Abstract: A system and method for processing commentary that is related to content is provided. In an illustrative embodiment, the system and method involves receiving commentary that is related to content and which is generated after generation of the content, and generating data associating the commentary with the content by at least one of spatially linking the commentary to the content or temporally linking the commentary to the content.

Abstract: A sheet container includes a case configured to contain a plurality of sheets stacked in a stacking direction, a first regulating member configured to regulate a first side of the sheets along a first direction perpendicular to the stacking direction, a second regulating member configured to regulate a second side perpendicular to the first side along a second direction perpendicular to the stacking direction and the first direction, the second regulating member to form a rectangular area with the first regulating member under the sheets, a tray configured to support a lower surface of a lowermost sheet of the sheets, and a guide member inclined with respect to the stacking direction, the first direction and the second direction on the rectangular area, and formed higher from a position lower than the lower surface of the lowermost sheet as approaching a closest corner in the rectangular area.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a process for producing rare metals includes the steps of: electrolyzing an electrolytic solution to extract a Re oxide at a cathode; recovering the Re oxide, and electrolyzing the Re oxide in a molten salt electrolyte to extract metallic Re; recovering a Nd containing residue solution; treating the Nd containing residue solution to produce Nd oxide; electrolyzing the Nd oxide in a molten salt electrolyte to extract metallic Nd; recovering a Dy containing residue solution; treating the Dy containing residue solution to produce Dy oxide; and electrolyzing the Dy oxide in a molten salt electrolyte to extract metallic Dy.

Abstract: According to embodiments, a color signal processing circuit includes: an A/D converter configured to convert an analog television signal into a digital signal by using a clock; a color signal demodulation circuit configured to color-demodulate the television signal converted into the digital signal by the A/D converter; a clock generation section configured to generate the clock that is used by the A/D converter; and a frequency control section configured to control the clock frequency of the clock generation section on the basis of a color subcarrier frequency of a color signal included in the analog television signal and on the basis of the vertical synchronization signal frequency of the analog television signal.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a magnetic head for perpendicular recording, includes a slider including a facing surface opposed to a recording medium, and a head portion on the slider and configured to perform information processing for the recording medium. The head portion includes a main pole configured to apply a perpendicular recording magnetic field to the recording medium, a recording coil configured to excite the main pole, a write shield pole opposing the main pole across a write gap, side shields arranged individually on opposite sides of the main pole in a track width direction and magnetically isolated from the main pole, and low-flux-density layers formed of a material having a saturation magnetic flux density lower than that of the main pole, located between the main pole and the side shields, and configured to regulate magnetic fluxes flowing from the main pole to the side shields.

Abstract: A non-volatile semiconductor storage device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a semiconductor layer formed on the semiconductor substrate; a first device isolation/insulation film formed in a trench, the trench formed in the semiconductor layer, with a first direction taken as a longitudinal direction; a device formation region formed by separating the semiconductor layer by the first device isolation/insulation film with the first direction taken as a longitudinal direction; and a memory transistor disposed on the device formation region. The first device isolation/insulation film and the device formation region have an impurity of a first conductivity type. An impurity concentration of the impurity of the first conductivity type in the first device isolation/insulation film is higher than that in the device formation region.

Abstract: A NAND type flash memory having a program verifying function is provided, which can search for stored data at high speed. The flash memory reads search data that corresponds to stored data stored in a block in a front page of the block in a reverse-order search mode, compares the search data with the non-search data from a controller, and returns a block address and a page address of the search data that matches with the non-search data to the controller. At this time, the flash memory checks the match between the search data and the non-search data by comparing “0” data using the program verifying function provided in the flash memory itself.

Abstract: A paper sheet processing system has a paper sheet processing apparatus and a paper sheet bundle wrapping apparatus. The paper sheet processing apparatus sends category information of a bundle of 100 paper sheets to the paper sheet bundle wrapping apparatus when discharging the bundle of 100 paper sheets. The paper sheet bundle wrapping apparatus classifies and accumulates the bundle of 100 paper sheets based on the category information when receiving the bundle of 100 paper sheets. The paper sheet bundle wrapping apparatus bands ten bundles of 100 paper sheets as a bundle of 1000 paper sheets. Since the paper sheet bundle wrapping apparatus receives the bundle of 100 paper sheets of different category from the paper sheet processing apparatus and accumulates the bundle of 100 paper sheets for every category to form the bundle of 1000 paper sheets, the usage rate of the paper sheet bundle wrapping apparatus becomes high.

Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an optoelectronic interconnection film: including an interconnection portion including: an optical waveguide core having at least two optical input/output portions; an optical waveguide cladding formed along the optical waveguide core; and an electrical wiring formed along the optical waveguide core; and a reinforcing substrate partially attached to the interconnection portion correspondingly with one of the optical input/output portions, wherein the interconnection portion includes: a rigid region to which the reinforcing substrate is attached; and a flexible region to which the reinforcing substrate is not attached, and wherein, in the flexible region, the optical waveguide core is arranged to not across a boundary between a region where the electrical wiring is provided and a region where the electrical wiring is not provided.

