Abstract: A vehicle braking device with electric brakes includes a braking force controller. This controller adjusts braking forces based on an external command. The electric brakes show hysteresis characteristics: braking force rises with increasing current along a positive efficiency line and holds steady when current drops from a turning value to a holding threshold. Further current decrease leads to a reduction in braking force along an inverse efficiency line. The actual braking force has an increasing period when it follows the positive efficiency line and a holding period when it stays constant as current decreases to the holding threshold. If the vehicle does not meet an exclusion requirement and the required braking force is rising, the controller switches from the increasing period to the holding period when the actual braking force matches the target braking force. It switches back to the increasing period when the difference between the actual and target braking forces reaches a predetermined threshold.

Abstract: A game using a user character is started on the basis of a first start instruction input. At a first timing after that, advancement of the game is finished, and advancement state data until then is transmitted to a server. On the basis of a second start instruction input from a user, a game that is based on advancement state data transmitted to the server by an information processing terminal of another user different from the user and acquired from the server is started, the game using an other-user character having been used in the game by the other user and the user character of the user. At a second timing after the start, advancement of the game is finished and advancement state data is transmitted to the server.

Abstract: To provide a vehicle headlamp that can remove, without using a heater, fogging adhering to an outer lens. A vehicle headlamp includes a housing, an outer lens attached to the housing to form a lamp chamber between the outer lens and the housing, a lighting fixture unit configured to emit visible light that transmits through a visible light transmission region of the outer lens, the lighting fixture unit being disposed in the lamp chamber, an optical probe apparatus configured to emit infrared light that transmits through an infrared light transmission region of the outer lens, the optical probe apparatus being disposed in the lamp chamber, and an infrared light control unit configured to control the infrared light, which is emitted from the optical probe apparatus, such that the infrared light emitted from the optical probe apparatus is radiated to the visible light transmission region of the outer lens.

Abstract: A sulfide solid electrolyte may be able to adjust the morphology unavailable traditionally, or readily adjust so as to have a desired morphology. Such a sulfide solid electrolyte may include a substance including a lithium element, a sulfur element, and a phosphorus element; and an amine compound. The solid electrolyte may have a volume-based average particle diameter of 10 ?m or less, measured by laser diffraction particle size distribution measurement, and/or a BET specific surface area of 40 m2/g or less.

Abstract: An object detection device includes first and second detectors each configured to detect an object by transmitting an ultrasonic wave in a moving direction of the moving object and receiving a reflected wave of the ultrasonic wave, a second detector, a memory, and a hardware processor coupled to the memory, and configured to: determine that an obstacle is present in the moving direction of the moving object, based on object detection results by the first and second detectors; determine crossing of the obstacle based on object detection results by the first and second detectors in a state in which it is being determined that the obstacle is present; and cause a driving controller mounted on the moving object, to release driving restriction control of restricting movement of the moving object when determining the crossing, or prohibit the driving controller from releasing the driving restriction control under a predetermined condition.

Abstract: The disclosure is detecting an authentication target who is moving in a predetermined direction in a video; inputting a first image in which an entire body of the target; calculating characteristic information from an image of the entire body in the first image, comparing the calculated characteristic information with characteristic information of the entire body stored in first memory that stores characteristic information of entire bodies of targets, and extracting candidate information of the targets from the first memory based on a first authentication result; inputting a second image in which an iris of the target; and comparing characteristic information of irises stored in second memory that stores the characteristic information of the irises of targets with characteristic information of an iris from the second image, calculating a verification score, executing second authentication on the target in the second image based on the verification score, and outputting an authentication result.

Abstract: The disclosure is detecting an authentication target who is moving in a predetermined direction in a video; inputting a first image in which an entire body of the target; calculating characteristic information from an image of the entire body in the first image, comparing the calculated characteristic information with characteristic information of the entire body stored in first memory that stores characteristic information of entire bodies of targets, and extracting candidate information of the targets from the first memory based on a first authentication result; inputting a second image in which an iris of the target; and comparing characteristic information of irises stored in second memory that stores the characteristic information of the irises of targets with characteristic information of an iris from the second image, calculating a verification score, executing second authentication on the target in the second image based on the verification score, and outputting an authentication result.

Abstract: A motor control device drives first and second motors for outputting torque in braking or non-braking direction in a vehicle brake device, includes: an electric power converter that includes first to third legs having positive and negative switch elements; and a control unit. When the control unit energizes from the positive switch element of the first or third leg to the negative switch element of the second leg, the first and second motors output the torque in a same direction. When an absolute value of current flowing or estimated to flow in at least one of the first motor and the second motor exceeds a current threshold, the control unit drives the positive and negative switch elements of the second leg.

Abstract: An authentication device includes an image acquisition unit, an identification unit, and an authentication unit. The image acquisition unit acquires an image of an eye of a subject. The identification unit identifies the colored pattern of a colored contact lens worn by the subject by comparing a reference image with the image of the eye. The authentication unit identifies the subject, using a feature in a region other than a colored region of the colored pattern in the iris region of the eye.

Abstract: An authentication device includes an image acquisition unit, an identification unit, and an authentication unit. The image acquisition unit acquires an image of an eye of a subject. The identification unit identifies the colored pattern of a colored contact lens worn by the subject by comparing a reference image with the image of the eye. The authentication unit identifies the subject, using a feature in a region other than a colored region of the colored pattern in the iris region of the eye.

