Abstract: A vacuum pressure proportional control valve placed on a pipe connecting between a reaction vessel and a vacuum pump to control the vacuum pressure in the reaction vessel includes a cylinder provided with a piston chamber, a piston housed in the piston chamber so as to make reciprocal linear movement, a valve seat surface, and a valve element which contacts with or separates from the valve seat surface according to the movement of the piston. A stopper member is provided in the cylinder so that a leading end portion of the stopper member is placed in the piston chamber. The stopper member is configured to move the piston back and forth in a moving direction of the piston by use of an adjusting unit to thereby adjust the position of the leading end portion.

Abstract: An occupant modeling device includes: an acquisition section acquiring an image by imaging a region where there is a probability that a face of an occupant is present; a model fitting section generating a model of the face based on a first image acquired by the acquisition section; a tracking section adapting the model to a second image acquired after the first image; a determination section determining correctness of a facial part position included in the second image to which the model is adapted, by using learned information obtained through learning based on correct information and incorrect information regarding the facial part position; and a processing section determining whether a process in the tracking section is to be continuously executed or a process in the model fitting section is to be executed again according to a determination result in the determination section.

Abstract: An occupant monitoring device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a captured image obtained by imaging a region in which there is a probability that a face of an occupant is present in a vehicle; a determination unit that determines whether the captured image acquired by the acquisition unit corresponds to a first image including the face a part of which is hidden by an accessory or a second image including the face a part of which is hidden by a non-accessory object other than the accessory; and a processing unit that detects face information regarding the face of the occupant based on the captured image in different modes according to a determination result in the determination unit, and monitors a state change of the face of the occupant based on a detection result.

Abstract: An occupant monitoring device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a captured image obtained by imaging a region in which there is a probability that a face of an occupant is present in a vehicle; a determination unit that determines whether the captured image acquired by the acquisition unit corresponds to at least a first image not including a feature portion of the face of the occupant but including at least a part of a body of the occupant or a second image not including the body of the occupant; and a processing unit that monitors a state change of the face of the occupant based on the captured image, and switches whether or not an occupant parameter set for monitoring the state change of the face of the occupant is to be reset according to a determination result in the determination unit.

Abstract: An abnormality detection device 10, which detects an abnormality of a data series to be detected that has regularity in a sequence of data forming the data series, is provided with: a determination unit 11 which refers to a data series of a normal model composed of a prescribed permutation as a data series that indicates a state in which a system to be detected is normal, and which, every time one piece of data is input, in light of a permutation indicated by a pair of the one piece of input data and another piece of data input immediately before the one piece of data is input, determines that the data series to be detected is locally abnormal when the permutation is not included in the normal model, and determines that the data series to be detected is locally normal when the permutation is included in the normal model.

Abstract: The objective of the invention is to suppress increases in a C-Plane processing load on a mobile network side even if requests to call a plurality of terminals in the mobile network are generated within a short period of time. A communication device according to one mode of embodiment of the present invention is a communication device which transmits a paging message to a terminal that transmits a control signal for connecting to a network in response to receiving the paging message, wherein the communication device includes: a control unit which, in response to being requested to transmit paging messages to a plurality of terminals, determines, for each of the plurality of terminals, a time period for delaying transmission of the control signal; and a transmitting unit which transmits, to each of the plurality of terminals, the respective paging message including the time period by which the transmission of the control signal is to be delayed.

Abstract: A screw rotor lead correction calculation device includes an initial data input section configured to input an error as a distance with respect to a reference lead at each axial position of a rotor groove portion of a screw rotor, and a processing machine input correction amount/position output section configured to compute and output, based on the error as the distance input to the initial data input section, a lead correction amount with respect to the reference lead and a lead correction starting position as an axial position for starting lead correction. With this configuration, correction data for obtaining a screw rotor with a high-accuracy lead can be obtained from a lead error with respect to a reference lead in a screw rotor obtained by ground finish of the material of the screw rotor.

Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing device comprising: a memory and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to: store a shared module shared by a plurality of software and unique modules unique to each of the respective software; and read out a shared module and a unique module required by designated software from the program storing portion. Also, an information processing device comprising: a memory and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to: store a plurality of modules for structuring software including a self-recovery function; identify a faulty module that has a fault from among modules stored; and perform recovery processing through mutually differing recovery procedures, depending on the faulty module identified.

Abstract: The objective of the invention is to suppress increases in a C-Plane processing load on a mobile network side even if requests to call a plurality of terminals in the mobile network are generated within a short period of time. In some embodiments, a terminal transmits a control signal for connecting to a network in response to receiving a paging message. In some embodiments, a plurality of virtual network nodes, each capable of running on a virtual machine, have a function of processing the control signal from the terminal. Also disclosed is a control device which, in response to receiving a packet addressed to the terminal, requests at least one of the plurality of virtual network nodes to transmit a paging message addressed to the terminal.

