Abstract: A document creation apparatus includes a processor configured to: acquire information about a person; estimate a topic of interest to the person, based on the acquired information; acquire one or more articles related to the estimated topic; and create a document by using the acquired one or more articles.

Abstract: An information processing system includes: an image display section that includes a screen on which an image is displayed; a reception image display unit that is able to display plural reception images for respectively receiving an instruction for execution of a predetermined process on the screen; and a process execution unit that executes, in a case where an operation with respect to a first reception image among the plural reception images is received from a user, the process with respect to a second reception image that is associated with the first reception image among the plural reception images and is not displayed on the screen on which the first reception image is displayed.

Abstract: A document creation apparatus includes a processor configured to: acquire information about a person; estimate a topic of interest to the person, based on the acquired information; acquire one or more articles related to the estimated topic; and create a document by using the acquired one or more articles.

Abstract: An information processing system includes: an image display section that includes a screen on which an image is displayed; a reception image display unit that is able to display plural reception images for respectively receiving an instruction for execution of a predetermined process on the screen; and a process execution unit that executes, in a case where an operation with respect to a first reception image among the plural reception images is received from a user, the process with respect to a second reception image that is associated with the first reception image among the plural reception images and is not displayed on the screen on which the first reception image is displayed.

Abstract: An information processing device includes an accepting unit that accepts a meeting material that is a material distributed to a participant of a meeting, information indicating the participant of the meeting, and a rule for manipulating the meeting material based on an attribute of the participant, an extracting unit that extracts the attribute of the participant, and a manipulating unit that manipulates the meeting material, by applying the attribute of the participant to the rule.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a storage that stores document information; an image formation processor that receives an instruction to form an image corresponding to target document information selected from the document information stored in the storage, and that performs an image formation processing with respect to the target document information; a recording unit that records first information, which indicates that the image formation processing is performed, and associates the first information with the target document information; and a controller that controls, in a case where a request for processing with respect to the document information associated with the first information is received, to restrict the requested processing.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an area environment load calculation module, a user environment load calculation module, a user improvement environment load calculation module, a comparison module and an output module. The area environment load calculation module calculates an environment load in an area in a room. The user environment load calculation module calculates an environment load of each user staying in the area based on the environment load calculated by the area environment load calculation module. The user improvement environment load calculation module calculates, based on a policy set in advance, an environment load of each user when the policy is adopted. The comparison module compares the environment load calculated by the user environment load calculation module with the environment load calculated by the user improvement environment load calculation module. The output module outputs the policy based on the number of users.

Abstract: A signal for excitation is supplied to a connection terminal of a magnetic head. A magnetic probe of a magnetic force microscope is made to fly over the magnetic head and to scan a plurality of scan lines at predetermined intervals in parallel with one side of the magnetic head. A magnetic field strength of the magnetic head is detected to form magnetic field strength profiles of the scan lines. An effective magnetic field strength profile that brings about a magnetic effective track width of the magnetic head is extracted on the basis of a result of detection and the magnetic effective track width of the magnetic head is obtained on the basis of the effective magnetic field strength profile. After extraction of the effective magnetic field strength profile, a scan for obtaining the magnetic effective track width of the magnetic head is stopped.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an area environment load calculation module, a user environment load calculation module, a user improvement environment load calculation module, a comparison module and an output module. The area environment load calculation module calculates an environment load in an area in a room. The user environment load calculation module calculates an environment load of each user staying in the area based on the environment load calculated by the area environment load calculation module. The user improvement environment load calculation module calculates, based on a policy set in advance, an environment load of each user when the policy is adopted. The comparison module compares the environment load calculated by the user environment load calculation module with the environment load calculated by the user improvement environment load calculation module. The output module outputs the policy based on the number of users.

Abstract: In the present invention, through the provision of a tray placing rack for storing trays in multi steps, the trays accommodating electronic parts after inspection are received in the racks and through the provision of a tray stacking rack above the tray placing rack, an empty tray emptied by having been inspected of the electronic parts before inspection at an inspection stage is stacked on the tray stacking rack. When a certain tray is filled with electronic parts after inspection and is discharged, an empty ray is taken out from the tray stacking rack and the empty tray is fed to the rack position of the discharged tray to permit re-use of empty trays.

Abstract: In the present invention, through the provision of a tray placing rack for storing trays in multi steps, the trays accommodating electronic parts after inspection are received in the racks and through the provision of a tray stacking rack above the tray placing rack, an empty tray emptied by having been inspected of the electronic parts before inspection at an inspection stage is stacked on the tray stacking rack.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a storage that stores document information; an image formation processor that receives an instruction to form an image corresponding to target document information selected from the document information stored in the storage, and that performs an image formation processing with respect to the target document information; a recording unit that records first information, which indicates that the image formation processing is performed, and associates the first information with the target document information; and a controller that controls, in a case where a request for processing with respect to the document information associated with the first information is received, to restrict the requested processing.

