Abstract: In an aspect of a vehicle control device, a vehicle control method, a target trajectory calculation method, and a vehicle according to the present invention, an offset amount of a coordinate value or a curvature is determined for each item of basic trajectory coordinate data on a basis of the basic trajectory coordinate data on at least a part or all of a two-dimensional coordinate value, a trajectory curvature, and a trajectory azimuth angle at coordinates arranged in ascending order of arc length from a certain position serving as an origin point, new target trajectory coordinate data is determined by adding the offset amount to each item of the basic trajectory coordinate data, and a trajectory of a vehicle is controlled on a basis of the new target trajectory coordinate data. Thus, a target trajectory with an out-in-out line can be obtained as in steering by an expert driver.

Abstract: A soft water- and oil-repellent comprising, as an active ingredient, a copolymer of a perfluoropolyether alcohol (meth)acrylic acid derivative represented by the general formula: CH2?CR1COOCH2CF(CF3)[OCF2CF(CF3)]nOC3F7??[I] (wherein R1 is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and n is an integer of 1 to 20), and a (meth)acrylic acid ester represented by the general formula: CH2?CR1COOR2??[II] (wherein R1 is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and R2 is an alkyl group, an alkoxyalkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an aryl group, or an aralkyl group) and having a glass transition temperature Tg of 51 to 120° C. The soft water- and oil-repellent gives a coating film formed from a coating agent which closely follows the deformation of rubber or resin, and exhibits water- and oil-repellency.

Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for full body measurements extraction using a mobile device camera.

Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for full body measurements extraction using a mobile device camera.

Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for body weight prediction from one or more images. The method includes the steps of receiving one or more subject parameters; receiving one or more images containing a subject; identifying one or more annotation key points for one or more body features underneath a clothing of the subject from the one or more images utilizing one or more annotation deep-learning networks; calculating one or more geometric features of the subject based on the one or more annotation key points; and generating a prediction of the body weight of the subject utilizing a weight machine-learning module based on the one or more geometric features of the subject and the one or more subject parameters.

Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for body weight prediction from one or more images. The method includes the steps of receiving one or more subject parameters; receiving one or more images containing a subject; identifying one or more annotation key points for one or more body features underneath a clothing of the subject from the one or more images utilizing one or more annotation deep-learning networks; calculating one or more geometric features of the subject based on the one or more annotation key points; and generating a prediction of the body weight of the subject utilizing a weight machine-learning module based on the one or more geometric features of the subject and the one or more subject parameters.

Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for full body measurements extraction using a mobile device camera. The method includes the steps of receiving one or more user parameters from a user device; receiving at least one image from the user device, the at least one image containing the human and a background; performing body segmentation on the at least one image to extract one or more body features associated with the human from the background using a segmentation deep-learning network; generating annotation lines on the extracted body features using an annotation deep-learning network; generating body feature measurements of the one or more annotated body features utilizing a machine-learning module based on the annotated body features and the one or more user parameters; and generating body size measurements by aggregating the body feature measurements for each extracted body feature. In one embodiment, the deep-learning algorithms are trained on manually-annotated human body size measurements.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an electronic component manufacturing method, capable of suppressing reduction in a trench opening and suppressing diffusion of a metal film embedded in a trench. An embodiment of the present invention is an electronic component manufacturing method, including the steps of: forming a first electrode constituting layer (e.g., a TiAl film) in a recess (e.g., a trench) formed in a workpiece; forming an ultrathin barrier layer (e.g., a TiAlN film) by forming a nitride layer by plasma-nitriding a surface of the first electrode constituting layer; and forming a second electrode constituting layer (e.g., an Al wiring layer) on the ultrathin barrier layer.

Abstract: A sealing structure of a fuel tank includes: a hollow circular cylinder part, having an inner circumferential part, formed near opening of the fuel tank to extend outward; a cap body having a hollow cylindrical part inserted into the inner circumferential part to face the inner circumferential part; and a seal member disposed between the inner circumferential part and the hollow cylindrical part. A protruding part is provided on an outer circumferential side of the hollow circular cylinder part of the fuel tank. A locking part formed on an outer circumferential part of the cap body and the protruding parts are fixed.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an electronic component manufacturing method, capable of suppressing reduction in a trench opening and suppressing diffusion of a metal film embedded in a trench. An embodiment of the present invention is an electronic component manufacturing method, including the steps of: forming a first electrode constituting layer (e.g., a TiAl film) in a recess (e.g., a trench) formed in a workpiece; forming an ultrathin barrier layer (e.g., a TiAlN film) by forming a nitride layer by plasma-nitriding a surface of the first electrode constituting layer; and forming a second electrode constituting layer (e.g., an Al wiring layer) on the ultrathin barrier layer.

