Abstract: A passing determination device acquires a first captured image obtained by repeatedly capturing an image of a region including a passing determination position of a trailer from a front of the trailer in a traveling direction of the trailer, and detects the trailer from the first captured image. Further, the passing determination device includes a processor configured to determine that the trailer detected from the first captured image captured at a first time passes through the passing determination position when the trailer is detected from the first captured image captured at the first time and the trailer is not detected from the first captured image captured within a first time period from the first time.

Abstract: A display device displays a host vehicle and other vehicles running in driving lanes together with the driving lanes on an information display screen. When the other vehicles are present at a far region at a front side in a direction of vehicle advance outside a display range of the screen, the display device displays marks showing that the other vehicles are present at a far region at a front side in a direction of vehicle advance outside a display range of the screen at fixed positions of the driving lanes displayed on the screen.

Abstract: A semiconductor optical device includes a first n-type III-V group compound semiconductor layer, an active layer, a tunnel junction structure including a p-type III-V group compound semiconductor layer and a second n-type III-V group compound semiconductor layer, and a third n-type III-V group compound semiconductor layer. The first n-type III-V group compound semiconductor layer, the active layer, the p-type III-V group compound semiconductor layer, the second n-type III-V group compound semiconductor layer, and the third n-type III-V group compound semiconductor layer are stacked in this order. The second n-type III-V group compound semiconductor layer has an n-type dopant concentration higher than an n-type dopant concentration of the third n-type III-V group compound semiconductor layer. The p-type III-V group compound semiconductor layer has a strain.

Abstract: To provide a hot-rolled steel sheet comprising by mass %: C: 0.12% or more and 0.25% or less, Si: 0.01% or more and 2.0% or less, Mn: 0.5% or more and 3.0% or less, Al: 0.001% or more and 0.10% or less, and B: 0.0005% or more and 0.0050% or less, and comprising one or both of: Nb: 0.001% or more and 0.020% or less, and Ti: 0.001% or more and 0.20% or less, wherein a metal structure at a position of ¼ thickness from a surface contains more than 90%, in area ratio, of tempered martensite, carbides in the tempered martensite have an average grain size of 10 nm or less, prior austenite grains have an average grain size of less than 40 ?m, the prior austenite grains have an aspect ratio of 3.5 or less, and an X-ray random intensity ratio of {112}<110> orientation at a position of ½ thickness from a surface is 4.0 or less, and a method for manufacturing the same.

Abstract: In an axial gap motor, a rotor includes a plurality of rotor cores fixed in a circumferential direction of a rotor base, and a stator includes a plurality of stator cores fixed in a circumferential direction of a stator base, and coils wound around the stator cores. End faces of each of the rotor cores and end faces of the corresponding stator core are opposed to each other while being exposed to each other.

Abstract: A battery includes an exterior can, an electrode group housed together with an alkaline electrolyte in the exterior can, and a sealing member that seals the exterior can. The electrode group is formed by winding a positive electrode and a negative electrode stacked together with a separator interposed therebetween into a spiral shape and has a columnar overall shape. A protruding negative electrode edge portion that is a partially protruding portion of the negative electrode is located at a lower end surface portion of the electrode group, and the protruding negative electrode edge portion is in direct contact with the inner surface of a bottom wall of the exterior can.

Abstract: An information processing device is provided which includes a first acquisition unit (214) configured to acquire a control command that is inputted by a first user and corresponds to presentation unit information for designating a presentation unit for presenting a tactile stimulus by a tactile presentation device and mode information for designating a mode of the tactile stimulus; a generation unit (218) configured to generate a tactile control signal for presenting the tactile stimulus to the presentation unit in accordance with the control command; and a first distribution unit (222) configured to distribute the tactile control signal to the tactile presentation device worn on a body of a second user.

Abstract: A user management apparatus adds a tag in which route information is described to a packet received from a user and transmits the packet to a data transfer device. The data transfer device transfers the packet to one of data processing devices under control and other data transfer devices based on the route information included in the received packet. The data processing device performs processing of a service function for data included in the received packet. A communication management apparatus calculates a route of a service chain necessary for implementing the service requested by the user and transmits route information to the user management apparatus.

Abstract: A resin composition contains a thermoplastic resin and cellulose fibers, in which a raw material of a main component of the cellulose fibers is a low basis weight paper that has been subjected to a drying step and that has a basis weight of 100 g/m2 or less.

Abstract: In an information reader, a first relationship information, which defines the two-dimensional area of a first information code (e.g., the position coordinates of the four corner points), is detected from a first information code image. The first information code is subjected to reading information, based on the detected first relationship information. Parameters of a learning model are then adjusted based on training data including multiple successful cases of a reading process using the first relationship information. A second information code image captured by a camera is inputted to the learning model. A second relationship information, which is an estimated value of the information that defines the two-dimensional region of the second information code, is obtained from the learning model. The information recorded in the second information code is read based on the acquired second relationship information, thus reading results being outputted.

