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A display unit includes a speed display unit. The speed display unit includes an area, a threshold line and a pointer. The area indicates a vehicle speed (km/h). The threshold line indicates a threshold value at which operation and stop of an engine is switched. The threshold line is variably set by SOC and a temperature of a power storage device, a temperature of an inverter, a temperature of a motor generator and the like. The pointer indicates the movement direction of the threshold line.

An electronic endoscope has a light guide for leading a light and a solid-state image sensor for capturing an image of a human body cavity during illumination. In inspecting the number of broken optical fibers in the light guide, a cap is attached to a distal portion of the electronic endoscope. The cap has a test chart. The solid-state image sensor captures an image of the test chart which is illuminated with the light transmitted through the light guide. A photometric circuit calculates an average luminance value “Y” of the test chart from a chart image signal. A broken fiber number calculator calculates the number “N” of broken optical fibers that satisfies N=M×(1−Y/I). “Y” represents an average luminance value of the test chart. “I” represents an ideal average luminance value when all optical fibers are conducting, and “M” represents the total number of the optical fibers.

A parts shelf (2) has a configuration in which a storage box holding member for holding a plurality of parts storage boxes and a sensor holding member for holding photoelectric sensors are provided separately from each other. As the photoelectric sensor, an area sensor (100) capable of sensing coordinates of a position in which light is shielded in a predetermined two-dimensional area close to the front of the storage box holding member is employed. In an information processor (1), information of parts corresponding to a plurality of parts storage boxes of the storage box holding member and sizes and positions of the storage boxes is pre-stored. On the basis of the pre-stored information and the light-shielded position coordinates sensed by the area sensor, the storage box storing apart, the hand of the operator has reached is sensed.

An image bearing member life detecting method capable of accurately detecting that the life of an image bearing member has expired or will expire soon, an image forming apparatus using the method, and a cartridge detachably attachable to the image forming apparatus, are provided. An image bearing member damage index number D representing the consumption degree of an image bearing member is calculated on the basis of an applying period under each condition of an electrostatic charge bias applied to an electrostatic charging portion for forming an electrostatic latent image on the image bearing member, and/or the contact period of a developing portion for developing the electrostatic latent image on the image bearing member. When the process speed is switched, the calculation method is switched in accordance with the process speed, and the image bearing member damage index number D is calculated. The image bearing member damage index number D is integrated and stored as an image bearing member damage integration value S. The image bearing member damage integration value S is compared with life information R corresponding to the image bearing member damage integration value S for a predetermined life of the image bearing member, thereby detecting the life of the image bearing member.

Prior to machining a workpiece, a warm-up control device for a machine tool is activated to perform a warm-up in which a main shaft rotary drive part and axes drive parts are driven. The amount of displacement of heat that is generated upon starting of the warm-up and changes with time is calculated every predetermined time period. Whether to end the warm-up is determined based on the thermal displacement amount. Whether to restart the warm-up after the end of the warm-up is determined based on the thermal displacement amount. When it is determined to restart the warm-up, the warm-up is restarted.

A driving assistance apparatus includes a sign recognizing unit, a notification executing unit, and a lane change determining unit. The sign recognizing unit recognizes a traffic sign from an image captured by an on-board imaging apparatus. The notification executing unit notifies a driver of information indicated by the traffic sign recognized by the sign recognizing unit. The lane change determining unit determines whether or not an own vehicle is making a lane change. If the lane change determining unit determines that the own vehicle is making a lane change while traveling on a road in which different traffic signs are provided among traffic lanes, the notification executing unit notifies the driver of destination lane information that is information for a traffic lane to which the own vehicle is moving.

An approach notification device of a straddle type vehicle which can effectively notify a rider of an approaching state of an obstacle, the device including an obstacle detection device for detecting an obstacle located around a motorcycle as an vehicle, an approach determination device for detecting an approaching state that the obstacle is located within a predetermined distance from the vehicle, and a winker operation resistance increasing device for increasing operation resistance of a winker manipulator of a winker device provided in the vehicle. When the obstacle is determined to be within the predetermined distance by the approach determination device and the operation of the winker manipulator in the direction of the obstacle is detected, the winker operation resistance increasing device is operated to increase the operation resistance of the winker manipulator and vibrators located in a steering handle and a fuel tank are operated.

A method includes: obtaining temperature-related information which is related to temperatures at portions of a cooking container, using a processor; recognizing an edge of the cooking container disposed in a cooking device that cooks by heating, and identifying an overheated portion in the edge where a temperature exceeds a threshold value, based on the temperature-related information using the processor; and transmitting emission instruction information to a light emitter, and causing the light emitter to emit light to the identified overheated portion.

