Abstract: An ink is used for forming a photothermal conversion layer used for causing expansion of at least a portion of a thermal expansion layer of a thermally-expandable sheet. The ink includes an inorganic infrared absorbing agent having a higher absorptivity in at least one region of an infrared light spectrum than in a visible light spectrum. A base of the ink is white.

Abstract: An object is to easily and appropriately identify the orientation of imaging means at the time of image capturing. A control section of an imaging device or an image processing device acquires an image captured by an imaging section and performs image recognition processing of recognizing a photographic subject corresponding to a first orientation such as a horizontal imaging orientation or a vertical imaging orientation in the image so as to judge whether a predetermined photographic subject is present in the image. Then, based on the judgment result, the control section identifies whether the orientation of the imaging device or the imaging section at the time of image capturing is the first orientation or a second orientation.

Abstract: An electronic timepiece including: a radio wave receiver which receives radio waves from a positioning satellite; a communicator which performs communication with an external device; a storage which stores predicted positional information of the positioning satellite acquired from other than the positioning satellite; and a processor, wherein the processor updates the predicted positional information stored in the storage by causing the communicator to acquire the predicted positional information from the external device at or after a predetermined timing corresponding to an update period of the predicted positional information before end of an effective period of the stored predicted positional information, the update period being determined in advance in the external device.

Abstract: A printing unit includes a printing device including a metal component, and a print head that prints a print-target image onto a print medium; and a capping device including a cap covering the print head, an elastic member that urges the cap toward the print head, and a magnet that attracts the metal component.

Abstract: In an autonomous mobile apparatus, a processor acquires map information including positional information of an obstacle, plans, based on the acquired map information, a shape of the autonomous mobile apparatus and a traveling path of the autonomous mobile apparatus to avoid contact between the autonomous mobile apparatus and the obstacle when the autonomous mobile apparatus is traveling along the traveling path, and causes the autonomous mobile apparatus to autonomously travel along the planned traveling path while assuming the planned shape.

Abstract: An audio interval detection apparatus comprising a processor and a storage storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, control the processor to: detect from a target audio signal a specified audio interval including a specified audio signal representing a state of a phoneme of a same consonant produced continuously over a period longer than a specified time, and by eliminating, from the target audio signal at least the detected specified audio interval, detect from the target audio signal an utterance audio interval that includes a speech utterance signal representing a speech utterance uttered by a speaker.

Abstract: An image edit apparatus designates not only moving objects based on sequential images at the time intervals initially designated by the user, but also moving object, which was shot at shorter time intervals than the initially designated time intervals and corresponds to a freely selected position designated by the user on the locus (trajectory) of the moving objects as analysis targets of the moving objects. Thus, from the continuously shot sequential images/moving image acquired by shooting a moving object, the user designates an image at a freely selected part which is not a part of the regular time intervals, and can utilize the image for analyzing the moving object.

Abstract: An authentication method for authenticating an electronic ticket stored in a portable information device by an authentication apparatus, including a step of acquiring, by the portable information device, shared information that is sharable with the authentication apparatus when authentication of the electronic ticket is performed, a step of generating, by the portable information device, a bar code based on the acquired shared information and the electronic ticket, a step of displaying the bar code by the portable information device, a step of reading, by the authentication apparatus, the electronic ticket and the shared information from the bar code displayed on the portable information device, and a step of performing, by the authentication apparatus, the authentication of the electronic ticket by making a comparison between contents of the shared information read from the bar code together with the electronic ticket and shared information in the authentication apparatus.

Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes a sound source LSI to generate a musical sound using a RAM that retains waveform data that has been selectively read from a plurality of waveforms stored in a large-capacity flash memory, and smoothly executes transfer of additional waveform data from the flash memory to the RAM when the requisite waveform data is not retained in the RAM during the performance. Performance data is generated by a sequencer, a prescribed delay time is applied to the performance data by an event time generator and an event delay buffer so as to provide for sufficient time for the transfer of the additional waveform if such transfer is needed. A musical sound is generated by an event buffer and a sound source driver on the basis of the delayed performance data.

Abstract: There is provided an information acquisition method of a wireless communication device including a receiver configured to perform wireless communication with another wireless communication device to acquire information. The information acquisition method includes acquiring operation time information indicative of time at which the other wireless communication device receives an information acquisition instruction by an operation, acquiring position information indicative of a user position at time based on the acquired operation time information, and acquiring map information for indicating, on a map, the acquired position information.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a printer head that prints, in accordance with a movement of the printing apparatus by a user within a printing region of a printing medium, a print-target image on the printing medium; a plurality of sensors each capable of sensing a displacement of the printing apparatus; and a processor that determines, based on the displacement sensed by the sensor, a position of the printing apparatus relative to the printing region, and switches, among the plurality of sensors, a sensing state of a sensor that is sensing the displacement and a sensing state of a sensor that is not sensing the displacement, in accordance with the determined position of the printing apparatus.

Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes a memory storing a musical piece data that includes a first note or chord to be played by the performer at a first timing, a second note or chord to be played by the performer at a second timing, and a third note or chord to be played by the performer at a third timing and a processor that determines a target melodic interval direction from the first note or chord to the second note or chord, and that causes an automatic accompaniment to output from the second timing to a point in time immediately prior to the third timing even if the performer performs a wrong note as the second note as long as a melodic interval direction actually performed by the performer matches the target melodic interval direction.

Abstract: A projection control device according to the invention includes a projection module configured to project a correcting image in which a marker including a first polygon and a second polygon disposed inside the first polygon is provided in a predetermined position in such a manner as to be picked up by an image pickup device, and at least one of sides of the first polygon is not parallel to sides of the second polygon.

Abstract: When the length of a label created by cutting a print medium with print data printed thereon is insufficient, a printing device is prevented from omitting cutting processing. A printing device 1 includes a printing unit 106 which prints out print data on a tape 42 as a print medium, a cutting unit 107 which cuts the tape 42 with the print data printed thereon, a determination unit 108 which determines whether the length of a label to be cut by the cutting unit 107 is e more than a threshold value, and a control unit 101 which, when the determination unit 108 determines that the length is less than or equal to the threshold value, adjusts the length of the label so that the length of the tape 42 will be a length more than the threshold value.

Abstract: An advertisement management apparatus includes a memory, at least one processor, and at least one program. The program is stored in the memory and executed by the processor, and includes a first selection processing operation, an extraction processing operation, a second selection processing operation, and a creation processing operation. The first selection processing operation is selecting, based on a use of an advertisement input by a user, a layout as a first advertisement component of the advertisement. The extraction processing operation is extracting a word by performing text segmentation on text information input by the user. The second selection processing operation is selecting a second advertisement component of the advertisement based on the extracted word. The creation processing operation is creating an advertisement candidate by combining the selected layout and the selected second advertisement component.

Abstract: A first robot acquires reaction determination results that includes a result obtained by determining a reaction of a predetermined target to an utterance by the first robot and a result obtained by determining a reaction of a predetermined target to an utterance by a second robot provided separately from the first robot, and controls, based on the acquired reaction determination results, an utterance by at least one of a plurality of utterance devices including the first robot and the second robot.

Abstract: A light source device includes a light emitting element emitting light of a first wavelength band, a fluorescent wheel, a dichroic mirror, a reflection member and a polarization conversion element. The fluorescent wheel includes a fluorescent area converting the light of the first wavelength band into fluorescent light and a transmission area transmitting the light of the first wavelength band. The dichroic mirror reflects the light of the first wavelength band a first polarization direction, transmits the light in a second polarization direction, and transmits or reflects the fluorescent light. The reflection member reflects the light transmitted through the transmission area toward the transmission area. The polarization conversion element is disposed between the fluorescent wheel and the reflection member, transmits the lights transmitted through the transmission area and reflected by the reflection member, and converts the light in the first polarization direction into the second polarization direction.

Abstract: A projection control apparatus includes a CPU configured to perform control to successively project a plurality of images for correction onto a projection target, each of the images for correction being configured such that a marker image is arranged at a preset position in the image, to acquire information of a plurality of photographed images including the images for correction projected onto the projection target, to detect a difference between the respective photographed images, based on positions of the marker images, and to set a correction condition for projecting an image, based on the information of the photographed images, in accordance with the detected difference of a projection image range.

Abstract: An operation management apparatus includes the following. A storage unit stores operation instruction information showing contents of an operation instruction associated with a person in charge. According to a request from a register terminal, a searching unit searches the storage unit for operation instruction information corresponding to the person in charge who is assigned to the register terminal. A transmitting unit transmits the operation instruction information searched by the searching unit to the register terminal.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a performance apparatus capable of changing to a performance pattern making a musically natural transition. A CPU 13 determines which stage a performance pattern of each of tracks Tr (1) to (4) currently selected belongs to, and obtains the number of performance patterns for each stage, in accordance with depression of a transition button. The CPU 13 determines that the stage having the maximum number of performance patterns is the “current stage” among the number of performance patterns for each stage obtained, and changes the performance pattern of each of the tracks Tr (1) to (4) to the stage subsequent to the determined “current stage”. Therefore, the performance pattern can be changed into a performance pattern making a musically natural transition. As a result, even a beginner user being poor in music knowledge can set an appropriate performance pattern matching the transition of the song.