Abstract: In authentication based on an image region read from a surface of a target object, authentication based on a position corresponding to the image region is executed. An authenticating server 2 receives an image region as an authentication target read from a surface of a target object possessed by a user together with an authentication request from the user, identifies a position corresponding to the image region as the authentication target and one reference image region corresponding to the image region as the authentication target in a plurality of previously stored reference image regions read from respective surfaces of a plurality of target objects, and executes authentication in response to the authentication request based on the identified position.

Abstract: A comparison service provider receives, from each of plural object-related information management servers, image information items representing unique patterns included in surfaces of objects and identification information items of the objects, stores the image information items and the identification information items received, receives from a user device an image information item representing the unique pattern included in the surface of the object, identifies one of the identification information items stored based on the image information item received, and transmits to the user device the identification information item identified or a related information item of the object stored in the object-related information management server as related to the identification information item identified.

Abstract: A method of producing a tablet in which an uncoated tablet is coated by a coating agent, the method including: a coating process of coating uncoated tablets with a coating agent by spray coating the coating agent onto tablets that are churned and tumbled inside a container, and drying the tablets inside the container by supplying drying air into the container and exhausting air from the container, wherein spray coating conditions, including air supply temperature, air supply rate, and spray speed, are controlled according to the weight of the coating agent with which the uncoated tablets are coated, such that the humidity of air exhausted during spray coating is within a range of from 14% RH to 30% RH.

Abstract: A rotation unit of an image processor rotates at least any one of a securing unit for securing an object, an illumination unit for illuminating the object secured by the securing unit, and an image reading unit for reading an image of the object secured by the securing unit. A matching value calculation unit calculates the matching value for matching the image read by the image reading unit and the image in an image storing unit for storing images of objects previously read. A controller controls the rotation by the rotation unit based on the matching value calculated by the matching value calculation unit.

Abstract: A comparison service provider receives, from each of plural object-related information management servers, image information items representing unique patterns included in surfaces of objects and identification information items of the objects, stores the image information items and the identification information items received, receives from a user device an image information item representing the unique pattern included in the surface of the object, identifies one of the identification information items stored based on the image information item received, and transmits to the user device the identification information item identified or a related information item of the object stored in the object-related information management server as related to the identification information item identified.

Abstract: An authentication information management system includes an information processing terminal that transmits check target authentication information and an authentication information management apparatus. The information processing terminal includes a transmission unit that transmits account identification information used to identify registered authentication information. The authentication information management apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives the account identification information transmitted from the information processing terminal, and an association unit that associates terminal identification information used to identify the information processing terminal with the registered authentication information identified using the received account identification information.

Abstract: In authentication based on an image region read from a surface of a target object, authentication based on a position corresponding to the image region is executed. An authenticating server 2 receives an image region as an authentication target read from a surface of a target object possessed by a user together with an authentication request from the user, identifies a position corresponding to the image region as the authentication target and one reference image region corresponding to the image region as the authentication target in a plurality of previously stored reference image regions read from respective surfaces of a plurality of target objects, and executes authentication in response to the authentication request based on the identified position.

Abstract: An object identification system 1 acquires a captured image of each of objects respectively having peculiar patterns on surfaces thereof, images being formed on the surfaces, classifies, for each of objects, the object into any one of classifications according to features in the captured image acquired concerning the object, and registers, for each of the objects, identification information of the object and a classification of the object in association with one another. The object identification system 1 acquires candidates of classifications of one target object among objects on the basis of a classification result based on a target object captured image of the target object, acquires pattern images registered in association with the acquired classifications, and specifies, as identification information of the target object, identification information associated with a pattern image matching the target object captured image among the acquired pattern images.

Abstract: A heating device for heating an optical fiber reinforcing member includes fiber holders to hold optical fibers covered with the reinforcing member at a fusion-spliced portion, a heater to heat the reinforcing member, a power supply unit to apply a voltage to the heater, and a controller to control the application of a voltage from the power supply unit to the heater. The controller includes a detecting unit that detects a parameter for determining the amount of heat generation of the heater, a storage unit that stores a plurality of heating conditions that vary depending on the parameter value, and a condition instruction unit that selects any of the plurality of heating conditions in accordance with the parameter value detected by the detecting unit and instructs the power supply unit to apply a voltage to the heater on the basis of the selected heating condition.

Abstract: An absorbent article for feminine hygiene, comprising: a body contacting layer; a garment contacting layer; and an absorbent core disposed between the body contacting layer and the garment contacting layer. The absorbent core has a core edge. The core edge defines a core region within the core edge and an outer region outside the core region. The body contacting layer and the garment contacting layer extend outward into the outer region and joined together in the outer region. The garment contacting layer may have a graphic printed on the body facing surface or the body contacting layer may have a graphic printed on the garment facing surface. The body contacting layer has a first light transmittance so that the graphic can be seen through the body contacting layer.

