Abstract: An object recognition apparatus: identifies a target cluster of reflection points based on a detection target in a range of equal to or greater than a minimum distance that allows for object recognition based on image data of a camera, among measurement data of a ranging sensor; sets a determination region including the target cluster; and recognizes an object based on the image data for the determination region. The object recognition apparatus: extracts clusters of the reflection points included in the measurement data; identifies, from the extracted clusters, the target cluster and a short-distance cluster of the reflection points based on a detection target in a range of less than the minimum distance; recognizes the object based on the image data for the determination region including the target cluster; and recognizes the object based on the reflection points included in the short-distance cluster.

Abstract: An object recognition apparatus performs an object recognition process based on measurement data of a ranging sensor and image data of a camera. The object recognition apparatus: performs a first object recognition process for a short-distance region, a second object recognition process for a middle-distance region, and a third object recognition process for a long-distance region; performs the object recognition process using the measurement data in the first object recognition process; performs the object recognition process using the measurement data and the image data in the second object recognition process; and adjusts, based on data on a traveling environment of a mobile body, respective time periods for which the first object recognition process and the second object recognition process are to be performed, or a ratio between respective ranges in which the first object recognition process and the second object recognition process are to be performed in a measurement range.

Abstract: An object recognition apparatus includes: a ranging sensor that measures at least distances to reflection points based on reflected waves of applied irradiation waves; a camera that generates image data on an imaging range; and at least one processing device that performs an object recognition process based on measurement data of the ranging sensor and the image data of the camera. The device performs: detecting a line-of-sight direction of a driver of a mobile body equipped with the object recognition apparatus; setting a first range including the line-of-sight direction and a second range, in a measurement range viewed from the mobile body; and the object recognition process of performing a visual field recognition process using one of the measurement data and the image data for the first range, and performing a surrounding recognition process using another of the measurement data and the image data for the second range.

Abstract: A driver assistance apparatus is configured to carry out processing including: detecting a moving body and surrounding environment around the vehicle; predicting driving actions of the moving body detected; calculating collision risks between the moving body and the vehicle after a predetermined period of time, for the respective driving actions predicted of the moving body, on the basis of distances between the moving body and the vehicle after the predetermined period of time and probabilities that the moving body takes the respective driving actions; and setting a driving condition of the vehicle that provides a smallest one of the collision risks.

Abstract: An object recognition apparatus includes at least one processor and at least one memory communicably coupled to the processor. The processor sets one or more object presence regions in each of which an object is likely to be present, on the basis of observation data of a distance sensor. The processor estimates an attribute of the object that is likely to be present in each of the one or more object presence regions. The processor sets, on the basis of the attribute of the object, a level of processing load to be spent on object recognition processing to be executed for each of the one or more object presence regions by using at least image data generated by an imaging device. The processor performs, for each of the one or more object presence regions, the object recognition processing corresponding to the set level of the processing load.

Abstract: An imaging device includes two cameras capturing transmission images of an article from opposite directions, a first light source emitting light that is transmitted through the article in a first direction, and a second light source emitting light that is transmitted through the article in a second direction. The first camera captures a first image that is a transmission image of the article. The second camera captures a second image that is a transmission image of the article. The first half mirror reflects first transmitted light toward the first camera while the second light source is turned off, and permits transmission of light traveling from the second light source toward the article. The second half mirror reflects second transmitted light toward the second camera while the first light source is turned off, and also permits transmission of light traveling from the first light source toward the article.

Abstract: A driver assistance apparatus is configured to carry out processing including: detecting a moving body and surrounding environment around the vehicle; predicting driving actions of the moving body detected; calculating collision risks between the moving body and the vehicle after a predetermined period of time, for the respective driving actions predicted of the moving body, on the basis of distances between the moving body and the vehicle after the predetermined period of time and probabilities that the moving body takes the respective driving actions; and setting a driving condition of the vehicle that provides a smallest one of the collision risks.

Abstract: A toner includes toner particles containing a crystalline organic material that contains a crystalline vinyl resin as an essential component and a crystalline polyester and a wax component as optional components. A total of the crystalline vinyl resin, crystalline polyester, and wax component with respect to the toner particles is 10.0 to 90.0 mass %. The crystalline vinyl resin contains a crystalline resin A having (i) units A and (ii) units B. The toner particles contain 0.0020 to 0.0500 mass % of a metal that can form a complex with an acetylacetonate moiety in a unit B of the crystalline resin A with respect to a mass of the toner particles. The acetylacetonate moiety of at least one of the units B in the crystalline resin A forms a complex with the metal. In the crystalline resin A, a content of the unit B is 0.50 to 10.0 mass %.

Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle, wherein the toner particle includes a toner base particle containing a binder resin and includes a protruded portion on a surface of the toner base particle; the protruded portion comprises an organosilicon polymer and a polyhydric acid metal salt; and the polyhydric acid metal salt is present on a surface of the protruded portion.

Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle, the toner particle comprising a resin, wherein, where a chloroform-soluble component of the resin is analyzed by gradient LC analysis using acetonitrile as a poor solvent and chloroform as a good solvent for the chloroform-soluble component of the resin, a peak detected in a range of a ratio of chloroform in the mobile phase of 50.0 to 75.0% by volume and a peak detected in a range of a ratio of chloroform in the mobile phase of 75.0 to 95.0% by volume satisfy a specific relationship.

Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle, the toner particle comprising a binder resin, the binder resin comprises a crystalline resin A, the crystalline resin A comprises a monomer unit (a) having specific structure, when, in measurement of viscoelasticity of the toner, T1 (° C.) represents a temperature at which a storage elastic modulus G? of the toner is 1.0×107 Pa, tan ?(T1) represents a ratio (tan ?) of a loss elastic modulus G? of the toner to the storage elastic modulus G? of the toner at the temperature T1 (° C.), and tan ?(T1-10) represents tan ? at a temperature T1-10 (° C.), the T1, the tan ?(T1), and the tan ?(T1-10) satisfy specific relationship, and the toner particle comprises a linear fatty acid metal salt having a valency of 2 or more.

Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle comprising a resin A, and an external additive A, wherein the resin A is a resin represented by formula (1) below, the resin A is present at the surface of the toner particle, the external additive A is a fine particle containing silicon, the average value of the shape factor SF-1 of the external additive A is from 105 to 120, the average value of the shape factor SF-2 of the external additive A is from 100 to 130.

Abstract: The pigment dispersion is a pigment dispersion including a fluorescent agent, wherein, when at a wavelength of 250 nm or more and 290 nm or less, an integral value of an emission intensity in a wavelength range of 400 nm or more and 700 nm or less of an emission spectrum of the fluorescent agent for excitation light is represented by F1, an integral value of an emission intensity in a wavelength range of 400 nm or more and 700 nm or less of an emission spectrum of the pigment dispersion for excitation light is represented by F2, and a ratio of the fluorescent agent contained in a solid content obtained when the pigment dispersion is heated at 130° C. until a change in mass of the pigment dispersion reaches 0.3%/min or less is represented by W1 (mass%), the F1, the F2, and the W1 satisfy the formulae F2x 100/W1?F1 ×0.30 and 5.0?W1?80.0.

Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus assists driving of a first vehicle. The driving assistance apparatus includes at least one processor and at least one memory communicably coupled to the at least one processor. The at least one processor acquires information on a traveling state of the first vehicle and information on a surrounding environment of the first vehicle, determines a factor that provokes tailgating by comparing the information on the traveling state of the first vehicle with accumulated data on traveling states of second vehicles in a driving condition belonging to the same category as a driving condition of the first vehicle, and presents feedback information about a driving action of a driver who drives the first vehicle on the basis of the factor that provokes the tailgating.

Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle, wherein the toner particle includes a toner base particle containing a binder resin and includes a protruded portion on a surface of the toner base particle; the protruded portion comprises an organosilicon polymer and a polyhydric acid metal salt; and the polyhydric acid metal salt is present on a surface of the protruded portion.

Abstract: An object recognition apparatus includes at least one processor and at least one memory communicably coupled to the processor. The processor sets one or more object presence regions in each of which an object is likely to be present, on the basis of observation data of a distance sensor. The processor estimates an attribute of the object that is likely to be present in each of the one or more object presence regions. The processor sets, on the basis of the attribute of the object, a level of processing load to be spent on object recognition processing to be executed for each of the one or more object presence regions by using at least image data generated by an imaging device. The processor performs, for each of the one or more object presence regions, the object recognition processing corresponding to the set level of the processing load.

Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle, wherein the toner particle includes a toner base particle containing a binder resin and includes a protruded portion on a surface of the toner base particle; the protruded portion comprises an organosilicon polymer and a polyhydric acid metal salt; and the polyhydric acid metal salt is present on a surface of the protruded portion.

Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle comprising a binder resin, wherein the binder resin comprises a resin A and a resin B, in a differential scanning calorimetric measurement, a peak top temperature of the largest endothermic peak is present within a specific temperature range and an endothermic amount of an endothermic peak derived from the resin A is 30 to 70 J/g per 1 g of the toner, a ratio of content of the resin A in the toner particle is 60.0 to 90.0 mass %, the resin A comprises 40.0 to 70.0 mass % of a monomer unit (a) represented by formula (1) below, and the resin B comprises 5.0 to 30.0 mass % of a monomer unit (b) represented by formula (2) below: in formulae (1) and (2), R1 and R2 denote a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, n and m denote a specific integer.

Abstract: Provided are compounds represented by the following formulas (I), (II), (III) and (IV) having orexin type 2 receptor-activating activity, or their pharmaceutically acceptable salts.

Abstract: A toner having a toner particle having a binder resin, wherein in differential scanning calorimetry using the toner as a sample, a peak temperature of an endothermic peak derived from the binder resin at a first temperature rise is from 50° C. to 70° C., and an endothermic quantity per 1 g of the toner is from 30 J/g to 70 J/g, and when acetonitrile is used as a poor solvent and chloroform is used as a good solvent for a chloroform-soluble component of the binder resin, and a component eluted during a linear change from a mobile phase composition of 100% by volume of acetonitrile to a mobile phase composition of 100% by volume of chloroform is gradient LC analyzed, a specific relationship between the peaks is satisfied.