Abstract: An information processing apparatus configured to store a plurality of images captured by an imaging device, store first position information and first orientation information indicating positions and orientations of the imaging device in capturing of each of the plurality of images, identify, among from the plurality of images, a first image resembling a second image, identify a first area included in the first image, identify a second area, included in the second image, corresponding to the first area, identify second position information and second orientation information indicating a position and an orientation of the imaging device respectively in capturing of the second image, based on a comparison between a first luminance of a first pixel included in the first area and a second luminance of a second pixel included in the second area and the first position information and the first orientation information of the first image.

Abstract: A communication device supports a D2D (Device-to-Device) communication and includes a storage, a scheduler and a transmitter. The storage stores a first resource pool information that indicates first resource pool including control resources allocated to control information for transmitting data and a second resource pool information that indicates second resource pool including data resources allocated to data. The scheduler selects a first resource for transmitting control information from the first resource pool and selects a second resource for transmitting data from the second resource pool. The transmitter transmits the control information by using the first resource and transmit the data by using the second resource. The scheduler selects the second resource from the second resource pool according to a received signal intensity in at least one of resources included in the first resource pool and the second resource pool.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided between a terminal device which belongs to a first network and a proxy device which belongs to the first network and relays communication between the first network and a second network. The information processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to respond a virtual address having the information processing apparatus as a reception destination to the terminal device upon receiving a name resolution request related to a domain in the second network and transmitted from the terminal device; and access an access destination designated by an access request in the domain corresponding to the virtual address via the proxy device when the access request transmitted to the virtual address is received from the terminal device.

Abstract: A distribution terminal includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor executes a process including: first transmitting contents-relevant information relevant to contents to an acquisition terminal before wireless communication connection is established, according to a contents-relevant information request which is transmitted from the acquisition terminal; detecting whether or not an error occurs when the contents-relevant information is transmitted; and second transmitting the contents-relevant information to the acquisition terminal after the wireless communication connection is established, in a case in which an occurrence of the error is detected.

Abstract: A behavior sensing device includes: a processor configured to: acquire sensor data from one or more sensors; calculate a first characteristic amount serving as an index of characteristic of biological reaction to a behavior to be sensed from the sensor data; calculate a probability of occurrence of the behavior as a first behavior occurrence probability from the first characteristic amount; calculate a second characteristic amount serving as another index of characteristic of a habit relating to the behavior to be sensed from the sensor data; calculate another probability of occurrence of the behavior as a second behavior occurrence probability from the second characteristic amount; and determine whether specific behavior is performed based on the first behavior occurrence probability and the second behavior occurrence probability.

Abstract: An antenna device includes a ground layer, a first insulating layer, a second insulating layer layered on the ground layer and disposed under a first insulating layer, a patch antenna layered on the first insulating layer for emitting a circularly polarized radio wave, and a parasitic element provided between the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer. The patch antenna includes first and second feed points located in vicinity of a periphery of the patch antenna, which are respectively configured to receive high frequency electrical power having a 90-degree phase difference. The parasitic element is placed in a planar view so as to overlap with at least a part of the periphery of the patch antenna close to the first feed point and the second feed point.

Abstract: A distribution terminal includes a communication unit that receives a request transmitted from an acquisition terminal before wireless communication connection is established, and transmits contents to the acquisition terminal after the wireless communication connection is established; and a processor that controls the communication unit such that transmission limit of the contents is performed based on a number of acquisition terminals when the request is received.

Abstract: A feature term classification method executed by a processor included in an information processing apparatus including a display device and a memory, the feature term classification method includes extracting a feature term from a Web page displayed on a screen of the display device; executing image searching using the extracted feature term; classifying the feature term based on whether an image has been detected as information corresponding to the feature term in the image searching; storing the information corresponding to the feature term in the memory; when a new feature term has been input, extracting a Web page corresponding to the new feature term from the stored information corresponding to the feature terms; and displaying the extracted Web page.

Abstract: An apparatus for suppressing an intermodulation distortion component in a reception signal executes acquisition to acquire a plurality of transmission signals transmitted at frequencies different from each other, executes reception to receive a reception signal including an intermodulation distortion component caused by the plurality of transmission signals, executes generation to generate a replica of the intermodulation distortion component according to the plurality of transmission signals, executes normalization to normalize the reception signal so that the reception signal has certain amplitude, executes calculation to calculate a correlation value between the normalized reception signal and the replica, executes adjustment to adjust delay in the replica relative to the reception signal according to the correlation value, and executes combination to combine the replica for which the delay is adjusted with the reception signal.

Abstract: A processor includes: an error checking and correcting information generating unit; a storage unit configured to store data to which error checking and correcting information and error uncorrectable information are added when an error is detected and configured to store data to which error checking and correcting information is added when an error is not detected; and a processing unit configured to read out all data which the storage unit stores and configured to check an error of each piece of read-out data based on error checking/correcting information added to each piece of all the read-out data when an arithmetic unit detects an error, and configured to correct data in which an error is detected based on error checking and correcting information when a correctable error is detected.

