Abstract: There is provided an apparatus comprising: a display control unit configured to cause a display screen to display text; a first detection unit configured to detect a subject area which a user is looking at in the text; a second detection unit configured to detect a slow area where a moving speed of the subject area decreases; a storage unit configured to store a piece of location information of each slow area in the text; and a statistics unit configured to perform a statistical processing on the pieces of location information stored by the storage unit.

Abstract: A machine learning device with a processor and a memory, in which the processor receives an image and calculates a feature amount of an object included in the image, the processor identifies a local part from the feature amount and calculates a local identification value, the processor calculates an overall identification value using the local identification value, and the processor generates a classifier using the local identification value and the overall identification value and stores it in the memory.

Abstract: An image diagnosis support device according to the invention executes a processing of inputting an image, a processing of extracting a feature of an object from a target image to be processed, a processing of extracting a feature of a training image and creating a feature dictionary, a processing of classifying the target image based on the feature and calculating an classification value, a processing of classifying a feature similarity of the target image using the feature dictionary and calculating a feature similarity classification value, and a processing of determining presence or absence of the object and a likelihood of the object for the target image using the classification value and the feature similarity classification value.

Abstract: A tunable filter includes: an optical input/output unit; a first mirror having a first reflective surface disposed to reflect input light from the optical input/output unit; a transmissive diffraction grating disposed on a propagation path of the input light reflected by the first mirror; and a second mirror having a second reflective surface disposed to reflect transmitted diffracted light from the transmissive diffraction grating corresponding to the input light. The first reflective surface is a variable-angle reflective surface. The second reflective surface has a fixed orientation relative to the transmissive diffraction grating.

Abstract: An optical device includes a fiber array that has input optical fibers, a lens array that has lenses, a photodiode array that photodiodes, a first spacer disposed between the fiber array and the lens array, and a second spacer disposed between the lens array and the photodiode array. Each of the lenses collimates input light from a corresponding input optical fiber, from among the input optical fibers. Each of the photodiodes receives the input light collimated by a corresponding lens, from among the lenses, and outputs an electrical signal according to a power of the received input light. The first spacer transmits the input light from each of the input optical fibers to a corresponding lens from among the lenses. The fiber array, the first spacer, the lens array, the second spacer, and the photodiode array are laminated.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided, comprising: a storage portion for storing, by each position on a patrol route, an equipment to be inspected in a plant which should be inspected by viewing by a patroller; a position acquisition portion for acquiring a position of a patroller on a patrol route; a first detection portion for detecting a viewed equipment which has been viewed by a patroller; and an alert portion for outputting an alert signal about the viewed equipment, in response to a fact that the equipment to be inspected, which corresponds to a position of a patroller on a patrol route, is not detected as the viewed equipment.

Abstract: A liquid crystal device in one aspect of the present disclosure includes a liquid crystal layer, and an electrode layer configured to form an electric field in the liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal layer includes a liquid crystal composition in which an organic compound having a property of inhibiting a polymerization reaction caused by light action is added to a liquid crystal mixture as a polymerization inhibitor.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus including a storage unit configured to store, in association with each of a plurality of devices existing in a plant, a storage address of measurement data which is related; a detection unit configured to detect, among the plurality of devices, a target device that a user is looking at; an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from the storage address associated with the target device, measurement data related to the target device; and a display unit configured to display a content acquired by the acquisition unit.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus comprising: a determination unit configured to determine a first region to be viewed by a user in a display screen; a detection unit configured to detect a user's visual line; and a display control unit configured to change a display mode of the first region in response to the first region being not viewed.

Abstract: An optical system in one aspect of the present disclosure includes a first light source, a second light source, a first spatial optical phase modulator, a second spatial optical phase modulator, and a projector. The first spatial optical phase modulator outputs first phase-modulated light based on an input light having a first wavelength from the first light source. The second spatial optical phase modulator outputs second phase-modulated light based on input light having a second wavelength from the second light source. The projector projects the first phase-modulated light and the second phase-modulated light on a target. The first spatial optical phase modulator is a liquid crystal device including a first liquid crystal layer. The second spatial optical phase modulator is a liquid crystal device including a second liquid crystal layer. The first liquid crystal layer includes a liquid crystal material different from that of the second liquid crystal layer.

Abstract: An optical device includes: wavelength selection elements; an optical switch that switches a propagation path of input light that is from an input port such that the input light propagates to one designated wavelength selection element among the wavelength selection elements; and a separation element disposed in the propagation path of the input light between the input port and the wavelength selection elements and that separates the input light into wavelength components.

Abstract: An optical device includes a fiber array that has input optical fibers, a lens array that has lenses, a photodiode array that photodiodes, a first spacer disposed between the fiber array and the lens array, and a second spacer disposed between the lens array and the photodiode array. Each of the lenses collimates input light from a corresponding input optical fiber, from among the input optical fibers. Each of the photodiodes receives the input light collimated by a corresponding lens, from among the lenses, and outputs an electrical signal according to a power of the received input light. The first spacer transmits the input light from each of the input optical fibers to a corresponding lens from among the lenses. The fiber array, the first spacer, the lens array, the second spacer, and the photodiode array are laminated.

Abstract: A system or a method includes defining missions based on factors associated with the missions or environmental data associated with the system, assigning the missions to the fleet of robots based on capabilities of the robots, generating a schedule of the missions and the robots, and managing the fleet of robots using feedback.

Abstract: A system or a method includes defining missions based on factors associated with the missions or environmental data associated with the system, assigning the missions to the fleet of robots based on capabilities of the robots, generating a schedule of the missions and the robots, and managing the fleet of robots using feedback.

Abstract: A system or a method includes defining missions based on factors associated with the missions or environmental data associated with the system, assigning the missions to the fleet of robots based on capabilities of the robots, generating a schedule of the missions and the robots, and managing the fleet of robots using feedback.

Abstract: A system or a method includes defining missions based on factors associated with the missions or environmental data associated with the system, assigning the missions to the fleet of robots based on capabilities of the robots, generating a schedule of the missions and the robots, and managing the fleet of robots using feedback.

Abstract: A system or a method includes defining missions based on factors associated with the missions or environmental data associated with the system, assigning the missions to the fleet of robots based on capabilities of the robots, generating a schedule of the missions and the robots, and managing the fleet of robots using feedback.

Abstract: An optical device includes: wavelength selection elements; an optical switch that switches a propagation path of input light that is from an input port such that the input light propagates to one designated wavelength selection element among the wavelength selection elements; and a separation element disposed in the propagation path of the input light between the input port and the wavelength selection elements and that separates the input light into wavelength components.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus including: a storage unit configured to store, for each of a plurality of pieces of work to be performed by a worker, an area to be seen by the worker when the work is performed; a detection unit configured to detect each area seen by the worker; and a determination unit configured to determine whether each area stored by the storage unit is detected by the detection unit.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus including a detection unit configured to detect an object viewed by a subject, a storage unit configured to store historical data of the object viewed by the subject in association with each of a plurality of situations having occurred in a scene in response to the occurrence of the situation, and an output unit configured to output, when any of the plurality of situations has occurred, information for identifying the object associated with the situation in the historical data.