Abstract: A method for manufacturing a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet support that can be used to obtain a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet that maintains its gloss and that has excellent handleability and high condition uniformity while preventing the formation of air bubbles in an adhesive layer. A resin is supplied to one side of a substrate, which is passed between a cooling roller A and a rubber roller A. A porous film is stacked on another side of the substrate through a resin, and the substrate is passed between a cooling roller B and a rubber roller B. The cooling rollers A and B have surfaces with a ten-point average roughness (Rz) of 5 to 30 ?m and 0 to 20 ?m, respectively. The rubber rollers A and B have a rubber hardness (durometer (Type A)) of 60 to 95 and 50 to 80, respectively.

Abstract: An image matching device that performs matching between a first image and a second image includes: a frequency characteristic acquisition unit configured to acquire a frequency characteristic of the first image and a frequency characteristic of the second image; a frequency characteristic synthesizing unit configured to synthesize the frequency characteristic of the first image and the frequency characteristic of the second image to generate a synthesized frequency characteristic; a determination unit configured to perform frequency transformation on the synthesized frequency characteristic to calculate a correlation coefficient map whose resolution coincides with a target resolution, and perform matching between the first image and the second image based on a matching score calculated from the correlation coefficient map; and a regulation unit configured to regulate the target resolution based on the matching score.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a silicon carbide single crystal sublimates a solid silicon carbide raw material in a growth container to grow a silicon carbide single crystal on a seed crystal substrate. The method includes: mixing a tantalum (Ta) powder with a carbon powder; attaching the mixture to the solid silicon carbide raw material in the growth container; and heating the resultant for sintering to form a tantalum carbide (TaC) coating film on a surface of the solid silicon carbide raw material. A silicon carbide single crystal is grown after or while the coating film is formed. Thereby, the method for manufacturing a silicon carbide single crystal has few carbon inclusions.

Abstract: In a collision avoidance apparatus for a vehicle, a collision avoidance controller is configured to calculate a movement trajectory of a moving object moving on a road crossing a road that the vehicle is traveling on from a succession of locations of the moving object, calculate a movement trajectory of the vehicle using a speed of the vehicle, determine whether the movement trajectory of the moving object is a trajectory of a moving object likely colliding with the vehicle, and in response to determining that the movement trajectory of the moving object is a trajectory of a moving object likely colliding with the vehicle and that the moving object fails to be recognized by a camera due to a view of the moving object being obstructed, calculate a risk index for determining a collision avoidance measure and employ the collision avoidance measure in dependence upon the risk index.

Abstract: A ball housing band is provided which can encourage increases in precision and rigidity of a motion guide apparatus and make the motion guide apparatus compact. A ball housing band includes: a housing band including a band formed with ends, the band having at least two rows of opening portions, and a plurality of spacers placed between the opening portions of the rows; and at least two rows of balls housed in the at least two rows of the opening portions. One of adjacent rows of and the other row of the balls are placed in a staggered arrangement in a state where the spacers are disposed between the balls and between the balls. The one row of the balls overlap the other row of the balls as viewed in the length direction of the ball housing band.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a microphone configured to acquire sound, a display device configured to display information, and at least one controller. The at least one controller is configured to cause the display device to display a first screen at least including one setting item with a set value that can be changed by an instruction, cause the display device to display a second screen including a selection object for transition to the first screen, and acquire text data based on speech acquired through the microphone during display of the second screen and change the set value of the one setting item on the basis of the text data without causing the display device to display the first screen.

Abstract: A condition monitoring apparatus which monitors a condition of equipment including a rotor includes a storage and a calculator. The storage stores a plurality of results obtained from a plurality of divided data strings, respectively, resulting from division of a data string obtained by sampling at a regular time interval of signals from sensors provided in the equipment. The calculator estimates a plurality of rotation speeds corresponding to the plurality of divided data strings from the plurality of results accumulated in the storage, respectively, corrects the plurality of divided data strings based on the plurality of rotation speeds, respectively, and generates a corrected data string by combining the plurality of corrected divided data strings. A condition monitoring apparatus capable of accurately analyzing data obtained from the sensors while increase in cost is suppressed and influence by variation in rotation is lessened is thus provided.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a silicon carbide single crystal sublimates a silicon carbide raw material in a growth container to grow a silicon carbide single crystal on a seed crystal substrate. The seed crystal substrate used is a substrate having a {0001} plane with an off angle of 1° or less as a surface to be placed on the growth container, and a convex-shaped end face of a grown ingot as a crystal growth surface. A diameter of the seed crystal substrate is 80% or more of an inner diameter of the growth container. Thereby, the method for manufacturing a silicon carbide single crystal enables high straight-body percentage and little formation of different polytypes even in growth with no off-angle control, i.e., the growth is directed onto a basal plane which is not inclined from a C-axis <0001>.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a SiC single crystal reducing crystallinity degradation at a wafer central portion wherein a growth container surrounds a heat-insulating material with a top temperature measurement hole, a seed crystal substrate at an upper portion inside the container, and a silicon carbide raw material at a lower portion of the container and sublimated to grow a SiC single crystal on the seed crystal substrate. A center position hole deviates from a center position of the seed crystal substrate and moves to the periphery side of the center of the seed crystal substrate. A SiC single crystal substrate surface is tilted by a {0001} plane and used as the seed crystal substrate. The SiC single crystal grows with the seed crystal substrate directed to a normal vector of the seed crystal substrate basal plane parallel to the main surface and identical to the hole in a cross-sectional view.

