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Even in a state in which the remaining capacity of a battery decreases, an apparatus operation is appropriately executed while charging efficiency of the battery is maintained.

A processing unit 103 has a first operation mode in which an operation is enabled using only external power from a feeding device 120 and a second operation mode in which the operation is enabled by feeding from a battery 102 in addition to the external power from the feeding device 120. When the remaining capacity of the battery 102 is sufficient, the processing unit 103 executes an apparatus operation in the second operation mode. However, when the remaining capacity of the battery 102 decreases, the processing unit 103 changes an operation mode to the first operation mode and executes charging of the battery 102 while continuously executing the apparatus operation.

A control apparatus of a hybrid vehicle having a first drive unit, a second drive unit, a HV battery, a shift control element, a battery state detection element, and a shifting-time drive control element. Furthermore, in the control apparatus, a battery balance control element is formed by an engine control element, a first motor control element, a second motor control element and the shifting-time drive control element. If the shift control element determines there is a need for shifting carried out by a stepped transmission, the battery balance control element calculates the amount of increase/decrease in the amount of charge of the HV battery in accordance with the state of the HV battery, and changes the engine operation point on the basis of the calculated amount of increase/decrease in the battery charge, prior to the shifting.

A braking control device performs a steering and/or avoidance possibility determination based on the state of the vehicle to execute automatic vehicle braking when an obstacle in front of the vehicle cannot be avoided by steering and/or braking. The device determines that the obstacle can be avoided by steering when the correlation value between steering avoidance time and relative velocity is smaller than the distance from the vehicle to the obstacle. The steering avoidance time is set to a shorter value when the suspension characteristic is stiffer and the sideways force generated by the front wheels is larger. The steering avoidance time is set successively shorter for low, high, and medium speed travel regions, respectively, to reflect the behavior response characteristic of the vehicle with respect to steering input. The vehicle deceleration that would occur if the driver released the accelerator pedal is considered in the braking avoidance possibility determination.

A video retrieval apparatus and a video retrieval method capable of executing appropriately a video retrieval and executing an effective retrieval by easily designating a retrieved object are provided. A video retrieval apparatus, includes a moving region extracting portion 102 that extracts a stored object moving region in a video, a region dividing portion 104 that divides the stored object moving region into stored object block regions, a representative color deriving portion 105 that derives representative colors of respective stored object block regions constituting the stored object moving region, a DB 106 that stores respective representative colors of respective stored object block regions constituting the stored object moving region, a retrieved object region designating portion 108 that extracts a retrieved object region in a video, a region dividing portion 109 that divides the retrieved object region into retrieved object block regions, a representative color calculating portion 110 that derives representative colors of respective retrieved object block regions constituting the retrieved object region, and a comparing portion 111 that compares respective representative colors of the stored object block regions with respective representative colors of the retrieved object block regions, and outputs compared results.

In a hybrid vehicle control apparatus, the hybrid vehicle including an engine is driven by a supply with fuel from a fuel tank; and a motor drives drive wheels of the vehicle by a supply of electric power at least from a battery, an interval of time required until a time at which the supply with fuel is to be carried out or at which a fuel quantity becomes zero, with the present time as a starting point, is estimated, an interval of time required until the time at which fuel is deteriorated, with the present time as the starting point, is estimated, and a switching to a fuel consumption promotion mode is carried out in a case where a timing at which the supply with fuel is to be carried out or at which the fuel quantity becomes zero is after the timing at which fuel is deteriorated.

An IC memory module 33 for storing paper-related information is embedded in a core 31 of a roll paper member 30. A control circuit 50 accesses the IC memory module 33 embedded in the core 31 of roll paper member 30 via a transmission-reception antenna 202 at a timing, for example, when a power source is turned on, the roll paper member 30 is replaced, and power source is turned off, and acquires the paper-related information. The control circuit 50 controls the printing processing by taking account of the information acquired from the IC memory module 33.

