Abstract: A motor drive circuit comprises: a DC power supply; power supply lines; an inverter which has upper arm switch elements and lower arm switch elements; and a detection unit for detecting, based on a power state on the previous stage side of the inverter, the insulation resistances of the motor drive circuit and the motor. The detection unit performs a first detection operation for detecting the insulation resistances by using the output of the DC power supply while the upper arm switch elements and the lower arm switch elements are all turned off and a second detection operation for detecting the insulation resistances by using the output of the DC power supply while the elements of one of the upper arm switch elements and the lower arm switch elements are all turned off and at least one of the elements of the other one is turned on.

Abstract: An image editing apparatus includes an input unit configured to input a moving image stream that includes a plurality of frames, an extracting unit configured to extract a specific subject from at least one of frames included in the input moving image stream, and an image processor configured to determine whether or not to perform a mask processing to the specific subject included in the at least one frame of the input moving image stream according to a predetermined output condition which is defined based on at least an output resolution of the moving image stream to be output, and performs the mask processing to the specific subject based on the determination result.

Abstract: A DC power supply system includes a DC power supply and a secondary battery for backing up the DC power supply. When a voltage of the DC power supply is lower than a voltage of the secondary battery, the DC power system adds an extra voltage to the voltage of the DC power supply to provide an input voltage to the secondary battery higher than the voltage of the secondary battery by using an electric power of the secondary battery, and the secondary battery is charged.

Abstract: A communication apparatus has a receiver and a decoder. The receiver receives a control signal including first downlink control information and second downlink control information, and receives decoding area information that indicates whether the extended Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) should be decoded for each of a plurality of terminal apparatuses. The decoder decodes each of a plurality of first mapping candidates in the PDCCH area or decodes each of the plurality of first mapping candidates in the PDCCH area and each of the plurality of second mapping candidates in the extended PDCCH. A number of the second mapping candidates included in the user-specific search space equals to or is more than a number of the first mapping candidates included in the common search space.

Abstract: Provided are a communication apparatus and a method for receiving a response signal transmitted from a terminal configured with one or more downlink component carriers. The communication apparatus includes a transmitting section and a receiving section. The transmitting section is configured to transmit, to the terminal, downlink assignment information indicating one or more resources for downlink data, each of the one or more resources being assigned to one of the one or more downlink component carrier(s), and configured to transmit the downlink data to the terminal. The receiving section is configured to receive one or more response signals for the downlink data, which are transmitted from the terminal. The terminal makes the phase points of the response signals different in accordance with a number of downlink data which has been successively received.

Abstract: Provided are a base station, a terminal, a band allocation method, and a downlink data communication method with which bands can be efficiently allocated. In a base station in which a plurality of unit bands can be allocated to a single communication, when a data receiver acquires terminal capability information transmitted by a terminal in the initial access unit band and the bandwidth available for communication indicated by the terminal capability information can accommodate a plurality of unit bands, a unit band group which includes the initial access unit band as well as the unit bands adjacent thereto is allocated to the terminal, and a communication band movement indication, which indicates the movement of the center frequency in the communication band of the terminal toward the center frequency in the unit band group, is transmitted to the terminal using the initial access unit band.

Abstract: A movement information calculator calculates a moving direction and a speed of the moving person from a position history database. An approach time calculator calculates an approach time at which an autonomous running apparatus and the moving person approach to each other within a predetermined distance from the moving person's position, moving direction, and speed, and the running information. A gaze position obtaining unit obtains a moving person's gaze position from the moving person's position and moving direction, and the position of an obstacle recorded in an obstacle database. A gaze region calculator calculates a moving person's gaze region from the moving person's position, moving direction, and gaze position. A running information generator generates running information for making the autonomous running apparatus run to the gaze region at a predetermined time earlier than the approach time from the obstacle's position, the approach time, and the gaze region.

Abstract: A master-slave device grips an object and performs a task while being in contact with a to-be-treated object. A force detection unit measures force information given to a slave mechanism. A force correction determination unit determines a force correction part serving as information from correction start to end times of force information transmitted to a master mechanism and, as a correcting method to perform correction, a first method determining a gain such that a reduction in absolute value of force information at the force correction part is maintained for a predetermined period of time or a second method determining a gain such that a reduction and an increase in the absolute value are repeated within a range that is not more than a value by reducing the absolute value. A force correction unit corrects information of a type of a force based on the force correction part and the gain.

Abstract: Provided is a makeup assistance device that can assist in makeup/skin treatment more appropriately. This makeup assistance device comprises: a physical condition acquisition unit (260) that acquires physical condition information related to the physical condition of a person performing makeup and/or skin treatment; a makeup/skincare selection unit (280) that selects a makeup, which is how to apply makeup, and/or a skincare, which is how to treat the skin, on the basis of the acquired physical condition information; and a makeup/skincare presentation unit (290) that presents the selected makeup and/or skincare to the user performing makeup/skin treatment.

