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20090034794 | Conduct inference apparatus - In a conduct inference process, feature points are extracted from a capture image. The extracted feature points are collated with conduct inference models to select conduct inference models in each of which an accordance ratio between a target vector and a movement vector is within a tolerance. Among the selected conduct inference models, one conduct inference model in which a distance from a relative feature point to a return point is shortest is selected. Then, a specific conduct designated in the selected conduct inference model is tentatively determined as a specific conduct the driver intends to perform. Furthermore, based on the tentatively determined specific conduct, it is determined whether the specific conduct is probable. When it is determined that the specific conduct is probable, an alarm process is executed to output an alarm to the driver. | 02-05-2009 |
20090103815 | Body position detecting apparatus - In a body position detecting apparatus, a controller repeatedly acquires image data that includes an object and an operator in a place where the operator is capable of operating the object. When the controller detects that the operator is in an operating position where the operator operates the object, the controller detects a position of a body part of the operator in the image data and the controller sets the position of the body part to an initial position. The controller detects a position of the body part of the operator in the image data that is acquired after the initial position is set, by detecting a displacement from a position of the body part detected last time and accumulating the displacement to the initial position. | 04-23-2009 |
20100157059 | ACTION ESTIMATING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR ESTIMATING OCCUPANT'S ACTION, AND PROGRAM - A detection unit obtains a position of a feature point of an occupant. A storage unit stores a model of all specific actions in each of physical feature classifications. The model defines a position or a locus of the feature point in each specific action, which an occupant may perform. A determining unit compares an in-action feature point with each model of a specific action, which is being performed, to determine a classification conformity weight indicating a possibility that the occupant belongs to the physical feature classification. An estimating unit compares the position of the feature point with each model to obtain a comparison result and generate a conformity value by incorporating the classification conformity weight into the comparison result. The estimating unit detects an estimated action, which is a specific action corresponding to the model, which has a highest conformity value. | 06-24-2010 |
20100158316 | Action estimating apparatus, method for updating estimation model, and program - A storage unit stores a model defining a position or a locus of a feature point of an occupant in each specific action. An action estimation unit compares the feature point with each of the models to detect an estimated action. A detecting unit detects that a specific action is being performed as a definite action. A first generating unit generates a new definite model corresponding to the definite action by modifying a position or a locus of the feature point according to an in-action feature point when the definite action is being performed. A second generating unit generates a new non-definite model using the in-action feature point according to a correspondence between the feature point in the definite action and the feature point of a non-definite model other than the definite model. An update unit updates the definite action model and the non-definite action model. | 06-24-2010 |
20110187862 | STEERING WHEEL GRIP DETECTION APPARATUS AND PROGRAM PRODUCT - A steering wheel grip detection apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus is configured to: acquire information indicative of actual position of a steering wheel in a vehicle compartment; acquire an image captured by an imaging device; identify position of the steering wheel on the image by applying the actual position of the steering wheel to a prescribed correspondence position relationship between the actual position and the position on the image; identify hand position of a person appearing on the image; and determine whether the steering wheel is gripped, based on whether the hand position on the image is on the position of the steering wheel on the image. | 08-04-2011 |
20110254956 | DRIVING ASSISTANCE APPARATUS - In a hand-free driving warning process for a vehicle, when a grip state of a steering wheel is in a hand-free driving state, and the vehicle is in a travel state stipulated previously, a danger degree is derived based on a position of a vehicle compartment where a non-grip hand exists. In deriving the danger degree, when the non-grip hand is in a high danger position, a high level is set; when the non-grip hand exists in a low danger position, a middle level or a low lever is set. In the low level, any warning is not outputted; in the middle level, a warning is outputted in a sound volume smaller than a usual sound volume; and in the high level, a warning is outputted in the usual sound volume or greater. | 10-20-2011 |
20120147032 | MANIPULATION INFORMATION INPUT APPARATUS - Several images are displayed based on instructions. A map image is displayed first as a base image. A destination setup image is then displayed as a manipulation image. A telephone number input image is then displayed also as a manipulation image. Then, an input of a telephone number of a destination is made to the telephone number input image. When an event occurs in the middle of the input, a present map image is alternatively displayed while the previously displayed images from the map image as a closest displayed base image up to the telephone number input image as an interrupted displayed manipulation image are recorded as an image transition in an image recording portion. When the event disappears, the recorded image transition is displayed from the closest displayed base image up to the interrupted displayed manipulation image, enabling smooth resumption of the interrupted input. | 06-14-2012 |
20130328673 | DRIVING ABILITY REDUCTION DETERMINING APPARATUS - A driving ability reduction determining apparatus comprising a virtual image display portion, an operation portion, a response detection portion and a driving ability determination portion is disclosed. The virtual image display portion emits a determination-usage display image toward a windshield, thereby displaying to the driver the determination-usage display image as a virtual image through the windshield. The operation portion is operated by the driver when the driver visually recognizes the determination-usage display image. The response detection portion detects a response situation of driver's operation of the operation portion in response to display of the determination-usage display image by the virtual image display portion. The driving ability determination portion determines the driving ability reduction of the driver based on a detection result of the response detection portion. | 12-12-2013 |
