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A battery characteristic detecting method according to the invention includes a first step in which constant current discharge from a battery is performed at a predetermined current value, and a voltage during constant current discharge is measured; a second step in which overpotential for mass transfer control in the battery or resistance for the mass transfer control in the battery is calculated based on the voltage measured in the first step; and a third step in which a determination that a characteristic change has occurred in the battery is made, when the overpotential for the mass transfer control in the battery or the resistance for the mass transfer control in the battery calculated in the second step is larger than a predetermined threshold value.

An image signal processing apparatus capable of detecting a black band region included in an input image signal in a shorter time is provided. The image signal processing apparatus may include a measuring means for measuring in a unit frame period whether each pixel in a designated measurement region of an input image signal has a signal level less than a threshold value; and a black band detecting means for detecting a black band region included in the input image signal on the basis of a measurement result from the measuring means.

A method for testing a precursor of a secondary cell with high reliability and high efficiency to judge the precursor to be acceptable or defective. The current flowing when a test voltage is applied between a pair of electrodes is measured before an electrolyte is placed between the electrodes. If a current the current value of which exceeds a predetermined reference current value (13) is detected during the time from the start of application of a voltage to a normal secondary cell precursor until the current becomes constant, the precursor is determined to be defective.

Disclosed is a method for the computer-aided detection and identification of copyrighted contents that are exchanged between at least two computers in a communication network, especially in peer-to-peer networks. Said method comprises the following steps: —first data packets that arc specified according to an execute command and are analyzed regarding at least one first criterion are fed to a first computer (PAT), first and second parameters being determined from the data packets meeting the at least one first criterion; —the first computer (PMT) determines the first data packets encompassing the second parameter from all first data packets that are fed to the first computer (PAT) and transmits said data packets to a second computer (FP); —a third computer (CRAW) sends at least one inquiry message for detecting data with copyrighted contents to the communication network, said third computer (CRAW) receives reply messages in reaction to the at least one inquiry message and requests second data packets meeting at least one second criterion from the communication network and analyzes the same, third and fourth parameters being determined from the data packets meeting the at least one second criterion; —the third computer (CRAW) determines the second data packets encompassing the fourth parameter from all second data packets that are fed to the third computer (CRAW) and transmits said data packets to the second computer (FP); —the first computer (PAT) transmits the first parameters to the third computer (CRAW) in order for said first parameters to be used in the second criteria; and—the computer (CRAW) transmits the third parameters to the second computer (PAT) in order for said third parameters to be used in the first criteria.

An electronic camera includes a shutter button. When the shutter button is half-depressed, a focal level of an object is determined on the basis of an image signal outputted from an imaging device, and a moving start position of a focus lens is settled on the basis of the determination result. More specifically, a correction amount of the moving start position is settled in accordance with the determination result of the focal level, and a position that subtracts the correction amount from a lens position at a time the shutter button being half-depressed is settled as the moving start position. The higher the focal level, the more reduced the correction amount. The focus lens gradually moves toward the imaging device from the settled moving start position, and a focal position is specified on the basis of the image signal outputted from the imaging device at each step.

LF antennas are mounted respectively on the corners of a rear bumper of a vehicle. Radio waves radiated from the LF antennas mounted respectively on the corners of the rear bumper are propagated to the both surfaces of the vehicle on the opposite sides of the corner, providing effective transmission ranges. The remaining LF antennas are mounted respectively on the side surfaces of the vehicle such that their effective transmission ranges overlap the effective transmission ranges of the LF antennas mounted respectively on the corners of the rear bumper.

A short detection circuit includes a reference voltage generator that generates a reference voltage based on a power voltage, a comparison voltage generator that generates a comparison voltage that is higher or lower than a normal state voltage of a short detection target voltage by a predetermined adjustment voltage based on the reference voltage, a voltage comparator that generates a comparison result voltage by comparing the short detection target voltage with the comparison voltage, and a short detector that determines whether a target line transferring the short detection target voltage is electrically shorted based on the comparison result voltage. Thus, the short detection circuit can accurately detect an electrical short due to particles that exist in a display device.