Abstract: The present invention provides an electronic component manufacturing method including a step of embedding a metal film. An embodiment of the present invention includes a first step of depositing a barrier layer containing titanium nitride on an object to be processed on which a concave part is formed and a second step of filling a low-melting-point metal directly on the barrier layer under a temperature condition allowing the low-melting-point metal to flow, by a PCM sputtering method while forming a magnetic field by a magnet unit including plural magnets which are arranged at grid points of a polygonal grid so as to have different polarities between the neighboring magnets.

Abstract: A KVM switch includes: a first input portion and a second input portion that inputs a plurality of video signals from the first and the second information processing apparatus, respectively; a converting portion that converts the video signals input from the first or second input portion into a plurality of pieces of image data which are capable of being displayed on a remote terminal; a transmitting and receiving portion that transmits the pieces of converted image data to the remote terminal, and receives various requests from the remote terminal; and a switching portion that switches the video signals input from the first input portion to the video signals input from the second input portion when the transmitting and receiving portion receives a switching request for switching from a first information processing apparatus to a second information processing apparatus from the remote terminal.

Abstract: A sealing structure of a fuel tank includes: a hollow circular cylinder part, having an inner circumferential part, formed near opening of the fuel tank to extend outward; a cap body having a hollow cylindrical part inserted into the inner circumferential part to face the inner circumferential part; and a seal member disposed between the inner circumferential part and the hollow cylindrical part. A protruding part is provided on an outer circumferential side of the hollow circular cylinder part of the fuel tank. A locking part formed on an outer circumferential part of the cap body and the protruding parts are fixed.

Abstract: A fuel filler apparatus of a vehicle of the invention, during normal operation, only permits insertion of fuel dispensing nozzles of a diameter within a predefined range, and prevents insertion of fuel dispensing nozzles whose diameter is smaller a lowest value or larger than a highest value of this range. The fuel filler apparatus includes a manual operation override mechanism which by a manual operation permits the insertion of only fuel dispensing nozzles of a diameter smaller than the lowest value of the range under special circumstances.

Abstract: A structure for a fuel filling opening of an automobile is configure such that, when fuel supplied from a fuel supply nozzle flows back to the fuel filling opening side, the fuel flowed back can be slowly discharged to the outside from the fuel filling opening. The structure is provided with ring recesses formed in a ring opening of an operation ring, and also with partitioning recesses formed in an opening in an outer tube partition. The recesses are arranged offset in the circumferential direction to form a labyrinth.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for manufacturing a semiconductor device using a PVD method and enabling achievement of a desired effective work function and reduction in leak current without increasing an equivalent oxide thickness. A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device in an embodiment of the present invention includes the steps of: preparing a substrate on which an insulating film having a relative permittivity higher than that of a silicon oxide film is formed; and depositing a metal nitride film on the insulating film. The metal nitride depositing step is a step of sputtering deposition in an evacuatable chamber using a metal target and a cusp magnetic field formed over a surface of the metal target by a magnet mechanism in which magnet pieces are arranged as grid points in such a grid form that the adjacent magnet pieces have their polarities reversed from each other.

Abstract: A structure for a fuel lid section has a fuel lid supported on a vehicle body via a hinge, a vehicle body recess openably covered by the fuel lid, a fuel filling opening placed in the vehicle body recess, and a cap-less mechanism provided at the fuel filling opening and enabling fuel filling operation without requiring attachment/detachment of a fuel cap. The structure also has an electricity conduction path extending from the fuel lid to the vehicle body.

Abstract: The present invention provides an electronic component manufacturing method including a step of embedding a metal film. An embodiment of the present invention includes a first step of depositing a barrier layer containing titanium nitride on an object to be processed on which a concave part is formed and a second step of filling a low-melting-point metal directly on the barrier layer under a temperature condition allowing the low-melting-point metal to flow, by a PCM sputtering method while forming a magnetic field by a magnet unit including plural magnets which are arranged at grid points of a polygonal grid so as to have different polarities between the neighboring magnets.

Abstract: A KVM switch which is connected between a plurality of servers, and a client to which a keyboard, a mouse, a display, and a speaker are connected, and switches a server connected to the client, the KVM switch including: a sound input portion that inputs sound data emitted from each server; an abnormal sound determination portion that determines whether the input sound data is an abnormal sound; and a notification portion that notifies the client of abnormality detection when it is determined that the input sound data is the abnormal sound.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a selection portion that selects any one of a first setting that enables data on a hot key from a keyboard for a server, a second setting that enables the data on the hot key from the keyboard for a KVM switch, and a third setting that disables the data on the hot key from the keyboard for both of the KVM switch and the server; and a transmission portion that transmits the data on the hot key and a flag indicating the first setting to the server when the first setting is selected, transmits the data on the hot key and a flag indicating the second setting to the KVM switch when the second setting is selected, and fails to transmit the data on the hot key to the KVM switch and the server when the third setting is selected.