Abstract: An electronic musical interface performs the following: displaying a chord function progression of a first segment of a musical piece that is to be played by a user in a first region of a display via identifiers specifying respective chord functions; playing back an automatic accompaniment of the first segment; receiving user performance data as the user plays the musical note input device along with the playback of the automatic accompaniment; analyzing each chord contained in the obtained user performance data to determine the chord function of each chord the user played; and displaying, in a second region of the display alongside the first region, an identifier that identifies the determined chord function of the chord the user plays so that the user can determine whether the chord function of each chord the user played matches the chord function of the chord displayed in the first region.

Abstract: A voice recognition device including: a recognizer which recognizes a movement of a mouth of an utterer; a detector which detects a noise among a sound around the device; and a controller which controls a voice recognition timing based on the movement of the mouth of the utterer recognized by the recognizer and the noise among the sound around the device detected by the detector.

Abstract: A printing device 1 includes a platen roller 7 which feeds a thermal tape 42, a thermal head 8 which performs printing on the thermal tape 42, a half cutter 10 which performs a half cut on the thermal tape 42, and a control circuit 12. After the half cut is performed, the control circuit 12 controls the platen roller 7 to feed in a backward direction opposite to a direction of ejecting the thermal tape 42 into an outlet until a printing start area of the thermal tape 42 reaches a head position of the thermal head 8. The thermal head 8 performs printing on the thermal tape 42 after the printing start area reaches the head position by the feeding of the thermal tape 42 in the backward direction.

Abstract: A drawing apparatus includes a drawing head and a control device. If a drawing target surface has a first region acclivitous and declivitous respectively in first and second directions different from one another, the drawing head draws first pixels to be drawn on the first region while performing first and second scans in which the drawing head moves respectively in the first and second directions. The control device controls a ratio of a drawing amount of a first scan drawing pixel to be drawn in a line of the first region during the first scan to a drawing amount required for pixels in the line among the first pixels to be higher than a ratio of a drawing amount of a second scan drawing pixel to be drawn in the line during the second scan to the drawing amount required for the pixels in the line.

Abstract: A printer includes a printer head, a sensor, and a processor. The printer head includes printing components. The sensor acquires data with respect to a distance by which the printer is moved in one of moving directions. The processor (i) adjusts a length of an image of a print subject so that the image of the print subject has a length two times a reference travel distance that is based on a distance acquired by the sensor, the distance acquired by the sensor being a distance by which the printer is moved from a starting position in a first moving direction, and (ii) controls the printer head in such a manner that, when the printer is moved in a second moving direction that is opposite to the first moving direction, the printer is made to print the adjusted image at the adjusted position of the image.

Abstract: A thermally expandable material includes microcapsules and a binder having a conducting property, each microcapsule including a shell having an insulating property, and a thermally expandable component contained in the shell and having a property of expanding by heating, the shell deforming due to expansion of the thermally expandable component to come in contact with another capsule and have an insulating state with the other capsule.

Abstract: An abnormality detection unit includes a light source device configured to emit light for each of segment periods that are time divided in a frame and an illuminance value obtaining unit configured to obtain an illuminance value of light emitted from the light source device and determines that the light source device is abnormal when all illuminance values obtained at the segment periods are less than a threshold.

Abstract: A projection control device according to the invention includes a projection module configured to project a correcting image in which a marker including a first polygon and a second polygon disposed inside the first polygon is provided in a predetermined position in such a manner as to be picked up by an image pickup device, and at least one of sides of the first polygon is not parallel to sides of the second polygon.

Abstract: An irradiator that emits electromagnetic waves through a lattice-like or net-like protective member, and a controller that causes the irradiator to irradiate an irradiation target with the electromagnetic waves while causing relative movement between the irradiation target and the irradiator in a first direction. The protective member is configured or disposed such that no more than one lattice of a plurality of lattices and no more than one node of a plurality of nodes that are formed in the protection member exist in a row along the first direction.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a display; a light sensor located on an opposite side of a display surface of the display, and detects intensity of ambient light; and a control unit, in a first state in which luminous intensity of the display is not less than a first threshold, in the case where the intensity of ambient light detected by the light sensor is less than predetermined intensity of light, outputs, to the display, a signal to reduce the luminous intensity of the display to a second state that is not more than a second threshold that is less than the first threshold, and in the second state, outputs a signal to detect the intensity of ambient light to the light sensor.

