Abstract: A base station including: a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configure to: when scheduling a plurality of terminals based on non-orthogonal multiple access in which a same radio resource having a same time and a same frequency is allocable to two or more terminals of the plurality of terminals, calculate each metric of each of selected terminal combinations and each terminals of the plurality of terminals, each of the selected terminal combinations including two or more terminals of the plurality of terminals, and determine to allocate each radio resource to each of the selected terminal combinations and each terminals of the plurality of terminals based on each metric, wherein the selected terminal combinations are obtained by selecting, from among all terminal combinations of the plurality of terminals, each terminal combination that satisfies a first condition.

Abstract: A transmission device for which a work path is established in a first degree and a protection path is established in a second degree includes: a switch equipped with a plurality of optical ports; an optical signal generator, optically connected to a first optical port, and configured to generate an optical signal that is transmitted through the work path; and a monitor light generator, optically connected to a second optical port, and configured to generate monitor light by using a wavelength tunable light source. The monitor light generator controls a wavelength of the monitor light to be substantially the same as a wavelength of the optical signal. The switch guides the optical signal that arrives at the first optical port toward the first degree and guides the monitor light that arrives at the second optical port toward the second degree.

Abstract: A non-transitory recording medium storing a computer-readable handling-method generation program causing a computer to execute a method including extracting at least one existing system, which has a predetermined similarity with a new system which is newly generated or whose configuration has been changed, based on the similarity between a system configuration of at least one existing system and a system configuration of the new system; and generating candidates of event handling methods corresponding to the new system by using handling methods corresponding to a predetermined event which corresponds to the extracted existing system.

Abstract: An electromagnetic relay includes a fixed contact portion including a fixed contact; a movable contact portion including a movable contact that contacts the fixed contact; and an electromagnetic device that operates the movable contact portion so that the movable contact contacts the fixed contact, and includes an armature that adsorbs to a magnetic core surface of the electromagnetic device and operates the movable contact portion by rotating with respect to a fulcrum, a hinge spring that pushes a part of the armature at an opposite side of the magnetic core surface while interposing the fulcrum therebetween so that the armature moves away from the magnetic core surface, and a fixed member that fixes an end portion of the hinge spring while having outside of a side surface of the armature as a fixed position, and wherein the fixed member is configured to fix the end portion of the hinge spring by moving the hinge spring from an upper side to a lower side of the armature, when attaching the hinge spring.

Abstract: A computer-readable recording medium stores a rendering program that renders simulation results and causes a computer to execute a process that includes detecting a range of physical values of a rendering element group to be rendern and of an area specified in a simulation model that is a set of elements each having a physical value for each position to be simulated; identifying from the simulation model, an adjacent element group that is a set of elements adjacent to rendering elements included in the rendering element group; determining whether the physical value of each adjacent element included in the adjacent element group is within the range; adding to the rendering element group, an adjacent element for which the physical value is determined to be included in the range; and rendering the simulation model according to the rendering element group to which the adjacent element has been added.

Abstract: A memory stores video information obtained by photographing an object that reflects light in which embedded information is superimposed onto a plurality of components in a color space. A processor emphasizes a signal obtained from an image included in the video information on the basis of a result of emphasizing a first color component more than a second color component according to a spectral reflection characteristic in a range including the object, and detects the embedded information from the emphasized signal, the first color component and the second color component being from among a plurality of color components that correspond to a plurality of wavelengths, the first color component having a reflectance higher than a reflectance of the second color component. A display device outputs information on the basis of the embedded information detected by the processor.

Abstract: A frequency conversion device includes: an optical convertor configured to convert a source modulated light into an unmodulated light; and a frequency convertor configured to use the unmodulated light converted by the optical convertor as a reference light and convert the source modulated light into a modulated light that has a desirable frequency.

Abstract: An optical modulator module includes: a semiconductor modulator that includes a plurality of output waveguides; a first cylindrical lens that has a longitudinal direction in a direction in which the plurality of output waveguides are aligned, and through which lights output from the plurality of output waveguides penetrate; and a plurality of second cylindrical lenses each having a longitudinal direction that intersects with the longitudinal direction of the first cylindrical lens and allowing a corresponding light of the lights output from the plurality of output waveguides to penetrate therethrough.

Abstract: A semiconductor device including a graphene layer and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. A method in which graphene is grown on a catalyst metal by a chemical vapor deposition or the like is known. However, the graphene cannot be used as a channel, since the graphene is in contact with the catalyst metal, which is conductive. There is disclosed a method in which a catalyst film (2) is formed over a substrate (1), a graphene layer (3) is grown originating from the catalyst film (2), an electrode (4) in contact with the graphene layer (3) is formed, and the catalyst film (2) is removed.

Abstract: A circuit board includes a plate member capable of holding a printed circuit board, the printed circuit board including an electronic component, and a cooling member provided on the electronic component, the printed circuit board and the electronic component being positioned between the plate member and the cooling member; and a circuit provided to the plate member and allowed to be electrically connected with the printed circuit board.

