Abstract: A motor torque control section switches a change rate of a motor torque for approximating the motor torque to an assist torque according to relationship between the motor torque of an electric motor and the assist torque and according to a change in a turning angle, after automatic steering is cancelled according to a steering torque.

Abstract: A customer serving control system includes: a customer information acquiring unit acquiring customer information about a customer that can be served by a customer serving apparatus; a presentation control unit causing the customer information to be presented to a first operator; a serving information generating unit generating, based on operation of the first operator, first serving information indicating a serving content according to which the customer serving apparatus should serve the customer; a serving control unit causing the first operator to serve the customer through the customer serving apparatus by instructing the customer serving apparatus to serve the customer based on the first serving information; an operator emotion identifying unit identifying an emotion of the first operator; and a serving determining unit determining, based on an emotion of the first operator, whether to maintain a state where the first operator is serving the customer through the customer serving apparatus.

Abstract: A memory control system includes: an information acquiring unit that acquires information for deciding an emotion of a target object; a secretion information generating unit that generates secretion information indicating a secretion amount of an endocrine substance to influence decision of the emotion of the target object, based on the information acquired by the information acquiring unit; a memory control unit that associates and stores the secretion information and memory information based on the information acquired by the information acquiring unit, when an intensity of the emotion of the target object decided based on the information acquired by the information acquiring unit exceeds a predetermined value; and an information selecting unit that selects memory information to be retrieved by the target object from the memory information that has been stored in association with the secretion information, based on the secretion information.

Abstract: An emotion identifying system includes: an information acquiring unit that acquires information for deciding an emotion of a target object; a judging unit that, based on the information, judges whether or not judgement factors associated respectively with a plurality of emotions are each met; an adjusting unit that, if the information matches a predetermined condition about a predetermined type of emotion among the plurality of emotions, expands a range occupied by the predetermined type of emotion in a space in which the plurality of emotions is mapped; an emotion identifying unit that identifies, among the plurality of emotions, an emotion for which the judging unit judges that the associated judgement factor is met; and an output control unit that causes information indicating an emotion identified by the emotion identifying unit and ranges occupied respectively by the plurality of emotions in the space to be output.

Abstract: A serving data collecting system includes: a customer information acquiring unit that acquires customer information which is information about a customer that can be served by a customer serving apparatus; a presentation control unit that causes the customer information to be presented to an operator; a serving information acquiring unit that acquires serving information indicative of a serving content which is decided by the operator and according to which the customer serving apparatus should serve the customer; a serving decision information acquiring unit that acquires decision information indicative of information that the operator used for deciding the serving content; and a recording control unit that causes the serving information and the decision information to be recorded in association with each other.

Abstract: An emotion determining system includes: an input information generating unit to generate, based on detection signals of one or more sensors that are provided to a target object, input information for determining an emotion of the target object; a secretion information generating unit to generate, based on the detection signals, secretion information indicating secretion amounts of one or more endocrine substances; a parameter adjusting unit to adjust an operation parameter for determining the emotion from the input information based on the secretion amounts of the one or more endocrine substances indicated by the secretion information.

Abstract: A case of an electrical storage device includes a case body, a lid, and a welded portion at an abutting portion where the case body and the lid are abutting against each other. In a cross-sectional view of the case along its extending direction, the welded portion has an interface existing at a boundary of the welded portion with the case body and the lid. The maximum dimension from an exposed surface of the welded portion to the interface is defined as a weld depth X. The dimension from the abutting portion to an edge of the welded portion in a direction along the exposed surface of the welded portion is defined as a weld width Y. The welded portion is configured to exist over the entire circumference of the case in a shape that satisfies an expression Y/X>1.

Abstract: The coaxial connector is provided with a contact, an internal housing, a shell and an electromagnetic shield plate. The contact has a connecting portion which can connect with a mating side contact, and a crimping portion which crimps the central conductor. The internal housing has a contact receiving chamber opened at a rear end portion, and the connector is retained in the contact receiving chamber. The shell has a shell main body covering an external perimeter of the internal housing, and a cable clamp. The cable clamp fixes an end of the coaxial cable. The shell main body has a lock piece. A pair of slits is provided at both sides of the lock piece. The electromagnetic shield plate is disposed at an upper face of the internal housing, and has one piece which shields a portion of the pair of slits with respect to the internal housing.

Abstract: The coaxial connector is provided with a contact, an internal housing, a shell and an electromagnetic shield plate. The contact has a connecting portion which can connect with a mating side contact, and a crimping portion which crimps the central conductor. The internal housing has a contact receiving chamber opened at a rear end portion, and the connector is retained in the contact receiving chamber. The shell has a shell main body covering an external perimeter of the internal housing, and a cable clamp. The cable clamp fixes an end of the coaxial cable. The shell main body has a lock piece. A pair of slits is provided at both sides of the lock piece. The electromagnetic shield plate is disposed at an upper face of the internal housing, and has one piece which shields a portion of the pair of slits with respect to the internal housing.

