Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Nippon Kayaku Kabushiki Kaisha

Masahiro Naito

Hitoshi Nishimura

Yudai Nakamura

Harunobu Sano

Tomotaka Hirata

Tomoo Motoki

Masashi Kamiya

Shuji Sotoda

Shinya Isota

Daisuke Kobayashi

Kazuhiro Sugiyama

Kouji Minami

Takuya Murakami

Noriyuki Inoue

Naoto Sugawara

Tomonori Fukuta

Takuji Kurashita

Yoshiteru Suzuki

Kiyohisa Tokuda

Taketsugu Ogura

Go Mizutani

Hidehiko Nakatani

Seiichi Jono

A motion sickness estimation device including processing circuitry configured to calculate a sensory conflict amount on a basis of a motion of an occupant's head caused by vibration of a vehicle; extract a feature of a traveling situation on a basis of at least one of the motion of the occupant's head or a motion of the vehicle; determine a habituation progress state, which is a state in which the occupant's habituation to the traveling situation has progressed, on a basis of biometric information of the occupant; set sensitivity to the feature of the traveling situation on a basis of the habituation progress state; correct the sensory conflict amount on a basis of the sensitivity; and estimate a motion sickness state of the occupant on a basis of the sensory conflict amount that has been corrected.

Motion sickness estimation device, motion sickness reducing device and motion sickness estimation method

A motion sickness estimation device includes: a line-of-sight oscillation detector to detect oscillation of a line of sight of an occupant by using an imaging device; an object oscillation detector to detect oscillation of an object located in the line of sight; an oscillation comparator to calculate an oscillation difference from the oscillation of the line of sight and the oscillation of the object; and a motion sickness determiner to determine, on a basis of the oscillation difference, whether the occupant is in a motion sickness state.

Motion sickness estimation device, motion sickness prevention device, and motion sickness estimation method

A gesture judgment device includes a reference part detection unit that outputs reference part information indicating a reference part region, a movement extraction unit that outputs movement information indicating a movement region, a reference part disappearance judgment unit that generates a reference part disappearance information, a timing judgment unit that judges whether first timing indicated by the reference part disappearance information and second timing of occurrence of a frame in which the movement region overlaps with the reference part region indicated by the reference part information are synchronized with each other or not and outputs a timing judgment result as the result of the judging, and an operation judgment unit that judges contents of a gesture operation performed by an operator based on the timing judgment result and the movement information.

Gesture judgment device, gesture operation device, and gesture judgment method

A luminance variation (dI) pertaining to each pixel is calculated () using a plurality of captured images obtained by image capturing under different illumination conditions, a texture variation (dF) pertaining to each pixel is calculated () using a plurality of captured images obtained by image capturing at different time points, and a subject region is extracted () based on the luminance variation (dI) and the texture variation (dF). A variation in the texture feature (F) pertaining to each pixel between the images is calculated as the texture variation (dF). The subject can be extracted with a high accuracy even when there are changes in the ambient light or the background.

Imaging apparatus and method, operation apparatus and method, and program and recording medium

A dielectric ceramic layer includes main phase grains and a secondary phase. The main phase grains include a perovskite-type compound. The perovskite-type compound includes Zr, Mn and at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ti, Ca, Sr, and Ba. In the perovskite-type compound, a molar ratio z between Ti/(Zr+Ti) satisfies 0&#x2266;z&#x2266;0.2, a molar ratio between Zr/(Zr+Ti) is equal to 1&#x2212;z, a molar ratio x between Sr/(Ca+Sr+Ba) satisfies 0&#x2266;x&#x2266;1.0, a molar ratio y between Ba/(Ca+Sr+Ba) satisfies 0&#x2266;y&#x2266;0.3, a molar ratio between Ca/(Ca+Sr+Ba) is equal to 1&#x2212;x&#x2212;y, and a molar ratio m between (Ca+Sr+Ba)/(Zr+Ti) satisfies 0.95&#x2266;m&#x3c;1.03. The secondary phase contains segregated Mn. In a body including the dielectric ceramic layer and an internal electrode alternately stacked, the secondary phase is located inside of a second region and not located inside of a third region.

Multilayer ceramic capacitor including main phase grains and a secondary phase

As a dielectric ceramic constituting dielectric layers of a laminated ceramic capacitor, a dielectric ceramic is used which contains, as its main constituent, a perovskite-type compound containing Ca and Zr and optionally containing Sr, Ba, and Ti, and further contains Si, Mn, and Al, and when the total content of Zr and Ti is regarded as 100 parts by mol, the total content (100&#xd7;m) of Ca, Sr, and Ba meets 1.002&#x2266;m&#x2266;1.100 in terms of parts by mol, the Si content n meets 0.5&#x2266;n&#x2266;10 in terms of parts by mol, the Mn content u meets 0.5&#x2266;u&#x2266;10 in terms of parts by mol, and the Al content w meets 0.02&#x2266;w&#x2266;4 in terms of parts by mol, m and n satisfying &#x2212;0.4&#x2266;100(m&#x2212;1)&#x2212;n&#x2266;3.9.

Laminated ceramic capacitor

A laminated body that contains a perovskite-type compound containing Sr, Ba, Zr, and Ti and containing; Si; Mn; Al; and V. When the total content of Zr and Ti is 100 parts by mol, the total content m of Sr and Ba meets 100&#x2266;m&#x2266;105, the Si content a meets 0.1&#x2266;a&#x2266;4.0, the Mn content b meets 0.1&#x2266;b&#x2266;4.0, the Al content c meets 0.01&#x2266;c&#x2266;3.0, the V content d meets 0.01&#x2266;d&#x2266;0.3, the molar ratio w of Sr and Ba to Sr meets 0.60&#x2266;w&#x2266;0.95, the molar ratio z of the total of Zr and Ti to Zr meets 0.92&#x2266;z&#x2266;0.98, w and y meets and the crystal grains are 1.2 &#x3bc;m or less in average grain size.

