Abstract: A frame synchronization apparatus according to an embodiment includes a reception unit, a frame memory, a time generation unit, a reception time acquisition unit, a timestamp acquisition unit, and a control unit. The reception unit is configured to receive packet data including video data and a timestamp. The frame memory is configured to store the packet data. The time generation unit is configured to generate a time based on a reference synchronization signal. The reception time acquisition unit is configured to acquire a reception time of packet data satisfying a condition based on the time. The timestamp acquisition unit is configured to acquire a timestamp from the packet data satisfying the condition. The control unit is configured to read packet data from the frame memory in accordance with a variation in a difference between the reception time and a time indicated by the timestamp.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a particle beam accelerator comprising: a guiding unit configured to guide a particle beam to a trajectory; an acceleration unit configured to accelerate the particle beam circulating on the trajectory; a particle beam blocking unit configured to block the particle beam on the trajectory; and a control unit configured to control the guiding unit, the acceleration unit, and the particle beam blocking unit, wherein: the guiding unit includes a superconducting electromagnet and a superconducting electromagnet interrupter configured to interrupt the superconducting electromagnet, and the control unit is configured to interrupt the superconducting electromagnet by activating the superconducting electromagnet interrupter after completion of blocking the particle beam by activating the particle beam blocking unit, when an abnormality occurs in the superconducting electromagnet.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a hunting drone includes a hunting mechanism, a net gun, a flying mechanism, and a control unit. The hunting mechanism captures a target. The net gun generates a sound at the time of firing a hunting net. After approaching the target to a predetermined distance, the hunting drone captures the target using the hunting mechanism, while avoiding false recognition of the target by using the sound generated at the time of firing the net gun as a threatening sound to repel a wrong target such as a bird.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a control device controls a holding device capable of holding an object. The control device calculates a first position at which a first object is held by the holding device. The control device determines whether the holding device is capable of coming into contact with another object when the holding device is present at the first position. In a case where the holding device is capable of coming into contact with the other object, the control device calculates a second position at which the holding device comes into contact with the first object and does not come into contact with the other object.

Abstract: An apparatus includes antenna, selector, estimator, imager and creator. The antenna includes antenna elements of N rows by N columns (N is a natural number of 2 or more) arranged in an array and captures an incoming wave. The selector selects an antenna element group including antenna elements of M rows by M columns (M is a natural number less than N) from the antenna elements of N rows by N columns according to a band of the incoming wave. The estimator estimates an incoming direction of the incoming wave from an element signal of each of the antenna elements included in the selected antenna element group. The imager acquires image data by imaging an orientation direction of an aperture of the antenna. The creator creates a visualized image by visually synthesizing the estimated incoming direction with the image data.

Abstract: The present embodiment provides a transparent electrode, a transparent electrode production process and a photoelectric conversion device. The transparent electrode comprises a patterned electrode layer formed on a transparent substrate. The electrode layer has an electroconductive film containing metal nanowires and also has a film of N-graphene. In the graphene carbon skeleton of the N-graphene, carbon atoms are partly substituted with nitrogen atoms. The transparent electrode can be produced by: forming an electroconductive layer by coating with a dispersion containing metal nanowires; then forming an N-graphene film thereon; and subsequently patterning them.

Abstract: An information processing device comprises processing circuitry to: acquire pieces of train line information and departure and arrival times at each stop position of a train; split the train line information based on replacement stop positions at which a task for working on the train can switch between staffs, to obtain a plurality of pieces of task fragment information each indicating a task of a staff corresponding to each split train line part; and allocate the pieces of task fragment information to target durations to create work schedules indicating a schedule of tasks for each of the target durations, wherein a series of the tasks continuously allocated in each work schedule corresponds to a basic work schedule, each work schedule includes one or more basic work schedule and the processing circuitry performs allocation of the pieces of task fragment information based on a constraint related to the basic work schedule.

