Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a memory configured to store first system time; and a processor configured to: receive, from an information acquisition apparatus after the first system time is written in the memory, first information acquired by the information acquisition apparatus and first time information indicating acquisition time of the first information; receive, from the information acquisition apparatus after receiving the first information and the first time information, second information and second time information indicating acquisition time of the second information; converting, based on the first system time, reception time at which the first information and the first time information are received into second system time; convert, based on the second system time and the first time information, the second time information into third system time; attach the second system time to the first information; and attach the third system time to the second information.

Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel having a display section; an operation panel disposed so as to cover the display panel, the operation panel having an operation surface which is located on an opposite side to a side facing the display panel; vibrating bodies disposed on the operation panel; a support disposed on the side facing the display panel so as to face the operation panel apart therefrom; elastic supporting members disposed between the operation panel and the support, the elastic supporting members being elastically deformable in accordance with vibration of the vibrating bodies; and a ventilatable wall member disposed across the operation panel and the support so as to externally surround the display section, the wall member being composed of a mesh structure deformable in accordance with the vibration of the vibrating bodies.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a first package including a first arithmetic circuit, first cache memory and a transmitting circuit, as well as a second package including a second arithmetic circuit, second cache memory and a receiving circuit. The first arithmetic circuit is configured to provide transfer data to the first cache memory that is destined for the second cache memory. The transmitting circuit is configured to transmit to the receiving circuit an indication of a data transfer of the transfer data and to restrict use of the first cache memory for data other than the transfer data during the data transfer. The receiving circuit is configured to receive the indication of the data transfer, to acquire the transfer data stored in the first cache memory and to store the acquired transfer data in the second cache memory.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus, including: a photoconductor; an exposing device configured to expose the photoconductor and form an electrostatic latent image on the photoconductor; a developing device including a developing roller configured to form a developer image on the photoconductor; a transfer device configured to transfer the developer image to a sheet; a developer storage storing developer; a supplier configured to supply the developer from the developer storage to the developing device; a sheet feeder configured to convey the sheet toward the transfer device; a sheet sensor configured to detect the sheet conveyed toward the transfer device; and a controller, wherein the controller is configured to start a supplying process of supplying, by the supplier, the developer to the developing device before formation of the electrostatic latent image corresponding to the sheet is started, based on a signal indicating that the sheet sensor has detected the sheet.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a retardation film excellent in various properties such as optical properties, heat resistance, mechanical properties, and reliability. The present invention relates to a retardation film containing a thermoplastic resin and composed of a single layer, in which the retardation film has a value of wavelength dispersion that is a ratio of retardations at a wavelength of 450 nm and at a wavelength of 550 nm being 0.75 or more and 0.92 or less; a birefringence at a wavelength of 550 nm and the wavelength dispersion satisfy a relationship of ?n?0.0140×(R450/R550)?0.0082; and a photoelastic coefficient is 25×10?12 Pa?1 or less.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus, including: a housing; a photoconductor; a developing unit configured to form a developer image on the photoconductor; a developer cartridge storing developer, the cartridge being removably mountable on the housing, a supplier configured to supply the developer from the developer cartridge to the developing unit; and a controller configured to execute a first printing process of forming a developer image by use of the developer supplied from the developer cartridge, when the developer cartridge is being mounted on the housing, and a second printing process of forming a developer image by use of the developer remaining in the developing unit, when a usage amount of the developing unit is not less than a predetermined value and the developer cartridge is not being mounted on the housing, wherein the controller does not execute the second printing process when the usage amount is less than the predetermined value.

Abstract: A developing cartridge includes a developing electrode and a supply electrode. The developing electrode includes a first electrical contact in contact with a developing roller shaft, and a second electrical contact positioned closer to the developing roller shaft than a second agitator gear is to the developing roller shaft. The second electrical contact is positioned farther from the developing roller shaft than the first electrical contact is from the developing roller shaft. The supply electrode includes a first electrical contact in contact with the supply roller shaft, and a second electrical contact positioned closer to the developing roller shaft than the second agitator gear is to the developing roller shaft. The second electrical contact of the supply electrode is positioned farther from the developing roller shaft than the second electrical contact of the developing electrode is from the developing roller shaft.

