Abstract: In an optical/electrical composite connector including a male connector and a female connector, the male connector includes a ferrule provided at an end portion of an optical fiber on a side of the male connector which is connected to the female connector, and an electrode terminal. The female connector includes a core to transmit an optical signal, a cladding to cover the core, an electric wiring provided on an outer wall surface of the cladding, a sleeve in which the ferrule is fitted, the sleeve provided at an end portion of the cladding on a side of the female connector which is connected to the male connector, and a lens provided in the sleeve. When the ferrule and the sleeve are fitted together, the electrode terminal and the electric wiring are electrically connected and the optical fiber and the core are optically connected through the lens.

Abstract: A radio communication system includes a base station and a mobile station. The base station includes a controller that changes communication configurations when a plurality of communications with the mobile station at respective periodic communication intervals are scheduled to occur at the same communication timing so as to control to resolve simultaneous communications. The mobile station comprises a controller that performs communications with the base station using the communication configurations changed by the controller in the base station.

Abstract: A medium processing device includes a processor, the processor emits light to a medium by a light source and calculates spherical aberration information relevant to spherical aberration related to the medium based on a detection result of reflected light, determines an installation direction of the medium processing device based on the spherical aberration information, and sets configuration information relevant to an operation for the medium based on a determination result.

Abstract: A wireless power transmitting system that transmits power from a power transmitting station to a power receiving station wirelessly includes the power receiving station. The power receiving station includes a unit receiving power from the power transmitting station, a unit obtaining a level of power received through the antenna, a unit obtaining a level of power consumed by the device operating while being supplied with received power and a unit transmitting the received power level and the power consuming level to the power transmitting station wirelessly. The power transmitting station includes a unit receiving the received power level and the power consuming level from the power receiving station wirelessly, a unit controlling the level of power transmitted through the transmitting antenna based on the difference between the received power level and the received power consuming level, and a unit transmitting power to the power receiving station wirelessly.

Abstract: A secure hardware comprises a secure pipe, a secure DMA, a secure assist and a secure bus, which connects between those blocks. The secure pipe stores a common encryption key in an encryption key table so as not to be able to access from software. The secure DMA comprises a data common key system process function and a hashing process function. The secure assist comprises a common key system process function and an authentication process function, receives an issued command from a program executed by the processor core via a public IF, and performs setting/control of the secure pipe and the secure DMA via the secure bus.

Abstract: A circuit design support method that is executed by a computer, includes calculating a first performance value of a circuit under design before a layout process, by inputting into a first function model that represents a performance value of the circuit under design before the layout process, the values of parameters among parameters of a second parameter group and corresponding to parameters of a first parameter group; acquiring a second performance value that is of the circuit under design after the layout process and obtained by simulating operation of the circuit under design after the layout process, using the values of the parameters of the second parameter group; and generating based on the calculated first performance value, the acquired second performance value, and the second parameter group, a second function model that represents a difference in the performance value of the circuit under design before and after the layout process.

Abstract: A base station apparatus includes a wireless receiving unit wirelessly receiving identification information on a terminal apparatus located in the vicinity of the base station apparatus; a storage unit storing the identification information received by the wireless receiving unit; a request receiving unit receiving, from a communication apparatus, a start request containing identification information regarding a terminal apparatus to be started; a determination unit determining whether the identification information contained in the start request received by the request receiving unit having been stored in the storage unit; and a distribution unit wirelessly distributing a start instruction to start the terminal apparatus indicated by the identification information upon the determination unit determining the identification information having been stored in the storage unit.

Abstract: An optical communication network includes a plurality of optical transmission devices, a communication path, an optical repeater, and a supervisory controller that includes a supervisory control information sender which is installed on at least one of one of the optical transmission devices and the optical repeater and controls a drive signal supplied to a semiconductor optical amplifier that amplifies and outputs input signal light onto the communication path on the basis of the supervisory control information, and a supervisory control information receiver that receives the light which has been output from a semiconductor optical amplifier and transmitted through the communication path, converts the received light to an electric signal and identifies the supervisory control information on the basis of an intensity-modulated component of the total power of the electric signal in at least the other of one of the optical transmission devices and the optical repeater.

Abstract: A semiconductor device whose operational state is switched between a test state and a normal operational state according to a logical value of a signal input from the outside is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first power line, a second power line, a switch that is controlled by a signal line to couple/isolate the first power line to/from the second power line, a control circuit that outputs a control signal, and a state switching circuit that drives the signal line to couple/isolate the first power line to/from the second power line according to a logical value of the control signal when the input signal is one of logical values, whereas the state switching circuit drives the signal line to couple the first power line to the second power line when the first signal is the other logical value.

