Abstract: A processor includes; a first memory configured to store image data including pixel data of a plurality of pixels that are two-dimensionally arranged; a second memory configured to store neighborhood matrix image data including pixel data of a neighborhood matrix; and a format converter that includes (a) a readout circuit configured to read out the image data from the first memory, (b) a padding arithmetic unit configured to receive the read-out image data, select pixel data of the received read-out image data and padding data inserted at periphery of the plurality of pixels in accordance with mask values of a padding mask, and generate the neighborhood matrix image data including the pixel data and the padding data, and (c) a writing circuit configured to write the neighborhood matrix image data to the second memory.

Abstract: A particulate matter detection circuit includes, a negative resistance circuit that couples to a first antenna inserted in a housing accommodating a first filter that filters an exhaust gas, couples to a second antenna inserted in the housing via a matching circuit that performs an impedance matching and a second filter that narrows the frequency band of a passing signal, and oscillates at a resonance frequency of the housing, and a detection circuit that outputs a voltage value corresponding to a signal strength of a radio wave received by a third antenna or the second antenna inserted in the housing. The resonance frequency of the housing varies depending on an amount of matter adhered to the first filter.

Abstract: This disclosure provides a transmission status reporting apparatus and method and communication system. The method includes: obtaining information on transmission rate difference and/or information on scheduling latency difference between a plurality of radio links; the information on transmission rate difference is obtained based on information on transmission statuses of radio links successfully transmitting PDCP layer data packets, and the information on scheduling latency difference is obtained based on information on transmission statuses of radio links transmitting RRC layer data packets. Hence, an accurate reference basis may be provided for a transmitting device in determining whether a current network is suitable to performing duplication transmission, gains and losses between wasted radio resources and reduced latency in the multi-connection duplication transmission mode may be better weighted, and a more suitable data transmission mode or flow control mode may be configured.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process includes determining an information transmission path between two devices with a correlation in use status of resources based on system configuration information and use resource information; generating, for each of a plurality of software, an influence propagation model in which a direction from a first device to a second device is set as an influence propagation direction, when a co-occurrence probability that the second device outputs a message within a certain time after the first device outputs a message through execution of the software is equal to or greater than a threshold, based on a message log; acquiring failure information indicating a failed device; specifying an influenced device reached by tracing the information transmission path from the failed device in an influence propagation direction; and outputting information indicating the influenced device.

Abstract: An initializable array has a plurality of blocks each having an address word and a data word, a boundary indicative of a two-division position where the plurality of blocks is divided into two divided areas and an initial value for each element of the array is stored, the boundary is a position where a ratio for the number of unwritten blocks in a first area and the number of written blocks in a second area is an integer ratio. An array control program causes a computer to execute shifting the boundary to extend the first area and generating an initialized written block in the first area; in a case where a write destination block is an unwritten block in the second area, forming a link between the initialized written block in the first area and the write destination block; and writing a write value to the write destination block.

Abstract: An information processing method executed by an information processing apparatus, includes receiving a keyword; extracting one or more experts related to a document including the keyword from document information, the document information including a plurality of documents registered within a period of time including a plurality of periods and information on an expert related to each of the plurality of documents; determining a score in each period based on a ratio of a number of registered documents related to the keyword to a number of all registered documents and a coefficient increased in value as the period becomes newer, with respect to each of the one or more experts; determining an expert value related to the keyword for each of the one or more experts by adding together the score in each period; and ranking each of the one or more experts based on comparison of the expert value.

Abstract: A photoexcitation material includes: a wurtzite type solid solution crystal containing t gallium, zinc, nitrogen and oxygen, wherein a peak (A) of an existence ratio of nitrogen or oxygen which is a first adjacent atom of the gallium or zinc and a peak (B) of an existence ratio of gallium or zinc which is a second adjacent atom of the gallium or zinc satisfy a relational expression of A>B in a relationship between a distance and the existence ratio of the adjacent atom of the gallium or zinc, the relationship being obtained from an extended X-ray absorption fine structure analysis.

Abstract: A crystal oscillator device is disclosed. The crystal oscillator device includes a casing; a crystal piece; a pair of excitation electrodes; a transmission antenna electrically coupled to one of the excitation electrodes; a reception antenna configured to receive a radio wave from the transmission antenna; and an alarm generator configured to generate an alarm based on a signal whose amplitude is equal to or less than a reference value, the signal being received by the reception antenna.

Abstract: A power distribution management apparatus includes an electrical connection storage unit, a search unit, and an output unit. The electrical connection storage unit is configured to store electrical connection information in which a combination of a plurality of junctions that describes which a plurality of facilities of a power distribution system are electrically connected to each other and a facility determined based on the combination are associated. The search unit is configured to search a facility corresponding to the combination while investigating an uninvestigated junction among the plurality of junctions contained in the combination starting from a predetermined junction with reference to the electrical connection information stored in the electrical connection storage unit. The output unit is configured to output facility information obtained from the combination where the investigation is performed and a result of the search after the investigation and the search are performed.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus obtains start time information indicating a plurality of start times that are calculated when a target program is executed. The target program includes a loop that repeats a process using a plurality of functions. The information processing apparatus obtains a plurality of sampling logs that are generated by intermittent sampling. The information processing apparatus converts each sampling time into a time difference from the immediately preceding start time. The information processing apparatus classifies the plurality of sampling logs into a plurality of time difference segments, and counts, for each of the time difference segments, the number of times execution of each of the plurality of functions is detected. The information processing apparatus displays time-series information indicating a corresponding relationship between the plurality of time difference segments and the functions that are executed, based on the counted number of times.

