Abstract: A distance estimation device (1x) prevents the variation in distance estimation accuracy that has been a problem in distance estimation performed using an all-in-focus image and an arbitrary-focal-depth image. The distance estimation device can estimate a focal distance of any subject with a high degree of accuracy, and includes: a first generation unit (10w) generating a first distance map indicating a focal depth determined from an all-in-focus image and a first focal-depth image; a second generation unit (11w) generating a second distance map indicating a focal depth determined from the all-in-focus image and a second focal-depth image; and a distance map synthesis unit (14) synthesizing the generated first distance map and the generated second distance map to generate a synthetic distance map.

Abstract: A sensor chip is a sensor device for measuring a property of a substance by adsorbing the substance on a surface of the sensor chip. The sensor chip includes a diaphragm having a first surface, a second surface, and at least one through hole penetrating from the first surface to the second surface. At least a part of the first surface, the second surface, and an inner wall surface of the through hole is covered with a noncrystalline solid layer including SiOX as a main component, in which substance X is an element having higher electronegativity than that of silicon.

Abstract: A power control system is provided with a plurality of electric appliances and a power control apparatus that controls the operation of the plurality of electric devices. The plurality of electric devices are grouped into one or a plurality of groups, each group containing a plurality of electric devices, and on the basis of state information of the electric devices, the power control apparatus controls the operation of each electric device by group according to a plurality of sets of control contents prepared ahead of time.

Abstract: To provide a video conferencing system that a user can continue to use even when the user leaves for a different location. The video conferencing system includes: a takeover information generation unit which generates takeover information including configuration information on a screen layout used in a video conference held between a first video conferencing apparatus and a second video conferencing apparatus; a sending unit which sends the takeover information; a receiving unit which receives the takeover information; and a takeover setting unit which sets a screen layout of the third video conferencing apparatus using the takeover information received by the receiving unit, so that the third video conferencing apparatus takes over the screen layout and has the video conference with the second video conferencing apparatus after participation of the third video conferencing apparatus in the video conference is approved.

Abstract: A prismatic battery includes an electrode assembly including: a positive electrode including a belt-shaped positive electrode core member and a positive electrode active material layer formed on both surfaces thereof; a negative electrode including a belt-shaped negative electrode core member and a negative electrode active material layer formed on both surfaces thereof; and a belt-shaped separator. The electrode assembly is formed by winding the positive electrode, the negative electrode, and the separator in the longitudinal directions thereof. The negative electrode has, in an end portion thereof from which winding is started, a one-sided active material layer portion in which the negative electrode active material layer is provided only on one surface of the negative core member. The one-sided active material layer portion terminates at a predetermined position between positions at which the negative electrode is folded for the second time and for the third time.

Abstract: In a mobile communication system with uncorrelated channel characteristics, transmission using modulation of data symbols with repetition can improve the performance. However, mapping of the original and the repeated symbols into the physical resources may on the other hand reduce a desired level of diversity when the original and the corresponding repeated symbols map on the physical resources close to each other. The present invention provides a method for transmission, a transmitter, a method for receiving, and a receiver capable of efficiently transmit/receive data symbols with an increased level of diversity. This is achieved by grouping of portions of the original and the corresponding data symbols and by mapping the portions of the original and the corresponding data symbols into the different physical resource blocks.

Abstract: An assembly of pipe hood and pipe unit for a ventilating fan, comprising a front cover, a rear cover and a pipe unit, characterized in that: a baffle is vertically provided in the pipe unit to divide the pipe into an air inlet pipe and an air outlet pipe on the left and right sides respectively; a partition plate is vertically provided in the rear cover corresponding to the baffle to divide the space enclosed by the front cover and the rear cover into an air inlet side and an air outlet side on the left and right sides respectively; an external air inlet opening and an external air outlet opening are provided on the outer side of the rear cover on the left and right sides respectively; an internal air inlet opening and an internal air outlet opening are provided on the inner side of the rear cover on the left and right sides respectively; an air inlet passage and an air outlet passage are formed in parallel to each other on the left and right sides respectively.

Abstract: The present invention has an object of providing an electric vehicle which makes an assisting movement based on an operation by an operator without making a movement when an operator is not operating the electric vehicle or a movement which widely differs from a movement intended by the operator in direction or distance, and a method of controlling the electric vehicle.

Abstract: A base material is placed on a base material placement face of a base material placement table. An inductively coupled plasma torch unit is structured with a cylindrical chamber structured with a cylinder made of an insulating material and provided with a rectangular slit-like plasma jet port, and lids closing opposing ends of the cylinder, a gas jet port that supplies gas into the cylindrical chamber, and a solenoid coil that generates a high frequency electromagnetic field in the cylindrical chamber. By a high frequency power supply supplying a high frequency power to the solenoid coil, plasma is generated in the cylindrical chamber, and the plasma is emitted from the plasma jet port to the base material. While relatively shifting the plasma torch unit and the base material placement table, a base material surface can be subjected to heat treatment.

Abstract: A composite structure 10 of a resin-diamagnetic material, including a diamagnetic material layer 12 and a resin layer 14 is obtained by a method including disposing particles of a diamagnetic material 22 and a resin 24 in a mold 30, applying a magnetic field to the diamagnetic material 22 disposed in the mold 30, and moving the diamagnetic material 22 in a direction away from at least a part of an inner surface of the mold 30, and then curing the resin 24 in the mold 30 thereby to produce a resin-diamagnetic material composite structure.

