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To provide a region detecting method capable of setting a proper threshold independently of a photographing condition and moreover, quickly and accurately detecting a specific region, which uses an image data storing section 10 for storing a sample image 12 and a purposed image 11, a first computing means 1 for obtaining the extraction-region-identifying threshold data for a plurality of sample images including a common extraction region but having average color values different from each other in accordance with a genetic algorithm and generating a threshold table 8 for the average color values, a second computing means 2 for adaptively computing the extraction-region-identifying threshold data for the purposed image 11 in accordance with the average color value of the purposed image and the threshold table 8, and a third computing means 3 for detecting an extraction region in accordance with the threshold data computed by the second computing means 12.

An image detecting apparatus has an edit function with good operability and compatibility. When a chapter mark key on a remote control is pressed while an image reproducing system including an MPEG video decoder, a video signal post-processing circuit, a combining circuit, and an NTSC encoder is reproducing image data recorded on a recording medium, a CPU obtains information for identifying the image being reproduced and displayed, and then records the information on the recording medium. With reference to the image provided with a chapter mark, a still image generating circuit displays reduced still images, for example, so that a target image can be specified. Reproduction and editing can be performed with reference to the specified image.

An image detecting apparatus has an edit function with good operability and compatibility. When a chapter mark key on a remote control is pressed while an image reproducing system including an MPEG video decoder, a video signal post-processing circuit, a combining circuit, and an NTSC encoder is reproducing image data recorded on a recording medium, a CPU obtains information for identifying the image being reproduced and displayed, and then records the information on the recording medium. With reference to the image provided with a chapter mark, a still image generating circuit displays reduced still images, for example, so that a target image can be specified. Reproduction and editing can be performed with reference to the specified image.

A driving support apparatus of a vehicle supports driving of the vehicle, the vehicle includes a rudder angle varying device capable of changing a relative relation between a steering angle and a rudder angle. The driving support apparatus includes a following control device for controlling the rudder angle varying device such that the vehicle follows a target driving route; a steering angle specifying device for specifying the steering angle; and a judging device for judging whether or not overriding performed by a driver takes place on the basis of the specified steering angle and a reference steering angle which is the steering angle in making the vehicle follow the target driving route. The following control device stops the vehicle following for the target driving route if it is judged that the overriding takes place.

The present invention provides an applied RFID tag system with the RFID tag assembled between the first and second portions of an object. When the first and second portions are separated or misaligned, the RFID tag will be deformed and damaged, making it impossible to be identified with a predefined radio frequency, namely, it cannot be identified by card reader. According to the damage information, the operator could learn the unsealing or loosening state of the products, thus ensuring quick and accurate quality control and improved fault detection.

A vehicle-rollover detecting apparatus includes sensors for detecting the lateral acceleration, vertical acceleration and roll angular velocity of the vehicle; a section for calculating the roll angle of the vehicle by integrating the roll angular velocity; a section for performing the zero correction of the roll angle of the vehicle according to the lateral acceleration and roll angular velocity; a section for detecting the mode of the rollover from the composite acceleration of the lateral acceleration and vertical acceleration; a section for deciding a rollover detection threshold map of the vehicle in accordance with the mode of the rollover; a section for deciding the developing degree of the rollover from the composite acceleration; a section for correcting the threshold value of the map using the developing degree; and a section for deciding the occurrence of the rollover from the map whose threshold value is corrected.

In an object detection apparatus, a captured image of a scene around a host vehicle, information indicating a travel state of the host vehicle, and information indicating a surrounding situation around the host vehicle are obtained; risk areas in each of which an object is likely to exist, and area risk degrees of the risk areas are estimated based on the obtained information; posture risk degrees of respective postures are estimated based on a relation between each of the risk areas and the postures of the object assumed to exist in the risk area; a window image is extracted from a search range in the captured image, which corresponds to each of the risk areas, according to descending order of overall risk degrees; and it is identified whether the window image is an image showing the object, by comparing an identification model with the window image.

In an radar apparatus according to the present invention, any change detected in the characteristic of a receiver circuit is corrected during normal operation or at the time of an initial adjustment before shipment from factory and, furthermore, any change occurring in the characteristic due to aging or temperature variations in the operating environment is corrected as needed. In the radar apparatus which includes a plurality of receiver circuit systems to correspond with a plurality of receiving antennas, channel signals ch1 and ch2 having the same characteristics are generated by the switching operation of a second switch from a received channel signal received by an antenna selected by a first switch, and the thus generated signals are input to the respective receiver circuit systems. Any change in characteristic is detected by comparing signal level and phase between the channel signals converted from analog to digital. The characteristic of each receiver circuit system or the characteristic of each A-D converted output signal is corrected based on the result of the detection of each receiver circuit system.

A method and device for analyzing and treating tonal imperfections on human skin. The method has the steps of providing one or more nozzles and taking an image of skin adjacent the nozzles. A central processing unit calculates a plurality of local L values of the skin near nozzles and calculates a background L. The background L may be the arithmetic average, median, or mean of the plurality of local Ls near nozzles. Skin deviations are areas of skin where the absolute value of the difference between a local L and the background L, ΔLM, is greater than a predetermined ΔLS. Skin deviations are identified by this method and then treated with a treatment composition.

