Abstract: A method for verifying content data to be used in a vehicle is provided. The method includes acquiring content data, acquiring, from partial data divided from the content data, a respective plurality of first hash values, acquiring a signature generated by using the first hash values and a key, acquiring state information that indicates a state of a vehicle, determining an integer N that is greater than or equal to one based on the acquired state information, generating, from N pieces of partial data included in the partial data, respective second hash values, verifying the content data by using each of (a) a subset of the plurality of first hash values respectively generated from partial data other than the N pieces of partial data, (b) the second hash values, and (c) the signature, and outputting information that indicates a result of the verifying.

Abstract: A positive electrode, a negative electrode containing lithium, and a nonaqueous electrolyte having lithium ion conductivity are installed. The nonaqueous electrolyte contains a nonaqueous solvent and a solute. The positive electrode contains a positive electrode active material containing at least manganese dioxide, a conductive agent, and a binding agent and further contains an oxide and sulfate of a rare-earth element.

Abstract: A lithium-containing complex transition metal oxide forming the positive electrode active material of a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary cell in one embodiment is a secondary particle obtained by aggregating primary particles. Ion chromatography analysis of a sample obtained by adding the positive electrode active material to an alkali solution and absorbing a distillate thereof in sulfuric acid results in detection of 2-200 pm of ammonia relative to the mass of the positive electrode active material. When a filtrate of an aqueous dispersion in which 1 g of the positive electrode active material is dispersed in 70 ml of pure water is titrated with hydrochloric acid, the value of Y?X is 50-300 mol/g and the value of X?(Y?X) is no higher than 150 mol/g, with X mol/g being the acid consumption until a first inflection point on the pH curve and Y mol/g being the acid consumption until a second inflection point.

Abstract: The traffic monitoring system is provided with: a camera which captures an image of a monitoring area including a road and generates image data; a millimeter-wave radar which scans a scanning area included in the monitoring area and generates millimeter-wave data; and an information processing server which is connected to the camera and the millimeter-wave radar and acquires the image data and the millimeter-wave data. The information processing server is provided with: a data synchronization unit which synchronizes the image data with the millimeter-wave data so that the difference between a timing at which the image data is generated and a timing at which the millimeter-wave data is generated is equal to or smaller than a certain value; and a screen generation unit which associates the image data and the millimeter wave, which have been synchronized, with each other and generates a monitoring screen that indicates the road conditions.

Abstract: A negative electrode includes a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode mixture layer disposed on the current collector, the negative electrode mixture layer including a carbon material and a Si-containing compound. The negative electrode mixture layer includes a lower layer (a first layer) disposed on the negative electrode current collector, and an upper layer (a second layer) disposed on the lower layer. The lower layer includes the carbon material, the Si-containing compound, and a first binder including a polyacrylic acid or a salt thereof. The upper layer includes the carbon material and a second binder. The mass of the lower layer is not less than 50 mass % and less than 90 mass % of the mass of the negative electrode mixture layer, and the mass of the upper layer is more than 10 mass % and not more than 50 mass % of the mass of the negative electrode mixture layer.

Abstract: A display system includes a display device, a first mirror, and a second mirror. The display device includes a display surface that displays a first image. Light emitted by the display device is incident directly or indirectly on the first mirror. The first mirror reflects the light incident. The light reflected by the first mirror is directly or indirectly incident on the second mirror. The second mirror reflects, toward an eye-box, the light incident. The light reflected by the second mirror enters an eye of an observer present within the eye-box to display, on the eye of the observer, a second image based on the first image. The first mirror is a Fresnel mirror.

Abstract: A vehicle seat includes: a pressure sensor capable of measuring a pressure distribution on a surface of the vehicle seat; a plurality of actuators provided in the vehicle seat; and a controller that controls vibrations generated by the plurality of actuators based on the pressure distribution output by the pressure sensor.

Abstract: A negative electrode material includes a graphite material, an alkali metal salt, and at least one metal material selected from the group consisting of Fe, Mn, Mg, Ni, Pd, Rh, Os, and Pt. The graphite material contains natural graphite.

