Abstract: Based on a vehicle driving condition indicated by vehicle control information, an image area to be displayed is determined from a panorama image of a vehicle periphery and a judgment is made about a collision possibility between a vehicle outside object appearing in the image area and the vehicle, so that a display image including the image area is generated and displayed on a display 16, and the vehicle is controlled to avoid its collision with the vehicle outside object according to a result of the judgment about the collision possibility.

Abstract: An electronic unit includes: an electronic device; and a protective film including an aluminum oxide layer and silicon oxide, the aluminum oxide layer with which the electronic device is covered, and the silicon oxide being scattered on a surface of the aluminum oxide layer.

Abstract: Provided is an image editing device that enables a user to easily assign images to a plurality of pages of an album or the like so as to satisfy editorial restrictions. The image editing device acquires a plurality of pieces of image data; determines, based on respective photographed times of the plurality of pieces of image data and a reference time interval, details of an assignment of the plurality of pieces of image data to each of the plurality of pages so that an interval between photographed times of pieces of image data to be assigned to the each of the plurality of pages is the reference time interval or smaller; and outputs image output data on the each of the plurality of pages based on a result of the assignment.

Abstract: A porous polyimide film having a three-layer structure that comprises two surface layers (a) and (b) and a macrovoid layer sandwiched between the surfaces layers (a) and (b). The macrovoid layer has a partition wall bonding to the surface layers (a) and (b), and multiple macrovoids each surrounded by the partition wall and the surface layers (a) and (b) and having a mean pore size in the film plane direction of from 10 to 500 ?m. The partition wall of the macrovoid layer has a thickness of from 0.1 to 50 ?m and has multiple pores having a mean pore size of from 0.01 to 50 ?m. The surface layers (a) and (b) each have a thickness of from 0.1 to 50 ?m, at least one of the surface layers has multiple pores having a mean pore size of from more than 5 ?m to 200 ?m, and the other surface layer has multiple pores having a mean pore size of from 0.01 to 200 ?m.

Abstract: An electronic unit includes: an electronic device; and a protective film including an aluminum oxide layer and silicon oxide, the aluminum oxide layer with which the electronic device is covered, and the silicon oxide being scattered on a surface of the aluminum oxide layer.

Abstract: A thermoacoustic device 1 for improving heat exchange efficiency is provided which has a first stack 3a including stack constituent elements 3eL and 3eH laminated together, and a first high-temperature side heat exchanger 4 and a first low-temperature side heat exchanger 5, which are provided at two ends of the first stack 3a, in which a self-excited acoustic wave is generated by a temperature difference between the first high-temperature side heat exchanger 4 and the first low-temperature side heat exchanger 5 and is then converted to thermal energy in a stack 3b provided between a second high-temperature side heat exchanger 6 and a second low-temperature side heat exchanger 7.

Abstract: An auction apparatus includes a reception unit, an item information obtaining unit, a selling information generation unit, and an auction execution unit. The reception unit receives selling request including item ID and user ID. The item information obtaining unit obtains item information corresponding to the user ID and the item ID included in the received selling request from a kept item management apparatus storing item information associated with the item ID and the user ID when the reception unit receives the selling request. The selling information generation unit generates selling information including information required in an auction for selling using the item information obtained by the item information obtaining unit in response to the selling request. The auction execution unit executes the auction using the generated selling information.

Abstract: A home security system includes an in-home system and a vehicle-mounted system, wherein the in-home system includes an in-home sensor that is mounted in a home and is capable of detect a state of the home, and an in-home communication module that is capable of communicating with the vehicle-mounted system to sense an abnormality from information of the in-home sensor, and wherein the vehicle-mounted system includes a vehicle-mounted device that is mounted on a vehicle that is capable of a vehicle outside output, and a vehicle-mounted communication module that is capable of communicating with the in-home system via the in-home communication module, and when the in-home system senses the abnormality, an instruction is received from the in-home system via the in-home communication module and vehicle-mounted communication module to deal with the abnormality using the vehicle-mounted device according to the instruction.

Abstract: A mobile information device includes a general-UI API 32 that generates screen data about a screen layout specified by an application 2, a UI-during-travel API 33 that generates screen data about a screen layout used during travel which is specified by the application 2 and is to be displayed when a vehicle is travelling on the basis of template data defining a screen layout used during travel which is to be displayed when the vehicle is travelling, and a controller 31 that is disposed in an application execution environment 3, and that causes a display unit 5 to display the screen data generated by the general-UI API 32 when the vehicle is at rest and causes the display unit 5 to display the screen data generated by the UI-during-travel API 33 when the vehicle is travelling.

Abstract: There is provided a thermoacoustic device 1 which has in a loop tube 2, a first stack 3a between a first high-temperature side heat exchanger 4 and a first low-temperature side heat exchanger 5, and a second stack 3b provided between a second high-temperature side heat exchanger 6 and a second low-temperature side heat exchanger 7, so that heat at the first stack side is prevented from being transported to the second stack side even when a large acoustic wave is generated in the tube. In the device, self-excited standing and traveling waves are generated by heating the first high-temperature side heat exchanger 4, and by the standing and traveling waves, the second low-temperature side heat exchanger 7 is cooled. a piezoelectric film 81 is provided to suppress an acoustic streaming and/or a direct-current type flow of a working fluid.