Abstract: A seating posture is stabilized for the shoulders of a passenger seated on a vehicle seat. A vehicle seat is provided with a seat back configured to support the seated person from the rear. A shoulder support portion of the seat back configured to support a corresponding one of the shoulders of the seated passenger includes an air cell configured to expand when air is supplied. When the air cell expands, one end portion of the shoulder support portion on the outside in the width direction of the vehicle seat moves more forward than the other end portion of the shoulder support portion on the inside in the width direction.

Abstract: An endoscope apparatus includes: an imaging device; a light source device; an illumination light control circuit; a first processing circuit; and a second processing circuit. The light source device emits first support illumination light in a first time period. The first processing circuit acquires a first support image obtained with the first support illumination light. The second processing circuit extracts first diagnosis support information on the basis of the first support image. The light source device emits second support illumination light being as a result of dimming control on the basis of the first diagnosis support information in a second time period. The first processing circuit acquires a second support image with the second support illumination light. The second processing circuit acquires support display information on the basis of the second support image. The first processing circuit executes image processing, based on the support display information, on the display image.

Abstract: A seating posture is stabilized for the shoulders of a passenger seated on a vehicle seat. A vehicle seat is provided with a seat back configured to support the seated person from the rear. A shoulder support portion of the seat back configured to support a corresponding one of the shoulders of the seated passenger includes an air cell configured to expand when air is supplied. When the air cell expands, one end portion of the shoulder support portion on the outside in the width direction of the vehicle seat moves more forward than the other end portion of the shoulder support portion on the inside in the width direction.

Abstract: A living body distance estimating device includes: a transmission signal generator that generates a multicarrier signal; a transmission antenna including M transmission antenna elements; a reception antenna including N reception antenna elements; a receiver that measures reception signals for a first period; a complex transfer function calculator that calculates, for each of subcarriers and using the reception signals measured in the first period, a plurality of complex transfer functions indicating a propagation characteristic between each transmission antenna element and each reception antenna element; a living body correlation matrix calculator that calculates a living body correlation matrix by extracting components relating to the living body in the reception signals; and an estimator that estimates, using the living body correlation matrix, a third distance which is a sum of a first distance between the transmission antenna and the living body and a second distance between the reception antenna and the

Abstract: There is provided a controller for receiving input from a user, including: a plurality of input elements, each operating to receive respective operative input from a user, the respective operative input being processed and transmitted to an external apparatus for manipulating an application program during execution; a memory having a plurality of sets of profile data stored therein, each set of profile data includes a respective profile ID in association with respective location information indicative of where a respective one of the input elements is located on the controller; a communication unit operating to receive a user-selected one of the plurality of sets of profile data; and a control unit operating to control the controller based on the selected profile data set received from the communication unit.

Abstract: A film deposition method includes forming a seed layer containing silicon atoms and nitrogen atoms on a metal film of a substrate by supplying a first silicon-containing gas and a first nitriding gas to the substrate in a state where the substrate is maintained at a first temperature; and forming a bulk layer containing silicon atoms and nitrogen atoms on the seed layer by supplying a second silicon-containing gas and a second nitriding gas to the substrate in a state where the substrate is maintained at a second temperature greater than the first temperature.

Abstract: A metamaterial includes a plurality of films arranged with main surfaces thereof facing each other, a plurality of micro-resonators included in the plurality of films, and a stress relieving member disposed between two mutually-adjacent films of the plurality of films. The plurality of films transmit a target electromagnetic wave that is an electromagnetic wave having a wavelength within a target wavelength range. The plurality of micro-resonators resonate with the target electromagnetic wave. The stress relieving member transmits the target electromagnetic wave and has a lower elastic modulus than the plurality of films.

Abstract: A transfer processing device includes an arithmetic instruction number acquisition circuit, a buffer circuit, a transfer information acquisition circuit, and a software processing unit. The arithmetic instruction number acquisition circuit acquires a transfer instruction number corresponding to transfer information which is information related to the next transfer destination of an arithmetic instruction. The buffer circuit is arranged between the arithmetic instruction number acquisition circuit and the transfer information acquisition circuit, and temporarily stores and relays the arithmetic instruction and the arithmetic instruction number supplied from the arithmetic instruction number acquisition circuit to the transfer information acquisition circuit. The transfer information acquisition circuit acquires transfer information on the basis of the arithmetic instruction number, and gives the acquired transfer information to the arithmetic instruction.

Abstract: A processor included in an information processing apparatus is configured to generate a follow-up command to perform follow-up travel to follow an autonomous vehicle with an autonomous driving function or an unmanned aircraft. The processor is configured to send the follow-up command to a work vehicle with a follow-up travel function.

Abstract: This hot-rolled steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, in a microstructure at a ¼ position of a sheet thickness in a sheet thickness direction from a surface, a primary phase is bainite, a secondary phase is martensite or a martensite-austenite mixed phase, an average grain size of the secondary phase is 1.5 ?m or less, an average grain size of particles having grain diameters that are largest 10% or less out of all particles in the secondary phase is 2.5 ?m or less, a pole density in a (110)<112> orientation is 3.0 or less, and, in a microstructure from the surface to a 1/16 position of the sheet thickness in the sheet thickness direction from the surface, a pole density in a (110)<1-11> orientation is 3.0 or less.