Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

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Hitachi, Ltd.

Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Manabu Hashimoto

Kazuhiko Sumi

Junichi Shimada

Kentaro Hayashi

Eiichiro Shimada

Hiroshi Matsuda

Kazuo Aita

Akira Mishima

Takuro Kanazawa

Junya Okamura

Yoshikazu Sakaue

Hiroyasu Taniguchi

Kentaro Ochi

Yutaka Ozaki

Hiroshi Narasada

Eiichiro Konda

Masahiro Sasakura

Hiroyuki Tanaka

Katsuhiko Yasu

Nobuhiko Ishida

Nami Hirata

A vehicle includes: a wire that is mounted on a vehicle body to which an external force is applied according to a running state during running of the vehicle, and applies a tension to the vehicle body; an actuator to adjust the tension of the wire to change a rigidity of the vehicle body; and a controller to output a control signal to the actuator. The controller determines the running state, outputs to the actuator a control signal designating a tension according to the determined running state, and controls distortion of the vehicle body.

Vehicle rigidity control device

A control device for an electrically operated power steering system includes: a power substrate comprising a plurality of switching elements, that converts DC electrical current to AC electrical current by switching operation of the plurality of switching elements; an output terminal for transmitting the AC electrical current to an electric motor that generates steering torque; a conductor for electrically connecting the power substrate to the output terminal; a metallic chassis that holds the power substrate and the conductor, and supports the output terminal; and a metallic cover that faces the output terminal, and that is connected to the metallic chassis.

Control device for electrically operated power steering system

A traffic line recognition device includes: a traffic line region candidate extraction section that extracts a traffic line candidate, as a traffic line candidate, from a road image obtained by a TV camera installed on a vehicle; a two dimension/three dimension transform section that transforms two dimensional image coordinates of a pixel contained in the traffic line region candidate into three dimensional coordinates; a histogram production section that accumulates and projects the three dimensional coordinates onto a coordinate system in a direction crossing a road and produces a histogram in the direction crossing the road; and a traffic line judgment unit determines a traffic line based on that histogram.

Traffic line recognition device

An image processor includes an imaging unit that captures an image of a target area, a face region extraction unit that extracts a face region, which corresponds to a face of a person, from the image captured by the imaging unit, a distance estimation unit that estimates a distance from the imaging unit to each position of the image captured by the imaging unit, a distance distribution calculation unit that sets up a distance estimation area below the face region by a predetermined distance and calculates distance distribution from the imaging unit in the distance estimation area, using the distance estimated by the distance estimation unit, and a wheelchair presence determination unit that determines whether a person corresponding to the face region extracted is sitting in a wheelchair, by comparing the distance from the imaging unit of the face region estimated by the distance estimation unit with the distance distribution in the distance estimation area.

Image processing apparatus

An image processing apparatus detecting a wheelchair passenger for an elevator. This image processing apparatus includes a TV camera installed so that a hail where passengers are waiting is monitored through the camera, which is located in the vicinity of the elevator door, a face area extraction unit, a wheelchair area estimation unit, and a wheelchair existence judgment unit. The image processing apparatus is operated in the following manner, one or a several passengers' face area is identified by the face area extraction unit in the image picked-up by the TV camera, and the position of the face area in the image is detected. If the passenger is sitting in a wheelchair, the area where the wheelchair is likely to be in the image is estimated by the wheelchair area estimation unit from the position of the face area. The estimated area where the wheelchair is likely to be is checked by the wheelchair existence judgment unit, to determine whether the wheelchair is present.

Image processing device and elevator mounting it thereon

A subject-state detecting apparatus has an active distance measuring sensor including projectors for targeting measurement regions independently, and a photodetector for detecting reflection light reflected from a subject that receives light projected by the light projectors. A measurement parameter decision section decides in advance a body parameter to be measured. In response to the parameter, a distance measuring sensor setting section sets a measurement region of the active distance measuring sensor and an additional distance measuring sensor. A state decision section decides state of the subject from the outputs of these sensors.