A face image detecting method, detecting system and detecting program are provided. After dividing the detection target area into a plurality of blocks and dimensionally compressing the area, feature vectors including a representative value in each block are calculated and then a discriminator detects whether the face image exists or not in the detection target area by using the feature vectors. The discriminator detects after an image feature quantity is dimensionally compressed to the extent of not damaging the feature of face image. Since the number of image feature items to be used for discrimination is substantially reduced from the number of pixels within the detection target area to that of blocks, the number of operations drastically decreases and a face image can be quickly detected.

Provided is an apparatus for detecting state of charge (SOC) of a battery. A voltage of a battery pack (100) is detected by voltage sensors (120-1) to (120-n). A determining unit (160) samples currents at times when the battery voltage reaches predetermined threshold voltages (Vth1, Vth2) respectively, and calculates an open end voltage (Vocv), based on representative values (I1, I2) of the sampled currents and threshold voltages (Vth1, Vth2). Furthermore, based on a correspondence relationship between the voltage (Vocv) and the state of charge (SOC) which is determined in advance, the state of charge (SOC) that corresponds to the calculated voltage (Vocv) is calculated.

A circuit pattern inspection apparatus and inspection method facilitate the creation of a recipe and the confirmation of a defect. The apparatus and method employ a dialogue-based operation for the creation of a recipe and the confirmation of a defect. Input items (such as contrast, calibration, etc.) for the recipe creation and their purposes are clarified. Input items (such as clustering, filtering, etc.) for the defect confirmation and their purposes are also clarified. The results obtained on the basis of these inputs are registered in the recipe.

A method and device for analyzing and treating tonal imperfections on human skin. The method has the steps of providing a preselected background L value. One or more treatment images of the skin are taken and at least one localized L value of individual pixels or group of pixels is calculated within the treatment image. The local L value is compared to the background L value. Skin deviations are areas of skin where the absolute value of the difference between a local L and the background L is greater than a predetermined ΔLS. Skin deviations are identified by this method and then treated with a treatment composition.

A method of detecting a diode fault in an AC signal rectifier circuit,the AC signal rectifier circuit including a plurality of diodes, and being arranged to supply a rectified output voltage to a load, wherein the method includes the steps ofderiving an operating value indicative of the ratio of the voltage magnitudes of a first harmonic frequency and another harmonic frequency of the rectified output voltage across the load; anddetermining whether a fault has occurred in one or more diodes on the basis of the derived operating value.The first harmonic frequency is preferably the fundamental harmonic frequency, and / or the another harmonic frequency is preferably the 6th harmonic frequency.

A micro electromechanical ink jet printing system that has a cartridge having a body that defines a core, and a die that contains one or more nozzles. There is a treatment composition contained within the cartridge core. The system further includes a CPU that is programmable and can control the application of the treatment composition from within the cartridge core, through the one or more nozzles to human skin. Typically, the treatment composition will contain a skin treatment ingredient selected from the group consisting of particles, vitamins, yeast and yeast extracts, skin care actives, dyes, colorants and mixtures thereof. There may optionally be provided a bladder or foam block disposed within the cartridge core for suspending and regulating the flow of the treatment composition. The systems of this invention may include an applicator having an applicator head having one or more applicator nozzles which may be in a array. The applicator has a sensor that takes an image of at least 10 μm2 of skin, the CPU analyzes the image to calculate one or more localized L values of individual pixels or group of pixels of the skin. Then the CPU compares the local L value to a predetermined background L value to identify skin deviations. A skin deviation occurs where the difference between the background L value and the local L value is greater than a predetermined ΔLS value.

A micro electromechanical ink jet printing system that has a cartridge having a body that defines a core, and a die that contains one or more nozzles. There is a treatment composition contained within the cartridge core. The system further includes a CPU that is programmable and can control the application of the treatment composition from within the cartridge core, through the one or more nozzles to human skin. Typically, the treatment composition will contain a skin treatment ingredient selected from the group consisting of particles, vitamins, yeast and yeast extracts, skin care actives, dyes, colorants and mixtures thereof. There may optionally be provided a bladder or foam block disposed within the cartridge core for suspending and regulating the flow of the treatment composition. The systems of this invention may include an applicator having an applicator head having one or more applicator nozzles which may be in a array. The applicator has a sensor that takes an image of at least 10 μm2 of skin, the CPU analyzes the image to calculate one or more localized L values of individual pixels or group of pixels of the skin. Then the CPU compares the local L value to a predetermined background L value to identify skin deviations. A skin deviation occurs where the difference between the background L value and the local L value is greater than a predetermined ΔLS value.

A method and related interface system for facilitating manual detection of advertising sections within a video signal. The method includes sampling frames from every N1 frames to be reference frames in the video signal, and showing the reference frames to a user. If the user finds that a given reference frame is an advertising frame, setting N2 to be smaller than N1, sampling frames from every N2 frames between the given reference frame and its adjacent reference frame to be second layer reference frames, showing the second layer reference frames to the user such that the user can further detail selection of advertising frames, and locating advertising frames more precisely.

