Abstract: A parameter determination method includes: determining N, N being a natural number greater than 1, first regions included in at least a part of a first image acquired by capturing a target with a first optical device positioned at a first position and whose internal parameters are known, or the first image projected from the first optical device; determining N second regions corresponding to the respective N first regions in a one-to-one manner in a second image acquired by capturing the target with a second optical device positioned at a second position different from the first and whose internal parameters are known; determining N homographies between the N first regions and the N second regions in a one-to-one manner; and determining at least one of a first parameter related to the second optical device and a second parameter related to the capturing target by decomposing each of the N homographies.

Abstract: A projection image adjustment method includes acquiring a captured image produced by capturing an image of a range containing a first and second region in a situation wherein a first projector projects a first image having uniform luminance toward a first region and a second projector projects a second image having uniform luminance toward a second region overlapping part of the first region, identifying based on the captured image the brightness at a third region where the first region and the second region overlap each other, and the brightness at a fourth region that is part of the first region and does not overlap with the second region, adjusting the first image when the fourth region is darker than the third region, and not performing correction that adjusts the first image to increase the highest brightness at the fourth region when the fourth region is brighter than the third region.

Abstract: A print material storage container has: a substrate on which an electric circuit having terminals is provided; a fixing portion on which the substrate can be mounted by re-fixing; and a fixing member that fixes the fixing portion and a non-terminal portion, which is formed by excluding the terminals from the substrate, to each other. The non-terminal portion includes a re-fixed portion, which can be re-fixed to the fixing portion by the fixing member.

Abstract: A light source device according to the present disclosure includes a first light source configured to emit a first light flux, a second light source configured to emit a second light flux, a third light source configured to emit a third light flux, a first light combiner configured to enlarge a first light flux width of the first light flux, and combine the first light flux and the second light flux to generate a first combined light flux, and a second light combiner configured to combine the first combined light flux and the third light flux with each other to generate a second combined light flux. The first light flux width is equal to a second light flux width of the second light flux or smaller than the second light flux width, and the first light flux width is smaller than a third light flux width.

Abstract: A liquid storage container includes: a liquid storage portion including a storage-portion outer shell for storing liquid inside; and an adapter including an adapter outer shell and an insertion opening that is formed in the adapter outer shell and into which a liquid introduction portion of a container attachment portion is inserted, the storage-portion outer shell has a first-type color in a degree that does not allow light to pass through the storage-portion outer shell, and the adapter outer shell has a second-type color having a color difference with respect to a color of the liquid larger than or equal to a threshold.

Abstract: The vibrator element includes a vibrating arm provided with an arm part, and a weight part which has a weight, the weight is provided with at least one processing scar, when an axis which overlaps a center in a width direction of the vibrating arm, and which extends along an extending direction of the vibrating arm is a central axis, and an axis which overlaps a centroid of the vibrating arm, and which extends along the extending direction of the vibrating arm is a centroid axis, the processing scar is formed in at least an area at an opposite side to the centroid axis, and S1<S2 an area of the processing scar located at the centroid axis side with respect to the central axis is S1, and an area of the processing scar located at an opposite side to the centroid axis with respect to the central axis is S2.

Abstract: A waveform determination method is disclosed that includes acquiring second timing information regarding a timing at which the flight distance of the droplet reaches the first distance when each of the plurality of waveform candidates indicated by the second waveform information is used, and a determination step of determining a waveform of each of the first drive pulse and the second drive pulse based on the first timing information and the second timing information.

Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes a pressure chamber plate having a plurality of pressure chambers arranged in a first direction, a vibrating plate disposed at a position further than the pressure chamber plate in a second direction intersecting the first direction, at least one first electrode disposed at a position further than the vibrating plate in the second direction, a piezoelectric layer disposed at a position further than the first electrode in the second direction, and a second electrode disposed at a position further than the first electrode in the second direction. The piezoelectric layer has a first area that does not overlap the first electrode in the first direction and a second area that overlaps the first electrode in the first direction, and the first area exhibits a first preferred orientation and the second area exhibits the first preferred orientation when the piezoelectric layer is analyzed by X-ray diffraction.

Abstract: A medium feeding device includes a feeding roller that is provided in a medium feeding path through which a medium is fed and that feeds a medium downstream by rotating in the forward direction in response to power of a motor, a nip roller that is provided in the medium feeding path and that nips a medium in cooperation with the feeding roller and rotates, and a controller configured to control the motor. Based on an increase in a variation value varying in accordance with a drive load of the motor, the controller controls the motor and causes the feeding roller to start a medium feeding operation.

Abstract: A recording system includes: a recording apparatus; a post-processing apparatus; and a transport apparatus which transports the medium to which the recording is performed to the post-processing apparatus, and the transport apparatus includes a transport mechanism which transports a medium to which the recording is performed to the post-processing apparatus, and a loading stand which loads the discharged medium without transporting the medium to which the recording is performed to the post-processing apparatus.

