to fourth side surfaces, first to fourth ridges connecting the two side surfaces, and first and second internal electrodes. External electrodes cover the respective ridges and are connected to internal electrodes. The multilayer ceramic capacitor has a height dimension T of 110 ?m or less, and a ratio of a width dimension W to a length dimension L of 0.5 or more and less than 0.85. The internal electrodes extend obliquely outward relative to the X-axis and Y-axis directions from the facing portions, and have lead-out portions towards the ridges.

Abstract: Provided is a tubular heater whose attachment process is facilitated and whose heating efficiency is high. Features of the tubular heater are that the tubular heater includes a tubular elastic body 200 and a flexible printed circuit board 100 provided integrally with the elastic body 200 and formed with a heating circuit and a heating unit 110 of the flexible printed circuit board 100 formed with the heating circuit is provided in the elastic body 200 in a state in which the heating unit 110 is exposed on an inner peripheral side and extends along an inner peripheral surface of the elastic body 200 with tip ends of the heating unit 110 being separated from each other with a clearance S in a circumferential direction.

Abstract: An imaging device acquires an image and relevant information of a subject related to the image in a depth direction and performs image processing. A distance information generation unit generates a distribution of additional information (a defocus map, a distance map, etc.) related to the image. A distortion/blur correction unit performs deformation processing on the acquired image and performs deformation processing on the distribution of the additional information according to the deformation of the image. A color information conversion processing unit performs processing of converting the distribution of the additional information into color information. A superimposition processing unit outputs an image obtained by superimposing image information, which has been obtained by converting the distribution of the additional information into the color information, on the deformation-processed captured image to a display unit.

Abstract: A scanning mirror that prevents the oxidation or hydroxylation of a torsion bar, thereby suppressing deterioration of the torsion bar and a manufacturing method for the scanning mirror. The scanning mirror has a torsion bar provided so as to support a mirror portion and of which the surface is covered with an atomic layer deposition (ALD) layer. The scanning mirror is configured such that the mirror portion can be rotated around an axis that extends along the torsion bar when torsional force is applied to the torsion bar. The scanning mirror is manufactured by forming the mirror portion and the torsion bar and then forming the ALD layer on at least the surface of the torsion bar.

Abstract: A secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and a lithium-ion conductive electrolyte. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode current collector, and a positive electrode active material layer. The positive electrode active material layer contains a first metal oxide including a lithium-containing transition metal oxide that is a positive electrode active material, and a different second metal oxide. A metal element M contained in the second metal oxide includes an atom m1 and an atom m2 that are the same element having different valences from each other. The metal element M is at least one metal element selected from the group consisting of Al, Ti, Si, Zr, Mg, Nb, Ta, Sn, Ni, V, and Cr. An oxide of the atom m1 and the atom m2 are different in temperature dependence of electrical resistance.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel that includes a liquid-crystal panel and a backlight arranged behind the liquid-crystal panel, and a controller that controls a luminance of the backlight and a transmittance ratio of the liquid-crystal panel. The controller is configured to: when a refresh rate at which an image is displayed on the display panel is switched, vary the luminance of the backlight such that a variation of a luminance of the display panel between before and after switching of the refresh rate falls within a predetermined range; vary the transmittance ratio of the liquid-crystal panel such that the variation of the luminance of the display panel falls within the predetermined range within a time duration that lasts until the luminance of the backlight reaches a target value; and restore the original transmittance ratio of the liquid-crystal panel after elapse of the time duration.

Abstract: In a slide door device including a slide door that opens and closes a door opening formed at a side face of a vehicle body by sliding the door opening in a front-rear direction of the vehicle body, the slide door device includes a striker fixed to an opening edge of the door opening, and a first latch that is fixed to an end of the slide door, the end facing the opening edge, when the slide door is fully closed, is pressed by the striker to rotate when the slide door is fully closed, and is engageable with a leg of the striker in a direction from a vehicle interior side toward a vehicle exterior side.