Abstract: A microcapsule includes a shell including a conducting component, and a thermally expandable component contained in the shell and having a property of expanding by heating. The shell is deformable in accordance with expansion of the thermally expandable component when the thermally expandable component is heated.

Abstract: A satellite radiowave receiving device includes a receiver performing a receiving operation of radiowaves transmitted from a positioning satellite and a processor controlling a positioning operation. The processor performs the positioning operation within at least a predetermined maximum positioning interval from a last positioning operation using preliminarily obtained date and time information and valid positional information on the positioning satellite to obtain a current position of the satellite radiowave receiving device and date and time information. The processor causes the receiver to perform the receiving operation within at least a predetermined date and time updating interval shorter than the predetermined maximum positioning interval from a last time when date and time information is obtained from radiowaves transmitted from a positioning satellite to obtain date and time information without the positioning operation.

Abstract: A cash storage apparatus of which a housing is structured such that a length in a depth direction is longer than a length in a height direction in a horizontal orientation state where a surface from which a cash storage case is pulled out or pushed out serves as a front surface, and in which a portion of an upper surface or undersurface of the housing when the housing is in the horizontal orientation state serves as an open/close cover that is opened frontward, in order to enable use in a vertical orientation state where the front surface when the housing is in the horizontal orientation state serves as an upper surface.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus 1 includes an image acquisition unit 51 and an image processing unit 53. The image acquisition unit 51 acquires a face image. The image processing unit 53 acquires a face image which has been acquired by the acquisition unit 51 and has been adjusted by at least one type of adjustment and synthesizes a plurality of face images including the adjusted face image, using map data in which a predetermined region of a face has been set as a transparent region on the basis of a three-dimensional shape of the face.

Abstract: An attendance registration device including a processor that executes: a reception process of receiving input according to a first method or input according to a second method of identification information corresponding to a target person whose attendance needs to be registered; and a registration process of registering attendance by associating the identification information received in the reception process with an attendance type input at a predetermined timing, wherein in the registration process, an attendance type input prior to the input of the identification information is subjected to attendance registration in association with the identification information when an input method of the identification information whose input has been received in the reception process is the first method, and an attendance type input after the input of the identification information is subjected to attendance registration in association with the identification information when the input method of the identification

Abstract: To present a measurement result on the motion of a subject more easily, a processor 3 of an analysis system S includes an image acquisition unit 357, a sensor information acquisition unit 356, an analysis unit 358, and an image creation unit 359. The image acquisition unit 357 acquires a taken image of the subject. The sensor information acquisition unit 356 acquires a measurement result of the motion of the subject measured with a sensor. The analysis unit 358 creates an index indicating the motion of the subject based on the measurement result acquired by the sensor information acquisition unit 356. The image creation unit 359 makes an output unit 319 display an image acquired by the image acquisition unit 357 and an index created by the analysis unit 358 together.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus 1 includes an image acquisition unit 51, an image processing unit 53, a mask image creation processing unit 54, and a processed image creation processing unit 55. The image acquisition unit 51 acquires a face image. The image processing unit 53 adjusts the brightness of the face image acquired by the image acquisition unit 51. The image processing unit 53 combines the face image acquired by the image acquisition unit 51 with the processed face image, using map data in which a predetermined region of a face is set as a transparent region on the basis of the reflection state of light emitted to the face.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a memory, a display, and a processor. If a display style when a point is specified in an image is a first display style, the processor obtains coordinates of the point in the first display style based on first drawing data stored in the memory without requesting a server to calculate the coordinates, and displays the coordinates on the display. If the display style is a second display style, the processor sends, to the server, relevant data including the coordinates of the point and information indicating that the display style is the second display style; receives second-display-style coordinate data which is (a) second drawing data including the coordinates in the second display style generated by the server based on the relevant data or (b) data including an address of the second drawing data; and displays, on the display, the coordinates based on the second-display-style coordinate data.

