Abstract: A device for monitoring around a vehicle capable of detecting objects present around the vehicle based on an image captured by at least one infrared camera member provided with the vehicle. An area which is inferred to correspond to the pedestrian's head is established as a reference area. Two object areas are established above the reference area so as to correspond to spaces above the shoulders on both sides of the pedestrian's head. An area which corresponds to the head and the shoulders in an infra-red ray image is acknowledged. Another object area which is inferred to correspond to the shoulders and arms of the pedestrian is established. If a distance from an entire pedestrian and a distance from an area which corresponds to the shoulders and arms are equal, it is acknowledged that a binary object including the area which corresponds to the shoulders and arms indicates a pedestrian.

Abstract: A connecting lead wire is used for a solar battery module in which a plurality of solar battery cells connected in series by an inter-connector are arranged. The connecting lead wire is provided with a trunk portion and one or more branch portions. In the trunk portion, an enamel coating layer is provided on a conductor. In each of the branch portions, a solder plating layer is provided on a conductor. The branch portion protrudes from the trunk portion in a lateral direction, and connected to an electrode of each of the solar battery cells. The branch portion connects the solar battery cells with each other.

Abstract: A Pb-free Sn-based material part of a wiring conductor is provided at least at a part of a surface the wiring conductor, and the Sn-based material part includes a base metal doped with a transformation retardant element and an oxidation control element. The transformation retardant element is at least one element selected from a group consisted of Sb, Bi, Cd, In, Ag, Au, Ni, Ti, Zr, and Hf. The oxidation control element is at least one element selected from a group consisted of Ge, P, Zn, Kr, Cr, Mn, Na, V, Si, Al, Li, Mg and Ca. The wiring conductor is reflow processed, such that at least one of the Sn, the transformation retardant element and the oxidation control element is diffused to form an alloy.

Abstract: A Pb-free Sn-based material part of a wiring conductor is provided at least at a part of its surface, and the Sn-based material part includes a base metal doped with an oxidation control element. The oxidation control element is at least one element selected from a group consisted of P, Ge, K, Zn, Cr, Mn, Na, V, Si, Ti, Al, Li, Mg and Ca. The wiring conductor is reflow processed, such that at least one of the Sn and the oxidation control element is diffused to form an alloy.

Abstract: A vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus, a vehicle surroundings monitoring method, and a vehicle surroundings monitoring program which can rapidly determine an object such as a pedestrian to be avoided which must be avoided from coming into contact with the vehicle from an image of the surroundings of the vehicle and can provide information to a driver or control the vehicle behaviors.

Abstract: A vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus capable of distinguishing and determining an object type with high reliability, particularly a vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus capable of determining an object by distinguishing between a pedestrian and other objects among the objects with high reliability. The vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus detects an object existing around a vehicle (10) from images obtained by cameras 2R and 2L mounted on the vehicle (10) and includes an object extraction process unit (steps 1 to 9) which extracts an object from the image, a width calculation process unit (steps 101 to 104) which calculates widths of the object in a plurality of height positions spaced at vertical intervals of the object extracted by the object extraction process unit, and an object type determination process unit (step 105) which determines the type of the object based on the widths calculated by the width calculation process unit.

Abstract: A positive-tone radiation-sensitive resin composition comprising: (A) a carbazole derivative shown by the following formula (1), (B) a photoacid generator containing a sulfonimide compound and an iodonium salt compound as essential components, and (C) an acid-dissociable group-containing resin which is insoluble or scarcely soluble in alkali, but becomes soluble in alkali when the acid-dissociable group dissociates is disclosed. wherein R1 and R2 are individually halogen atom, methyl, cyano, or nitro group, X is a C1-20 organic group, and h and i are 0-4. The resin composition is useful as a chemically amplified positive-tone resist excelling in focal depth allowance, sensitivity, resolution, pattern profile, and PED stability.

Abstract: A vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus which determines whether there is a possibility of contact between a vehicle and a monitored object around the vehicle with a single camera mounted thereon.

Abstract: A vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus, method, and program capable of reducing a possibility of overlap between a detection object and a background object in a standard image when detecting objects around the vehicle from images obtained by a plurality of image sensors so as to detect the objects accurately. The vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus detects the objects existing around the vehicle (10) from the images obtained by the image sensors (2R, 2L) mounted on the vehicle (10).

Abstract: An image processing unit determines the size of a circumscribed quadrangle of the target object, and predicts the overlap of the two different objects. If overlap is predicted, the target object is divided into two divided regions L_b and R_b containing the left and right edges of the target object respectively, and by performing a correlation calculation between the left image and the right image captured by a stereo camera for each of the divided regions, the parallaxes of the respective divided regions L_b and R_b can be determined. Then, if the absolute value of the difference between the parallaxes of the respective divided regions L_b and R_b is greater than a predetermined value, a determination is made that different objects are overlapping within the target object, and the target object is divided for recognition, and the distance to the respective objects is calculated independently.

Abstract: An image processing unit determines the size of a circumscribed quadrangle of the target object, and predicts the overlap of the two different objects. If overlap is predicted, the target object is divided into two divided regions L_b and R_b containing the left and right edges of the target object respectively, and by performing a correlation calculation between the left image and the right image captured by a stereo camera for each of the divided regions, the parallaxes of the respective divided regions L_b and R_b can be determined. Then, if the absolute value of the difference between the parallaxes of the respective divided regions L_b and R_b is greater than a predetermined value, a determination is made that different objects are overlapping within the target object, and the target object is divided for recognition, and the distance to the respective objects is calculated independently.

