Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes: an image generator that generates ultrasound image data based on a reception signal received from an ultrasound probe that sends and receives ultrasound waves; a fastener that attaches the ultrasound probe to a subject and fastens the ultrasound probe on the subject such that a pressure applied to the subject to which the ultrasound probe is attached is adjustable; and a hardware processor. The hardware processor controls driving of the fastener, based on difference information between before fastening the ultrasound probe and during/after fastening the ultrasound probe, the difference information being on at least one of positional information on a position of an observation target of the subject, angle information on an angle of the observation target, and pressure information on a pressure applied to the subject.

Abstract: An image forming device includes: an image forming unit that forms an image on a transfer medium; and a controller that controls multiple image readers capable of performing image reading for the same surface of the transfer medium, and acquires reading results from the image readers. The controller is capable of performing failure/no-failure determination for the image on the transfer medium based on the reading results, of switching image reading by the multiple image readers between reading by a first number of image readers and reading by a second number of image readers, the second number being smaller than the first number, and of enabling, while the second number of image readers perform reading, at least one of the other image readers to execute a maintenance operation for the at least one of the other image readers.

Abstract: An image processing device includes a job entry unit, a link setter, an association setter, an additional item setter, and a controller. The job entry unit enters jobs. The link setter associates the jobs entered by the job entry unit. The association setter associates one or more items common to the associated jobs. The additional item setter adds an additional item to one of the jobs, the additional item being for entering correction item information for correcting item information of a predetermined item among the one or more items associated by the association setter. The controller performs the jobs based on (i) item information of the one or more items associated by the association setter and (ii) additional item information of the additional item added by the additional item setter.

Abstract: The present invention provides a luminescent film containing at least a phosphorescent compound and a fluorescent compound, wherein the convolution integral value J of the emission spectrum of the phosphorescent compound and the absorption spectrum of the fluorescent compound satisfies equation (1), the light emission from the fluorescent compound accounts for at least 90% of the emission spectrum of the luminescent film, and the absolute photoluminescence quantum efficiency (PLQE) of the luminescent film is represented by equation (2). Equation (1): J?1.5×1014, Equation (2): PLQE (a film composed of a phosphorescent compound and a host compound)×0.9?PLQE (a film containing a phosphorescent compound and a fluorescent compound) [The lowest triplet excited state of the host compound is higher than the lowest triplet excited state of the phosphorescent compound, and does not suppress the luminescent property of the phosphorescent compound.

Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a desiccant that can be used for passivation of an electronic device such as an organic electroluminescence element against moisture permeation, as well as an organic thin film including the desiccant, an organic layered film in which the organic thin film is layered, and an electronic device that is provided therewith. This desiccant is characterized by including a compound that emits a hydrophobic substance by absorbing water. This organic thin film is characterized by including this desiccant.

Abstract: An image inspection apparatus includes the following. A reader reads a sheet in which an image is printed, reads the sheet together with a background, and obtains a read image. A background member is provided in a position which is to be a background of the sheet when the sheet is read by the reader. A hardware processor extracts sheet outline information of the sheet from the read image and measures a misalignment of a position of the image with relation to the sheet based on the extracted sheet outline information. The hardware processor performs control based on a measured result of the misalignment of the position of the image. The hardware processor adjusts a degree of control performed based on the measured result of the misalignment of the position of the image according to a density difference between the sheet and the background member.

Abstract: A toner container information acquiring method includes: measuring a toner amount contained in a resin forming a toner container; and acquiring information regarding mechanical strength of the toner container based on the measured toner amount.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a sheet feeding conveyor that feeds and conveys a recording medium to a conveyance path; an image former that performs image formation on the recording medium; a medium sensor that is disposed on an upstream side of the recording medium from the image former on the conveyance path and measures one or more sheet physical properties regarding the recording medium conveyed; a first hardware processor that determines a type of the recording medium on a basis of the sheet physical properties measured by the medium sensor; a second hardware processor that determines conveyance performance for the recording medium; and a third hardware processor that determines whether or not to perform the image formation on a basis of the conveyance performance in a case where the type of the recording medium determined by the first hardware processor is a type out of product specifications.

Abstract: A rotation detector includes a motor, a current detector and a hardware processor. The motor includes coils of two or more phases and a rotor. The current detector detects currents flowing in coils of at least two phases among the coils of two or more phases. The hardware processor estimates an initial position of the rotor based on current values of the currents detected by the current detector to start the motor, controls an energization pattern on the phases to rotate and start the motor based on the estimated initial position, and determines whether the rotor stops or is rotating before completing the estimation of the initial position.

Abstract: A detection method of detecting a defined object from an image, includes estimating, on the image, an extreme point area including a boundary feature point that satisfies a criterion related to a boundary of the object.