Abstract: An image erasing apparatus includes: a first carrying section carrying a recording medium; a second carrying section carrying the recording medium; a branching section branching a carrying path into the first carrying section and the second carrying section; a first erasing section erasing an image of the recording medium in the first carrying section; a second erasing section erasing the image of the recording medium in the second carrying section; a third carrying section carrying the recording medium passing through the first erasing section to the second carrying section; and a control section selecting the carrying path of the recording medium depending on an image erasing mode.

Abstract: An electrical component capable of performing hot switching at low power consumption is disclosed. The electrical component has a first electrical component and a second electrical component connected in parallel to the first electrical component. The first electrical component includes a first electrode and a second electrode facing the first electrode with a space in between, the second electrode is moved by a first actuator portion. The second electrical component includes a third electrode and a fourth electrode facing the third electrode with a space in between, the fourth electrode is moved by a second actuator portion having a stiffness higher than a stiffness of the first actuator portion, the second electrical component has an impedance becoming higher or lower than an impedance of the first electrical component depending on a moving state of the fourth electrode.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a posture converting device includes two upstream-side correction rollers spaced apart in a direction intersecting with a conveying direction of a paper-like material, two downstream-side correction rollers arranged at a position spaced apart from the upstream-side correction rollers toward a downstream side in the conveying direction, and a control unit for independently controlling rotations of the four correction rollers, wherein the control unit rotates a conveyance posture of the paper-like material to some extent by making a speed difference between the two upstream-side correction rollers, and rotates the paper-like material to a desired conveyance posture by making a speed difference between the two downstream-side correction rollers.

Abstract: A pulse detecting equipment includes a log compression processor (105) for logarithm-converting signal levels of a reception signal received at an antenna and input therefrom, with maintained frequency components of the reception signal as input, an AD converter (106) for converting the reception signal as logarithm-converted in signal level, from an analog form into a digital form, a first detector (110) for limiting the reception signal as converted into the digital form to a band of a prescribed first frequency, to obtain a signal, to detect signal levels thereof, a second detector (111) for limiting the reception signal as converted into the digital form to a band of a prescribed second frequency smaller than the first frequency, to obtain a signal, to detect signal levels thereof, and a pulse detector (113) for use of a result of comparison between signal levels detected at the first detector and signal levels detected at the second detector, to detect pulses of a prescribed frequency as a signal transmi

Abstract: A radio communication apparatus executes communication by establishing a communication link according to a security level with other device. The radio communication apparatus sets a security level according to a type of service, and discriminates whether the security level is necessary for the communication with the other device. If the security level is necessary, the communication link according to the security level is established. If the security level is not necessary, security level is lowered and the communication link according to the lowered security level is established.

Abstract: A magnetoresistive element includes: a magnetization free layer having a first plane and a second plane located on the opposite side from the first plane, and having a variable magnetization direction; a magnetization pinned layer provided on the first plane side of the magnetization free layer, and having a pinned magnetization direction; a first tunnel barrier layer provided between the magnetization free layer and the magnetization pinned layer; a second tunnel barrier layer provided on the second plane of the magnetization free layer; and a non-magnetic layer provided on a plane on the opposite side of the second tunnel barrier layer from the magnetization free layer. The magnetization direction of the magnetization free layer is variable by applying current between the magnetization pinned layer and the non-magnetic layer, and a resistance ratio between the first tunnel barrier layer and the second tunnel barrier layer is in a range of 1:0.25 to 1:4.

Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a Marchand balun including: a half-wavelength first line including: a first end configured to input or output the single-mode signal; a second end electrically opened; and a center; and quarter-wavelength second and third lines each including: a third end configured to input or output the differential-mode signal; and a fourth end connected to a ground, wherein a thickness of the first line at the center is thicker than those at the first and second ends, and wherein thicknesses of the second and third lines at the fourth ends are thicker than those at the third ends.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device producing method includes the steps of: applying a resist material onto a substrate in which a channel region is formed; forming a resist layer by exposure and development of the resist material using a mask, the resist layer having an opening and a thin-film portion, the mask having a first region through which light is transmitted and a second region through which a smaller quantity of light than that the light transmitted through the first region is transmitted; subjecting the substrate to ion implantation using the resist layer as a mask to form an impurity region; etching the substrate using the resist layer as a mask after the ion implantation to form an alignment mark; and forming an electrode on the impurity region and part of the channel region using the alignment mark as a reference.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a three dimensional structure of a stamper is subject to etch by supplying a pulsed electric currentelectric current to the surface of the stamper.

Abstract: A stiffness detector transmits acoustic waves to a paper sheet at a predetermined angle to excite Lamb waves. The stiffness detector receives leaky waves of the Lamb waves propagated through the paper sheet at different angles with respect to the paper sheet by a plurality of reception sensors. The stiffness detector is configured to specify a maximum leak angle at which a leak amount of the acoustic waves from the paper sheet becomes maximum based on outputs from the plurality of reception sensors in the reception module and to judge a degree of fatigue of the paper sheet based on the specified maximum leak angle.

Abstract: A cryptographic processor includes: first and second round function operation circuits, each of which executes cryptographic processing; and a control circuit configured to operate the first and second round function operation circuits by randomly switching between a parallel operation mode used to operate the first and second round function operation circuits in parallel and a serial operation mode used to operate the first and second round function operation circuits in series.