Pioneer Corporation

Nikkiso Company Limited

Air Water Biodesign Inc.

Ryohei Kagawa

Ikuya Kikuchi

Atsuya Ito

Tomoya Murakami

Toshiaki Inoue

Akari Agata

Genki Adachi

Wataru Onodera

Koji Shibata

Yuji Ito

A flow velocity determining apparatus () includes an irradiating unit () that emits irradiation light (L) toward a liquid mixture (BL) which contains a non-spherical solid (BC) and a liquid (BP) and flows through a flow path (TB), a detecting unit () that detects reflected light (L) emitted by the irradiating unit () and reflected by the liquid mixture (BL) flowing through the flow path (TB), the detecting unit () being disposed on at least one side of an optical axis (LA) of the reflected light (L) when seen in a plan view of an imaginary plane including an optical axis (LA) of the irradiation light (L) and the optical axis (LA) of the reflected light (L), and a determining unit () that determines a flow velocity of the liquid mixture (BL) by using a light amount of the reflected light (L) detected by the detecting unit ().

Flow velocity determining apparatus

A point which requires visual attention is added to map data. A map data generation device acquires image data in which the outside is captured from a vehicle by an input device and a point data of the vehicle, associates both data, and generates a visual saliency map acquired by estimating fluctuation of visual saliency based on the image data by the visual saliency extraction unit. Then, whether or not a point or a section indicated by position information corresponding to the visual saliency map is a point or a section which requires visual attention is analyzed based on the visual saliency map by an analysis unit, and the point or the section which requires the visual attention is added to the map data based on an analysis result of the analysis unit by an addition device.

Map data generation device

A measuring apparatus is provided with: an irradiator configured to irradiate fluid with light; a first light receiver configured to receive a forward scatter component of scattered light scattered by the fluid; a second light receiver configured to receive a backscatter component of the scattered light; a third light receiver configured to receive a side scatter component of the scattered light; and an outputting device configured to output fluid information about the fluid, which is obtained on the basis of light receiving signals of the first light receiver, the second light receiver, and the third light receiver. According to this measuring apparatus, it is possible to output accurate fluid information because of the use of the forward scatter component, the backscatter component, and the side scatter component of the scattered light.

Apparatus and method for measuring fluid information from light scattering

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Saitama, Japan

Ryohei Kagawa