Abstract: A processing system that processes parameters of a plurality of artificial neurons and artificial synapses constituting a neural network, the processing system including: a storing unit storing definition information defining a state of a control target for each artificial neuron of the plurality of artificial neurons; a processing unit processing parameter values of each artificial neuron of the plurality of artificial neurons and parameter values of one or more artificial synapses connected to inputs of each artificial neuron using a data access structure accessible data unit by data unit, the data unit being collective for each artificial neuron; and an operation determining unit determining operation of the control target based on: an activation state of at least some artificial neurons of the plurality of artificial neurons specified by parameter values of the at least some artificial neurons; and a state defined by the at least some artificial neurons.

Abstract: Provided are a travel route recognition device and a travel assistance system using the same, which are capable of precisely recognizing the positions of white lines and road boundaries even if, for example, there is a decrease in the accuracy of the detection of both white lines and road boundaries on the travel route. The direction of the travel route is estimated on the basis of the direction of a linear site included in an image obtained by imaging units, and the direction of the boundaries of a surface region included in a distance image comprising three-dimensional distance information generated on the basis of the images obtained by the imaging units or on the basis of distance information detected by the distance detection unit.

Abstract: Provided is Exercise equipment including a gripping section that is gripped by a user; a weight section that is connected to the gripping section; a first electrode that is arranged on the gripping section; a second electrode that is arranged on the weight section; a measuring section that measures at least one of body fat percentage of the user and an electrocardiogram waveform of the user, using the first electrode and the second electrode.

Abstract: Provided is Exercise equipment including a gripping section that is gripped by a user; a weight section that is connected to the gripping section; a first electrode that is arranged on the gripping section; a second electrode that is arranged on the weight section; a measuring section that measures at least one of body fat percentage of the user and an electrocardiogram waveform of the user, using the first electrode and the second electrode.

Abstract: To generate a color image exhibiting few blocked-up colors or little color saturation. It is provided a image processing apparatus for processing an original image that is picked up, comprising: an image input part for inputting N original images having different exposure levels, where N is an integer of two or more, which are obtained by picking up images of the same subject in one of a simultaneous manner and a time-series manner; and a composite processing part for generating M output images, where M is an integer of one or more and less than N, by composing the N original images. The composite processing part compares color component signals in each corresponding pixel position with each other between the N original images, and sets the color component signal that produces a higher chroma as a color component signal in each pixel position of the output image.

Abstract: An environment recognizing device for a vehicle is provided that can correctly detect a preceding vehicle in a scene, such as for instance the dusk, which is under an illumination condition different from that in the daytime. The device detects a vehicle external shape while detecting vehicle taillights, and determines a region in which the vehicle external shape and the vehicle taillights move in synchronization, as a vehicle.

Abstract: To generate a color image exhibiting few blocked-up colors or little color saturation. It is provided a image processing apparatus for processing an original image that is picked up, comprising: an image input part for inputting N original images having different exposure levels, where N is an integer of two or more, which are obtained by picking up images of the same subject in one of a simultaneous manner and a time-series manner; and a composite processing part for generating M output images, where M is an integer of one or more and less than N, by composing the N original images. The composite processing part compares color component signals in each corresponding pixel position with each other between the N original images, and sets the color component signal that produces a higher chroma as a color component signal in each pixel position of the output image.

Abstract: An environment recognizing device for a vehicle is provided that can correctly detect a preceding vehicle in a scene, such as for instance the dusk, which is under an illumination condition different from that in the daytime. The device detects a vehicle external shape while detecting vehicle taillights, and determines a region in which the vehicle external shape and the vehicle taillights move in synchronization, as a vehicle.

Abstract: The designation of a localization position is received in accordance with an input position on a dashboard image in a localization-position reception window, and delay times for audio signals supplied to respective speakers are set so that the sound image is localized at the received localization position. The position where a sound image aurally perceived is localized is received, on the dashboard image in a localization-position confirmation window, from the user, until the user indicates that the position where the sound image aurally perceived is localized matches the localization position designated in the localization-position reception window. The relationship between the delay times and the localization position is re-estimated so as to correspond to the received localization position and the set delay times. In accordance with the estimated relationship, processing for re-setting the delay times is repeated.

Abstract: An electric power steering apparatus having a displacing mechanism in which a fitting hole potion is provided to a gear housing for fitting with and holding a bearing to which a worm shaft for transmitting rotating force of a steering assisting motor to a steering shaft provided with a worm wheel is fitted, the portion being formed of a pair of split members formed by splitting the portion into two, one split member being movable toward the other split member to adjust a distance between a shaft center of the worm shaft and a rotation center of the worm wheel.

Abstract: A network including a connection service providing system according to the present invention comprises mobile terminals 1 used by users, electronic devices 3, a wireless LAN base station 5, a connection-service-providing server 10, public network 2 for interconnecting a mobile terminal 1 and the connection-service-providing server 10, and a wide area network 4 for interconnecting a electronic device 3 and the connection-service-providing server 10. The connection-service-providing server 10 comprises a first identifier-acquisition unit 11, identifier-acquisition-time-instant measurement unit 12 (first time measurement unit), a second identifier-acquisition unit 13, a service-provision-start-time-instant measurement unit 14 (second time measurement unit), an authentication unit 15, and a connection control unit 16.