Abstract: A package measuring apparatus includes a control unit and a depth sensor that picks up a package having a rectangular parallelepiped shape placed on a mounting table from substantially directly above the package. The control unit is configured to: specify data of the package in an acquired depth image data by comparing with background depth image data; calculate a height of the package and specify positions of three vertices located on a leftmost, rightmost, and uppermost or lowermost side in the depth image data; obtain two-dimensional coordinates of the three vertices based on a view angle of the depth sensor, data of a distance from the depth sensor corresponding to the three vertices, data of a position of each sensor element, and the number of sensor elements; and calculate a length of two sides defined between a third vertex and other two vertices based on the two-dimensional coordinates.

Abstract: An electronic receipt system according to example embodiments includes: a code issuance server configured to issue a code in response to a request from a mobile terminal and to transmit the code to the mobile terminal; a POS terminal configured to read the code displayed on a screen of the mobile terminal, to transmit the code to the code issuance server for inquiry, and when it is confirmed that the code is one that is issued by the code issuance server, to associate the code and electronic receipt information generated when performing transaction processing with each other; and an electronic receipt management server configured to save the code and the electronic receipt information that are associated with each other received from the POS terminal and when the mobile terminal transmits the code, to transmit the electronic receipt information that is associated with the code to the mobile terminal.

Abstract: Provided is a sensor device including: a sensor device including: a sensor unit that emits light and receives light reflected by an object; and a reflection mirror unit that reflects light emitted from the sensor unit. A reflection surface of a reflection mirror included in the reflection mirror unit includes a first part and a second part having lower reflectance than the first part.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a computer system and a dedicated device connected via a dedicated bus, wherein the computer system implements a monitoring unit via an operating system thereof. The monitoring unit includes a detection module configured to detect the blocked state of the dedicated bus, and a blocking release module activated upon detecting the blocked state of the dedicated bus and configured to perform a blocking release process for instructing the operating system to disconnect the dedicated device, for releasing the blocked state of the dedicated bus, for instructing the operating system to reset the dedicated device disconnected from the computer system, and for instructing the operating system to reconnect the dedicated device to the computer system after resetting the dedicated device.

Abstract: A heat-dissipating structure (1) that can be easily retrofitted to an apparatus that needs to be waterproofed is provided. A heat-dissipating structure (1) includes a first heat-dissipating part (3) configured to receive heat from a heat-generating part (2) disposed inside a housing (8), a rod-like heat-transport member (4), the first heat-dissipating part (3) being disposed at one end thereof, and the heat-transport member (4) being configured to transport the heat from the first heat-dissipating part (3) to the other end of the heat-transport member (4), a second heat-dissipating part (5) including a plurality of fins (5a) arranged in a row at the other end of the heat-transport member (4), and a fixing member (6) disposed between the first heat-dissipating part (3) and the second heat-dissipating part (5), in which a through hole (6a) through which the heat-transport member (4) is passed is formed.

Abstract: Provided is an antenna device whose characteristics are enhanced (radio waves are efficiently emitted from an extended antenna) without need to place a communication unit that wirelessly communicates with the outside of a vehicle in close proximity to a loop structure of the vehicle, thus allowing a high flexibility of installation of the communication unit. An antenna device mounted on a vehicle includes a communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with an outside of the vehicle, and a metal bracket configured to serve also as an extended antenna, and the communication unit includes a housing and a substrate-accommodated in the housing and on which a pattern antenna is formed, the metal bracket includes a first part fixed to the housing and a second part fixed to the vehicle.

Abstract: A product recognition apparatus includes: a storage unit storing in advance, an image database in which image information for learning of a plurality of products and product names are associated with each other and a similar image product name list in which product names of a plurality of products whose appearances are similar to each other are associated with each other, a learning unit generating a machine-learned identification engine; an identification unit identifying a product name using the identification engine; an image management unit storing, when the identification by the identification unit is erroneous, and the identified product name and the correct product name specified by a user are not stored in the similar image product name list, the image information of the target product and the correct product name in the image database.

Abstract: There is provided a wireless apparatus with which a communication range may be prevented from being reduced even in a case where the height of the apparatus is restricted. The wireless apparatus includes an antenna device configured by a substrate including a substrate ground and an antenna element provided on the substrate, and a conductor formed into a sideways U-shape. The conductor includes an upper section and a lower section that are disposed along a ground plane and vertically relative to each other, and a middle section that is disposed substantially perpendicular to the ground plane, between one end of the upper section and one end of the lower section. The conductor is disposed such that the upper section, the lower section, and the middle section thereof are near an upper side section, a lower side section, and a lateral side section of the antenna device, respectively.

Abstract: A teleconference system (1) capable of smoothly progressing a teleconference is provided. A speech determination unit (2) determines whether a voice of each of a plurality of participants in a teleconference indicates speech or back-channel. A voice output control unit (4) performs control so that the voice of each of a plurality of the participants is output by a communication terminal of each of a plurality of the participants. The voice output control unit (4) performs control, when, while one of a plurality of the participants makes speech, another participant makes speech, so as to suppress an output of the speech of the another participant. A count unit (6) counts the number of collision speeches, for each participant. A number display control unit (8) performs control so that a display related to the number of times is made at the communication terminals of a plurality of the participants.

Abstract: A learning unit of an operation management system extracts, according to performance information and event logs of a device to be managed, a first abnormality occurrence period using the performance information, calculates a first TF-IDF vector created using event logs in the first abnormality occurrence period, and stores at least the first TF-IDF vector as a learning model. A recommendation section calculates, using the performance information and event logs newly acquired by the device, a second abnormality occurrence period and a second TF-IDF vector, calculates a first degree of similarity between the first TF-IDF vector in the learning model and the second TF-IDF vector, and outputs recommendation information regarding the calculated second abnormality occurrence period when the first degree of similarity is equal to or less than a predetermined value.