Abstract: A track estimation device includes: a reliability determination unit configured to determine the reliability of satellite positioning information; an update timing determination unit configured to determine the timing of updating a parameter to estimate track of cycling based on the reliability of satellite positioning information; and an update unit configured to update the parameter based on a result of the timing determination. When the reliability determination unit determines that reliability of the satellite positioning information is low, the track estimation unit estimates the track based on the parameter by autonomous navigation.

Abstract: An image processing device includes an acquirer which acquires a face image and a controller. The controller generates an image depicted by at least one of multiple kinds of parameter making up a color space on a basis of the face image acquired by the acquirer, detects a particular image region in the generated image by setting multiple sizes, and sets the detected image region as a region on which a designated processing is to be performed.

Abstract: An activity recording data processing apparatus is provided. This apparatus includes an operation unit configured to acquire data obtained for a series of activity and action estimation information on the series of activity, the action estimation information being associated with the data; extract partial data of the data based on the action estimation information; and perform clustering of the extracted partial data.

Abstract: A portable electronic timepiece includes a display unit which displays an image, and a processor which is operative to display, on the display unit, route information on a traveling route of a user, switch a scale of the route information displayed on the display unit, and in a case where a given point set in association with the route information of a predetermined scale cannot be displayed within a display range of the display unit, change a display mode of the display unit to a display mode that is different from the display mode of displaying the route information.

Abstract: A direction estimating device includes a plurality of antennas placed on a front surface of a board to have different main lobe directions of directivities, at least one antenna placed on a back surface of the board, a radiowave intensity obtainer that obtains a received signal strength indication (RSSI) of a radiowave received by the plurality of antennas placed on the front surface of the board, and by the at least one antenna placed on the back surface of the board, and an estimator that estimates an arriving direction of the radiowave based on the RSSI of the radiowave obtained by the radiowave intensity obtainer.

Abstract: A moving state determining device includes a receiver receiving radiowaves from a positioning satellite and a processor. The processor determines a moving state of a satellite radiowave receiving unit based on a motion state measured by a sensor which measures a motion state, and performs a positioning operation based on information received by the receiver to obtain a current position and an error range thereof. In determining the moving state, a positioning operation result obtained when the error range satisfies a predetermined accuracy standard can be used. The error range is calculated based on a positioning accuracy and a deviation of the obtained current position and a predicted position calculated in accordance with the moving state. The positioning accuracy is obtained by combining each position of positioning satellites from which radiowaves are received and each receiving state of the radiowaves.

Abstract: A wireless communication device includes a wireless communicator and a processor. The wireless communicator wirelessly communicates with another wireless communication device. The processor controls the wireless communicator to broadcast connection information when reconnection to the other wireless communication device or wireless communication after reconnection with the other wireless communication device fails after termination of a connection with the other wireless communication device. The connection information is information related to the connection.

Abstract: A slip processing device including a scanner which irradiates a slip with a light beam and reads identification information from a barcode provided on the slip, a camera which captures an image of the slip, and a processor which functions as an information acquisition control section which starts reading of the identification information by the scanner and image capturing of the slip by the camera, in response to an information acquisition instruction from a user, and a recording control section which records the captured image of the slip in a predetermined recording section on condition that the reading of the identification information has been judged as successful.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display unit; and a control unit, wherein the control unit is configured to: set an irradiation condition of a laser beam for a thermally expandable sheet, a surface of the thermally expandable sheet being heated and expanded by being irradiated with the laser beam; display, on the display unit, a preview of an irradiation region of the thermally expandable sheet to be irradiated with the laser beam so as to be distinguishable in a display mode according to the set irradiation condition; allow the irradiation condition for expanding the thermally expandable sheet to a predetermined height to be selectable from among a plurality of mutually different irradiation conditions; and display, on the display unit, a preview of the plurality of irradiation conditions in mutually different display modes.

Abstract: A projector includes a light source unit having a first light source emitting first wavelength range light and a luminescent wheel having a first wavelength range light transmission area and a luminescent material area receiving the first wavelength range light and reflecting second different wavelength range light provided circumferentially end to end, a light source control unit controlling the light source unit, a display device receiving light from the light source unit to form image light, a pixel shifting unit shifting a display position of the image light for each of a plurality of sub-frame periods forming one image frame period, and a control unit controlling the light source control unit and the pixel shifting unit, the control unit synchronizing a timing the pixel shifting unit shifts the display position for each sub-frame period with a timing the emitted light from the light source unit is switched over.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus 1 includes an image acquisition unit 51 and an image processing unit 53. The image acquisition unit 51 acquires a face image. The image processing unit 53 adjusts the brightness of the face image acquired by the image acquisition unit 51. The image processing unit 53 combines the face image acquired by the image acquisition unit 51 with the adjusted image, using map data (map) in which a predetermined region of the face is set as a transparent region on the basis of a three dimensional shape of the face.