Subject state detecting apparatus for detecting dynamically moving subject

In an individual ignition type ignition coil for use in an internal combustion engine in which a center core a secondary coil wound on a secondary bobbin and a secondary coil wound on a primary bobbin are installed concentrically from an inner side of a coil case in order. Among these interior constituting members, insulation resins and are filled up. Each of the primary bobbin and the secondary bobbin is made of a synthetic resin and at least a skin layer on an inner surface of the primary bobbin and a skin layer on an outer surface of the secondary bobbin are removed, and to the surfaces of the bobbins, the insulation resin is adhered closely. By heightening a close adhesion strength (a bonding strength) of a bobbin and an insulation resin in an individual ignition type ignition coil, an anti-heat shock is improved and an insulation performance of the coil is attained.

Ignition coil for use in internal combustion engine

An individual ignition type ignition coil device for engine which is directly connected to each spark plug for use, comprises a coil case , and a center core , a secondary coil wound on a secondary bobbin and a primary coil wound on the primary bobbin each concentrically installed inside the coil case in turn from the inside to the outside. Insulating resin is filled between the interiorly installed structural members. The secondary bobbin is made of material of modified PPO mixed with inorganic matter of 30% or more.

Ignition coil device for engine

An individual ignition type ignition coil device for engine which is directly connected to each spark plug for use, comprises a coil case and a center core a secondary coil wound on a secondary bobbin and a primary coil wound on the primary bobbin each concentrically installed inside the coil case in turn from the inside to the outside. Insulating resin is filled between the interiorly installed structural members. The secondary bobbin is made of material of modified PPO mixed with inorganic matter of 30% or more.

An image monitoring apparatus for detecting a confined passenger in an elevator just from an image, without using a dedicated sensor. The image monitoring apparatus includes an image acquirer for acquiring an image; a door area definer for defining a door defining area for the image; a door extracter for extracting a door image from the door defining area of the image; a door open/closed state sensor for determining whether the door is open or closed; a passenger area definer for defining a passenger defining area; a passenger extracter for extracting a passenger image from the passenger defining area of the image; a passenger presence determination for determining whether a passenger is present; a decision unit for determining whether a passenger is confined in the closed space by whether the door is open or closed and the passenger presence determination; and an alarm for issuing an alarm if a passenger has been confined in the closed space.

Image monitoring apparatus and image monitoring method

An individual ignition type ignition coil device for engine which is directly connected to each spark plug for use, includes a coil case (,), and a center core (,), a secondary coil (,) wound on a secondary bobbin (,) and a primary coil (,) wound on the primary bobbin (,) each concentrically installed inside the coil case (,) in turn from the inside to the outside. Insulating resin (,), (,) is filled between the interiorly installed structural members. The secondary bobbin is made of material of modified PPO mixed with inorganic matter of 30% or more.

An image processing device includes: a DOG filtering means for applying a DOG filter upon the grey level image of an object; and a tri-level thresholding means for thresholding the output of the DOG filtering means at two distinct threshold levels, thereby obtaining a tri-level image of the object. The 0-level regions of the tri-level image correspond to regions of the original image, such as the surface areas of the object, within which the variation of the grey level is small. The boundary between two 0-regions is marked by adjacent parallel strips of a (+)-region and a (-)-region, wherein the zero-crossing line between the (+)-region and the (-)-region clearly defines the contour line of the 0-regions. This method of tri-level quantization provides a basis for efficient template matching of the images of objects, recognition or identification of objects, the detection of movement vectors of objects, and the detection of the parallax of a continuously moving objects.

Image processing device for processing grey level images

A method and apparatus for determining the shape of a wire or like article is provided in which a plurality of image pickup means are provided that view the wire through coaxial optical systems having their focal planes positioned differently from each other, the wire images imaged on the respective image pickup means are processed to determine the contrast and size of the images, and the results are used to determine the shape of the spatially disposed wire or the like.

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Tokyo, Japan

Manabu Hashimoto