Abstract: A thermal printer includes a thermal head in which a plurality of heating elements are arranged in a line, and a processor that executes a printing process of energizing the thermal head successively a predetermined number of times so at to print a printing data by causing a predetermined voltage to be applied to the thermal head the predetermined number of times in accordance with and in synchronization with strobe pulses in a strobe signal, a strobe width of each strobe pulse in the strobe signal defining a duration during which the thermal head is being applied with the predetermined voltage, wherein among the strobe pulses for the predetermined number of times of energizing the thermal head, a strobe width of at least one predetermined strobe pulse is set to be always shorter than a strobe width of another predetermined one of the strobe pulses.

Abstract: A heat generating device includes a heat generating portion, a first cover configured to cover at least part of the heat generating portion and including a first opening portion formed on one side and a second opening portion formed on the other side lying opposite to the one side, and a second cover disposed on an outer side of the first cover and forming a flow path leading from the first opening portion to the second opening portion, and in the heat generating device, a height from a lower end of the first cover to an opening center of the first opening portion is greater than a height from the lower end of the first cover to an opening center of the second opening portion.

Abstract: An electronic device includes an information acquisition unit, a display information determination unit, and a display control unit. The information acquisition unit acquires first pulse wave information indicating a pulse wave of a part of a body based on image information of the body in a first image obtained by imaging at least the part of the body, and acquires second pulse wave information indicating a pulse wave of a part of the body based on image information of the body in a second image obtained by imaging the part of the body after the first image has been obtained. The display information determination unit determines a display range of a display color of a display image or brightness corresponding to a blood flow variation of a part of the body based on first pulse wave information and second pulse wave information. The display control unit controls display of the display image by the display color determined based on the display range or brightness and the second pulse wave information.

Abstract: A control device includes at least one processor, and a memory configured to store a program to be executed by the processor. The processor is configured to acquire an external stimulation applied from an outside to an apparatus, learn an emotion change parameter for changing a simulated emotion of the apparatus in accordance with the acquired external stimulation, acquire the learned emotion change parameter in accordance with the acquired external stimulation, set an emotion parameter indicating the simulated emotion of the apparatus in accordance with the acquired emotion change parameter, and control a behavior of the apparatus in accordance with the set emotion parameter.

Abstract: An information acquisition method implemented by one or more processor, includes: acquiring, for each of frames, a brightness value corresponding to a position of a color filter from a light receiving device including light receiving elements whose light receiving surfaces are covered with color filters, the color filters including the color filter and the color filters comprising at least first color filters transmitting light of a wavelength band corresponding to a first color and second color filters transmitting light of a wavelength band corresponding to a second color; and acquiring information on a mobile device based on difference between brightness values of the position acquired from a plurality of frames and at least one of a threshold for the first color filters and a threshold for the second color filters.

Abstract: A robot includes a body contactable with a placement surface, a head, at least one actuator, and at least one processor. The head is contactable with the placement surface, and is coupled to a front end of the body so as to be rotatable about a first rotational axis extending in a front-rear direction of the body and rotatable about a second rotational axis extending in a width direction of the body. The at least one actuator turns the head by causing the head to make a turn about the first rotational axis and a turn about the second rotational axis independently of each other. The at least one processor repeats a first turn control scheme and a second turn control scheme in sequence.

Abstract: A thermally expandable sheet includes: a thermally expansive layer formed on a one surface of a base; a first ink receiving layer that is provided on the thermally expansive layer for receiving ink; a film provided on the first ink receiving layer; and a second ink receiving layer that is provided on the film for receiving ink; wherein the first ink receiving layer is formed of a material that provides a texture a different from a texture of the second ink receiving layer.

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: A work support device includes a first display control unit and a registration unit. The first display control unit performs control to display a label image having a message to a second user designated by a first user on a display screen relevant to the message. The registration unit takes the message as a task, and correlates and registers task information on the task with (i) display screen identification information to identify the display screen on which the label image is displayed and (ii) user identification information to identify the second user.

Abstract: Disclosed is a push button including: a module that has a fixed contact part which is able to contact and separate from a movable contact part; an elastically deformable dynamic contact member that is supported in a cantilever state with a base part fixed to the module, and that has the movable contact part electrically contactable with the fixed contact part; and an operation receiving member that makes the movable contact part contact the fixed contact part by having one end acting on an acting portion. The movable contact part is arranged out of (i) a line connecting the acting portion and the base part and (ii) an extended line thereof, the dynamic contact member has a first movable part and a second movable part, the acting portion is arranged in the first movable part, and the movable contact part is arranged in the second movable part.

