Abstract: A light-emitting module includes: a first light source unit including: a first light source, and a first lens on which light emitted from the first light source is incident; a driver configured to rotate the first lens; and a controller configured to, conjunctively with the driver, control an output of the first light source. A central axis of light emitted from the first lens is oblique to a rotation axis of the first lens. The controller is configured to control the output of the first light source according to a position along a trajectory of the central axis of the light emitted from the first lens.

Abstract: A self-position estimation apparatus comprises a camera part; an environmental data storage part that stores information that changes according to the position of a mobile object on a travel route in association with the position information thereof; a first estimation part that estimates the position of mobile object from sensor data containing information that changes according to the position of mobile object and the information in the environmental data storage part; a second estimation part that estimates the self-position of mobile object from a known object included in an image inputted from the camera part; a weighting determination part that determines weighting to the position estimation results by the first estimation part and the second estimation part; and a self-position calculation part that calculates a self-position by linearly combining the self-positions estimated by the first estimation part and the second estimation part using the result from the weighting determination part.

Abstract: A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: encoding, for each of three-dimensional points included in point cloud data, geometry information and one or more items of attribute information to generate a bitstream. In the encoding, a normal vector of each of the three-dimensional points is encoded as an item of attribute information included in the one or more items of attribute information of the three-dimensional point.

Abstract: An LLZ oxide may be a garnet-type oxide that contains Li, La, Zr and O as main constituent elements, and further contains substituent elements such as Zn in addition to the main constituent elements. The substituent elements may contain Bi, Nb, Hf and the like in addition to Zn. The LLZ-type oxide may be used, for example, as a solid electrolyte for an all-solid-state lithium ion secondary battery. The all-solid-state lithium ion secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a solid electrolyte layer that is disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode.

Abstract: A control device includes a parameter acquisition unit that acquires an augmentation parameter regarding geometric augmentation or optical augmentation of training data to be used for training a machine learning model, a display controller that causes a display device to display an image based on the augmentation parameter, an imaging controller that causes an imaging device to capture the displayed image, and an output unit that outputs the captured image obtained by the imaging device as the training data.

Abstract: A fuel cell including a catalyst layer configured to generate liquid water in response to a reactant being in contact therewith. The fuel cell includes a microporous layer having a first region with a first pore size and a second region disposed adjacent to the first region having a second pore size. The first pore size being greater than the second pore size. The microporous layer being configured to transfer the liquid water away from the catalyst layer, such that the liquid water from the catalyst layer enters the first region in response to a capillary pressure of the liquid water being greater than a first capillary pressure. The liquid water enters the second region in response to a capillary pressure of the liquid water being greater than a second capillary pressure. The first capillary pressure being different from the second capillary pressure.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus including at least one processor, wherein the processor is configured to cause a learning model that is used to extract a region of interest from an input image, to perform learning in response to an input of a pseudo image generated in a case where a pixel value of at least a part of an original image obtained by imaging a subject is changed, as data for learning.

Abstract: Various three-dimensional battery structures are disclosed, in certain embodiments comprising a battery enclosure and a first plurality of electrodes within the enclosure. The first plurality of electrodes includes a plurality of cathodes and a plurality of anodes. The first plurality of electrodes includes a second plurality of electrodes selected from the first plurality of electrodes. The three-dimensional battery includes a first structural layer within the battery enclosure. Each of the second plurality of electrodes protrudes from the first structural layer. The three-dimensional battery includes a plurality of electrical current-reducing devices within the enclosure. Each of the second plurality of electrodes is coupled to one of the plurality of current-reducing devices.

Abstract: An image processing device, an image processing method, and an image processing program make it possible to accurately recognize property changes between medical images having different imaging times. A property classification unit classifies each pixel included in a target region of each of a first medical image and a second medical image of which an imaging time is later than an imaging time of the first medical image for the same subject into any one of a plurality of types of properties. A quantitative value derivation unit specifies property pairs each representing a property change between corresponding pixels in at least partial regions within the target regions, and derives a quantitative value in the at least partial regions for each of the property pairs.

Abstract: A quantum computing chip device provides an edge based capacitive, intra-chip connection. A first chip includes a first signal line with a distal end positioned proximate to or on an edge of the first chip and a proximal end positioned away from the edge of the first chip. A second chip includes a second signal line with a distal end positioned proximate to or on an edge of the second chip and a proximal end positioned away from the edge of the second chip. The first signal line and the second signal line are configured to conduct a signal. The second signal line of the second chip is disposed in alignment for a capacitive bus connection to the first signal line of the first chip.

