Abstract: A method for manufacturing a novel display apparatus is provided. The method includes a first step of forming a first electrode, a second electrode, and a first gap over an insulating film, a second step of forming a first film over the second electrode; a third step of forming a first layer overlapping with the first electrode, a fourth step of removing the first film by an etching method to form a first unit overlapping with the first electrode, a fifth step of removing a surface of the second electrode, a sixth step of forming a second film over the first layer and the second electrode, a seventh step of forming a second layer overlapping with the second electrode, and an eighth step of removing the second film by an etching method using the second layer to form a second unit overlapping with the second electrode and a second gap.

Abstract: A state estimation device includes an information acquisition unit acquiring at least one of (i) electrode acquisition information indicating an electromagnetic time series that is a time series of an electromagnetic quantity that is an electromagnetic force, field, or energy applied to an electrode from which a signal indicating a state of a heart of an estimation target is acquirable or (ii) environment information that is information on a time series of an environmental quantity that is an amount related to one or both of a state of motion of the estimation target and an environment in which the estimation target is present; and an estimation unit using at least one of the electrode acquisition information or the environment information to determine whether an electrode event, which is an abnormality in acquisition of a signal indicating the state of the heart of the estimation target by the electrode, has occurred.

Abstract: A system includes: one or more storage devices that store specific position information indicating a specific position where an autonomous vehicle has a possibility to require remote support; and one or more processors configured to set a first target route as a target route, determine whether an abnormality has occurred in a remote support system, when the abnormality is detected in the remote support system, search for an alternative route that is a route to the destination based on the specific position information, the alternative route having a smaller number of the specific positions to be passed through by the autonomous vehicle than the first target route, when the alternative route is found, change the target route from the first target route to the alternative route, and control the autonomous vehicle.

Abstract: A program causes a processor of a terminal apparatus to function as: a game progressor configured to progress a game based on content information that prescribes progression contents of the game; a first acquirer configured to acquire first progression information indicative of the degree of progress of the game in the terminal apparatus; a second acquirer configured to acquire input information that was input at another terminal apparatus progressing the game based on the content information, and second progression information indicative of the degree of progress of the game in the other terminal apparatus as of a point in time when the input information was input at the other terminal apparatus; and an output controller configured to control output of output information that corresponds to the input information acquired by the second acquirer based on the first progression information and the second progression information.

Abstract: A battery case of the present disclosure includes a lower case for housing a battery with the upper side of the lower case opened; and an upper case provided on the upper side of the lower case to cover the battery. The lower case includes a lower case bottom surface on which the battery is placed and a lower case side surface extending upward from the edge of the lower case bottom surface. The lower case side surface includes, on its side where a module terminal of the battery is disposed, a cut part cut downward in such a way that the height of the lower case side surface becomes lower than the height of a position of the module terminal.

Abstract: A stacked semiconductor device capable of increasing heat dissipation comprises a first member and a second member. The first member includes a semiconductor substrate and a first electronic circuit. The first electronic circuit includes a semiconductor element provided on one surface of the semiconductor substrate. A second member is attached to a first surface, which is one surface of the first member. The second member includes a second electronic circuit including another semiconductor element. The second member is provided with a first opening that penetrates the second member in a thickness direction. A first conductor projection is coupled to the first electronic circuit. The first conductor projection protrudes from the first surface of the first member through the first opening of the second member to the outside of the first opening.

Abstract: A semiconductor module comprises a first member including a semiconductor substrate made of a compound semiconductor and a first electronic circuit on the semiconductor substrate is mounted on a mounting surface of a module substrate, and a second member including a semiconductor layer formed of a single semiconductor thinner than the semiconductor substrate of the first member and a second electronic circuit on the semiconductor layer is bonded to an upper surface of the first member. First and second pads are respectively connected to the first electronic circuit on the first member and the second electronic circuit on the second member. A first wire connects the first pad and a substrate side pad. A second wire connects the second pad and a substrate side pad. An inter-member connection wire made of a conductor film on the first and second members connects the first and second electronic circuits.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus can be connected with an ultrasound probe including a plurality of elements adapted to transmit ultrasound signals and to receive reflected wave signals from a subject or from the air. The ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry diagnoses states of the elements based on a feature value of the reflected wave signal. The processing circuitry also prepares, based on the states, deterioration degree information indicative of the deterioration degrees of the elements. The processing circuitry superimposes the deterioration degree information onto an ultrasound image of the subject and causes a display to display a resultant image.

Abstract: An image sensor comprising a semiconductor substrate and pixel cell circuitry is described. The semiconductor substrate includes a first side and a second side opposite the first site. The pixel cell circuitry is disposed proximate to the first side of the semiconductor substrate. The pixel cell circuitry includes an arrangement of individual groups of components, each including a reset gate, a source-follower gate, and a row select gate. The individual groups of components included in the pixel cell circuitry includes a first group and a second group adjacent to the first group, and wherein the source-follower gate of the first group is disposed adjacent to the source-follower of the second group.

Abstract: A pixel cell for an image sensor including a first semiconductor substrate, a photodiode, and a transfer gate is described. The first semiconductor substrate includes a first side and a second side. The first side is opposite the second side. The photodiode is disposed within the first semiconductor substrate between the first and the second side. The transfer gate is disposed proximate to the first side of the first semiconductor substrate. The transfer gate includes a planar region. The first side of the semiconductor substrate is disposed between the planar region and the photodiode. A lateral area of the photodiode is less than or equal to a lateral area of the planar region of the transfer gate.

