Abstract: A protocol delay measuring device prevents an increase of the processing overhead of a communication terminal attributed to a protocol delay measurement. The measuring device determines the protocol delay by using first and second timestamps created respectively before and after a processed packet is obtained from an unprocessed packet by IPsec processing by the communication terminal. An acknowledges creates an identifier of the unprocessed packet. A timestamp database stores the created identifier along with the first timestamp and writes the identifier in a storage where the identifier is kept the same before and after the IPsec processing by the communication terminal. A correlator reads the identifier from the storage and extracts the first timestamp stored along with the same identifier as the read identifier in the timestamp database. A calculator calculates the difference between the extracted first timestamp and the second timestamp as the protocol delay.

Abstract: A visual processing apparatus comprises a spatial processing unit and a visual processing unit. The spatial processing unit is operable to perform a predetermined process to an inputted image signal using surrounding pixels of a target pixel and output an processed signal. The visual processing unit is operable to input the inputted image signal and the processed signal and output an output signal that is visual-processed. The visual processing unit has a property in which, in an area where a value of the image signal is almost equal to a value of the processed signal, a proportion of a change of the output signal to a change of the inputted image signal when the processed signal is fixed to a predetermined level is greater than the proportion when the image signal is equal to the processed signal.

Abstract: In an alkaline battery in which a positive electrode 2 made of manganese dioxide and a negative electrode 3 are contained in a cylindrical battery case 1 having a closed bottom with a separator 4 interposed between the positive and negative electrodes 2 and 3, and an opening 1b of the battery case 1 is sealed via a sealing plate with a gasket 5 interposed between the battery case 1 and the sealing plate, a thickness of a body 1a of the battery case 1 is in a range of 0.10-0.17 mm, and a half-width of a 110 plane of the manganese dioxide measured by powder X-ray diffraction is in a range of 2.30-2.70 degrees.

Abstract: A display control device (300) which controls display of objects placed on a display screen (111), based on inputs on touchpads (201, 202), the display control device including: an operation ratio setting unit (301) which sets an operation ratio indicating a ratio between operation capabilities of a user for the respective touchpads; an assigning unit (302) which assigns regions of the display screen to the touchpads; a position-on-screen determining unit (303) which determines a pointing position indicating a position on the display screen, based on information indicating one of the assigned regions, the pointing position corresponding to a position of an input on one of the touchpads by the user; and a display control unit (305) which controls display of an object placed at the pointing position, wherein the assigning unit assigns at least either the regions of the screen or the objects to the touchpads based on the operation ratio.

Abstract: A cooling apparatus includes: a heat receiving portion including a heat receiving plate which transfers heat from a heat source to a working fluid; a heat radiating portion which discharges the heat of the working fluid; and a heat radiating path and a return path which connect the heat receiving portion and the heat radiating portion to each other. In the cooling apparatus, the working fluid is circulated through the heat receiving portion, the heat radiating path, the heat radiating portion, the return path and the heat receiving portion to dissipate the heat of the heat source. A check valve which controls a flow of the working fluid is provided in the return path at a location near the heat receiving portion or provided in the heat receiving portion.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first hetero-junction body in which a first channel layer and a first barrier layer are bonded together; a second hetero-junction body in which a second channel layer formed on the first hetero-junction body and a second barrier layer are bonded together; a gate electrode in Schottky contact with the second barrier layer; and source and drain electrodes in ohmic contact with the first and second hetero-junction bodies. At least one of the first and second channel layers has such a thickness that an electron concentration in a 2DEG layer formed in the channel layer is not reduced.

Abstract: A light-emitting device includes: a board; light-emitting elements interconnected in parallel and provided above a top face of the board; light-emitting elements, one of which is connected in series with the light-emitting element and the other of which is connected in series with the light-emitting element, the light-emitting elements being interconnected in parallel; a metal pattern provided continuously under the light-emitting elements, on an undersurface of the board; and a metal pattern provided continuously under the light-emitting elements, and isolated from the first metal pattern.

