Abstract: A wireless communication method includes receiving a broadcast signal from a wireless terminal, comparing a receiving intensity of the received broadcast signal with a set value, and transmitting to the wireless terminal a first signal indicating that the wireless terminal can start connection depending on a result of the comparison.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information retrieval apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to identify at least one first similar process similar to a process of interest corresponding to a certain design phase in design of a new plant, among processes of existing plants, based on a design document of the process of interest and design documents of individual processes of each of existing plants, identify at least one first subsequent process, a process after the first similar process, based on a design flow indicating a sequence of processes in an existing plant including the first similar process and retrieve a case corresponding to the first similar process and a case corresponding to the first subsequent process from a case database storing cases of troubles.

Abstract: An acceptance control unit accepts, after simulation of a state change of a target system, a specified time which is a time in a simulation period being a target of the simulation. A reproduction unit selects a change time corresponding to the specified time from trace data and obtains a state value corresponding to the selected change time from the trace data. The reproduction unit generates a state image indicating a state corresponding to the obtained state value. A display unit displays the generated state image.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a design support system supports determination of a first design specification of a plant, the system including a memory and a hardware processor. The memory stores therein second design specifications of existing plants in association with first information related to a document(s) concerned with an existing plant. The hardware processor acquires a required specification which includes a part of elements of the first design specification and which indicates value of each element to be satisfied; identifies, based on second information in which an element(s) is/are associated with each condition, an element associated with a condition that matches the required specification; identifies a second design specification corresponding to the required specification based on the element identified; selects an element(s); and extracts, from the first information associated with the second design specification identified, a description related to the element selected.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a work supporting system includes a specification system, a configuration system, and a decision engine. The specification system is implemented by one or more hardware processors and configured to identify work items from a maintenance log to which a work content is written as text. The configuration system is implemented by one or more hardware processors and configured to establish an anteroposterior relation between the work items based on a clue expression indicating time and the anteroposterior relation in the text within a threshold distance of the work items identified by the specification system. The decision engine is implemented by one or more hardware processors and configured to determine an order relation among the work items based on the anteroposterior relation established by the configuration system.

Abstract: An information extraction support device includes a receptor, a pattern generator, a data generator, and an output controller. The receptor receives input of a first training example for learning a model used in at least one of extraction of information and extraction of a relation between a plurality of pieces of information, and clue information indicating a basis on which the first training example is used for learning. The pattern generator generates a supervised pattern for generating a training example used for learning, using the first training example and the clue information. The data generator generates a second training example using the supervised pattern. The output controller outputs the second training example and the clue information that is used to generate the supervised pattern having generated the second training example.

Abstract: A storage unit stores a trace file obtained by simulating an operation of an object. A reception unit receives a forward direction reproduction instruction. A reproduction unit reads each piece of trace data from the trace file. The reproduction unit determines a timing for updating a graphic display, based on a new display time corresponding to an occurrence time included in new trace data read this time and an old display time corresponding to an occurrence time included in old trace data read last time. A display unit changes a state of the object displayed by the graphic display to a state indicated by a new state value included in the new trace data, at the determined timing.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a storage unit, a detector, an acquisition unit, and a search unit. The storage unit configured to store therein voice indices, each of which associates a character string included in voice text data obtained from a voice recognition process with voice positional information, the voice positional information indicating a temporal position in the voice data and corresponding to the character string. The acquisition unit acquires reading information being at least a part of a character string representing a reading of a phrase to be transcribed from the voice data played back. The search unit specifies, as search targets, character strings whose associated voice positional information is included in the played-back section information among the character strings included in the voice indices, and retrieves a character string including the reading represented by the reading information from among the specified character strings.

Abstract: The present invention provides a honeycomb filter including a honeycomb fired body including porous cell partition walls, exhaust gas introduction cells each having an open end at an exhaust gas inlet side and a plugged end at an exhaust gas outlet side, exhaust gas emission cells each having an open end at the exhaust gas outlet side and a plugged end at the exhaust gas inlet side, and an outer wall on the periphery thereof. The cross-sectional shape of each exhaust gas introduction cell in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal direction thereof is entirely uniform from the end at the exhaust gas inlet side to the end at the exhaust gas outlet side excluding the plugged portion, and the cross-sectional shape of each exhaust gas emission cell in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal direction thereof is entirely uniform from the end at the exhaust gas inlet side to the end at the exhaust gas outlet side excluding the plugged portion.

Abstract: The present invention provides a honeycomb filter including a honeycomb fired body including porous cell partition walls, exhaust gas introduction cells each having an open end at an exhaust gas inlet side and a plugged end at an exhaust gas outlet side, exhaust gas emission cells each having an open end at the exhaust gas outlet side and a plugged end at the exhaust gas inlet side, and an outer wall on the periphery thereof. The cross-sectional shape of each exhaust gas introduction cell in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal direction thereof is entirely uniform from the end at the exhaust gas inlet side to the end at the exhaust gas outlet side excluding the plugged portion. The cross-sectional shape of each exhaust gas emission cell in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal direction thereof is entirely uniform from the end at the exhaust gas inlet side to the end at the exhaust gas outlet side excluding the plugged portion.