Abstract: A voice recognition device provided with a processor configured to determine a breathing period immediately before uttering which is a period in which a lip of a target person has moved with breathing immediately before uttering based on a captured image of the lip of the target person, to detect a voice period which is a period in which the target person is uttering without including the breathing period immediately before uttering determined above based on the captured image of the lip of the target person captured, to acquire a voice of the target person, and to recognize the voice of the target person based on the voice of the target person acquired above within the voice period detected above.

Abstract: An expansion device includes: a thermal distension unit configured to thermally distend a thermally-expandable sheet by irradiating the thermally-expandable sheet with predetermined energy; a reading unit configured to read identifiers provided at predetermined positions of the thermally-expandable sheet; and a setting unit configured to set an amount of energy per unit area to be emitted on the thermally-expandable sheet by the thermal distension unit depending on whether (i) a second identifier as well as a first identifier has been read, or (ii) whether a predetermined part of the first identifier has been read but another part has not been read, as a result of reading the identifiers by the reading unit.

Abstract: A display device includes: a first display, a second display stacked on a visible side of the first display and having power consumption lower than that of the first display, a first processor controls the first display, and a second processor controls the first display and the second display and having power consumption lower than that of the first processor. In a state in which operation of the first processor is halted, the second processor causes the second display to display second information and simultaneously causes the first display to display first information having a lighter processing load than information that the first processor causes to be displayed by the first display.

Abstract: A satellite radiowave receiving device includes a receiver and a processor. The receiver acquires and receives radiowaves from a positioning satellite. The processor performing a positioning operation based on the radiowaves received by the receiver to obtain a current position of the satellite radiowave receiving device. The processor causes the receiver to stop an acquiring operation of radiowaves from a new positioning satellite under a predetermined condition while radiowaves are being acquired from a required number of positioning satellite for the positioning operation. If an error range of the obtained current position no longer satisfies a predetermined accuracy standard during a stop of the acquiring operation, the processor causes the receiver to resume the acquiring operation.

Abstract: According one embodiment, there is provided an information display apparatus including a processor, the processing being configured to display a character string including a plurality of keywords on a display; to detect a kind of an association operation when the processor accepts designation by a user operation of any one of the keywords displayed on the display, and accepts the association operation of related information corresponding to the designated keyword; and to set a problem-setting method with respect to the designated keyword, the problem-setting method corresponding to the detected kind of the association operation.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus which transmits data to setup predetermined software in a terminal includes a processor. The processor is configured to perform the following processing operation, a receiving process which receives registration of user information, a first generating process which generates an installer to install the data including user identification information to identify a user according to the user information received in the receiving process, a setting process which sets the installer generated in the first generating process to be downloadable, and a first transmitting control process which transmits to a terminal in which the installer is started the data corresponding to the user information when the installer is downloaded and started, and the terminal in which the installer is started is connected to the information processing apparatus through a network.

Abstract: A programming device including a shape indication section which receives at least one first user operation for indicating a shape by specifying two or more portions among a plurality of tangible portions arranged at different positions with each other in a planar direction; and a control section which generates a command list for moving a control target section along the indicated shape.

Abstract: A programming device including a planar shape indication section which receives at least one first user operation for indicating a planar shape by specifying two or more portions among a plurality of portions arranged at different positions in a planar direction; a height reception section which receives at least one second user operation for indicating a height that is a position in a direction intersecting with the plane or a displacement amount of the height in association with a portion of any of the two or more portions; and a control section which generates a command list for moving a control target section along a three-dimensional shape indicated by the planar shape indication section and the height reception section.

Abstract: Disclosed is a solar panel being divided into a plurality of cells and including: a light transmissive power generation region which is a central region in a diameter direction of a ring-shaped member and in which extending thin line power generators are arranged in parallel in a direction substantially orthogonal to the extending direction; and a periphery power generation region which is a periphery region of the light transmissive power generation region and in which a part of the cells is arranged along a circumferential direction. The cells include a composite cell including at least a part of the periphery power generation region and at least a part of the light transmissive power generation region. A first cell and a second cell different from the first cell are respectively arranged on one end side and on the other end side in the diameter direction of the ring-shaped member.

Abstract: A light source unit includes: a first light emitting element configured to emit a first wavelength band light; a second light emitting element configured to emit a second wavelength band light; a luminescent wheel configured to have a first fluorescent light emitting region irradiated with the second wavelength band light to emit a third wavelength band light, and a second fluorescent light emitting region that emits a fourth wavelength band light including a wavelength band of the first wavelength band light and the third wavelength band light having a wavelength band adjacent to the first wavelength band light being provided in parallel in a circumferential direction; a color wheel configured to have a second transmissive region that transmits the first wavelength band light to the fourth wavelength band light, and a third transmissive region that transmits only the first wavelength band light or transmits only the first wavelength band light and the second wavelength band light being installed in parallel