Abstract: An area identifying apparatus and method and a communication system. The area identifying method includes: receiving, by a UE, area identification information used for identifying an area transmitted by a base station; comparing the received area identification information with area identification information currently stored in the UE; and determining whether an area where the UE is located is changed according to a result of comparison. Hence, whether the area where the UE is located is changed or which area the UE is located may be efficiently identified.

Abstract: Method causing computer to execute steps including: performing molecular dynamic calculation in the presence of water molecules using target molecule and probe molecules around the target in coordinate space with unnatural repulsive force being added between the probes; selecting probe molecule stably bound with the target among the probes using result of the molecular dynamic calculation; performing molecular dynamic calculation in the presence of water molecules using the target, the selected probe, and other probe molecules with no unnatural repulsive force being added between the selected probe and other probes [second calculation step]; selecting probe stably bound with the target among other probes using result of the molecular dynamic calculation [second selection step]; and determining binding site of the target using the probes selected through selection steps performed two or more times after performing the second calculation step and second selection step once or two or more times.

Abstract: A method for generating input values to a neural network is disclosed. The method includes: classifying, when a document is accepted, each of a plurality of items included in the accepted document into one of a plurality of groups by referring to a storage in which information indicative of a relationship between the plurality of items included in the document is stored; and generating, for each of the plurality of groups, the input values to the neural network based on a value or values individually associated with one or more items classified in the group.

Abstract: A communication apparatus, including: a controller configured to control to map an uplink control information (UCI) onto a radio resource wherein one time-domain symbol of a subframe where the UCI is located carries an uplink reference signal; and a transmitter configured to transmit the UCI via a Physical Channel, wherein, the controller control to map a first UCI onto Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, in a mapping manner of time domain first, and wherein, when the sub-frame where the UCI is located contains one uplink reference signal, the OFDM symbols are close to the uplink reference signal.

Abstract: An estimation apparatus is configured to obtain shape information containing information about multiple line segments that depict a shape of an object; detect multiple feature lines in an image of the object captured by an imaging apparatus; receive a first instruction for associating a feature line selected from the multiple feature lines with a line segment selected from the multiple line segments and a second instruction for associating two points selected in the image with two end points selected from end points of the multiple line segments; generate a first line segment connecting the two points and a second line segment connecting the two end points; and estimate a position and orientation of the imaging apparatus in three-dimensional space by using a combination of the selected feature line and the selected line segment and a combination of the first line segment and the second line segment.

Abstract: A distance measuring device is configured to: obtain a first distance image acquired from a time of flight (TOF) sensor and a polarized image generated by calculating a degree of polarization for each pixel based on a plurality of images acquired from a plurality of cameras that receives linearly polarized light with different polarization directions; and execute a process for calculating reliability according to a difference between a time of measuring a distance and a time of photographing the plurality of images for each pixel of the first distance image, and execute a process for calculating a distance from the TOF sensor to a subject for each pixel using a second distance image calculated by weighting the reliability to a distance of each pixel of the first distance image, and a third distance image calculated by estimating a distance of each pixel based on the polarized image.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor that receives a first log from a first transmission apparatus. The processor determines target log information among plural pieces of log information included in the first log. The target log information is one of first pieces of log information having an occurrence frequency higher than an occurrence frequency of other pieces of log information. The processor assigns an identifier to the target log information. The processor stores log management information indicating a correspondence among the target log information, the identifier, and a first path received together with the first log and indicating a storage location in which the first log is stored. The processor transmits the log management information to a second log transmission apparatus corresponding to the first path. The processor receives, from the second log transmission apparatus, a log in which the target log information is converted into the identifier.

Abstract: A radio communication method includes: by a radio terminal device, generating position indicating signals that are different between blocks of radio resources each of which is an allocation unit of data; mapping the position indicating signals generated and transmission data to the blocks; and transmitting a signal including the blocks; by a base station device, receiving the signal including the blocks of the radio resources; evaluating continuity of the blocks, based on the position indicating signals mapped to the blocks; and demodulating data mapped to the blocks for each radio terminal device, based on an evaluation result.

Abstract: An information delivery system includes a server apparatus and a plurality of information processing apparatuses that deliver an application to a terminal device, wherein the server apparatus specifies the terminal device to which the application is delivered in accordance with a positional relationship between a first information processing apparatus of the plurality of information processing apparatuses and the terminal device, and makes a delivery request of the application that is to be delivered to the specified terminal device to another information processing apparatus that differs from the first information processing apparatus of the plurality of information processing apparatuses based on a load of delivery of the application of the plurality of information processing apparatuses, and wherein the plurality of information processing apparatuses deliver the application to the terminal device in accordance with the delivery request when receiving the delivery request from the server apparatus.