When a driving support electronic control unit (DSECU) determines that a driver of a vehicle is in an abnormal state where the driver loses an ability to drive the vehicle, the DSECU starts driving control under the abnormal state to decelerate the vehicle until the vehicle stops and to sound a horn. In this case, the DSECU measures an elapsed time since the horn starts sounding with a horn timer th, and sets a sounding pattern corresponding to the elapsed time measured. This sounding pattern is set in such a manner that a ratio of a sounding time of the horn per unit time decreases as the elapsed time since the horn starts sounding become longer. Thereby, it becomes possible to properly notify that the driver is in the abnormal state using the horn.

A semiconductor element drive device includes a drive circuit which drives a semiconductor element configuring a power conversion device; an alarm generation circuit which generates alarm signals with pulse widths corresponding to protection factors in accordance with the outputs of detection circuits which detect information necessary for the operation of protecting the semiconductor element; an output circuit which externally outputs the alarm signals at a predetermined level; a protection cancellation circuit which generates a protection cancellation signal over a fixed period in accordance with the inverting output of a drive stop signal generation circuit, which stops the drive of the semiconductor element by the drive circuit in accordance with the outputs of the detection circuits, and with the output of the alarm generation circuit; and an output control circuit which changes the signal output level of the output circuit in accordance with the protection cancellation signal.

There is provided a monitoring apparatus which is capable of efficiently notifying an external host of completion of installation of the monitoring apparatus for image forming apparatuses, and completion of operations carried out for the image forming apparatuses. The monitoring apparatus is connected to a management apparatus for communication therewith. The monitoring apparatus acquires maintenance information from the image forming apparatuses, and sends the acquired maintenance information to the management apparatus. The monitoring apparatus carries out one of management of completion of installation of the monitoring apparatus and central management of completion of operations carried out for the image forming apparatuses.

The present invention relates to a message-based notifying method for notifying a waiting queue and an application server, wherein the method includes: sending, by a calling terminal, a call request to a called terminal; forwarding, by an application server, to the called terminal the call request sent from the calling terminal, and determining from a response message returned from the called terminal whether the called terminal is in an idle status; and if the called terminal is in a busy status, then adding by the application server the calling terminal into a waiting enqueuing queue of the called terminal, and sending to the calling terminal a waiting notification message containing a waiting queue value corresponding to the calling terminal; or if the called terminal is in an idle status, then establishing directly a communication connection between the calling terminal and the called terminal.

An output limitation warning lamp is turned on when a possible output Qf of the fuel cell is less than a predetermined value L2. The output limitation warning lamp is provided at a combination meter in an instrument panel. The output limitation warning lamp is also turned on when a possible output Qb of the secondary battery is less than a predetermined value L3. Furthermore, the output limitation warning lamp is also turned on when an allowable drive output Qh, which is the sum of the possible output Qf of the fuel cell and the possible output Qb of the secondary battery, has been less than a required output Ed* calculated at a step before carrying out output limitation to more than a certain extent for longer than a predetermined length of time.

A water purifier is composed of a valve main body and a filtration portion, which are coupled to each other in an attachable and detachable manner at the main body side coupling portion and the filtration portion side coupling portion. Consequently, the water purifier filtration portion can be connected to the water purifier main body in a single step with ease in a secure manner, and at the same time, the water purifier filtration portion will not fall off easily even when water with a high water pressure flows in. Also, the water purifier is provided with a concave portion and a sensor packing formed as an integral portion of the concave portion and protruding toward an indicator portion on a wall surface of a cartridge. The indicator portion is provided with a conductive member at a position where it is brought into contact with a first input portion by a water pressure and thereby closes an electric circuit on a circuit board. Consequently, the service life (the rated service cycle) of a filter material (medium) can be notified to the user accurately, and a fluid-tight condition of the indicator portion and the cartridge portion can be ensured.

An alert system includes a vehicle that transmits predetermined verification information within a communication range and a portable terminal that performs a predetermined alert operation on receiving the verification information. The portable terminal includes a control part that stores reference status being status of the vehicle and needing no alert operation. The control part regularly receives the verification information within the communication range. The control part determines that an alert operation is necessary when the portable terminal is moved out of the communication range from inside of the communication range and when a result of comparison between the verification information received immediately before the portable terminal is moved out of the communication range and the reference status stored in advance indicates that the verification information and the reference status are different. The control part performs the alert operation when it is determined that the alert operation is necessary.