Abstract: Provided is an evaluation method capable of evaluating stress on a bond which is difficult to detect by Raman spectroscopy. The present disclosure relates to an evaluation method including using infrared absorption spectra measured on a rubber specimen under application of no tensile force and under application of a tensile force to calculate an amount of peak shift caused by application of the tensile force, and evaluating stress in the rubber specimen from the amount of peak shift.

Abstract: A motor controller includes a power converter and a current command calculator. The power converter supplies alternating current power to each phase of a multiphase motor by converting input power. The current command calculator calculates a current command value for a current supplied to the multiphase motor, the current command value being defined by a current amplitude and a current phase, the current command calculator executes a phase adjustment process in a case where the multiphase motor is in locking energization being a state in which the multiphase motor is being energized while the multiphase motor has stopped rotation, except when the multiphase motor satisfies a predetermined exemption condition. The phase adjustment process is a process in which the current phase of the current command value is changed over time to prevent the multiphase motor from being energized on same phase for a predetermined time or longer.

Abstract: A vehicle braking apparatus is adapted to a vehicle in which electric brakes are separately provided for wheels, and the electric brakes separately exert braking forces on the wheels. A braking force controller controls the braking forces separately exerted by the electric brakes. A first pair of electric brakes are provided for a front-left wheel and a front-right wheel, and a second pair of electric brakes are provided for a rear-left wheel and a rear-right wheel. At least one of the first pair of electric brakes or the second pair of electric brakes are multiphase electric brakes, and each of the multiphase electric brakes includes a multiphase motor having three or more phases. The braking force controller executes an up-down process to prevent a current from being concentrated on a particular phase of the multiphase motor, except when the vehicle satisfies a predetermined exemption condition.

Abstract: A motor control device controls energization to a motor having two three-phase winding sets configured such that their electrical angle phase difference is ±(?+120×n)° (0<?o?60°, n is an integer). A current redistribution section of a current command value calculation unit executes “current redistribution process” when a predetermined condition is satisfied. In the current redistribution process, the current redistribution section calculates a specific maximum current value, which is the maximum value of the absolute values of the three-phase current command values in each system, for each electrical angle. The current redistribution section redistributes the current command values of the two systems so that a ratio between I1_max(?)×(1+?(?)), which is the specific maximum current value of the first system after the redistribution, and I2_max(?)×(1??(?)), which is the specific maximum current value of the second system after the redistribution, approaches a predetermined target ratio.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a sterilization method for a medical rubber product in which non-eluting characteristics are maintained even after sterilization with gamma ray and with which less troubles occur in a medical product manufacturing process. The medical rubber product according to the present invention is a medical rubber product formed from an elastic material and sterilized by being irradiated with gamma ray or electron ray (beta ray), wherein, when measurement is performed on a surface portion of the elastic material through ATR by using an FT-IR, if an area of an infrared absorption peak at around a wave number of 1650 cm?1 in an infrared absorption spectrum obtained through the measurement is defined as As and an area of an infrared absorption peak at around a wave number of 1470 cm?1 in the infrared absorption spectrum is defined as Bs, Ss=(As/Bs)×100?6 is satisfied.

Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are provided each of which stores data that is received in a memory; acquires transfer history information indicating a transfer state of the data, from an information processing system configured to transfer the data to an external storage; identifies data to be transmitted from within the data stored in the memory, based on the transfer history information; and transmits the identified data to the information processing system.

Abstract: A game using a user character is started on the basis of a first start instruction input. At a first timing after that, advancement of the game is finished, and advancement state data until then is transmitted to a server. On the basis of a second start instruction input from a user, a game that is based on advancement state data transmitted to the server by an information processing terminal of another user different from the user and acquired from the server is started, the game using an other-user character having been used in the game by the other user and the user character of the user. At a second timing after the start, advancement of the game is finished and advancement state data is transmitted to the server.

Abstract: Provided is an analysis method that enables simple analysis of the degree of hydrogenation of a hydrogenated diene polymer. The present disclosure relates to a method of analyzing the degree of hydrogenation of a hydrogenated diene polymer using infrared absorption spectroscopy, the method including use of a calibration curve represented by the following equation (1) 2H?Vin=aA2915+b where H is the degree of hydrogenation (%) of a hydrogenated diene polymer, Vin is the vinyl percentage (%) of the hydrogenated diene polymer, A2915 is the peak intensity of a peak attributed to CH2 antisymmetric stretching vibration, and a and b are each a constant.

Abstract: A role capable of being designated and determined on the basis of an aptitude information piece set for an operation character, among a plurality of roles for which usable item types are determined, respectively, is presented and designated. In addition, a special character with which any of a plurality of aptitude information pieces is associated is associated with the operation character. A game event is advanced using an item designated by a user from among aptitude items corresponding to the role of the operation character among owned items owned by the operation character. A parameter set for a combination of the operation character and the special character is updated on the basis of progress of a game, and when the parameter satisfies an aptitude information addition condition, an aptitude information piece of the special character is added to the operation character.

Abstract: An item selected by a user is set as a first owned item. A state change item which changes a state of an operation character from a first state to a second state is associated with the operation character, and the operation character is caused to own a second owned item associated with the state change item. During a game, when a state change condition is satisfied, the state of the operation character is changed from the first state to the second state. When the operation character is in the first state, use item candidates not including the second owned item are presented to the user, and when the operation character is in the second state, use item candidates including the second owned item are presented and a game event is advanced using an item designated by the user.