Abstract: A power difference compensation apparatus according to an embodiment is a power difference compensation apparatus that compensates for a difference between a power supply amount by renewable energy and a power demand amount of a load. The power difference compensation apparatus includes: a compensation pattern calculation unit configured to calculate, as a compensation pattern, a combination of a resource for compensating for a difference due to a long-term supply and demand variation in the difference and control content for the resource; and a long-term variation compensation unit configured to compensate for a difference due to the long-term supply and demand variation by controlling the resource based on the compensation pattern.

Abstract: A driving assistance device for a vehicle includes a traveling environment recognizer, a braking force learner, and a braking force complementer. The traveling environment recognizer is configured to recognize traveling environment information related to an outside of the vehicle. The braking force learner is configured to, in a case where a driver who drives the vehicle has started a brake operation against a braking target recognized ahead based on the traveling environment information before a timing set based on a correlation between the vehicle and the braking target, acquire a braking force characteristic learning value based on a braking force generated from start to end of braking performed by the brake operation. The braking force complementer is configured to, in a case where the driver has started the brake operation after the set timing, complement the braking force based on the braking force characteristic learning value.

Abstract: A notification apparatus includes circuitry configured to detect that an electric vehicle has stopped; detect that a vehicle connector has not been connected to the electric vehicle after locking a door of the electric vehicle; determine that a user is promoted to connect the vehicle connector to the electric vehicle, upon detecting that the electric vehicle has stopped and detecting that the vehicle connector has not been connected to the electric vehicle; and present a notification to the user to prompt the user to connect the vehicle connector.

Abstract: There are included: generation means for generating predetermined information represented by a bit string; and control means for controlling a phase difference between current and voltage of AC power at predetermined time intervals so that each bit value included in the bit string is represented.

Abstract: Disclosed is a power management device including a monitoring unit configured to monitor power usage statuses of a plurality of sites individually, a determination unit configured to determine whether to supply the surplus power to a second site of the plurality of sites when the monitoring unit detects that surplus power is generated in a first site of the plurality of sites in accordance with a prediction of a power transmission loss between the first site and the second site, and a site control unit configured to instruct the first site to supply the surplus power to the second site when the determination unit determines that the surplus power is to be supplied to the second site.

Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a drying apparatus includes a drying chamber that holds a drying processing target in an inside thereof, a decompression device that decompresses the inside of the drying chamber; and a controller that controls the decompression device to decompress the inside of the drying chamber, thereby executing a drying processing of evaporating and removing moisture from the drying processing target. The controller executes, after the drying processing, an additional decompression processing of lowering a pressure of the inside of the drying chamber below a pressure at a time of the drying processing, for a predetermined time and determines a dry condition of the drying processing target based on a pressure of the inside of the drying chamber that has been reached after the additional decompression processing.

Abstract: A printing apparatus as an example of an electronic device includes an indicator lamp that emits light in a predetermined color when an abnormality occurs. The indicator lamp includes a light source, and a light reflecting member on which light emitted from the light source is incident and that reflects the incident light. The light reflecting member includes a reflecting surface at which light is reflected. The reflecting surface includes a plurality of individual reflecting surfaces formed in a surface shape of at least a part of a conical surface having an axis forming a predetermined angle with respect to a traveling direction of incident light. The plurality of individual reflecting surfaces are arranged side by side in a first direction intersecting the traveling direction of the incident light.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a printing unit configured to perform printing on a medium; a conveyance unit configured to convey the medium; a winding unit configured to wind up the medium after printing; and a prompting unit configured to prompt a user to fix a leading end of the medium to a winding core material in response to the leading end of the medium reaching a prompting position located downstream of the printing position in the printing unit.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a printing unit configured to perform printing on a medium; a conveyance unit configured to convey the medium; a winding unit configured to wind up the medium after printing; and a stopping unit configured to stop conveyance of the medium by the conveyance unit in response to a break of a printed image reaching a printing position in the printing unit in a state where a leading end of the medium is located in a fixing work range.

Abstract: Provided is a power management apparatus for determining an order of priority with respect to power supply to a consuming device at a target location in a power system that includes a plurality of locations between which power can be interchanged, the target location including at least the consuming device, a power generation unit that generates power from natural energy, a power storage unit, and a commercial power source. The power management apparatus includes a determination unit for determining an order of priority among a plurality of controlled objects including at least power supply from the power generation unit, power supply from the power storage unit, power supply from the commercial power source, and power consumption reduction by transferring a load from the consuming device, and a priority setting unit for setting the order of priority that has been determined by the determination unit for the target location.

Abstract: A driver assistance apparatus includes an environment information acquisition unit and an overtaking control processor. The environment information acquisition unit acquires a traveling environment information of an own vehicle. The overtaking control processor executes overtaking control based on relative vehicle speeds and positional relations of the own vehicle with a preceding vehicle and an adjacent-lane vehicle that are detected based on the traveling environment information. The overtaking control processor includes an overtaking schedule generator and an overtaking control execution unit. The overtaking control processor generates, in advance before the overtaking control, an overtaking schedule regarding first automatic lane change control adapted to move the own vehicle to an adjacent lane and second automatic lane change control adapted to cause the own vehicle to overtake the preceding vehicle and return to an original lane.

Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a detector and a processor. The detector is configured to detect a first stop line on the basis of map data stored in a road map database, and detect a second stop line on the basis of traveling environment data acquired by a camera unit. In a case where the detector detects the first stop line, the processor is configured to control a vehicle to decelerate at a first deceleration rate calculated on the basis of a distance from the vehicle to the first stop line. In a case where the detector detects the second stop line after detecting the first stop line, the processor is configured to control the vehicle to decelerate at a second deceleration rate calculated on the basis of a distance from the vehicle to the second stop line and stop at the second stop line.

Abstract: Provided is a communication apparatus for making connection to a communication network, including: an optical network unit; and an external power supply input/output terminal, the communication apparatus being configured such that electrical power is fed to the optical network unit from an external terminal that is connected to the external power supply input/output terminal and functions as an auxiliary power supply.

Abstract: A travel control apparatus for a vehicle includes a surrounding environment recognition device, a collision time calculator, a collision object estimator, and an after-collision travel range estimator. The surrounding environment recognition device includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding environment of the vehicle, and a collision object recognizer configured to recognize an object that has a possibility to come into collision with the vehicle in the recognized surrounding environment. The collision time calculator is configured to calculate a predicted time to the collision between the vehicle and the object. The collision object estimator is configured to, based on the predicted time to the collision, estimate a travel route of the object and a collision position on the vehicle where the object collides with the vehicle. The after-collision travel range estimator is configured to estimate a travel range of the vehicle after the collision based on the estimated collision position.

Abstract: A travel control apparatus for a vehicle includes a surrounding environment recognition device, a collision time calculator, a collision object estimator, an after-collision travel range estimator, a collision detector, and a travel control unit. The surrounding environment recognition device includes a recognizer, a collision object recognizer that recognizes an object that has a possibility to come into collision with the vehicle, and a safety degree region setter that sets safety degree regions. The collision object estimator estimates a travel route of the object and a collision position on the vehicle. The after-collision travel range estimator estimates a travel range of the vehicle after the collision based on the estimated collision position. When the collision between the vehicle and the object is detected, the travel control unit performs travel control depending on a safety degree in one of the safety degree regions in front of the travel range after the collision.

Abstract: A drive assist apparatus for a vehicle includes one or more processors configured to: obtain a risk degree calculated for an oncoming moving body moving with a velocity component in a direction opposite to a traveling direction of the vehicle in the oncoming moving body on an oncoming lane adjoining a traveling lane of the vehicle, based on a light emission pattern of a light source unit provided in the oncoming moving body; perform, upon determining that the vehicle is highly likely to come into collision with an obstacle, emergency collision avoidance control for avoiding the collision; and recognize the oncoming moving body as the obstacle according to the risk degree and perform, prior to the emergency collision avoidance control, preliminary collision avoidance control for the oncoming moving body.

Abstract: A vehicle driving assist device includes a processor that functions as a receiver, an emergency collision avoidance controller, and a preliminary collision avoidance controller. The receiver receives, in relation to an oncoming moving body moving in an oncoming lane adjacent to a traveling lane of a vehicle and having a velocity component in a direction opposite to a traveling direction of the vehicle, a risk degree calculated based on a history of a distance from a lane marker defining the oncoming lane to the oncoming moving body, by communication with a device outside the vehicle. Upon determination that the vehicle is highly likely to collide with an obstacle, the emergency collision avoidance controller performs emergency collision avoidance control. The preliminary collision avoidance controller recognizes the oncoming moving body as the obstacle in accordance with the risk degree, and performs preliminary control prior to the emergency collision avoidance control.

Abstract: A vehicle driving assist device includes an oncoming moving body recognizer configured to recognize an oncoming moving body; a lateral position distribution characteristics acquisition unit configured to acquire distribution characteristics of a lateral position of the oncoming moving body; a risk determination region setting unit configured to set, based on the distribution characteristics, a risk determination region for calculating a risk degree; a risk degree calculator configured to calculate the risk degree for the oncoming moving body; and a preliminary collision avoidance controller configured to recognize the oncoming moving body as the obstacle in accordance with the risk degree, and perform preliminary collision avoidance control in response to the oncoming moving body prior to the emergency collision avoidance control.

Abstract: A vehicle driving assist device comprises a risk determination region setting unit configured to set a risk determination region for calculating a risk degree that decreases as a distance outward from a center of the oncoming moving body in a width direction of the oncoming moving body increases. The risk determination region setting unit is further configured to set the risk determination region such that the risk degree is zero at a distance in a vehicle width direction between the vehicle and the oncoming moving body matching an average distance. The average distance is calculated based on distances in the vehicle width direction between the vehicle and oncoming moving bodies acquired every time the vehicle passes by the oncoming moving bodies.

Abstract: A vehicle driving assist device comprises: an oncoming moving body recognizer configured to recognize an oncoming moving body; a risk determination region setting unit configured to set a risk determination region for calculating a risk degree that decreases as a distance outward from a center of the oncoming moving body in a width direction of the oncoming moving body increases; a risk degree calculator configured to calculate the risk degree for the oncoming moving body in accordance with an overlap state between the target traveling path of the vehicle and the risk determination region; and a preliminary collision avoidance controller configured to recognize the oncoming moving body as the obstacle in accordance with the risk degree, and perform preliminary collision avoidance control in response to the oncoming moving body recognized as the obstacle prior to the emergency collision avoidance control.