Abstract: A surface-emitting type semiconductor laser includes a substrate, and a structure that includes a first multilayer-film reflective mirror of a first conductivity type formed on the substrate, an active layer formed on the first multilayer-film reflective mirror, and a second multilayer-film reflective mirror of a second conductivity type that is formed on the active layer and includes a current confinement layer, and that is a structure in which a shape of an aperture formed in the current confinement layer to represent a part not subjected to oxide confinement is a shape not including an axially symmetrical or point symmetrical part.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: detect a type of a user who uses an application; and based on the type that has been detected, control whether to display or hide an instruction section for the application when a selection screen for the application is displayed, the instruction section being used to instruct that information regarding functionality of the application be displayed.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: acquire a Web page; acquire input information that is information input by a user; and generate a thumbnail image for the acquired Web page using the acquired input information.

Abstract: A processing circuit includes a calculation circuit that is sequentially connected, the calculation circuit including plural data holding units that hold plural pieces of data for each piece of data and one data calculation unit that is common to each of the data holding units and performs a predetermined calculation on each piece of data held in the data holding unit, in which a calculation result of the calculation circuit of a preceding stage is input to the data holding unit in the calculation circuit of a succeeding stage associated with data which is a calculation target in the calculation circuit of the preceding stage, and while the calculation circuit of the preceding stage performs the predetermined calculation on any piece of data, the calculation circuit of the succeeding stage performs the predetermined calculation on a calculation result obtained from another piece of data different from the data, which is the calculation target in the calculation circuit of the preceding stage, to perform the p

Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor contains a conductive substrate, and a lamination type photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive substrate and including a charge generation layer and a charge transport layer, in which the charge transport layer contains a charge transport material, at least one of a polyester resin or a polycarbonate resin that has a constitutional unit containing biphenyl represented by Formula (1), and an aromatic dicarboxylic acid represented by Formula (2), in Formula (1), j represents an integer of 0 or greater and 4 or less, j pieces of R11's each independently represent a methyl group or an ethyl group, k represents an integer of 0 or greater and 4 or less, and k pieces of R12's each independently represent a methyl group or an ethyl group, in Formula (2), p represents an integer of 0 or greater and 4 or less, p pieces of R21's each independently represent a methyl group or an ethyl group, q represents an integer of 0 or greater and 4 or less, q pieces of R22's each in

Abstract: An information processing apparatus, method and non-transitory computer readable medium are provided. The information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to: align and display a first conversation screen for making a conversation with a first conversation partner, and a second conversation screen for making a conversation with a second conversation partner to a user; when a gesture movement performed toward the second conversation screen is received from a message transmitted by a person other than the user, included in the first conversation screen, comprising: in response to the gesture movement ending on the second conversation screen, copy a message transmitted by the person other than the user as a message with the user as a transmitter and the second conversation partner as a destination, and in response to the gesture movement not ending on the second conversation screen, not copy the messages transmitted by the person other than the user.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to, if a facility that is to be reserved for use is determined to have a fault in a communication function in view of a communication status with outside, perform a restore operation on the facility to restore the communication function.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor connected to a programmable logic circuit. The processor is configured to: upon initialization, reconfigure a first region of the programmable logic circuit as a first memory that stores data; reconfigure a second region different from the first region of the programmable logic circuit as a first arithmetic circuit that uses the first memory; and, in a case where the second region reconfigured as the first arithmetic circuit is reconfigured as a second arithmetic circuit different from the first arithmetic circuit, allow the second arithmetic circuit to use the first memory.

Abstract: A file sharing system includes one or plural processors, in which the one or plural processors are configured to: acquire conference time information indicating time at which a remote conference is conducted; acquire participant information that is information related to a plurality of participants who participate in the remote conference; specify a usage file that is used in the remote conference based on the conference time information; and share a file including at least the usage file with each of the plurality of participants.

Abstract: An information processing system includes one or plural processors configured to, in a case where an operation of designating a first link object is performed, perform a control of displaying annotation information of a first web page associated with the first link object in a superimposed manner on the first web page, and in a case where an operation of designating a second link object is performed, perform a control of displaying annotation information of a second web page associated with the second link object in a superimposed manner on the second web page, in which information for accessing the first web page is identical to information for accessing the second web page.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: generate multiple two-dimensional (2D) projection images from three-dimensional (3D) model data that displays product manufacturing information about a shape of a product, the 2D projection images obtained through projection of the product in multiple directions; and generate 2D drawing data where the 2D projection images are placed, in a manner that satisfies a preset layout rule, on multiple sheet regions of a number and of a sheet size determined in accordance with the preset layout rule.

