Abstract: A burden on a user when confirming whether product information is correctly registered in an electronic shelf label (102) is reduced. A management system (100) includes: a plurality of the electronic shelf labels (102) and a management apparatus (103). The management apparatus (103) includes an inquiry unit (114) that transmits inquiry information including first product identification information to the plurality of electronic shelf labels (102), and a notification control unit (117) that performs control for notifying a user, based on reply data from the plurality of electronic shelf labels (102) in response to the inquiry information.

Abstract: Setting or verification of a monitoring rule in response to a monitoring target environment is supported. An information processing system includes a situation information receiving unit that receives an input of situation information indicating a situation in a monitoring target environment. The information processing system further includes a normal situation storage unit. The normal situation storage unit stores environment information indicating the monitoring target environment in association with a set of situation information indicating a situation that is not abnormal in the monitoring target environment. The information processing system further includes a retrieval unit. The retrieval unit refers to the normal situation storage unit upon receiving the input of the situation information indicating the information in the monitoring target environment.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing system including: a comparison information acquisition unit that acquires comparison information regarding iris comparison generated based on an iris image including an iris of a recognition subject; and a display image generation unit that generates a display image including an image indicating a content of the comparison information in association with positions in the iris.

Abstract: To more reliably land a flying body at a desired point, a flying body includes a determiner that determines whether the flying body is taking off and ascending from a takeoff point or descending to land, a camera mounted in the flying body, a recorder that records a lower image captured by the camera if it is determined that the flying body is taking off and ascending and a guider that, if it is determined that the flying body is descending to land, guides the flying body to the takeoff point while descending using a lower image recorded in the recorder during takeoff/ascent and a lower image captured during the descent.

Abstract: A position estimation system includes: an image acquisition unit that obtains an image for estimation including a target that is disposed out of an imaging range of an imaging unit, by imaging a reflecting unit that reflects a light and that is disposed in the imaging range of the imaging unit; a first estimation unit that estimates a first relative position that is a position of the reflecting unit with respect to the imaging unit, on the basis of the image for estimation; and a second estimation unit that estimates a second relative position that is a position of the target with respect to the imaging unit, on the basis of the image for estimation and the first relative position. According to such a position estimation system, it is possible to properly estimate a positional relationship between the imaging unit and the target.

Abstract: A communication system in which a hub station and multiple terminal stations communicate at the same time using the same channel The hub station generates a transmission signal, generates a cancellation signal combines the transmission signal regarding the transmission signal and the cancellation signal, transmits the combined signal, and calculates an adaptive filter minimizing a power of an error signal with respect to the known signal. The terminal station calculates the error signal, generates the known signal for a terminal station causing interference in the interference signal, calculates a correction amount of a filter coefficient in the adaptive filter, and transmits the correction amount. The hub station calculates an adaptive filter calculates the filter coefficient based on the correction amount, and generates the cancellation signal by performing a filtering process using the adaptive filter on the signal to be transmitted to the other of the terminal stations.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices and computer storage media for communication. A method comprises transmitting, from a network device to a terminal device, downlink control information (DCI) over a first set of Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) candidates for scheduling a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH), where the DCI includes at least one of a counter downlink assignment indicator (DAI) value and a total DAI value; transmitting the PDSCH from the network device to the terminal device; and receiving a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) codebook for the PDSCH from the terminal device, where the HARQ-ACK codebook is generated at least based on a first configuration of a second set of PDCCH candidates, and at least one of the counter DAI value and the total DAI value. As such, the dynamic HARQ-ACK codebook can be obtained without introducing additional signaling overhead.

Abstract: An information processing device 1X mainly includes an overall fatigue acquisition means 15B, a physical fatigue acquisition means 16B, and a mental fatigue calculation means 17B. The overall fatigue acquisition means 15B is configured to acquire an overall fatigue degree Ft which indicates a degree of overall fatigue of an object person. The physical fatigue acquisition means 16B is configured to acquire a physical fatigue degree Fp which indicates a degree of physical fatigue of the object person. The mental fatigue calculation means 17B is configured to calculate a mental fatigue degree which indicate a degree of mental fatigue of the object person based on the overall fatigue degree Ft and the physical fatigue degree Fp.

Abstract: A specifying system according to the present disclosure includes an optical fiber (30) laid along a levee (20) of a river (10), a communication unit (41) configured to receive, from the optical fiber (30), an optical signal containing a pattern that changes according to a state of the levee (20), and a specifying unit (51) configured to specify a water level of the river (10) based on the pattern that changes according to the state of the levee (20).

Abstract: One object of the present invention is to provide a bolometer with improved TCR. The present invention relates to a bolometer including two electrodes provided on a substrate and a bolometer film lying between the two electrodes to connect the two electrodes, wherein the bolometer film includes p-type semiconducting carbon nanotubes, and contact sites of the two electrodes with the bolometer film each consist only of a monometal or alloy having higher work function than the p-type semiconducting carbon nanotubes, or the proportion of a monometal or alloy having lower work function than the p-type semiconducting carbon nanotubes in metals constituting the contact sites of the two electrodes with the bolometer film is 10% by mass or less, or the contact area of a monometal or alloy having lower work function than the p-type semiconducting carbon nanotubes with the bolometer film is 10% or less of the total contact area between the electrodes and the bolometer film.

