Abstract: An identification device according to one embodiment includes a vibration generation unit that generates, by a vibration generator, first vibrations to be provided to a three-dimensional object to be identified having an integrated structure; an acquisition unit that acquires, from a vibration detector, a detection signal corresponding to a second vibration that has propagated inside the three-dimensional object among the first vibrations provided to the three-dimensional object; a feature quantity generation unit that generates a feature quantity indicating a frequency characteristic of the second vibration, based on the acquired detection signal; and an identification unit that identifies the three-dimensional object to be identified, based on a feature quantity stored in a storage device in which the feature quantity indicating a frequency characteristic based on a vibration that has propagated inside a previously identified three-dimensional object is stored and on the feature quantity generated by the fe

Abstract: A test device includes a first determination unit that determines based on setting information set in advance whether each screen element of a first screen is a non-test target and an execution unit that automatically executes an operation with respect to the screen element determined not to be a non-test target by the first determination unit, whereby it is possible to exclude a part of elements related to a screen from test targets.

Abstract: A conversion apparatus includes: a determination unit configured to, using a numeric value of an amount of a given type as input, determine a conversion method to be applied to the numeric value among multiple conversion methods based on the type of the amount and the size of the numeric value; a conversion unit configured to convert the numeric value into a relative value obtained based on a predetermined reference, using the conversion method determined by the determination unit; and an output unit configured to output a result of applying the value to a predetermined template, and thereby the conversion apparatus generates an expression that is easy to understand.

Abstract: A technology is provided in which a temporal change of a psychological state is visualized in an intuitively easy-to-understand manner without utilizing a biosensor. A psychological state visualization apparatus includes: an input unit configured to receive, as an input, a psychological state sensibility representation word representing a psychological state of a user at a time point and a psychological state index value corresponding to the psychological state sensibility representation word and indicating the psychological state of the user; and a presentation unit configured to visualize and present a character string of the psychological state sensibility representation word and the psychological state index value in a form in which a temporal variation is visible.

Abstract: An utterance pair for expansion necessary for outputting an appropriate output utterance for an input utterance can be acquired.

Abstract: An access control unit includes packet buffers provided for each of users, a packet identification unit that stores received packets in a corresponding packet buffer, a scheduling unit that decides a packet buffer to be the object of transfer, a transfer control unit that, in a case that updating of reference data can be performed at an application processing circuit, and also the packet buffer decided by the scheduling unit is different from the current packet buffer that is the object of transfer, updates to reference data corresponding to the packet buffer decided by the scheduling unit, and a buffer selection unit that connects the packet buffers decided to be the object of transfer to the packet transfer unit when updating of reference data is completed.

Abstract: Provided is an optical modulator having an optical modulation high frequency line through which a high frequency electrical signal can be efficiently input to an optical modulation region and which is in a broadband. High frequency lines of an optical modulator, that is, an input high frequency line, an optical modulation high frequency line, and an output high frequency line have a line configuration in which each of the input high frequency line and the output high frequency line is divided into a plurality of segments, and adjacent segments of the plurality of the segments have different characteristic impedances and propagation constants. The input high frequency line and the output high frequency line may be implemented by changing a width or a thickness of a signal electrode formed on a dielectric forming a micro-strip line between adjacent segments.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to improve the performance of a metal-air battery. The metal-air battery includes an air electrode, an anode, and an electrolyte sandwiched between the air electrode and the anode. The air electrode includes a co-continuous body having a three dimensional network structure formed by an integrated plurality of nanostructures having branches. A magnesium alloy is used for the anode, and a weak acidic salt containing no chloride ion or a salt considered to have a buffering capacity is used for the electrolyte. Consequently, the present invention can efficiently utilize electrons and suppress passivation and self corrosion of the anode, thereby improving the performance of the metal-air battery.

Abstract: Provided are an easy-to-handle primary battery capable of spontaneous power generation and a moisture sensor including the same. The primary battery includes a separator that is disposed between a negative electrode and negative electrode current collector (a negative electrode) and a positive electrode and positive electrode current collector (a positive electrode), and sucks up electrolyte solution by the capillary phenomenon with an exposed portion of the separator 5 exposed from battery casings.

Abstract: When a subscriber terminal (100A) connects to the other party vCPE (310B), a communication system (1) determines whether a connection between the other party terminal (100B) and the other party vCPE (310B) and a connection between the subscriber terminal (100A) and the other party vCPE (310B) are to be established through the same network segment based on connection permission conditions of the other party vCPE (310B) and the subscriber terminal (100A), and the other party vCPE (310B) allocates a network segment, which is the same as or different from a network segment allocated to the other party terminal (100B), to the subscriber terminal (100A) according to the determination.

Abstract: A wireless transmitter/receiver generates a first signal which notifies timing of a time slot allocated to each wireless station device, a conversion unit converts the first signal into an optical signal, and each of a plurality of antenna units converts the first signal from the optical signal into an electrical signal and transmits the electrical signal wirelessly. The wireless station device transmits a second signal at the timing reported by the first signal. Each of the plurality of antenna units converts the second signal wirelessly received from each wireless station device into an optical signal, and the conversion unit converts the second signal from the optical signal into an electrical signal.