Abstract: An information presenting method according to the present disclosure includes: acquiring instruction information indicative of a preferred taste of a user with respect to a food product; calculating a first feature quantity indicative of a feature of a taste indicated by the instruction information; calculating, from a food product data base which stores a temporal change in a content of each of one or more components for each of one or more food products, progress information indicative of a temporal change in a second feature quantity indicative of a feature of the taste of each of the food products, extracting a food product for which a distance between the first feature quantity and the progress information is equal to or less than a reference value; and presenting the extracted food product.

Abstract: A processor in an object detection device is configured to: acquire settings data for one or more radar grids, each radar grid being set for a measurement area of a corresponding radar and consisting of radar cells; acquire settings data for a processing grid for clustering operations, the processing grid being set for the one or more measurement areas and consisting of processing cells; calculate, for each processing cell, one or more likelihoods associated with measurements of one or more related radar cells based on distances between the processing cell and the one or more related radar cells; calculate a grid value of each of the processing cells in the processing grid based on the one or more likelihoods; and perform a clustering operation on each processing cell based on distances between and/or grid values of the processing cell and one or more different processing cells.

Abstract: Vehicular systems located in commercial passenger vehicles are tested and maintained for operational effectiveness. This patent document describes techniques to perform secure testing on multiple seatback monitors that are located on or in seats in a commercial passenger vehicle and that are associated with a vehicle entertainment system. An example method can determine whether multiple sets of usernames and passwords received by a device authorize a person operating a test-related software on the device to securely test one or more groups of multiple seatback monitors in the commercial passenger vehicle. The example method can also enable selection of a group of multiple seatback monitors that can be specifically tested.

Abstract: A transmission method in the present disclosure includes; obtaining an image and image signal characteristics information indicating one of an opto-electrical transfer function (OETF) or an electro-optical transfer function (EOTF) as image signal characteristics of the image; and transmitting a signal including the image and the image signal characteristics information. According to the transmission method in the present disclosure, a receiving device that received a high dynamic range (HDR) image and a standard dynamic range (SDR) image transmitted through broadcasting or the like can display these images appropriately.

Abstract: A semiconductor laser device includes: a first conductivity side semiconductor layer, an active layer; and a second conductivity side semiconductor layer. The second conductivity side semiconductor layer includes a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer, the first semiconductor layer being closer to the active layer than the second semiconductor layer is. The second semiconductor layer defines a width of a current injection region for injecting current into an optical waveguide. The current injection region includes a width varying region in which a width varies. S1>S2, where S1 denotes a width of the width varying region on a front end face side, and S2 denotes a width of the width varying region on a rear end face side.

Abstract: A transmission method includes generating a first precoded signal and a second precoded signal by performing a precoding process on a first baseband signal and a second baseband signal, outputting a third signal by inserting a pilot signal into the first precoded signal, outputting a fourth signal by applying a first phase change to the second precoded signal, outputting a fifth signal by inserting a pilot signal into the fourth signal, and outputting a sixth signal by applying a second phase change to the fifth signal.

Abstract: There is provided an estimation device that estimates a living body orientation.

Abstract: The flexible printed circuit includes a first insulator including a first insulating layer, a second insulator including a second insulating layer, and a wiring layer formed of a conductive material. Each of the first insulator and the second insulator meets IEC 60950. The flexible printed circuit includes a region where insulation of the wiring layer is required, the region is hermetically sealed by the first insulator and the second insulator.

Abstract: A metal wire containing tungsten is provided. A tungsten content of the metal wire is at least 90 wt %. A tensile strength of the metal wire is at least 4000 MPa. An elastic modulus of the metal wire is at least 350 GPa and at most 450 GPa. A diameter of the metal wire is at most 60 ?m. An average crystal grain size of the metal wire in a cross-section orthogonal to an axis of the metal wire is at most 0.20 ?m.

