Abstract: A broadcast reception device includes: a program recording execution unit that stores, into a recording-content storage area, program identification information for identifying a broadcast program, and storage-destination information for specifying a server device storing the broadcast program; a reception function execution unit that transmits the program identification information and the program storage-destination information to the server device specified from the program storage-destination information; and an output unit that outputs sound information and image information on the broadcast program transmitted from the server device.

Abstract: An SIP server (21) of a receiving side service provider (21D) includes an SIP reception unit (52) that receives a call signal originated in a calling side terminal (11) for a receiving side terminal (31) as a transmission destination, an SIP processing unit (54) that determines that a warning signal is necessary in a case where a combination of a number conversion history of the call signal set by an SIP server (22) that has transferred the call signal by a transfer service involving number conversion and calling side information of the calling side terminal (11) set in the call signal meets a specific condition, and a call processing unit (53) that transmits the warning signal to the receiving side terminal (31) before transmitting the call signal to the receiving side terminal (31) according to the determination of the SIP processing unit (54).

Abstract: A virtual object display device comprises a display and a display control device configured to perform display control of the display. The display control device includes: a coordinate system calculation unit configured to detect movement and rotation of the virtual object display device in a real world, and use an inertial coordinate system in which a coordinate origin thereof follows the movement of the virtual object display device and an effective field of view of the display is rotated therein in accordance with the rotation of the virtual object display device so as to define an arrangement position of an inertial coordinate system virtual object; and a display control unit configured to, when the inertial coordinate system virtual object is included in the effective field of view of the display, display the inertial coordinate system virtual object within the effective field of view.

Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to perform good illumination and obtain a good captured image when a plurality of users each having a camera-equipped portable information terminal device gather in the same place. A camera-equipped portable information terminal device is provided with: an imaging unit that captures an image of a subject; a first illumination means for illuminating the subject; a first communication unit that communicates with other portable information terminal devices; and a first control unit that controls the imaging unit and the first communication unit. The first control unit transmits a light emission instruction signal to the other portable information terminal devices via the first communication unit, and causes a second illumination means of each of the other portable information terminal devices to emit light in tandem with an imaging operation of the imaging unit.

Abstract: One or more embodiments of the present invention provide a microbial strain with improved productivity of ?-glutamylcysteine, bis-?-glutamylcystine, ?-glutamylcystine, reduced glutathione, and/or oxidized glutathione. Such microbial strain has disruption of [1] a gene encoding ?-glutamyltransferase and [2] a gene encoding phosphoglycerate mutase and enhanced expression of [3] a gene encoding glutamate-cysteine ligase and/or a gene encoding glutathione synthetase or [4] a gene encoding bifunctional glutathione synthetase. This invention also discloses a method for producing the substances mentioned above via culture of the microbial strain.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a suitable user-friendliness to a user regarding a recommendation of application software on a portable information terminal. In order to accomplish the purpose, this portable information terminal is configured to set an application as a recommendation candidate when the status of the portable information terminal matches a condition corresponding to the application, and recommend the application when the application further matches a pre-set recommendation permitting condition. Hence, the portable information terminal and the application recommending method thereof capable of providing a preferable user-friendliness to the user can be provided.

Abstract: The present invention suppresses the number of connections from another network, and reduces the load on call processing apparatuses in a local network.

Abstract: There is provided an imaging device including: an image processing unit; a face recognition processing unit; a storage unit; and a composition processing unit for generating composite data by a composition process so that persons photographed in each of a plurality of image data are included in one image data. The face recognition processing unit recognizes a first person by performing a face recognition process on first image data. When second image data obtained by photographing a second person at the different photographing timing of the first image data, with the same background as the first image data, is recorded in the storage unit, the composition processing unit generates composite data in which the first person and the second person are superimposed on the same background.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus has: an imaging optical system; an imaging element configured to receive light transmitted through the imaging optical system to generate an electric signal; a main body; a display device provided on a back face of the main body and capable of displaying an image generated on the basis of the electric signal generated by the imaging element; and an electronic viewfinder provided inside the main body and capable of displaying the image generated on the basis of the electric signal generated by the imaging element, wherein an eyepiece part of the electronic viewfinder is provided to a transmissive region of the display device.

Abstract: By a traveling position determination device, a traveling position determination method, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a traveling position determination program, or by a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a map data structure including a traveling position of a vehicle capable of performing automated driving, an offset of the traveling position in a lateral direction of the vehicle with respect to a reference position is determined.