Abstract: An image-forming apparatus includes an apparatus body and a process cartridge attachable to and detachable from the apparatus body. The apparatus body includes a sheet-feed roller and a body wall. The process cartridge includes: a photosensitive drum; a drum frame; a developing roller; a cleaner; a conveying pipe and a waste-toner container for storing waste toner removed from the photosensitive drum by the cleaner and conveyed by the conveying pipe. The waste-toner container is detachably mountable on the drum frame. The waste-toner container mounted on the drum frame is positioned opposite to the photosensitive drum with respect to the developing roller. The body wall of the apparatus body and a container wall of the waste-toner container constitute a part of a sheet-conveying guide for guiding conveyance of a sheet from the sheet-feed roller toward the photosensitive drum when the process cartridge is attached to the apparatus body.

Abstract: The retardation film of the present invention contains a resin having positive refractive index anisotropy and containing at least one bonding group of a carbonate bond and an ester bond and one or more structural units selected from the group consisting of a structural unit represented by the general formula (1) and a structural unit represented by the general formula (2), in which the value of wavelength dispersion (R450/R550) as a ratio of retardation R450 at a wavelength of 450 nm to retardation R550 at a wavelength of 550 nm is more than 0.5 and less than 1.0: (in formula (1) and formula (2), definitions of R1 to R9 are the same as in the description).

Abstract: The positive active material for a lithium secondary battery includes a lithium transition metal composite oxide having an ?-NaFeO2 structure, and having a diffraction peak at 2?=44±1° and a diffraction peak at 2?=18.6±1° in a powder X-ray diffraction diagram using a CuK? ray. In a ratio FWHM (003)/FWHM (104) of a full width at half maximum FWHM (003) for the diffraction peak at 2?=18.6±1° to a full width at half maximum FWHM (104) for the diffraction peak at 2?=44±1°, a ratio of FWHM (003)/FWHM (104) in a charge state immediately after a discharge state to FWHM (003)/FWHM (104) in the discharge state is 0.72 or more.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a memory configured to store first system time; and a processor configured to: receive, from an information acquisition apparatus after the first system time is written in the memory, first information acquired by the information acquisition apparatus and first time information indicating acquisition time of the first information; receive, from the information acquisition apparatus after receiving the first information and the first time information, second information and second time information indicating acquisition time of the second information; converting, based on the first system time, reception time at which the first information and the first time information are received into second system time; convert, based on the second system time and the first time information, the second time information into third system time; attach the second system time to the first information; and attach the third system time to the second information.

Abstract: An image processing system comprises: a projector for projecting pattern light whose coordinate component at least in one direction is determinable; an imaging apparatus for imaging an object illuminated with the pattern light to acquire a pattern image; and a controller including a calculator for calculating the 3D coordinates of a point on the object based on the pattern light and the pattern image. The calculator determines a first point on the pattern image; calculates a second point corresponding to the first point in a pattern-light projection plane; calculates a third point based on the second point in the projection plane, a nonlinear line in the projection plane calculated by analyzing the pattern image, and an epipolar line in the projection plane calculated based on the first point; and calculates the three-dimensional coordinates of the point on the object based on the first point and the third point.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device comprises a plurality of conductive layers that are stacked in plurality in a first direction via an inter-layer insulating layer, that extend in a second direction which intersects the first direction, and that are disposed in plurality in a third direction which intersects the first direction and the second direction. In addition, the same nonvolatile semiconductor memory device comprises: a semiconductor layer that has the first direction as a longitudinal direction; a tunnel insulating layer that contacts a side surface of the semiconductor layer; a charge accumulation layer that contacts a side surface of the tunnel insulating layer; and a block insulating layer that contacts a side surface of the charge accumulation layer. Furthermore, in the same nonvolatile semiconductor memory device, an end in the third direction of the plurality of conductive layers is rounded.