Abstract: A lighting device of the present disclosure includes an excitation light source, a phosphor, a spreader, a reflective layer, and a reflective region. The excitation light source emits a polarized light. The phosphor receives the light as an excitation light from the excitation light source, and emits a fluorescent light, the phosphor including a plurality of phosphor pieces adjacently disposed on the reflective layer, the plurality of phosphor pieces having a same characteristic. The spreader supports the phosphor. The reflective layer is disposed between the phosphor and the spreader, and reflects the fluorescent light. The reflective region is disposed between the plurality of phosphor pieces, the reflective region reflecting the received excitation light while keeping a polarization characteristic of the received excitation light.

Abstract: An image display device includes: a light guide plate which includes an front face from which light from a light source exits; a heat sink that holds the light source portion and the light guide plate; a base plate which accommodates the light source portion, the light guide plate, and the heat sink; and a frame which is fixed to a wall portion of the base plate and holds the light guide plate from front of the light guide plate. The frame includes: a main body disposed inwardly of and along the wall portion; and a holder extending from the main body. The holder holds an end portion of the light guide plate from the front of the light guide plate, and the end portion is on a side of the end face from which light emitted from the light source portion enters.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes source lines and gate lines, pixel electrodes, switching elements, a source driver, a gate driver, and a failure inspection circuit. The source lines and the gate lines are disposed in a lattice form. The pixel electrode is disposed in a pixel region defined by the source line and the gate line. The switching element is disposed corresponding to the pixel electrode. The source driver drives the source lines. The gate driver drives the gate lines. The failure inspection circuit is connected to the source lines or the gate lines, and performs inspection of the source lines or the gate lines. The failure inspection circuit includes monitor input signal lines, monitor output signal lines, a determination circuit that detects voltage levels of output signals from the monitor output signal lines, and an expected value comparison circuit that compares outputs from the determination circuit with expected values.

Abstract: A first antenna group includes one first antenna disposed at one end of a leading car, and another first antenna disposed at one end of a following car. A second antenna group includes one second antenna disposed at the one end of the leading car, the position where the one second antenna is disposed being different from the position where the one first antenna is disposed in a direction orthogonal to a travel direction of the leading car, and another second antenna disposed at the one end of the following car. A measurement unit measures radio wave strength between a pair of first antennas during communication via the first antenna group. A controller is enabled to make a switch from the first antenna group to the second antenna group when the radio wave strength is less than a predetermined value.

Abstract: An electrostatic capacitive coupling type touch panel including an input region having four sides, a peripheral region around the input region, terminals formed in the peripheral region along a first side of the input region, wirings formed in the peripheral region along second, third and fourth sides of the input region, and the input region having X and Y electrodes crossing. The wirings are connected between corresponding X or Y electrodes and wiring terminals plurality of terminals. A dummy wiring, which is not connected to any of the X electrodes or Y electrodes, is provided outside the wiring formed in a farthest position from the input region, and the dummy wiring extends through the peripheral region along the second, third and fourth sides of the input region, and electrically connects to at least one dummy wiring terminal.

Abstract: An input device for a vehicle that performs input for operating a user interface (UI) displayed by a display disposed in a vehicle includes: a touch sensor that receives a touch input by a user; and a controller that selects, when the touch input into the touch sensor is a touch with a plurality of fingers or a plurality of taps, a region corresponding to the count of touches with the fingers or the count of taps, from among a plurality of regions displayed by the display.

Abstract: A program execution device capable of protecting a program against unauthorized analysis and alteration is provided. The program execution device includes an execution unit, a first protection unit, and a second protection unit. The execution unit executes a first program and a second program, and is connected with an external device that is capable of controlling the execution. The first protection unit disconnects the execution unit from the external device while the execution unit is executing the first program. The second protection unit protects the first program while the execution unit is executing the second program.