Abstract: A wireless communication device and a wireless communication method capable of improving the directivity of an antenna in a desired direction for a low cost are provided. According to one example embodiment, a wireless communication device includes: a printed board having a substrate surface; a ground plane having a plate shape that is disposed on the substrate surface, connected to the ground potential, and is parallel to the substrate surface; an omnidirectional antenna that is disposed alongside the ground plane on the substrate surface in one direction in a plane parallel to the substrate surface, and is caused to emit radio waves by being supplied with power; and a parasitic antenna that is disposed away from the ground plane in a direction perpendicular to the substrate surface and resonates with the omnidirectional antenna supplied with power.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from the user's terminal, identification information on the user, information on an amount of energy specified by the user, and identification information on the code read by the user's terminal from the display object; a control unit configured to control, based on information in which the identification information on the code is recorded in association with identification information on the supply device, the supply device in accordance with the identification information on the code based on information on an amount of energy specified by the user; and a payment unit configured to make a payment of an amount of money, which corresponds to the amount of energy supplied from the supply device to the user, from a balance of an account of the user.

Abstract: An antenna apparatus including an antenna capable of having both a wide-band characteristic and an omni-directional characteristic is provided. An antenna apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a feeding antenna, and a passive element part disposed in a Z-direction of the feeding antenna, in which the passive element part is disposed in parallel to an XY-plane orthogonal to the Z-direction, is made of a conductor, and includes a passive element with a plurality of slots formed therein.

Abstract: Three elements of a first (¼) wavelength element and a second (¼) wavelength element which have a length of (¼) wavelength at an arbitrary frequency designated in advance and a half-wavelength element which has a length of a half-wavelength at the arbitrary frequency are arranged in a three-orthogonal state where those are orthogonal to each other, one end portion of the first (¼) wavelength element is joined to one end portion of the second (¼) wavelength element, another end portion of the second (¼) wavelength element is joined to one end portion of the half-wavelength element, a feeding point for antenna power feeding is arranged in a position in which the one end portion of the first (¼) wavelength element is joined to the one end portion of the second (¼) wavelength element, and an antenna is formed as a one-wavelength twisted Z-shaped three-orthogonal dipole antenna.

Abstract: A memory system includes: a non-volatile memory that includes a plurality of logical areas; and a controller that controls access to each logical area of the non-volatile memory. The controller includes an execution order control part that determines an execution order of a command received in accordance with a priority set in advance to a logical area specified by the command.

Abstract: In a radio master unit of the present disclosure, a OFDMA preferential setting unit preferentially selects, based on user input information, the OFDMA scheme as a communication scheme for performing communication with a plurality of radio slave units connected to the master unit. When the setting to preferentially select the OFDMA scheme is made, a connected-slave-unit detection unit detects the number of the radio slave units to be communicated among a plurality of the radio slave units connected to the master unit. When the number of the radio slave units to be communicated with is larger than a predetermined number, a OFDMA control unit averages the volume of data to be transmitted and received to and from the radio slave units to be communicated with among the radio slave units to be communicated with, and executes control of OFDMA communication with the radio slave units to be communicated with.

Abstract: A management apparatus is configured to determine whether or not distribution of status information representing a wireless communication status in a public wireless system including at least one wireless station that executes wireless communication with a wireless terminal is necessary. The distribution is a distribution to a mobile communication terminal via a mobile communication system that provides a mobile communication service to the mobile communication terminal. The management apparatus is configured to transmit, when it is determined that the distribution is necessary, a request to the mobile communication system to set a dedicated fixed channel in a public communication network used in the mobile communication system. The dedicated fixed channel is fixed exclusively for the public wireless system.

Abstract: Cumbersomeness that is caused when a protective sheet is attached over a touch panel is alleviated. A touch panel apparatus (10) according to an example embodiment includes a roughly rectangular touch panel (13), a transparent protective sheet (12) having a shape roughly identical to that of the touch panel (13) and detachably disposed so as to cover a front surface of the touch panel (13), a lower-side holding part (11a) that holds the protective sheet (12), disposed on a lower side of the touch panel (13), and a left-side holding part (11b) and a right-side holding part (11c) that hold the protective sheet (12), disposed on two lateral sides, respectively, of the touch panel (13), the two lateral sides being adjacent to the lower side of the touch panel (13).

Abstract: A device mounting mechanism that loads a device into an internal space within a plurality of columns constituting a rack mount includes: a pair of columns provided parallel to each other; mounters respectively supported by the pair of columns so as to be movable in a direction intersecting a plane containing these columns; and a mount bar supported substantially horizontally by connecting one end to one mounter and the other end to the other mounter so as to be rotatable about shafts substantially parallel to the columns. The mount bar supports an upper surface of the device within a space surrounded by the columns, and at least one of the one end and the other end is connected to a shaft so as to be movable in a direction connecting the shafts.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a user's terminal, identification information on the user, information on an amount of energy specified by the user, and identification information on the transmitter transmitted from the transmitter; a control unit configured to control, based on information in which the identification information on the transmitter is recorded in association with identification information on the supply device, the supply device in accordance with the identification information on the transmitter based on information on an amount of energy specified by the user; and a payment unit configured to make a payment of an amount of money, which corresponds to the amount of energy supplied from the supply device to an article of the user, from a balance of an account of the user is provided.