Abstract: An optical fiber sensor device includes a control section configured to compute a physical quantity in an optical fiber installed at plural measurement locations based on intensity of scattered light received, and to compute an average of the computed physical quantity for the optical fiber. The control section is configured to compute the average of the physical quantity based on the computed physical quantity and on a length of the optical fiber. A length of the optical fiber installed at the measurement location is increased as a distance between a light source and the respective measurement location increases.

Abstract: There are provided a target area sound extraction unit that, based on input signals input from plural microphone arrays, acquires beam former outputs from each of the microphone arrays, and uses the acquired beam former outputs to perform target area sound extraction processing to extract a target area sound taking a target area as a sound source, so as to thereby acquire an area sound acquisition output, and a restoration device that restores components of the target area sound in a frequency bandwidth having a predetermined range that was suppressed in the target area sound extraction processing.

Abstract: A medium processing device is provided including: a conveyance section that conveys a sheet-shaped medium along a conveyance path; a drive transmission section that transmits drive force to the medium so as to cause the medium to travel along the conveyance path; an operation knob that is provided on an operation side face of the conveyance section, and that is used for operating the drive transmission section; and a storage box that stores the medium therein, and that is capable of transitioning between an opposing state in which the storage box opposes the operation side face of the conveyance section over a range including at least the operation knob, and a non-opposing state in which the storage box does not oppose the operation side face.

Abstract: Object is to enable a directly-modulated semiconductor laser to be applied as a light source of probe light. A transmission unit configured to generate probe light; and a reception unit including a receiver-side optical bandpass filter that extracts a Stokes component of Brillouin backscattered light from backscattered light which is caused by the probe light in a measurement target optical fiber, and a self-delayed heterodyne interferometer that detects a change in a frequency shift amount of the Stokes component as a phase difference are included. The transmission unit includes a directly-modulated light source configured to generate an optical pulse, and a transmitter-side optical bandpass filter provided in a stage following the directly-modulated light source, and configured to transmit wavelength of an ON level of the optical pulse as the probe light, and block wavelength of an OFF level.

Abstract: A medium processing device includes a conveyance guide that forms a conveyance path, a reference surface guide that is provided at one side of the conveyance path, a trigger sensor that detects a rear end of the medium in the conveyance direction, a first alignment roller and a second alignment roller for aligning the medium with the reference surface guide. The first alignment roller is provided at the middle, in a width of the conveyance path. The second alignment roller is provided between the reference surface guide and the first alignment roller in the width direction. The second alignment roller is provided at a downstream side of the first alignment roller in the conveyance direction. A space from the first alignment roller to the second alignment roller in the conveyance direction is longer than a space from the trigger sensor to the first alignment roller in the conveyance direction.

Abstract: A wireless communications device includes: a wireless transmission and reception section configured to transmit and receive packets by wireless communication; a time management section configured to manage time at the device; and a time synchronization processing section configured to execute time synchronization processing of the time managed by the time management section, using a time acquisition source, the time synchronization processing section transmitting, via the wireless transmission and reception section, a time correction report packet specifying the time that has been executed by the time synchronization processing using the time acquisition source.

Abstract: A radio communication system includes: a radio communication device; and radio relay devices. The radio communication device includes an adjacent node discovery unit configured to transmit an adjacence discovery packet, and a connection destination selection unit configured to receive response packets from radio relay devices, and then select the connection destination on the basis of index values related to communication qualities. The radio relay device includes an adjacent node information management unit configured to manage the index value of a radio relay device adjacent to the radio relay device; a response waiting time calculation unit configured to receive the adjacence discovery packet, and then calculate a response waiting time to transmission of the response packet by using the index values of the radio relay device and the adjacent radio relay device, and a response packet transmission unit configured to transmit the response packet.

Abstract: To reduce the occurrence of an excessive encoding amount or an insufficient encoding amount and reduce the fluctuation range of the bit rate even when there is a change in the area of a region-of-interest or the properties of an image.

Abstract: An information processing unit includes: an attention module having an attention layer and a computation section and that is for a neural network including plural levels of layer, the attention layer being configured to compute an output feature corresponding to an input feature from a predetermined layer and based on a parameter; the computation section that multiplies the input feature by the output feature, and outputs a computed result to a layer at a next level; the first learning unit connected to the neural network and that learns the parameter in a state in which learning has been suspended at least for the predetermined layer and the next level layer; and the channel selection section that selects as a redundant channel a channel satisfying a predetermined relationship between the output feature and a predetermined threshold value.

Abstract: A medium storage box includes a guide member and a liquid spraying mechanism. The guide member forms a stacking space for a medium. The liquid spraying mechanism sprays a liquid from a liquid spraying nozzle. The liquid spraying nozzle has a pipe section through which liquid flows, a first liquid spray hole and a second liquid spray hole. The first liquid spray hole sprays liquid in a direction that intersects an extension direction of the pipe section at substantially a right angle. The second liquid spray hole sprays liquid in a direction that is approximately the extension direction of the pipe section.

