Nissan Motor Company Limited

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Unisia Jecs Corporation

Yuki Nakajima

Takahiro Yoshino

Masaaki Uchida

Tomoya Imazu

Yasuhiro Shimura

Keisuke Suzuki

Yukio Mizukoshi

Takamasa Ueda

Masakazu Kobayashi

Masaru Aoki

Hiroaki Ogane

Kenichi Machida

Toshikazu Oshidari

Hirokazu Shimizu

Hiroshi Iwano

Shusaku Katakura

Yutaro Kaneko

Yasuhiko Kitajima

Shinichiro Joe

Masahiro Tsukamoto

Tatsuya Hotogi

Toshifumi Kitamura

Tadayuki Hatsuda

Toshiro Shinohara

Takashi Tsuneyoshi

Mikio Matsumoto

Hiroyuki Kaneko

Yasuhiro Tomioka

Hiroto Endo

Makoto Iwashima

Mitsuhide Murofushi

Kouichirou Yonekura

Akihiro Hanamura

Sho Sato

Hideki Uema

Naoki Ueda

Hiraku Ohba

Junna Takase

Kenichi Fujii

Hatsuo Nagaishi

Yu Tanaka

Kensuke Ito

Hajime Hosoya

Nobutaka Takahashi

Junichi Furuya

Go Araki

Daisuke Kaneko

Hiroshi Kato

Kengo Maikawa

Kantaro Yoshimoto

Yusuke Zushi

Hidenori Kanazawa

Kenichi Sato

Hiraku Ooba

Fumiaki Mizuno

Kenichi Nakao

Tomoya Uehara

Tomiyuki Segawa

Hiroshi Takashima

Yoshiyuki Nagai

Haruki Sato

Kohei Mitsuhashi

Naoshi Nishihashi

A communication apparatus detects a wireless device and calculates a relative position of the detected wireless device with respect to a reference wireless device to be a reference in identifying a position based on a movement amount of the communication apparatus from when the reference wireless device is detected by the communication apparatus. The communication apparatus associates the calculated relative position, identification information about the detected wireless device, and identification information about the reference wireless device.

Communication apparatus, information processing apparatus, and position information management method

An item inspection system includes a portable system that reads information from a wireless device, a position estimation unit that estimates a position of the portable system based on reading of identification information from a first wireless device installed at a known position, and an inspection unit that inspects whether the item exists in a specific place based on reading of identification information from a second wireless device attached to an item. The portable system selectively operates in a first mode for position estimation and a second mode for the inspection. The inspection unit guides a user based on a position of the item and an estimated position of the portable system, and determines that the item exists in the specific place when the identification information has been read from the second wireless device in the second mode.

Item inspection system, inspection method, and information processing apparatus

A display control system includes a first wireless device attached to a management target and storing first identification information for identifying the management target, a second wireless device installed at a predetermined position and storing second identification information, a reading apparatus, at least one processor, and at least one memory. The processor and memory are configured to estimate a located position of the management target based on reading results of the first identification information at a first reading time and the second identification information at a second reading time and cause a display apparatus to display an estimated area within which the management target is estimated to be located based on the located position. A magnitude of the estimated area is based on an amount of movement of the reading apparatus between the first reading time and the second reading time.

Display control system, information processing apparatus, and computer-readable medium

A process management system includes a management unit that manages section data that defines sections in a real space and process data that indicates an expected location, from among the sections, in which a management target is to be positioned at the time of completing a work process, a first wireless device that is attached to the management target and stores first identification information, at least one reading apparatus that is capable of reading identification information from a wireless device, and a determination unit that checks a location of the management target estimated based on a result of reading of the first identification information from the first wireless device against the expected location by variable granularity depending on type information associated with the management target to determine a status of the work process regarding the management target.

Process management system, method and information processing apparatus

A vehicle body speed estimation device and a vehicle body speed estimation method are provided for estimating a vehicle body speed of a four-wheel drive vehicle from a wheel speed of each wheel of the four-wheel drive vehicle. In the vehicle body speed estimation device and a vehicle body speed estimation method, a controller determines whether a deviation of at least two of the wheel speeds among the wheel speeds is within a first prescribed range. The controller switches a method for selecting the wheel speed used for estimating the vehicle body speed between a first method and a second method when a sign of a drive torque that is applied to each of the wheels is reversed and the deviation of at least two of the wheel speeds among the wheel speeds is within the first prescribed range.

