Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises a first temperature detector to detect a temperature of a first portion of an optical scanning device in a printer. The first portion is proximate to a heat generating element in the optical scanning device. A second temperature detector is provided to detect a temperature of a second portion of the optical scanning device, which is farther from the heat generating element than the first portion. A controller is configured to perform alignment control for correcting a color positional shift of the printer when either a detected temperature change of the first portion is greater than or equal to a first threshold value or a detected temperature change of the second portion is greater than or equal to a second threshold value.

Abstract: A circuit includes a signal processor configured to perform a signal processing, an amplifier configured to amplify a signal output from the signal processor, a first power supply path connected from a battery to the signal processor, a second power supply path connected from the battery to the amplifier, a capacitor connected to the second power supply path and that assists power supplied to the amplifier, and a power limiter connected to the second power supply path and that limits input power supplied from the battery.

Abstract: An audio device includes a base portion a power supply circuit arranged on the base portion and configured to output electric power; a rotation body rotatably supported by the base portion and configured to, upon rotation of the rotation body, move a playback point of a piece of music; an electric circuit arranged on the rotation body; and a non-contact power feeding mechanism configured to supply in a non-contact manner the electric power output by the power supply circuit to the electric circuit in which the non-contact power feeding mechanism is arranged on a path from the power supply circuit to the electric circuit.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises a first temperature detector to detect a temperature of a first portion of an optical scanning device in a printer. The first portion is proximate to a heat generating element in the optical scanning device. A second temperature detector is provided to detect a temperature of a second portion of the optical scanning device, which is farther from the heat generating element than the first portion. A controller is configured to perform alignment control for correcting a color positional shift of the printer when either a detected temperature change of the first portion is greater than or equal to a first threshold value or a detected temperature change of the second portion is greater than or equal to a second threshold value.

Abstract: Disclosed is an echo canceller (10) including: a false echo calculator (32) that acquires current and previous filter-coefficient groups used by an adaptive filtering unit (20), and that calculates plural false echo signals by performing a filtering operation using each of the current and previous filter-coefficient groups on a sequence of reception signals (x(n)); a voice-transmission signal buffer that outputs a previous voice-transmission signal (y(n?1)); an evaluation value calculator (34) that calculates plural evaluated values of an echo cancellation quantity by using the previous voice-transmission signal; a filter selector (36) that selects a new filter-coefficient group on the basis of the plural evaluated values of the echo cancellation quantity; a foreground filter (39) that performs a filtering operation using the new filter-coefficient group on the sequence of reception signals (x(n)) to generate an estimated echo component; and a subtractor (25) that subtracts the estimated echo component from a

Abstract: An intention inference system includes, a morphological analyzer to perform morphological analysis for a complex sentence with multiple intentions involved, a syntactic analyzer to perform syntactic analysis for the complex sentence morphologically analyzed by the morphological analyzer and to divide it into the first simple sentence and the second simple sentence, an intention inference unit to infer the first intention involved in the first simple sentence and the second intention involved in the second simple sentence, a feature extractor to extract as the first feature a morpheme showing execution order of operations involved in the first simple sentence and to extract as the second feature a morpheme showing execution order of operations involved in the second simple sentence, and an execution order inference unit to infer the execution order of the first operation corresponding to the first intention and the second operation corresponding to the second intention on the basis of the first feature and the

Abstract: A dummy trace portion is provided in a region between at least a suspension board with circuit on one end side and a support frame of a suspension board assembly sheet with circuits. A base insulating layer is formed on a support substrate in the dummy trace portion. A plurality of conductor traces are formed on the base insulating layer, and a cover insulating layer is formed on the base insulating layer to cover each conductor trace. At least one of the base insulating layer and the cover insulating layer in the dummy trace portion has a groove.

Abstract: A circuit includes a signal processor configured to perform a signal processing, an amplifier configured to amplify a signal output from the signal processor, a first power supply path connected from a battery to the signal processor, a second power supply path connected from the battery to the amplifier, a capacitor connected to the second power supply path and that assists power supplied to the amplifier, and a power limiter connected to the second power supply path and that limits input power supplied from the battery.

Abstract: Disclosed is an echo canceller including: a false echo calculator that calculates false echo signals by performing a filtering operation using each of current and previous filter-coefficient groups which used by an adaptive filtering unit on a sequence of reception signals (x(n)); an evaluation value calculator that calculates evaluated values of an echo cancellation quantity on the basis of a voice-transmission signal (y(n)) and the false echo signals; a false echo selector that selects an estimated echo component from the false echo components on the basis of the evaluated values of the echo cancellation quantity; and a signal output unit (Sout) that outputs a residual signal (e(n)).

Abstract: When among simple sentences which are estimation targets for an intention estimator, there is a simple sentence whose intention estimation has failed, a supplementary information estimator estimates supplementary information from the simple sentence by using a supplementary information estimation model stored in a supplementary information estimation model storage. When among the simple sentences which are the estimation targets for the intention estimator, there is a simple sentence from which an imperfect intention estimation result is provided, an intention supplementation unit supplements the imperfect intention estimation result by using the supplementary information estimated by the supplementary information estimator.

