Abstract: It is possible to provide a battery having a favorable output property. The battery according to the present invention relates to Goals 3, 7, 11, and 12 of the SDGs. The battery according to the present invention includes a stacked electrode body having a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a plurality of solid electrolyte layers that are adjacent to each other across the positive electrode or the negative electrode, in which the solid electrolyte layers that are adjacent to each other across the positive electrode or the negative electrode are bonded to each other at at least portions of their ends. The solid electrolyte layers that are adjacent to each other across the positive electrode or the negative electrode are bonded to each other at a portion having a length of 50% or more of the entire peripheral length of the solid electrolyte layers.

Abstract: A vehicle information display apparatus using a part of a shield glass of a vehicle to display information on an inside of the vehicle includes: a video display apparatus provided inside the vehicle to project video light of the information; a transparent sheet provided on an inner surface of the display region set to the part of the shield glass; and a light direction converting panel to convert a direction of the video light from the video display apparatus toward the transparent sheet. The transparent sheet includes a phase difference plate, an absorption type polarizing plate to absorb a specific polarized wave, and a transparent sheet member having a light diffusion effect in order from the shield glass side toward the video display apparatus. The information by the video light whose direction is converted by the light direction converting panel is displayed to the inside of the vehicle.

Abstract: An information processing system comprising a portable information device, a relay apparatus that connects the portable information device to a network, and a server. The server includes a library in which, for each relay apparatus, an area where the relay apparatus is present is registered in association with relay apparatus identification information. The portable information device obtains connection authentication from the relay apparatus installed in an area where the own device is present, and when the authentication is successful, the relay apparatus that provides the authentication transmits the relay apparatus identification information to the server.

Abstract: A broadcast receiving includes a broadcast receiver that receives a broadcast wave of a digital broadcasting service; a separator that separates coded program video data, program-cooperation data, and screen layout control information, from the broadcast wave; a video decoder that decodes the coded program video data to reproduce program video information; a cooperation information generator that interprets the program-cooperation data to generate program-cooperation information; and a control unit that, when an instruction to display a given screen is input while the presentation processor divides video display region into sub-regions based on the screen layout control information, places the program video information in one of the sub-regions, places the program-cooperation information in another sub-region, and outputs the data of the video display region as the video information, outputs information of the given screen as the video information without dividing the video display region based on the screen

Abstract: A stereo imaging device is capable of detecting a target with a high precision, while photographing a wide range. The stereo imaging device has an imaging unit 5 including a lens and an imaging sensor. The lens has a low distortion region and a high distortion region, the low distortion region being a portion having a distortion smaller than a predetermined amount, the high distortion region being a portion having a distortion larger than the low distortion region. A cutout unit outputs an image from which a range including a detection target has been cut out from an area photographed through the low distortion region, such output being performed for image photographed by a pair of imaging units when a detection target is present within an area photographed through the low distortion region. A detection unit detects a detection target based on the cutout image.

Abstract: An image encoding method for encoding an image, includes: a prediction image generation step generating a synthesis-prediction image by performing synthesis processing synthesizing an inter-prediction image and an intra-prediction image to an encoding-target block; and an encoding step encoding a difference between the prediction image generated in the prediction image generation step and a pixel value of an image of the encoding-target block, a plurality of intra prediction types are allowed to be used as the intra prediction used for the synthesis processing, and the plurality of intra prediction types include an in-screen block copy prediction, the synthesis processing includes weighting processing performed to the inter-prediction image and the intra-prediction image, and a weighting parameter of the intra-prediction image in the weighting processing is determined in accordance with an intra prediction type of the encoding-target block and prediction mode combination of a plurality of blocks adjacent to t