Abstract: A steam generator according to the present invention includes a boiler, a water supply pipe, a drainage pipe, and a steam supply pipe. The boiler has a first side wall, a second side wall, a bottom wall, a water inlet, a drain outlet, and a steam discharge port. The water supply pipe is connected to the water inlet, and supplies water to the boiler. The drainage pipe is connected to the drain outlet, and extends to a drainage pipe outlet positioned below the drain outlet by way of a curved portion thereof having a shape projecting upward from the drain outlet. The steam supply pipe is connected to the steam discharge port, and supplies steam generated by the boiler to a cavity. The bottom wall has an inner bottom surface downwardly inclined from the first side wall toward the second side wall which faces the first side wall.

Abstract: In fabricating semiconductor packages, a first supporting unit is supported by a supporting substrate with one surface of an adhesive sheet directed upward, the first supporting unit being constituted by attaching the adhesive sheet having an adhesive layer as the one surface thereof and a non-adhesive layer as the other surface thereof to a frame member; semiconductor chips are mounted on the one surface of the adhesive sheet; on the adhesive sheet, a resin portion containing the semiconductor chips is formed by resin-sealing the semiconductor chips; the first supporting unit is removed from the second supporting unit; the resin portion is stripped from the adhesive sheet; external connection members are formed at the semiconductor chips contained in the resin portion; and portions between the respective semiconductor chips contained in the resin portion are cut to obtain individual semiconductor packages.

Abstract: Provided is a heat-insulating molded article of high strength and exceptional heat insulating proprieties. The compound is molded by mixing first aerogel particles coated with adhesives, and second aerogel particles not coated with the adhesives.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to propose heat insulating structure which is excellent in thermal insulating properties and higher in strength. The heat insulating structure includes: an aerogel layer including aerogel particles, adhesive, and fibers; and a retainer which is provided to at least one face of the aerogel layer and includes fiber materials and binder resin. Each of the fibers is part of one of the fiber materials included in the retainer.

Abstract: In a method of managing an electrical device, details of at least one operation performed using any one of one or more operation terminals to operate an electrical device are stored (S800); and when a state of running of the electrical device is displayed according to the details of at least one operation that are stored (S810), (i) information indicating which one of the one or more operation terminals has been used in operating the running and (ii) information indicating whether or not the details of at least one operation for the running have been performed using, among the one or more operation terminals, one operation terminal that is present in a same home as the electrical device are presented (S820, S830).

Abstract: An information communication method for use in a portable terminal, e.g., a wristwatch, to obtain information includes a light receiving step of, by at least one of plural solar cells incorporated in the portable terminal and having respective directivities, receiving visible light that is emitted in a direction corresponding to the directivity of the relevant solar cell, and an information acquisition step of obtaining information by demodulating a signal that is specified by the received visible light.

Abstract: An input device includes a touch panel which detects proximity or contact of a detection target, a coordinates extraction unit which extracts coordinates information including at least a z coordinate, in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the touch panel, of the proximity or contact-detected detection target, and a control unit which determines a contact threshold value for detection of contact of the detection target to the touch panel on the basis of coordinates information of the detection target extracted with an initial manipulation on the surface of the touch panel.

Abstract: A lighting apparatus includes a light source module and a power supply module. The light source module includes an electrical light source and a transmitter circuit configured to transmit a wireless signal containing information about the light source. The power supply module is connected to the light source module and includes a power supply circuit configured to generate electric power for the light source, a receiver circuit configured to receive the wireless signal transmitted from the transmitter circuit, and a control circuit configured to control the power supply circuit in accordance with the wireless signal received through the receiver circuit.

Abstract: Batteries 100 are accommodated in a case 20, wherein the batteries 100 each include an opening portion 8a for releasing gas produced in an associated one of the batteries to outside the battery, the case 20 is partitioned into an accommodation section 50 configured to accommodate the batteries 100 and an exhaust passage 60 configured to expel the gas released from at least one of the opening portions 8a of the batteries 100 to outside the case 20, the opening portions 8a of the batteries 100 are allowed to communicate with the exhaust passage 60 through sealed connection passages 40, and a one-way open valve 70 which is configured to open only along a direction from the opening portion 8a of the battery 100 to the exhaust passage 60 is provided in an intermediate portion or at an end of each of the connection passages 40.

Abstract: A video coding method enables reduction in the decrease in the efficiency of coding a video and enhancement of the image quality of the resulting decoded video. The video coding method includes predicting a video signal to generate a prediction signal; calculating, as a prediction error signal, the difference between the video signal and a prediction signal; and generating a reconstructed video signal by reconstructing the video signal based on the prediction signal and the prediction error signal. The video coding method also includes determining filter data items that are used to filter each of at least two of the prediction signal, the prediction error signal, and the reconstructed video signal; and coding the determined filter data items based on the cross correlations between the determined filter data items.

Abstract: In an electronic component mounting method, a light-emitting element is temporarily fixed to a board by solder paste and adhesive, the adhesive is cured to fix a main body of the light-emitting element to the board, and solder is melted to bond a terminal of the light-emitting element to the board. The method includes: detecting a positional deviation of an emission portion in a top surface of the light-emitting element; detecting a position of the light-emitting element in a state in which the light-emitting element is held by an absorption nozzle; positioning the emission portion to a prescribed position on the board based on the positional deviation and the position of the light-emitting element; mounting the light-emitting element on the board at a position deviated from the prescribed position by the positional deviation; curing the adhesive; and heating the board to melt the solder.