Abstract: Provided is an image editing device that enables a user to easily assign images to a plurality of pages constituting an album or the like so as to satisfy editorial restrictions. In the image editing device: image data acquisition means (42) acquires a plurality of pieces of image data; page assignment means (43) determines, based on respective photographed times of the plurality of pieces of image data and a reference time interval, details of an assignment of the plurality of pieces of image data to each of the plurality of pages so that an interval between photographed times of pieces of image data to be assigned to the each of the plurality of pages is the reference time interval or smaller; and page image output means (44) outputs image output data on the each of the plurality of pages based on a result of the assignment.

Abstract: The disclosed is an arteriosclerosis evaluating apparatus capable of easily separating pulse wave data detected at one measurement site into an incident wave and a reflected wave and capable of easily determining and evaluating the degree of arteriosclerosis. The pulse wave transmitted through an artery is detected at one site of a living body by a pulse wave detection device, and the detected pulse wave is fitted with a fitting function by a breakdown device so that the detected pulse wave can be broken down into an incident wave and a reflected wave. The degree of arteriosclerosis is evaluated from the amplitude intensities (i.e., peak intensities) of the incident wave and the reflected wave broken down from the pulse wave.

Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a first compound semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second compound semiconductor layer; a second electrode formed on the second compound semiconductor layer; an insulating layer covering the second electrode; a first opening provided to pass through the insulating layer, the second electrode, the second compound semiconductor layer, and the active layer; a second opening provided to pass through the insulating layer; a first electrode formed on an exposed portion of the first compound semiconductor layer at the bottom of the first opening; a first electrode extension extending from the first electrode to the insulating layer through the first opening and a first pad portion including a portion of the first electrode extension on the insulating layer; and a second pad portion connected to an exposed portion of the second electrode at the bottom of the second opening.

Abstract: A semiconductor X-ray detector comprises: a semiconductor X-ray sensor portion 10, which has a plate-like outer shape including an opening portion 11 near to a central portion thereof, and is formed with plural numbers of pixel-like X-ray sensors between a surface and a reverse surface thereof; and a read-out portion 20, which is disposed on the reverse surface of the semiconductor X-ray sensor portion, and executes a predetermined process on each of signals outputted from the plural numbers of the X-ray sensors building up the semiconductor X-ray sensor portion, thereby outputting detected signals therefrom.

Abstract: A thermoacoustic apparatus capable of reducing the time elapsed until an acoustic wave is generated and improving the energy conversion efficiency significantly is provided. In order to solve the above-described issues, in a thermoacoustic apparatus 1 including a pair of heat exchangers 41 and 43 separately set on the high temperature side and on the low temperature side, a second stack 42 which is sandwiched between the heat exchangers 41 and 43 and which has a plurality of transmission paths in the inside, and a loop tube 2 provided with the heat exchangers 41 and 43 and the stack 42, the thermoacoustic apparatus converting acoustic energy generated in the loop tube 2 with an acoustic wave generator 3 to thermal energy by using the heat exchangers 41 and 43 and the stack 42, a narrow portion 21 in which the inner diameter is relatively reduced is disposed at a position at which the particle velocity of a standing wave generated in the loop tube 2 is in the vicinity of a maximum.

Abstract: An arteriosclerosis diagnostic device according to various embodiments is a simple device, resistant to an external factor, such as an error resulting from a skin surface, and capable of measuring the degree of hardness of an artery. The arteriosclerosis diagnostic device detects a heart sound and a pulse wave at least one location of a living body, the pulse wave propagating through an artery in relation to the heart sound, converts detected signals thereof into respective frequency signals, specifies the peak frequency of each of the frequency signals, and determines the degree of arteriosclerosis on the basis of the difference between the peak frequency of the heart sound and the peak frequency of the pulse wave. Accordingly, the degree of arteriosclerosis can be determined by comparison between the frequency signals.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a platen that guides a sheet, restraining members disposed on the platen at respective side edges of the sheet to restrain the side edges of the sheet from being raised, a sheet width detector that detects the width of the sheet, and a restraining member detector that detects the positions of the restraining members. At least one of the restraining members is moved in accordance with the information obtained by the sheet width detector regarding the positions of the side edges of the sheet and the information obtained by the restraining position detector regarding the positions of the restraining members.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a plurality of processors each of which includes a cache memory, and a controller which suspends a request of at least one of the processors during a predetermined period when a processor fetches a data from a main memory to the cache memory, wherein the controller suspends the request of at least one of the processors except the processor which fetches the data from the main memory to the cache memory.

Abstract: A standing wave and a traveling wave are generated rapidly, and thereby heat exchange is performed rapidly and efficiently. The thermoacoustic apparatus includes a first stack 3a between a first high-temperature-side heat exchanger 4 and a first low-temperature-side heat exchanger 5 and a second stack 3b between a second high-temperature-side heat exchanger 6 and a second low-temperature-side heat exchanger 7 in the loop tube 2. An acoustic wave is generated through self excitation by heating the first high-temperature-side heat exchanger 4, and the second low-temperature-side heat exchanger 7 is cooled by a standing wave and a traveling wave. The loop tube includes linear tube portions 2a along the vertical direction and connection tube portions 2b shorter than the linear tube portions 2a. The first stack 3a is disposed in the longest linear tube portion 2a.

Abstract: An apparatus control system. apparatus and computer-readable recording medium for enabling different operators to perform apparatus and network settings independently and to easily confirm a setting status. An apparatus setter at least one of a setting on a connection between a water heater and a remote controller, and a test run of the water heater using the remote controller. A network setter performs setting on a connection between the remote controller and a server. A setting status monitoring section monitors an apparatus setting status representing whether or not the setting by the apparatus setter is ended and a network setting status representing whether or not the setting by the network setter is ended. A setting status display controlling section displays the apparatus setting status and the network setting status.