Abstract: To appropriately set a region for providing information about a moving body to a user, and appropriately provide information to a user who enters or exits from the set region. An information provision device includes: a moving body position acquisition unit that acquires positional information about a moving body being movable; a region setting unit that sets one or more regions for providing information about the moving body to a user terminal, based on a position of the moving body; a terminal position acquisition unit that acquires positional information about a user terminal being movable; and an information provision control unit that controls whether to provide information about the moving body being associated with the region to the user terminal, based on a positional relationship between the acquired positional information about the user terminal and the set region.

Abstract: A customer information registration apparatus includes: a matching unit configured to match face data of a customer based on image data acquired by a camera in a shop against face data stored in a storage unit; a storing unit configured to store face data which is not stored in the storage unit into the storage unit in a case where the matching by the matching unit fails; a behavior information acquisition unit configured to acquire behavior information according to a behavior in the shop of the customer; a condition determination unit configured to determine whether or not to delete the face data stored in the storage unit based on the behavior information acquired by the behavior information acquisition unit; and a deletion unit configured to delete the face data stored in the storage unit based on a result of the determination by the condition determination unit are provided.

Abstract: To perform flexible communication control according to variation in traffic so as to satisfy a plurality of QoS (Quality of Service) indexes. A communication apparatus (1) according to the present invention includes: a distribution unit (12) configured to distribute, based on a distribution rule for satisfying a plurality of different QoS indexes set in a plurality of queues (111 to 11n), respectively, a received packet to any one of the plurality of queues; and an update unit (13) configured to update the distribution rule based on performance information of each of the plurality of queues, the performance information being calculated for the QoS index set in each of the queues.

Abstract: The present invention provides a technology that acquires a high resolution iris image more quickly than before. An iris capture apparatus according to one example embodiment of the present invention includes a rotatable movable mirror; a control unit that controls rotation of the movable mirror; a capture unit that captures different regions of a face of a user via the movable mirror and outputs a group of images every time the control unit rotates the movable mirror by a predetermined angle; and an iris image acquisition unit that acquires an image of an iris of the user from the group of images.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices and computer readable media for beam failure recovery for a secondary cell. In example embodiments, a method implemented in a terminal device includes in response to a beam failure on a secondary cell (Scell), transmitting a scheduling request to a network device; receiving, from the network device and on a primary cell (Pcell), a response indicating a resource allocated to the terminal device; transmitting, to the network device and using the allocated resource, a beam failure recovery request comprising a beam index of a beam selected from available beams on the Scell by the terminal device, to recover communication between the terminal device and the network device via the selected beam on the Scell.

Abstract: An arousal level control apparatus calculates a setting value of a control device under a constraint condition using an arousal level optimization model so that a value of an objective function is maximized. The control device affects a physical quantity of a surrounding environment that affects arousal level of a subject. The arousal level optimization model includes the constraint condition and the objective function. The constraint condition includes a physical quantity prediction model, an arousal level prediction model, and a setting value range condition that the setting value is within a predetermined range. The physical quantity prediction model is an explicit function that includes the physical quantity and the setting value as explanatory variables and has a predicted value of the physical quantity as an explained variable.

Abstract: An entity combination and a text representation are obtained as a first fact, and the entity combination and a related predicate are obtained as a second fact. Word distributed representations are input to a neural network, real vectors at appearance positions of entities are specified and used as distributed representations. A first score indicating a degree of establishment of the first fact is calculated based on the distributed representations and on entity distributed representations. A second score indicating a degree of establishment is calculated with respect to an entity combination and a text representation that are not the first fact. A third score indicating a degree of establishment of the second fact is calculated based on predicate distributed representations and on entity distributed representations. A fourth score indicating a degree of establishment is calculated also with respect to an entity combination and a predicate that are not the second fact.

Abstract: A vector load instruction generating unit of a compile device generates an instruction to load a “first group of data units”, which is used as an element A[i] in iterative calculation processing, from a memory into a first vector register in a state of being packed in units of 1-word. Each data unit is (1/2)k word. The vector load instruction generating unit generates an instruction to load a second group of data units, which is used as an element [i+2k] into a second vector register. A vector shift double instruction generating unit generates an instruction to cause a part of a data string, which is obtained by shifting data of the first vector Register and the second register by (1/2)k word as a series of data string, to be stored in a third vector register in a state of being packed in units of 1-word.

Abstract: An optical submarine branching apparatus includes a first, second, and third switching unit. The first switching unit is connected to N first, second, and third optical fiber transmission lines connected to a first, second and third terminal stations, respectively, and switches a transmission route for a wavelength-multiplexed optical signal. The second switching unit is interposed on the N first optical fiber transmission lines between the first terminal station and the first switching unit, and switches a connection relation between in front of and behind a place where the second switching unit is interposed. The third switching unit is interposed on the N second optical fiber transmission lines between the second terminal station and the first switching unit, and switches a connection relation between in front of and behind a place where the third switching unit is interposed.

Abstract: In a camera calibration apparatus (10), an acquisition unit (11) acquires a first normal vector in an image plane and a second normal vector in the image plane respectively corresponding to a first normal vector in a world coordinate space and a second normal vector in the world coordinate space which are normal vectors with respect to a reference plane in the world coordinate space and have the same length. A projective depth calculation unit (12) calculates a projective depth vector having, as vector elements, four projective depths respectively corresponding to a start point and an end point of the first normal vector in the image plane and a start point and a end point of the second normal vector in the image plane.