Abstract: A fingerprint sensing apparatus including a first substrate, a light sensing structure, a second substrate, a lens layer, a filler, and a first light shielding layer is provided. The light sensing structure is disposed on a sensing area of the first substrate. The lens layer is disposed on the second substrate. The lens layer has multiple first convex portions and a first concave portion. The filler is disposed between the lens layer and the light sensing structure. The refractive index of the filler is greater than the refractive index of the lens layer. The first light shielding layer is disposed between the second substrate and the lens layer. A solid of the first light shielding layer overlaps the first convex portions of the lens layer. An opening of the first light shielding layer overlaps the first concave portion of the lens layer.

Abstract: Provided is a data amount sufficiency determination device capable of determining the sufficiency of the data amount of learning data with higher accuracy. A data amount sufficiency determination device according to the present disclosure includes a time series data acquisition unit to acquire time series data, a data division unit to divide the time series data into a plurality of pieces of substring data, a data set generation unit to generate a plurality of substring data sets that are sets of substring data, a feature amount calculation unit to calculate a feature amount of the substring data, a probability distribution generation unit to generate probability distribution of the feature amount for each substring data sets, and a determination unit to determine whether or not the probability distribution has converged.

Abstract: There are provided an aqueous electrolyte solution having an extended potential window, in particular, an aqueous electrolyte solution whose potential window is further wider than those exhibited by conventional concentrated aqueous electrolyte solutions, and an aqueous electrolyte solution in which the cycle characteristics can be improved. A non-aqueous electrolyte solution capable of achieving a higher energy density is provided, the non-aqueous electrolyte solution containing easily available and inexpensive materials and having further improved characteristics. One aqueous electrolyte solution of the present embodiment contains a salt of at least one selected from the group consisting of sodium, magnesium, potassium and lithium, and a chaotropic additive. One other non-aqueous electrolyte solution of the present embodiment contains a salt of at least one selected from the group consisting of sodium, magnesium, potassium and lithium, and a chaotropic additive.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a stacked film alternately including a plurality of electrode layers and a plurality of insulating layers. The device further includes a first insulator, a charge storage layer, a second insulator and a first semiconductor layer that are disposed in order in the stacked film. The device further includes a plurality of first films disposed between the first insulator and the plurality of insulating layers. Furthermore, at least one of the first films includes a second semiconductor layer.

Abstract: A wire harness manufacturing device includes a first rail and a second rail provided in parallel on a jig plate; a first holding portion that holds a first connector and a second holding portion that holds a second connector; an electric wire holding portion that holds a first electric wire and a second electric wire; a one end side connection portion that connects one end sides of the first electric wire and the second electric wire to the first connector and the second connector; a cutting portion that cuts the first electric wire and the second electric wire; the other end side connector that connects the cut first electric wire and the cut second electric wire to a third connector and a fourth connector and a binding portion that binds the first electric wire and the second electric wire whose tension is adjusted.

Abstract: Provided are an electronic device and a method for wireless communication, and a computer-readable storage medium. The electronic device comprises: a processing circuit configured to: determine that a physical layer problem occurs during transmission by a user equipment which uses a pre-configured resource in a pre-configured resource pool to execute the transmission; and determine, according to a transmission quality requirement of a data packet to be sent, the length of time during which the user equipment can continue using the pre-configured resource.

Abstract: Silica microcapsules, each of which includes a shell, and a core containing one or more organic compounds inside the shell, a softener composition containing the silica microcapsules, and a method of producing the silica microcapsules is described. In the silica microcapsules, the shell contains silica as a constituent component, and the organic compound contains a primary alcohol.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods and materials useful delivering liquids, including liquids comprising nucleic acid molecules into cells. In particular, the present invention provides methods for delivering saline solution, exogenous compositions, and isolated vectors to kidney cells, using the renal vein as a guide and under hydrodynamic pressure. The delivery methods and materials herein are useful to research, prognose, ameliorate symptoms of kidney injury, and treat kidney pathologies.

Abstract: A composition for external preparation for skin comprising the following components (A), (B), and (C):(A) from 0.1 to 30 mass % of a polymer having a silicone structure in which a ratio of deformation measured by a predetermined method (1) is 0.3 or more and 1 or less, and in a bend resistance test using a cylindrical mandrel method performed by a predetermined method (2), the minimum diameter of a cylindrical mandrel which causes no cracks in the polymer film is 2 mm or more and 25 mm or less; (B) a volatile oil having a volatilization rate of 14% or more after drying at 1 atmosphere, 40° C., and R.H. of 60% for 30 minutes; and (C) a non-volatile oil, wherein the mass ratio of the component (A) to the component (C), (A)/(C), is from 1 to 150.

Abstract: Provided are an emotion tag assigning system, method, and program for assigning, to a content, an emotion tag indicating an emotion of a user in execution of an event using the content. An emotion tag assigning method includes a step of detecting, by a voice detector, voice data indicating a voice uttered by a person who participates in an event using a content during execution of the event; a step of recognizing, by an emotion recognizer, an emotion of the person based on the voice data; a step of acquiring, by a processor, emotion information indicating the recognized emotion of the person during the execution of the event using the content; and a step of assigning, by the emotion recognizer, an emotion rank calculated from the acquired emotion information to the content as an emotion tag.

