Abstract: A station placement design method includes: extracting candidates for an installation location of a wireless base station from point group data in accordance with designated conditions for an installation location of a wireless base station; determining presence/absence of visibility between a plurality of designated wireless terminal stations and the candidates for an installation location of a wireless base station based on the point group data and generating a first list including information in which the candidates for an installation location of a wireless base station and wireless terminal stations determined to have presence of visibility for the candidates for an installation location of a wireless base station are associated with each other; generating a second list including information representing combinations of the candidates for an installation location of a wireless base station that enable all of the plurality of designated wireless terminal stations to be accommodated based on the first list

Abstract: A preprocessing device includes processing circuitry configured to acquire coordinate information of respective vertexes of a polygon for inside/outside determination and the coordinate information of the respective vertexes of the polygon for inside/outside determination and rotate a coordinate to be determined and the polygon for inside/outside determination as preprocessing of determination processing of determining whether the coordinate to be determined exists inside or outside the polygon for inside/outside determination, and output coordinate information of respective vertexes of the rotated polygon for inside/outside determination and the rotated coordinate to be determined as rotated coordinate information.

Abstract: A control system (10) includes, for each type of Virtual Network Function (VNF), a VNF compatibility condition indicating a condition of allocation of resources by which the VNF corresponding to the type is allowed to coexist with other VNFs in an identical computer, and resource usage information indicating resources in use by the VNF in the computer and unused resources. The control system (10) includes a VNF deploy control unit (14) referencing, in a case of receiving an instruction to additionally install a VNF, the type of the VNF to be additionally installed, the VNF compatibility condition, and the resource usage information to determine, from among the unused resources, resources allocated to the VNF to be additionally installed, and a resource allocation processing unit allocating the determined resources to the VNF to be additionally installed.

Abstract: A video coding method is a video coding method for coding an image in units of blocks obtained by dividing an image, and in the method a computer performs processing for dividing the image into blocks, acquiring an intra-image prediction mode predicted for each block, and generating, by using a combination pattern based on the intra-image prediction mode of a plurality of blocks adjacent to at least any one block, determining whether or not the plurality of blocks are to be combined, and performing prediction for each combined block when it is determined that the plurality of blocks are to be combined.

Abstract: A base station allocation support apparatus includes a first calculation unit that calculates radio wave propagation attenuation values between a plurality of wireless terminals in a certain area based on position information of each of the plurality of wireless terminals and information indicating a layout of the area, a clustering unit that performs clustering on the plurality of wireless terminals based on the radio wave propagation attenuation values; and a determination unit that determines an arrangement position of a wireless base station with respect to the wireless terminals based on a result of the clustering.

Abstract: A rotation state of an object obtained from an input video of a plurality of frames in time series is estimated by using an object image obtained by excluding at least a part of a region common to the plurality of frames from an image corresponding to the object.

Abstract: An information processing device includes an extraction unit, an inverse sampling unit, a mapping unit, a generation unit, and a correction unit. The extraction unit is to extract a first feature value of a first image. The inverse sampling unit is to generate a second image having a resolution lower than that of the first image based on the first image and first information indicating a lighting environment different from that of the first image. The mapping unit generates a vector representing a latent space based on the second image. The generation unit is configured to generate a second feature value of a third image having a resolution higher than that of the second image based on the vector. The correction unit is configured to generate a fourth image obtained by correcting the third image based on the first feature value and the second feature value.

Abstract: The ICT resource management device includes: a configuration information management part that manages configuration information of physical nodes and virtual nodes; a layer mapping part that performs mapping between the physical layer and the virtual layer; a location specifying part that specifies a location of a physical node; a device connect destination determination part that determines a physical node to which to connect the device in response to a request for configuration change based on at least one of the specified location, information relating to a service, a network connection configuration of the network connecting the device to the physical node, and quality of the network; a blueprint creation part that creates a blueprint based on the configuration information, the mapping information, and the connection destination; and an orchestrator part that performs orchestration.

Abstract: Provided is an invention for efficiently searching for books used in training to reduce metathesis. A book search database storage unit 110 stores a book search database in which information identifying a book, information regarding a frequency of a proximity number for a mora character notation pair appearing in forward order in the book, and information regarding a frequency of a proximity number for the mora character notation pair appearing in reverse order are associated with each other. A display unit 300 displays a book search screen including a correctly pronounced phrase input region and an incorrectly pronounced phrase input region. A subject pronunciation designation unit 120 determines two mora character notations and a proximity number to use as search conditions based on an input of the correctly pronounced phrase input region and an input of the incorrectly pronounced phrase input region.

Abstract: To estimate a fracture starting point of steel due to hydrogen embrittlement with high accuracy. A steel fracture starting point estimation device includes a hydrogen concentration distribution calculation unit adapted to calculate a hydrogen concentration distribution in steel-to-be-estimated when the steel fractures due to hydrogen embrittlement; a local critical hydrogen content calculation unit adapted to calculate critical hydrogen content at which the steel-to-be-estimated fractures due to hydrogen embrittlement; and a fracture starting point estimation unit adapted to read the hydrogen concentration distribution out of a storage unit. To estimate, calculate, from the hydrogen concentration distribution, a location in the steel in which hydrogen concentration of the critical hydrogen content is distributed, and designate the location in the steel as the fracture starting point of the steel-to-be-estimated.

