Abstract: The present disclosure provides a differential amplifier circuit for actuating a speaker. The differential amplifier circuit includes: a first amplifier configured to amplify a positive signal of a differential signal; a second amplifier configured to amplify a negative signal of the differential signal; and a determination circuit configured to monitor the positive signal and the negative signal. The determination circuit includes: a comparator; a selection circuit configured to selectively supply a first detection signal corresponding to the positive signal and a second detection signal corresponding to the negative signal to a first input of the comparator by time division; a voltage source configured to supply a plurality of threshold voltages to a second input of the comparator by time division; and a determination unit configured to determine a state of the differential signal based on an output of the comparator.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an operation device which can be easily installed on a vehicle door, and a vehicle door comprising the operation device. An operation device of the present invention comprises: a gripper provided on an inner surface of a door of a vehicle; an operation interface provided on an inner side surface of the gripper for receiving an operation input entered by an occupant to operate at least one in-vehicle device; a first sensor provided on an outer side surface of the gripper for detecting a finger of the occupant; a second sensor provided on at least one of the inner side surface and an upper surface of the gripper for detecting a finger of the occupant; and a controller connected to the operation interface, the first sensor, the second sensor, and the at least one in-vehicle device.

Abstract: A vehicle control device has a processor configured to decide on standby time for waiting until a vehicle that is capable of automatic control for at least one vehicle operation from among driving, braking and steering is to begin the operation for the lane change, based on either first information indicating the degree to which the driver contributes to control of the vehicle or second information representing the extent to which manual control of the vehicle by the driver is possible, the greater the degree to which the driver contributes to control of the vehicle, represented by the first information, or the extent to which manual control of the vehicle by the driver is possible, represented by the second information, the shorter the standby time.

Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus executes a moving control to autonomously control a moving of a vehicle. The apparatus informs a driver of contents of a voice operation process planned to be executed for the moving control in accordance with utterance contents of the driver acquired by voice recognition and requests the driver to perform an approval operation to approve the informed contents. The apparatus executes the voice operation process when the approval operation is performed. The apparatus determines whether to request the driver to perform the approval operation, based on whether a road environment of a road on which the vehicle moves.

Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus executes a moving control to autonomously control a moving of a vehicle. The apparatus informs a driver of contents of a voice operation process planned to be executed for the moving control in accordance with utterance contents of the driver acquired by voice recognition and request the driver to perform an approval operation to approve the informed contents. The apparatus executes the voice operation process when the approval operation is performed. When a moving situation of the vehicle is not a predetermined situation which needs the approval operation, the apparatus execute the voice operation process without the approval operation being performed, and set an upper limit of an acceleration of the vehicle by the moving control to a value smaller than the upper limit set when executing the voice operation process in response to the approval operation being performed.

Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus executes a moving control to autonomously control a moving of a vehicle. The apparatus outputs first and second announcements and executes a voice operation process when the approval operation is performed. The first announcement is to inform a driver of contents of the voice operation process planned to be executed for the moving control in accordance with utterance contents of the driver acquired by voice recognition. The second announcement is to request the driver to perform an approval operation to approve the informed contents. The apparatus completes outputting the first announcement and execute the voice operation process, or stops outputting the first announcement, execute the voice operation process, and output a third announcement to inform the driver of the contents of the executed voice operation process when the approval operation is performed while the first announcement is output.

Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus executes a moving control to autonomously control a vehicle. The apparatus informs a driver of contents of a voice operation process planned to be executed for the moving control in accordance with utterance contents of the driver acquired by voice recognition, and execute the voice operation process when an approval operation to approve the informed contents, is performed by the driver. The apparatus cancels a plan to execute the voice operation process and informs the driver that executing the voice operation process is not permitted when a moving situation of the vehicle becomes a predetermined situation which does not permit executing the voice operation process after informing the driver of the contents of the voice operation process planned to be executed for the moving control and before the approval operation is performed.

Abstract: Disclosed is a control apparatus for a stopped state holding apparatus which can be switched between a holding state for holding a vehicle in a stopped state and a cancelled state in which the holding state is cancelled. The control apparatus includes a detection section for detecting a manipulation state of an operation section manipulated by an operator to switch the stopped state holding apparatus to the holding state or the cancelled state, and a control section for controlling operation of the stopped state holding apparatus on the basis of the detected manipulation state. In the case where the detection section detects a particular manipulation state in which a manipulation of the operation section for switching the stopped state holding apparatus continues for a predetermined period of time or longer, the control section controls the operation of the stopped state holding apparatus irrespective of the particular manipulation state.

Abstract: A notification location setting device comprises a notification device, and a processor configured to set on a traveling road a notification location where the driver is to be notified of a control switching request for switching operation of the vehicle from automatic control to manual control, based on the shape of a width-varying zone where the width of the traveling road varies before a merging location, in a case where a merging location where the traveling road on which the vehicle is traveling within a traveling route toward the destination location of the vehicle merges with another road, and to notify the driver of the control switching request via the notification device when the vehicle has not entered the other road at the notification location.

Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus performs an acceleration suppressing control to suppress an acceleration of a vehicle, when a distracted state detected based on a driver’s seat image continues for a predetermined first time. The distracted state is a state in which an attentiveness for driving of the driver is impaired. The vehicle control apparatus performs a deceleration control to decelerate the vehicle to stop the vehicle, when the distracted state continues for a predetermined second time that is longer than the first time.

Abstract: A monomolecular transistor including a first electrode including a first electrode layer and a first metal particle arranged at one end of the first electrode layer, a second electrode including a first electrode layer and a first metal particle arranged at one end of the first electrode layer, a third electrode insulated from the first electrode and the second electrode, a ?-conjugated molecule having a ?-conjugated skeleton. The first metal particle and the second metal particle face each other. The third electrode is arranged adjacent to the gap in which the first metal particle and the second metal particle face each other, and is spaced from the first metal particle and the second metal particle, the ?-conjugated molecule is arranged in a gap between the first metal particle and the second metal particle.

Abstract: A notification location setting device comprises a notification device, and a processor configured to set on a traveling road a notification location where the driver is to be notified of a control switching request for switching operation of the vehicle from automatic control to manual control, based on the shape of a width-varying zone where the width of the traveling road varies before a merging location, in a case where a merging location where the traveling road on which the vehicle is traveling within a traveling route toward the destination location of the vehicle merges with another road, and to notify the driver of the control switching request via the notification device when the vehicle has not entered the other road at the notification location.

Abstract: A vehicle control device has a processor configured to decide on standby time for waiting until a vehicle that is capable of automatic control for at least one vehicle operation from among driving, braking and steering is to begin the operation for the lane change, based on either first information indicating the degree to which the driver contributes to control of the vehicle or second information representing the extent to which manual control of the vehicle by the driver is possible, the greater the degree to which the driver contributes to control of the vehicle, represented by the first information, or the extent to which manual control of the vehicle by the driver is possible, represented by the second information, the shorter the standby time.

Abstract: A monomolecular transistor including a first electrode including a first electrode layer and a first metal particle arranged at one end of the first electrode layer, a second electrode including a first electrode layer and a first metal particle arranged at one end of the first electrode layer, a third electrode insulated from the first electrode and the second electrode, a ?-conjugated molecule having a ?-conjugated skeleton. The first metal particle and the second metal particle face each other. The third electrode is arranged adjacent to the gap in which the first metal particle and the second metal particle face each other, and is spaced from the first metal particle and the second metal particle, the ?-conjugated molecule is arranged in a gap between the first metal particle and the second metal particle.