The present invention provides an interaction-state detection unit and an interaction-state capturing unit for detecting and capturing the current state of an interaction with a user. The present invention further provides a table storing interaction-state data and operation parameters that are paired with one another, an operation-parameter search unit for searching across the table based on the captured interaction state, an operation-parameter integration unit for generating at least one integrated operation parameter that resolves at least one contradiction between searched operation parameters, and an operation-parameter output part for outputting the integrated operation parameter generated by the operation-parameter integration unit.

The present application discloses a switch supporting method comprising: an eNB sends a path switching request message to an MME to notify the MME of information on a bearer remaining unchanged; the MME reserves the bearer remaining unchanged and does not trigger a deactivation process for the bearer remaining unchanged; the MME sends a modify bearer request message to an SGW. With the present application, data loss can be avoided and service continuity is ensured when a UE moves in a small cell scenario.

A driving assistance apparatus includes a sign recognizing unit and a notification executing unit. The sign recognizing unit recognizes a traffic sign from an image captured by an on-board imaging apparatus. The notification executing unit notifies a driver of sign information that is information indicated by the traffic sign recognized by the sign recognizing unit. Based on a vehicle speed of the own vehicle and operating information of a turn indicator of the own vehicle under a condition that the driver is being notified of the sign information, the notification executing unit stops notifying the driver of the sign information.

A tire risk judging device of a wheel assembly for a vehicle includes a pressure sensor detecting air pressure of a tire air chamber, an air pressure-generating device that can supply pressurized air to the tire air chamber, an electronic control unit, and an instrument panel display unit. The electronic control unit computes a supply airflow rate supplied from the air pressure-generating device to the tire air chamber between the present location and a specified location, computes a leakage airflow rate leaked from the tire air chamber between the present location and the specified location, computes air pressure in the specified location of the tire air chamber based on air pressure in the present location of the tire air chamber, the supply airflow rate, and the leakage airflow rate, and judges tire risk in the specified location based on the air pressure in the specified location of the tire air chamber.

There is a need to provide an intuitive way for a battery-powered device to send a low battery notification to another device that can properly notify a user that the battery-powered device has a low battery. The user can be notified by the other device even after the battery-powered device has exhausted its battery to the point where it can no longer report its battery state. A second electronic device (e.g., a remote control) can send a low battery notification to a first electronic device (e.g., a set-top box) so that the first electronic device can alert a user that the second electronic device has a low battery.

A vehicular surrounding-monitoring control apparatus is mounted in a vehicle having an imaging unit capturing an image of surrounding and a display. The vehicular surrounding-monitoring control apparatus includes: an extraction section extracting, as an object region, an image region corresponding to each object from a captured image obtained by the imaging unit; a determining section determining whether a plurality of objects are coordinated into a group on the basis of positional relations of the object regions and types of the objects; and a display control unit displaying, when the objects are determined to be coordinated into a group, displaying a symbol image, which is specific to the group and expresses the presence of the group, so as to be superimposed on the captured image in the display.

A mobile terminal device includes: a display section that displays information; a storage section that stores processing programs for internal processings; a communication section; and a control section that updates any of the processing programs by acquiring an update program concerning the processing program in the communication section, wherein the storage section stores a plurality of update screens, and the control section displays one of the update screens on the display section and switches the display on the display section to another update screen each time writing on a predetermined number of blocks of the storage section occurs or any processing of reading from, writing on, and erasing from the storage section occurs when updating the program.

When the camera surveillance mode is set, the signal waveform data of the input video image from the camera is compared with the signal waveform data of the reference video image stored in advance in the memory. Then, it is determined whether or not there is a change in the signal of the input video image from the camera. When it is determined that there is a change in the signal of the input video image from the camera, then it is determined whether or not a number of scan lines in the signal of the input video image exceeds the set scan line change quantity that corresponds to a surveillance level selected by a user from among a plurality of surveillance levels. When it is determined that the number of scan lines in the signal of the input video image from the camera exceeds the set scan line change quantity, a warning is generated, thereby notifying an intruder.

When an emergency button 8a of a radio communication apparatus has been turned ON and a transmit mode button 8b has been depressed, an MCU 11 sets frequencies of a receiving section 2 and a transmitting section 3 to an emergency communication frequency. The MCU 11 also causes an indicator lamp 10 to illuminate or flash at peak intensity, and causes a burst sound to be supplied from a loudspeaker 6 at the maximum volume. Then, the MCU 11 causes a built-in timer to measure a given time period while resetting the timer whenever a reception/transmission switching operation is performed or a communicating signal is detected. While the timer measures the time period, the MCU 11 causes the indicator lamp 10 to be turned off. When a timer expiration is detected, the MCU 11 causes the indicator lamp 10 to be turned on or flashed again.