Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices, and computer readable medium for communication. According to some embodiments, a method comprises determining, at a terminal device, that a negative acknowledgment (NACK) feedback is to be transmitted for at least one of a set of transport blocks (TBs) transmitted from a network device; selecting, from a mapping table associated with the set of TBs, a cyclic shift value mapped to a combination of the at least one TB; generating a sequence at least based on the selected cyclic shift value; and transmitting, to the network device, the NACK feedback for the at least one TB using the generated sequence.

Abstract: A high-level synthesis apparatus generating a circuit description in response to input of a behavioral description describing the behavior of a circuit includes: a hazard detection circuit adding unit that adds a hazard detection circuit determining the presence or absence of occurrence of hazard to a pipeline circuit generated in accordance with the behavioral description; and a circuit description generating unit that generates the circuit description describing the pipeline circuit with the hazard detection circuit added by the hazard detection circuit adding unit.

Abstract: A method (300) for adjusting a detection area of an image to be captured by an image capturing device (402) comprises: detecting person appearances in the detection area from input images previously captured by the image capturing device (402) over a period of time (302); generating a map corresponding to the detection area based on the person appearances, wherein the map comprises a measure of the person appearances detected in each of a plurality of portions of the detection area across the input images (304); determining if a ratio of unutilized portions to the plurality of portions exceeds a threshold ratio (306); and adjusting the detection area such that a focus area within the detection area comprising a part of utilized portions is positioned at a center of the adjusted detection area of the image to be captured in response to the determination (308).

Abstract: The object detection means, when given a frame, derives a bounding box of a detection target object from within the frame based on a learning model that includes multiple layers, and defines output data of one layer in the learning model or the frame itself as a feature value of the frame. The feature value acquisition means acquires a feature value of the bounding box of an attribute identification target object from the feature value of the frame. The similarity degree determination means determines a similarity degree, and when the similarity degree is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold, stops extracting the one or more attributes of the attribute identification target object, and identifies the one or more attributes of the attribute identification target object in the bounding box by diverting the one or more attributes corresponding to the feature value of the past bounding box.

Abstract: A wavelength-tunable optical transmission unit is configured to be able to transmit a channel setting optical signal including first channel information indicating a channel of the first channel setting optical signal. When receiving a channel setting optical signal from another optical transceiver, a wavelength-tunable optical reception unit forwards second channel information indicating a channel of the channel setting optical signal. A control unit includes an arithmetic unit that sets the channel to be used for the transmission by the wavelength-tunable optical transmission unit and the channel to be used for the reception by the wavelength-tunable optical reception unit, and a non-volatile storage unit. The arithmetic unit writes, to the non-volatile storage unit, only information indicating the channel determined to be used for the transmission by the wavelength-tunable optical transmission unit and the channel determined to be used for the reception by the wavelength-tunable optical reception unit.

Abstract: A measure candidate table includes a plurality of measures and indices indicating the effects of respective measures. A measure compatibility table includes combinations of measures in each of which two or more of the plurality of measures are combined with each other and indies indicating the effects of respective combinations of measures. A measure calculation means plans a measure against an attack used in an attack route by using the measure candidate table and the measure compatibility table. A risk value calculation means calculates, based on an index indicating an effect of a measure and an index indicating an effect of a combination of measures, a risk value of the attack route under an assumption that the planned measure is introduced into a system to be analyzed.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to user equipment, access network node, and a method performed by them. A method performed by a user equipment (UE) for communicating via a non-terrestrial network is disclosed. The method comprises receive configuration information identifying preconfigured uplink resources for use by the UE in a Radio Resource Control (RRC) idle state; verify whether or not the configuration information is still valid; and determine whether to transmit data using the preconfigured uplink resources in accordance with the verifying.

Abstract: A data storage apparatus, including: encoding part; and falsification correction part; wherein the encoding part includes code generation section that generates, based on original data and falsification frequency, a code which enables correction of the original data, and includes a tag generation section that generates a first tag which enables detection of falsification of the original data, based on the original data; wherein the encoding part stores the code and the first tag in a storage part; and wherein the falsification correction part includes a falsified portion determination section that retrieves a falsified code and the first tag from the storage part, generates a second tag based on the falsified code, and determines a falsified portion(s) in the falsified code by using the first tag and the second tag, and includes a data correction section that outputs corrected original data by using the determined falsified portion(s) and the falsified code.

Abstract: A system includes a plurality of ledger nodes that provide an electronic bulletin board, and a server apparatus. A first ownership right certificate, the first ownership right certificate being an ownership right certificate that proves that the first user is an owner of an item, and including biometric information of the first user and an object fingerprint of the item, is written on the electronic bulletin board. When an ownership right of the item is transferred from the first user to the second user, the first user terminal requests the server apparatus to register a transfer of the ownership right. The server apparatus generates a second ownership right certificate including at least biometric information of the second user and the object fingerprint of the item, when the first user and the second user agree on the transfer of the ownership right.