Abstract: A network includes first through third communication apparatuses. The second communication apparatus identifies, from packets received from the first communication apparatus, forwarding packets that are packets to be transmitted to the third communication apparatus, and measures the interval in receiving the forwarding packets. The second communication apparatus forwards the forwarding packets to the third communication apparatus. The second communication apparatus receives report information that reports the reception state of forwarding packets from the third communication apparatus, and uses the report information to select target packets that are packets for which success of reception has not been reported from the third communication apparatus in the packets that were forwarded to the third communication apparatus.

Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a transmission device, a relay device, and a reception device and is configured to execute direct communication of directly transmitting a wireless signal from the transmission device to the reception device without routing through the relay device and indirect communication of indirectly transmitting a wireless signal from the transmission device to the reception device through the relay device. The wireless communication system includes a controller configured to estimate a disconnection continuation time that is a time during which the direct communication is not executable in a case where the direct communication is not executable while the direct communication is repeatedly executed, continue to execute the direct communication when the disconnection continuation time is shorter than a threshold time, and execute the indirect communication when the disconnection continuation time is longer than the threshold time.

Abstract: A structure and method of fabrication thereof relate to a Deeply Depleted Channel (DDC) design, allowing CMOS based devices to have a reduced ?VT compared to conventional bulk CMOS and can allow the threshold voltage VT of FETs having dopants in the channel region to be set much more precisely. The DDC design also can have a strong body effect compared to conventional bulk CMOS transistors, which can allow for significant dynamic control of power consumption in DDC transistors. The semiconductor structure includes an analog device and a digital device each having an epitaxial channel layer where a single gate oxidation layer is on the epitaxial channel layer of NMOS and PMOS transistor elements of the digital device and one of a double and triple gate oxidation layer is on the epitaxial channel layer of NMOS and PMOS transistor elements of the analog device.

Abstract: A delivery system includes a first terminal device and a delivery device, wherein the delivery device includes a division unit configured to divide delivery information by delivery size to generate a plurality of pieces of divided information and a delivery unit configured to sequentially deliver the plurality of pieces of divided information, and the first terminal device includes a reception unit configured to receive the plurality of pieces of divided information and a coupling unit configured to couple the plurality of pieces of divided information to generate the delivery information.

Abstract: At the time of an encoding process, a video elementary stream is generated and output by capturing and encoding a video image signal at a time interval of a video frame synchronous with a timing of a video synchronization signal, and an audio elementary stream is generated by capturing and encoding an audio signal at each audio interval. An audio packetized elementary stream where one packet has a stream length corresponding to the time interval of the video frame is multiplexed with the audio elementary stream, and the stream is output.

Abstract: A display method of a manufacturing status to visualize a manufacturing status of products each manufactured through processing performed by a plurality of apparatuses included in a manufacturing line includes identifying, for each product to be manufactured in a certain manufacturing unit, a starting time or an ending time or both of the processing performed on the product by a first apparatus and a starting time or an ending time or both of the processing performed on the product by a second apparatus based on log information of the first apparatus and log information of the second apparatus, the first and the second apparatuses being included in the manufacturing line, the second apparatus performing the processing after the processing performed by the first apparatus, using a processor.

Abstract: In an information processing apparatus, a calculation circuit calculates energy values representing total energies of Ising devices that are set up with different noise widths, where the Ising devices have equal conditions about neuron-to-neuron connections. An exchange control circuit exchanges output values of neurons or noise widths, between first and second Ising devices having adjacent noise widths. This exchange takes place with an exchange probability based on a difference in the energy values between the first Ising device and the second Ising device.

Abstract: A method includes detecting a plurality of reference objects from an image, acquiring a plurality of contents, virtually arranging the plurality of contents based on position information of each of the plurality of contents, determining whether an overlap occurs between display regions of at least some contents among the plurality of contents virtually arranged, when the overlap occurs, changing at least one of a display size and a position of the at least some contents overlapping each other to remove the overlap, generating display data for displaying another image including the plurality of contents based on at least one of the changed display size and the changed position of the at least some contents, and the position information of contents other than the at least some contents, and controlling a display to display the another image based on the display data.

Abstract: A control apparatus coupled to a plurality of base station apparatuses, the control apparatus including a memory and a processor configured to receive base station information transmitted from a terminal apparatus that communicates with one of the plurality of base station apparatuses, the base station information including measurement results for each of a plurality of signals received with reception quality equal to or higher than a reference value at the terminal apparatus, each of the plurality of signals being transmitted from the plurality of base station apparatuses, and perform control to improve reception quality of at least one of the plurality of signals transmitted from the plurality of base station apparatuses other than a specified base station apparatus when the base station information does not satisfy a predetermined condition, the specified base station apparatus being a base station apparatus to which the terminal apparatus is being coupled.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a pooling layer and a convolution layer. The pooling layer acquires, information on an error gradient including a plurality of elements from an upper layer. The convolution layer specifies, when computing a value of one element included in a weight gradient, an area corresponding to the one element among from a plurality of elements included information acquired from a lower layer, and divides the specified area having elements into a plurality of partial areas. The convolution layer computes, for each of the partial areas, a value based on one or more total values of the elements included in the one or more partial areas and a value of one of the elements of the error gradient corresponding to the corresponding partial area, and totalizes the computed values to execute a process for computing the value of the one element.