Abstract: A transaction device is provided for (1) paying in and paying out a first currency. The transaction device includes (2) a display section to display transaction content, and a transaction processing section to perform a transaction using the display section and an inserted medium. (3) In cases in which a second currency corresponding to the medium is to be used to perform a pay-out transaction in the first currency, the transaction processing section performs settlement selection processing to receive selection of whether to use a settlement rate at the time of payout or a settlement rate subsequent thereto as an exchange rate between the first currency and the second currency.

Abstract: An operation panel structure includes a panel member provided with an IC reader on which an IC medium may be placed. An upper surface portion of the panel member is provided with an elongated protrusion extending along, and in the vicinity of an edge among a front edge, a back edge, a left edge and a right edge of the IC reader, and a concave portion extending in an extending direction of the elongated protrusion, at a position of a side on which the IC medium may be placed with respect to the elongated protrusion.

Abstract: An estimation device includes a first converting unit configured to convert a beat signal to a one-dimensional first candidate signal on the basis of a two-dimensional distribution of the beat signal, a second converting unit configured to convert the beat signal to a one-dimensional second candidate signal on the basis of a two-dimensional position change of the beat signal, and a signal deciding unit configured to decide a one-dimensional signal on the basis of the first candidate signal and the second candidate signal.

Abstract: To provide an image processing system and an image decoding apparatus that can limit compression ratio decrease and image quality deterioration and efficiently reduce an information amount. An image processing system that compresses and transmits an input image signal including pixel values corresponding to respective pixels, including: a dynamic range compression unit configured to compress, by a predetermined coefficient, a dynamic range of each of the pixel values corresponding to a background region other than a region of interest (ROI) designated as a desired region for the pixel values in an image based on the input image signal, to generate a low dynamic range image signal; a coding compression unit configured to compress the low dynamic range image signal in accordance with a predetermined image coding scheme to generate compressed image data; and a bit stream transmitter configured to output a bit stream signal including ROI information, the predetermined coefficient and the compressed image data.

Abstract: A medium storage box includes a storage unit that stores a medium, a handle configured to rotate in a first direction from a first state to a second state and a second direction opposite to the first direction from the second state to the first state, and a rotation restricting portion that prevents rotation of the handle in the second direction. The handle includes a grip portion and an arm that includes an upper surface portion or a top portion and extends in an extending direction toward the upper surface portion or the top portion from the rotational axis. The arm is configured such that an end portion of an arm center line side in the upper surface portion or the top portion is separated toward a first direction side with respect to an arm center line extending from the rotational axis to the extending direction.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an automatic transaction device including: a device casing that is formed at side faces of the device; a door that can be opened and closed to form a device opening at one face of the device; and a device base plate that is formed at a base of the device, a first gap is present between an internal unit of the device and the device casing, the device base plate includes plural fixing member holes disposed in the first gap for fixing the device to a floor, and the fixing member holes are disposed at the device opening side with respect to a backmost position as viewed from the device opening.

Abstract: The sound pick-up apparatus has a first area sound pick-up unit configured to acquire, on a basis of an input signal from a microphone array unit capable of forming microphone arrays with three or more different directionalities, area sound pick-up outputs based on two or more patterns of combinations of the microphone arrays, and a second area sound pick-up unit configured to output, as an area sound pick-up result, a result obtained by integrating the area sound pick-up outputs of the respective patterns which are acquired by the first area sound pick-up unit.

Abstract: A tracking apparatus, including (1) a first target object tracking unit having a first processor, configured to correct a first information of at least one first candidate target object, detected by an image sensor, according to a first predetermined motion model, and to determine a distribution of the first information, (2) a second target object tracking unit including a second processor, configured to correct a second information of at least one second candidate target object, detected by an active type sensor, according to a second predetermined motion model, and to determine a distribution of the second information, (3) a matching unit configured to obtain a plurality of distribution parameters based on a correlation of the distributions of the first and second information, and (4) a false image determining unit configured to determine whether or not the second information corresponds to a false image based on the plurality of distribution parameters.

Abstract: A medium processing device is provided including: a conveyance section that conveys a sheet-shaped medium along a conveyance path; a drive transmission section that transmits drive force to the medium so as to cause the medium to travel along the conveyance path; an operation knob that is provided on an operation side face of the conveyance section, and that is used for operating the drive transmission section; and a storage box that stores the medium therein, and that is capable of transitioning between an opposing state in which the storage box opposes the operation side face of the conveyance section over a range including at least the operation knob, and a non-opposing state in which the storage box does not oppose the operation side face.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a surveillance device that monitors an operation section of an automated transaction device, the surveillance device including: a learning holding section that learns and holds a reference scene data set in which a reference operation is divided into a sequence of action items; a feature extraction section that extracts actual target action data from actual scene data of the sequence of action items in an operation of a user, the actual scene data obtained from an imaging section that faces and images the operation section; and a detection section that associates actual target action data with a reference scene data set along the sequence of action items, compares for each of the action items, determines an anomaly level of the operation of the user, and outputs an anomalous occurrence signal according to the anomaly level.