Abstract: An image formation system includes: a printer that prints an image on an expandable sheet; and a light irradiation device that performs a light irradiation process on the expandable sheet, to expand the expandable sheet corresponding to a print area of the image, wherein, before the light irradiation process, the printer prints an identifier including information relating to the image, on the expandable sheet.

Abstract: A signal processing apparatus has a first memory in which plural pieces of FIR coefficient data used for implementing an FIR filter algorithm are stored, a second memory which stores plural pieces of input data to be subjected to the FIR filter algorithm, and a processor implements the FIR filter algorithm using the plural pieces of FIR coefficient data stored in the first memory and the plural pieces of input data stored in the second memory as many times as the number corresponding to a designated filter order, in which filter algorithm each piece of coefficient data and each piece of input data are multiplied together and resultant products are summed up. The signal processing apparatus is provided, which can implement plural sorts of FIR filter algorithms of filter order which can be changed flexibly.

Abstract: A printer includes a processor; a conveying motor that can operate in any one of a plurality of excitation modes, the conveying motor being configured to convey a printing medium; and a printhead that prints on the printing medium on the basis of printing data, wherein, with respect to each of at least some of the plurality of excitation modes, the processor estimates a strength value of a vibration that would be caused by said conveying motor when the conveying motor is operated in said excitation mode at a first conveying speed that is set based on the print data, and selects one of the plurality of excitation modes for actually operating the conveying motor based on the estimated strength values of the vibrations for the at least some of the plurality of excitation modes.

Abstract: A cooling device according to an embodiment of the invention includes an axial-flow fan and a heat sink having a fin assembly in which a recess portion is formed on a side thereof which faces the axial-flow fan to thereby provide a cooling device in which a space necessary for cooling is reduced, a light source unit including the cooling device and a projector including the light source unit.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming a three-dimensional image, the apparatus including a cartridge that stores ink which a printing head discharges and which has a photothermal conversion property; a conveying unit that conveys a thermally expandable material so as to pass the thermally expandable material through a first position where the printing head faces and so as to form an image on the thermally expandable material with the ink discharged by the printing head; and a light irradiating unit that emits light toward a second position which is in a downstream side from the first position in a conveying path of the conveying unit, so as to perform photothermal conversion. The cartridge is disposed at a position which deviates from an extending line of an irradiation path of the light irradiation unit.

Abstract: A video processing apparatus includes a target-of-interest identification section and a processing section. The target-of-interest identification section identifies targets of interest from a video. The targets of interest are contained in the video, and at least one of the targets of interest is a person. The processing section performs a predetermined process according to an association element. The association element associates, in the video, the identified targets of interest with one another.

Abstract: A keyboard device is provided whose entire device body can be compactified even if a hammer member length in its front and rear direction is increased and a keyboard instrument including the keyboard device. The keyboard device includes a plurality of keys, a transmission member which is rotated in response to a key depression operation performed on a key among the plurality of keys, and a hammer member which is rotated in response to rotation of the transmission member and applies an action load to the key, in which the hammer member includes a hammer arm and a hammer head provided on a front side of the hammer arm, and the hammer arm is rotated around a hammer rotation center located on a rear side of the hammer arm in response to the key depression operation performed on the key.

Abstract: When an instruction is provided for changing a characteristic of a set filter which includes a plurality of partial filters and forms a specified characteristic by combining a plurality of partial filters, a processor performs, as crossfading processing for a first filter and a second filter among the plurality of partial filters, fade-out processing of gradually decreasing a degree of contribution of the first filter to the characteristic and fade-in processing of gradually increasing a degree of contribution of the second filter to the characteristic. As a result, unnaturalness occurring at the time of changing filter characteristics is solved.

Abstract: A display device includes a display having a first area and a second area, a counter configured to count a number of steps of a user during walking, and a processor configured to alternately turn on display of the first area and display of the second area in a case where the number of steps of the user during walking is being counted by the counter.

Abstract: The communication device includes a receiver, a counter, an operation member and a processor. The receiver receives an external time from an external device. The counter clocks time. The operation member receives a time correction operation to correct the time clocked by the counter. The processor corrects the time clocked by the counter to the received external time. The processor sets a frequency at which the time correction process is performed after the operation member receives the time correction operation, higher than a frequency at which the time correction process is performed before the operation member receives the time correction operation, until a predetermined time elapses. In the time correction process, when the difference between the time clocked by the counter and the external time received by the receiver is within a predetermined range, the processor corrects the time clocked by the counter to the external time.

