Abstract: According to an embodiment, an IC card comprises a sensor, a storage, and a processor. The sensor obtains information for authentication. The storage stores an authentication list showing one or more authentication methods which use information from the sensor. The processor determines whether if there is an abnormality exists in the sensor. If it determines that the sensor is indeed abnormal, it updates the authentication list accordingly.

Abstract: A transmitting station includes a common memory, a receiver, a state-change information memory, a state-change table storage, and a state-change detection controller. The common memory includes a plurality of blocks storing therein data that is periodically broadcast by scan transmission among other transmitting stations. The state-change detection controller, when receiving the data from the other transmitting station, reads out from the state-change table storage a state detection word of the block corresponding to the other transmitting station of a transmission source of the relevant received data, and detects a state change of a word that is indicated by the common memory address stored in the state-change information memory in association with a target pointer that is an address pointer of the read-out state detection word.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a captured image check system includes a camera, an image data input unit, a camera view angle judge processor, a road surface state analysis judge processor, and an output unit. The camera photographs a road surface. The image data input unit inputs image data to be used for analyzing a state of the road surface. The camera view angle judge processor performs a judge process of determining whether or not an angle of view of the camera satisfies a first condition for analyzing the state of the road surface on the basis of the image data. The road surface state analysis judge processor performs a judge process of determining whether or not a second condition for analyzing the state of the road surface is satisfied on the basis of image data of the road surface. The output unit outputs results of the judge processes.

Abstract: An IC card system includes an IC card management server and an IC card. The IC card management server requests a SIM management server to make an inquiry regarding a user based on card identification information and user information relating to a contract of SIM card, and, in a case that validity of the user is verified, transmits a generation request for generating a registration application registering biometric authentication information, including the card identification information and the secret key, to the SIM management server. The IC card includes a data storage storing the card identification information and the secret key and storing the biometric authentication information and, in a case that authentication based on the card identification information and the secret key through communication with the SIM card based on the registration application is succeed, stores the biometric authentication information based on the biometric information in the data storage.

Abstract: A process monitoring device includes a data collector, a statistic calculator and a comprehensive statistic calculator. The data collector acquires two or more variables indicating a state of a monitored target. The statistic calculator output each of the statistics that select two from the acquired variables. The comprehensive statistic calculator output a comprehensive statistic indicating a state of the monitored target based on a statistic output by the statistic calculator.

Abstract: A picking apparatus in an embodiment includes: a gripper, an arm, a detector, and a control unit. The gripper picks and grips an object to be conveyed. The arm moves the gripper and causes the gripper to convey the object to be conveyed. The detector is attached to the arm and senses a force applied to the gripper. The control unit controls an operation of the gripper and the arm. The control unit includes a calculator and a subtractor. The calculator calculates a gravitational force and an inertial force applied to the gripper when the gripper grips and moves the object to be conveyed using an arithmetic expression including a coefficient determined in accordance with a mass of the object to be conveyed. The subtractor subtracts the gravitational force and the inertial force calculated by the calculator from a force applied to the gripper sensed by the detector.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a communication control device includes a communication unit and a jamming control unit. The communication unit wirelessly communicates with a first device and uploads information acquired from the first device to a second device via a network. The jamming control unit allows jamming radio waves to be output to interfere with wireless communication between the first device and a device other than the communication control device, the device being to perform wireless communication in a communication band used by the first device.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a terminal control substrate includes a base plate mounted on a terminal device, a first module fixed to the base plate, an external connection terminal fixed to the base plate and to which a component including a second module being a substitute for the first module is attachable, a controller configured to perform control in the terminal device by using the first module or the second module, and a switching unit configured to switch a connection destination of the controller to any one of the first module and the external connection terminal to which the second module is attached.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a rotor of an electric rotating machine includes a shaft, a rotor core, and a plurality of permanent magnets. Two first permanent magnets are arranged in line symmetry with a pole center and are arranged gradually away from the pole center as the two first permanent magnets extend from first ends toward second ends thereof. Two second permanent magnets are arranged in line symmetry with the pole center and are arranged gradually away from the pole center as the two second permanent magnets extend from third ends toward fourth ends thereof. Angles ?1, ?2 are set to satisfy the relationships of ?1>?2, and 70 degrees??2?110 degrees.

Abstract: A branch line directional coupler has a first line, a second line, a first open-ended coupled circuit, and a second open-ended coupled circuit. The first and second lines have a first characteristic impedance and a quarter wavelength length. The first open-ended coupled line has one end connected to the first line and the other end connected to the second line. The second open-ended coupled line has one end connected to the first line and the other end connected to the second line. The first open-ended coupled line has two coupled lines having a coupling length of a quarter wavelength, an open stub, and a connecting line, and has a total length of one-half wavelength. The second open-ended coupled line includes two coupled lines having a coupling length of ¼-wavelength, open stubs, and a connecting line, and has a total length of ½-wavelength.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a communication device belongs to a communication network including a control device and a plurality of communication devices connected to the control device, and transmits a communication packet to a transmission destination communication device. The communication device and the transmission destination communication device are differently one of the plurality of communication devices. In the communication device, a memory stores first information for judging a normality of the communication packet. An analyzing unit judges the normality of a received communication packet based on the received communication packet and the first information. A transmission destination determining unit determines the transmission destination communication device and the control device as transmission destinations of the received communication packet when the analyzing unit judges that the received communication packet is not normal.

