Abstract: The following processes are included: preparing a substrate; forming a first gate electrode above the substrate; forming a second gate electrode above the substrate and adjacent to the first gate electrode; forming a gate insulating film on the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode; forming, on the gate insulating film, a noncrystalline semiconductor film at least in a first region above the first gate electrode and a second region above the second gate electrode; irradiating the noncrystalline semiconductor film a laser beam having continuous convex light intensity distributions; and forming a first source electrode and a first drain electrode above the first region, and a second source electrode and a second drain electrode above the second region. In the irradiating, when irradiating the first region with an inner region of the laser beam, the second region is irradiated with an outer region of the laser beam.

Abstract: A vehicle detection apparatus includes a lamp candidate extraction unit that extracts a pixel region that may correspond to a tail lamp of a vehicle from pixel regions that an integration processing unit creates by extracting and integrating pixels of an image as a lamp candidate and a grouping unit that regroups groups containing the lamp candidate of the groups generated by grouping position data detected by a position detection unit and then regroups all groups. In the regrouping processing, a threshold used for regrouping groups containing the lamp candidate is set easier for regrouping than a threshold used for subsequently regrouping all groups.

Abstract: An object detecting system includes stereo-image taking means for outputting a reference image and a comparative image, stereo matching means for performing stereo matching, object detecting means for detecting an object in the reference image, estimated-region setting means for setting estimated regions of the object in the current frame in the reference image and the comparative image, on the basis of a distance of the object in the reference image in the previous frame, and determination means for correlating information about the object detected in the estimated region of the reference image or information that the object is not detected with information that noise is included, when an absolute value of a difference between average luminances of the estimated regions is more than or equal to a predetermined threshold value.

Abstract: A road line recognition apparatus, including: an imaging section imaging a progress path of a own vehicle including a road to output a couple of images; an image processing section calculating a distance in a real space in a set region of at least an image on one side based on the imaged couple of images; and a detection section detecting a road line; wherein the detection section includes: a road line candidate point detection and conversion processing unit detecting a pixel on a road surface as a road line candidate point based on luminance and the distance with regard to the image on one side, and performing Hough conversion of the road line candidate point; a road line straight line detection processing unit detecting one straight line proper to the road line on each of a right side and a left side of the own vehicle based on at least a position or a behavior of the own vehicle between straight lines obtained by the Hough conversion; and a road line detection processing unit detecting the road line of a s

Abstract: A hybrid drive apparatus includes: a drive power source that includes an internal combustion engine, a first electric motor, and a second electric motor; a power transmission mechanism that includes a carrier, a sun gear, and a ring gear, and that is configured to rotate the output shaft of the internal combustion engine by the first electric motor; and plural bearings that each includes an outer ring member and an inner ring member fitted to the outer ring member through a rolling element, and that are provided apart from each other in an axial direction of the output shaft with the carrier being positioned between the bearings. An inner periphery of the outer ring member is positioned more inward in a radial direction of the ring gear relative to a meshing portion between inner teeth of the ring gear and outer teeth of one of the pinion gears.

Abstract: A preceding vehicle detection system includes an image capture module for capturing an image of surroundings of a subject vehicle, a preceding vehicle detection module for detecting a preceding vehicle from an image captured and a tail lamp detection module for detecting a pixel area having a luminance which is larger than or equal to a threshold value on a pixel line in the image and detecting the pixel area in each pixel line while scanning pixel lines on the image in leftward and rightward directions from the pixel line set as a reference to detect areas where tail lamps of the preceding vehicle are captured from the image.

Abstract: Provided is a UV curable type ink-jet ink composition containing a monomer A which is expressed by the following general formula (I): CH2?CR1—COOR2—O—CH?CH—R3??(I) (in the formula, R1 is a hydrogen atom or methyl radical, R2 is a bivalent organic residue radical having a carbon number in a range of 2 to 20, and R3 is a hydrogen atom or a univalent organic residue radical having a carbon number in a range of 1 to 11), a compound B containing five or more (meth)acryloyl radicals per molecule, and a monofunctional (meth)acrylate C having an aromatic ring skeleton, wherein the monofunctional (meth)acrylate C which is in a range of 5 to 35 wt % with respect to the total weight of the ink composition is contained.

Abstract: An object detecting system includes stereo-image taking means for taking images of an object and outputting the images as a reference image and a comparative image, stereo matching means for calculating parallaxes by stereo matching, and determination means for setting regions of objects in the reference image on the basis of the parallaxes grouped by grouping means, and performing stereo matching again for an area on the left side of a comparative pixel block specified on an epipolar line in the comparative image corresponding to a reference pixel block in a left end portion of each region. When a comparative pixel block that is different from the specified comparative pixel block and provides the local minimum SAD value less than or equal to a threshold value is detected, the determination means determines that the object in the region is mismatched.

Abstract: Provided is an ultraviolet-curable ink jet ink composition with excellent curability and storage stability, the composition containing a monomer A represented by Formula (I): CH2?CR1—COOR2—O—CH?CH—R3 (wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, R2 represents a C2-C20 divalent organic residue, and R3 represents a hydrogen atom or a C1-C11 monovalent organic residue); a (meth)acrylated amine compound; a hindered amine compound other than the (meth)acrylated amine compound; and a photopolymerization initiator.

Abstract: A semiconductor film manufacturing method includes: forming a metal layer above the substrate; forming a gate electrode in each of pixels by patterning a metal layer; forming a gate insulating firm on the gate electrode; forming an amorphous semiconductor film on the gate insulating film; and crystallizing the amorphous semiconductor film by irradiating the amorphous semiconductor film with a laser beam, and a laser irradiation width of the laser beam corresponds to n times a width of each pixel (n is an integer of 2 or above), a laser energy intensity is higher in one end portion of the laser irradiation width than in the other end portion, and in the crystallizing, the laser energy intensity of the laser beam is inverted in increments of n pixels, alternately between one of the end portions of the laser irradiation width of the laser beam and the other end portion.