An apparatus for determining a failure of wheel speed sensors, which is capable of properly determining whether or not a wheel speed detection system including the wheel speed sensors has failed, if at least a wheel speed detected by the wheel speed sensors indicates a stopped state of a corresponding wheel. An engine rotational speed is detected, and an input-output rotational speed ratio of a torque converter of an automatic transmission mounted in the vehicle is calculated. A shift range of the automatic transmission is detected. Whether or not the vehicle is traveling is determined based on the engine rotational speed and the input-output rotational speed ratio when the automatic transmission is in a traveling range. It is determined that the wheel speed detection system including the wheel speed sensors has failed, if it is determined that the vehicle is traveling, and at the same time, at least one of wheel speed sensors indicates a stopped state of a corresponding one of the wheels.

The present invention aims to provide the technique of appropriately enabling the encryption and decryption to the partial area with respect to the image data to which the partial encryption and the multiple encryptions have been applied. More specifically, the predetermined image area in the image data is acquired by a reproduction area designation unit, the overlap area of the acquired image area and the encrypted encryption area is calculated by an overlap judgment unit, the key information corresponding to the calculated overlap area is acquired by a decryption key acquisition unit, and the image data corresponding to the overlap area is acquired by a decryption key acquisition unit, and the image data corresponding to the overlap area is subjected to the encryption and decryption by an image decryption unit by using the acquired key information.

A brake control system in a vehicle which executes anti-lock brake control for controlling a braking force applied to a wheel to prevent the wheel from being locked during braking of the vehicle is provided. The brake control system includes an initiation determiner section for determining whether or not an initiation condition used to initiate the anti-lock brake control is met the initiation condition including a condition in which a decrease rate of a wheel speed which is a rotational speed of the wheel is not less than a predetermined threshold; and a brake control section for initiating control of the braking force applied to the wheel in the anti-lock brake control, if the initiation determiner section determines that the initiation condition is met.

A projector includes a projection unit that displays an image on a screen, a control unit that allows the projection unit to display a plurality of images based on image data input from a plurality of PCs, a location detection unit that detects an operation location by a pointing tool, an output control unit that selects the PC based on the operation location detected by the location detection unit and a display location of the image on the screen, and an output switching unit that outputs coordinates of the operation location to the PC selected by the output control unit.

There is provided a passive safety device which can prevent an occupant from moving when an acceleration that causes the occupant to move in a vehicle is working on the occupant, and which can improve the ride comfort. A passive safety device of the present invention comprises an acceleration detecting unit that detects an acceleration of a vehicle, a seat adjusting unit that expands a seat side of a seat in order to prevent an occupant sitting down the seat from moving, a safety belt adjusting unit that controls tension of a safety belt worn by the occupant, and a control unit that controls an expansion of the seat side and/or the tension of the safety belt through the seat adjusting unit and the safety belt adjusting unit, based on the detected acceleration of the vehicle.

Based on a difference between target and actual values of a friction member force pressing a brake disc, feedback control over the pressing force is executed. As the actual value, a “limit pressing force (Fbs) obtained by placing a limitation on a temporal change amount of the Fba based on a limit value (Lmt)” is used. The limit value (Lmt) is set based on an electric motor speed (dMkt, dMka), a wheel speed (Vwa), and a temporal change amount (ΔTmp) of the friction member temperature. The Lmt is set to increase as the dMkt (dMka) increases and the temporal change amount (ΔTmp) of the temperature increases, and to also increase as the wheel speed (Vwa) decreases. Thus, even when a rotating member (brake disc) is deformed, braking torque control can be appropriately executed without accelerating a fluctuation of a braking torque on the wheel.

A method of placement and routing of a semiconductor device, includes steps (a) to (c). The step (a) is a procedure of executing placement of functional blocks and executing routing of interconnections in a placement and routing area of a semiconductor device based on circuit diagram data, functional block data and design rule data. The step (b) is a procedure of executing placement of spare cells in first areas of the placement and routing area, disregarding the routing result, wherein the functional blocks are not placed in the first areas, the spare cells are spare functional blocks. The step (c) is a procedure of removing first spare cells of the spare cells from the first areas, wherein the first spare cells are in violation of a design rule with regard to a relation to the interconnections, the design rule is described in the design rule data.

This invention provides a technique capable of appropriately executing, for a communication terminal apparatus, charging processing for printing. When a printing apparatus detects a communication terminal, if the ID information of the communication terminal matches ID information corresponding to a communication terminal which has transmitted print target data, the printing apparatus executes charging processing for printing of the print target data, and print processing for the print target data.