Abstract: A head-mounted display comprises: a wearing body; a display; a communication module configured to perform communication connection with a mobile information terminal; a field of view (FOV) sensor configured to output status data used for determining whether the mobile information terminal is included in a user's FOV through the wearing body; and a controller connected to each of the display, the communication module, and the FOV detection sensor. The controller determines whether the mobile information terminal is included in the user's FOV based on the status data, and performs display control with respect to the display so as to display an application screen of the mobile information terminal on the display when determining that the mobile information terminal is not included in the FOV, and not to display the application screen on the display when determining that the mobile information terminal is included in the FOV.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image pickup device that recognizes the object that the user is attempting to capture as the subject, tracks the movement of that subject, and can continue tracking the movement of the subject even when the subject leaves the capturing area so that the subject can always be reliably brought into focus. The image pickup device includes a main camera that captures the subject; an EVF that displays the captured image captured by the main camera, a sub-camera that captures the subject using a wider capturing region than the main camera, and a processing unit that extracts the subject from the captured images captured by the main camera and the sub-camera, tracks the extracted subject, and brings the subject into focus when an image of the subject is actually captured. When the subject moves outside of a capturing region of the main camera, the processing unit tracks the subject extracted from the captured image captured by the sub-camera.

Abstract: A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes a transistor region and a diode region. The transistor region includes n-type first SiC region having a first portion contacting a first plane, p-type second SiC region, n-type third SiC region, and a gate electrode. The diode region includes the first SiC region having a second portion contacting the first plane and p-type fourth SiC region. The semiconductor device includes a first electrode contacting the first portion and the second portion and a second electrode contacting a second plane. An occupied area per unit area of the fourth SiC region is larger than an occupied area per unit area of the second SiC region. In addition, a first diode region is provided between a first transistor region and a second transistor region. An inorganic insulating layer is provided between the first electrode and a gate wiring adjacent to the first electrode.

Abstract: Provided is a hollow organ model unit. The hollow organ model unit includes a base that includes a recessed part, a hollow organ model that is placed in the recessed part, a filler that is filled in the recessed part, and a sensor that performs a measurement on the hollow organ model.

Abstract: In payment using biometric authentication, a customer-friendly technology with a high degree of freedom for customers to select a payment destination is provided. The present invention provides a biometric authentication payment system including: a biometric information acquisition device that acquires biometric information of a customer; a reception section that receives designation of a payment system of a payment destination; a transmission section that transmits the biometric information and a payment amount to the payment system; an authentication section that performs authentication using the transmitted biometric information, and a payment section that performs the payment of the payment amount when the authentication result is successful in authentication, and when a payment destination is designated.

Abstract: There is provided a portable terminal device 2 that notifies a television receiver 1 of a received phone call or mail. The portable terminal device 2 includes a communication unit 210 that receives a phone call or mail and communicates with the television receiver, a notification execution unit 203c that performs control in a case where information of the phone call or the mail received by the communication unit is notified to the television receiver, and a posture detection execution unit 203e that detects a posture of the portable terminal device. In a case where the communication unit receives a phone call or mail, the notification execution unit changes content of the information of the received phone call or mail according to a detection result of the posture detection execution unit and notifies the television receiver of the changed content.

Abstract: A speech recognition device includes a sound input section, a sound output section, a communication control section that performs data transmission and reception with at least one of other recognition devices, a conversation-mode executing section that transmits sound data input to each of the other recognition devices and outputs sound data received from each of the other recognition devices, a speech recognition section that converts the sound input into text data, a hot word detecting section that detects a conversation activation hot word from the text data to activate the conversation-mode executing section, and a command transmitting section that transmits a control command to each of the other recognition devices. If the hot word detecting section detects the conversation activation hot word, the command transmitting section transmits the control command to activate a conversation-mode executing section provided in each of the other recognition devices.

Abstract: The purpose is to provide a mobile terminal device that can limit the use of the application by detecting the user position of the mobile terminal device and the speed of the vehicle by itself. To this end, provided is a function limitation method of a mobile terminal device with function limitation capable of limiting a use of an application, including, a step of determining whether or not a limitation target application of the mobile terminal device is in activation, a usage position check step of determining, by the mobile terminal device, a user of the mobile terminal device is on a driver seat, and a speed check step of calculating, by the mobile terminal device, a vehicle in which the user of the mobile terminal device is riding is traveling, in which the use of the application is limited or terminated when the user of the mobile terminal device is on the driver seat, and the vehicle is traveling.

Abstract: There is provided an imaging device including: an image processing unit; a face recognition processing unit; a storage unit; and a composition processing unit for generating composite data by a composition process so that persons photographed in each of a plurality of image data are included in one image data. The face recognition processing unit recognizes a first person by performing a face recognition process on first image data. When second image data obtained by photographing a second person at the different photographing timing of the first image data, with the same background as the first image data, is recorded in the storage unit, the composition processing unit generates composite data in which the first person and the second person are superimposed on the same background.

Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to perform good illumination and obtain a good captured image when a plurality of users each having a camera-equipped portable information terminal device gather in the same place. A camera-equipped portable information terminal device is provided with: an imaging unit that captures an image of a subject; a first illumination means for illuminating the subject; a first communication unit that communicates with other portable information terminal devices; and a first control unit that controls the imaging unit and the first communication unit. The first control unit transmits a light emission instruction signal to the other portable information terminal devices via the first communication unit, and causes a second illumination means of each of the other portable information terminal devices to emit light in tandem with an imaging operation of the imaging unit.