Vehicle speed estimation method and vehicle speed estimation device for four-wheel drive vehicle

In a case of performing a second rotation control to match the rotation phase of a first rotational polygon mirror with the rotation phase of a second rotational polygon mirror in a rising period, a period during which a non-image region is irradiated with light from both or one of a first light source and a second light source is controlled to be a second period longer than a first period.

Image forming apparatus performing phase control of rotational polygon mirror

An apparatus includes a calculation unit configured to calculate information about power using a first signal and a second signal, a first communication unit configured to transmit a calculation result of the calculation unit, and a second communication unit configured to receive a plurality of pieces of setting information stored in a storage unit, wherein the calculation apparatus is capable of switching calculation processing of the calculation unit based on the plurality of pieces of setting information received via the second communication unit.

Calculation apparatus and image forming apparatus including the same

There is provided an image forming apparatus comprising: a scanning unit configured to scan, in accordance with image signals, a photosensitive member with laser light in a main scanning direction at a scanning speed that is not constant; an image signal generation unit configured to generate image signals that are changed such that the faster the scanning speed is, the narrower an image signal width becomes; a clock signal generation unit configured to generate sampling clock signals for sampling the image signals whose image signal width is changed such that the faster the scanning speed is, the shorter a sampling interval becomes; and a count unit configured to count image signals whose image signal width is changed based on the sampling clock signals.

Image forming apparatus and method for counting image signals with changed image signal width

An apparatus for controlling a vehicle, which includes: a battery () capable of being charged from an external power source (EPS); a power generation unit (PGU) capable of charging the battery (); an electric heater () configured to produce heat with electric power from an electric power source; a heater core () configured to heat air by using any one of waste heat from the power generation unit (PGU) and the electric heater (); and a controller () configured to perform control for selectively using the waste heat from the power generation unit (PGU) and the electric heater () as a heat source of the heater core () when the vehicle is parked.

Apparatus and method for controlling vehicle

The image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit for forming an image on a recording material; an original read unit for reading an original at a read position facing a conveyance path in which the recording material and the original are to be conveyed selectively, and a control unit for switching a position of the original read unit to a position different from the read position during a period in which the recording material is being conveyed along the conveyance path.

Image forming apparatus having a control unit to control and move a read unit

An image forming apparatus performs control to parallelly achieve document image reading by a reading unit and image formation by an image forming unit for forming on a recording material a document image read by the reading unit.

Image forming apparatus with automatic document feeder

When images of a plurality of document sheets are to be read and formed on a plurality of recording materials, an image forming apparatus performs control to convey a document sheet and a recording material at one of a recording material conveyance speed and a document conveyance speed, whichever is lower.

Image forming apparatus for performing a document reading operation and a printing operation in parallel

An image forming apparatus includes a fixing unit having a heater and fixing a toner image formed on a recording material onto this recording material. The heater includes a first heat-generating member and a second heat-generating member, a first driving element provided on a power supply path to the first heat-generating member; a second driving element provided on a power supply path to the second heat-generating member, a control unit controlling the first driving element and the second driving element respectively, first detection unit for detecting current flowing through the first heat-generating member, a second detection unit of detecting current flowing through the second heat-generating member, and a safety circuit receiving a first output of the first detection unit and a second output of the second detection unit.

Image forming apparatus and safety circuit mounted on the same apparatus

A driving force control device for an electric vehicle includes two motors for generating driving forces independently on left and right driving wheels corresponding to any one of a pair of front wheels and a pair of rear wheels, a motor torque limit unit capable of limiting torques of the two motors, a driving force determination unit for determining which of the driving forces of the left and right driving wheels is larger, and a motor torque control unit for correcting, when the torque limit is imposed on one of the two motors corresponding to one of the left and right driving wheels larger in driving force during a turn of the electric vehicle, the torque of another of the two motors to increase so that a total driving force of the left and right driving wheels is maintained.

Electric vehicle driving force control device and electric vehicle driving force control method

A vehicle warning sound emitting apparatus includes a warning sound emitting component and a controller. The warning sound emitting component selectively emits a warning sound that is audible outside of the vehicle. The controller controls the warning sound emitting component to emit the warning sound during a prescribed period that an engine sound is being emitted from an engine of the vehicle such that the engine sound and the warning sound are audible at a location outside the vehicle during the prescribed period when the controller is controlling the warning sound emitting component to switch between emitting the warning sound and refraining from emitting the warning sound based on a vehicle traveling condition.

Vehicle warning sound emitting apparatus

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Yokohama, Japan

Yuki Nakajima