Abstract: The retardation film of the present invention contains a thermoplastic resin and is constituted of a single layer. A value of wavelength dispersion (R450/R550) that is a ratio of a retardation R450 at a wavelength of 450 nm and a retardation R550 at a wavelength of 550 nm is 0.70 or more and 0.85 or less; and a photoelastic coefficient is 14×10?12 Pa?1 or less.

Abstract: An image-forming apparatus includes an apparatus body and a process cartridge attachable to and detachable from the apparatus body. The apparatus body includes a sheet-feed roller and a body wall. The process cartridge includes: a photosensitive drum; a drum frame; a developing roller; a cleaner; a conveying pipe and a waste-toner container for storing waste toner removed from the photosensitive drum by the cleaner and conveyed by the conveying pipe. The waste-toner container is detachably mountable on the drum frame. The waste-toner container mounted on the drum frame is positioned opposite to the photosensitive drum with respect to the developing roller. The body wall of the apparatus body and a container wall of the waste-toner container constitute a part of a sheet-conveying guide for guiding conveyance of a sheet from the sheet-feed roller toward the photosensitive drum when the process cartridge is attached to the apparatus body.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus, including: a housing; a photoconductor; a developing unit configured to form a developer image on the photoconductor; a developer cartridge storing developer, the cartridge being removably mountable on the housing, a supplier configured to supply the developer from the developer cartridge to the developing unit; and a controller configured to execute a first printing process of forming a developer image by use of the developer supplied from the developer cartridge, when the developer cartridge is being mounted on the housing, and a second printing process of forming a developer image by use of the developer remaining in the developing unit, when a usage amount of the developing unit is not less than a predetermined value and the developer cartridge is not being mounted on the housing, wherein the controller does not execute the second printing process when the usage amount is less than the predetermined value.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a glass substrate; a light emitting device included in a pixel structure disposed on one principal surface of the glass substrate; an input electrode, disposed on the one principal surface, for inputting a driving signal to the light emitting device; and a back connection member disposed on the other principal surface of the glass substrate so as to be electrically connected to the input electrode. A back insulating layer is disposed on the other principal surface, and a top face of the back insulating layer is located above a top face of the back connection member.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process for producing a transparent film, including the step of stretching a film in at least one direction under a condition(s) that satisfies an expression (5): 200%/min?[stretching speed(strain rate)]?1,200%/min??(5), wherein the film comprises a polycarbonate resin containing at least a constitutional unit derived from a dihydroxy compound (A) that has a bonded structure represented by a structural formula (1): in which no hydrogen atom is bonded to the oxygen atom contained in the structural formula (1).

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device comprises a plurality of conductive layers that are stacked in plurality in a first direction via an inter-layer insulating layer, that extend in a second direction which intersects the first direction, and that are disposed in plurality in a third direction which intersects the first direction and the second direction. In addition, the same nonvolatile semiconductor memory device comprises: a semiconductor layer that has the first direction as a longitudinal direction; a tunnel insulating layer that contacts a side surface of the semiconductor layer; a charge accumulation layer that contacts a side surface of the tunnel insulating layer; and a block insulating layer that contacts a side surface of the charge accumulation layer. Furthermore, in the same nonvolatile semiconductor memory device, an end in the third direction of the plurality of conductive layers is rounded.

Abstract: A drum cartridge includes: a drum frame to which a developing cartridge including a storage medium having an electrical contact surface is detachably attachable; a photosensitive drum; a transfer roller; and a conveying roller. The drum is rotatable about a first axis extending in a first direction and positioned at one end portion of the frame in a second direction. The transfer roller is rotatable about a second axis extending in the first direction and in contact with the drum. The conveying roller is rotatable about a third axis extending in the first direction and separated from the transfer roller in the second direction. A first opening of the frame is positioned between the transfer roller and the conveying roller in the second direction. The electrical contact surface is exposed to an outside through the first opening in a case where the developing cartridge is attached to the frame.