Abstract: A surrounding information acquisition unit is configured to acquire surrounding information around a subject vehicle. A vehicle speed acquisition unit is configured to acquire a subject vehicle speed. A display control unit is configured to cause a display device to display a surrounding image indicating the surrounding information and a subject vehicle image indicating the subject vehicle. The display control unit is configured to, when the subject vehicle speed is low, set a display scale to telescopic and cause the display device to display the surrounding image and the subject vehicle image. The display control unit is configured to, when the subject vehicle speed is high, set the display scale to a wide angle and cause the display device to display the surrounding image and the subject vehicle image.

Abstract: In a technique for controlling a first vehicle, display information and position specifying information are received from a second vehicle different from the first vehicle via inter-vehicle communications. The display information is information for display and independently set for the second vehicle in the second vehicle. The position specifying information is information for specifying a position of the second vehicle. The position of the second vehicle relative to the first vehicle is specified based on the position specifying information. Display on a display device is controlled to superimpose information indicated by the display information on the position of the second vehicle in a landscape in front of the first vehicle based on the position of the second vehicle and the display information.

Abstract: A human machine interface is configured to select an information display destination from among a plurality of display areas. The HCU acquires a sight line direction of a driver based on an image of an in-vehicle camera. The HCU displays, upon detecting a hop-off action of the driver based on an output signal of an in-vehicle sensor in a situation in which an attention target event such as a puddle, a step, other vehicle or the like exists on a road surface near a door of a driver's seat, in the display area corresponding to the driver's sight line direction, text or an image practically indicating (a) a content of an attention target event or (b) how to deal with a situation.

Abstract: A resin composition for an insulating layer includes: an olefinic resin as a main component; and a metal deactivator, wherein the olefinic resin consists of block polypropylene and polyethylene, and wherein a content of the polyethylene in the olefinic resin is greater than or equal to 1% by mass and less than or equal to 10% by mass.

Abstract: An information provision system is configured to detect driver information, which is information including biological information of a driver, transmit information acquired inside the vehicle to a user terminal provided outside the vehicle, acquire the driver information, extract information necessary for grasping health condition of the driver from the driver information to generate health-related information, and transmit the health-related information to the user terminal.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus that makes it unnecessary to temporarily stop image pickup performed by an image pickup device to thereby improve operability of the image pickup apparatus, and achieves power saving. In an image pickup apparatus having an electronic viewfinder function, first image signals for live view are acquired by thinning read lines of an image pickup device, and second image signals for AF evaluation value calculation are acquired from the other read lines at a higher speed than the first image signals, for simultaneous output with the first image signals. Reading of the second image signals is started when the state of the object of image data changed or when one photographing mode is changed to another by a user's operation, and is terminated when a reading termination condition set in advance in association with the reading start condition is satisfied.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus that makes it unnecessary to temporarily stop image pickup performed by an image pickup device to thereby improve operability of the image pickup apparatus, and achieves power saving. In an image pickup apparatus having an electronic viewfinder function, first image signals for live view are acquired by thinning read lines of an image pickup device, and second image signals for AF evaluation value calculation are acquired from the other read lines at a higher speed than the first image signals, for simultaneous output with the first image signals. Reading of the second image signals is started when the state of the object of image data changed or when one photographing mode is changed to another by a user's operation, and is terminated when a reading termination condition set in advance in association with the reading start condition is satisfied.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus that makes it unnecessary to temporarily stop image pickup performed by an image pickup device to thereby improve operability of the image pickup apparatus, and achieves power saving. In an image pickup apparatus having an electronic viewfinder function, first image signals for live view are acquired by thinning read lines of an image pickup device, and second image signals for AF evaluation value calculation are acquired from the other read lines at a higher speed than the first image signals, for simultaneous output with the first image signals. Reading of the second image signals is started when the state of the object of image data changed or when one photographing mode is changed to another by a user's operation, and is terminated when a reading termination condition set in advance in association with the reading start condition is satisfied.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus that makes it unnecessary to temporarily stop image pickup performed by an image pickup device to thereby improve operability of the image pickup apparatus, and achieves power saving. In an image pickup apparatus having an electronic viewfinder function, first image signals for live view are acquired by thinning read lines of an image pickup device, and second image signals for AF evaluation value calculation are acquired from the other read lines at a higher speed than the first image signals, for simultaneous output with the first image signals. Reading of the second image signals is started when the state of the object of image data changed or when one photographing mode is changed to another by a user's operation, and is terminated when a reading termination condition set in advance in association with the reading start condition is satisfied.

Abstract: A gaming machine capable of realizing game patterns differing from one another in a bonus game is provided. A main CPU 222 selects by conducting a lottery one symbol determination table from a symbol determination table group having a plurality of symbol determination tables (the first to tenth symbol determination tables in a first embodiment, etc.) associated with a plurality of paylines and randomly determines symbols to be rearranged based on the selected one symbol determination table, the plurality of symbol determination tables having probabilities, with each of which a predetermined symbol combination is established on each of said plurality of paylines, is set to be higher than a predetermined probability.