Abstract: A conveying device includes: a first conveyance member that is provided upstream of the conveyance path; a guide member that is disposed, along the conveyance path, downstream of the first conveyance member in the conveying direction; and a second conveyance member that is disposed downstream of the guide member in the conveying direction and conveys the envelope guided by the guide member, downstream in the conveying direction, wherein the guide member has a flapper relief that has retracted away from the conveyance path such that a rise portion of the flapper generated due to the curve of the conveyance path passes through the flapper relief.

Abstract: An image forming device to which an external device is detachably attached, including an interface that is able to attach to the external device, a storage that stores multi-tier architecture software, and a computer that executes the multi-tier architecture software. The multi-tier architecture software includes a lower layer that includes an operating system that manages the external device, an upper layer that includes an application program that accesses the external device via the lower layer, and an intervening abstraction layer that hides implementation of the lower layer from the upper layer. The upper layer includes an access control program that is able to save path information to access the external device to the storage, and relays access from the application program to the external device by accessing the lower layer without going through the abstraction layer and accessing the external device using the path information.

Abstract: A printing support device that supports a printing process of causing an image processing apparatus to execute a print job includes a hardware processor, and the hardware processor detects a print start instruction, performs setting such that the print job is accumulated without being executed by the image forming apparatus in response to detection of the start instruction, acquires job information in regard to the print job accumulated in the image forming apparatus, determines a printing condition based on the job information, performing setting such that the print job is executed by the image forming apparatus in accordance with the determined printing condition after the printing condition is determined and instructs the application to output the print job.

Abstract: A method, a non-transitory computer readable medium, and a mobile device are disclosed for reducing battery consumption of mobiles devices with location settings. The method includes: enabling a location setting on the mobile device, the location setting having an on state and an off state, the on state being a state in which location services are available to applications on the mobile device and the off state being a state in which location services are not available to applications on the mobile device; checking a battery life of the mobile device; and when the battery life of the mobile device is less than or equal to a preset threshold: changing a status of the location setting on the mobile device to the off state when the mobile device is not running an application that is using the location services; or maintaining the location setting in the on state.

Abstract: An image inspection apparatus includes a first reader and a second reader that acquire read images by respectively reading one side and the other side of a sheet having an image printed thereon, a first background material and a second background material provided at positions as the backgrounds of the sheet in reading by the first reader and the second reader respectively, and a hardware processor that acquires sheet outline information from the read images and measures misalignment of the image with respect to the sheet based on the acquired sheet outline information. The hardware processor acquires read images with the first background material and the second background material having different densities, and acquires sheet outline information of one read image by estimating the sheet outline information of the one read image based on sheet outline information of the other of the read images.

Abstract: There is provided a remote conference system that remotely implements a conference using a plurality of operating devices respectively operated by a plurality of participants, and the remote conference system includes a hardware processor that: outputs a first image shared by the plurality of participants to cause the first image to be displayed on each of the plurality of operating devices; determines an output destination on a basis of a state of a requesting device operated by a requester among the plurality of operating devices; and outputs a second image different from the first image to cause the second image to be output from the output destination determined by the hardware processor in a state in which the first image is displayed on the requesting device.

Abstract: A content aware and style aware neural network based data augmentation model generates augmented data sets to train neural network based handwriting recognition models to recognize individuals' handwriting. In embodiments, the augmented data sets are generated so as to be artificial, and to lack personal or confidential information. In embodiments, the data augmentation model generates content reference sets of individual characters generated in different fonts, and style reference sets of pluralities of characters of a particular style, for example, an individual's handwriting.

Abstract: An inspection device that inspects eligibility of a subject image, the inspection device including a hardware processor and a recording medium including instructions that when executed by the hardware processor cause the inspection device to: acquire the subject image and a reference image corresponding to the subject image; acquire a judgment criterion indicating a range of eligibility for differences between images; detect a difference between the subject image and the reference image; and when the difference is detected, judge eligibility of the subject image by determining whether or not the difference is included in the range indicated by the judgment criterion.

Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes: a hardware processor that determines a focal position of a push wave, and positions of observation points in a region of interest indicating an analysis target range within the subject, causes the ultrasonic probe to perform transmission of a push wave focusing on the focal position, and subsequent to the transmission, causes the ultrasonic probe to transmit a detection wave passing through the region of interest within the subject, and calculates amounts of displacement of tissue of the subject at the observation points on the basis of a reflected wave obtained by the ultrasonic probe in response to the transmission of the detection wave, calculates propagation speeds of the shear wave in the tissue of the subject with respect to the observation points on the basis of the amounts of displacement, and evaluates values of the propagation speeds calculated to create an evaluation result.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an optical lens using an ion-assisted deposition apparatus that comprises an ion source includes: forming, on a lens substrate made of a material containing 40 mass % or more of fluoride, a first lower layer of an anti-reflection film of the optical lens, wherein the first lower layer is a fluoride layer; forming, on the first lower layer, a second lower layer of the anti-reflection film; forming on the second lower layer, one or more intermediate layers of the antireflection film; forming, on the one or more intermediate layers, an uppermost layer of the anti-reflection film; and irradiating, using the ion source, the lens substrate with ions.