A method and apparatus are provided for detecting a fault condition on a power system. By rectifying power system phase voltages to produce a rectified waveform, and filtering the rectified waveform or a representation of the rectified waveform through a finite gain synchronous band pass filter to generate a synchronous band pass filter output waveform that indicates the magnitude of a predefined harmonic frequency component, a fault condition on a power system can be identified.

A charger comprises a temperature detection portion that comes in contact with a battery detachably mounted to a battery pocket and detects its battery temperature, and a charge circuit that controls charge of the battery based on the battery temperature detected by the temperature detection portion. The temperature detection portion includes a heat conduction plate and a temperature sensor. The heat conduction plate includes a pair of upper and lower sandwich plates that sandwich the temperature sensor, and an elastic connection arm that connects the upper and lower sandwich plates at a first end side, and an interlock portion that couples the upper and lower sandwich plates at a second end side opposite to the first end side. The elastic connection arm connects first ends of the upper and lower sandwich plates, and the interlock portion couples second ends of the upper and lower sandwich plates, thus, the upper and lower sandwich plates sandwich and fasten the temperature sensor.

A method and apparatus are provided for detecting a fault condition on a power system. By rectifying power system phase voltages to produce a rectified waveform, and filtering the rectified waveform or a representation of the rectified waveform through a finite gain synchronous band pass filter to generate a synchronous band pass filter output waveform that indicates the magnitude of a predefined harmonic frequency component, a fault condition on a power system can be identified.

A small hole diameter measuring apparatus including: a flow rate measurement section comprised of an automatic pressure control device which supplies a fluid to the inlet side of small holes in a plate while maintaining the outlet- and inlet-side pressures of the small holes in the critical state of the fluid and controlling the inlet-side pressure to a predetermined inlet-side pressure; a plate holding section comprised of a plate supporting device which rotatably holds the plate, and a test probe supporting device which supports a test probe so that the test probe is moved vertically and horizontally; and a control section comprised of a calculation and judgment part, which calculates the hole diameter during the supply of the fluid based upon the measured value of the flow rate from the flow rate measurement section, and an external output part, which outputs the calculated value to the outside.

An apparatus for treating human skin that has an applicator head having one or more applicator nozzles which may be in a array. The apparatus further has a reservoir comprising a treatment composition, a sensor, and a CPU. The sensor takes an image of at least 10 μm2 of skin, the CPU analyzes the image to calculate one or more localized L values of individual pixels or group of pixels of the skin. Then the CPU compares the local L value to a predetermined background L value to identify skin deviations. A skin deviation occurs where the difference between the background L value and the local L value is greater than a predetermined ΔLS value.

A device for analyzing and treating tonal imperfections on human skin. The device, or apparatus has an applicator comprising a head and one or more nozzles, preferably the nozzles are arranged in an array. The apparatus further has a reservoir comprising a skin treatment composition, a sensor, and a CPU. The sensor takes an image of at least 10μm2 of skin. The CPU analyzes the image to calculate a localized L value of individual pixels or group of pixels. The CPU then compares the local L value to a background L value to identify one or more skin deviations, and wherein the sensor is in wireless communication with the CPU, and wherein the CPU is adjacent the sensor or is remotely located. Further, the sensor may be enclosed within an apparatus handle and the CPU is either within the handle or external to the handle. In another embodiment of this invention, there are two or more CPUs and the sensor can be in wireless communication with none, one or more than one CPU.

In a power supply monitoring device, a power supply voltage monitoring portion always monitors a power supply voltage supplied to a monitored circuit and outputs a voltage reduction signal when detecting that the power supply voltage is reduced below a predetermined threshold (e.g. a second voltage higher than a voltage guaranteeing a normal operation of the monitored circuit and lower than a rated voltage). A monitoring controller having received the voltage reduction signal determines whether or not an operational malfunction has occurred in the monitored circuit by comparing operation data of the monitored circuit with reference data of the monitoring controller itself. Also, the monitoring controller executes recovery processing (reset processing or reference data overwrite processing) suitable for the monitored circuit referring to a prestored recovery processing type specific to the monitored circuit when detecting an operational malfunction of the monitored circuit.

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and a device for testing safety inside a vehicle. In some embodiments, one or more cameras are arranged at a first specific position inside the vehicle, and one or more sensors are arranged at a second specific position inside the vehicle. The method comprises: receiving image data acquired by the one or more cameras, and receiving sensor data acquired by the one or more sensors; and triggering alarm when the image data and / or the sensor data satisfy an alarm condition. By adopting the embodiments of the present disclosure, false alarm caused when goods are placed on the copilot seat is avoided, and the passenger on the copilot seat can be detected; and the device is low in cost and convenient in maintenance.

A method, an apparatus and a computer program product for positioning pupil are provided. A pupil contour is obtained from a pupil image after the pupil image is obtained. And an ellipse feature is obtained according to curvature information of the pupil contour, and then a sight direction is determined according to the ellipse feature.