Abstract: The present invention provides a honeycomb filter including a honeycomb fired body including porous cell partition walls, exhaust gas introduction cells each having an open end at an exhaust gas inlet side and a plugged end at an exhaust gas outlet side, exhaust gas emission cells each having an open end at the exhaust gas outlet side and a plugged end at the exhaust gas inlet side, and an outer wall on the periphery thereof. The cross-sectional shape of each exhaust gas introduction cell in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal direction thereof is entirely uniform from the end at the exhaust gas inlet side to the end at the exhaust gas outlet side excluding the plugged portion. The cross-sectional shape of each exhaust gas emission cell in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal direction thereof is entirely uniform from the end at the exhaust gas inlet side to the end at the exhaust gas outlet side excluding the plugged portion.

Abstract: When an instruction to start voice input is received from the user, a gain controller acquires, from a gain table which defines a correspondence between vehicle speed ranges and gains, a gain corresponding to a vehicle speed range including the vehicle speed of a vehicle detected by a vehicle speed detector, and sets the acquired gain as the gain of an input amplifier that amplifies an input audio signal output by a microphone. As a gain corresponding to each vehicle speed range, the gain table records a gain of the input amplifier corresponding, in an experimentally determined frequency distribution of peak values in the vehicle speed range, to a maximum frequency in the range of magnitude of voice output as an input audio signal by the microphone and to be input to a speech recognition engine as voice having a magnitude within the input range of the speech recognition engine.

Abstract: A hybrid vehicle drive system, which permits an efficient change of a vehicle drive mode from any one of constant-speed-ratio engine drive modes to one of electric motor drive modes, with reduced deterioration of drivability of the hybrid vehicle. The hybrid vehicle drive system is constructed such that one of the electric motor drive modes can be established by releasing one of two coupling elements which are placed in the engaged state in a presently established one of the constant-speed-ratio engine drive modes, when the drive system is required to be switched from the above-described one of the constant-speed-ratio engine drive modes to any one of the electric motor drive modes, whereby the drive system can be efficiently switched from any one of the constant-speed-ratio engine drive modes to the above-indicated one of the electric motor drive modes, by simply releasing one of the above-indicated two coupling elements.

Abstract: The terminal has a base portion held by a terminal holding member, and a contact arm portion extending from the base portion and contacting the contact portion of another terminal. In this terminal, the contact arm portion includes a cantilevered first frame portion and second frame portion extending from the base portion, a connecting frame portion connecting a free end of the first frame portion and a free end of the second frame portion, a contact protruding portion formed in the first frame portion, and a contact face formed in the contact protruding portion; and the contact face moves in a parallel direction and maintains contact with a contact face of a contact portion of another terminal when the contact arm portion is elastically deformed by contact with the contact portion of the other terminal.

Abstract: The terminal has a base portion held by a terminal holding member, and a contact arm portion extending from the base portion and contacting the contact portion of another terminal. In this terminal, the contact arm portion includes a cantilevered first frame portion and second frame portion extending from the base portion, a connecting frame portion connecting a free end of the first frame portion and a free end of the second frame portion, a contact protruding portion formed in the first frame portion, and a contact face formed in the contact protruding portion; and the contact face moves in a parallel direction and maintains contact with a contact face of a contact portion of another terminal when the contact arm portion is elastically deformed by contact with the contact portion of the other terminal.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a transcription support system includes: a first storage, a playback unit, a second storage, a text generating unit, an estimating unit, and a setting unit. The first storage stores the voice data therein; a playback unit plays back the voice data; and a second storage stores voice indices, each of which associates a character string obtained from a voice recognition process with voice positional information, for which the voice positional information is indicative of a temporal position in the voice data and corresponds to the character string. The text creating unit creates text; the estimating unit estimates already-transcribed voice positional information based on the voice indices; and the setting unit sets a playback starting position that indicates a position at which playback is started in the voice data based on the already-transcribed voice positional information.

Abstract: The terminal has a base portion held by a terminal holding member, and a contact arm portion extending from the base portion and contacting the contact portion of another terminal. In this terminal, the contact arm portion includes a cantilevered first frame portion and second frame portion extending from the base portion, a connecting frame portion connecting a free end of the first frame portion and a free end of the second frame portion, a contact protruding portion formed in the first frame portion, and a contact face formed in the contact protruding portion; and the contact face moves in a parallel direction and maintains contact with a contact face of a contact portion of another terminal when the contact arm portion is elastically deformed by contact with the contact portion of the other terminal.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a speaker clustering apparatus includes a clustering unit, an extraction unit, and an error detection unit. The clustering unit is configured to extract acoustic features for speakers from an acoustic signal, and to cluster utterances included in the acoustic signal into the speakers by using the acoustic features. The extraction unit is configured to acquire character strings representing contents of the utterances, and to extract linguistic features of the speakers by using the character strings. The error detection unit is configured to decide that, when one of the character strings does not fit with a linguistic feature of a speaker into which an utterance of the one is clustered, the utterance is erroneously clustered by the clustering unit.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide: an antibody comprising at least two kinds of Fab, and in particular having restricted light chain-heavy chain combinations; a corresponding antibody composition; and production methods for same. [Solution] The present invention provides production methods for (1) an antibody or (2) an antibody composition, the methods using non-natural disulfide bonds.

Abstract: Provided is a connector including a first connector having a first terminal and a first mating guide portion, and a second connector having a second terminal engaging the first terminal and a second mating guide portion fitted with the first mating guide portion, in which the first mating guide portion includes a fixed terminal for detecting the mating of the first connector and the second connector, the second mating guide portion includes a resilient terminal for detecting the mating of the first connector and the second connector, and the fixed terminal or the resilient terminal has a piezoelectric electric element.