Abstract: A wiring board includes an insulating resin layer, wirings, and a via-hole conductor. The wirings are disposed through the insulating resin layer therebetween and formed of copper foils. The via-hole conductor penetrates through the insulating resin layer and electrically connects the wirings together. The via-hole conductor includes a resin portion and a metal portion containing copper, tin, and bismuth. The metal portion includes a first metal region including a link of copper particles, a second metal region including, as a main component, at least one of tin, a tin-copper alloy, and a tin-copper intermetallic compound, and a third metal region including bismuth as a main component. The copper particles partially include a plane-to-plane contact with a roughened surface of the copper foil, and the second metal region is partially formed on a surface of the link and on the roughened surface of the copper foil.

Abstract: A pressed-contact type semiconductor device includes a power semiconductor element, on an upper surface of which at least a first electrode is formed and on a lower surface of which at least a second electrode is formed, lead frames which face the first electrode and the second electrode of the power semiconductor element respectively, and a clip which applies a pressure to the lead frames while the power semiconductor element is sandwiched by the lead frames, wherein a metallic porous plating part is formed on a surface which faces the first electrode or the second electrode, the surface being a surface of at least one of the lead frames.

Abstract: An edge router 12 sends a router advertisement to wireless terminals 11 to notify the wireless terminals 11 of the hop limit. Each wireless terminals 11 stores the notified hop limit in the hop limit field of an IPv6 packet. The edge router 12 stores the maximum number of hops in the user's home system 1 and the maximum number of hops in the IP network NW. When receiving a communication packet sent from the user's home system 1 to the IP network NW, the edge router 12 sets the hop limit in the communication packet to the maximum number of hops in the IP network NW. When receiving a communication packet sent from the IP network NW to the user's home system 1, the edge router 12 sets the hop limit in the communication packet to the maximum number of hops in the user's home system 1.

Abstract: A voltage measuring apparatus is configured to measure voltages of respective battery cells of a battery cell array including a plurality of battery cell groups each including a predetermined number of battery cells connected in series. The voltage measuring apparatus includes a plurality of measuring units each provided for each of the battery cell groups. The adjacent measuring units are connected through a communication channel so as to perform current communication therebetween. A bidirectional diode circuit element is connected to the communication channel extending between the adjacent measuring units.

Abstract: A co-clustering apparatus that performs co-clustering processing on relational data to divide the relational data into cluster blocks, the apparatus including: a distribution tendency generating unit that generates a distribution tendency of statistic amounts of the cluster blocks in the entire relational data, each of the statistic amounts indicating a tendency of relations generated in the corresponding cluster block; a calculate calculating unit that calculates an importance degree for each of the cluster blocks based on the statistic amount of the cluster block and the distribution tendency generated by the distribution tendency generating unit, using a calculation method for changing a result of calculation of the importance degree according to the distribution tendency; and an output unit that outputs at least one piece of information indicating the cluster blocks and information indicating the importance degree calculated for the at least one of information by the calculating unit.

Abstract: An image recognition device including: a first recognition unit that performs image recognition within an image to find a first object; an obtaining unit that obtains an attribute of the first object found by the first recognition unit; an object specifying unit that refers to object correspondence information showing identifiers of second objects and associating each identifier with an attribute, and specifies an identifier of one of the second objects that is associated with the attribute of the first object; an area specifying unit that refers to area value information showing values that are associated with the identifiers of the second objects and are related to a first area occupied by the first object, and specifies a second area within the image by using a value associated with the identifier of the one of the second objects; and a second recognition unit that performs image recognition within the second area to find the one of the second objects.

