Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Autoliv Development Ab

Shanghai Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd.

Katsuhiro Ito

Ganta Hibata

Masuo Matsuki

Yusuke Shinya

Jin Hayashihara

Nobushige Wakamatsu

Takashi Yamamoto

Yasushi Shikata

Tomoyasu Yoshikawa

Katsuhito Yoshio

Masaki Tamura

Masatsugu Sasaki

Harry Vermeulen

Kiyohiro Uemura

Tomoki Kuroda

Hitoshi Hiratsuka

Noboru Okuzono

Takashi Kageyama

Kenichi Morizane

Kinshirou Suzawa

An image pickup apparatus capable of performing automatic shooting suitable for a subject moving a lot. The apparatus includes an image pickup portion configured to output an image of a subject formed by an image pickup optical system, and a drive portion configured to rotate the image pickup portion about an axis. In the apparatus, one or more controllers detects a specific subject in the image, detects motion vectors in the image, and detects a moving subject in the image based on the vectors, wherein the specific or moving subject is determined as a subject to be shot, and based on motion information on the that subject, adjusting composition and tracking of that subject is performed.

Image pickup apparatus that performs automatic shooting, control method therefor, and storage medium

A display device includes a driver circuit on a display panel, a conductive frame that is disposed behind the display panel and supplies a frame ground, a control printed board disposed behind the conductive frame, and a conductive shield cover covering at least a part of the back face of the control printed board. The control printed board includes a front ground pad and a backside ground pad. The front ground pad is electrically connected to the back face of the conductive frame. The backside ground pad is electrically connected to the conductive shield cover. A part of an end of the conductive shield cover is electrically connected to the partial region.

Display device

An image capturing apparatus performs automatic image capturing of a subject by using an image capturing unit, controls a plurality of images acquired by the automatic image capturing to be recorded in a recording unit, selects deletion candidate images from among the plurality of images recorded in the recording unit, based on a predetermined deletion condition, automatically deletes the deletion candidate images, and performs control so that information about images other than the deletion candidate images, among the plurality of images recorded in the recording unit and including the deletion candidate images before being automatically deleted, is transmitted to an external apparatus via a communication unit before the deletion candidate images are deleted so that the information is displayed on the external apparatus.

Image capturing apparatus, method for controlling the same, and recording medium for automatic image capturing of a subject

An image capture apparatus includes an image capture device, a driving device configured to drive to change an orientation of the image capture device; an input device configured to receive input of voice, and a controller configured to, if the input voice is an instruction to shoot an image, perform control of stopping the driving device and causing the image capture device to capture an image at a stopping position, and also of moving the orientation of the image capture device from the stopping position by a predetermined amount in positive and negative directions in the drive direction and causing the image capture device to capture images at the position after being moved in the positive direction and the position after being moved in the negative direction.

Image capture apparatus and control method for same, and storage medium

An electronic device displays an operation screen for remotely adjusting a field of view (FOV) of an external image capture apparatus. The operation screen comprises a field-of-view user interface (FOV-UI) that includes an indication of a current field of view of the image capture apparatus and an indication of a maximum field of view at a current orientation of the image capture apparatus. The electronic device updates the FOV-UI based on information acquired from the image capture apparatus.

Electronic device capable of remotely controlling image capture apparatus and control method for same

An inclination controlling mechanism of a seatbelt device is provided with: a pulley that converts an advancing/retracting movement of a cable of the cable advancing/retracting mechanism; a drive gear mounted around a pivot shaft of the pulley and synchronized with rotation of the pulley; and a driven gear mounted around a pivot shaft of a sensor housing so as to move in conjunction with a rotation of the sensor housing. The drive gear and driven gear engage with each other in a condition where a rotational track surface of the drive gear and rotational track surface of the driven gear intersect at a predetermined angle. As a result, an inertial body supporting surface serving as a sensor reference plane can be accurately maintained horizontally even at an arbitrary seatback recline angle, and thus the accuracy of the acceleration sensor can be improved.

Seatbelt device

A counterweight that biases a ratchet lever toward an unlocking side, in addition to a self weight of the ratchet lever, is provided in a mechanism that locks pull-out operation of a seatbelt according to operation of an acceleration sensor. The counterweight is provided with a moment transmission projection that allows the ratchet lever to turn freely as a result of non-engagement between the counterweight and the ratchet lever when a tilt angle of a seat back is less than 60&#xb0;, and that transmits rotational moment by a self weight of the counterweight (rotational moment in the direction of an arrow R) to the ratchet lever as a rotary bias force toward the unlocking side as a result of engagement between the counterweight and an engagement wall of the ratchet lever when the tilt angle of the seat back is 60&#xb0; or more.

Seatbelt retractor

A deviation in rotational angle caused between an adjustment gear and a sensor housing is compensated for with a profile of a cable winding groove of a pulley of an attitude control mechanism to accurately synchronize the inclination angle of a seat back and the rotational angle of the sensor housing with each other. Thus, it is possible to keep an inertial element support surface, which serves as a sensor reference surface, accurately horizontal even at any seat back inclination angle to improve the accuracy of an acceleration sensor.

A seatbelt retractor includes a rotation transfer mechanism configured to transfer rotation of an adjustment gear to a sensor housing to swing the sensor housing in the front-back direction of a vehicle. The turning axis of the adjustment gear and the swing axis of the sensor housing intersect each other at a predetermined angle with the swing axis of the sensor housing arranged in a horizontal direction with respect to the left-right direction of the vehicle. An inertial element support surface of the sensor housing is kept horizontal by swing motion of the sensor housing in the front-back direction of the vehicle, even if a seat back is tilted in the front-back direction of the vehicle.

A pretensioner includes a gas generator, a pinion, a tube pipe, a piston ball, a plurality of balls, and a tube cover. The tube pipe includes a tubular part that is formed continuously from one end portion to the other end in order to receive the piston ball and the plurality of balls. A hook portion formed at the other end portion is angled toward the pinion. A tip end part of the hook portion is attached to at least one of a refractor frame and the tube cover. With this construction, a reduction in an engagement amount between the pinion and the balls during operation of the pretensioner can be prevented, and as a result, the pinion can be rotated efficiently.

In an AV system in which a television apparatus and a recorder are individually connected to an AV amplifier through an HDMI, in the case where sound is output from the AV amplifier, if insertion of headphones into the television apparatus is detected, control information to switch the destination of the audio data is transmitted from the television apparatus to the AV amplifier. The AV amplifier switches the destination of the audio data that is input from the recorder from a speaker output section to the television apparatus in accordance with the control information. Thus, even if the headphones are inserted into the television apparatus while the AV amplifier is outputting sound reproduced by the recorder, the sound can be output from the headphones.

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Yokohama, Japan

Katsuhiro Ito