Abstract: An adaptive equalizer, includes a sample buffer; and a processor coupled to the sample buffer and configured to: perform an adaptive equalization on data which has been fractionally sampled at a sampling rate higher than once a symbol rate and lower than twice the symbol rate, determine an initial value of a tap coefficient of the adaptive equalizer by using a training sequence inserted in the data, shift, by a predetermined shift amount, a sample point of one pattern from among two consecutive patterns included in the training sequence, specify a position of the training sequence in the data by replacing an original sample value with a sample value at the shifted sample point, and update the initial value of the tap coefficient based on the specified training sequence.

Abstract: A device for measuring a tension of a sheet-like tissue containing cardiomyocytes includes a first gel adapter holder having a frame member and a first gel holding member protruding toward a part of an inside face of the frame member for fixing one end of a film-like gel; and a second gel adapter holder having a second gel holding member for fixing the other end of the gel and a connection member connected to the second gel holding member. A kit includes the tension measuring device; a substrate having a pair of gel molding protruding members fitted along the inside face of the frame member; and a gel forming lid body having a face parallel to a gel contact face of the substrate so as to form an upper face of the gel. Further, a system for measuring the tension includes the tension measuring device.

Abstract: Provided are a film having excellent heat resistance and a film forming method. In addition, provided are an optical filter, a laminate, a solid image pickup element, an image display device, and an infrared sensor. The film includes an aggregate of a dye and a resin, in which an average particle size of the aggregate of the dye is 30 to 450 nm.

Abstract: Provided are a resin composition including a colorant and a resin, in which the colorant contains two or more squarylium colorants represented by Formula (1) below, at least one of the squarylium colorants is a squarylium colorant having a hydrogen-bonding group, which is represented by Formula (2) below, and a colorant mixture consisting of the two or more squarylium colorants, which is included in the resin composition, has a maximum absorption wavelength in a wavelength range of 400 nm to 700 nm; an optical filter; a liquid crystal display device; a solid-state imaging element; and a colorant mixture.

Abstract: The present technique relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that can make an improvement in terms of communication regarding a plurality of users viewing the same content. Data of content is acquired, and a first visual field image corresponding to a visual field of a first user is cut out from a content image based on the data of the content. In addition, visual field information representing a visual field of a second user viewing the content image is acquired. Furthermore, in a display apparatus, the first visual field image is displayed, and the visual field of the second user is displayed based on the visual field information of the second user. The present technique can be applied to, for example, a case where a plurality users views content, such as a spherical image and a free viewpoint image.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including a block generation unit (113) configured to generate a block to be connected to a blockchain, the block including first related data associated with first data that is at least part of data included in an immediately preceding block and second related data associated with data included in the immediately preceding block and including at least second data different from the first data.

Abstract: A survey data processing device includes a point cloud data receiving unit, a vertically cut section generating unit, and a vertical position adjusting unit. The point cloud data receiving unit receives first point cloud data and second point cloud data that are respectively obtained at a first instrument point and a second instrument point. The vertically cut section generating unit cuts the first point cloud data and the second point cloud data at a vertical plane containing the first instrument point and the second instrument point to obtain a vertically cut section of each of the first point cloud data and the second point cloud data. The vertical position adjusting unit matches vertical positions of the vertically cut sections of the first point cloud data and the second point cloud data as viewed from a direction perpendicular to the vertical plane.

Abstract: A lens for spectacles and spectacles a resin and a near-infrared absorbing agent having a maximum absorption wavelength in a thiourethane resin in a range of more than 700 nm and 1000 nm or less and a transmittance of light at 400 nm of 50% or more and 100% or less.

Abstract: An information processing device, method, program, and system that receives an item in a delivery locker on behalf of a user and delivers it safely to a user are disclosed. The information processing device generates different passwords for one item, the different passwords being passwords for receiving the item from a delivery locker. A delivery locker manager sets, on a delivery locker, different passwords for one item, the different passwords being passwords for receiving the item. A communication unit transmits a second password that is different from a first password for a user for receiving an item in a delivery locker to a proxy transporter that performs proxy transportation including receiving the item in the delivery locker and delivering the item to the user. The disclosed technology can be applied to, for example, a system that provides a proxy transportation service.