Abstract: A positive electrode of the present invention for an all-solid-state battery includes a positive electrode mixture that contains a positive electrode active material, a solid electrolyte, and a carbon material. The carbon material contains graphene. The content percentage of the solid electrolyte in the positive electrode mixture is 17 to 46% by mass. The content percentage of the graphene in the positive electrode mixture is 1.5 to 7% by mass. The percentage of the graphene in the carbon material is 70% by mass or more. An all-solid-state battery of the present invention includes an electrode body in which the positive electrode of the present invention for an all-solid-state battery, a solid electrolyte layer, and a negative electrode are stacked.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a windshield, a display panel, a virtual image optical system forming an optical path of an image light emitted from the display panel onto the windshield, an outer housing, and a control circuit to control the display panel. The outer housing includes an outer case accommodating the virtual image optical system and having the image display panel attached thereto, an upper cover from which the image light is emitted, and a bottom cover covering a bottom portion of the outer case and having fins on an outer surface thereof. The bottom cover accommodates the display panel and the bottom surface of the outer case when fixed to the outer case and the display panel to isolate them from an external space of the outer housing. A heat conductive portion having a thermal conductivity higher than that of air is between the control circuit and the bottom cover.

Abstract: A mobile terminal device including a camera for imaging the person to be photographed and a flexible and foldable display is provided with a line of sight detection unit for detecting a line of sight of the person to be photographed. Here, when photographing in the state where the mobile terminal device is folded, the mobile terminal device displays a mirror image on the display part on the side of the person to be photographed when it has been identified that the line of sight direction of the person to be photographed detected by the line of sight detection unit is directed to the display part on the side of the person to be photographed, the camera, or at least the mobile terminal device itself.

Abstract: A virtual object display device comprises a display and a display control device configured to perform display control of the display. The display control device includes: a coordinate system calculation unit configured to detect movement and rotation of the virtual object display device in a real world, and use an inertial coordinate system in which a coordinate origin thereof follows the movement of the virtual object display device and an effective field of view of the display is rotated therein in accordance with the rotation of the virtual object display device so as to define an arrangement position of an inertial coordinate system virtual object; and a display control unit configured to, when the inertial coordinate system virtual object is included in the effective field of view of the display, display the inertial coordinate system virtual object within the effective field of view.

Abstract: A user authentication system includes a main body device and an authentication device. The main body device has an authentication code transmission requesting unit, a verification unit, and an unlocking unit. The authentication code transmission requesting unit generates an authentication code transmission request including a first value, and transmits the authentication code transmission request to the authentication device. The authentication device generates an authentication code in response to the first value in the authentication code transmission request, and transmits the authentication code to the main body device. The verification unit determines that authentication is successful if the authentication code is received from the authentication device. When the verification unit determines that the authentication is successful, the unlocking unit enables a predetermined functionality.

Abstract: To provide a transmission-type electromagnetic-wave absorber that can satisfactorily absorb electromagnetic waves of high frequencies in or above the millimeter-wave band while reducing the reflection of electromagnetic waves on the surface of the absorber. The transmission-type electromagnetic-wave absorber includes an electromagnetic-wave absorbing layer 1 containing a magnetic iron oxide 1a that magnetically resonates at a frequency in or above the millimeter-wave band and a binder 1b containing an organic material. The real part of the complex relative permittivity of the electromagnetic-wave absorber is 5.5 or less at 1 GHz.

Abstract: The non-aqueous electrolyte battery is excellent in high-temperature storage characteristics and load characteristics at low temperature. A non-aqueous electrolyte battery of the present invention includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator, and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The negative electrode includes a lithium layer, a lithium-aluminum alloy layer formed on a surface of the lithium layer, and a carbon layer on the lithium-aluminum alloy layer. The non-aqueous electrolyte battery of the present invention can be manufactured by a method for manufacturing a non-aqueous electrolyte battery that includes providing an aluminum layer on the surface of the lithium layer to obtain a laminate, forming the carbon layer on a surface of the aluminum layer to obtain a laminate for a negative electrode, and causing the lithium layer and the aluminum layer of the laminate for a negative electrode to react with each other to form the lithium-aluminum alloy layer.

