Abstract: An imaging support device includes a detection portion that, by operating a revolution mechanism that causes an imaging apparatus including a variable magnification mechanism to revolve, detects a subject image position of a target subject image showing a target subject in a captured image obtained by capturing an imaging region including the target subject by the imaging apparatus, and a control portion that perform a registration control of setting the subject image position detected by the detection portion to a specific position in the captured image for a captured image obtained by imaging performed by the imaging apparatus in accordance with changing of magnification to a telephoto side by the variable magnification mechanism.

Abstract: Provided is a medical image processing apparatus that generates a color image by using one type of specific color image obtained by imaging a subject with specific monochromatic light. The medical image processing apparatus (10) includes an image acquisition unit (medical image acquisition unit (11)) that acquires a specific color image (56) obtained by imaging a subject with specific monochromatic light, and a color image generation unit (12) that generates a color image from the specific color image by assigning the specific color image (56) to a plurality of color channels and adjusting a balance of each of the color channels.

Abstract: A processor acquires a radiographic image including a human body and a surgical tool image which indicates a surgical tool and is acquired by a method other than radiography. The processor combines the surgical tool image with the radiographic image to generate a training image for training a discriminator that discriminates a region of the surgical tool in a target image in a case in which the target image is input.

Abstract: Provided are a content provision device, a content provision method, a program, and a recording medium capable of suppressing unpermitted obtaining of content by a simple process. In the present invention, a processor executes processing of acquiring identification information of a device used by the user to use the content and transmitting an image based on the identification information to the user, processing of receiving first data, which is generated by reading the image by a reading device of the user, and second data for specifying the identification information from the reading device, and processing of providing the content to the user in a case in which the identification information specified from the image indicated by the first data and the identification information specified from the second data match.

Abstract: A document creation support apparatus comprising at least one processor, wherein the processor is configured to: acquire an image and a character string related to the image; extract at least one feature region included in the image; specify a specific region that is a region corresponding to a phrase included in the character string, in the feature region; and present information for supporting creation of a document including the character string based on a result of the specifying.

Abstract: A processing device includes: a processor configured to acquire a distance from a reference position on a movement path of an endoscope to a distal end of the endoscope that is moved along the movement path, acquire an elapsed time from a start of an examination using the endoscope, acquire event information that is information on an event related to the examination in a case where the event has occurred, and perform control to store the distance, the elapsed time, and the event information in association with each other.

Abstract: A drive waveform generated by a processor includes, within one drive period, a jetting pulse group for jetting a liquid droplet from a nozzle, and a voltage swing for preventing the liquid droplet from being jetted from the nozzle, three or more voltage swings are disposed after a first jetting pulse which is a last jetting pulse in the jetting pulse group, a start end of a first voltage swing immediately after the first jetting pulse is disposed at a position separated from a start end of the first jetting pulse by about a resonance pulse period, and a start end of a second voltage swing immediately after the first voltage swing is disposed at a position separated from the start end of the first voltage swing by about a resonance pulse width.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a processor; a first electronic circuit that outputs a pulse width modulation signal; a low-pass filter circuit that outputs a voltage based on the pulse width modulation signal; a second electronic circuit that outputs an analog signal by using the output voltage of the low-pass filter circuit; and a third electronic circuit that converts the analog signal into a digital signal, and the processor sets a frequency of the pulse width modulation signal to a frequency at which a noise component included in the digital signal is reduced in relation to a sampling frequency of the third electronic circuit.

Abstract: Provided herein are methods for producing quiescent cardiac fibroblast cells from pluripotent stem cells. Further provided herein are microtissue compositions comprising the cardiac fibroblast cells with endothelial cells and cardiomyocytes.

Abstract: Provided are an acoustic matching layer material containing a curing reaction product obtained by reacting an epoxy resin (A) having an epoxy equivalent weight of 140 or less with at least one of a curing agent (B-1) which is a monomer or a curing catalyst (B-2), and metal particles (C) having a density of 4.5 g/cm3 or more and less than 10 g/cm3 at 20° C., in which a content of particles (D) having a density of less than 4.5 g/cm3 at 20° C. is less than 5% by mass; an acoustic matching sheet; a composition for an acoustic matching layer material; an acoustic wave probe; an acoustic wave measurement apparatus; and a manufacturing method of an acoustic wave probe.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a resin membrane filter having excellent separation accuracy and excellent toughness, and a manufacturing method of the resin membrane filter. The resin membrane filter of the present invention includes a first main surface, a second main surface, and a plurality of through-holes, in which, in the through-hole, in a case where an average area of an opening portion at a position A which is located at a distance of 10% of a thickness of the resin membrane filter from the first main surface is denoted as Sva and an average area of an opening portion at a position B which is located at a distance of 90% of the thickness of the resin membrane filter from the first main surface is denoted as Svb, 0.8?Sva/Svb?1.25, a number ratio Ra of through-holes in which an area of the opening portion at the position A is more than 1.25 times Sva is 3.0% or less, and a number ratio Rb of through-holes in which an area of the opening portion at the position B is more than 1.

