Abstract: Provided is a light control film capable of gradually changing the in-plane transmittance and thereby adding an in-plane gradation between light and dark. A light control film 10 according to the present invention includes: a first electrode 22A and a second electrode 22B disposed facing each other; a light control material 14 disposed between the first electrode 22A and the second electrode 22B and changing the transmittance in accordance with the potential difference between the first electrode 22A and the second electrode 22B; and a potential gradient forming part for providing the gradient of the potential difference in the extension direction of the first electrode 22A and the second electrode 22B.

Abstract: A semiconductor device that normally-off drives a first transistor that normally-on drives, the semiconductor device includes a first circuitry, a second circuitry, and a first diode. The first circuitry that is connected with a power supply voltage and a ground voltage, detects the power supply voltage, and outputs a transition state of the power supply voltage. The second circuitry that is connected with the power supply voltage, the ground voltage, the first circuitry, and a second transistor, and outputs a drive voltage of a second transistor connected in series with the first transistor, based on an output of the first circuitry. The first diode having an anode connected with a drive terminal of the first transistor and a cathode connected with an output terminal of the second transistor.

Abstract: A novel organic compound is provided. Alternatively, an organic compound that exhibits light emission with favorable chromaticity is provided. Alternatively, an organic compound that exhibits blue light emission with favorable chromaticity is provided. Alternatively, an organic compound with favorable emission efficiency is provided. Alternatively, an organic compound having a high carrier-transport property is provided. Alternatively, an organic compound with favorable reliability is provided. An organic compound including at least one amino group in which any one of a substituted or unsubstituted dibenzofuranyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted dibenzothiophenyl group, and a substituted or unsubstituted carbazolyl group is bonded to any one of a substituted or unsubstituted naphthobisbenzofuran skeleton, a substituted or unsubstituted naphthobisbenzothiophene skeleton, and a substituted or unsubstituted naphthobenzofuranobenzothiophene skeleton is provided.

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 electrical apparatus, in which a series connection state and a parallel connection state of an upper cell unit including five battery cells and a lower cell unit can be automatically switched by means of a difference in a terminal shape on the electrical apparatus body side, has a terminal holder and holds apparatus side terminals. The terminal holder, which establishes an electrically connected state with the connection terminals of the battery pack, is provided with two parallel protruding parts that extend in the forward-backward direction, and second rail grooves fitted to the protruding parts on the electrical apparatus side. Due to the fitting, relative movement of the terminal holder and the battery pack in the vertical direction can be suppressed, and wear on the apparatus side terminals can be greatly suppressed.

Abstract: A steering system includes a steering shaft; a reaction motor; and a control unit configured to control the reaction motor. The control unit has a function of performing a correction process of rotating the steering wheel using the reaction motor such that a displacement in a rotational position of the steering wheel with respect to a correct rotational position corresponding to a turning position of the turning wheels decreases when a power supply of the vehicle is turned on and the rotational position of the steering wheel is different from the correct rotational position. The control unit is configured to perform the correction process when the displacement is equal to or greater than a predetermined permissible value and not to perform the correction process when the displacement is less than the permissible value.

Abstract: An encoder determines, based on a width and a height of a block, whether or not to disable a prediction mode in which the block is split along a partitioning line defined by a distance and an angle and then prediction is performed; and encodes the block with the prediction mode disabled or not disabled according to a result of the determination on whether or not to disable the prediction mode. Here, the distance is the shortest distance between the center of the block and the partitioning line, and the angle is an angle representing a direction from the center of the block toward the partitioning line in the shortest distance. The encoder determines to disable the prediction mode when (i) a width-to-height ratio is at least 8 or (ii) a height-to-width ratio is at least 8.

Abstract: The objective is to achieve highly accurate authentication even when there is variation in the ambient light environment during biometric imaging. A biometric authentication device includes an image capturing unit that captures images of a living body, a light source for capturing images of the living body, an optical filter that selectively passes and blocks light according to wavelength, a spectroscopic processing unit that separates multiple wavelengths captured simultaneously, respectively, and a calculation unit that calculates the shape and posture of a predetermined part of the living body in the captured images, a background removal unit that removes the background from the image of the living body using the spectral images of the living body and the spectral image of the unwanted ambient light, and an authentication unit that performs biometric authentication using the image of the predetermined part.

Abstract: A position estimation system includes: an image acquisition unit that obtains an image for estimation including a target that is disposed out of an imaging range of an imaging unit, by imaging a reflecting unit that reflects a light and that is disposed in the imaging range of the imaging unit; a first estimation unit that estimates a first relative position that is a position of the reflecting unit with respect to the imaging unit, on the basis of the image for estimation; and a second estimation unit that estimates a second relative position that is a position of the target with respect to the imaging unit, on the basis of the image for estimation and the first relative position. According to such a position estimation system, it is possible to properly estimate a positional relationship between the imaging unit and the target.

Abstract: A smoothing capacitor is forcibly discharged, in a state where a battery is disconnected from a high-voltage circuit, first discharge control is initiated to consume electric charges of the smoothing capacitor by an in-vehicle component via a DC/DC converter. Thereafter, when a voltage of the smoothing capacitor is reduced and reaches a specified threshold, second discharge control is executed to forcibly discharge the electric charges in an active discharge circuit. In the case where continuous forced discharge occurs, delay control to delay execution timing of the second discharge control is further executed.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor that manages allocation of a resource in a storage region of a storage to a plurality of functions. The storage is mounted on a vehicle and includes a dedicated region and a shared region. The dedicated region is configured to be allocated the resource configured to be exclusively used by a specific function, among the functions. The shared region is configured to be allocated the resource configured to be shared by the functions. The resource in the shared region is configured to be dynamically allocated.