20140088452 | STRESS EVALUATION APPARATUS, STRESS EVALUATION METHOD AND STRESS EVALUATION PROGRAM - A stress evaluation apparatus, a stress evaluation method, and a program for evaluating stress received by an operator during when an in-vehicle device is operated by an upper limb are provided. The apparatus includes a detection sensor, a calculation process portion and an evaluation portion. The detection sensor detects a muscle potential of a measuring object muscle of the operator. The calculation process portion receives time series information of the muscle potential to calculate strength information. The evaluation portion compares the strength information with an evaluation standard to make an evaluation of stress of the operator. The method includes detecting a muscle potential of a measuring object muscle, receiving time series information of the muscle potential to calculate strength information, and comparing the strength information with an evaluation standard to evaluate stress. A medium storing a computer-executable program that causes a computer to perform the above-described method is provided. | 03-27-2014 |
20150150488 | STRESS EVALUATION APPARATUS - In an evaluation process, a first muscle strength (i.e., muscle potential) of a first muscle responsible for a dorsiflexing action of the ankle joint of a leg manipulating an accelerator pedal is acquired using a first muscle potential sensor. A second muscle strength (i.e., muscle potential) of a second muscle responsible for a plantarflexing action of the ankle joint of the leg manipulating the accelerator pedal is acquired using a second muscle potential sensor. Then, on the basis of time-series variation of each of the muscle potentials acquired using the first and second muscle potential sensors, a synchronous activity level is calculated as an evaluation index. When the difference between the evaluation index and an evaluation standard pre-determined is not less than a prescribed value, it is evaluated that an occupant of a vehicle feels stress as a result of manipulating an in-vehicle information apparatus while driving the vehicle. | 06-04-2015 |
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20080230585 | DIFFERENT MATERIALS BONDED MEMBER AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF - A different materials bonded member includes a ceramic base material and a metallic member which are bonded together through an Au solder material. The solder material is disposed on a bonding surface of the ceramic base through a given active metal layer or a given metalized layer and the solder material is heated and melted to form a pre-coat layer adhering to the bonding surface, the metallic member is disposed on a surface of the pre-coat layer through a barrier layer having a given function. A bonded part is formed by solidifying the pre-coat layer after it has been heated and melted under given temperature conditions to bond the ceramic base and the metallic member to one another. | 09-25-2008 |
20080272180 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING HEAT SPREADER MODULE - A heat spreader module has a pedestal, a heat spreader member joined to the pedestal by a first active hard brazing material, an intermediate layer joined to the heat spreader member by a second active hard brazing material, an insulating board joined to the intermediate layer by a third active hard brazing material, and a circuit board joined to the insulating board by a fourth active hard brazing material. The first through fourth active hard brazing materials are supplied such that the active hard brazing materials have a thickness ranging from 3 to 20 μm when the components of the heat spreader module are joined together under pressure, and contain an active element in an amount ranging from 400 to 1000 μg/cm | 11-06-2008 |
20090086435 | HEAT SINK MODULE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - There is provided a heat sink module having good thermal conductivity, excellent reliability without separation, and a space-saving property with a mechanism of sufficiently high heat radiation. The heat sink module includes: two or more heat conduction sections each having a heat sink layer formed from a heat sink material having a thermal expansion coefficient of 1×10 | 04-02-2009 |
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20120275029 | PROJECTION LENS, OPTICAL APPARATUS INCLUDING PROJECTION LENS, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PROJECTION LENS - A projection lens PL comprises, in order from a projection side: a first lens component L1 which has positive refractive power and is biconvex; a second lens component L2 which has negative refractive power and is meniscus; and a third lens component L3 which has positive refractive power and has a convex lens surface facing the projection side, lens surfaces on the projection side and an object side of the first lens component L1 and lens surfaces on the projection side and the object side of the second lens component L2 being aspherical, and the following conditional expression being satisfied: | 11-01-2012 |
20140379128 | ROBOT APPARATUS AND SPEED REDUCER STATE DIAGNOSING METHOD - A robot apparatus includes a multi-joint robot including, in at least one portion, a joint including a motor, a speed reducer connected to the motor, an input angle detecting unit configured to detect a rotational, angle of a rotating shaft of the motor, and an output angle detecting unit configured to detect an output rotational angle of the speed reducer, and a controller configured to diagnose a state of the speed reducer from an angle difference between the input rotational angle detected by the input angle detecting unit and the output rotational angle detected by the output angle detecting unit. | 12-25-2014 |
20150036225 | ZOOM LENS, OPTICAL APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE ZOOM LENS - Provided is a zoom lens having, in order from an object, a first lens group (G | 02-05-2015 |
20150360369 | ROBOT CONTROLLING METHOD, ROBOT APPARATUS, PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ASSEMBLY COMPONENT - Feedback control is carried out on respective servomotors so that detection angles detected by respective input-side encoders become target angles to be obtained when a leading end of a robot has moved to a positioning completion position of a first motion. Subsequently, the position of the leading end of the robot is obtained on the basis of the detection angles detected by the respective output-side encoders. The time from a time point at which the detection angles detected by the input-side encoders are brought to the target angles through the feedback control to a time point at which a vibration width of the calculated position of the leading end of the robot relative to the positioning completion position converges within a convergence range is obtained. The obtained time is set in the stopping duration of the robot. | 12-17-2015 |