Abstract: Systems and methods for image modification to increase contrast between text and non-text pixels within the image. In one embodiment, an original document image is scaled to a predetermined size for processing by a convolutional neural network. The convolutional neural network identifies a probability that each pixel in the scaled is text and generates a heat map of these probabilities. The heat map is then scaled back to the size of the original document image, and the probabilities in the heat map are used to adjust the intensities of the text and non-text pixels. For positive text, intensities of text pixels are reduced and intensities of non-text pixels are increased in order to increase the contrast of the text against the background of the image. Optical character recognition may then be performed on the contrast-adjusted image.

Abstract: A memory system includes a semiconductor memory device including a plurality of memory cells each configured to store data in a non-volatile manner according to a threshold voltage thereof and connected to a word line, and a controller configured to perform an error correction based on hard bit data and soft bit data read from the plurality of memory cells, generate a first table based on corrected data, determine a voltage difference between a first voltage and a second voltage, the first voltage being a voltage applied to the word line when the data being corrected is read, and correct the first table based on the voltage difference.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for identifying one or more intrinsic physical properties of one or more objects is provided. The present invention may include identifying one or more objects in a video set, extracting observable physical properties of the identified one or more objects from the video set, including one or more trajectories, and inferring, by a property-based graph neural network, intrinsic properties of the one or more objects based on the trajectories.

Abstract: A detection unit detects a lesion candidate contained in display frame data (a tomographic image), using a machine learned detection model. An exclusion processing unit collates a feature vector of the detected lesion candidate with feature vectors registered in an exclusion database to determine whether the detected lesion candidate is an exclusion target. When the detected lesion candidate is an exclusion target, a mark display control unit restricts display of a mark for indicating a lesion candidate.

Abstract: The magnetic tape includes a non-magnetic support, and a magnetic layer containing a ferromagnetic powder. The ferromagnetic powder is a hexagonal ferrite powder, tilt cos ? of the hexagonal ferrite powder with respect to a surface of the magnetic layer, which is acquired by cross-sectional observation performed using a scanning transmission electron microscope, is 0.85 or more and 1.00 or less, and standard deviation ? of the cos ? in a width direction of the surface of the magnetic layer is 0.03 or less.

Abstract: A resistor is provided with a resistance body and a pair of electrodes connected to the resistance body (a first electrode body, a second electrode body), the resistance body being arranged so as to be at least separated away from a substrate board (a circuit board) when mounted on the substrate board (the circuit board), wherein the resistor has the oxide film on at least one of the resistance body and each of the electrodes (the first electrode body, the second electrode body) at a boundary portion (a bonded portion, a bonded portion) between the resistance body and each of the electrodes (the first electrode body, the second electrode body) on the mounting surface of the resistor.

Abstract: A state may be encoded into a memory cell comprising a phase change material (PM) region and a select device (SD) region by: applying a first current in the memory cell over a first time period, wherein the first current applied over the first time period causes the PM region of the memory cell to be placed into an amorphous state and the SD region of the memory cell to be placed into an amorphous state; and applying a second current in the memory cell over a second time period after the first time period, wherein the second current applied over the third time period causes the SD region of the memory cell to be placed into a crystalline state and the PM region of the memory cell to remain in the amorphous state.

Abstract: There is provided a soft magnetic powder in which when a volume-based particle size distribution is measured by a laser diffraction scattering type particle size distribution measuring device, and the particle size distribution is plotted in an orthogonal coordinate system in which a horizontal axis represents a particle diameter and a vertical axis represents a relative particle amount to draw a particle size distribution curve, the particle size distribution curve has a first peak having a local maximum at a particle diameter D1 [?m] and a second peak having a local maximum at a particle diameter D2 [?m] that is larger than the particle diameter D1, the particle diameter D1 is in a range of 1.0 ?m or more and 16.0 ?m or less, and a difference D2?D1 between the particle diameter D1 and the particle diameter D2 satisfies the following formulas (A-1) and (A-2). D2?D1=k1×D1??(A-1) 1.0?k1?15.

Abstract: A memory system includes a nonvolatile memory and a control circuit. The nonvolatile memory includes a plurality of word lines, a plurality of bit lines, and a plurality of storage elements. The control circuit includes an ECC circuit that detects and corrects a data error stored in the plurality of storage elements, acquires first data by reading data stored in the plurality of storage elements of a page connected to the same word line with a first read voltage, acquires second data obtained by correcting the first data when the first data can be corrected by the ECC circuit, and writes data based on the second data to the plurality of storage elements of the page.