Abstract: In order to provide a map suitable for a movable apparatus which autonomously moves, a map data generation device includes a spatial data acquisition unit configured to acquire spatial data generated by measuring an object present in a space with a sensor, an attribute data acquisition unit configured to acquire attribute data indicating an attribute of a movable apparatus which autonomously moves in the space, and a map data generation unit configured to generate map data which is used when the movable apparatus autonomously moves in the space on the basis of the attribute data and the spatial data.

Abstract: A stator for a rotating electric machine includes a stator core and a stator coil. The stator core is formed of a band-shaped steel sheet that is helically bent and laminated. The stator core has slots each opening at an inner periphery of the stator core and spaced from one another in a circumferential direction. The stator coil is formed of electrical conductor segments that are inserted in the slots of the stator core and connected with one another. The band-shaped steel sheet has slits each of which is formed, at a position corresponding to one of the slots, to be open to the corresponding slot. Each of the electrical conductor segments is substantially U-shaped and has a pair of leg portions respectively inserted in corresponding two of the slots of the stator core; the corresponding two slots are circumferentially apart from each other by two or more slot-pitches.

Abstract: An information processing device that improves accuracy of a map used to measure a position and an orientation of a movable apparatus includes: a map acquisition unit configured to acquire a map for measuring a position and an orientation of a movable apparatus; a detection unit configured to detect a visual index from a drawing information which corresponds to a real space that the movable apparatus moves or an object in the real space; a registration unit configured to perform registration of a coordinate system between the map and the drawing information; an association unit configured to perform association between the visual index included in the drawing information after the registration and a constituent element included in the map; and a correction unit configured to correct the map based on a result of the association.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus including at least one memory storing instructions and at least one processor that, upon execution of the instructions, is configured to acquire, based on a measurement value measured by a sensor attached to a moving object, information about a position and an orientation of the moving object and a reliability of position/orientation estimation, generates, based on the position and the orientation and the reliability, a reliability map including the reliability for each orientation of the sensor, and determines the orientation of the moving object with the sensor such that the reliability increases, based on the generated reliability map.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes an interface configured to transmit commands to a first printer in a first-type protocol and commands to a second printer in a second-type protocol different from the first-type protocol. A processor of the information processing apparatus is configured to generate a command related to a setting in a print operation according to the second-type protocol from a setting according to the first-type protocol for the print operation and control the interface to transmit the command according to the second-type protocol to the second printer.

Abstract: Difference information between a first element of a vehicle estimated in accordance with measurement information acquired by a first sensor and a second element of the vehicle acquired simultaneously with the first element is acquired. The difference information is according to the same coordinate system as the first element and the second element. An element for controlling movement of the vehicle is selected from the first element and the second element. When the element for controlling movement of the vehicle is switched to another element of the first element and the second element, the other element selected is corrected by using the difference information.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises an obtainment unit configured to obtain sensor information which is a result obtained by a sensor, mounted in a mobile robot, sensing an actual space and a position and a posture of the sensor in the sensing, an estimation unit configured to set, as an index, the sensor information and/or the position and the posture obtained by the obtainment unit and estimate, based on a newly obtained index and an index which has been obtained in the past and is similar to the newly obtained index, a progress status of an operation for obtaining pieces of sensor information including pieces of sensor information of a closed path; and an output unit configured to output the progress status estimated by the estimation unit.

Abstract: Based on expected position information on a vehicle obtained based on input information input from a sensor when the vehicle makes a predetermined movement with a position/orientation of the sensor maintained relative to the vehicle, and position information on the vehicle estimated based on input information input from the sensor after the vehicle makes the predetermined movement, information related to a change of the position/orientation of the sensor relative to the vehicle after the vehicle makes the predetermined movement, from a held position/orientation, is output.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display controller and an input section. The display controller displays an explanation screen for displaying information indicating an operation method of an image forming apparatus and an operation screen for receiving an input instructing an operation relating to an image forming processing of the image forming apparatus on a display section. The input section receives an input of an operation of selecting information displayed on the explanation screen. The display controller displays an operation screen according to the selected information on the display section.