Abstract: Provided is a technology for reducing the capacity of a liquid feeding pump and enabling liquid feeding with little pulsation. A liquid feeding pump according to the present disclosure is provided with: a first plunger pump having a first plunger; a second plunger pump having a second plunger and connected in series with the first plunger pump; a pressure sensor disposed downstream of the second plunger pump; and a control unit that accepts the input of a liquid discharge pressure measured by the pressure sensor and that controls the driving of the first plunger and the driving of the second plunger.

Abstract: In an object information generation system, an imaging unit is configured to capture a plurality of segment images respectively corresponding to a plurality of distance segments dividing a target space. In a signal processor, the object region extraction unit extracts, from a plurality of segment images, an object region that is a pixel region including an image of the object. An object information generation unit determines, for the object region, a window in which calculation-target pixels are cut out, and generates distance information of the object by calculation using information of a plurality of pixels in the window for two or more segment images.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a drift region that is of first conductive type and formed in a semiconductor substrate; a hydrogen buffer region that is of first conductive type, positioned on the back surface side of the drift region, contains hydrogen as impurities, and has impurity concentration higher than impurity concentration of the drift region; a flat region that is of first conductive type, positioned on the back surface side of the hydrogen buffer region, and has impurity concentration higher than impurity concentration of the drift region; and a carrier injection layer that is of first or second conductive type, positioned on the back surface side of the flat region, and has impurity concentration higher than impurity concentrations of the hydrogen buffer region and the flat region. The hydrogen buffer region and the flat region each have a constant oxygen concentration of 1E16 atoms/cm3 to 6E17 atoms/cm3 inclusive.

Abstract: A communication device performs connection establishment processing with another communication device that relays communication with a predetermined communication device, and when transmitting a request for a connection to the another communication device, transmits, to the another communication device, together with the request, first data that is a part of data to be transmitted to the predetermined communication device and information indicating a condition for the another communication device to discard the first data.

Abstract: A compound that further improves the capability of an organic EL device, an organic electroluminescent device having a further improved device capability, and an electronic device including the organic electroluminescent device are provided. A compound represented by the following formula (1): wherein in the formulae (1) and (1-a) or (1-b), N*, Ar1, Ar2, L1, L2, L3, and R1 to R5 are defined in the description, and Ara represents the formula (1-a) or (1-b), an organic electroluminescent device including the compound, and an electronic device including the organic electroluminescent device.

Abstract: An imaging device capable of image processing is provided. The imaging device can retain analog data (image data) obtained by an image-capturing operation in a pixel and perform a product-sum operation of the analog data and a predetermined weight coefficient in the pixel to convert the data into binary data. When the binary data is taken in a neural network or the like, processing such as image recognition can be performed. Since enormous volumes of image data can be retained in pixels in the state of analog data, processing can be performed efficiently.

Abstract: A component supply device includes: a picker base on which a component is to be loaded; a supplier that picks up the component loaded on the picker base and supplies the component to a predetermined position; a detector that detects the component loaded on the picker base; and a hardware processor that determines a state of the component loaded on the picker base, on a basis of information detected by the detector, wherein the hardware processor determines whether the component is a component that is pickable or a component that is unpickable by the supplier on a basis of the state of the component, and calculates an operation amount for adjusting the component that is unpickable to a pickable state and adjusts only a state of the component that is unpickable by an adjuster on a basis of the calculated operation amount.

Abstract: The present invention provides a compound represented by formula (I): wherein the dashed line indicates the presence or absence of a bond; R1 is carboxy or the like; L is substituted or unsubstituted non-aromatic carbocyclyldiyl or the like; R2 is substituted or unsubstituted alkyl; R3 is a hydrogen atom or the like; X is ?CRX— or ?N—; Y is ?CRY— or ?N—; U is —CRU? or —N?; V is —CRV? or —N?; W is ?CRW— or ?N—; ZA is —C? or —N—; ZB is —CR5R6— or the like; ZC is —CR7R8— or the like; RX, RY, RV and RW are each independently a hydrogen atom or the like; RU is a hydrogen atom or the like; R5 and R6 are each independently a hydrogen atom or the like; R7 and R8 are each independently a hydrogen atom or the like; R4 is substituted or unsubstituted alkyloxy or the like, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, having an antiviral activity; and a pharmaceutical composition comprising the same.

Abstract: An encoder includes memory and circuitry which: (i) encodes an image block; (ii) when encoding the image block: binarizes coefficient information indicating coefficients of the image block; and controls whether to apply arithmetic encoding to a binary data string obtained by binarizing the coefficient information; and (iii) when binarizing the coefficient information: binarizes the coefficient information according to a first syntax structure when arithmetic encoding is applied to the data string and a predetermined condition is not satisfied; binarizes the coefficient information according to a second syntax structure when arithmetic encoding is applied to the data string and the predetermined condition is satisfied; binarizes the coefficient information according to the second syntax structure when no arithmetic encoding is applied to the data string; and subtracts 1 from a value of an initial non-zero coefficient when no arithmetic encoding is applied to the data string when encoding the image block.