Abstract: An apparatus for processing data includes a processor configured to acquire size information on a size of first result data from a first node. The first result data is generated in first distributed processing executed by the first node on a first part of first input data for the first distributed processing executed by a plurality of nodes. The processor is configured to acquire data arrangement information for second distributed processing executed by the plurality of nodes. The processor is configured to generate a data arrangement instruction on basis of the size information and the data arrangement information. The data arrangement instruction defines an arrangement pattern of second result data generated in the first distributed processing executed by the plurality of nodes and stored in the plurality of nodes as the second input data. The processor is configured to transmit the data arrangement instruction to the plurality of nodes.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores a determination program that causes a communication device to execute a process including transmitting a check packet to the communication destination device, when the communication device receives a first response packet, determining whether or not header information of a second response packet is included in data of the first response packet, a communication path corresponding to the first response packet and a communication path corresponding to the second response packet being different each other, and determining that a failure occurs in the communication path corresponding to the second response packet when the header information of a second response packet is included in data of the first response packet and when the communication device does not receive the second response packet within a predetermined time from transmitting the check packet.

Abstract: A method to change a behavior of a user includes receiving state data indicative of a current state of a user. The method includes receiving sensor data generated by one or more sensors, the sensor data indicative of one or more behaviors of the user. The method includes receiving payment from the user to purchase a virtual attribute, at least a portion of the payment to be returned to the user responsive to an improvement to the one or more behaviors over an earn-back time period. The method includes determining a behavior-based virtual attribute of the user based on the sensor data. The method includes estimating a future state of the user from the current state of the user, the behavior-based virtual attribute, and the purchased virtual attribute. The method includes generating graphical data including a visualization of the future state of the user to display to the user.

Abstract: A relay apparatus includes a memory and a processor coupled with the memory. The processor is configured to determine whether a frame received from a first device is to be discarded. The frame includes first information set at a first communication layer and second information set at a second communication layer different from the first communication layer. The processor is configured to transmit the frame to a second device upon determining that the frame is not to be discarded. The second device is set as a destination in the first information. The processor is configured to extract third information from the second information upon determining that the frame is to be discarded. The processor is configured to output the third information.

Abstract: There is provided a transmitter configured to transmit a symbol in a constellation, the symbol corresponding to data to be transmitted, the transmitter including a memory in which key information for generating pseudo random numbers are stored, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to generate a pseudo random number every the symbol, select data patterns every data areas in which information of types of a data pattern are arranged, based on the pseudo random number, so that a distance between the data patterns to be selected is more than a predetermined value on a plane on which the data areas are continuously arranged every a horizontal axis and a vertical axis of the constellation, and determine the symbol to be transmitted, based on the selected data patterns according to a position of a data pattern corresponding to the data to be transmitted in the constellation.

Abstract: A power supply board includes: a first board including a top surface on which a processor is capable of being mounted, a bottom surface located on an opposite side of the top surface, and a plurality of first through holes and a plurality of second through holes capable of being electrically connected with the processor by penetrating through the first board from the top surface to the bottom surface; a second board arranged at a position distant from the bottom surface of the first board and provided with a power supply device; a first conductor mounted on the bottom surface of the first board and electrically connects the plurality of first through holes and the power supply device, and a second conductor mounted on the bottom surface of the first board and electrically connects the plurality of second through holes and the power supply device.

Abstract: A user apparatus configured to request and receive data divided into chunks from a content source over a network, the apparatus comprising: a network module configured to establish a secure path to the content source and to establish an unsecure path to the content source; a determination module configured to determine that a next chunk of data is required and to determine whether the next chunk of data is protected; and a request module configured to request and receive the next chunk of data, wherein the next chunk of data is requested and received via the unsecure path if or when the next chunk of data is unprotected.

Abstract: A magnetic body simulation device includes a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to decide a search section for searching a rotational coefficient of each magnetization vector in a plurality of elements included in a magnetic body, in a process of calculating the each rotational coefficient in a state in which magnetic energy of the magnetic body is minimized, to determine whether or not a first condition is satisfied in which a width of the decided search section is less than or equal to a certain length, and a first rotational coefficient decided by a predetermined method is included in the search section, and to calculate, when the first condition is satisfied, a static magnetic field vector corresponding to the first rotational coefficient by linear interpolation based on static magnetic field vectors at both ends of the search section.

Abstract: Computers are connected via multidimensional mesh or torus connection in a network. In response to a request for executing maintenance processing on computers in the network, an apparatus detects execution-scheduled jobs to be executed after an execution start time of the maintenance processing, based on execution-scheduled start times of jobs to be executed by the computers. The apparatus calculates, for each execution-scheduled job, a characteristic value of an axial length of an execution-scheduled job area in each axial direction of multidimensional axes in the network, where the execution-scheduled job area includes a group of computers to execute the each execution-scheduled job. The apparatus determines a maintenance area in the network on which the maintenance processing is to be executed, based on the characteristic values of the axial lengths of the execution-scheduled job areas, and executes the maintenance processing on computers in the maintenance area.

Abstract: A compound semiconductor device includes: a compound semiconductor area in which a compound semiconductor plug is embedded and formed; and an ohmic electrode provided on the compound semiconductor plug, wherein the compound semiconductor plug includes, in a side surface portion that is as an interface with the compound semiconductor area, a high concentration dopant layer containing a dopant whose concentration is higher than that of other portions.