Abstract: An image collating device that collates a first image and a second image includes a frequency characteristic acquiring unit, a frequency characteristic synthesizing unit, and a determining unit. The frequency characteristic acquiring unit acquires a frequency characteristic of the first image and a frequency characteristic of the second image. The frequency characteristic synthesizing unit generates a synthesized frequency characteristic by synthesizing the frequency characteristic of the first image and the frequency characteristic of the second image. The determining unit calculates a score indicating a degree to which the synthesized frequency characteristic is a wave having a single period, and collates the first image and the second image based on the score.

Abstract: A radar device includes a radar signal outputting unit that repeatedly outputs radar signals whose frequency changes with the passage of time, at a non-uniform repetition period.

Abstract: A server system includes a game start control section configured to perform a game start control including setting a game space for each player as an initial state and allowing the player to start gameplay in the game space, an opponent space status display control section configured to perform a control for displaying status of at least one game space other than the game space being used by the player himself/herself for performing the gameplay on a computer device of each player, and a transfer control section configured to transfer an executing player satisfying a given transfer execution condition from the game space being used by the executing player for performing the gameplay to another game space.

Abstract: Problem: To clearly indicate an autonomous driving state and a charge level of a battery of a vehicle with a single lamp. Solution: A vehicle headlamp (3) includes a communication lamp (7) for indicating an autonomous driving state of a vehicle while the vehicle is driving, and a lamp ECU (32) for performing control to cause the communication lamp (7) to indicate a charge level of a battery (31) while the vehicle is stationary. The lamp (7) includes an elongated light guide body that continuously extends along a straight line or a curve and a plurality of light emitting devices (22) arranged at an interval in a longitudinal direction of the light guide body. The lamp ECU (32) controls the output of light from each of the light emitting devices (22) to change an illuminated range of the light guide body according to the charge level of the battery (31).

Abstract: A motion guide apparatus is provided which can make a carriage compact without reducing a rated load and an allowable load. The motion guide apparatus includes: a track member (1) and a carriage (2) that moves along the track member (1). A circulation path (7) of the carriage (2) includes a loaded path (C1), a return path (C2) parallel to the loaded path (C1), and a substantially U-shaped turn path (C3) connected to the loaded path (C1) and the return path (C2). At least a part of the turn path (C3) bends in side view in a direction where the loaded path (C1) and the return path (C2) coincide.

Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming device, a display capable of displaying information, a microphone capable of acquiring a sound, and one or more controllers configured to function as a unit of performing control so as to display, on the display, a screen including an operation object that indicates, by a pointing position, a parameter related to a setting in forming the image, a unit of acquiring, based on voice information representing one-phrase voice expression acquired via the microphone, first identification information corresponding to the operation object and second identification information corresponding to an updating process on the pointing position, and a unit of performing control, based on at least information regarding a current pointing position indicated by the operation object, the first identification information, and the second identification information, so as to display a screen including the operation object updated in terms of the pointing position.

Abstract: A vehicle control device including an acquisition unit for acquiring an object position detected by an object detection sensor, an identification determination unit for determining that a plurality of object positions relates the same object when the plurality of object positions is acquired by the acquisition unit, and a selection unit that selects a current target position from among the plurality of object positions based on the previous object position that was set as the operation target of a safety device in the case when the identification determination unit determines that the plurality of object positions relates to the same object, and an operation control unit for controlling the operation of the safety device based on the current target position.

Abstract: Pulse compression units (9-m) (m=1, . . . , M) obtain frequency spectra of received signals by performing Fourier transform on the received signals output from receiver devices (7-m), calculate spectrum products of references for pulse compression, the references determined by beam directional angles indicating propagation directions of transmission pulses and carrier frequencies, and the frequency spectra, and perform inverse Fourier transform on the spectrum products. This enables reduction in the calculation scale by reducing the number of times of execution of Fourier transform and inverse Fourier transform when pulse compression is performed.

Abstract: A driving assistance device sets, in front of an own vehicle, an actuation region that is a region sandwiched by boundary lines, positioned at left and right, respectively. In a case where a target existing around the own vehicle has entered the actuation region, the device performs driving assistance for avoiding collision with the target or mitigating collision damage. The device, when setting the actuation region, in a case where the own vehicle is in a turning state, changes a lateral position of a boundary line in an outside in a turning direction of the own vehicle, of the left and right boundary lines of the actuation region, to a position closer to the own vehicle according to turning information. For a boundary line in an inside in a turning direction of the own vehicle, the device does not change a lateral position according to the turning information.

Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus determines, based on an instantaneous indicator which is an instantaneous value of a parameter regarding steering of the own vehicle, whether a driver has started a collision avoidance operation for avoiding a collision between a target and the own vehicle. When it is determined that the collision avoidance operation has been started, a support start timing for starting driving assistance for avoiding the collision between the target and the own vehicle or reducing collision damage is set to be a timing later than when the collision avoidance operation has not been started. The support start timing during a collision avoidance time period which is a time period until a predetermined set time has elapsed after it is determined that the collision avoidance operation has been started is set based on a time-dependent indicator for steering indicated by the instantaneous indicator at timings during the collision avoidance time period.

Abstract: A collision avoidance assistance device includes a first determination section that determines a probability that a vehicle changes course, by using a recognition result of a road structure and a detection result by internal field sensors, a second determination section that determines a probability that the vehicle changes course, by using information related to a traveling situation output, a decision section that decides an operation mode of collision avoidance assistance using a collision avoidance assistance mechanism, by using a combination of a determination result of the first determination section and a determination result of the second determination section, and an assistance section that performs a process for controlling the collision avoidance assistance mechanism in the operation mode that has been decided by the decision section, upon detection of a collision probability with an obstacle using the information output by information output devices.