Abstract: An apparatus for performing an over-the-air (OTA) update for a vehicle includes an estimated-time calculating device that calculates estimated time required for the OTA update of one or more controllers included in the vehicle, an update performing device that starts the OTA update based on the calculated estimated time, and a rollback performing device that performs an initial rollback on a failed OTA update once and to calculate a first value indicating whether a rollback is able to be performed on the failed OTA update in a case where the OTA update of at least one of the controllers fails when the OTA update is started.

Abstract: A projection system includes a first optical system and a second optical system disposed on an enlargement side of the first optical system. The first optical system includes a first lens group having positive power, a second lens group disposed on the enlargement side of the first lens group and having negative power, and an optical path deflector disposed between the first lens group and the second lens group. The second optical system includes a reflection member having a concave reflection surface. The second lens group includes three aspherical lenses. Conditional Expression (1) below is satisfied, 0.25<|F|×FNO/Ymax<0.5??(1) where F represents the focal length of the entirety of the projection system, FNO represents the F number of the projection system, and Ymax represents a maximum image height in a reduction-side conjugate plane.

Abstract: A mixing bowl for a stand mixer includes a body defining an interior and an exterior. The body has first and second mounting flanges extending outwardly from opposite sides of the exterior and defining respective cavities open at least on bottom sides of the mounting flanges. The mixing bowl further includes first and second inserts fixedly received in the respective cavities of the first and second mounting flanges. The inserts define respective pin holes for receiving mounting pins of a bowl-lift mechanism of the stand mixer, the first and second pin holes being located relative to each other at a first tolerance and relative to the respective first and second flanges at a second tolerance lower than the first tolerance.

Abstract: In a learning apparatus, an acquisition unit acquires image data and label data corresponding to the image data. An object candidate extraction unit extracts each object candidate rectangle from the image data. A correct answer data generation unit generates a background object label corresponding to each background object included in each object candidate rectangle as correct answer data corresponding to the object candidate rectangle by using the label data. A prediction unit predicts a classification using each object candidate rectangle and outputs a prediction result. An optimization unit optimizes the object candidate extraction unit and the prediction unit using the prediction result and the correct answer data.

Abstract: An animal litter box includes: an upper container including a liquid passage portion having holes through which urine passes downward; a tray on which an absorbent body is disposed to absorb the urine that passes through the liquid passage portion; a lower container that supports the upper container from below and that detachably accommodates the tray; and a ventilation fan disposed in the lower container and that sends internal air in the lower container to an outside.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems for encoding data in composite patterns such that the encoded data is perceptible in one or more infrared spectral ranges while significantly imperceptible in visible light spectral range by encoding the data in one or more first partial patterns and/or in one or more second partial patterns of the composite pattern where the first partial pattern(s) is painted using a first print material and the second partial pattern(s) is painted using a second. The first and second paint materials are characterized by reflecting substantially similar light in the visible light spectral range and significantly different light in the infrared spectral range(s) such that the first and second patterns are indistinguishable in the visible light spectral range while highly distinguishable in the infrared spectral range(s). further disclosed are methods and systems for decoding the composite patterns to decode and extract the encoded data.

Abstract: Provided is a novel fluorescent probe. A compound of the following general formula (I) or a salt thereof.

Abstract: An information processing system according to the present invention is an information processing system that sets a weight matrix. The weight matrix is generated by learning using a target matrix that is a matrix including an action status on an item in each of a plurality of setting statuses as an element of a column, includes a weight corresponding to an intersection of items as an element, and is multiplied by the target matrix. The information processing system includes: a similarity degree calculating unit configured to extract, from each column of the target matrix, some elements from among all elements of the column, and calculate a degree of similarity between the items based on the some elements of the each column; and a weight matrix setting unit configured to set the weight matrix that is a sparse matrix including a nonzero element based on the degree of similarity.

Abstract: A ground fault detection device includes: a detection capacitor; a switch group for switching between a first charging path connecting the battery and the detection capacitor, a second charging path connecting the battery, a negative side insulation resistance and the detection capacitor, a third charging path connecting the battery, a positive side insulation resistance and the detection capacitor, and a measurement path for measuring a charging voltage of the detection capacitor; and a controller configured to calculate the insulation resistance based on a charging voltage measured value of the detection capacitor which exists after charging each of the charging paths, wherein after measurement of the charging voltage of the second charging path, the controller is configured to cause the switch group to switch to the third charging path before switching to the first charging path.

Abstract: Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for preserving image and acoustic sensitivity using reinforcement learning. The present invention is configured to initiate a file editing engine on the audiovisual file to separate the audiovisual file into a video component and an audio component; initiate a convolutional neural network (CNN) algorithm on the video component to identify one or more sensitive portions in the one or more image frames; initiate an audio word2vec algorithm on the audio component to identify one or more sensitive portions in the audio component; initiate a masking algorithm on the one or more image frames and the audio component; generate a masked video component and a masked audio component based on at least implementing the masking action policy; and bind, using the file editing engine, the masked video component and the masked audio component to generate a masked audiovisual file.