Abstract: A method, which is performed by a computer for management of distributed data, includes: associating device information items including information acquired from devices with first identification information items to be used to identify the devices and storing the device information items and the first identification information items in a storage device; calculating co-occurrence probabilities of combinations of the associated first identification information items for the device information items stored in the storage device; assigning second identification information items to the first identification information items based on the co-occurrence probabilities; generating compressed data by compressing the device information items using the second identification information items assigned to the first identification information items associated with the device information items upon the compression of the device information items; and transmitting the compressed data to a managing device.

Abstract: A sensor device includes: an inertia sensor; an electric wave sensor; and a controller configured to control transmission power of an electric wave of the electric wave sensor in accordance with a gravity direction which is detected by the inertia sensor.

Abstract: There is provided a distortion cancellation apparatus including a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to acquire transmission signals to be wirelessly transmitted at different frequencies, acquire a received signal to which intermodulation signals generated by the transmission signals are added, generate cancellation signals respectively corresponding to the intermodulation signals added to the received signal by using an arithmetic expression including the transmission signals and the received signal, calculate an influence rate indicating a magnitude of a signal level of each of the intermodulation signals within a band of the received signal, and first cancel an intermodulation signal out of the intermodulation signals added to the received signal wherein the influence rate of the intermodulation signal first canceled is high out of the intermodulation signals added to the received signal, based on the cancellation signals.

Abstract: A method for viewpoint selection assistance in free viewpoint video generation includes: executing acquisition processing that includes acquiring three-dimensional information with respect to a subject on a field by using a plurality of cameras placed around the field; executing first identification processing that includes identifying a path of a ball for a predetermined period based on the three-dimensional information; executing second identification processing that includes identifying at least one player located within a predetermined distance from a position of the ball for a predetermined duration of time or longer in the predetermined period; executing setting processing that includes setting, as a video output range, a range containing both of the path of the ball and a path of the at least one player; and executing generation processing that includes generating video for the range set by the setting processing.

Abstract: Provided is a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute a process, the process including: acquiring transfer times of straight transfer paths for a hand of a vertical articulated robot having at least four controlled axes; calculating a vector of each of the straight transfer paths; comparing a direction of a vector of a target path for which a transfer time is to be estimated with a direction of the vector of each of the straight transfer paths, and identifying, among the straight transfer paths, a transfer path most similar in vector direction to the target path; and estimating a transfer time of the target path, in accordance with a scalar quantity of a vector of an identified transfer path, a scalar quantity of the vector of the target path, and a transfer time of the identified transfer path.

Abstract: A sales apparatus includes a receptacle; a column that houses a plurality of goods to be sold and transports the plurality of goods to the receptacle; a memory in which inventory information indicating an inventory status of the column of the plurality of goods is stored; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: update the inventory information each time the plurality of goods are transported from the column to the receptacle, and when referencing the inventory information and detecting that, out of a plurality of specific goods in inventory among the plurality of goods, a plurality of target goods to be subject to selling processing at a first selling price are out of inventory, suppress transportation processing of the plurality of specific goods from the column to the receptacle even when the plurality of specific goods in inventory remain.

Abstract: A network message notification apparatus and method and a communication system. The method includes: receiving a network message transmitted by a network device; the network message including indication information indicating a user identity range; parsing the indication information and determining whether a user identity of the UE falls within the user identity range indicated by the indication information; and determining whether the UE is notified by the network message according to a determination result. Hence, a magnitude of a network message in the communication system may be greatly reduced, and more UEs may be notified by using relatively few resources.

Abstract: A write request for writing first data into a first region in a memory region of a memory device and a write request for writing second data into a second region are acquired. When the two regions are not continuous, a first estimated time is calculated by summing an estimated time for writing the first data into the first region and an estimated time for writing the second data into the second region. In addition, a second estimated time for writing third data including the first data, the second data, and additional data into a third region including the first region, the second region, and a gap region is calculated. When the second estimated time is shorter than the first estimated time, the first data, the second data, and the additional data are controlled to be written at a time.

Abstract: A program analysis device includes: a memory that stores an analysis program; and a processor coupled to the memory, the processor preforms operations of: classifying, based on a call relationship between programs in a program asset including the programs and pieces of data, the programs into one or more program groups; generating, based on data which is accessed from the programs included in the program groups, one or more first service component candidates which associates the program groups with the pieces of data; extracting, as common data, data which is updated by another first service component candidate from among the pieces of data associated with the one or more first service component candidate; and setting one or more second service component candidates generated by removing the common data from the one or more first service component candidates and the common data as a service component of the program asset.

Abstract: An anonymization system may include a merger to merge a public database and a private database to create a merged database. The merged database may include multiple blank entries and multiple initial values associated with multiple user identifiers. The anonymization system may include a value generator to fill values for the blank entries via a machine learning algorithm and based on the initial values to create a filled database including the initial values and the fill values. The anonymization system may include a perturber to perturb one or more of the initial values or the fill values of the filled database to create a perturbed database. The anonymization system may include a releaser to release at least a portion of the perturbed database.