Abstract: A lighting system includes an EL unit having a light emitter, a holding frame that holds the EL unit, and a control unit that controls lighting of the EL unit, wherein the holding frame includes a rail-shaped conductive member, and power and communication signals are transmitted between the control unit and the EL unit through the conductive member. With this configuration, since the connection between the control unit and the EL unit is made by the conductive member provided on the holding frame, which holds the EL unit, space for wiring in a residential space can be reduced. Further, simply by placing the holding frame on a mounting surface and attaching the EL unit and the control unit to the holding frame, they are connected. Therefore, without special skills, a resident can install the lighting system as appropriate and can easily replace the EL unit.

Abstract: An appliance control method is for controlling a target appliance located in a building to disguise the number of people in the building. The method includes: obtaining an operation history of the target appliance (S101); determining a change in the number of people in the building (S102); creating, based on the operation history and the change in the number of people in the building, control patterns each of which is for controlling the target appliance and corresponds to a different one of the numbers of people including the number of people (S103); selecting, from among the created control patterns each of which corresponds to a different one of the numbers of the people, a control pattern which corresponds to the predetermined virtual number of people (S111); and controlling the target appliance according to the selected control pattern (S112).

Abstract: Provided is a variable resistance nonvolatile memory device that achieves, in multi-bit simultaneous writing for increasing a writing speed, writing with little variation caused by positions of memory cells in multi-bit simultaneous writing. The variable resistance nonvolatile memory device includes bit lines, word lines, memory cells, a first write circuit (e.g., a write circuit (60-0)), a second write circuit (e.g., a write circuit (60-k?1)), a first selection circuit (e.g., a selection circuit (S0—0)), a second selection circuit (e.g., a selection circuit (S0—k?1)), and a first word line drive circuit (a word line drive circuit (40-1)), wherein the first selection circuit (e.g., an NMOS transistor (TS0—0—0 to TS0—0—m?1) included in the selection circuit) has a greater ON resistance than the second selection circuit (e.g., an NMOS transistor (TS0—k?1—0 to TS0—k?1—m?1) included in the selection circuit) does.

Abstract: Disclosed is a light-emitting diode element including a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type, an active layer. A first electrode is provided on a surface of the second semiconductor layer. A second electrode is provided in a second region of the principal surface of the first semiconductor layer. A conductive layer is arranged such that the conductive layer covers a third region, a fourth region, and a fifth region in the rear surface of the first semiconductor layer. In the rear surface of the first semiconductor layer, the first semiconductor layer includes a sixth region which is not covered with the conductive layer and which overlaps another part of the first electrode. The first semiconductor layer is not provided with a through electrode.

Abstract: An acousto-optic vibrometer includes: an acoustic wave source to irradiating an object with an acoustic wave; an acoustic lens system which places a scattered wave from the object into a predetermined converged state; an acousto-optic medium portion in which the scattered wave transmits; a sensing light source to emit a sensing light beam in which monochromatic rays of light with different traveling directions are superposed and which is incident on the acousto-optic medium portion; a reference light source to emit a reference light beam in which monochromatic rays of light with different traveling directions are superposed and which is to be superposed on sensing light beam based diffracted light produced by the acousto-optic medium portion; an imaging lens system which converges the diffracted light on which the reference light beam is superposed; and an image receiving section which senses the light converged by the imaging lens system.

Abstract: In a teaching device for robot that moves a flexible body holding unit holding a flexible body and performs teaching of a fitting task of the flexible body to a thing to generate teaching data, a reaching decision unit decides that a front end of the flexible body reaches the thing, a curvature acquiring unit acquires information of evaluation of a degree of curvature of the flexible body when the reaching decision unit decides the reaching, and a notification unit performs predetermined notification about teaching on the basis of the acquired information of evaluation.

Abstract: A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes word lines, bit lines, a cross-point cell array including cells, each of which includes memory cells and at least one offset detection cell, a word line selection circuit, a bit line selection circuit, a write control circuit, a current sensing circuit which detects a current and converts it into an electrical signal, wherein a write control circuit adjusts a write electrical signal for causing a second write current higher than a first write current to flow through the memory cell.