Abstract: There is provided an optical waveguide component capable of implementing highly efficient optical coupling of an optical element and suppressing a crosstalk between channels in performing hybrid integration. A PLC as an optical waveguide component employing an offset structure includes an input-output unit using a local portion of an inclined surface on the side of a core in an inclined groove of an optical path conversion unit to be loaded with an optical element as a mirror surface. The inclined groove is formed to be deeper than the core in a direction intersecting an emission direction of an optical signal in the core and perpendicular to a horizontal direction of a substrate. An offset unit in the horizontal direction of the substrate is provided to communicate with the inclined groove on the side of an opposite inclined surface opposing the mirror surface as the local portion of the inclined surface.

Abstract: An offload server includes: an application code analysis section configured to analyze a source code of an application and detect external library calls included in the source code as replacement sources; a replacement function detection section configured to retrieve libraries and IP cores from a code pattern database by using the detected external library calls as keys, as replacement-destination libraries/IP cores; and a replacement processing section configured to replace processing descriptions of the replacement sources with processing descriptions of the replacement-destination libraries/IP cores retrieved by the replacement function detection section and to generate interfaces of a CPU to the replacement-destination libraries/IP cores.

Abstract: The present disclosure intends to facilitate tearing a metal sheath even in a case where the metal sheath is incorporated in an optical fiber cable. The optical fiber cable of the present disclosure includes a cable core arranged at a central portion and accommodating a plurality of optical fibers gathered together, an inner layer sheath arranged on an outer circumference of the cable core and sheathing the cable core, a metal sheath arranged on an outer circumference of the inner layer sheath and wound around the inner layer sheath, an outer layer sheath arranged on an outer circumference of the metal sheath and sheathing the metal sheath, and at least one outer sheath tearing string arranged in a longitudinal direction inside the metal sheath.

Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to achieve greater efficiency in searches for illegal (illegitimate) content. The illegitimate content relates to content posted by an unauthorized user without a legitimate ownership of the content. An illegitimate content search device according to the present invention comprises: a content profile acquisition part for acquiring a profile including a posting history of illegitimate content posted by a user having posted candidate content being potentially illegitimate content; and a matching priority calculation part for calculating, on the basis of the profile, the priority of the candidate content with regard to determining whether a plurality of pieces of content is illegitimate content, and elevating the priority of the illegitimate content with a history of having posted the illegitimate content higher than if content without the history.

Abstract: A technique is provided that can reduce degradation of the sound quality due to a tandem connection of paired coding and decoding, and can reduce the operation processing amount and the required memory amount of a multipoint control unit. In multipoint connection between terminals of a plurality of communication networks (for example, a fixed phone line and a mobile phone line) having different communication capacities, when a multichannel coding including a monaural coding scheme of a communication network having a smaller communication capacity is used in a communication network having a larger communication capacity to transmit sounds of a plurality points to the communication network terminal having the larger communication capacity, control is exercised such that monaural codes of the plurality points are output.

Abstract: An analysis device includes processing circuitry configured to perform parsing on a first character string based on a grammar described in a PEG in which a variable is associated with a predetermined terminal symbol, add, to the variable, an element in which a predetermined attribute is imparted to a part of the first character string, the part being a second character string analyzed as corresponding to the terminal symbol, extract an element that is latest from elements of each predetermined attribute from the variable, and determine whether the element extracted satisfies a predetermined condition regarding a context.

Abstract: A semiconductor Mach-Zehnder optical modulator includes input side lead-out lines, phase modulation electrode lines, output side lead-out lines, electrodes that apply modulation signals propagating through the phase modulation electrode lines to respective waveguides, and ground lines. Furthermore, at least one n-type semiconductor layer or p-type semiconductor layer is formed between a substrate and a dielectric layer in a lower layer under the output side lead-out lines intermittently along the output side lead-out lines.

Abstract: A measurement station collects radio base station performance information related to a radio communication performance of each radio base station, radio connection information related to a radio communication performance and a communication status of a corresponding radio terminal station, generates a measurement condition and an expected measurement result based on the radio base station performance information and the radio connection information, and notifies a measurement control signal corresponding to the measurement condition to the radio terminal station through the radio base station; the radio terminal station performs a communication setting of an own station based on the notified measurement control signal, and notifies a measurement preparation status to the measurement station; and the measurement station measures the radio communication performance by causing a flow of a measurement traffic to the radio terminal station through the radio base station, acquiring a measurement result, and determi

Abstract: A traffic monitoring apparatus that monitors traffic of a monitoring target network and includes a statistical information processor that acquires statistical information per specific flow of the traffic, and a packet capture unit that captures a packet of the specific flow, in which the statistical information processor includes a statistical information aggregation unit that aggregates the pieces of statistical information, and a statistical information file generation unit that generates a statistical information file based on the pieces of aggregated statistical information.

Abstract: An optical communication system includes an optical line terminal and a plurality of optical network units connected by optical transfer paths. The optical line terminal includes a light transmitting/receiving unit and a control unit. The light transmitting/receiving unit transmits/receives an optical signal to/from the plurality of optical network units via the optical transfer paths. The control unit performs control to change a launch power of an optical signal transmitted from the light transmitting/receiving unit, such that, when, regarding at least one optical network unit, a monitoring value has changed to a value indicating deterioration, a receive power of an optical signal in each of the plurality of optical network units is lower than or equal to an upper limit value and a receive power of an optical signal in the optical network unit in which the monitoring value has changed is higher than or equal to a lower limit value.