Abstract: A vehicle information providing apparatus determines and displays the range of presence of a person or other object based on the characteristics of images recorded by infrared cameras. An image processing unit carries out brightness change search processing in the infrared camera image zone represented by a gray scale using a search area wherein the size of a first detected area detected by binarization and correlation operation serves as the reference. In addition, the parallax between the first detected area and the searched area having a change in brightness is compared, a search area having a parallax that differs from that of the first searched area is eliminated, and a search area having a parallax identical to that of the first searched area is provided a highlighted display as an object identical to that of the first detected area.

Abstract: A device for monitoring around a vehicle capable of detecting objects present around the vehicle based on an image captured by at least one infrared camera member provided with the vehicle. The device includes a binary object extraction unit which subjects a gray scale image of the image captured by the infrared camera member to a binary thresholding method, and extracts a binary object from the gray scale image; a gray scale object extraction unit which extracts a gray scale object, a range of the gray scale object including the binary object, from the gray scale image based on change in luminance of the gray scale image, and a pedestrian determination unit which sets a search area in an area including the gray scale object, and recognizes a pedestrian in the gray scale image based on a luminance variance in the search area.

Abstract: A positive type radiation-sensitive resin composition suitable as a chemically-amplified resist sensitive to active radiation particularly to deep ultraviolet rays represented by a KrF excimer laser, an ArF excimer laser, or an F2 excimer laser, excelling particularly in a process margin for the KrF excimer laser is provided. The positive type radiation-sensitive resin composition comprises a photoacid generator and an acid-labile group-containing resin which is insoluble or scarcely soluble in alkali, but becomes alkali-soluble by the action of an acid, wherein the photoacid generator is a mixed photoacid generator containing a photoacid generator of the following formula (1) and a photoacid generator which is at least one compound selected from sulfonyloxyimide and disulfonyldiazomethane.

Abstract: A vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus that extracts a body present in the surroundings of a vehicle as an object, based on an image captured by an infrared imaging device, including a binarized object extraction device that extracts a binarized object from image data obtained by binarizing a gray scale image of the image; a horizontal edge detection device that detects a horizontal edge in the gray scale image; a horizontal edge determination device that determines whether or not the horizontal edge detected by the horizontal edge detection device exists in a prescribed range from the top end or bottom end of the binarized object extracted by the binarized object extraction device; and an object type determination device that determines a type of object based on a determination result of the horizontal edge determination device.

Abstract: Abstract of the Disclosure A vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus that extracts a body present in the surroundings of a vehicle as an object, based on an image captured by an infrared imaging device, includes: a binarized object extraction device that extracts a binarized object from image data obtained by binarizing a gray scale images of the image; a search region setting device that sets a search region including a bottom end of the binarized object extracted by the binarized object extraction device, on the gray scale image; a horizontal edge detection device that detects a horizontal edge in the search region; a horizontal edge width calculation device that calculates a width of the horizontal edge or a status quantity related to the width; and an object type determination device that determines a type of the object based on the width of the horizontal edge or the status quantity related to the width.

Abstract: A vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus that extracts a body present in the surroundings of a vehicle as an object, based on an image captured by an infrared imaging device, including a binarized object extraction device that extracts a binarized object from image data obtained by binarizing a gray scale image of the image; a search region setting device that sets a search region at the lower part of the binarized object extracted by the binarized object extraction device; a vertical edge detection device that detects a vertical edge in the search region set by the search region setting device; and an object type determination device that determines a type of object based on a detection result of the vertical edge detection device.

Abstract: A vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus that extracts a body present in the surroundings of a vehicle as an object, based on an image captured by an infrared imaging device, which includes a binarized object extraction device that extracts a binarized object from image data obtained by binarizing a gray scale image of the image; an aspect ratio calculation device that calculates an aspect ratio of a region that includes at least a portion of the binarized object extracted by the binarized object extraction device; and an object type determination device that determines a type of the object based on the aspect ratio calculated by the aspect ratio calculation device.

Abstract: Abstract of the Disclosure A vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus that extracts a body present in the surroundings of a vehicle as an object, based on an image captured by an infrared imaging device including a binarized object extraction device that extracts a binarized objectfrom image data obtainedby binarizing a gray scale image of the image; a region setting device that sets a region including at least a portion of the binarized object on the gray scale image; a luminance status quantity calculation device that calculates a luminance status quantity of the region; an interval status quantity calculation device that calculates an interval status quantity according to an interval between a position of a substantially maximum luminance value and a position of a substantially minimum luminance value within the region based on the luminance status quantity; and an object type determination device that determines a type of the object based on the interval status quantity.

Abstract: An abnormality detecting apparatus for an imaging apparatus that detects the presence of abnormalities in an imaging apparatus mounted on a vehicle to capture vehicle surroundings which includes: a region setting device that sets a region including at least a road boundary portion in an image obtained by the imaging apparatus; a luminance variance value calculating device that calculates a luminance variance value using the luminance value acquired from the image with respect to the region set by the region setting device; and an abnormality detecting device that detects the presence of abnormalities in the imaging apparatus according to the luminance variance value calculated by the luminance variance value calculating device.