Abstract: A digital assistant function is provided to individual users even when a primary device having the digital assistant function is at a location away from a hand of a user. An information processing device that relays sound data to a primary device that executes a digital assistant process includes: a sound acquiring unit that acquires surrounding sounds as sound data; a destination device determination unit that determines a destination primary device which is the primary device that is a destination of the sound data; a transmitting and receiving unit that transmits the sound data to the destination primary device and receives, from the destination primary device, a result of a digital assistant process executed depending on the sound data as a reply; and a reply presentation unit that presents the reply received at the transmitting and receiving unit.

Abstract: An information display device for displaying activity schedule of an assigned user provided with one of seats in advance, detects position and direction of the information display device; acquires distance from the information display device to a display target seat of an assigned user whose activity schedule is to be displayed; uses the position, the direction, and the distance to calculate display seat position of the display target seat; extracts, from a table which registers assigned user information of assigned users of the seats in association with registration seat position of the seats, one piece of the assigned user information registered in association with one piece of the registration seat position which is closest to the display seat position; acquires current activity schedule registered in association with the one piece of the assigned user information; and displays the acquired activity schedule on a display unit.

Abstract: The all-solid-state battery 1 includes: an exterior can 2 with a bottom 21; a seal can 3 having a flat portion 31 and facing the exterior can 2; and a power generation element 4 contained between the exterior can 2 and seal can 3, where at least one of the inner surface of the bottom 21 of the exterior can 2 and the inner surface of the flat portion 31 of the seal can 3 includes a recess-protrusion structure. The battery includes a conductive sheet 5 located between that one of the inner surfaces which includes the recess-protrusion structure and the power generation element 4, the conductive sheet having an ability to recover against a pressing force. The rate of recovery of the conductive sheet 5 against a pressing force is not lower than 7%.

Abstract: The information processing terminal that performs automatic response, comprises: a database configured to store personal information of a user of the information processing terminal; a receiver configured to receive an access and a message from an access partner; an automatic response unit configured to, after receiving the access, perform a request to the access partner to transmit the message when an operation in response to the access is not input in the information processing terminal, and create a response to the message which has been received in response to the request; and a transmitter configured to transmit the response to the access partner, wherein the automatic response unit includes: an intention recognition unit configured to recognize an intension of the message; and a response creation unit configured to create a response to the message by referring to the intension of the message and the personal information.

Abstract: More suitable image encoding technique and image decoding technique are provided. An image encoding method for encoding an image includes: a predicted image generation step of generating a predicted image of a synthesis prediction by performing synthesis processing of synthesizing a predicted image of an inter prediction and a predicted image of an intra prediction to an encoding-target block; and an encoding step of encoding a difference between the predicted image generated in the predicted image generation step and a pixel value of an image of the encoding-target block, the synthesizing processing includes weighting processing performed to the predicted image of the inter prediction and the predicted image of the intra prediction, and a weighting parameter of the weighting processing is determined in accordance with a type of the intra prediction.

Abstract: In a linked display system in which wireless communication connection between a first information device and a second information device has been established, when the first information device transmits text data to the second information device in a state of displaying content containing the text data and image data, the second information device displays the text data while the first information device stops displaying the text data and enlarges and displays the image data.

Abstract: In a broadcast receiving apparatus including: a broadcast receiving unit configured to receive control information regarding contents of digital broadcasting and content protection for the contents; an accumulation unit configured to accumulate the contents received by the broadcast receiving unit; a video output unit configured to output video of the contents received by the broadcast receiving unit or video of the contents accumulated by the accumulation unit to external equipment; an interface; and a control unit, switching of content protecting processes are executed in accordance with the number of pixels of video of contents in a first video outputting process state to output contents to external equipment without accumulation, a second video outputting process state to output contents to external equipment after an accumulating process, a copying process state, and a moving process state, and control is executed.