Abstract: An adaptive equalizer includes a sample buffer that temporarily stores data obtained by fractional sampling at a sampling rate that is larger than one time and smaller than two times a symbol rate; and a processor coupled to the sample buffer and configured to: specify position of a training sequence in the data based on a correlation value between a first set of (f×T) samples and a second set of (f×T) samples following the first set of samples, assuming that the sampling rate is f, and a symbol length of a code pattern included in the training sequence inserted in the data is T, and calculate an initial value of a tap coefficient set to a tap of an adaptive equalization filter based on the specified training sequence, wherein the symbol length is set to be changeable so that f×T is an integer.

Abstract: An adaptive equalizer, includes a sample buffer; and a processor coupled to the sample buffer and configured to: perform an adaptive equalization on data which has been fractionally sampled at a sampling rate higher than once a symbol rate and lower than twice the symbol rate, determine an initial value of a tap coefficient of the adaptive equalizer by using a training sequence inserted in the data, shift, by a predetermined shift amount, a sample point of one pattern from among two consecutive patterns included in the training sequence, specify a position of the training sequence in the data by replacing an original sample value with a sample value at the shifted sample point, and update the initial value of the tap coefficient based on the specified training sequence.

Abstract: The invention provides a flying vehicle tracking method, which comprises an optical tracking in which a tracking light is projected to a retro-reflector of a flying vehicle with the retro-reflector, the tracking light is received, and a tracking of the flying vehicle is performed based on a light receiving result, and an image tracking in which an image of the flying vehicle is acquired, the flying vehicle is detected from the image, and the tracking of the flying vehicle is performed based on a detection result, wherein the optical tracking and the image tracking are executed in parallel with each other, and in a case where the flying vehicle cannot be tracked by the optical tracking, the optical tracking is returned based on the detection result of the image tracking.

Abstract: Provided are: a monoclonal antibody against human IgG4, for which the epitope is present in the CH3 of human IgG4 given by SEQ ID NO: 4; a hybridoma that produces the monoclonal antibody; a method for detecting IgG4 using the monoclonal antibody; and a kit used in this method.

Abstract: A composition includes two or more near infrared absorbing compounds having an absorption maximum in a wavelength range of 650 to 1000 nm and having a solubility of 0.1 mass % or lower in water at 23° C., in which the two or more near infrared absorbing compounds include a first near infrared absorbing compound having an absorption maximum in a wavelength range of 650 to 1000 nm, and a second near infrared absorbing compound having an absorption maximum in a wavelength range of 650 to 1000 nm which is shorter than the absorption maximum of the first near infrared absorbing compound, and a difference between the absorption maximum of the first near infrared absorbing compound and the absorption maximum of the second near infrared absorbing compound is 1 to 150 nm.

Abstract: Obtained is a power conversion device including a small-sized and low-cost fuse portion which allows overcurrent to be assuredly interrupted when being applied and allows a semiconductor element to be protected from a short-circuit fault or the like. The power conversion device includes: a circuit board; a semiconductor element mounted on the circuit board; a snubber capacitor; a snubber circuit wire which connects the snubber capacitor in parallel to the semiconductor element; and a fuse portion formed at a part of the snubber circuit wire.

Abstract: Provided is an ink jet recording ink including: a colorant represented by the following Formula 1, in which an absorption maximum of a dry material of the ink jet recording ink is 700 nm to 1000 nm.

Abstract: The composition includes two or more near infrared absorbing compounds having an absorption maximum in a wavelength range of 650 to 1000 nm and having a solubility of 0.1 mass % or lower in water at 23° C., in which the two or more near infrared absorbing compounds include a first near infrared absorbing compound having an absorption maximum in a wavelength range of 650 to 1000 nm, and a second near infrared absorbing compound having an absorption maximum in a wavelength range of 650 to 1000 nm which is shorter than the absorption maximum of the first near infrared absorbing compound, and a difference between the absorption maximum of the first near infrared absorbing compound and the absorption maximum of the second near infrared absorbing compound is 1 to 150 nm.

Abstract: An adaptive equalization circuit includes: a first filter configure to perform filtering on an input signal based on a tap coefficient; an applying circuit configured to apply, to the signal, noise outside a band of the signal; and a controller configured to set, for the first filter, the tap coefficient that compensates for transmission line characteristics of the signal, based on the signal to which the noise is applied by the applying circuit.