Abstract: A driving force control device for an electric vehicle includes two motors for generating driving forces independently on left and right driving wheels corresponding to any one of a pair of front wheels and a pair of rear wheels, a motor torque limit unit capable of limiting torques of the two motors, a driving force determination unit for determining which of the driving forces of the left and right driving wheels is larger, and a motor torque control unit for correcting, when the torque limit is imposed on one of the two motors corresponding to one of the left and right driving wheels larger in driving force during a turn of the electric vehicle, the torque of another of the two motors to increase so that a total driving force of the left and right driving wheels is maintained.

Abstract: An authentication server 2 stores, for each of one or more objects to be registered, unique pattern information of a surface of the object to be registered and a personal identification number into a database in association with each other, acquires unique pattern information of a surface of an object to be authenticated which is related to an authentication request, and a personal identification number, extracts, from the database, unique pattern information stored in association with the personal identification number related to the authentication request, and determines whether the extracted unique pattern information includes unique pattern information corresponding to the unique pattern information related to the authentication request.

Abstract: A server includes a request receiving unit that receives request information from a terminal, a request processing unit that generates next screen information for displaying a next screen on the terminal in accordance with the received request information, a next screen transmitting unit that transmits the generated next screen information to the terminal, a judgment unit that judges whether the next screen information has been transmitted to the terminal, a presentation screen generation unit that, when it is judged that the next screen information has not been transmitted to the terminal, determines reward conditions regarding a predetermined reward based on a screen transition status in the terminal, and generates lottery presentation screen information for displaying a lottery presentation screen on the terminal based on the reward conditions, and a presentation screen transmitting unit that transmits the generated lottery presentation screen information to the terminal.

Abstract: An extrusion noodle-making machine includes a mixer that produces noodle dough by mixing a noodle sheet raw material made of raw material powder and water or a liquid seasoning. The machine produces a noodle sheet by pressing the noodle dough extruded from the mixer into a dough in-pressing opening of a nozzle connected to a discharge opening of the mixer and extruding the noodle dough from a noodle sheet outlet of the nozzle while extracting gas from the noodle dough using a vacuum pump at a pressure of ?0.06 to ?0.095 MPa (gauge pressure). At a predetermined position between the dough in-pressing opening and the noodle sheet outlet, the cross-sectional shape of a dough passage extending from the dough in-pressing opening to noodle sheet outlet of the nozzle has a smaller lateral width near a longitudinal central part of the cross-sectional shape than the lateral width at both longitudinal ends.

Abstract: A heating device for heating an optical fiber reinforcing member includes fiber holders to hold optical fibers covered with the reinforcing member at a fusion-spliced portion, a heater to heat the reinforcing member, a power supply unit to apply a voltage to the heater, and a controller to control the application of a voltage from the power supply unit to the heater. The controller includes a detecting unit that detects a parameter for determining the amount of heat generation of the heater, a storage unit that stores a plurality of heating conditions that vary depending on the parameter value, and a condition instruction unit that selects any of the plurality of heating conditions in accordance with the parameter value detected by the detecting unit and instructs the power supply unit to apply a voltage to the heater on the basis of the selected heating condition.

Abstract: An abnormal torque evaluation apparatus is applied to an electrically driven vehicle configured to drive left and right driving wheels independently with respective electric motors and also configured to independently drive the left and right driving wheels by means of the electric motors driven responsively to respective torque commands. Also provided are a yaw jerk detection means for detecting a yaw jerk and an abnormal torque evaluator for evaluating, based on the yaw jerk, the presence or absence of the occurrence of abnormal motor torque at the electric motors.

Abstract: A driving force control device for an electric vehicle includes two motors for generating driving forces independently on left and right driving wheels corresponding to any one of a pair of front wheels and a pair of rear wheels, a motor torque limit unit capable of limiting torques of the two motors, a driving force determination unit for determining which of the driving forces of the left and right driving wheels is larger, and a motor torque control unit for correcting, when the torque limit is imposed on one of the two motors corresponding to one of the left and right driving wheels larger in driving force during a turn of the electric vehicle, the torque of another of the two motors to increase so that a total driving force of the left and right driving wheels is maintained.

Abstract: A method and structure for reinforcing a fusion splice part where optical fiber cores extending from sheaths of a pair of optical cables are spliced to each other, wherein a reinforcing member is provided along the fusion splice part so that both ends of the reinforcing member overlap with each of the sheaths of the optical cables; an adhesive tube covers the periphery of the fusion splice part provided with the reinforcing member so that both ends of the adhesive tube overlap with each of the sheaths of the optical cables, and is contracted; and a protective tube covers the periphery of the adhesive tube so that both ends of the protective tube overlap with each of the sheaths of the optical cables, the adhesive tube is outwardly projected in the length direction, and is contracted.