Abstract: A technology for reducing the so-called “phosphor burn-in” phenomenon where the variation of luminance arises by reducing display luminance of a certain pixel caused by deterioration in a display apparatus constituted by an organic electro luminescence element is provided. In the display apparatus, when displaying an image acquired by an image acquiring unit, luminance substantially same as average luminance of the acquired image is set to a non-display area where the image is not displayed.

Abstract: The gain is derived by deriving, from the signals of the two same filter pixels in one divided region, a predicted value of a signal of one same filter pixel in the other divided region based on a plurality of same color filter pixels near the boundary of the divided regions for each horizontal line in one screen and comparing the derived predicted value and an actual signal value of the relevant pixel.

Abstract: An initial value ?0 of a vehicle deflection angle ? and an initial value L0 of a distance L are set, a normalized coefficient R is determined from the ratio of the vehicle deflection angle ? or the distance L to the initial value ?0 or the initial value L0 when vehicle stop control is started, and the target speed VREF of a body speed VL is determined by that coefficient R. Since the body speed V of the vehicle VL is very low when the vehicle VL arrives at a target parking position, the vehicle VL can be stopped precisely at the target parking position.

Abstract: A target vehicle path is corrected in accordance with the environment surrounding a vehicle during parking assist or U-turn assist. To achieve the target vehicle path, target wheel speeds are set for respective wheels so as to generate a speed difference an inside wheel and an outside wheel of a turn. The target wheel speed is achieved by controlling braking force and driving force of each wheel. Thus, it is possible for the vehicle to turn with a smaller turning radius than that generated by a normal steering angle, and to cause the vehicle to move accurately along the target vehicle path that avoids any obstacles that are present.

Abstract: A display device has: an RGB-RGBW conversion circuit that converts RGB signals fed thereto into RGBW signals; a display panel that has a plurality of dots each composed of four, namely R, G, B, and W, unit pixels and that displays an image based on the RGBW signals; a defect position specifier that specifies, if a unit pixel is found defective, a position of the defective pixel on the display panel; and a conversion rate controller that controls the rate at which, when the RGB signals are converted into the RGBW signals, the RGB signals are converted into a W signal according to the position of the defective pixel. If the defective pixel is a W pixel, the conversion rate for pixels adjacent thereto is made lower than the standard conversion rate set for the entire display panel.

Abstract: An uneven display correction method including a first step of dividing a display area of a display panel into a plurality of unit areas, the first step setting one arbitrary unit area among the unit areas at a reference area, the first step previously determining a value as a correction parameter in each unit area, the value corresponding to a difference between a light-emission start gradation level of the unit area and the light-emission start gradation level of the reference area; and a second step of correcting an input video signal based on the correction parameter determined in each unit area.

Abstract: A control apparatus is provided to control the stopping of a vehicle. The control apparatus comprises a speed detector that detects a speed of a vehicle, speed acquiring means, target setting means, and control means. The speed acquiring means acquires an actual speed of the vehicle from detected results of the speed detector. The target setting means sets a target acceleration of the vehicle depending on the actual speed when the vehicle is stopped automatically. The control means controls an actual acceleration of the vehicle at the target acceleration.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided to estimate a gradient of a road surface on which a vehicle travels. The apparatus comprises acquisition, estimation, and compensation members. The acquisition member acquires at least one of acceleration of the vehicle calculated on changes in a travel speed of the vehicle and acceleration sensed from a force applied to the vehicle. The estimation means estimates the gradient of the road surface based on the acquired acceleration. The compensation member compensates the acquired acceleration in terms of influence of noise superposed on the acceleration, depending on an operational condition of the vehicle. The compensated acceleration is used by the estimation. The compensation is carried out by cutting off the noise by a filter, for example.

Abstract: When an input detection unit has detected that no user operation has been performed to an organic EL display apparatus for a predetermined period of time or when a processing detection unit has detected that a predetermined processing is being performed, the input detection unit or the processing detection unit outputs an instruction to a reference voltage adjusting unit to modify a reference voltage referenced by a DAC unit upon conversion to an analog output signal.

Abstract: An easy-to-carry image pickup device is provided to obtain images with multiple view angles in which a target subject is positioned in an appropriate size. When capturing an image of a person as a target subject, the size and position of the person's face in the image are detected as a specified part, and a zoom magnification ratio for a lens unit and a shift amount of the incident light position for a light-axis shifting unit are automatically controlled based on the detected size and position of the person's face, so that the person's face has a predetermined size and is positioned in a predetermined position in the image.

Abstract: An image shooting apparatus that calculates an AF evaluation value on the basis of an image signal of an AF evaluation area (focus evaluation area) provided in the frame image, and which performs an AF control by driving and controlling a focus lens so that the AF evaluation value can take a local maximum value. When an intentional camera operation (pan/tilt operation) is applied to the image shooting apparatus, the AF evaluation area is moved in the direction of movement of the image shooting apparatus, or the size of the AF evaluation area is reduced in the direction towards the center of the frame image.

