Hitachi, Ltd.

Sony Corporation

Clarion Co

Kohei Mandai

Nobuhiko Kikuchi

Kazuo Miyauchi

Hiroshi Takeuchi

Takehito Ogata

Yasuyuki Fukashiro

Daisuke Fukuda

Kazuya Sunami

Koji Takatori

Shuzo Kaneko

Takako Higuchi

Shinya Sasaki

Hideaki Tsushima

Hidemasa Narita

Hiroaki Andou

Yoshitaka Natsume

Yongdok Ri

Chiharu Suyama

Hideaki Kotake

An arithmetic apparatus includes: a sensor acquisition unit that collects sensor information about the surroundings of a vehicle; a feature point extraction unit that extracts a feature point of an object; a target point detection unit that expresses the position of the feature point with spatial coordinates and detects it as a target point; a road edge presumption unit that presumes a segment between the target points, which are continuously aligned, as a road edge; and a blockade judgment unit that judges whether or not to cancel the road edge, on the basis of information about an area behind the presumed road edge, which is obtained from the sensor information, where the area behind the road edge is an area opposite the sensor at the other side of the presumed road edge.

Arithmetic apparatus

An adhered-substance detecting apparatus capable of detecting adhered substances such as water droplets, mud, and dust, including those with ambiguous outlines, which adhere to, for example, a lens for an imaging apparatus, and a vehicle system equipped with the adhered-substance detecting apparatus are provided.

Adhered-substance detecting apparatus and vehicle system equipped with the same

An in-vehicle deviceincludes an image acquisition unitthat acquires an image photographed by a cameraincluding a lens, a storage unit, a dirt detection unitthat detects dirt on the lens on the basis of the image acquired by the image acquisition unitand that stores dirt region information indicating a region where the dirt exists in the image into the storage unit, a dirt removal information generation unitthat generates dirt removal information indicating a region where the dirt on the lens is removed, and a rewriting unitthat rewrites the dirt region information on the basis of the dirt removal information. Accordingly, it is possible to rewrite the dirt region information on the basis of the dirt removal information.

In-vehicle device

A PDL compensation technique is provided that reduces the number of and the number of types of the PDL compensators even if it is uncertain to determine which of the two polarization principal axes of an optical device has a larger loss. The PDL compensator according to the present invention is configured to, before an optical signal input from a first or a second input/output terminal enters a PDL compensation device, switch between the first polarization principal axis and the second polarization principal axis of the optical signal depending on which of the first and the second polarization principal axes has a larger loss or gain.

PDL compensator optical device, and PDL compensation method

It is provided an optical receiver comprising a compensator, a compensation controller and a clock extractor. The optical receiver selects first and second values, and obtains a stabilization time necessary to change the dispersion value and a transition time shorter than the stabilization time, compensates the received optical signal using the selected first value, changes the dispersion value from the first value into the second value, compensates the received optical signal using the dispersion value when the transition time has passed since starting to change the dispersion value, creates second extraction information of the dispersion value after the transition time, compensates for dispersion of the optical signal using an dispersion value calculated based on the second value and the difference between the dispersion value after the transition time and the second value in a case where the created second extraction information indicates that the clock extraction is available.

Optical receiver and optical transfer apparatus

A transmission system is provided in a synchronous network, for establishing synchronization with a degree of precision and at a speed being comparable levels as a conventional technique, and further decreasing the probability of out-of-synchronization occurrence. In the present invention, a synchronization signal is detected without performing error correction until synchronization is established, and after the synchronization is established, it is monitored whether or not out-of-synchronization occurs, according to the synchronization signal that has been subjected to the error correction.

Sending apparatus, receiving apparatus, and transmission system

An optical signal of an optical transmission part is brought into a high-speed polarization scrambling state by a polarization scrambling part, and transmitted to en optical fiber transmission line as the optical signal from the optical transmitter. The optical signal passing through the optical fiber transmission line is inputted to an optical receiver. The optical signal inputted to the optical receiver is converted into an electric signal by a polarization dependent photoelectric detection part. The converted electric signal is inputted to a digital signal processing part having a polarization scrambling cancel part of canceling the polarization scrambling state by a digital signal processing operation. At the digital signal processing part, the polarization scrambling state of the electric signal is canceled, and a data signal is outputted.

Optical transmission and reception system, and optical receiver

A polarization multiplexing transmitter which generates polarization-multiplexed signals which are arbitrarily polarization-scrambled at high speed, without adding a polarization modulator and a polarization scrambler. In the transmitter, an orthogonally polarized signal generator includes two optical modulators which modulate the electric fields of optical signals and generate two optical signals with mutually orthogonal polarized waves. The transmitter includes electric field mappers which convert two data strings into electric field signals, polarization mappers which give different polarized waves to the two signals, polarization rotators which rotate the polarized waves of the signals uniformly, a polarization multiplexer which multiplexes the two polarization-rotated signals, a polarization demultiplexer which demultiplexes the multiplexed signal into polarized wave components of optical signals generated by the orthogonally polarized signal generator, and a driver. The optical modulators are driven to make the two demultiplexed electric field signals consistent with the electric fields of optical signals modulated by the modulators.

Polarization multiplexing transmitter and transmission system

An optical balanced receiver including an optical coupler for combining input optical information signal and optical reference signal and outputting two optical interfering signals whose phases are opposite to each other, two photodetectors for receiving the two optical interfering signals and outputting detection signals as electrical signals having the amplitudes corresponding to the interference intensities of the received optical interfering signals, a balance compensation type difference device for compensating an intensity fluctuation component added to a difference signal of the two detection signals due to the difference in amplitude and/or delay between the detection signals output from the two photodetectors in accordance with an input control signal, and outputting the compensated difference signal of the two detection signals, and a control circuit for outputting the control signal to the balance compensation type difference device.

Optical balanced receiver and IQ receiver with balanced compensation

A system for manufacturing a hybrid integrated circuit by mounting an IC and a chip component on a circuit substrate. The system comprises a bar code reader for reading the characteristic data of each IC shown previously thereon to indicate the characteristic thereof, and a selector for selecting an optimal chip component in accordance with the read characteristic of the IC, thereby achieving manufacture of a satisfactory hybrid integrated circuit having predetermined performance.

System for manufacture of hybrid integrated circuit

Method of manufacture of hybrid integrated circuit

An infrared sensor comprises a substrate, a sensing unit formed on the substrate, and a signal processing circuit formed on the substrate. At least the signal processing circuit is covered with a conductive film to prevent the penetration of infrared radiation into the signal processing circuit so that noise generation attributable to the penetration of infrared radiation into the signal processing circuit is suppressed.

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Tokyo, Japan

Kohei Mandai