Abstract: [Object] Transmission efficiency is improved while transmission latency is minimized as possible. [Solving Means] A communication apparatus includes a communication section configured to count an interval allocated in a TDD (Time Division Duplex) mode as one TDD time slot, with a plurality of the TDD time slots counted as one period, the communication section further transmitting periodically, to a communication partner apparatus, multiple application packets corresponding to multiple serial signals generated by multiple applications, and a transmission control section configured to provide, from among the multiple TDD time slots, at least one specific TDD time slot for transmitting a limited portion of the application packets corresponding to at least two of the multiple applications, the transmission control section further shifting, in each period, priorities of the limited portion of the application packets to be transmitted in the specific TDD time slot.

Abstract: A communication device includes a communication unit configured to transmit a serial signal group conforming to a serial peripheral interface (SPI) and transmitted from a master in synchronization with a clock to a communication partner device as a batch of data blocks within one frame period of a predetermined communication protocol, or transmit the serial signal group to the communication partner device as a plurality of data blocks divided according to a plurality of frame periods.

Abstract: A controller is provided that is configured to perform: obtaining information about a condition for an image that is provided to a user, and that corresponds to a preference of the user; specifying at least one predetermined position at which an image satisfying the condition can be taken; and generating a command for a moving object to move to the predetermined position and to take an image, and transmitting the command to the moving object.

Abstract: A conveyance route switching mechanism and a paper sheet handling apparatus that includes the conveyance route switching mechanism include a driving source, a gate, a first gear, and an internal gear. The driving source includes a driving shaft. The gate includes a gate shaft, and a blade that is provided on the gate shaft, and switches conveyance routes of paper sheets. The first gear is provided on the gate shaft. The internal gear meshes with the first gear. According to rotation of the driving shaft, the gate shaft rotates on an axis of the gate shaft, and revolves with the driving shaft as a rotation center while the first gear meshes with the internal gear.

Abstract: A membrane unit includes: a cross-flow membrane filter; a cylindrical casing housing the membrane filter; a cap provided with an inflow port that allows water to flow into the casing, a first discharge port that discharges, to outside of the casing, permeated water obtained as a result of water that flows into the casing from the inflow port permeating the membrane filter, and a second discharge port that discharges, to the outside of the casing, concentrated water obtained as a result of water being concentrated as a result of the permeated water permeating the membrane filter, the cap detachably occluding the casing; and a positioning member which is fixed to the cap taking the first discharge port as a reference, and which defines a position of the membrane filter inside the casing.

Abstract: A laminated coil component includes: an element body having a first surface and a second surface facing each other in a first direction; a coil unit formed by laminating a plurality of coil conductors in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction inside the element body; a first lead-out conductor; and a second lead-out conductor. A first coil conductor adjacent to the first lead-out conductor in the second direction includes a first side portion extending along the first surface, on a first surface side. A second coil conductor adjacent to the second lead-out conductor in the second direction includes a second side portion extending along the second surface, on a second surface side. The first side portion has a larger line width than other side portions of the first coil conductor and the second side portion.

Abstract: A communication device includes: a communication unit that adds, to a set of data blocks including a serial signal group conforming to SPI transmitted from a master in synchronization with a clock, identification information for identifying the data blocks, and transmits the data blocks to a communication partner device within one frame period of a predetermined communication protocol, or adds, to data blocks each including a part of the serial signal group, identification information for identifying each of the data blocks, and transmits the data blocks to the communication partner device in a plurality of frame periods; and a storage unit that sequentially stores a predetermined number of data blocks transmitted from the master and outputs a data block transmitted from the communication partner device in response to the predetermined number of data blocks from the master and stored, to transmit the data block to the master.

Abstract: An imaging device includes a pixel array part having a plurality of pixels that perform photoelectric conversion, a converter that converts an analog pixel signal output from the pixel array part into digital pixel data, a first signal processing unit that performs first signal processing on the digital pixel data, a second signal processing unit that performs second signal processing that is at least partly shared by the first signal processing on the digital pixel data or data that has been subjected to at least a part of the first signal processing, a recognition processing unit that performs predetermined recognition processing on the basis of output data of the second signal processing unit, and an output interface unit that outputs at least one of output data of the first signal processing unit and the output data of the recognition processing unit.

Abstract: Provided is a work management system enabling real-time inspection by simultaneously performing work and measurements. The work management system includes a tool including a communication unit and a trigger switch, a camera unit including a communication unit, a camera capable of identifying 3D camera coordinates from an image, a posture detecting device configured to acquire camera posture information, a control unit, and a prism, and a surveying instrument including a communication unit, a tracking unit, a distance-measuring unit, an angle-measuring unit, and a control unit, wherein upon detection that the trigger switch has been used, the camera unit collects camera posture information by the posture detecting device, a tool image by the camera, position coordinates of the prism measured by the surveying instrument, and orientation information of the camera unit viewed from the surveying instrument, and obtains and stores position coordinates of a tip end position of the tool.