Abstract: An optical device includes lower cladding layer formed of an amorphous insulator on a substrate; a first cladding region, an active region, and a second cladding region formed on the lower cladding layer, one of the first cladding region and the second cladding region being formed on a monocrystal; an upper cladding layer formed of an insulator on the active region; a first electrode connected with the first cladding region; and a second electrode connected with the second cladding region.

Abstract: An information indication apparatus and method and a communication system. The information indication method includes: transmitting a plurality of physical broadcast channels and a plurality of synchronization signals at a plurality of time units or a plurality of time instances within a time interval; wherein, each of the physical broadcast channels carries timing information of the time interval. Hence, even a plurality of physical broadcast channels and a plurality of synchronization signals are transmitted at a plurality of time units or a plurality of time instances within a time interval, the timing information of the time interval may be obtained with a simple structure and operation.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a storing device and a processor. The storing device stores associated segment information indicative of two or more display unit segments having common data forming display contents among a plurality of display unit segments included in a screen of the client terminal. The processor instructs, when an update occurs on the data forming the display contents on a first display unit segment among the plurality of display unit segments, the client terminal to update data forming the display contents to be displayed on a second display unit segment associated with the first display unit segment among the plurality of display unit segments by referring to the associated segment information stored in the storing device.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor assigns priority levels to respective logics arranged in a chain graph. Each logic is activated by an input event to generate an output event. The processor allocates tokens to the logics based on the priority levels. The processor estimates, for each of the logics, a total number of generated output events to obtain an expected amount of tokens corresponding to the total number. The processor compares, for each of the logics, the expected amount of tokens to an amount of the allocated tokens to determine whether each of the logics has a surplus or a shortage in the allocated tokens. The processor adjusts a frequency of activating each of logics having the shortage. The processor calculates a total amount of the surplus. The processor reallocates the total amount of the surplus to the logics having the shortage.

Abstract: A screen display controller includes a setting processor, a first display processor, and a second display processor. The setting processor sets a filtering condition for a plurality records, the filtering condition narrowing one or more display target records. The first display processor displays, on a display device, the display target records for which the filtering condition is set by the setting processor. The second display processor displays, when a pointer displayed on the screen of the display is located inside a particular area, a content of the filtering condition set by the setting processor on a display device.

Abstract: An arithmetic processing device includes arithmetic processing units, each having a calculator unit; a scheduler that controls a push instruction to write data to a register file in one of the arithmetic processing units and a pull instruction to read data from the register file; a pull request bus to which the scheduler outputs a pull request and are connected to the arithmetic processing units; a push request bus to which the scheduler outputs a push request and are connected to the arithmetic processing units; and a pull data bus that inputs, into the scheduler, pull data read from the register file in response to the pull request. The arithmetic processing unit includes a pull data turn-back bus that propagates the pull data read from the register file of the home calculator unit to the pull data bus.

Abstract: A voice processing apparatus detects, based on at least one of a first voice signal generated by a first voice input unit and a second voice signal generated by a second voice input unit, start timing of utterance by any one of a plurality of speakers; determines, based on at least one of the first voice signal and the second voice signal on and after the detected start timing of utterance, whether or not to modify the start timing of utterance; identifies, based on the first voice signal and the second voice signal on and after the modified start timing of utterance, a speaker who has uttered out of the plurality of speakers; and executes a process in accordance with the identified speaker on at least one of the first voice signal and the second voice signal on and after the modified start timing of utterance.

Abstract: An extraction apparatus generates a plurality of Betti series based on Betti numbers obtained by performing a persistent homology transform on a plurality of pseudo-attractors generated from a plurality of pieces of time-series data. The extraction apparatus generates a plurality of transformed Betti series in which a region with a larger radius at the time of generating the Betti numbers is weighted more than a region with a smaller radius from the plurality of Betti series. The extraction apparatus extracts abnormality candidates from the plurality of pieces of time-series data based on the Betti number in the plurality of transformed Betti series.

Abstract: A decision method for specifying an association relationship between attributes included in different documents is disclosed. The method includes: accepting a first attribute relating to items included in a first document and a second attribute relating to items included in a second document; specifying a first item associated with the accepted first attribute and a second item associated with the accepted second attribute; specifying a third item having a specific relationship to the specified first item and a fourth item having a specific relationship to the specified second item; and deciding, based on consistency between the specified third item and the specified fourth item, whether or not the first attribute is associated with the second attribute.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to calculate a surplus resource amount which is an amount of usable unused resources of a computer. The usable unused resources are unused resources usable by one or more users who execute information processing using resources of the computer. The processor is configured to determine an allocated resource amount to be allocated to a first user among the one or more users based on the surplus resource amount and a situation of using the resources by the one or more users.

Abstract: A base station apparatus includes: first processor circuitry that generates a first signal indicating first candidates for a transmission timing, wherein the first candidates are selected from a second candidates; second processor circuitry that generates a second signal specifying one transmission timing from the first candidates for the transmission timing indicated by the first signal; and a transmitter that transmits the first signal and the second signal.