Abstract: The correcting device includes a flicker correction circuit installed in an image shooting apparatus, which is configured to employ a complementary metal oxide semiconductor image sensor for shooting an image in a rolling shutter mode. An image is divided into M pieces in a vertical direction and N pieces in a horizontal direction. Then, areal average values are calculated by averaging pixel signals for each of the divided areas while an average of the areal average values for multiple frames are calculated for each of the divided areas, thereby calculating areal reference values that lack flicker components. A current frame of the image is corrected by use of the areal correction coefficients calculated from ratios of areal reference values to areal average values on the current frame.

Abstract: The imaging apparatus includes an image sensor for obtaining a picture image from an optical image that is projected to the image sensor through an optical system, an image moving portion for moving the optical image on the image sensor, a motion detecting portion for detecting a movement on the picture image of a moving subject that appears in the optical image, and a control portion for controlling, during an exposure period after a predetermined operation, the image moving portion in the direction of canceling the movement of the moving subject on the image sensor due to a movement of the moving subject in the real space, based on a movement of the moving subject detected in advance. The control portion sets length of the exposure period based on the movement of the moving subject detected in advance.

Abstract: There is provided an imaging apparatus and an imaging method capable of matching coordinate positions of a plurality of images to be synthesized with each other when generating an image having a wide dynamic range by synthesizing the plurality of images each having a different exposure condition. When a luminance adjustment circuit adjusts a luminance value of each of reference image data and non-reference image data, a displacement detection circuit detects displacement between the reference image data and non-reference image data. After a displacement correction circuit corrects coordinate positions of the non-reference image data on the basis of the detected displacement, an image synthesizing circuit generates synthesized image data composed of reference image data and non-reference image data.

Abstract: The invention provides an organic LED display device of the digital drive type which has a display panel comprising a plurality of pixels 51. Each of the pixels 51 comprises an organic EL element 50, a drive transistor TR2 for effecting or interrupting the passage of current through the EL element 50 in response to the input of an on/off control signal, a write transistor TR1 to be brought into conduction upon receiving scanning voltage applied thereto from a scanning driver, a capacitance element C to be supplied with data voltage from a data driver by the write transistor TR1 conducting, and a comparator 9 for comparing a predetermined ramp voltage with the output voltage of the capacitance element C and supplying the result of comparison to the drive transistor TR2 as the on/off control signal.

Abstract: In a parking assist control apparatus for assisting a driver with parking a vehicle, when a brake control ECU detects that a door is open based on a detection signal from a door open/close sensor during parking assist control, the brake control ECU determines whether the open door is a door other than the driver side door. If the open door is a door other than the driver side door, the vehicle is automatically stopped, thus enabling occupant safety to be ensured.

Abstract: A luminance control method for an organic EL display comprises a first step of calculating a luminance accumulation value for each screen on the basis of a video input signal, and a second step of controlling the amplitude of the video input signal on the basis of the luminance accumulation value calculated in the first step and feeding to the organic EL display the video signal whose amplitude has been controlled.

Abstract: An automatic steering control performs an automatic parking control which automatically steers steerable wheels of a vehicle, without requiring a driver to perform steering wheel operation, such that the actual steering angle of the steerable wheels follows a changing target steering angle, whereby the vehicle is moved to a target parking state. When the actual steering angle fails to follow the target steering angle because of insufficiency of the steering drive force of a steering actuator, a braking force difference imparting control is performed so as to apply a predetermined braking force on the steerable wheel located inside a target vehicle locus. As a result, a steering moment is generated in the steerable wheels. This steering moment serves as a force for compensating for the insufficiency of the steering drive force of the steering actuator. As a result, the actual steering angle accurately follows the target steering angle.

Abstract: When an abnormality is detected in a vehicle side device such as an obstacle sensor during parking assist control, a brake control ECU ends the parking assist control and outputs a control signal to warn the driver while forcibly stopping the vehicle by outputting a first drive signal to a hydraulic brake device and generating braking force.

Abstract: An image-taking apparatus generates an output image from a photographed image obtained by photographing and displays this output image on a display screen of a display section. The image-taking apparatus includes a recognition processing section for recognizing a specific subject (facial region of a person, or a facial component such as eyes) included in the photographed image. Referring to results of this recognition, the image-taking apparatus evaluates the dimension of the specific subject in each photographed image. If the dimension evaluated is relatively large, a relatively small magnification ratio to be employed upon the generation of the output image from the photographed image is provided. If the dimension evaluated is relatively small, a relatively large magnification ratio to be employed upon the generation of the output image from the photographed image is provided. As a result, the dimension of the specific subject in the output image is kept substantially constant.