Abstract: An optical film that, when being used in an image display device, it is possible to suppress a change in redness with respect to an original image in images reflected in surroundings, a manufacturing method of a light absorption anisotropic layer, and an image display device. The optical film includes a light absorption anisotropic layer which contains a liquid crystalline compound and a dichroic substance, in which an angle ? between a transmittance central axis of the light absorption anisotropic layer and a normal direction of a surface of the light absorption anisotropic layer is 0° or more and 45° or less, and a haze value of the optical film is more than 1% and 20% or less.

Abstract: A push wave transmission unit transmits a push wave to a biological tissue of a subject. A tracking wave transmission/reception unit transmits a tracking wave to the biological tissue and receives a reflected ultrasound wave reflected by the biological tissue. An elasticity analysis unit measures a propagation velocity of a shear wave generated in the biological tissue by the push wave and measures an elastic property of the biological tissue based on the propagation velocity, and measures the propagation velocity of the shear wave based on a measurement signal obtained by the reflected ultrasound wave received by the tracking wave transmission/reception unit. A controller determines whether to re-measure the elastic property according to an unnecessary component included in the measurement signal. When determining to re-measure the elastic property, the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus re-measures the elastic property by changing an acoustic property of the push wave according to the unnecessary component.

Abstract: A processing device includes: a processor configured to acquire a distance from a reference position on a movement path of an endoscope to a distal end of the endoscope that is moved along the movement path, and determine an insertion state of the endoscope into a subject based on a captured image captured by the endoscope and the distance.

Abstract: Provided are an X-ray CT apparatus and a tomographic image generation method capable of reducing a difference in a sum of weights for each projection angle in a tomographic image. There is provided an X-ray CT apparatus including: a projection data acquisition unit configured to acquire projection data of a subject; a reconstruction weight calculation unit configured to calculate a reconstruction weight based on the projection data; and an image generation unit configured to generate a tomographic image while weighting the projection data with the reconstruction weight, in which the reconstruction weight calculation unit is configured to calculate a reconstruction weight, which includes a reliability weight indicating a degree of reliability of the projection data, through standardization using a sum of weight coefficients obtained for each projection angle.

Abstract: A lighting device that can switch between intensity distributions of emitted light with a simple configuration. The lighting device includes a light source, a polarization controller, and a polarizing plate, in which the polarization controller switches light emitted from the light source between light components having two or more different polarization states to be incident into the polarizing plate, and the polarizing plate functions as a diffraction grating that has two or more regions having different polarization states of transmitted light in an in-plane direction and where one or more regions among the regions are periodically disposed.

Abstract: A light absorption anisotropic layer which has high contrast and can suppress hue change of an image reflected by surroundings relative to an original image when used in a viewing angle control system, an optical film using the light absorption anisotropic layer, a viewing angle control system, and an image display device. The light absorption anisotropic layer is formed of a liquid crystal composition containing a liquid crystalline compound, a dichroic substance, and an alignment agent. The liquid crystalline compound is in a liquid crystal state of a smectic phase, a content of the dichroic substance is 5.0% by mass or more with respect to a total solid content mass of the liquid crystal composition, and an angle ? between a transmittance central axis of the light absorption anisotropic layer and a normal direction of a surface of the light absorption anisotropic layer is between 0° and 45°.

Abstract: There is provided a compound represented by General Formula (I), a composition containing the compound represented by General Formula (I), a cured product, an optically anisotropic body, an optical element, and a light guide element. P1 and P2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, —CN, —NCS, or a polymerizable group. However, at least one of P1 or P2 represents a polymerizable group. Sp1 and Sp2 each independently represent a specific group. A1, A2, A3, and A4 each independently represent an aromatic hydrocarbon ring group or aromatic heterocyclic group which may have a specific substituent. Z1 and Z2 each independently represent a specific linking group or a single bond. B1 represents a group represented by a specific formula. n1 and n2 each independently represent an integer of 0 to 2.

Abstract: An information processing system includes an information processing apparatus and multiple printers, the printers including a first printer and a printer group including at least one printer, the information processing apparatus including a processor configured to: acquire as a first measurement value a measurement value of color of a first print product that the first printer has printed in response to a first print instruction; acquire as a second measurement value a measurement value of color of the first print product that a second printer included in the printer group has printed in response to the first print instruction; and transmit to the second printer a first difference between the first measurement value and the second measurement value. Using a set value calculated in accordance with the first difference, the second printer prints a second print product in response to a second print instruction that applies settings calculated based on the first difference.

Abstract: A light absorption anisotropic layer which has a high S/N ratio for generating polarized light with respect to rays in an infrared wavelength region, is lightweight, and has excellent handleability, a laminate, and a sensor system including the light absorption anisotropic layer or the laminate. The light absorption anisotropic layer contains a dichroic coloring agent having a maximal absorption at a wavelength of 700 to 1500 nm, in which an average absorbance at a wavelength of 850 nm is 0.24 to 0.50 and a thickness is 5 ?m or less.