Abstract: Presented is a polarizing element that absorbs a component of a specific wavelength from electromagnetic waves passing therethrough and thus produces polarized light. The polarizing element includes a transparent substrate that has a plurality of first recesses formed in a surface of the transparent substrate. The first recesses extend parallel to one another with a predetermined spacing therebetween in a direction orthogonal to the surface of the transparent substrate. The polarizing elements further include thin-film-shaped conductive bodies formed on side surfaces of the first recesses.

Abstract: A polarizing element 20 has a first undulating structure in which a plurality of linear first recesses 22 are formed parallel to one another in one surface of a transparent substrate 21, and a dielectric layer 30 made from silicon dioxide is formed on the surface of the first undulating structure to produce a second undulating structure. The second undulating structure has formed therein second recesses 32 having a width W and a depth H, with second projections 33 having a width d intervening between adjacent second recesses 32. A thin-film-shaped conductive body 13 of width W and depth H is embedded in each of the second recesses 32.

Abstract: A waveguide type liquid-crystal optical switch including: an optical waveguide having a pair of first and second cores close to each other for switching an optical path between the pair of first and second cores; a third core made of nematic liquid crystal enclosed in between a pair of oriented films and oriented in a predetermined direction by the pair of oriented films, the third core being disposed in any one of a space covering the first and second cores in parallel with a plane containing optical axes of the first and second cores, a space sandwiched between the first and second cores and a space covering upper surfaces of the first and second cores so as to be laid over the first and second cores; a first electrode disposed on a surface of the third core opposite to the first and second cores so as to cover a gap portion between the first and second cores; second and third electrodes disposed as a pair, between which electrodes the first electrode is put, the second and third electrodes provided for ori

Abstract: A reflection type diffraction grating according to the present invention has a structure in which a metal film as a first layer with reflectance not lower than 30% with respect to the wavelength of incident light and a transparent dielectric film as a second layer are laminated successively on the surface of the reflection type diffraction grating. With respect to the wavelength of incident light, the metal film has a refractive index selected to be not higher than 1.5 and an extinction coefficient selected to be not smaller than 6.0. The transparent dielectric film has a refractive index selected to be in a range of from 1.30 to 1.46, both inclusively, with respect to the wavelength of incident light and has an optical film thickness selected to be in a range of from 0.20? to 0.38?, both inclusively, when ? is the wavelength of incident light.

Abstract: A polarizing element 20 has a first undulating structure in which a plurality of linear first recesses 22 are formed parallel to one another in one surface of a transparent substrate 21, and a dielectric layer 30 made from silicon dioxide is formed on the surface of the first undulating structure to produce a second undulating structure. The second undulating structure has formed therein second recesses 32 having a width W and a depth H, with second projections 33 having a width d intervening between adjacent second recesses 32. A thin-film-shaped conductive body 13 of width W and depth H is embedded in each of the second recesses 32.

Abstract: A light guide 1 is provided at the reverse side thereof with triangular uneven surfaces 1b at a predetermined pitch. The uneven surfaces 1b are integrally formed with the light guide 1 when the latter 1 is injection-molded. Incident light from a light incident plane is caused to be scattered at uneven surfaces 1b within the light guide and to spread in a main scanning direction. The light scattered is emitted from an emission plane. Intensity of light in the main scattering direction can be made uniform by lengthening the uneven surfaces 1b as the uneven surfaces extend from the light incident plane. A position where the light intensity becomes maximum in a sub-scanning direction can be changed by adjusting an angle between the ridgeline of the uneven surfaces 1b and the sub-scanning direction, and distributed characteristics of the light intensity in the sub-scanning direction can be also changed.

Abstract: A plant-service data server (9) for providing a manager (2) of a plant (7) with service information useful for management of a plant (7) based on operation data relating to the operation condition of the plant (7).

Abstract: The invention provides a waveguide type liquid crystal optical switch that includes first and second cores so as to form a space therebetween, in which an optical path is switched between the first and second cores; a third core provided apart from the first and second cores, into which nematic liquid crystal orientated by an orientation film along a predetermined direction is filled, the third core overlapping to the space formed between the first and second cores; a first electrode arranged on an opposite side of the first and second cores with respect to the third core so as to overlap to the space between the first and second cores, second and third electrodes arranged on both sides of the first electrode, for orienting liquid crystal molecules along a direction perpendicular to the orientation direction of the orientation film; and a cladding for incorporating the cores and the electrodes.