Abstract: A control device (10) includes a spreadsheet process additional starting-up unit (162) and a spreadsheet process holding unit (163) configured to newly start up the spreadsheet software when the spreadsheet software has not been started up, and when the spreadsheet software has been started up configured to start up second spreadsheet software when spreadsheet software having been started up has been held such that the spreadsheet software is not terminated, a data entry unit (168) configured to enter information acquired by accessing to an information acquisition source in an information entry portion of a calculation sheet of the spreadsheet software, the calculation sheet being a calculation sheet in which a business logic is set for inter-cell computation on the calculation sheet, and a result acquisition unit (169) configured to acquire a determination result on the calculation sheet when a determination result for the information entered in the information entry portion is shown by the business logic re

Abstract: A groove having any length is manufactured in a quartz-based waveguide chip without limitation of a chip size. A marker indicating a planned cutting line extending from a connection end surface of a quartz-based waveguide chip in an in-chip plane direction is formed in advance by processing a core layer of the waveguide of the quartz-based waveguide chip, an irradiation position of laser light is aligned with a position of a starting point of the marker in a state where quartz-based waveguide chip is placed on a stage, and a groove is manufactured in the connection end surface of the quartz-based waveguide chip by moving the stage in the extending direction of the marker while irradiating the quartz-based waveguide chip with the laser light from an upper side.

Abstract: A communication device is installed in between a client terminal and a web server which performs communication with the client terminal. The communication device includes a memory, and processing circuitry coupled to the memory and configured to of information included in communication between the web server and the client terminal, perform obfuscation with respect to information related to web application, and send communication, which includes information obfuscated at the performing, to destination.

Abstract: A control apparatus configured to allocate a virtual network for providing a network service on a physical network includes: acquisition means for acquiring information indicating an outside temperature of each node included in the physical network, physical resource information of the physical network, information indicating a predicted traffic amount of the physical network, and an allocation request for the virtual network; and calculation means for calculating an optimal allocation of the virtual network using a target function defined using a unit cost defined for each region and for each time slot and a power consumption model taking into consideration the outside temperature and a load rate calculated based on the predicted traffic amount, and a restrictive condition obtained based on the physical resource information and the allocation request.

Abstract: A share generating device obtains N seeds s0, . . . , sN?1, obtains a function value y=g(x, e)?Fm of plaintext x?Fm and a function value e, and obtains information containing a member yi and N?1 seeds sd, where d?{0, . . . , N?1} and d?i, as a share SSi of the plaintext x in secret sharing and outputs the share SSi. It is to be noted that the function value y is expressed by members y0?Fm(0), . . . , yN?1?Fm(N?1), which satisfy m=m(0)+ . . . +m(N?1).

Abstract: To n antenna elements of the base station, n wavelengths set at predetermined intervals in a range in which chromatic dispersion in an optical fiber between accommodation and base stations can be regarded as constant are assigned. The accommodation station adjusts the phases of optical signals of the wavelengths or modulated signals that modulate the optical signals such that the amounts of phase shift of their RF signals are at predetermined intervals. The accommodation station transmits beacon signals multiple times while varying a transmission phase shift interval ?1 and the terminal transmits beacon number information of a beacon signal selected based on received power multiple times. The accommodation station varies a reception phase shift interval ?2 for each piece of beacon number information to determine a reception phase shift interval ?2 which maximizes the received power and determines the transmission phase shift interval ?1 based on the beacon number information received from the terminal.

Abstract: A radio base station device includes a plurality of radio units that perform communication with a radio terminal device, a packet data collection unit that collects packet data communicated by the plurality of radio units on the basis of a packet collection policy, a collected packet data analysis unit that performs analysis on packet data on the basis of a packet analysis policy, and transmits analysis result information to the control station device, and an information processing unit that transmits base station performance information and analysis result information to the control station device, and receives a packet collection policy and a packet analysis policy.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a change detection unit configured to detect a direction change, which is a temporal fluctuation in a plausible direction orthogonal to an edge determined for each pixel in an edge image indicating a high frequency component in an image that is an image processing target, and a phase change, which is a temporal fluctuation of a phase of the high frequency component according to the direction change, and a reliability estimation unit configured to estimate reliability indicating that the detected phase change is not a change caused by noise based on a variance value of the direction change per unit time.

Abstract: An uplink transmission band and a downlink transmission band that are allocated to each of a plurality of users are determined based on allocation information indicating allocation of a frequency bandwidth available to each of the plurality of users, and are output as uplink transmission band allocation information and downlink transmission band allocation information, respectively. Based on the downlink transmission band allocation information, downlink signals output from a plurality of wireless control devices toward a plurality of wireless devices for each of the plurality of users, and the uplink transmission band allocation information are multiplexed, and the multiplexed signal is demultiplexed into downlink signals for each of the plurality of users and the uplink transmission band allocation information.