Abstract: A PC that is communicatable with a server device. The PC includes: a PC memory storing a first application; and a PC processor. The PC processor functions as, by executing the first application, a registration unit configured to register a printer, a generation unit configured to automatically generate, for the printer registered by the registration unit, a hot folder for storing a print job transmitted from the server device, and a notification unit configured to notify the server device of path information indicating a folder path of the hot folder generated by the generation unit.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a first absorbing member (extended absorbing member or the like) that absorbs a liquid discarded from a discharge head to an outer side of an end portion of a medium supported by a support section as a waste liquid. The recording apparatus includes a second absorbing member (waste liquid absorbing member) that absorbs the waste liquid sent from a cap, an accommodating section (waste liquid box) that holds the second absorbing member, and a delivery section that delivers the liquid between the first absorbing member and the second absorbing member. In a state where the accommodating section is inserted into an apparatus main body, the delivery section 141 is inclined downward from the first absorbing member toward the second absorbing member, and an inclination of the delivery section when the accommodating section is removed from the apparatus main body varies depending on an inserted state.

Abstract: A driving waveform determining method with which a waveform of a driving pulse applied to a driving element provided in a liquid ejecting head that ejects a liquid is determined includes: a first step of measuring, by performing a simulation, ejection characteristics of the liquid from the liquid ejecting head when a waveform candidate is used for the driving pulse; a second step of measuring, by performing an actual measurement, the ejection characteristics of the liquid from the liquid ejecting head when the waveform candidate is used for the driving pulse; and a third step of determining the waveform of the driving pulse in accordance with a measurement result obtained in the first step and a measurement result obtained in the second step.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a head unit having a plurality of nozzles ejecting an ink, the head unit including a filter provided with holes through which the ink can pass, a first nozzle row formed by the plurality of nozzles, and a second nozzle row formed by the plurality of nozzles, and a mounting portion on which the head unit is detachably mounted. The nozzles forming the second nozzle row communicate with the nozzles forming the first nozzle row via the filter. A pre-operation of forming gas-liquid interfaces in the holes provided in the filter is executed before the head unit is removed from the mounting portion.

Abstract: A recording device includes a recording unit configured to perform recording on a medium, a housing unit configured to house the recording unit and including an opening through which the recording unit is visible, an opening/closing cover configured to open and close the opening, and an illumination unit provided at a predetermined position above the recording unit and configured to illuminate an interior of the housing unit. The illumination unit is configured to move to a retracted position farther away from the recording unit than is the predetermined position, in response to the opening/closing cover being opened.

Abstract: A cartridge includes a concave portion. The concave portion has an opening, first and second side walls, and a bottom wall, and the bottom wall has a tilted surface tilted. The tilted surface is provided with a cartridge side terminal group. The first side wall is provided with a first restriction portion which restricts movements in a +Z axis direction and a +X axis direction of an apparatus side terminal unit, and the second side wall is provided with a second restriction portion which restricts movements in the +Z axis direction and a ?X axis direction of an apparatus side terminal unit.

Abstract: The plurality of pressure compartments includes a first pressure compartment and a second pressure compartment located next to the first pressure compartment in the first direction. The plurality of nozzles includes a first nozzle that is in communication with the first pressure compartment and the second pressure compartment in a shared manner. The piezoelectric element includes a first active region where the piezoelectric body is sandwiched between the common electrode and, among the plurality of individual electrodes, a first individual electrode. The first active region is located to span from at least a part of the first pressure compartment to at least a part of the second pressure compartment as viewed in the second direction.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a discard absorbing member (first absorbing member) that absorbs a liquid discarded from a discharge head to an outer side of an end portion of a medium supported by a support section as a waste liquid. Further, the recording apparatus includes: a cap which is an example of a waste liquid receiving section that receives the liquid ejected from the discharge head as a waste liquid; a waste liquid absorbing member (second absorbing member) that absorbs the waste liquid sent from the cap; and a waste liquid box (accommodating section) that holds the waste liquid absorbing member. The discard absorbing member and the waste liquid absorbing member 50A are coupled to each other such that the waste liquid can be delivered from the discard absorbing member to the waste liquid absorbing member.

Abstract: An information processing device changes a printer queue generated at the time of USB coupling with a printer to a printer queue corresponding to a predetermined printer driver, when it is detected that the generated printer queue is not a printer queue corresponding to the predetermined printer driver.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a three-dimensional shaped object according to the present disclosure includes: a plasticizing step of plasticizing at least a part of a shaping material including a first fiber material and a thermoplastic resin to generate a plasticized material to be discharged from a nozzle opening for shaping a three-dimensional shaped object; a fiber introducing step including either a step of introducing a second fiber material longer than the first fiber material into the shaping material or the plasticized material before being discharged from the nozzle opening, or a step of introducing the second fiber material into the plasticized material after being discharged from the nozzle opening; and a shaping step of shaping the three-dimensional shaped object including the first fiber material and the second fiber material.