Abstract: An information processing method includes: obtaining noise region estimation information output from a first converter by a first image including a noise region being input to the first converter; obtaining a second image, on which noise region removal processing has been performed, output from a second converter by the noise region estimation information and the first image being input to the second converter; generating a fourth image including the estimated noise region by using the noise region estimation information and a third image including no noise region and a scene corresponding to the first image; training the first converter by using machine learning in which the first image is reference data and the fourth image is conversion data; and training the second converter by using machine learning in which the third image is reference data and the second image is conversion data.

Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus is provided in which the detection range of a left-front-corner sonar (12a) located at the vehicle's left front corner is included in the field of view of a second imaging means (14) located at the vehicle's left front corner. When the left-front-corner sonar (12a) detects a three-dimensional object at the vehicle's left front corner, an image processing means (3) synthesizes an image of the image created using a second imaging means (14) and the images created with four cameras (7a-7d) for imaging the complete periphery of the vehicle, and creates a bird's-eye-view image (40b). The detection range of the left-front-corner sonar (12a) is included within a region of the bird's-eye image (40b) on the basis of the image created with the second imaging means (14).

Abstract: A zoom lens system includes, in order from the object side to the image side, a first lens group having negative power and a second lens group having positive power. The first lens group includes at least two negative lenses. When zooming, one of the first lens group and the second lens group is fixed relative to the imaging surface, and the other moves along an optical axis to change an angle of view.

Abstract: A capacitor includes: a capacitor element; an insulation coated lead wire connected to an electrode of a capacitor element; and a resin covering the capacitor element and the insulation coated lead wire in a state that one end of the insulation coated lead wire is exposed from the resin. The insulation coated lead wire includes: a stranded wire in which a plurality of conductive wires are twisted with each other; and an insulator covering the stranded wire. An exposed part of the stranded wire is connected to the electrode of the capacitor element. The exposed part is a part exposed from the insulator at another end of the insulation coated lead wire. The exposed part is entirely covered with solder.

Abstract: An information display device includes an input interface that accepts an input manipulation including setting a starting location and a destination, and a processor that displays in a display area, an object and a manipulator for use to enter an instruction to change the display state of the object. The processor changes the display state in accordance with a vector to be defined by the distance and direction from the starting location to the destination. The processor performs a first type of processing in response to the input manipulation done on a region other than a region of the manipulator, and a second type of processing of changing the display state in response to the input manipulation done on the region of the manipulator. In the second type of processing, the display state of the object can be changed more finely than in the first type of processing.

Abstract: A fuel cell system includes: a fuel cell; a fuel gas supply path supplying the fuel gas to the fuel cell; a recycling path returning discharged anode off-gas to an entrance of the fuel cell; an anode off-gas discharge path branching from the recycling path and discharging the anode off-gas to an outside; a first valve in the anode off-gas discharge path; a pressurizer pressurizing the anode off-gas; and a controller performing control to cause the pressurizer to act in at least one of a timing in execution of a purge action supplying the fuel gas from the fuel gas supply path and discharging the anode off-gas to the outside in a first valve open state and a timing in prescribed time after the purge action and assessing abnormality based on a pressure of the recycling path or anode off-gas discharge path or an action amount of the pressurizer.

Abstract: An image processor includes: an image sensor outputting a short exposure image and a long exposure image; a sensor controller that, when brightness of the subject changes, controls first exposure sensitivity to cause the short exposure image to have first brightness and controls second exposure sensitivity to cause the long exposure image to have second brightness; a motion blending ratio calculator calculating a motion blending ratio based on a motion amount of the subject; a motion-adapted image synthesizer generating a motion-adapted image by synthesizing a corrected short exposure image and the long exposure image based on the motion blending ratio; and an HDR image synthesizer generating an HDR image by synthesizing the motion-adapted image and the short exposure image together. When the subject becomes darker, the sensor controller controls the first and second exposure sensitivities to cause the first sensor gain to be at most the second sensor gain.

Abstract: Address information of a mail to be transmitted by a mail communication function is extracted from the mail to be transmitted; a transmission time of the mail to be transmitted is extracted from a portable information terminal; and judgment is made as to whether the address information matches predetermined address information and whether the transmission time belongs to a predetermined time zone. When the address information matches the predetermined address information, and the address information belongs to the predetermined time zone, an activation time at which a household appliance is to be activated is determined on the basis of the transmission time, and a control command for activating the household appliance at the activation time is transmitted to a network.