Laminated ceramic capacitor and manufacturing method therefor

A method of manufacturing a laminated ceramic capacitor having a dielectric ceramic which contains, as its main constituent, a perovskite-type compound containing Ca and Zr and optionally containing Sr, Ba, and Ti, and further contains Si, Mn, and Al, and when the total content of Zr and Ti is regarded as 100 parts by mol, the total content (100&#xd7;m) of Ca, Sr, and Ba meets 1.002&#x2266;m&#x2266;1.100 in terms of parts by mol, the Si content n meets 0.5&#x2266;n&#x2266;10 in terms of parts by mol, the Mn content u meets 0.5&#x2266;u&#x2266;10 in terms of parts by mol, and the Al content w meets 0.02&#x2266;w&#x2266;4 in terms of parts by mol, m and n satisfying &#x2212;0.4&#x2266;100(m&#x2212;1)&#x2212;n&#x2266;3.9.

Method for manufacturing laminated ceramic capacitor

laminated ceramic capacitor which has favorable moisture resistance includes an inner layer section that has dielectric ceramic layers and internal electrodes stacked alternately, and outer layer sections formed outside the inner layer section. The dielectric ceramic layers have a perovskite-type compound including a main constituent containing Ca and Zr, and an additive containing Si and Mn. The average grain size in the dielectric ceramic layers constituting the outer layer sections is smaller than the average grain size in the dielectric ceramic layers constituting the inner layer section. The Si/Mn molar ratio in the dielectric ceramic near the interfaces between the internal electrodes and the dielectric ceramic layers is &#x2266;15.

A dielectric ceramic composition enabling one to obtain a laminated capacitor which hardly causes degradation of insulation resistance with time under high-humidity even in using a base metal such as Ni as an internal electrode, contains as a main constituent, a constituent represented by (CaSr)(TiZr)Oin which x and y are 0&#x2266;x&#x2266;1 and 0&#x2266;y&#x2266;0.50, and, as accessory constituents, at least 0.5 parts by mol and at most 15 parts by mol of SiO, at least 0.1 parts by mol and at most 10 parts by mol of MnO, and at least 0.01 parts by mol and at most 0.079 parts by mol of AlO, with respect to 100 parts by mol of the main constituent.

Dielectric ceramic composition and temperature compensation laminated capacitor

A highly moisture resistant dielectric ceramic is prepared by providing a compact containing a dielectric ceramic component powder and a second powder including a compound containing an alkali metal element, and firing the compact and a second composition containing an alkali metal element at the same time. A laminated ceramic capacitor using the dielectric ceramic is described.

Dielectric ceramic and method for producing dielectric ceramic and laminated ceramic capacitor

Disclosed is an ultraviolet-curable resin composition for multilayer optical discs, which contains (A) dioxane glycol di(meth)acrylate and/or tricyclodecane dimethylol di(meth)acrylate, and (B) a photopolymerization initiator.

Ultraviolet-curable resin composition and use thereof

In the case where graphic data GDneeding a high-speed rendering are to be written in a frame memory () from an image writing unit (), the graphic data GDare written in the frame memory () in accordance with an instruction from the image writing unit () irrespective of the read state of graphic data GDto be read from the frame memory (). In the case of the graphic data GDneeding an ordinary speed, on the other hand, a write wait signal WT is outputted from a data write control unit () to the image writing unit () for the period till the read of the graphic data GDfrom the frame memory () ends. For the period while the write wait signal WT is being outputted, the write of the graphic data GDfrom the graphic data writing unit () is made to wait.

Matrix type display device and display method thereof

A ceramic base body includes primary phase particles containing a CaZrO-based compound as a primary component and secondary phase particles containing at least Mn, and internal electrodes are primarily composed of Cu. There are about 2 parts by mole or more of Mn and about 0.69 parts by mole or more of Si pph by mole of primary component, are contained in the ceramic base body, and the area ratio of the secondary phase particles on a cross-section of the ceramic base body is about 0.1% or more. Of those secondary phase particles having a particle diameter of about 0.1 &#x3bc;m or more, about 67% or more (preferably about 85% or more) contains Cu and Si. A multilayer ceramic capacitor containing the ceramic base body can be manufactured by performing a heat treatment at a temperature of about 700&#xb0; C. or more in a reducing atmosphere at an oxygen partial pressure of about 10MPa or less after the formation of external electrodes. As a result, a highly reliable multilayer ceramic capacitor can be realized in which the temperature properties of electrostatic capacitance are superior, a high Q value is obtained, and the degradation in high-temperature load lifetime can be suppressed.

Multilayer ceramic capacitor and method for manufacturing the same

The digital image output apparatus comprises a digital image decoder () for decoding encoded digital image data and outputting image data update information (V); an image data transfer area control unit () for determining a portion of the image data which has been updated in encoding according to the image data update information (V) and outputting a result of the determination (VCT); an image data transfer unit () for transferring digital image data (VA) from the digital image decoder () to an LCD memory () on the basis of the output signal (VCT) from the image data transfer area control unit (); and the LCD memory () for storing the digital image data (VA). A low-power digital image output apparatus is implemented by transferring image data depending on whether the image data has been updated in encoding of a digital image.

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