Abstract: A controller includes a first transmission unit that transmits identification information designating one servo-motor from among the servo-motors, an operation detection unit that detects an operation aspect of the driving device that is caused by a movement of the drive section driven by the servo-motor which is operated by the drive controller based on the identification information transmitted by the first transmission unit, and a correspondence information generation unit that creates correspondence information indicating which servo-motor among the servo-motors the identification information transmitted by the first transmission unit corresponds to, based on the detected operation aspect.

Abstract: An electronic timepiece, including: a receiver which receives broadcast radio waves including time information; a communicator which carries out wireless communication by establishing communication connection with an external device which is set; a processor; and an operation receiving unit which receives an input operation via an operating member, wherein in a case where a predetermined input operation corresponding to a command for obtaining information regarding a present time is received via a predetermined operating member, the processor selects a first information obtaining operation by which the information is obtained from the external device which is set via the communicator or a second information obtaining operation by which the information is obtained based on the broadcast radio waves received by the receiver according to whether a setting regarding the external device exists.

Abstract: A positioning position is corrected more efficiently. A reception control device, comprising: a processor, wherein the processor executes: a reception parameter acquisition process of acquiring reception parameters related to reception of positioning signals from a positioning signal receiver that receives the positioning signals from positioning satellites; a first reception environment determination process of determining a reception environment on the basis of a result of determining the acquired reception parameters in accordance with determination conditions; and a reception control process of controlling an error correction signal receiver that receives an error correction signal for correcting an error of a positioning result by the positioning signals from an error correction satellite on the basis of a determination result in the first reception environment determination process.

Abstract: An optical wheel according to the present invention includes a luminescent material light emitting area on which light in a first wavelength range is incident from one side to thereby emit luminescent light excited by the light in the first wavelength range from another side, and a controlling and diffusing optical area including a controlling section on which the light in the first wavelength range is incident from the one side and configured to cause a diffusing characteristic of the light in the first wavelength range to differ between in a radial direction and in a circumferential direction.

Abstract: An electronic device having a waterproof structure includes a housing having a sound hole waterproofed by a waterproof membrane; an barometer which is arranged in the housing, determines data variable in response to a state of the waterproof membrane, and outputs the determined data; and a central controller which detects an abnormal state of the waterproof membrane based on atmospheric pressure data outputted from the barometer.

Abstract: An advertisement creating device includes a display controller for displaying an advertisement on a display screen as a display sample. A selector selects a display candidate to be displayed in response to a switching operation received by a receiver as a post-switching display sample from a plurality of display candidates in accordance with a predetermined priority order determined using a two-dimensional array. The two-dimensional array has a first plurality of display candidates having different display styles for a first display mode in a first axis direction and a second plurality of display candidates having different display styles for a second display mode in a second axis direction. The selector selects an adjacent candidate image in the first axis direction or the second axis direction in the array as a display sample to be displayed after switching, and the receiver receives the switching operation that enables such selection.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first display unit and a drawing processing unit. The drawing processing unit acquires behavior history information based on behavior of a user. Further, the drawing processing unit acquires predetermined behavior information (past maximum value) from the behavior history information. Furthermore, the drawing processing unit simultaneously displays the acquired behavior history information and the acquired predetermined behavior information on the first display unit.

Abstract: A light source unit includes a first light source for emitting light in a first wavelength range, a luminescent wheel including a second light source for emitting light in a second wavelength range and a third light source for emitting light in a third wavelength range whose wavelength differs from that of the light in the second wavelength range, which are disposed circumferentially end to end in an adjacent fashion, a fourth light source for emitting light in a fourth wavelength range similar in color system to the light in the second or third wavelength range, and a control unit for controlling the fourth light source and the luminescent wheel to illuminate the fourth light source during a first color mixing period when a boundary between the second and third light sources is situated on an optical path of the light in the first wavelength range.