Abstract: A judging method including: obtaining an image of a subject for judgement as a subject image by using an imaging device; judging, by comparing the subject image with a registered image, whether a difference between the subject image and the registered image is greater than or equal to a first threshold; extracting a feature quantity from the subject image and a feature quantity from the registered image if the difference is judged to be greater than or equal to the first threshold; extracting a region of the subject image where a difference in the feature quantity between the region and an associated region of the registered image is greater than or equal to a second threshold; and displaying by a display device the extracted region in the subject image.

Abstract: An automatic defect detection method for detecting a defect in an object comprises: obtaining ultrasound scan data of the object, dividing echo amplitude values of the data into a plurality of sub-sets; assessing each sub-set to determine whether any echo amplitude values resulted from a structure of interest; computing for each sub-set, using at least a representative position of the structure portion of the sub-set and of a neighboring sub-set, a preselected mathematical function which is directly or inversely proportional to a distance between the representative positions; identifying sub-sets having a computed value that does not meet a predetermined criterion as regions of the ultrasound scan data that require inspection; issuing a notification indicating whether or not a region requiring inspection has been found; and if a region requiring inspection been found, storing data identifying the region in a database.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to receive a first request provided from a first device that requests personal information associated with a first identifier, the first request including a second identifier obtained by converting the first identifier, and a second request which includes an extraction condition and is provided from a second device that requests concealed personal information corresponding to the extraction condition, extract personal information associated with the second identifier from a storage device, when the first request is received, and extract concealed personal information corresponding to the extraction condition from the storage device, when the second request is received; and transmit the extracted personal information to the first device, when the first request is received, and transmit the extracted concealed personal information to the second device, when the second request is received.

Abstract: An information processing device includes: a memory configured to store a management program; and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor, based on the management program, performs operations of: collecting operation status information stored in a storage of each of one or more information processing devices and related to an operation status of a calculation resource of each of the one or more information processing devices; determining whether the operation status information has periodicity based on the operation status information and a threshold; producing, when it is determined that the operation status information has periodicity, past activation information related to the operation status in a past duration in which the periodicity is present; and generates a prediction value of the operation status information based on the operation status information and the past activation information.

Abstract: A management apparatus that manages a first database and a second database synchronized with each other includes a memory and a processor configured to perform a stop of synchronous processing between the first database and the second database in accordance with detection of a delay with respect to a first processing request received by the first database, output an error notification concerning uncompleted processing in the first database in which the delay is detected, and allocate a second processing request received after the detection to the second database.

Abstract: According to some embodiments, the present disclosure may include a method of analyzing solar power forecasts that may include obtaining a test dataset of historical irradiance at a location of a solar power generating system, and normalizing the test dataset based on a clear sky model at the location. The method may also include clustering the test dataset into multiple weather classes that each include a set of characteristics, obtaining a forecast of irradiance at the solar power generating system, and classifying the forecast into one of the weather classes, and determining confidence intervals of the forecast based on the set of characteristics of the one of the plurality of weather classes. The method may additionally include, based on the confidence intervals of the forecast, performing one of increasing output or decreasing output of a source of energy alternative to solar energy.

Abstract: A method of reading data from a first memory device includes generating a first read command based on a first request which requests to generate the first read command for first data stored in a first address region of the first memory device, generating a second read command for second data stored in a second address region of the first memory device, generating a third read command based on a second request which requests to generate the third read command for third data stored in a third address region of the first memory device, executing the first read command and the third read command to read the first data and the third data, respectively, from the first memory device, and after the executing the first read command and the third read command, executing the second read command to read the second data from the first memory device.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a first processor, an information protection circuit, and a first communication path which connects between the information protection circuit and the first processor. The information protection circuit includes an interface circuit which connects the information protection circuit to the first communication path, a second processor, and a first memory which is inaccessible from the first processor but accessible from the second processor. When a command received from the first communication path is a command destined for the information protection circuit, the interface circuit passes the command to the second processor and the second processor executes a process related to information stored in the first memory in accordance with the command, but when the command received from the first communication path is not a command destined for the information protection circuit, the interface circuit does not pass the command to the second processor.

Abstract: A drive recorder according to an embodiment includes a capture unit and an access controller. The capture unit captures an outside of a vehicle. The access controller sets access limitation, which limits an access from a person other than an occupant of the vehicle, for traveling images of the vehicle. The traveling images are captured by the capture unit and stored in a storage medium. When an event arising from the vehicle meets a predetermined condition that indicates at least level of urgency, the access controller removes the access limitation.

Abstract: A CDR circuit includes a data-determination-circuit to determine a value of a data-signal, based on a first comparison-result of comparing the data-signal with first threshold-values at a timing of a clock-signal, a comparison-circuit to compare the data-signal with a second threshold-value at the timing to generate a second comparison-result, a phase-detection-circuit to detect data-patterns in which first to third symbols are temporally consecutive, based on a determination-result, the data-patterns forming that a value of the second symbol is larger than the first symbol and smaller than the third symbol, or the in value of the second symbol is smaller than the first symbol and larger than the third symbol, wherein the phase-detection-circuit generates a phase-difference-signal for controlling a phase of the clock-signal to advance or delay, based on the second comparison-result at the second symbol, and a phase-adjustment-circuit to adjust the phase of the clock-signal based on the phase-difference-signal