Abstract: A vehicle operation detection device includes processing circuitry configured to output a command causing an opening-closing body of a vehicle to open and close in reference to capacitances of sensor electrodes arranged so as to form a row. The processing circuitry is configured to determine that a first operation has been performed when one of the sensor electrodes of which the capacitance increases is sequentially shifted in a first direction from an operation start electrode and determine that a second operation has been performed when the shifting is performed in a second direction. The sensor electrodes include an adjacent electrode adjacent to the operation start electrode. The processing circuitry is configured to determine that the capacitance of the adjacent electrode has increased when the capacitance becomes greater than or equal to a second determination value that is greater than a first determination value.

Abstract: A semiconductor device with favorable reliability is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first oxide, a second oxide over the first oxide, a first insulator over the second oxide, a first conductor over the first insulator, and a second conductor and a third conductor over the second oxide. The second conductor includes a first region and a second region, the third conductor includes a third region and a fourth region, the second region is positioned above the first region, the fourth region is positioned above the third region, and each of the second conductor and the third conductor contains tantalum and nitrogen. The atomic ratio of nitrogen to tantalum in the first region is higher than the atomic ratio of nitrogen to tantalum in the second region, and the atomic ratio of nitrogen to tantalum in the third region is higher than the atomic ratio of nitrogen to tantalum in the fourth region.

Abstract: A detection apparatus includes an image sensing device having an image sensing plane including a first periodic structure; and an optical system configured to illuminate a detection target including a second periodic structure different from the first periodic structure, and form an image of light from the detection target on the image sensing plane. Light having entered the image sensing plane generates a plurality of diffracted light beams of different orders in accordance with the first periodic structure. A normal of the image sensing plane is tilted with respect to an optical axis of the optical system such that the optical axis is located between diffracted light beams of adjacent orders not less than a first order among the plurality of diffracted light beams.

Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a display part, a display output part, and a control part. A plurality of face patterns are switched and displayed on the display part. The display output part is capable of outputting a face pattern to the display part. The control part controls, in accordance with a change of the face pattern which is output by the display output part, a different operation of a communication apparatus main body than the change of the face pattern.

Abstract: A use information acquisition unit acquires information on the use of renewable energy by the user. A user information acquisition unit acquires user information including information about the evaluation of the user. The social rating determination unit determines the social rating of the user based on the information on the use of renewable energy and the user information. The social rating information output unit outputs social rating information including the social rating of the user determined by the social rating determination unit.

Abstract: A detection apparatus that detects a position deviation between an original and a substrate is provided. The apparatus includes an illumination optical system configured to illuminate a first diffraction grating arranged on the original and a second diffraction grating arranged on the substrate, and a detection optical system configured to detect interference light formed by diffracted light diffracted by the first diffraction grating and diffracted light diffracted by the second diffraction grating. The illumination optical system performs dipole illumination by light including two poles in a pupil plane of the illumination optical system, and polarization directions of light beams emitted from the two poles, respectively, and incident on the substrate are orthogonal to each other.

Abstract: A data disclosure device includes: a data acquisition part that acquires data regarding an user from a management device that manages user's data; a registration part that registers a candidate of a disclosure recipient to whom the data acquired by the data acquisition part is disclosed; a candidate setting part that sets the candidate of the disclosure recipient registered by the registration part based on the data or attribute information which indicates user's attribute; a notification part that notifies the user the candidate of the disclosure recipient which is set by the candidate setting part; an usage condition acquisition part that acquires usage condition of the data with respect to the candidate of the disclosure recipient which is notified from the notification part; and an usage condition setting part that sets usage condition of the data based on the usage condition which is acquired by the usage condition acquisition part.

Abstract: A data management device includes a collection part configured to collect data of a user from a terminal device of the user or a device of a service provider that provides information to the user, a classification part configured to classify the data of the user that is a target to be collected by the collection part into groups on the basis of a predetermined regulation, a usage condition setting part configured to set one or more usage conditions of the data classified into the groups by the data classification part for each of the groups, and a providing part configured to provide the data to an outside on the basis of the usage condition of each of the groups set by the usage condition setting part.

Abstract: Information service system 10 comprises a server 12 in which provision information such as advertisement, guidance, explanation, news, disaster information and other information is stored, a plurality of information service terminals 14 established at predetermined locations and connected to the server to have the location specified by the server 12 and to receive and provide the provision information according to the corresponding location and a user's terminal 16 positioned at predetermined location to display the same provision information as that provided by the information service terminal 14 established at the corresponding location among the plurality of information service terminals 14. The server specifies the information service terminal established at the location according to the current location of the user's terminal and transmits to the user's terminal the provision information to be provided by the specified information service terminal 14.

