MERH-IP Matias Erny Reichl Hoffmann Patentanwälte PartG mbB

A physical quantity sensor includes a package; a spacer; and a physical quantity sensor unit that is fixed to the package via the spacer, in which when a direction in which the spacer and the physical quantity sensor unit overlap is set as a first direction and a direction orthogonal to the first direction is set as a second direction, the physical quantity sensor unit includes a support substrate provided with a first anchor and a second anchor that are disposed to be separated in the second direction, a first movable portion fixed to the first anchor, and a second movable portion fixed to the second anchor, the spacer overlaps the first anchor and the second anchor in a plan view from the first direction, and when a width of the physical quantity sensor unit in the second direction is set as Wx1 and a width of the spacer in the second direction is set as Wx2, a relationship of 58% ≤ Wx2/Wx1 ≤ 88% is satisfied.

A dial includes a metallic base, a metal layer formed at a surface of the base, an intermediate layer disposed on a surface side of the metal layer and having light transmittance, and a first dot layer partially disposed on a surface side of the intermediate layer. The first dot layer has a plurality of first metal dots formed by ink jet printing using a metal nano ink containing a first metal, and a first metal film made of a second metal different from the first metal and formed at a surface side of the first metal dot.

A production line planning device for planning a production line for a product includes: a storage unit configure to store product operation information in which a product and an operation necessary for producing the product are associated and stored, operation facility correspondence information in which the operation and a facility necessary for performing the operation are associated and stored, component classification information in which a main component and an auxiliary component that make up the facility are associated and stored, and facility common ID information in which the main component of the facility and a reference facility are associated and stored; a process planning variable calculation unit configured to, when the operation included in the product operation information matches the operation included in the operation facility correspondence information, add the operation, the facility, and a decision variable to process planning variable information in a case where the facility included in the matched operation facility correspondence information is not included in the reference facility in the facility common ID information; a process planning variable cost calculation unit configured to obtain, based on the component classification information, a cost of the operation and the facility corresponding to the added decision variable; and an output device configured to output the number of the decision variables added by the process planning variable calculation unit and an investment cost obtained by adding up costs of the respective decision variables obtained by the process planning variable cost calculation unit.

A method is decorating a timepiece component in which a base made of a metal is decorated by irradiating a surface of the base with a pulse laser while relatively moving a laser irradiation portion and the base. The method includes scanning the surface while irradiating the surface with the pulse laser to process a first processing region of the surface, and scanning the surface while irradiating the surface with the pulse laser to process a second processing region that overlaps a part of the first processing region when viewed from a first direction that is a vertical direction with respect to the surface. The second processing region is located on an inner side of end portions of the first processing region R1 when viewed from the first direction.

A connector includes a terminal that includes a box-shaped portion to which a mating terminal is inserted and connected and that is attached to an end of an electric wire, a housing that includes an accommodating hole for accommodating the box-shaped portion, and a retainer that is attached to the housing in a manner capable of being displaced in an intersecting direction intersecting with an insertion direction of the box-shaped portion into the accommodating hole. A pressing piece is formed on an upper surface of the accommodating hole of the housing, and a protrusion is formed on a lower surface. The retainer includes a protruding portion, and when the retainer is at a first position, the box-shaped portion is allowed to be inserted into the accommodating hole, and the box-shaped portion inserted in the accommodating hole is pushed by the pressing piece and displaced in the intersecting direction so that a primary locking state is reached due to a projecting portion that is provided on the insertion direction side of the step portion in a manner protruding in an opposite direction from the insertion direction being caught by the protrusion and engaged and retained by a recessed portion formed on the protrusion and a rear end of the box-shaped portion being caught and retained by the protruding portion.

Systems, methods, and software can be used to determine common expressions of strings. In some aspects, a method includes: obtaining a plurality of strings; determining a plurality of tokens of at least one string of the plurality of strings; and determining at least one common expression of the plurality of strings based on the plurality of tokens of the at least one string of the plurality of strings.

Methods, apparatus, programs, and storage media for improving automated generation of annotated images are described. The method includes obtaining the image, wherein the image comprises a road. Positional data of a camera that has produced the image is obtained. Coordinates of road lane boundaries are obtained. The road lane boundaries are projected onto the image based on the coordinates of the road lane boundaries and the positional data of the camera. An annotated image is generated by annotating each pixel of the image inside the projected road lane boundaries as the drivable road. The annotated image is provided for further processing.

A map generation apparatus, in particular for generating a 3D HD-map, comprising: a surrounding recording sensor device configured to obtain recorded surrounding data, the surrounding recording sensor device including recording units including at least one camera unit configured to record image data as recorded surrounding data and further including at least one of a radar unit, a camera unit, and/or a lidar unit, an object detection unit configured to receive recorded image data and to perform object detection in the image data to detect objects, an environment data calibration unit configured to receive the recorded surrounding data of the different recording units for a time point t and to transform the received recorded surrounding data of a time point t of the different recording units to a common coordinate system, a matching unit.

A process can include obtaining input audio stems comprising a selected subset of a plurality of audio stems, and obtaining configuration information corresponding to audio processing operations for the input audio stems. An audio stem multiplier engine can generate a plurality of multiplied audio stems based on the input audio stems and the configuration information. Each multiplied audio stem comprises a variation of a particular input audio stem and is generated based on applying one or more audio processing operations parameterized by the configuration information. Information indicative of user feedback ratings for each respective multiplied audio stem of the plurality of multiplied audio stems can be received. The audio stem multiplier engine can generate a second plurality of multiplied audio stems based on at least the user feedback ratings and one or more of the input audio stems or the plurality of multiplied audio stems.

A real-time clock device includes a clocking circuit that generates time information, a memory circuit, a processing circuit that records impact log information based on a plurality of pieces of acceleration data and the time information in a retention period of an impact log in the memory circuit when it is determined that an impact event has occurred based on an acceleration detected by an acceleration sensor, and an interface circuit that outputs the impact log information recorded in the memory circuit.