Abstract: A bone conduction headset includes a support member having a U-shape, a pair of bone conduction speakers respectively provided to a first end of the support member and a second end of the support member, the second end being opposite to the first end, a microphone coupled to the first end, and a mute switch provided to either the first end or the second end, and configured to perform a control to lower volume on the pair of bone conduction speakers.

Abstract: An encoder includes: circuitry; and memory. Using the memory, the circuitry: performs, when a size of a current block to be subjected to transform processing is not a power of 2, complementary processing of adding a complementary region to the current block to cause the size to be a power of 2; performs transform processing on the current block which has been subjected to the complementary processing; performs inverse transform processing on the current block which has been subjected to the transform processing; and eliminates the complementary region included in the current block which has been subjected to the inverse transform processing.

Abstract: The invention relates to the initiation of a service to a mobile terminal capable of communicating via at least a first and second access network. Further, the invention relates to a reduction of power consumption of mobile terminals supporting connectivity to at least two access networks. The invention also relates to mobile communication systems and in particular to mobile communications through heterogeneous access networks. In order to prove improved method for initiating services to mobile terminals and/or to reduce power consumption of mobile terminals, the invention introduces of a sleep state that can be entered by the terminal for an access system if same is not used. Upon requesting a service from/to the mobile terminal, the mobile terminal starts service initiation through a second access system and transits back to active state for the first access system for service provision.

Abstract: Provided are an intrusion detection system and an intrusion detection method. The intrusion detection system includes: a camera which photographs a surveillance area and generates image data; a millimeter-wave radar which scans a scanning area contained within the surveillance area and generates millimeter-wave data; and an information processing server which is connected to the camera and the millimeter-wave radar, and acquires image data and millimeter-wave data. The information processing server is equipped with: a data synchronization unit which synchronizes the image data and millimeter-wave data; a determination unit which determines whether an object has intruded into a detection area contained within the scanning area, on the basis of millimeter-wave data; and a screen generation unit which associates the synchronized image data and millimeter-wave data and generates a surveillance screen which indicates the determination results generated by the determination unit.

Abstract: To present to a user whether a person to be visited is staying in a target area and whether the person to be visited is in a state where the person is unable to deal with a visitor, the present invention detects whether there is any person staying in the target area based on images from a camera, detects whether each person staying in the target area is in a state where the person is unable to deal with a visitor, and generates display information displaying state information regarding whether each person is in the state where the person is unable to deal with a visitor, together with stay information regarding whether there is any person staying in the target area.

Abstract: An advantage is to provide a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery with improved heat resistance. A positive electrode active material contains a lithium-transition metal composite oxide containing 80 mol % or more of Ni and 0.1 mol % to 1.5 mol % of B on the basis of the total number of moles of metal elements excluding Li, and B and at least one element (M1) selected from Groups 4 to 6 are present on at least the surfaces of particles of the composite oxide. When particles having a volume-based particle size larger than 70% particle size (D70) are first particles, and particles having a volume-based particle size smaller than 30% particle size (D30) are second particles, the molar fraction of M1 on the basis of the total number of moles of metallic elements excluding Li on the surfaces of the second particles is greater than that of the first particles.

Abstract: The ink jet device is provided with a plurality of ink jet heads including a plurality of nozzles disposed linearly with each other at intervals in a predetermined longitudinal direction and ejecting ink in different regions each other in the printing width direction; and a position adjusting mechanism performing rotating operation of changing the intervals in the printing width direction of the nozzles by rotating the plurality of ink jet heads around an axis perpendicular to the print surface of the print object, and performing a shifting operation of shifting at least one of the plurality of ink jet heads in the printing width direction.

