Hitachi, Ltd.

Freebit Co., Ltd.

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Adv Antest Corporation

Ts Tech Co., Ltd.

Hitachi America, Ltd.

Hitachi Communication Technologies, Ltd.

Adient Engineering and IP Gmbh

Hiroki Ikeda

Toshiki Sugawara

Masahiko Mizutani

Atsuki Ishida

Jun Sugawa

Hiroshi Oizumi

Kenichi Sakamoto

Shiro Tanabe

Noriaki Misawa

Tohru Kazawa

Hideya Yoshiuchi

Toshimitsu Mizukoshi

Daisuke Mashimo

Ying Shi

Yukio Nakano

Yusuke Yajima

Na Zhang

Yukiko Takeda

Yoshihito Kobayashi

Kazuma Yumoto

Koji Wakayama

Masashi Yano

Michitaka Okuno

Takeshi Onishi

Atsushi Okimura

Hui Deng

Kazuya Miyawaki

Shin Nemoto

Nie Yaling

Hiroo Nakamura

Takeshi Sato

Shinobu Gohara

Katsuhiko Suzuki

Peng Yang

Masayoshi Ichikawa

Shigeki Kitajima

Masayoshi Yagyu

Hisato Oku

Morihito Miyagi

Tatsuo Kanetake

Taiji Misono

Shigeki Kaneko

Yuki Fukuda

Hiromitsu Nagatomo

Hidetaka Yonehara

Yuanchen Ma

Shigeaki Kinoshita

Shoichi Hanatani

Yoshinobu Morita

Taishi Shinagawa

Yuma Oga

Yunxiao Li

Frederick L Wilkinson

Wenting Zhang

Naoto Komiya

Laxmikant Indi

Sean M Osinski

Souhei Noguchi

Jo Sakai

Masahito Takei

Juan Wu

Takahide Aoki

Hiroyuki Nomura

A mat mounting structure for mounting a mat on a seat back frame in a seat back may have a guide wire attachable to the mat configured to receive a force from a back of an occupant on the seat back. The guide wire may have a straight part extending linearly in a longitudinal direction of the seat back frame on a head side or a root side of the seat back frame. A bushing including a penetration hole in which the straight part is insertable in the longitudinal direction may be included in the structure. An attachment hole part in the seat back frame may also be part of the structure. The bushing may be detachably engageable with and attachable to the attachment hole part.

Mat mounting structure in seat back and vehicle seat

There is provided an app management softwarefor cooperating with a bandwidth control systemfor dynamically changing a communication bandwidth of the mobile information terminalfor each type of applicationwhich is installed on the mobile information terminal. This software comprises: a modulefor causing the mobile information terminalto detect a type of applicationwhich communicates from the mobile information terminal; a modulefor causing the mobile information terminalto obtain mobile information terminal identification information for uniquely identifying the mobile information terminal on a communication network; a modulefor causing the mobile information terminalto send the type of application as well as information for identifying the mobile information terminal to the bandwidth control system; and a display sectionfor causing the mobile information terminalto receive a communication status for each application from the bandwidth control system and displaying the communication status on a display of the mobile information terminal.

Application state change notification program and method therefor

According to the present invention, there is provided a method for setting up a cloud account for a mobile operating system on a smartphone equipped with the mobile operating system, comprising the steps of: (1) connecting to a support service providing server by the smartphone, (2) authenticating the smartphone by the support service providing server; (3) remotely accessing the smartphone by the support service providing server to thereby obtain a cloud account from a cloud service providing server through the smartphone; and (4) performing identity validation for the cloud account by the support service providing server between the support service providing server and the cloud service providing server.

Method and system for setting smartphone account

Vehicle seat with seat cushion and seat back includes a seat frame, which comprises: first and second frames disposed at a distance away from each other in a predetermined direction; third frame connecting end portions of the first and second frames; fourth frame connecting another end portions of the first and second frames; and a connecting frame disposed at distances away from the first frame and second frame and connecting the third frame and fourth frame. The seat frame comprises: first pipe member having a U-shaped configuration and configured to form the first frame, the connecting frame, and part of the third frame by which the first frame and the connecting frame are connected; and second pipe member having a U-shaped configuration and configured to form the second frame, a remaining part of the third frame and the fourth frame, and connected to the first pipe member.

Vehicle seat

A vehicle seat including a seat cushion, a seat back, a seat belt, and a seat belt retractor is provided. The vehicle seat includes: a seat back frame comprising: right and left side frames disposed at a distance away from each other in a lateral direction; an upper frame connecting upper end portions of the right side frame and the left side frame; a lower frame connecting lower end portions of the right side frame and the left side frame; and a connecting frame made of a pipe member and disposed at distances away from the right and left side frames and connecting the upper frame and the lower frame; and a first bracket by which the seat belt retractor is attached to the seat back frame. The first bracket is provided on the connecting frame at distances away from the upper frame and the lower frame.