Abstract: A vehicle control system for an autonomous vehicle includes: a first control device configured to generate a first driving plan including desired lateral lane driving positions or desired lateral lane driving position ranges; a plurality of first sensors configured to obtain information on motion of the vehicle and information on surroundings of the vehicle; and a second control device configured to communicate with the first control device, generate, based on the first driving plan obtained from the first control device and the information obtained by the first sensors, a second driving plan different from the first driving plan, the second driving plan including target lateral lane driving positions or target lateral lane driving position ranges, and control driving operation of the vehicle based on the second driving plan.

Abstract: A system for controlling a trailer brake output circuit includes an electronic control unit having one or more processors and one or more memory modules. The trailer brake output circuit is configured to output a trailer brake output signal. Machine readable instructions cause the electronic control unit to: receive a signal from a vehicle stability control system indicating that a vehicle stability control flag is set, generate the trailer brake output signal in response to the vehicle stability control flag being set such that the trailer brake output signal ramps up to a target value over a predefined period of time, maintain the trailer brake output signal at the target value while the vehicle stability control flag is set, and output the trailer brake output signal such that the trailer brake output signal ramps down from the target value when the vehicle stability control flag changes from set to not set.

Abstract: A multilayer piezoelectric ceramic is such that: its piezoelectric ceramic layers do not contain lead as a constituent element, and have a perovskite compound expressed by the composition formula LixNayK1-x-yNbO3 (where 0.02<x?0.1, 0.02<x+y?1), as the primary component; and the internal electrode layers are constituted by a metal containing silver by 80 percent by mass or more, and contain ceramic grains containing the same elements found in the primary component. The multilayer piezoelectric element has a long lifespan, and whose internal electrode layers have a high content percentage of silver.

Abstract: A piezoelectric element includes: a piezoelectric ceramic which has a perovskite compound expressed by the composition formula LixNayK1?x?yNbO3 (where 0.02<x?0.1, 0.02<x+y?1) as its primary component and which contains at least one of alkali earth metal selected from the group consisting of calcium, strontium, and barium, as well as silver, wherein the piezoelectric ceramic contains LiNbO3 at the surface but contains no or less LiNbO3 in the inner portion which is 5 ?m or deeper from the surface, than at the surface; and at least one pair of electrodes formed on the surface of the piezoelectric ceramic.

Abstract: A vehicle control system for an autonomous vehicle includes: a first control device configured to generate a first driving plan including desired lateral lane driving positions or desired lateral lane driving position ranges; a plurality of first sensors configured to obtain information on motion of the vehicle and information on surroundings of the vehicle; and a second control device configured to communicate with the first control device, generate, based on the first driving plan obtained from the first control device and the information obtained by the first sensors, a second driving plan different from the first driving plan, the second driving plan including target lateral lane driving positions or target lateral lane driving position ranges, and control driving operation of the vehicle based on the second driving plan.

Abstract: A vehicle control system generates a first target trajectory, which is a target trajectory for an automated driving of a vehicle, and executes vehicle travel control based on the first target trajectory. The vehicle control system generates a second target trajectory which is a target trajectory which does not conflict with a restrict condition, when the travel based on the first target trajectory conflicts with a safety restrict condition, and executes travel assist control by using the second target trajectory. The vehicle control system judges whether or not a resurgence condition is satisfied by using the first target trajectory that is generated during the execution of the travel assist control. If it is judged that the resurgence condition is satisfied, the vehicle control system returns to the execution of the vehicle travel control from that of the travel assist control.

Abstract: A driving device generates a driving signal and outputs the driving signal to a piezoelectric element, the driving signal having a waveform obtained by using, as a first modulated wave, a first low-frequency wave having a frequency of 1 Hz or more and less than 100 Hz, using, as a second modulated wave, a waveform obtained by modulating an amplitude of a second low-frequency wave having a frequency of 100 Hz or more and 300 Hz or less with the first modulated wave, and modulating a high-frequency wave having a frequency of 20 kHz or more and 100 kHz or less with the second modulated wave.

Abstract: A vehicle traveling control system according to the example in the present disclosure communicates with an automatic operation control system which drafts a traveling plan of the vehicle, and performs an automatic traveling control for automatically running the vehicle along the traveling plan received from the automatic operation control system. The vehicle traveling control system predicts a risk based on information about surrounding environment of the vehicle, and performs, when the risk is predicted, a risk avoidance control to intervene in the automatic traveling control in order to avoid the risk. When the risk avoidance control is executed, the vehicle traveling control system transmits information on the risk avoidance control to the automatic operation control system.

Abstract: A vehicle travel control device executes vehicle travel control such that a vehicle follows a target trajectory. An automated driving control device generates a first target trajectory that is the target trajectory for automated driving of the vehicle. The vehicle travel control device further determines whether or not an activation condition of travel assist control is satisfied. When the activation condition is satisfied, the vehicle travel control device generates a second target trajectory that is the target trajectory for the travel assist control. Even when the second target trajectory is generated during the automated driving, or when the second target trajectory is generated during the automated driving and a priority condition for giving priority to the first target trajectory is satisfied, the vehicle travel control device executes the vehicle travel control by giving more weight to the first target trajectory than to the second target trajectory.

Abstract: Provided is a driving apparatus that sets a signal wave in a low-frequency region having a frequency of 10 Hz or more and 250 Hz or less as a modulating wave and outputs to a piezoelectric actuator a driving signal having a waveform obtained by modulating an amplitude of a sine wave in a high-frequency region having a frequency of 20 kHz or more and 40 kHz or less with the modulating wave.