Abstract: A wall surface suction-type travel device includes a main body, a cushion, a plurality of support wheels, a crawler, and a drive source. The main body includes a wall-surface facing section and a draw-in port. The cushion is disposed on the wall-surface facing section of the main body and surrounding an edge of the draw-in port. The cushion is elastically deformable and has a slide surface sliding on the wall surface when the wall surface suction-type travel device travels on the wall surface. The plurality of support wheels are disposed on the main body. The crawler is an endless belt suspended on the plurality of the support wheels. The crawler has a grip surface put into contact with the wall surface when the wall surface suction-type travel device travels on the wall surface. The drive source is to rotate the crawler.

Abstract: A management device, comprising a controller that controls communication between a movable first terminal device and a second terminal device in which a moving range is narrower than the first terminal device, and a detector that detects that the first terminal device arrives at a target point by movement, wherein in a case where the detector detects the arrival at the target point, the controller ends the communication between the first terminal device and the second terminal device.

Abstract: A LCD device having a large pixel holding capacitance includes opposedly facing first and second substrates, and liquid crystal between them. The first substrate includes a video signal line, a pixel electrode, a thin film transistor having a first electrode connected to the video signal line and a second electrode connected to the pixel electrode, a first silicon nitride film formed above the second electrode, an organic insulation film above the first silicon nitride film, a capacitance electrode above the organic insulation film, and a second silicon nitride film above the capacitance electrode and below the pixel electrode. A contact hole etched in both the first and second silicon nitride films connects the second electrode and the pixel electrode to each other. A holding capacitance is formed by the pixel electrode, the second silicon nitride film and the capacitance electrode.

Abstract: There is provided a component mounter including: a storage which stores information related to a tape feeder and information related to a carrier tape pitch-fed by the tape feeder; a detector which detects a state where the carrier tape becomes close to a component shortage; a determiner which determines whether to perform predetermined processing with respect to a termination portion of the carrier tape based on information related to the tape feeder and information related to the carrier tape which are stored in the storage, in a case where a state where the carrier tape is close to a component shortage is detected by the detector; and a notifier which notifies an operator of contents of the predetermined processing, in a case where the determiner determines that the predetermined processing is supposed to be performed with respect to the termination portion of the carrier tape.

Abstract: A lighting device includes a light emitting element; a first lens that captures and emits light generated by the light emitting element; and a second lens that captures light emitted from the first lens and emits the light in a predetermined direction. The first lens includes a first-lens-entrance through which the light generated by the light emitting element enters, a first lens exit that emits the light entered from the first-lens-entrance and transmitted through an inside of the first lens, and a plurality of first-lens-side-portion-wall-surfaces that are provided between the first-lens-entrance and the first lens exit. The plurality of first-lens-side-portion-wall-surfaces include a reflection-side-surface-portion that reflects the light entered the inside of the first lens from the first-lens-entrance, and a side surface portion that is configured to allow light having a luminous intensity smaller than a luminous intensity of light entering the reflection-side-surface-portion to enter.

Abstract: A stress management system comprises: a first sensor that detects biological data of a user; a second sensor that detects life log data indicating an action history of the user; a generator that generates stress data using the biological data, the stress data indicating a time series variation of a stress level of the user; an estimator that, when the stress level of the user included in the stress data exceeds a first threshold, estimates whether or not stress of the user is interpersonal stress caused by contact with another person, using the life log data; and a notifier that notifies the user of a result of the estimation by the estimator and notifies a notification target person different from the user of notification content based on the result of the estimation by the estimator.

Abstract: A closed compressor includes: a compressor body; and a closed vessel in which the compressor body is accommodated and oil is stored. The compressor body has an electric element and a compression element that is driven by the electric element. The compression element has a cylinder block that forms a cylinder, a piston that performs a reciprocating motion in the cylinder, and a crankshaft that actuates the piston. The cylinder block configures a bearing that pivotally supports the crankshaft. The cylinder forms a compression chamber. The compressor body has a support that forms a curved surface. A contact portion, at which the curved surface comes into contact with a receiving surface in the closed vessel, is formed.