Abstract: A method, performed by a computer, for event estimation, the method includes: executing a registering process that includes receiving a registration of a first word group including a plurality of words, each of which is associated with time, and storing the first word group into a memory; executing a calculating process that includes receiving a first time pointer that indicates a time point on a time axis, obtaining, among the plurality of words in the first word group, a first word associated with a time belonging to a predetermined range from the time point indicated by the first time pointer, and calculating, in accordance with the first word, an index value indicating likelihood of occurrence of a life event; and executing a display process that includes controlling display of the life event based on the index value.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a measurement method for channel state information, user equipment and a base station. The measurement method includes: selecting one or more coordinated transmission points for coordinated multipoint transmission by the base station for user equipment; and independently configuring a measurement subset used for channel state information feedback for each base station and each coordinated transmission point, so that the user equipment performs measurement according to the measurement subset. With the embodiments of the present invention, channel state information feedback configuration is performed to each cell or transmission point participated in coordination, and a unified structural design for feedback information may be used, so that channel feedback information for multiple transmission points or multiple cells can serve for not only transmission of a single cell, but also transmission of multiple cells.

Abstract: An arithmetic processing device includes arithmetic processing cores, and a control circuit that includes a request port accepting a request for a memory space; a processing circuit unit that executes processing of the request; a control pipeline that determines whether or not the processing is executable by the processing circuit unit on the request input through the request port, and that executes first abort processing for the request when the processing is not executable on the request, and issues the processing to the processing circuit unit when the processing is executable; and an identical-address request arbitration circuit that holds an occurrence order of requests with an identical address that is aborted due to the processing being not executable, and that executes second abort processing on those of requests input to the control pipeline which have the identical address and which are other than a leading request in the occurrence order.

Abstract: A processing unit determines, based on positions of a plurality of particles representing a continuum and positions of a plurality of boundary elements representing a boundary between a first region and a second region, whether each of the plurality of particles is located in the second region. Then, the processing unit calculates, for a particle located in the second region, a force toward the first region, based on a distance between the boundary represented by the plurality of boundary elements and the particle. Then, the processing unit analyzes motion of the plurality of particles while applying the force to the particle located in the second region.

Abstract: A front module for a desktop computer system includes an interface unit, and a circuit board having a plug, wherein the plug is configured to connect the front module to a mainboard such that there is an electric contact between the mainboard and the interface unit, and the circuit board is dimensioned such that the interface unit terminates with a front chassis side of a casing surrounding the circuit board if the plug is plugged into a socket of a mainboard.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an information exchange apparatus, base station and communication system. The apparatus includes: a first sending unit configured to send a request message to a secondary base station, the request message containing an uplink address of a master base station for receiving uplink data of service(s) of a user equipment in the secondary base station; and a first receiving unit configured to receive a response message fed back by the secondary base station according to the request message, the response message containing a downlink address of the secondary base station for receiving downlink data of the service(s). With this apparatus, the flow of information exchange may be simplified, and signaling overhead may be saved.

Abstract: A fault-tolerant monitoring apparatus is arranged to monitor physical performance properties of a plurality of networked computing elements, each element including a processing unit and individual memory. The monitoring apparatus comprises a plurality of measurer apparatuses, each arranged to measure the physical performance properties of a single computing element, the physical performance properties being stored as local information in the individual memory of the computing element in which the measurement is made; and one or more collector apparatuses arranged to control collection of remote information representing physical performance properties from individual memory in a plurality of the computing elements; and storage of the remote physical performance information as replicate information in the individual memory of another computing element; wherein the remote physical performance information is collected using third party access.

Abstract: An apparatus for assigning time slots refers to a hierarchical structure when a predetermined number of time slots in one of a plurality of communication cycles is assigned to a communication apparatus, identifies an associated frame whose use status is to be changed to used by the assignment of the predetermined number of time slots for a group managed in a layer corresponding to the requested communication cycle, and makes determination to assign a frame belonging to a group in which a number of time slots, in the associated frame, whose use status is changed to used is smaller, to the communication apparatus.

Abstract: An information processing system includes circuitry configured to identify a plurality of systems that each access at least one of a plurality of virtual machines executed by a server, generate, for each system, a value indicating whether performance of the system satisfies an agreement for the system if a virtual machine accessed by the system is stopped, determine a virtual machine to be stopped among the plurality of virtual machines based on the values.

Abstract: Provided is an outdoor unit of an air conditioner which has good assembly stability by more cheaply and easily increasing mechanical strength of a housing, and in which the cost thereof is further suppressed by reducing the number of components such as screws, as an outdoor unit of a large air conditioner including two blowers. The left front pillar and the right front pillar are fixed between the front beam and the base panel hung between the front ends of the left side panel and the right side panel, and the rear pillar is fixed between the rear beam and the base panel hung between the rear ends of the left side panel and the right side panel. Therefore, the front beam and the rear beam are prevented from being distorted or bent, and thus mechanical strength of the entire housing is enhanced.