Abstract: A vertical motor with a cooling structure for an electrical operation machine is provided. The vertical motor includes a driving shaft, having a rotational axis and arranged along a vertical direction; a rotor, rotating with the driving shaft; a stator, arranged around the rotor; a winding, arranged around the stator; a housing, having a wall portion and a bottom portion and accommodating the driving shaft, the rotor and the stator; and an oil sump, provided on the bottom portion of the housing for accumulating a cooling fluid in a manner that a lower portion of the winding is immersed in the cooling fluid. The oil sump has an inner peripheral side wall, the inner peripheral side wall is vertically arranged with respect to the bottom portion of the housing and positioned at an inner side than the lower portion of the winding.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an organic compound represented by the following general formula [1]: where Z1 and Z2 are each independently selected from an alkyl group that may have a substituent, an aryl group that may have a substituent, and an aralkyl group that may have a substituent; R11 to R17, R21, and R22 are each independently selected from a hydrogen atom and a substituent; Y1 to Y3 are each independently selected from a carbon atom, a N atom, and (N+-L)(X?); and L is any one of an alkyl group, an aryl group, and an aralkyl group.

Abstract: In various embodiments, degradation of epoxy within packages for ultraviolet light-emitting devices is reduced or substantially eliminated via package venting, prevention of transmission of ultraviolet light to one or more regions of epoxy utilized in the package, and/or utilization of packaging schemes that reduce or avoid utilization of epoxy and/or specific metals.

Abstract: A carbon material for a non-aqueous secondary battery containing a graphite capable of occluding and releasing lithium ions, and having a cumulative pore volume at pore diameters in a range of 0.01 ?m to 1 ?m of 0.08 mL/g or more, a roundness, as determined by flow-type particle image analysis, of 0.88 or greater, and a pore diameter to particle diameter ratio (PD/d50 (%)) of 1.8 or less, the ratio being given by equation (1A): PD/d50 (%)=mode pore diameter (PD) in a pore diameter range of 0.01 ?m to 1 ?m in a pore distribution determined by mercury intrusion/volume-based average particle diameter (d50)×100 is provided.

Abstract: Communication apparatus with correct audio signal regeneration are disclosed. In one example, a communication apparatus includes a counter that counts the number of a predetermined reference clock included in one cycle of a divided signal of an audio master clock with a frequency that is equal to a product of a frequency of a sampling clock for sampling of an audio signal and a multiplier on the basis of the audio master clock, a ratio of division of the divided signal and the predetermined reference clock. A packet generator generates a packet including the counted number counted, a bit width of SD (Serial Data) conforming to an I2S standard, the frequency of the sampling clock, the ratio of division of the divided signal to the audio master clock, a frequency ratio of the frequency of the audio master clock to the frequency of the sampling clock, and the SD.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller that acquires information about an article to be loaded onto a vehicle, acquires a characteristic of a person who can affect the article based on the information, and executes a concurrent riding determination to determine existence of concurrent riding on the vehicle by the article and a user having the characteristic.

Abstract: [Object] To perform serial communication at high speed by combining different communication methods with each other. [Solving Means] A communication apparatus includes a communicating unit configured to add identification information identifying a data block to one set of the data block including a serial signal group, the serial signal group being transmitted from a master in synchronism with a clock and complying with SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface), and transmit the one set of the data block to a communication partner apparatus within one frame period of a predetermined communication protocol, or add identification information identifying each of multiple data blocks to the multiple data blocks each including a part of the serial signal group and transmit the multiple data blocks to the communication partner apparatus in multiple frame periods.

Abstract: Signal processing is performed using a built-in memory. An imaging apparatus includes: a pixel array unit that includes a plurality of pixels performing photoelectric conversion; a converter that converts an analog pixel signal output from the pixel array unit into digital image data; an image processing unit that performs image processing on the digital image data; and a storage unit that includes a plurality of regions for which a power distribution state is able to be selectively designated, and stores at least the digital image data output by the image processing unit.

Abstract: An electric outboard motor includes a screw, an electric motor, an outboard motor case, and a cooling portion. The outboard motor case accommodates the electric motor. The cooling portion cools a heat generation portion at an inside or an outside of the outboard motor case by a cooling liquid. At least a lower region of the outboard motor case that is submerged in outside water is constituted of a multiple case structure body that includes an outer case and an inner case. In the multiple case structure body of the lower region, at least part of a space portion that is surrounded by the outer case and the inner case is a cooling liquid passage through which the cooling liquid supplied to the cooling portion flows.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory that stores information on a package to be transported by a vehicle traveling within a site of a factory and attributes of each employee working at the factory, a controller that sets a condition on an employee who can be in charge of loading or unloading the package and formulates a transportation plan for the package based on the information on the package, and identifies at least one employee who has attributes satisfying the condition, from among one or more employees scheduled to ride in the vehicle transporting the package, based on the attributes of each employee and the condition on the employee who can be in charge of loading or unloading the package, and a communication interface that notifies a mobile terminal carried by the at least one employee of a request for loading or unloading the package.