Abstract: A capability matching assist apparatus configured to assist matching of capability between a first user(s) who can provide capability and a second user(s) who needs capability. The apparatus has a computer configured to function to register at least one of human capability of the first user and machine capability of machinery owned by the first user, to register at least one of human capability and machine capability needed by the second user, and to collate registered contents and discriminate based on collation results whether the second user can be benefited by providing the capability of the first user.

Abstract: Information service system 10 comprises a server 12 in which provision information such as advertisement, guidance, explanation, news, disaster information and other information is stored, a plurality of information service terminals 14 established at predetermined locations and connected to the server to have the location specified by the server 12 and to receive and provide the provision information according to the corresponding location and a user's terminal 16 positioned at predetermined location to display the same provision information as that provided by the information service terminal 14 established at the corresponding location among the plurality of information service terminals 14. The server specifies the information service terminal established at the location according to the current location of the user's terminal and transmits to the user's terminal the provision information to be provided by the specified information service terminal 14.

Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a display part, a display output part, and a control part. A plurality of face patterns are switched and displayed on the display part. The display output part is capable of outputting a face pattern to the display part. The control part controls, in accordance with a change of the face pattern which is output by the display output part, a different operation of a communication apparatus main body than the change of the face pattern.

Abstract: A method for generating a pattern includes defining a footprint of a main pattern in each cell, arranging a first cell and a second cell which has an auxiliary pattern outside the footprint of the main pattern, side by side in such a manner that the auxiliary pattern outside the footprint of the second cell is present in the footprint of the main pattern of the first cell, and generating the pattern of the mask by removing a pattern element of the auxiliary pattern outside the footprint of the second cell in a portion where the pattern element of the auxiliary pattern outside the footprint of the second cell is close to or overlaps with the main pattern in the first cell of the first cell and the second cell arranged side by side.

Abstract: A method which determines patterns for a plurality of masks to be executed by a processor includes acquiring data on a pattern containing a plurality of pattern elements, and assigning the acquired plurality of pattern elements into masks, decomposing the acquired plurality of pattern elements into patterns of the masks, and calculating an evaluation value for an evaluation index, based on a number of masks, the distances between a plurality of pattern elements in each mask, and an angle of a line connecting a plurality of pattern elements in each mask. In the method, a pattern of each mask is determined based on the calculated evaluation value.

Abstract: A method for generating a pattern including patterns of cells having assist patterns arranged therein. The present invention provides a method for generating a pattern of a cell used when a mask pattern is generated by arranging cells selected from among a plurality of types of cells. The method includes generating a pattern including isolated rectangular pattern elements and an assist pattern as a cell pattern by obtaining data on a cell including the rectangular pattern elements and generating the assist pattern which assist resolution of the rectangular pattern elements in accordance with the data.

Abstract: In a method for generating, with a computer, a pattern of a mask, a pattern on an object plane of a projection optical system is set, shifted plural pupil functions are generated, a matrix containing the generated plural pupil functions is defined, an image of the pattern on the object plane is calculated by generating a vector obtained by transposing and complex-conjugating a vector containing, as components, values of the pupil functions at origin coordinates on a pupil plane from among components of the matrix, and performing convolution integral between the pattern on the object plane and a Fourier transform of a product of the vector and the matrix, an assist pattern for the pattern on the object plane is generated using the calculated image, and a pattern of the mask including the pattern on the object plane and the assist pattern is generated.

Abstract: To provide an intermediate transfer belt having a high ability to transfer images to recording media with irregular surface, and an image forming apparatus including the intermediate transfer belt. The intermediate transfer belt includes a base layer and an elastic layer formed on the base layer, the elastic layer being formed of a rubber composition, wherein the intermediate transfer belt satisfies a specific relational expression.

Abstract: A transfer member having high durability while having an excellent transfer function is provided. An image formation apparatus in which high quality images can be obtained for an extended period of time is also provided. A transfer member having an endless belt shape and constituting an image formation apparatus of an electrophotographic system includes an elastic body layer and a surface layer formed thereon. The surface layer contains metal oxide fine particles subjected to a surface treatment, in a cured resin obtained by curing an active energy ray-curable composition that contains three ingredients of a multifunctional (meth)acrylate, a polyurethane acrylate and a polymerizable component having a low surface energy group.

Abstract: A recording medium stores a program for causing a computer to execute a method of calculating a resist pattern.

Abstract: To provide an intermediate transfer belt having a high ability to transfer images to recording media with irregular surface, and an image forming apparatus including the intermediate transfer belt. The intermediate transfer belt includes a base layer and an elastic layer formed on the base layer, the elastic layer being formed of a rubber composition, wherein the intermediate transfer belt satisfies a specific relational expression.