The present invention relates to a display panel inspection apparatus for inspecting a display panel composed of a plurality of pixels. The display panel inspection apparatus comprises a detecting unit detecting whether or not each of the pixels is a defective pixel and a holding unit holding a result of the detection by the detecting unit, thereby enabling reliable and easy detection of a defective pixel occurring temporarily due to variations of operation environment such as semi-contact trouble or semi-disconnection trouble, and others.

There is provided a detection device that includes: a position estimator that estimates a candidate position of a crosswalk in a movement direction of a vehicle and estimates a length of the crosswalk and an intersecting angle between the crosswalk and a roadway using the candidate position; a corrector that corrects the numbers of periods and widths of two basis functions based on the estimated length of the crosswalk and the estimated intersecting angle, the two basis functions corresponding to intervals of white lines of the crosswalk and are orthogonal to each other; and a crosswalk detector that detects whether or not the crosswalk is present using both image data which include the candidate position and the two corrected basis functions.

A communication apparatus including a network controller configured to control communication connection to a different apparatus; and a main controller configured to control state detection of the network controller and data communication with the different apparatus connected to the communication apparatus through the network controller, wherein the main controller controlling the network controller to execute the state detection at predetermined intervals and repetitively transmit a state notification request to the different apparatus at the predetermined intervals and detect a communication disabled state with the different apparatus in response to a response to the state notification request from the different apparatus.

In a battery state detection device, a μCOM detects that, during charge by a charge part, a voltage between both electrodes of a secondary battery has reached a predetermined measurement start voltage set higher than a voltage between the both electrodes of the secondary battery at the time of complete discharge, and detects that, during the charge by the charge part, the voltage between the both electrodes of the secondary battery has reached a predetermined measurement finish voltage set higher than the measurement start voltage. Then, the μCOM measures an amount of integrated power given to the secondary battery in a period from the detection of the measurement start voltage to the detection of the measurement finish voltage, and detects an SOH of the secondary battery based on the amount of integrated power measured by integrated power amount measurement unit.

An object detecting device scans an image captured by a camera from one side close to the vehicle to the other side remote from the vehicle for detection of an obstacle through pattern matching, so that an obstacle that is close to the vehicle and is likely to collide with the vehicle can be detected in a short time. Thus, the driver is informed of the presence of an obstacle having a high risk of collision, earlier than other obstacles located ahead of the vehicle.

A focusing apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention comprises: an image pickup device which obtains an image signal of a subject that is captured by an image capturing device, wherein the image capturing device incorporates a focus optical system therein; a search interval calculating device which acquires contrast characteristics that are obtained for a subject of a predetermined spatial frequency at a predetermined focal length and calculates a search interval in capturing of an image based on the contrast characteristics; a focus evaluation value acquiring device which moves a focus lens to a detecting point for each search interval in a predetermined searching range and acquires a focus evaluation value at each detecting point from the image signal; and a focus detecting device which detects a focus position by using the focus evaluation value at each detecting point that is acquired by the focus evaluation value acquiring device.

A method of capturing images includes the following steps of: providing a camera module including an image capture unit, a liquid lens unit, and an image process unit; capturing a clear image through the camera module; enlarging the camera's relative aperture to create a shallow depth-of-field; adjusting the focal plane of the liquid lens unit to analyze object depth information in the clear image; and adding or storing the depth information of the object to the clear image.

The invention relates to a device (100) for actuating a process valve that has a first cylinder and a second cylinder, comprising at least one first control valve arrangement (102) that has at least a connector for a line to the first cylinder of the double-seat valve, an intake-air connector and an exhaust-air connector, and comprising a second control valve arrangement (103) that has at least a connector for a line to the second cylinder of the double-seat valve, a connector for an intake-air line and a connector for an exhaust-air line, wherein separate exhaust-air lines (104, 105) are provided for the first and the second control valve arrangement (102, 103)