Abstract: Disclosed is an echo canceller including: a false echo calculator that calculates false echo signals by performing a filtering operation using each of current and previous filter-coefficient groups which used by an adaptive filtering unit on a sequence of reception signals (x(n)); an evaluation value calculator that calculates evaluated values of an echo cancellation quantity on the basis of a voice-transmission signal (y(n)) and the false echo signals; a false echo selector that selects an estimated echo component from the false echo components on the basis of the evaluated values of the echo cancellation quantity; and a signal output unit (Sout) that outputs a residual signal (e(n)).

Abstract: Disclosed is an echo canceller (10) including: a false echo calculator (32) that acquires current and previous filter-coefficient groups used by an adaptive filtering unit (20), and that calculates plural false echo signals by performing a filtering operation using each of the current and previous filter-coefficient groups on a sequence of reception signals (x(n)); a voice-transmission signal buffer that outputs a previous voice-transmission signal (y(n?1)); an evaluation value calculator (34) that calculates plural evaluated values of an echo cancellation quantity by using the previous voice-transmission signal; a filter selector (36) that selects a new filter-coefficient group on the basis of the plural evaluated values of the echo cancellation quantity; a foreground filter (39) that performs a filtering operation using the new filter-coefficient group on the sequence of reception signals (x(n)) to generate an estimated echo component; and a subtractor (25) that subtracts the estimated echo component from a

Abstract: Provided is a sealing sheet capable of preventing void and filler segregation from occurring when forming a sealing body in which semiconductor chips are buried in the sealing sheet. The sealing sheet has a viscosity within the range of 1 Pa·s to 50000 Pa·s at 90° C.

Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a sheet tray on which one or more sheets to be processed are placed, an adhesive applying unit having an end portion that faces the sheet tray and holds an adhesive material and configured to move towards the sheet tray up to a position at which the end portion is in contact with or proximate to a sheet on the sheet tray and apart from the sheet tray, a pressing member configured to move into and out of a moving path of the adhesive applying unit and a control unit. The control unit is configured to cause the pressing member to be in the moving path of the adhesive applying unit when the pressing member is moved towards the sheet tray, such that the pressing member is pressed against a sheet on the sheet tray by the adhesive applying unit.

Abstract: A voice recognizer 3 generates plural voice recognition results from one input speech 2. For each of the voice recognition results, an intent understanding processor 7 estimates an intent to thereby output one or more candidates of intent understanding results and scores of them. A weight calculator 11 calculates standby weights using setting information 9 of a control target apparatus. An intent understanding corrector 12 corrects the scores of the candidates of intent understanding result, using the standby weights, to thereby calculate their final scores, and then selects one from among the candidates of intent understanding result, as an intent understanding result 13, on the basis of the final scores.

Abstract: A post-processing apparatus includes a discharge tray, a sheet conveyor configured to convey a sheet onto the discharge tray, a drive unit configured to drive the sheet conveyor, a sensor configured to detect a position of the sheet discharged onto the discharge tray, and a control unit configured to determine a parameter to control the drive unit based on an output of the sensor, and to control the drive unit based on the determined parameter.

Abstract: A circuit includes: a signal processing unit which is configured to perform signal processing; an amplifying unit which is configured to amplify a signal output from the signal processing unit; a first power supplying path which is extended from a battery to the signal processing unit; a second power supplying path which is branched from the first power supplying path, and which is extended to the amplifying unit; a power limiting unit which is provided in the second power supplying path, and which is configured to limit power flowing in the second power supplying path; and a capacitor which is connected to the second power supplying path, and which is configured to supplement power to be supplied to the amplifying unit.

Abstract: An audio signal that is output from a sound source circuit (14) is caused to flow through a coil (16) in a transducer for vibrating a soundboard, and the vibration of the soundboard generates an acoustic signal. A microcomputer (30) calculates a temperature of the coil (16) with high accuracy by inputting an ambient temperature (Ta) detected by an ambient temperature sensor (21) and a voltage (V) applied to the coil (16) and executing computation based on a thermal equivalent circuit of an acoustic signal converter using the ambient temperature and the voltage that are input thereto, the computation including calculation of an amount of electric power consumed in the coil (16) using the input voltage.

Abstract: A read wiring trace and a write wiring trace are formed on an insulating layer. Connection terminals made of conductor are connected to the read wiring trace and the write wiring trace, respectively. Each connection terminal has at least one corner with a radius of curvature of not larger than 35 ?m.

Abstract: An intention inference system includes, a morphological analyzer to perform morphological analysis for a complex sentence with multiple intentions involved, a syntactic analyzer to perform syntactic analysis for the complex sentence morphologically analyzed by the morphological analyzer and to divide it into the first simple sentence and the second simple sentence, an intention inference unit to infer the first intention involved in the first simple sentence and the second intention involved in the second simple sentence, a feature extractor to extract as the first feature a morpheme showing execution order of operations involved in the first simple sentence and to extract as the second feature a morpheme showing execution order of operations involved in the second simple sentence, and an execution order inference unit to infer the execution order of the first operation corresponding to the first intention and the second operation corresponding to the second intention on the basis of the first feature and the