PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image discriminating device capable of improving the degree of freedom of setting an imaging area, and image discriminating method and a program.

SOLUTION: A first range is set in one of respective areas divided with a center line corresponding to a direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of a finger projected in an image as a boundary in the i...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an imaging apparatus for photographing an abnormal state with high image quality and has improved durability.

SOLUTION: The imaging device which has a detecting means for detecting a state of a monitoring target, is used in a monitoring system for monitoring the monitoring target and images the monitoring target, wherein the imaging apparatus includes: a mea...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a bathroom TV system for enjoying a video image on a big screen in a bathroom.

SOLUTION: The bathroom TV system 1 is provided with, as main components, a dedicated TV tuner 11, a projector 6 installed in a dressing room 3, a transmission type screen 8 for back projection and super-hydrophilic coating materials 9 provided on the both surfaces of a bathroom gl...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device, a method and a program for judging hierarchy by which hierarchy of an input packet is judged even when it is not accompanied by TMCC information, etc.

SOLUTION: A hierarchy judgment device 100 includes: a multiplex frame pattern storage means 10 for storing a predetermined multiplex frame pattern; a position detection means 20 in the multiplex fram...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a server apparatus which can return a response so that a user of a client apparatus in a thin client system may not be annoyed when using the client apparatus.

SOLUTION: When the server apparatus transmits screen information to be displayed on the client apparatus, the screen information is divided into several block images. After compressing the divided blo...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor integrated circuit for sensorless drive which can accurately detect the rotational position of the rotor of a brushless motor at short brake.

SOLUTION: In the semiconductor integrated circuit for sensorless drive for driving the brushless motor sensorlessly, a comparator has a common mode input voltage range where it can detect the voltage no...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for collecting the seedlings of shellfishes, by which the seedlings of the shellfishes can efficiently be collected.

SOLUTION: This method for collecting the seedlings of the shellfishes in a suspending style has the step of coating a seedling collector with slurry containing a hydraulic composition containing cement as main component, and then uses...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To display an image showing detailed information visibly for a specific viewer and prevent the easy viewing of the image from the other viewers.

SOLUTION: This display shelf includes placing tables 61, 62 and 63 which are adapted to have articles 4 placed thereon, transmission-type screens 71, 72 and 73 arranged adjacent to the placing tables 61, 62 and 63, projected w...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a bone salt quantity measuring apparatus enabling simple bone salt determination which can be widely used for medical examinations with less burdens even for an elderly person or the like and realizing measurement accuracy which can be utilized for early detection of osteoporosis and follow-up for treatment.

SOLUTION: The bone salt quantity measuring apparat...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an induction heating cooker and a method for manufacturing that, which are capable of simplifying complicated inspection and adjusting work in assembling step of the induction heating cooker as much as possible, and carrying out drive control more precisely with higher precision.

SOLUTION: The induction heating cooker includes a microcomputer 9 including a f...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate drawbacks of a known technology simply and with an effective form in a connecting device mounted on a drive unit such as a machine tool for releasably connecting a spindle to a drive shaft in a form connecting system in a holding device for a tool or a workpiece.

SOLUTION: The spindle and the drive shaft are equipped with individual entrainment elements, a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a decorative sheet which has same various properties such as lightfastness, stain resistance, chemical resistance, and scratch resistance or the like as the conventional decorative sheet, can suppress a discharge amount of carbon dioxide gas, and is suitable from the view point of environmental conservation.

SOLUTION: The decorative sheet 1 has a pattern lay...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a shift control system capable of preventing any sense of incongruity from being given to a driver when operating a P switch when a vehicle is stopped.

SOLUTION: When a driver inputs a request for switching the shift range to the P range despite that a vehicle has not yet stopped completely, the wheel cylinder pressure is maintained at a predetermined brake ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control unit of a hybrid vehicle for avoiding a torque increase response delay while synchronizing by an increase in transmission input shaft rotation speed even when a rapid torque increase is required.

SOLUTION: The control unit is provided with an input torque control means for controlling, in down-shifting, input shaft torque of a transmission so as to...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hybrid drive device that can perform power generation, regeneration, driving force assist and the like by a first rotary electric machine, while improving the fuel efficiency of an engine by inhibiting the increase of the rotational speed of an input shaft in such a low-load traveling state as high-speed cruising.

SOLUTION: This hybrid drive device compris...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To exhibit maximum traction performance making full use of each wheel with vehicle behavior control such as longitudinal driving force distribution control and lateral driving force distribution control while appropriately controlling engine output.

SOLUTION: A main control part 70 computes respective wheel allowable driving force FxOf_1, FxOf_r, FxOr_1, FxOr_r from a ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve stability in preventing the over-steering tendency or under-steering tendency of a vehicle by braking force control and to perform control which fully reflects a driver's intention to accelerate.

SOLUTION: This braking force control device 20 has a braking control function of carrying out braking control of a turning outer side front wheel when detecting the...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily process a reinforcing plate compactly, and to attach the reinforcing plate to a center frame and side frames easily with adequate strength.

SOLUTION: The reinforcing plate 26 firmly fixed in a cross joint 25 joined together in a T-shape between the center frame 12 and the respective side frames 20, 21 is configured to be firmly fixed in the lower surface of a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve stable platoon travelling.

SOLUTION: An automatic traveling vehicle automatically traveling while following a leading vehicle is provided with a controller for controlling a traveling speed according to a distance to a forward vehicle.

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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suitably determine an output shaft rotation direction of a shifting portion without increasing the number of part items such as a rotation speed sensor in a control device for a vehicular drive system including an electrically controlled differential portion, in which a differential state between an input shaft rotation speed and an output shaft rotation speed is contro...