Abstract: An oral function visualization system includes: an outputter that outputs information for prompting a user to utter a predetermined voice; an obtainer that obtains an uttered voice of the user uttered in accordance with the output; an analyzer that analyzes the uttered voice obtained by the obtainer; and an estimator that estimates a state of oral organs of the user from a result of analysis of the uttered voice by the analyzer. The outputter outputs, based on the state of the oral organs of the user estimated by the estimator, information for the user to achieve a state of the oral organs suitable for utterance of the predetermined voice.

Abstract: A recipe output method includes: receiving a selection of a dish from a menu indicating a plurality of dishes; acquiring ability information indicating an eating and swallowing function of a subject determined by evaluation based on a speech spoken by the subject; and outputting a recipe for cooking the dish for which the selection was received, the recipe being adjusted to be suitable for the eating and swallowing function of the subject indicated by the ability information acquired.

Abstract: A microfluidic device includes a flow path through which a reaction solution flows, and an introducing portion for introducing the reaction solution into the flow path, wherein the flow path passes alternately and repeatedly several times through a first temperature region and a second temperature region having different predetermined temperatures, and the flow path includes the repeating unit portions passing through the first temperature region and the second temperature region, the repeating unit portions having decreasing lengths as the repeating unit portions are located farther away from the introducing portion.

Abstract: Provided is a control unit of a conveying apparatus, the conveying apparatus including: a conveying unit that conveys recording paper along a conveyance path; an imaging unit that images the recording paper; and a light emitting unit arranged on an opposite side of the imaging unit across the conveyance path, wherein the control unit detects conveyance information of the recording paper based on image information of the recording paper imaged by the imaging unit in a state in which light from the light emitting unit is transmitted through the recording paper. The control unit detects the conveyance information of the recording paper based on a plurality of images of the recording paper imaged at different timings by the imaging unit.

Abstract: Provided is a conveying apparatus including a conveying unit that conveys a recording paper along a conveyance path, an imaging unit that images the recording paper to detect conveyance information on the recording paper, and a light source unit that emits light to the recording paper imaged by the imaging unit, wherein the light source unit has a shape of a rod elongated in a conveyance direction of the recording paper.

Abstract: A microfluidic device includes a flow path through which a reaction solution flows, and an introducing portion for introducing the reaction solution into the flow path, wherein the flow path passes alternately and repeatedly several times through a first temperature region and a second temperature region having different predetermined temperatures, and the flow path includes the repeating unit portions passing through the first temperature region and the second temperature region, the repeating unit portions having decreasing lengths as the repeating unit portions are located farther away from the introducing portion.

Abstract: Provided is a control unit of a conveying apparatus, the conveying apparatus including: a conveying unit that conveys recording paper along a conveyance path; and an imaging unit that images the recording paper, wherein the control unit detects conveyance information of the recording paper based on image information of a plurality of different regions in image information of the recording paper P imaged by the imaging unit.

Abstract: Provided is a control unit of a conveying apparatus, the conveying apparatus including: a conveying unit that conveys recording paper along a conveying path; and an imaging unit that images the recording paper and an object not conveyed by the conveying unit, wherein the control unit acquires actual conveyance information of the recording paper from image information of the recording paper imaged by the imaging unit and image information of the object imaged by the imaging unit.

Abstract: Provided is a control unit of a conveying apparatus, the conveying apparatus including: a conveying unit that conveys recording paper along a conveyance path; an imaging unit that images the recording paper; and a light emitting unit arranged on an opposite side of the imaging unit across the conveyance path, wherein the control unit detects conveyance information of the recording paper based on image information of the recording paper imaged by the imaging unit in a state in which light from the light emitting unit is transmitted through the recording paper. The control unit detects the conveyance information of the recording paper based on a plurality of images of the recording paper imaged at different timings by the imaging unit.

Abstract: An intermediate portion of a low voltage power supply wire is extinguished by irradiation of a laser beam to form a wire cut portion. A different potential portion serves as the wire cut portion of the low voltage power supply wire. The distance between the end portions of a high voltage power supply wire and the low voltage power supply wire between which the potential is different is increased. An electrical short-circuit between the high voltage power supply wire and the low voltage power supply wire hardly occurs. Even when impurities invade into the gap between an insulating layer on the high voltage power supply wire and the low voltage power supply wire and a glass substrate, electrode corrosion of the high voltage power supply wire and the low voltage power supply wire can be prevented. A display failure can be prevented.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display element in which a pair of substrates are provided; a plurality of scanning lines and signal lines are disposed in the form of a matrix on one transparent substrate out of the substrates, so that domains between the transparent substrates are divided into plural picture element domains by the respective scanning lines and the respective signal lines; plural opposed lines are disposed on the other transparent substrate parallel to the scanning lines; and a pair of an alignment-controlling material layer and a liquid crystal composition layer are laminated between the respective picture element domains, wherein the respective scanning electrodes and opposed electrodes on a pair of the transparent substrates in the respective picture element domains are disposed in zigzag and have a structure in which they are not superposed on each other in a normal direction of the substrates.