Abstract: A gaming machine capable of realizing game patterns differing from one another in a bonus game is provided. A main CPU 222 determines symbols to be rearranged by conducting a lottery in a basic game; when the symbols rearranged in the basic game meets a predetermined condition (a condition that a combination of the symbols rearranged on a payline is a combination of BELL symbols or SEVEN symbols), shifts the game to free games; upon shifting to the free games, determines symbols to be rearranged based on a symbol determination table by conducting a lottery; and when three or more BELL symbols are rearranged in display regions of a display window 56, continues the free games, and when three or more BELL symbols are not rearranged in the display regions of the display window 56, the free games are terminated and the game is reverted to the basic game.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus that is capable of reducing the load of the process required to combine images with different exposures to generate a composite image. An image pickup unit performs continuous image pickup that shoots a subject continuously under different exposure conditions. A control unit controls the image pickup unit so that the exposure condition for the first shot in a current set, which is a second or later set, is coincident with the exposure condition for the last shot in the previous set when a plurality of sets of the continuous image pickup are performed. A composing unit composes the images acquired by one set of the continuous image pickup by the image pickup unit to generate one output image.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus that is capable of reducing the load of the process required to combine images with different exposures to generate a composite image. An image pickup unit performs continuous image pickup that shoots a subject continuously under different exposure conditions. A control unit controls the image pickup unit so that the exposure condition for the first shot in a current set, which is a second or later set, is coincident with the exposure condition for the last shot in the previous set when a plurality of sets of the continuous image pickup are performed. A composing unit composes the images acquired by one set of the continuous image pickup by the image pickup unit to generate one output image.

Abstract: An image sensing apparatus including an image sensor that performs photoelectric conversion and outputs an image signal, a subtraction circuit that subtracts a black image signal obtained from the image sensor when the image sensor is shielded from light from a subject image signal obtained from the image sensor when the image sensor is exposed, a setting unit that sets a shooting condition, and a control unit that controls a thinning rate during thinning readout from the image sensor of the black image signal in accordance with the shooting condition set by the setting unit.

Abstract: This invention has as its object to reduce the number of pixels to be read from an image sensor in accordance with a required image size and to shorten the time required to capture an image upon capturing a still image in an image capturing apparatus. To this end, this apparatus has an image sensor which comprises a plurality of photoelectric conversion pixels arranged in a two-dimensional matrix in the vertical and horizontal directions, and a common output unit which is commonly provided to the plurality of photoelectric conversion pixels to sequentially output signals from the plurality of photoelectric conversion pixels; and a read drive unit which can switch a first read mode for dividing signals of photoelectric conversion pixels from the image sensor into m fields (m is a natural number not less than 3) by interlaced scan, and reading signals for the m fields, and a second read mode for reading signals for n fields (n is a natural number that meets 2?n<m) of the m fields from the image sensor.

Abstract: An image sensing apparatus including an image sensor that performs photoelectric conversion and outputs an image signal, a subtraction circuit that subtracts a black image signal obtained from the image sensor when the image sensor is shielded from light from a subject image signal obtained from the image sensor when the image sensor is exposed, a setting unit that sets a shooting condition, and a control unit that controls a thinning rate during thinning readout from the image sensor of the black image signal in accordance with the shooting condition set by the setting unit.

Abstract: An image capture apparatus includes an image sensor having a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements that are two-dimensionally arrayed, and a readout portion configured to divisionally read out signals from the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements of the image sensor with a plurality of fields using interlaced scanning. The plurality of fields include a first field in which signals from the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements are read out without being subjected to addition and a second field in which signals from the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements are read out while being subjected to addition. The readout portion reads out at least first, second, and third color signals in each of the first and second fields.

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes an image sensor, a switching unit which switches between the first read mode in which pixel signals within the first range are read out by decreasing the number of pixel signals at the first reduction ratio, and the second read mode in which pixel signals within the second range narrower than the first range are read out without reducing the pixel signals or by decreasing the number of pixel signals at the second reduction ratio lower than the first reduction ratio, and a control unit which controls the switching unit to switch between the first read mode and the second read mode in accordance with the enlargement ratio of the electronic zoom. The control unit controls to change, in accordance with whether the electronic zoom operates toward the telephoto side or wide-angled side, the zoom enlargement ratio for switching a read mode.

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes an image sensor, a switching unit which switches between the first read mode in which pixel signals within the first range are read out by decreasing the number of pixel signals at the first reduction ratio, and the second read mode in which pixel signals within the second range narrower than the first range are read out without reducing the pixel signals or by decreasing the number of pixel signals at the second reduction ratio lower than the first reduction ratio, and a control unit which controls the switching unit to switch between the first read mode and the second read mode in accordance with the enlargement ratio of the electronic zoom. The control unit controls to change, in accordance with whether the electronic zoom operates toward the telephoto side or wide-angled side, the zoom enlargement ratio for switching a read mode.

Abstract: An image capture apparatus includes an image sensor having a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements that are two-dimensionally arrayed, and a readout portion configured to divisionally read out signals from the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements of the image sensor with a plurality of fields using interlaced scanning. The plurality of fields include a first field in which signals from the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements are read out without being subjected to addition and a second field in which signals from the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements are read out while being subjected to addition. The readout portion reads out at least first, second, and third color signals in each of the first and second fields.