Abstract: An information processing device includes a retaining unit and an image display. The retaining unit retains image-formation-related information of an image forming apparatus that forms an image. The image display causes a display section of a portable terminal having the display section and an image capturing section to display an image for assisting with an operation of the image forming apparatus based on a captured image result of the image capturing section and the image-formation-related information retained in the retaining unit.

Abstract: A porous film includes at least one porous polyimide film that includes a polyimide resin, an organic amine compound and a resin other than a polyimide resin, and that does not include a polar aprotic solvent, wherein a content of the organic amine compound is 0.001% by weight or higher with respect to a total weight of the porous polyimide film.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a covering provided along a side surface of a body of the image forming apparatus, provided with a rotation shaft on a lower side of the covering, and provided to be openable and closable with respect to the body; an interior section provided on a side of the covering near the body, releasably coupled to the covering by a coupling portion, and provided to be openable and closable with respect to the body; a first limit portion that is attached to the interior section and the body, and that limits a maximum opening angle between the interior section and the body; and a second limit portion that is attached to the covering and the body, and that limits a maximum opening angle between the covering and the body to an angle larger than the maximum opening angle between the interior section and the body.

Abstract: A search apparatus includes a first control unit that, in a case of displaying a search result of content information searched with a selected search word, performs control such that recommended words corresponding to the search word are displayed; a second control unit that, in a case of displaying a search result of content information searched by adding a selected recommended word, which is selected from the recommended words, as a search word, performs control such that the selected recommended word is displayed in a search word display region at which the search words are displayed, and the recommended words corresponding to the selected search word and the added search word are displayed; a reception unit that receives a stored search word, out of the selected search word and the added search word, the stored search word being displayed in a storage state indicating that the stored search word is not used for search of the content information but is capable of being reselected; and a third control unit

Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a semiconductor substrate including: preparing a semiconductor substrate having a front surface on which an epitaxial layer has been formed; and forming a fracture layer on a rear surface of the semiconductor substrate before forming elements on the epitaxial layer.

Abstract: A film forming apparatus includes a reaction vessel that has a film forming target member disposed therein and deposits a film having an element contained in a film forming gas as a constituent element on the film forming target member, utilizing excitation and decomposition of the film forming gas supplied thereto and that has a reaction active region where the film forming gas is capable of being excited and decomposed, and a reaction inactive region that is a region continuous with the reaction active region; a film forming gas supply device that supplies the film forming gas to the reaction inactive region within the reaction vessel; an excitation device that excites and decomposes the film forming gas in the reaction vessel; a holding device that has a holding member which holds the film forming target member, and a drive unit which drives the holding member between the reaction inactive region and the reaction active region and repeatedly moves the film forming target member and which supplies the film

Abstract: A porous membrane includes a porous membrane base containing a polymer compound and having pores interconnected in a thickness direction, and a metal oxide film on inner wall surfaces of the pores.

Abstract: A first ventilation duct line has a first portion having a first sectional area, a second portion having a second sectional area larger than the first sectional area, and a third portion having an inclined inner face connecting the first portion and the second portion to each other. Further, there is a second ventilation duct line having an opening portion positioned on an inner side of the first portion of the first ventilation duct line.

Abstract: A computer including a subdividing section subdividing image data into plural subdivided image data, a control section that causes each of plural cores included a first processing unit to execute in parallel tasks on the subdivided image data, the tasks enabled for processing according to their precedence dependency relationship, a registration section that, if a task is executable by a second processing unit asynchronously with respect to the first processing unit, register a finish detection task to detect completion of the task on the second processing unit in a list after causing a core of the first processing unit to execute an execution instruction task instructing execution of the task on the second processing unit, and a determination section that accesses the list and to determine whether or not there is a completed finish detection task.

Abstract: A resin composition includes a resin (A), a resin (B), and resin particles (C), and has a continuous phase containing the resin (A) and dispersed phases containing the resin (B), in which when a cross section of the resin composition along an extrusion direction in producing the resin composition is observed, an area circle equivalent diameter d80, which is an area circle equivalent diameter corresponding to 80% from a small diameter side in a number cumulative distribution of area circle equivalent diameters of the dispersed phases, is 600 nm or less.