Abstract: A communication control device that includes a light transmission condition generation unit that generates a light transmission condition for transmitting the first spatial light signal including the transmission signal toward a first address, a light transmission control unit that controls a light transmitting device to transmit the first spatial light signal toward the first address, a signal acquisition unit that acquires a reception signal included in the second spatial light signal that has received the second spatial light signal, a signal analysis unit that analyzes the reception signal and extracts a second address in a second transmission coordinate system, the second address being included in the reception signal, and a signal generation unit that generates the transmission signal including the first address, generate the transmission signal including the first address and the second address according to a result of analyzing the reception signal, and output the generated transmission signal.

Abstract: Provided is a self-position estimation system including: a reference environment point cloud storage means for storing a reference environment point cloud for self-position estimation; a point cloud acquisition means for acquiring a short-distance point cloud in a wide field of view, and a long-distance point cloud farther away than the short-distance point cloud and in a narrow field of view; a rough estimation means for performing rough estimation on a self-position by registering the short-distance point cloud with respect to the reference environment point cloud; and a precision estimation means for performing precision estimation on the self-position by registering the long-distance point cloud with respect to the reference environment point cloud by using, as an initial condition, a rough estimation result by the rough estimation means.

Abstract: A surveillance apparatus (100) includes: a position information acquisition unit (102) that acquires suitable position information allowing determination of a suitable installation position of an image capture apparatus that surveilles a surveillance target position; an image acquisition unit (104) that acquires an image in which an area where the image capture apparatus may be installed is captured; a determination unit (106) that determines the suitable installation position in the image by using the suitable position information; and a display processing unit (108) that causes a display unit to display the determined suitable installation position by superimposition on the image.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to method, device and computer readable media for communications. The method comprises determining, at a terminal device, an allocation of sub-channel resources based on sidelink resource configuration information, each of the sub-channel resources comprising a first number of interlaces in frequency domain. The method also comprises transmitting or receiving a sidelink signal on at least one of the sub-channel resources.

Abstract: A video processing system includes: an object movement information acquiring means for detecting a moving object moving in a plurality of segment regions from video data obtained by shooting a monitoring target area, and acquiring movement segment region information as object movement information, the movement segment region information representing segment regions where the detected moving object has moved; an object movement information and video data storing means for storing the object movement information in association with the video data corresponding to the object movement information; a retrieval condition inputting means for inputting a sequence of the segment regions as a retrieval condition; and a video data retrieving means for retrieving the object movement information in accordance with the retrieval condition and outputting video data stored in association with the retrieved object movement information, the object movement information being stored by the object movement information and video d

Abstract: The model input means receives input of a model represented by a Hamiltonian. The model rewriting means generates a rewritten model by rewriting one variable selected from variables included in the model into multiple dummy variables subject to a same value constraint. The model rewriting means generates the rewritten model such that sum of coefficients of the dummy variables equals a coefficient of the one variable.

Abstract: An interpolation device includes a gait information processing unit that generates a gait waveform for each gait cycle by using time-series data of sensor data regarding a movement of a foot and specifies a missing section of data in the time-series data, a missing information processing unit that calculates a gait phase of the specified missing section, and an interpolation unit that generates interpolation data for interpolating the missing section by using data of the gait phase of the missing section in a gait waveform with a gait cycle different from a gait cycle including the missing section, and interpolates the generated interpolation data to the missing section.

Abstract: A forward propagation apparatus is a forward propagation apparatus for a neural network, including: a mask generation unit that generates a binary mask; and a layer execution unit that performs an operation for a sparse convolutional layer according to a value at each coordinate of the binary mask, in which the mask generation unit: generates heat maps by performing an operation for a convolutional layer on an input feature map; generates a composite heat map obtained by combining the heat maps, into one heat map by summing up values of heat maps on a coordinate-by-coordinate basis; and generates the binary mask by binarizing a value at each coordinate of the composite heat map by using a predetermined threshold.

Abstract: A quantum key delivery system in which a first transmission device phase modulates a first polarization component of two orthogonal polarization components in transmitted light and modulates a second polarization component, which is the other polarization component, into a signal indicating the second random number sequence, based on a first random number sequence indicating the bit sequence to be transmitted and the second random number sequence indicating the base in the phase modulation of the bit sequence to be transmitted; and a second transmission device separates orthogonal polarization modes in the received light and extracts a clock timing from the signal indicating the second random number sequence.

Abstract: A variable equalizer, a repeater, and an equalizing method capable of reducing a cost incurred due to a plurality of equalizers which would otherwise need to be prepared according to the use conditions of the amplifier are provided. A variable equalizer includes an analysis unit configured to analyze a first spectrum of a wavelength-division multiplexed optical signal amplified by an amplifier, a control unit configured to calculate a loss profile indicating a loss for each wavelength based on the first spectrum so that a second spectrum of the wavelength-division multiplexed optical signal to which the loss profile is added becomes flat, and a WSS (Wavelength Selective Switch) configured to add the loss profile to the wavelength-division multiplexed optical signal.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires height information relating to a height of a capturing position of an imaging device that captured an image in which a face of a user was detected; and a determination unit that determines, based on the height information, whether or not the user is a candidate for person requiring assistance, who may be a person requiring assistance.