Abstract: There is provided a monitoring system including an image capture module for capturing an image, an object detecting unit for detecting an object from the image, a monitoring range setting unit for setting a monitoring range in a side of the object on the image, a determining unit for determining the existence of a light source within the monitoring range, and an adjusting unit for adjusting one of an exposure amount of the image capture and a luminance of a pixel output from the image capture when the determining unit determines the existence of the light source.

Abstract: A radiation-curable ink composition contains (A) aminoacrylate at 1 mass % to 10 mass %, inclusive, (B) phenoxyethyl acrylate at 20 mass % to 50 mass %, inclusive, and (C) tetraethylene glycol diacrylate at 1 mass % to 20 mass %, inclusive, in its reaction component, as well as (E) bis(2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyl)-phenylphosphine oxide at 3 parts by mass to 8 parts by mass, inclusive, (F) 2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyl-diphenyl-phosphine oxide at 3 parts by mass to 5 parts by mass, inclusive, in 100 parts by mass of the reaction component, and (G) diethylthioxanthone at 1 part by mass to 3 parts by mass, inclusive, in 100 parts by mass of the reaction component.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of an optical material, the method including: blending an inorganic compound (a) containing at least one of a sulfur atom and a selenium atom and a compound (b) represented by a following formula (1) in a tank, the compound (a) and the compound (b) being blended at a ratio of 1 mass % or more and 50 mass % or less of the compound (a) and 50 mass % or more and 99 mass % or less of the compound (b) relative to a total mass of a mixture of the compound (a) and the compound (b); mixing a compound (c) containing at least one thiol (SH) group; preliminarily polymerizing the compounds; cooling the compounds; and deaerating the compounds, in which a viscosity of the composition stored in the tank is controlled during at least one of the preliminarily polymerizing, the cooling and the deaerating (m represents an integer of 0 to 4, and n represents an integer of 0 to 2).

Abstract: A radiation-curable ink composition includes an acrylate monomer of which homopolymer has a glass transition temperature of not higher than 0° C. in an amount of 20% by mass or more and 65% by mass or less based on the total amount of reaction components; a monofunctional acrylate having an alicyclic structure; and a multifunctional acrylate having an alicyclic structure.

Abstract: A photocurable ink composition includes (A) a polymerizable compound, (B) an acylphosphine oxide-based photopolymerization initiator, and (C) at least one compound selected from a hindered amine-based compound with a mass-average molecular weight of 2000 to 4000 and a hydroxyphenyltriazine-based compound of formula (1): (wherein R1, R2, and R3 each independently represent an organic group). The proportion of the component (C) is in the range of 0.2% by mass to 2.0% by mass.

Abstract: Provided are a radiation-curable ink composition including phenoxyethyl acrylate (A) in an amount of from 20 to 55 mass % of the total reaction components, a multifunctional acrylate (B) in an amount of from 20 to 50 mass % of the total reaction components, and a black pigment (F1); and a radiation-curable ink composition including phenoxyethyl acrylate (A) in an amount of from 20 to 55 mass % of the total reaction components, a multifunctional acrylate (B) in an amount of from 10 to 50 mass % of the total reaction components, and a yellow pigment (F2).

Abstract: In right and left white road line detection regions on a image, a stereo image recognition device of a white road line recognition device for a vehicle detects a pair of a white road line starting point and a white road line ending point for each of retrieval lines set in the horizontal direction based on the change in the luminance on the retrieval lines, calculates a midpoint Pm between each pair of the white road line starting point and white road line ending point, selects a point group with a smaller dispersion between the point group consisting of the white road line starting points and the point group consisting of midpoints based on a predetermined condition, and calculates a white road line based on the selected point group.

Abstract: A lane keeping assistance equipment loaded on an automotive vehicle having a response motion unit for controlling a steering of the vehicle traveling on a traffic lane between lane markings, having a lane marking detecting device for detecting a lane marking location; a sideways distance detecting device for detecting a sideways distance between the lane marking location and the vehicle; and a control device for controlling lane keeping by setting a travel target point and signaling the response motion unit for the vehicle to travel on that point, wherein, corresponding to changes in the distance amount between the lane marking location and the vehicle during a driver's continuing intervening steering act and a prescribed time afterwards, the control device updates the distance amount between the travel target point and the lane marking location after that prescribed time elapses.

Abstract: A road shape recognition device includes: distance and height detecting means for detecting distance data having a distance and height in real space regarding a road surface where a vehicle is traveling at multiple mutually different points; approximation line calculating means for dividing the plurality of distance data into near and far groups as viewed from the vehicle to calculate an approximation line of the distance data for each group each time the distance data of the boundary portion between the two groups is transferred from one of the groups to the other; statistics calculating means for calculating statistics from the corresponding approximation line for each group where the distance data is transferred; and road shape model generating means for selecting one out of combinations of the approximation lines to generate a road shape model using the selected combination.

Abstract: A vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus includes an image pickup apparatus for taking an image of the surroundings of a vehicle, a preceding-vehicle detecting apparatus for detecting a preceding vehicle from the taken image, a monitored-region setting means for setting predetermined monitored regions around the preceding vehicle on the image, a predicting apparatus for predicting a brightness of an environment the preceding vehicle is going to enter, on the basis of brightnesses of pixels in the monitored regions, and an adjusting apparatus for adjusting at least one of an exposure amount of the image pickup apparatus and the brightnesses of the pixels output from the image pickup apparatus beforehand in accordance with the brightness of the environment predicted by the predicting apparatus.