Vehicle seat provided with seat belt retractor

An image shooting system capable of generating high-quality and high-definition images is provided through a camera even when a user of the camera has no knowledge on the camera's settings or photo-shooting techniques, or when the performance of the camera itself is low. There is provided an image shooting system having an image shooting apparatus and a server connected to the image shooting apparatus through the Internet, wherein the image shooting apparatus comprises: a unit for recording image shooting condition parameters as meta-information in a file of an image taken; a communication interface for connecting to the image shooting apparatus to the server, sending the image file to the server, receiving from the server and storing, optimal image shooting condition parameters for optimizing an image quality of the image file; and a unit for reading the optimal image shooting condition parameters received from the server and setting them as an image shooting condition for the image shooting apparatus based on user selections, wherein the server comprises: a unit for obtaining a image file from the image shooting apparatus; a unit for reading settings described in meta-information and determining a model of the apparatus; and an optimal image shooting condition parameter calculation unit for analyzing the image quality of the image file based on a predetermined algorithm as well as calculating, based on the determined model, the optimal image shooting condition parameters for the model to take the image.

Automated parameter optimization for an image shooting system

A vehicle seat device includes: a seat back; an attached member pivotally supported by the seat back and configured to be turnable between a retracted position at which the attached member is housed in a housing recessed portion formed to penetrate a cushion pad of the seat back and a protruding position at which the attached member protrudes toward a front side of the seat back; and an inner board closing a rear opening face of the housing recessed portion. In the vehicle seat device, a locking claw bent forward is provided in an upper end portion of the inner board, and a stopper member configured to suppress frontward and downward movement of the locking claw by engaging with the locking claw is provided in a frame of the seat back. Such vehicle seat device is capable of restricting excessive forward movement and deformation of the inner board.

Vehicle seat device

Technology to provide linked control of bandwidth allocation to a plurality of optical network units among the plural wavelengths by a bandwidth allocation section coupled to the plural optical network units.

Optical line terminal and optical network system

To, even when a transmission wavelength varies in each ONU and an optical amplifier gain depends on the wavelength in an OLT equipped with an optical amplifier, prevent the optical amplifier gain from varying in every ONU and thus prevent deterioration of a dynamic range. The OLT estimates a transmission wavelength of each ONU at the time of ONU registration, and retains a correspondence between an ONU identifier and the transmission wavelength. Moreover, for every burst, an injection current to the optical amplifier is adjusted based on a wavelength and optical amplifier characteristic database.

Burst-mode receiver equipped with optical amplifier, method for controlling optical amplifier, and system

There is a need to recover an ONU from a sleep state for communication with the PON before a specified sleep cancel time in a short period of time without degrading the band use efficiency. An OLT manages an electric state of each ONU connected to a PON. When at least one ONU is in sleep mode, the OLT transmits a grant to allocate a band for a sleep cancel report to the ONU. When the sleep-mode ONU requires communication, the ONU transmits the sleep cancel report to the OLT using the band for the sleep cancel report. When receiving the sleep cancel report, the OLT changes the managed ONU to a normal state and resumes the communication with the PON.

Method of recovery from sleep state of an ONU in a PON system capable of power saving

In a gain-switching-type transimpedance amplifier, in order to provide a technique capable of preventing unnecessary gain switching caused when noise is received, and preventing decrease in sensitivity caused when noise with a large input level is received, and then, a burst signal with a small input level is received, a transimpedance amplifierincludes: a pre-amplifierto which the burst signal is inputted; an average detection start determination unitfor comparing an output of a pre-amplifierwith a first threshold voltage; an average detection circuitfor detecting and outputting an average value of the output of the pre-amplifierduring a certain period of time from a time point when the output of the pre-amplifierexceeds the first threshold voltage; and a gain switching control unitfor determining whether to switch a gain of the pre-amplifierbased on an output of the average detection circuit

Transimpedance amplifier and PON system

The present invention provides an IP broadcasting system that can receive IP broadcasting videos over an IP multicast network. In the IP broadcasting system, a multicast group management apparatus for IP broadcasting that holds multicast group identifiers is connected via an IP multicast network over which IP broadcasting services are provided. When a user issues a request to switch an IP broadcasting channel from an IP broadcasting terminal, a query message including the requested IP broadcasting channel identifier is transmitted to a management apparatus. The IP broadcasting terminal receives a response message indicating the correspondence between the IP broadcasting channel identifier and a multicast group identifier, and transmits a video reception request message to a multicast group by using the received multicast group identifier.

IP broadcasting system and a multicast group management apparatus for the same

There is a need to provide a multirate burst mode receiver for an OLT to be capable of receiving a high-speed burst signal without the need for a special capability of an ONU in a PON system including a mix of ONUs at different transmission bit rates. A multirate burst mode receiver according to the invention includes a signal input discrimination section and a bit rate discrimination section. The signal input discrimination section detects an average amplitude to discriminate signal input. The bit rate discrimination section detects an envelope curve for a high-frequency component to discriminate a signal bit rate. Based on a discrimination result from the signal input discrimination section and the bit rate discrimination section, the multirate burst mode receiver switches a setting for an optical signal reception section and a serial-parallel converter corresponding to the reception bit rate.

Multirate burst mode receiver

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Hachioji, Japan

Hiroki Ikeda