Abstract: A post-processing device includes: a unit that performs post-processing; a guide unit that guides the unit to a position at which the unit performs the post-processing, and has a first guide portion extending in a width direction of a medium, a second guide portion that is disposed at an end portion of the first guide portion, is inclined with respect to the width direction of the medium, and guides the unit to a corner of the medium, a third guide portion that is disposed at the end portion of the first guide portion and branches off from the second guide portion to extend, and a fourth guide portion that connects the second guide portion to the third guide portion; and a branching unit that is disposed at a portion at which the second guide portion and the third guide portion branch off from each other, guides the unit from the first guide portion toward the second guide portion, and guides the unit from the third guide portion toward the first guide portion.

Abstract: According to an aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a cleaning device including: an elastic plate-shaped cleaning unit that has a tip portion disposed in contact with a surface of an object-to-be-cleaned which moves in a predetermined direction, is provided to be inclined in a direction facing a moving direction of the object-to-be-cleaned, and cleans hot-melt powder remaining on the object-to-be-cleaned; a facing unit that is disposed in contact with a back surface side of the object-to-be-cleaned and is provided to face the cleaning unit across the object-to-be-cleaned; and a heating unit that heats a contact portion of the cleaning unit to a temperature lower than a softening point of the powder by heating the facing unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: calculate a fee as compensation for a product or service; and adjust, if settlement by a first settlement option selected initially is insufficient to settle a full amount of the calculated fee, a monetary amount to be settled by the first settlement option and a monetary amount to be settled by a second settlement option different from the first settlement option, so that the monetary amount to be settled by the second settlement option is in units acceptable for settlement by the second settlement option.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a transfer cylinder that rotates; a rotating member that is coaxial with the transfer cylinder and rotates integrally with the transfer cylinder; a circulating member that is provided with a holding part that holds a front end portion of a recording medium, is suspended around the rotating member, and transports the recording medium by circulating as the rotating member rotates; and a transfer unit that has a transfer belt that sandwiches the recording medium transported by the circulating member at a nip position together with the transfer cylinder so that an image is transferred onto the recording medium. The nip position is located on one side relative to a center of the transfer unit in a horizontal direction when viewed from an axial direction of the rotating member, and a center of mass of the transfer unit is located on a nip position side relative to the center in the horizontal direction.

Abstract: An imaging processing device includes a processor. The processor performs processing of acquiring a captured image which is captured in a state where a light source emits light, extracting an overexposed portion which occurs in the captured image due to the light emission of the light source and which has a predetermined pixel value or more, and setting a region located in an area, which does not overlap with the extracted overexposed portion in the captured image, as a region of a collation target to be collated with a predetermined reference image.

Abstract: A color adjustment apparatus includes a processor configured to: acquire desired color measurement value information about a target display by inputting a medium color measurement value of a target printing medium and spectral distribution characteristics of a specific color on the target display to a color measurement value calculation model that has been trained, using learning data including a combination of a medium color measurement value obtained by measuring a specific color on a printing medium, display color measurement value information indicating a display color measurement value obtained by measuring the specific color on a display that has been adjusted to be displayed as a color equivalent to the specific color on the printing medium, and spectral distribution characteristics of the specific color on the display before the adjustment is performed, based on the medium color measurement value of the printing medium and the spectral distribution characteristics of the display, to output the desired

Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a base that extends in one direction and that is formed of a metal block; plural light emitters that are disposed on a front surface side of the base so as to be displaced from each other in the one direction and in each of which plural light sources that are arranged in the one direction are supported by a support that extends in the one direction; and a protective member that is provided at an end portion of the base in a direction intersecting the one direction, that is disposed on a lateral side of the plural light emitters so as to extend in the one direction, and that protects the plural light emitters from outside.

Abstract: A programmable logic circuit device includes: a processor; and plural reconfiguration regions each including a circuit configured by change of connection between elements, wherein the processor is configured to: receive designation of a processing group including a series of plural kinds of processing; acquire management data decided for each processing group, the management data designating plural pieces of reconfiguration data each designating connection between elements in a corresponding one of the plural reconfiguration regions so that the designated processing group is performed; acquire the plural pieces of reconfiguration data designated by the acquired management data; change connection between elements in the plural reconfiguration regions in accordance with the designation by the acquired plural pieces of reconfiguration data; and when connection between elements is changed in accordance with designation by the plural pieces of reconfiguration data, in a case where designation by at least one of th

Abstract: A locking mechanism includes a first member that is provided on one side to lock and is rotated about a rotating shaft, a second member that is provided on the other side to lock and comes into contact with the first member to rotate the first member, a rotation applying member that further applies a rotational force to the first member rotated by the second member, a restriction portion that restricts movement of the first member to be rotated in a direction in which the first member is released from a locked state, and an elastic portion that allows the first member and the restriction portion to be in elastic contact with each other and allows the first member and the restriction portion to start to be in elastic contact with each other before the first member rotated by the second member is further rotated by the rotation applying member in a release direction which is the direction in which the first member is released from the locked state.