Abstract: An information terminal is used with a wrist information device. The information terminal includes a position measurement module, communication circuit, a memory, and a processor. The position measurement module obtains position information. The communication circuit communicates with the wrist information device. The processor obtains information about an operation of a clock function input into the wrist information device during establishment of connection of the communication, obtains the position information from the position measurement module, and stores, in the memory, the position information and the information about the operation of the clock function in association with each other.

Abstract: A display system includes an electronic apparatus, a display and a processor. The electronic apparatus is configured to display a first display screen on a first display. The display is configured to receive a touch input and is configured to display an operation panel as a second display screen. The processor is configured to execute a processing including a display control processing. The display control processing controls the second display screen on the display so that the first display screen is displayed on the operation panel, during a predetermined conduct including a control on the first display screen in accordance with user operation via a first operation unit, when the display is connected to the electronic apparatus as a second operation unit.

Abstract: Provided are a robot, a robot control method, and a non-transitory recording medium capable of causing a predetermined object to continuously have a health support without having a consciousness of a diagnosis. The robot includes an obtainer (a sensor set) obtaining biometric information of a predetermined object in accordance with a touch by the predetermined object to the robot without requesting the predetermined object to touch the robot, the biometric information being obtained by the touch of the predetermined object, a determiner determining the biometric information obtained by the obtainer, and a controller controlling the robot based on a determined result by the determiner.

Abstract: A robot provided with eyes includes an operation unit that operates a display and a movable member; a checker that checks whether eye contact with a predetermined target is made or not; a determiner that determines whether a predetermined condition regarding the predetermined target is satisfied during the eye contact or not, in a case in which the checker checks that the eye contact with the predetermined target is made; and an operation controller that controls the display and the movable member to cancel the eye contact with the predetermined target, in a case in which the determiner determines that the predetermined condition regarding the predetermined target is satisfied.

Abstract: A graph display method, wherein a first graph corresponding to a first mathematical expression is displayed on a display, and when an operation to input, as a modified expression of the first mathematical expression, a third mathematical expression having a notation different from that of the first mathematical expression is accepted, and a third graph corresponding to the third mathematical expression is displayed on the display, the third graph is displayed on the display in a way of displaying, the way being different depending on whether a condition that the first mathematical expression is mathematically identical to the third mathematical expression is satisfied or not.

Abstract: A wearable electronic device includes: an optical reader configured to read information; a wearable member to be worn so as to cover at least a part of a back of a hand and a finger; and a support part provided on a surface of the wearable member and configured to support the optical reader. The support part is formed to change a position of the optical reader during the wearable member being worn to at least two positions. The two positions are a fingertip-side and a back-side of a hand with respect to a boundary that is a third joint of the finger.

Abstract: An applicator device includes a camera, a print head, and a driver. The camera captures an image of an application surface of an application target. The print head applies a material to the application surface. The driver causes the print head to move between a first position where the print head does not block a field of view of the capturing, by the camera, of the image of the application surface and a second position where the print head blocks the field of view of the capturing, by the camera, of the image of the application surface. The print head applies the material to the application surface when the print head is at the second position, based on the image of the application surface captured by the camera when the print head is at the first position.

Abstract: A beacon device is a mobile object having an AR marker provided on its surface which indicates an existing position of the beacon device in actual space and transmits a beacon signal including a beacon ID. A user communication device, which is a mobile object equipped with an imaging function, identifies the position of the beacon device by recognizing the AR marker in a live view image, receives the beacon signal transmitted from the beacon device, transmits the beacon ID to a server device and controls to display an object corresponding to the beacon ID transmitted from the server device at the identified position of the beacon device in the live view image. The server device reads out the object corresponding to the beacon ID transmitted from the user communication device from a character data file group and transmits that data to the user communication device.

Abstract: A movement analyzer includes a position information acquiring device, a memory, and a processor. The processor executes a program to perform operations including acquiring position information of the movement analyzer with the position information acquiring device, determining whether or not a moving state of the movement analyzer is a specific moving state, and recording the position information corresponding to the specific moving state in the memory as a path of the specific moving state when a determination result indicates that the moving state of the movement analyzer is the specific moving state.