Abstract: According to the present embodiment, there is provided a content delivery apparatus applied to a content delivery system which delivers content, which is sent from a transmission apparatus, to a reception apparatus by a multicast method via an IP network. The content delivery apparatus includes an analyzer configured to detect a start point or an end point of the content by analyzing control information of the content, and a manager configured to control a reception start or a reception end of the content, based on the start point or the end point.

Abstract: An apparatus according to an embodiment includes a control circuit to control operations of an inverter and a switch. The control circuit judges whether or not a power system has a power failure, based on values of the system voltage and a frequency of the power system; and calculates a phase difference between a phase of the output voltage of the inverter and a phase of the system voltage and generate, by means of the phase difference, an output frequency pattern for changing a frequency of the output voltage of the inverter. The control circuit, when it is judged that the power system has recovered from the power failure, controls the inverter to change the frequency of the output voltage of the inverter in line with the output frequency pattern, and closes the switch after the phase difference becomes smaller than or equal to a threshold.

Abstract: An unloading apparatus comprises a sensor interface, a gripping unit interface and a processor. A sensor interface acquires a photographed image from a sensor that photographs an image of a cargo group. A processor transmits, in a case of successfully recognizing each piece of cargo of a same-type cargo group, a first control signal to the gripping unit to perform unloading according to a first gripping method corresponding to the same-type cargo group, and transmits, in a case of failing to recognize each piece of cargo of the same-type cargo group, a second control signal to the gripping unit to perform unloading according to a second gripping method corresponding to a mixed-type cargo group including different types of cargo.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, each of a pair of straight sections of a coil segment is inserted into a slot of a stator core from a first end face side of the stator core, extension end sections of the straight sections are made to protrude from a second end face side of the stator core. A jig is arranged on the second end face side of the stator core in a state where each of extension end section hold sections of the coil segment is held by the jig, the position of the jig relative to the stator core is turned in a circumferential direction, a bend section positioned between the stator core and the jig is bent in the circumferential direction, and the whole of the extension end section hold section is cut off.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an IC card includes an antenna, a first oscillator, and a first processor. The first oscillator is configured to output a first clock signal of a first frequency, and output a second clock signal of a second frequency that is higher than the first frequency as requested. The first processor is configured to operate based on the first clock signal when not during an execution period of first processing corresponding to a reception command received by the antenna, request the second clock signal for executing the first processing, and execute the first processing based on the second clock signal of the first oscillator that receives the request.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a sorting system has a delivery processing apparatus, a video coding terminal, and a recognition support apparatus. The recognition support apparatus has an information management portion, a correct solution derivation portion, and a machine learning portion. The information management portion acquires an image obtained by imaging a delivery object and keying information. The correct solution derivation portion derives respective correct solutions for a plurality of processings for the image obtained by imaging the delivery object, based on the keying information acquired by the information management portion. The machine learning portion performs machine learning using the respective correct solutions for the plurality of processings derived by the correct solution derivation portion, to adjust the plurality of processings.

Abstract: A circuit system for a railroad vehicle according to an embodiment includes a power conversion unit, a first converter, a second converter, a power storage unit, and a control unit. The power conversion unit converts power supplied from an overhead wire into power for driving a motor for running mounted on a railroad vehicle. The first converter converts power supplied from the overhead wire into DC power. The second converter converts power output from the first converter into power for driving a load mounted on the railroad vehicle. The power storage unit is electrically connected to an input side of the second converter. The control unit inputs regenerative power output from the power conversion unit to the first converter and inputs power output from the first converter to the power storage unit in a case where it is determined that the railroad vehicle is being regenerated.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a first communication unit, a second communication unit, an information processing unit, and a switching unit. The first communication unit is configured to communicate with a terminal device. The second communication unit is configured to communicate with a device connected to a network. The information processing unit is configured to encrypt information which is received from the terminal device by the first communication unit and to transmit the encrypted information to the network via the second communication unit, and is configured to decrypt information which is received from the network by the second communication unit and to transmit the decrypted information to the terminal device via the first communication unit.

Abstract: A holding device includes a supporter, a gripper, and a first driver. The supporter supports a weight of a workpiece in a first direction. The gripper includes a gripping surface that grips the workpiece in a second direction crossing the first direction. The first driver moves the supporter with respect to the gripper in the second direction. A tilt of the supporter is changeable with respect to the gripping surface along a plane including the first and second directions.