Abstract: To reduce the signal processing performance degradation of a network node and/or to enhance the stability of the network node based on an appropriate estimate of equipment quantity in relation to communication traffic, a control device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a first means for collecting, from a network node that processes traffic, traffic data that is information about the traffic and a second means for extracting, from the collected traffic data, a traffic feature value including the degree of the variation of the traffic. On the basis of the extracted traffic feature value, the second means calculates the amount of resources necessary for the network node to process the traffic.

Abstract: A communication device for calculating an amount of resources of a virtual network node required for satisfying a predetermined condition of delay in signal processing based on a feature value of communication traffic so as to avoid performance degradation in signal processing in the communication network due to excess communication traffic which varies and changes. For example, the virtual network node may be realized by a virtual machine which provides network functions relating to signal processing by software of the virtual machine, and can flexibly increase or decrease processing resources.

Abstract: The objective of the invention is to suppress increases in a C-Plane processing load on a mobile network side even if requests to call a plurality of terminals in the mobile network are generated within a short period of time. A communication device according to one mode of embodiment of the present invention is a communication device which transmits a paging message to a terminal that transmits a control signal for connecting to a network in response to receiving the paging message, wherein the communication device includes: a control unit which, in response to being requested to transmit paging messages to a plurality of terminals, determines, for each of the plurality of terminals, a time period for delaying transmission of the control signal; and a transmitting unit which transmits, to each of the plurality of terminals, the respective paging message including the time period by which the transmission of the control signal is to be delayed.

Abstract: The objective of the invention is to suppress increases in a C-Plane processing load on a mobile network side even if requests to call a plurality of terminals in the mobile network are generated within a short period of time. A communication system according to one mode of embodiment of the present invention includes: a terminal capable of transmitting a control signal for connecting to a network, in response to receiving a paging message; a plurality of virtual network nodes capable of running, on a virtual machine, a function of processing the control signal from the terminal; and a control device which, in response to receiving a packet addressed to the terminal, requests at least one of the plurality of virtual network nodes to transmit a paging message addressed to the terminal.

Abstract: Provided is a sound-transmitting waterproof film having waterproof performance and stable sound-transmitting performance in a wide tonal range. The sound-transmitting waterproof film includes a porous film of a synthetic resin, and has a water pressure resistance of 10 to 400 kPa in accordance with a JIS L 1092 method B (a high water pressure method) and has an acoustic loss of less than 10 dB at a frequency of 1 kHz, an acoustic loss of less than 5 dB at a frequency of 2 kHz, and an acoustic loss of less than 5 dB at a frequency of 5 kHz in sound-transmitting performance tests.

Abstract: A function of switching a path such as traffic offload and application of a predetermined network function(s) are both enabled. A control apparatus includes: first means for providing at least one of a plurality of network functions of a first network; second means for determining, based on an attribute(s) of a received packet, whether to forward the packet to a path in which the first means operates or to the first network; and third means for giving an instruction about a forwarding destination of the received packet to a predetermined packet forwarding apparatus in accordance with the determination.

Abstract: To reduce the signal processing performance degradation of a network node and/or to enhance the stability of the network node based on an appropriate estimate of equipment quantity in relation to communication traffic, a control device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a first means for collecting, from a network node that processes traffic, traffic data that is information about the traffic and a second means for extracting, from the collected traffic data, a traffic feature value including the degree of the variation of the traffic. On the basis of the extracted traffic feature value, the second means calculates the amount of resources necessary for the network node to process the traffic.

Abstract: This communication device for mitigating deterioration in signal processing performance in a network node and/or for increasing the stability of the network node on the basis of an appropriate estimation of the quantity of equipment with respect to a communication traffic is a communication device in which a function for processing a control signal a terminal transmits to connect to a network is operated by a virtual machine. The communication device includes: a first means for collecting, from a network node that processes traffic transmitted and received by a plurality of the terminals, traffic data comprising information about the traffic; and a second means that extracts, from the collected traffic data, a traffic feature quantity including the degree of variation in the traffic. The second means has the function for calculating, on the basis of the extracted traffic feature quantity, the resource quantity of the communication device and/or the network node that is required for processing the traffic.

Abstract: An index calculation unit calculates a periodicity determination index for determining the presence of periodicity on the basis of the differential between each segment of the frequency distribution of input numerical data and a frequency distribution in accordance with a baseline distribution provided ahead of time. A determination unit uses the periodicity determination index calculated by the index calculation unit to determine the presence of periodicity including one or more periodic components present in the numerical data.

Abstract: A communication control method and a communication system are provided that realize traffic offload while reducing the processing load on a base station. A base station in a mobile network includes a gateway (PO-GW) for connecting a mobile terminal (UE) in the mobile network to a packet data network (PDN), and a control function (MME, DNS, HSS) of the mobile network allows the mobile terminal to access the gateway (PO-GW), in response to a request from the mobile terminal to connect to the PDN via the base station.

Abstract: A charging control method and system are provided that can reduce the processing load on a function of performing charging control. The charging control system includes a policy and charging rules function (PCRF), a plurality of gateways (P-GWs) each including a policy and charging enforcement function (PCEF), and a relay section including a relay server and a switch that connects the PCRF and the plurality of PCEFs in a hierarchical manner. The PCRF is directly connected to the relay section, whereby the number of sessions is reduced.