Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Sony Corporation

Renesas Electronics Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Keita Mochizuki

Hajime Nakajima

Akihide Shiratsuki

Jin Inoue

Masahiro Ishikawa

Hiroshi Aruga

Mizuki Shirao

Yoshiya Sato

Yasutaka Fukumoto

Takahiro Korenari

Atsushi Sugitatsu

Kouji Nakajima

Yuto Ueno

Hiroshi Taguchi

Koji Sakata

Takashi Sugihara

Keisuke Matsuda

Masahiro Shikai

Toru Oka

Nobuo Ohata

Kensuke Nakashima

Kazuma Takahashi

Nobuhiro Saijo

Junji Hori

Hiroshi Sasai

Toshiro Nakashima

Kiyotaka Watanabe

Kiyotomo Hasegawa

Takuya Hashiguchi

Yukitoshi Inaba

Tadashi Murao

Yoshiyuki Kamo

Emiko Kurata

Hayato Sano

Yasuhito Hashiba

Masashi Tomida

Koji Kamiyama

Toyohiro Noguchi

Fukiko Hirose

Masatomo Mikuni

An obstacle detection device includes: a sensor unit including a camera, a laser distance measuring device, and an optical element, and setting optical axes of the camera and the laser distance measuring device to an optical axis in the same direction using the optical element; a monitoring area control unit calculating a monitoring area to be monitored by the sensor unit using a position of a train, map information indicating a position of a track of the train, and an attitude angle of the train, and performing control to cause a direction of the optical axis of the sensor unit to be on a course of the train using a drive mirror; and an obstacle determination unit detecting an obstacle on the course of the train based on monitoring results of the camera and the laser distance measuring device, and determining whether a collision avoidance action is necessary.

Obstacle detection device and obstacle detection method

A high-frequency circuit is configured so as to include a printed circuit board and a flexible circuit board connected to the printed circuit board, wherein the printed circuit board includes: a first dielectric layer having a first surface and a second surface, a first ground conductor being formed on the first surface; a second dielectric layer having a third surface and a fourth surface, a second ground conductor being formed on the fourth surface; and first signal lines wired between the second surface and the third surface, the flexible circuit board includes: a third dielectric layer having a fifth surface and a sixth surface, a third ground conductor being formed on the fifth surface; a fourth dielectric layer having a seventh surface and an eighth surface, a fourth ground conductor being formed on the eighth surface; and second signal lines wired between the sixth surface and the seventh surface.

High-frequency circuit and communication module

There is provided a program, an information processor, and an information processing method that make it possible to obtain position information for sites of a body with higher accuracy. The program causes a computer to implement a correction function of referencing a first output obtained by performing a first process on sensor data acquired by two or more motion sensors attached to two or more sites of a body and a second output obtained by performing a second process on the sensor data, and correcting position information for attachment sites to which the motion sensors are attached.

Program, information processor, and information processing method

There is provided a program, an information processor, and an information processing method that make it possible to blend motions of a plurality of actors captured by using a motion capture technique and to reproduce the blended motions in real time in an avatar or the like on a virtual space. The program causes a computer to implement a control function of dynamically controlling a motion of an avatar in a virtual space or a robot on a real space, the control function being configured to: capture motions of a plurality of actors on the real space from respective motion sensors attached to the actors; blend the motions of the plurality of actors on the basis of a predetermined algorithm; and dynamically control the motion of the avatar or the robot on the basis of the blend result to cause the avatar or the robot to make a motion reflecting the motions of the plurality of actors.

Program, information processor, and information processing method for blending motions of a plurality of actors

To provide an elevator car position detection sensor capable of suppressing erroneous detection of presence or absence of a plate. The elevator car position detection sensor includes a first coil provided to one of an elevator car and a hoistway and configured to output an excitation magnetic field to a plate provided to the other of the elevator car and the hoistway; a second coil provided on an opposite side of the first coil relative to the plate; a shield wall configured to shield an end portion of the plate located closer to one of the car and the hoistway; and a determination circuit configured to determine a phase of an alternating-current voltage corresponding to a frequency of the excitation magnetic field output from the first coil at an alternating-current voltage generated across the second coil.

Elevator car position detection sensor that determines a phase of an alternating-current voltage corresponding to a frequency of an excitation magnetic field

Provided is an apparatus configured to detect a car position by performing threshold processing on a voltage caused by an AC magnetic response through use of an identification plate in which a slit pattern is formed and a plurality of coils, the apparatus including a circuit configuration capable of switching between a normal operation for detecting the car position based on an on/off detection operation using the plurality of coils and a self-diagnosis operation capable of verifying the on/off detection operation irrespective of the presence or absence of the identification plate with a car in a stopped state by forcedly applying a magnetic field to the coils.