Abstract: An electronic wind instrument according to one aspect of the present invention includes a plurality of performance keys for specifying pitches, a breath sensor which detects at least a breath input operation, and a controller (CPU), wherein the controller (CPU) selectively switches between a first mode of outputting first sound waveform data generated on the basis of the breath input operation and operation of at least one performance key from among the plurality of performance keys, and a second mode of, when the breath input operation is detected, outputting second sound waveform data based on musical piece data regardless of whether operation of the at least one performance key is detected or is not detected.

Abstract: An exercise support device includes a processor, a memory, and a sensor. The processor executes a program stored in the memory to perform operations including: acquiring, from the sensor, at least one of biological information about a user related to an exercise and exercise information about the user related to the exercise; and acquiring predetermined information in an outdoor activity involving a movement, on the basis of at least one of the biological information and the exercise information having been acquired, wherein the processor is further configured to acquire at least one of the biological information and the exercise information resulting from an exercise performed the user other than an exercise performed by the user as the movement in the outdoor activity.

Abstract: A keyboard device where at least one of a transmission rail and a hammer rail is favorably supported, and a keyboard instrument including the keyboard device are provided. A transmission support pole for supporting the transmission rail and a hammer support pole for supporting the hammer rail are each arranged in a gap between two keys adjacent to each other among a plurality of keys, arranged in a hole provided in at least one of the plurality of keys, or arranged at a position corresponding to a key support shaft which supports at least one of the plurality of keys. As a result, at least one of the transmission support rail and the hammer support rail is favorably supported.

Abstract: The electronic watch of an embodiment includes a receiver that receives data from a smart phone, a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of the electronic watch, a memory that stores rewriting target data, and a processor. The processor determines whether the rewriting target data stored in the memory is rewritable with data expected to be received from the smartphone based on the temperature of the electronic watch detected by the temperature sensor.

Abstract: A three-dimensional image data generation system includes: an editing unit configured to edit grayscale image data in which a density level for specifying an foaming height of a thermally expandable sheet is set for each coordinate in a planar direction; and a conversion unit configured to, when the editing unit changes a size in the planar direction of an image region included in the grayscale image data, convert the density level in correspondence with a ratio of the image region between before and after the change.

Abstract: A pointer including a pointer body formed of synthetic resin, and a pointer attachment section formed of a material harder than the synthetic resin and provided in a rotation center portion of the pointer body, in which the pointer attachment section comprises a large-diameter section to which the pointer body is fixed and which includes a positioning section, and a small-diameter section which is provided coaxially with the large-diameter section and to which a pointer shaft is attached.

Abstract: A thermally expandable sheet includes: a first thermally expansive layer that is formed on one side of a base and contains a first thermally expandable material and a first binder, the first thermally expansive layer having a first ratio of the first thermally expandable material with respect to the first binder; and a second thermally expansive layer that is formed on the first thermally expansive layer and contains a second thermally expandable material and a second binder, the second thermally expansive layer having a second ratio of the second thermally expandable material with respect to the second binder, wherein the first ratio is lower than the second ratio.

Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes a plurality of keys respectively specifying different pitches when operated; a memory; and a sound processor. In response to a current operation of a current key, which is one of the plurality of keys, the sound processor retrieves the information stored in the memory for a previous operation, if any, of a previous key, which is a same as the current key or is another one of the plurality of keys, and performs a prescribed processing on a beginning part of the waveform data generated for the current operation of the current key in accordance with the retrieved information stored in the memory for the previous operation of the previous key so as to generate processed waveform data in response to the current operation of the current key. The resulting processed waveform data can be configured to better mimic artists' performance of an original instrument.

Abstract: A thermally expandable sheet includes: a first thermally expansive layer that is formed on one side of a base and contains a first thermally expandable material and a first binder, the first thermally expansive layer having a first ratio of the first thermally expandable material with respect to the first binder; and a second thermally expansive layer that is formed on the first thermally expansive layer and contains a second thermally expandable material and a second binder, the second thermally expansive layer having a second ratio of the second thermally expandable material with respect to the second binder, wherein the second ratio is lower than the first ratio.

Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes a keyboard, a sound-producing system, and a control unit. A panning value indicating a left-right balance of sound outputted from a left speaker and a right speaker in stereo sound production is assigned to each key of the keyboard such that the left-right balance of soundboard resonant sound waveform data for certain higher-pitch keys is shifted towards the left-speaker as compared with the left-right balance of soundboard resonant sound waveform data for certain lower-pitch keys that are located to the left of the higher-pitch keys so as to produce realistic piano sound mimicking an actual piano.