Abstract: A base-view video stream and a dependent-view video stream are recorded on a BD-ROM. The base-view video stream includes picture data constituting a base view of a stereoscopic image. The dependent-view video stream includes offset metadata and picture data constituting a dependent view of the stereoscopic image. The offset metadata includes an offset sequence that defines an offset control of a plane memory when a graphics to be overlaid with the picture data is played back in a one-plane offset mode.

Abstract: A MIMO receiving apparatus that can demodulate a spatially multiplexed signal without using any division operation requiring a large quantity of operation resources. In the MIMO receiving apparatus, stream separation section (105) separates a spatially multiplexed signal into a plurality of streams based on numerator submatrix A. Numerator submatrix A is determined according to channel matrix H and a canceller scheme and corresponds to a numerator of stream separation matrix S that equalizes the phase and amplitude of the spatially multiplexed signal. Denominator part calculation section (108) calculates a denominator (denominator coefficient) of stream separation matrix S and correction section (117) corrects a threshold determined according to a modulation scheme of the spatially multiplexed signal using the denominator (denominator coefficient) of stream separation matrix S.

Abstract: A physiological sound examination device includes a physiological sound measurement unit; a power calculation unit which calculates power of a first physiological sound and power of a second physiological sound, the first physiological sound being one of two different kinds of physiological sounds measured by the physiological sound measurement unit in a same time period and the second physiological sound being the other of the two different kinds of physiological sounds; a power comparison unit which compares first power indicating the power of the first physiological sound and second power indicating the power of the second physiological sound, to calculate a comparison result indicating a ratio or a difference between the first power and the second power; and a determination unit which determines whether or not a measurement position of the physiological sound is appropriate, by comparing the comparison result with a threshold.

Abstract: An information processing system includes: a main device including first and second engagement portions in a principal surface and a third engagement portion in a surface on the main-device side reverse from the principal surface; and an extension device including a placement portion on which the main device is placed, a first wall portion provided standing on one edge side of the placement portion, a second wall portion facing the first wall portion across the placement portion, a first engaging portion and a second engaging portion formed in the first wall portion, and a third engaging portion formed in the second wall portion. The first engaging portion engages the first engagement portion, the second engaging portion engages the second engagement portion, and the third engaging portion engages the third engagement portion. In the information processing system, the main device can be prevented from being improperly mounted on the extension device.

Abstract: In an electrode-membrane-frame assembly production method, a principal part is formed by an electrolyte membrane, first and second catalyst layers and first and second gas diffusion layers, with the first and second gas diffusion layers arranged with their outer circumferences at different positions. The principal part is arranged in a molding die with a circumferential region of the principal part disposed on a flat region of a primary molded body. A circumferential portion of one of the gas diffusion layers is arranged to oppose a flat region of the primary molded body so that the membrane is interposed between the circumferential portion and the flat region. Subsequently, a secondary molded body is formed to integrate with the primary molded body and the principal part.

Abstract: A transmission apparatus includes a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation signal generators, which generate a first OFDM modulation signal and a second OFDM modulation signal. The transmission apparatus also includes a transmitter that transmits the first OFDM modulation signal from a first antenna and the second OFDM modulation signal from a second antenna, in an identical frequency band.

Abstract: An information security apparatus includes a plurality of monitoring modules that monitor for tampering. A management apparatus includes a reception unit that receives a plurality of monitoring results each generated by a source monitoring module monitoring a target monitoring module; a detection unit that detects an abnormality by referring to fewer than all of the received monitoring results; and an identification unit that identifies, when an abnormality is detected, a monitoring module that has been tampered with from among (i) a monitoring module that generates a monitoring result related to the abnormality, and (ii) one or more monitoring modules identified by tracing back through a chain of monitoring modules consecutively from the target of monitoring to the source of monitoring, starting from the monitoring module that generates the monitoring result related to the abnormality.

Abstract: Drive units arranged on a transistor array substrate include faulty drive units. The pixel electrodes include first pixel electrodes and second pixel electrodes, the first pixel electrodes corresponding one-to-one to the faulty drive units, and the second pixel electrodes corresponding one-to-one to the non-faulty drive units, a portion of each second pixel electrode is embedded in the contact hole corresponding thereto, and is in contact with a power supply pad of the non-faulty drive unit corresponding thereto, so that the second pixel electrode is electrically connected to the non-faulty drive unit. Each first pixel electrode is electrically insulated from the faulty drive unit corresponding thereto, and is connected by a connector to any of the second pixel electrodes adjacent thereto. A surface of each connector facing the interlayer insulation film is entirely in contact with the interlayer insulation film.

Abstract: A chip is layered on a rewiring member. A plurality of connecting members and a plurality of redundant connecting members are arranged in the chip, and electrically connect the chip to the rewiring member. Redundant circuits are embedded in each of the rewiring member and the chip. When one of the connecting members is faulty, the redundant circuits cause one of the redundant connecting members to transmit a signal between the rewiring member and the chip, instead of the faulty connecting member. The connecting members have first and second subsets arranged in first and second regions, respectively. A distance between the rewiring member and the chip exceeds a predetermined threshold value in the first region in contrast to the second region. The first subset has a higher proportion of connecting members that the redundant circuits can replace with a subset of the redundant connecting members than the second subset.