Cage position detection device

An elevator car position detection device is provided capable of preventing erroneous detection of a metal object other than an object to be detected. The elevator car position detection device includes: an object to be detected provided in one of a hoistway and a car of an elevator, the object to be detected being formed of a magnetic body and having a slit-like opening; and a magnetic detection device provided in the other of the hoistway and the car of the elevator, the magnetic detection device being configured to detect a change in magnetic flux density according to the slit-like opening when facing the object to be detected.

Elevator car position detection device

An optical module includes: a first lens and a second lens provided between a light emitter and a light receiver; and a base member on which the light emitter and the light receiver are placed, and each of the first lens and the second lens is fixed via an adhesive resin. A first bonding direction in which a first bonding surface of the first lens is bonded and fixed via an adhesive resin, and a second bonding direction in which a second bonding surface of the second lens is bonded and fixed via an adhesive resin are respectively perpendicular to an optical axis direction of light, and an orientation of the first bonding surface and an orientation of the second bonding surface make are different from each other.

Optical module

A phase calculation unit () calculates, as a first phase, a deflection angle of a first similarity vector having a first similarity and a second similarity calculated by a similarity calculation unit () as elements. The phase calculation unit () calculates, as a second phase, a deflection angle of a second similarity vector having a third similarity and a fourth similarity calculated by the similarity calculation unit () as elements. A period calculation unit () calculates a period of a pattern formed on a long body on the basis of the first phase and the second phase calculated by the phase calculation unit (). An abnormality detection unit () detects an abnormality in the long body on the basis of the period calculated by the period calculation unit ().

Detection device

An information processing apparatus including an acquisition section that acquires an operation model indicating an operation pattern related to a target object, a calculation section that calculates an overall operation including an identified partial operation of operations of the target object, with reference to the operation model acquired by the acquisition section, and an output control section that outputs information indicating the overall operation of the target object that has been calculated by the calculation section.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

A wavelength tunable light source includes a wavelength tunable laser device and a control device. The wavelength tunable laser device includes: M laser diodes configured to generate laser oscillation to output beams; a multiplexer/demultiplexer configured to multiplex the beams output from the M laser diodes to bifurcate the beams for output; a first semiconductor optical amplifier configured to amplify one output beam of the bifurcated beams to output a first emitted beam; and a second semiconductor optical amplifier configured to amplify another output beam of the bifurcated beams to output a second emitted beam. The control device is configured to perform wavelength switching control on wavelengths of the first emitted beam and the second emitted beam by switching an electric power input to the second semiconductor optical amplifier.

Variable wavelength light source and method for controlling wavelength switching of variable wavelength light source

An optical multiplexer includes a polarizer, a receptacle, a rotator disposed between the polarizer and the receptacle to rotate polarization planes of a pair of linearly polarized light beams in a forward direction and a polarization plane of a light beam in an opposite direction by 45 degrees, the forward direction being from the polarizer toward the receptacle, the opposite direction being from the receptacle to the polarizer, and a birefringent prism disposed between the rotator and the receptacle to multiplex the pair of linearly polarized light beams in the forward direction and to split the light beam in the opposite direction into an ordinary ray and an extraordinary ray. The rotator and the birefringent prism are fixed to the receptacle.

Optical multiplexer

To achieve high positioning accuracy in an optical member fixing structure configured to bond an optical member, such as a lens, and a bonding object to each other with an adhesive layer, an optical member fixing structure in which a metal layer having a yield stress equal to or less than a curing shrinkage stress or a thermal stress of an adhesive forming an adhesive layer is formed on a bonding surface between at least one of an optical member or a bonding object and the adhesive layer to have a thickness of from 0.3% to 10% of a thickness of the adhesive layer after curing thereof.

Optical member fixing structure

An optical circuit includes an input waveguide, an arrayed waveguide including a plurality of output waveguides, a coupler, an electrode capable of applying a voltage to each of the output waveguides of the arrayed waveguide, and a chip unit to which the input waveguide, the coupler, and a portion of the arrayed waveguide are fixed. The arrayed waveguide is divided into a phase shifter portion capable of generating a predetermined phase difference between adjacent ones of the output waveguides, a beam portion having a cantilever structure that is not fixed by the chip unit, and a waveguide portion between the phase shifter portion and the beam portion. The electrode is capable of applying positive and negative voltages to the beam portion of the arrayed waveguide such that positive and negative voltages are alternately applied to adjacent ones of the output waveguides.

Optical circuit, optical scanning device, optical multiplexer-demultiplexer, wavelength monitor, optical multiplexer-demultiplexer module, and wavelength monitor module

In a rope damage diagnostic testing apparatus, an ultrasound applicator generates ultrasonic waves in a wire rope by making the wire rope vibrate due to magnetostriction effect. A detecting element detects changes in a state of propagation of the ultrasonic waves in the wire rope. An excitation coil and the detecting element are disposed in a parallelogram that has as a first opposite side length a length of a portion of the wire rope in which one of the outer layer strands makes one revolution around the wire rope, and that has as a second opposite side length a product of a diameter and number of the outer layer wires that are included in one of the outer layer strands.

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Tokyo, Japan

Keita Mochizuki