Abstract: A distortion compensation device which reduces a distortion of an amplifier which is added to an output signal of the amplifier, the distortion compensation device including: a plurality of distortion compensation coefficient storage circuits which stores a plurality of distortion compensation coefficients and outputs the distortion compensation coefficients according to an amplitude of an input signal of the amplifier, a distortion compensating processing circuit which adds the distortion compensation coefficient output from each of the plurality of distortion compensation coefficient storage circuits to the input signal of the amplifier, and a distortion compensation coefficient updating circuit which performs weighting processing on the distortion compensation coefficient output from each of the plurality of distortion compensation coefficient storage circuits to reduce the distortion compensation coefficient and which calculates an update value of the distortion compensation coefficient by using the disto

Abstract: A method for verifying software includes accessing a job queue, accessing a resource queue, and assigning a job from the job queue to a resource from the resource queue if an addition is made to the a job queue or to a resource queue. The job queue includes an indication of one or more jobs to be executed by a worker node, each job indicating a portion of a code to be verified. The resource queue includes an indication of a one or more worker nodes available to verify a portion of software. The resource is selected by determining the best match for the characteristics of the selected job among the resources in the resource queue.

Abstract: According to aspects of embodiments, an optical device includes a first coupler configured to split an optical signal; a second coupler configured to cause optical signals to interfere with each other, a first waveguide configured to couple the first coupler to the second coupler, the first waveguide includes a first phase shifter region having a section narrower in width than an end of the first phase shifter region, the second waveguide includes a second phase shifter region having a section wider in width than an end of the second phase shifter region.

Abstract: An apparatus includes: a first storage unit storing data representing whether transition is prohibited, for each of a plurality of blocks in a memory device, for each of which power control is carried out; a second storage unit storing, for each of a plurality of threads, an identifier of the thread in association with the number of times that access by the thread to a block in the energy-saving state is requested; and a controller that increments the number of times which is stored in the second storage unit and is associated with an identifier of a requesting source thread of a request, upon detecting a block including an access destination of the request is in the energy-saving state, and sets data representing the transition is prohibited for the block including the access destination of the request upon detecting the number of times after incrementing exceeds a threshold.

Abstract: A suspicious person detection device is provided with a person detection section capable of detecting the position of persons for each of the persons, a person tracing section for continuously tracing the position of a person detected by the person detection section, and a suspicious person detection section for detecting a suspicious person according to the result of the trace of the person tracing section, wherein the person tracing section determines a person authenticated as a result of the agreement with a predetermined first condition as an authenticated person and determines a person who has agreed with a predetermined second condition associated with the authenticated person as an accompanying person at the time of the authentication, and wherein the suspicious person detection section issues a warning when the accompanying person is away from the authenticated person by a predetermined first distance or more.

Abstract: A disclosed memory card having a built-in antenna and being connected to an electronic apparatus includes a circuit board configured to be covered by a case, an antenna element formed on one surface of the circuit board or on one surface of a board mounted on the circuit board, and a ground element formed on another surface of the circuit board or on another surface of the board mounted on the circuit board, wherein a part or all of the antenna element and a part or all of the ground element are formed to protrude outside the electronic apparatus when the memory card is connected to the electronic apparatus.

Abstract: A polarization controller includes a first polarization controller, a demultiplexer, a second polarization controller, and a multiplexer. The first polarization controller controls the state of polarization of input light such that a part of the wavelength components of the input light is in a first state of polarization. The demultiplexer demultiplexes the light output from the first polarization controller into a plurality of wavelength components. The second polarization controller controls the plurality of wavelength components in a second state of polarization by using liquid crystal modulation devices. The multiplexer multiplexes the plurality of wavelength components output from the second polarization controller.

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium includes a plurality of recording tracks magnetically continuous with respect to a recording direction and arranged intermittently in a track width direction, a plurality of recording dots intermittently formed in the recording tracks in the recording direction and a plurality of space dots alternately formed in the recording track with the recording dots in the recording direction and having a magnetic moment per unit area smaller than a magnetic moment per unit area of the recording dots.

Abstract: A biometric-information processing device includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image of a biometric object using light reflected from the biometric object. The biometric-information processing device further includes an extracting unit configured to extract a frequency component having a frequency higher than a predetermined spatial frequency at the image acquired by the image acquisition unit.

Abstract: A network system includes a plurality of cloud systems. Each of the plurality of cloud systems includes a plurality of servers. Each of the plurality of servers allows virtual machines to run thereon. A first cloud system of the plurality of cloud systems includes a first generator and a deployer. The first generator generates, on the basis of first performance information regarding one virtual machine and a first predetermined coefficient predetermined for the first cloud system, second performance information regarding the one virtual machine. The first performance information is included in a first augmented image of the one virtual machine. The first augmented image is created in a second cloud system other than the first cloud system. The deployer deploys the one virtual machine on one of the plurality of servers included in the first cloud system on the basis of the generated second performance information.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate; an insulating film formed over the semiconductor substrate, there being formed in the insulating film a trench that in a sectional view has a stepped shape; and a wiring formed in the trench, wherein the wiring includes, a main portion with a first thickness; and an extended portion with a second thickness that is thinner than the first thickness and that extends outward from a side of the main portion.