Abstract: A laminated member includes a transparent support substrate containing a resin, and a surface resin layer on the transparent support substrate, in which the surface resin layer contains a cured product of a resin composition containing: an acrylic resin having a hydroxy value of 40 mgKOH/g to 280 mgKOH/g, a polyol having plural hydroxy groups and having a carbon chain having 6 or more carbon atoms in a straight chain linking the hydroxyl groups, and a polyfunctional isocyanate, and in which a ratio [(FI/FS)×100 (%)] of a fluorine atom content [FI] on a surface of the surface resin layer after etching a range of 2 mm square on an outermost surface of the surface resin layer with an argon gas cluster ion gun of 5 kV for 20 minutes to a fluorine atom content [FS] on the outermost surface of the surface resin layer ranges from 2% to 50%.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition section that acquires first information indicating whether or not a target person performs a specific behavior on a target object disposed in plural places and second information indicating a behavior of the target person and including a stay time in the plural places, for each target person, a calculation section that calculates an evaluation value indicating a probability of the target person who has not performed the specific behavior performing the specific behavior on the target object, based on the acquired first information, and an estimation section that extracts data on the target object disposed in the place having a stay time which is smaller than a predetermined value, based on the acquired second information, and estimates an opportunity loss for the target object based on the evaluation value calculated for the target object.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a group generation unit that generates search action groups including plural search actions, based on occurrence time of each of search actions occurring along a time series, and a specifying unit that specifies a search action included in an identical search event, based on a group relevance between the search action groups.

Abstract: A pressure-applying device includes a pressure-applying portion that applies pressure to a pressure-receiving object and a pressing portion that presses the pressure-applying portion toward the pressure-receiving object, the pressing portion having a hardness higher than a hardness of the pressure-applying portion. The pressure-applying portion includes plural projections that project from a back surface of the pressure-applying portion that faces the pressing portion toward a pressing surface of the pressing portion that faces the pressure-applying portion.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image processing block configured to encode each of plural data strings by using the number of common run lengths which are common to the plural data strings as run information of identical pixel values which are consecutive in each of the plural data strings.

Abstract: A roll includes an electrically-conductive shaft; an elastic layer provided on the shaft; and a non-electrically-conductive annular unit that is attached to at least one of ends of the shaft that protrude from end surfaces of the elastic layer in a shaft direction while being in contact with the end surface of the elastic layer. A protruding part that protrudes so as to cut into the end surface of the elastic layer is provided on a part of the annular unit that makes contact with the end surface of the elastic layer, and the protruding part has a thickness smaller than a thickness of the part of the annular unit that makes contact with the end surface of the elastic layer.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a setting unit and a display controller. The setting unit sets setting information to be used when reading image data from a document by a reader. The display controller performs control so that an instruction concerning how to set the document in the reader will be displayed for a user, on the basis of plural items of setting information set by the setting unit.

Abstract: A method at a computer system includes obtaining an electronic document comprising document elements, and injecting into the document in association with one of the document elements one or more hotspot attributes, the hotspot attributes defining attributes of a hotspot that is displayable in conjunction with the document element when the document is displayed, the hotspot attributes being associated with predefined physical gestures and respective document actions; such that the hotspot, when displayed as part of a displayed document, indicates that a viewer of the displayed document can interact with the displayed document using the predefined physical gestures (i) performed at a position that overlap a displayed version of the document in a field of view of a camera system and (ii) captured by the camera system, wherein a physical gesture results in a respective document action being performed on the displayed document.

Abstract: A data acquiring apparatus includes: an acquirer that acquires feature data, as registration data, from an image including an object to be registered, the feature data representing a feature that is distributed in a region of a predetermined size determined based on a position defined by an external shape of the object and a position of printing information that has been printed on the object; and a memory that stores the registration data acquired by the acquirer as data for determining identity of the object.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a receiver and a transmitter. The receiver receives an image associated with attribute information. When detecting a use of the image, the transmitter transmits information related to the use of the image. In a further modification of the invention, the image may be an image corresponding to an object.