Abstract: An information-processing apparatus identifies plural kinds of photoacoustic images that are captured on the basis of the same photoacoustic signal and that are stored in a saving unit, and determines whether at least one of the plural kinds of photoacoustic images is to be deleted from the saving unit on the basis of information about the kind of a photoacoustic image that is included in the plural kinds of photoacoustic images that are identified.

Abstract: A setting control method includes displaying a first user interface including a plurality of selectable settings including a first setting that requires one or more sub-settings to be defined, and a second setting that does not require any sub-settings to be defined, and upon detecting a selection of the first setting on the first user interface, displaying a second user interface for defining sub-settings of the first setting if the sub-settings have not yet been defined, wherein the displaying of the second user interface is bypassed if the sub-settings have already been defined. The setting control method further includes storing the first setting and the second settings.

Abstract: An external device judges whether or not a image forming is brought into an operation mode in which the number of pages having an image formed thereon is managed for each division, each user belonging to the division, in a image forming device, when the request for the image forming in the image forming device from a user is accepted. The external device confirms that a division code of the user who has requested the image forming is set, when it is judged that the image forming is brought into the operation mode in which the number of the pages is managed for each division, and transmits the request for the image forming together with the division code to the image forming device, when it is confirmed that the division code of the user who has requested the image forming is set.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a communication section to receive print data, a storage section to store an address of another printing apparatus that holds the same print data as the print data, and a first control section to transmit first information, which indicates that the print data is already printed, to the another printing apparatus through the communication section. The first information may be a signal to instruct the another printing apparatus to delete the print data or a signal to notify a user that the print data is already printed.

Abstract: Setting information for generating a print job is acquired for plural print jobs. Print job data corresponding to the respective plural print jobs are separately generated on the basis of the acquired setting information in a predetermined document file format that can be edited in at least any one of print job unit, document unit included in the job data, and page unit included in the document. Generated plural job data are stored in a predetermined storage area. The stored plural job data are combined into single job data of the predetermined document file format.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus applied to a system where an image forming apparatus and a PC are connected to one another via a communication network. The image forming apparatus includes a plurality of boxes which store image data, a correspondence table which shows the correspondence between box numbers for specifying the boxes and passwords registered for the boxes, a collate section which receives a password from the PC, collates the received password with the passwords registered in the correspondence table, and detects the box number of the box in which the password coinciding with the received password has been registered and the box numbers of the boxes in which no password has been registered from the plurality of boxes, and a transmitting section which transmits a value indicating the box number detected by the collate section to the PC.

Abstract: An external device judges whether or not a image forming is brought into an operation mode in which the number of pages having an image formed thereon is managed for each division, each user belonging to the division, in a image forming device, when the request for the image forming in the image forming device from a user is accepted. The external device confirms that a division code of the user who has requested the image forming is set, when it is judged that the image forming is brought into the operation mode in which the number of the pages is managed for each division, and transmits the request for the image forming together with the division code to the image forming device, when it is confirmed that the division code of the user who has requested the image forming is set.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus applied to a system where an image forming apparatus and a PC are connected to one another via a communication network. The image forming apparatus includes a plurality of boxes which store image data, a correspondence table which shows the correspondence between box numbers for specifying the boxes and passwords registered for the boxes, a collate section which receives a password from the PC, collates the received password with the passwords registered in the correspondence table, and detects the box number of the box in which the password coinciding with the received password has been registered and the box numbers of the boxes in which no password has been registered from the plurality of boxes, and a transmitting section which transmits a value indicating the box number detected by the collate section to the PC.

Abstract: In a printer driver of the invention, a setting confirmation screen of “Graphical Preview” and a setting confirmation screen of “Text Preview” can easily be switched by clicking a Graphics key or a Text key, which are provided at a lower part of the screen. Only by clicking a setting item to be changed on the setting confirmation screen, can a jump be executed to a location for actual setting. In addition, a common Graphical Preview is displayed at the same location in all tabs. A menu of the printer driver is displayed such that menu items are arranged from upper left to lower right in an order according to a frequency of use and a frequency of change of settings.