Abstract: Disclosed are microcapsule compositions and their preparation methods. The microcapsule composition has a microcapsule dispersed in an aqueous phase. The microcapsule has a microcapsule core and a microcapsule wall encapsulating the microcapsule core. The microcapsule core contains an active material selected from the group consisting of a fragrance, cosmetic active, malodor counteractant, and combinations thereof. The microcapsule wall is formed of a polymeric network comprising of at least three moieties: (i) a first moiety derived from a chitosan, (ii) a second moiety derived from a polyisocyanate, and (iii) a third moiety derived from a polyphenol. Also disclosed are consumer products contain such a microcapsule composition.

Abstract: A light-source device, an image projection apparatus, and a display device. The light-source device includes a light source to emit light, an optical element having a lens array on one side or both sides of which a plurality of lenses are arrayed with distance from each other, the distance between a pair of vertices of an adjacent pair of the plurality of lenses of the optical element being equal to or less than one-quarter of width of light flux of the light incident on the optical element, and a wavelength conversion element to convert a wavelength of the light emitted from the light source and passed through the optical element. An image projection apparatus includes the light-source device, a light mixing element to mix the light emitted from the light-source device to uniformize the light, and an illumination optical system to emit the light uniformized by the light mixing element.

Abstract: In a steering device (PS1) according to the present embodiment, a preload applying mechanism (6) provides a rotation torque to one side in a rotation direction of a ball nut (4) by a reaction force generated by elastic abutment of a plunger (61) on a tooth tip of a first sector tooth (321) of a sector gear (32). Therefore, in the steering device (PS1), unlike conventional steering device, there is no need to provide a pressed portion to be pressed by the plunger (61) separately from the sector gear (32). Increase in size of a sector shaft (3) due to formation of the pressed portion can therefore be suppressed.

Abstract: This saddle-ride vehicle includes: a shroud intake provided with a suction opening and disposed on the left and right sides of an energy storage unit, the shroud intake guiding traveling wind below a seat; and a shroud wing having a lower surface that guides traveling wind to the suction opening and an upper surface that causes the traveling wind to flow to the side of a vehicle body. The shroud wing includes a wing body portion further inward in the vehicle width direction than a side portion. The wing body portion includes a first pointed portion on the front side and inside in the vehicle width direction, and a second pointed portion on the rear side and outside in the vehicle width direction. The wing body portion, the suction opening, the energy storage unit are arranged in this order from the front in a vehicle body side view.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a biodegradable core-shell microcapsule with a shell composed of a biopolymer, e.g., chitosan, which is cross-linked with an isocyanate and a tannic acid, in particular hydrolyzed tannic acid. This disclosure also relates to a process for preparing the biodegradable core-shell microcapsule and consumer products containing the same.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire an image, a subject detection unit configured to detect a subject from the image, a motion amount detection unit configured to detect a motion amount of a first region of the subject and a motion amount of a second region of the subject, the second region being different from the first region, and an image capturing parameter determination unit configured to determine an image capturing parameter, wherein the image capturing parameter determination unit refers to the motion amount of the first region and the motion amount of the second region and determines the image capturing parameter so that a blur amount of the first region is less than a first standard and a blur amount of the second region is greater than a second standard.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a stress detection apparatus includes a processor. The processor acquires heartbeat information. The processor calculates a heart rate variability factor from the heartbeat information. The processor detects change of an activity of sympathetic nervous system, based on the heart rate variability factor. The processor detects change of an activity of parasympathetic nervous system, based on the heart rate variability factor. The processor detects presence/absence of a stress state, based on time from detection of the change of the sympathetic nervous system to detection of the change of the activity of the parasympathetic nervous system. The processor acquires outside stimuli. The processor identifies a stressor that has provided the stress state from the acquired outside stimuli, based on timing at which the change of the sympathetic nervous system has been detected if the stress state is detected.