Abstract: An information processing device comprising processing circuitry to acquire information on operations each including an operation duration, a number of vehicles necessary for execution of each operation, and train information including a number of vehicles included in each train, mergeable or splittable among two or more trains; and produce an operation plan by allocating one or more trains to each operation, a total number of vehicles included in the allocated trains to each operation matches the number of vehicles necessary for the operation. Merge work of two or more trains is needed to allocate the two or more trains to one of the operations, and split work of the merged two or more trains is needed to allocate the two or more trains to different ones of the operations. The processing circuitry produces the operation plan based on a merge iteration number or a split iteration number.

Abstract: A fuel cell system of an embodiment includes a fuel cell stack including a fuel electrode layer, an oxidizer electrode layer, and a cooling layer, a fuel-gas flow path configured to allow the fuel gas from the fuel electrode layer to pass therethrough, an oxygen-containing-gas flow path configured to allow the oxygen-containing gas from the oxidizer electrode layer to pass therethrough, a cooling-water flow path, a first bypass pipe configured to guide water in the fuel-gas flow path to the cooling-water flow path, a second bypass pipe configured to guide water in the oxygen-containing-gas flow path to the cooling-water flow path, and a suction pump provided in the cooling-water flow path on the downstream side of a connecting portion between the cooling-water flow path and the first bypass pipe and a connecting portion between the cooling-water flow path and the second bypass pipe.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information processing device includes processors configured to: determine, based on a plurality of pieces of rack data including first identification information of one or more kinds of products housed in each rack, a processing sequence of a plurality of pieces of first order data including second identification information of one or more kinds of products to be picked, and one or more racks from which the products identified by the second identification information are to be picked; and perform hierarchical clustering that repeats processing of merging similar or matching pieces of first order data into a cluster such that a cluster number of a plurality of clusters resulting from the hierarchical clustering becomes equal to or more than a station number of a plurality of work stations where housing containers corresponding to at least some pieces of first order data are placed.

Abstract: The present embodiment provides an acid gas absorbent producing less waste and having a low environmental load, a method for removing an acid gas using the acid gas absorbent, and an acid gas removal apparatus. In the acid gas absorbent according to the present embodiment, a solubility in water of a salt formed from a liquid amine compound and the acid gas is higher than a solubility in water of the liquid amine compound. Further, the amine compound and water are separated into two phases before absorption of the acid gas or after desorption thereof, and, in this state, the acid gas absorbent is easily separated from water-soluble impurities and purified.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a flying object monitoring system comprises a reception unit which receives flight information of a flying object, a calculation unit which calculates acceleration in each flight direction of the flying object from the flight information, a representation unit which represents the calculated acceleration with an acceleration distribution image formed by plotting the calculated acceleration with respect to the flight direction, and a determination unit which determines whether the flying object is malfunctioning based on the acceleration distribution image.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a charged-particle measurement apparatus comprising: a plurality of gas detectors in each of which gas for detecting passage of a charged particle is enclosed; a trajectory calculator configured to calculate a trajectory of the charged particle based on detection signals outputted from the gas detectors and each of the parameters associated with the gas detectors; a measurer configured to measure an object based on the trajectory of the charged particle, the object being a measurement target; a signal intensity acquirer configured to acquire signal intensity of the detection signals; an operating state monitor configured to evaluate the operating states of the gas detectors based on the signal intensity corresponding to the gas detectors; and a parameter updating processor configured to update at least one parameter when at least one of the operating states of the gas detectors associated with this parameter changes.

Abstract: A communication relay apparatus and a storage medium storing a computer program that allow improvement of a quality of communication with a mobile station are provided. A communication relay apparatus includes a detector and a controller. The detector detects a mobile station located in a cover area formed by a plurality of remote units. The controller controls, for the remote units, communication resources used by the remote units for communication with the mobile station, based on a detection result of the detector.

Abstract: A controller includes: a communication port and a connection port that allow communication with another controller; and a hardware processor coupled to the ports. The hardware processor is configured to: transmit a first state signal indicating a state of the controller of an own device to the other controller from each port; receive a second state signal indicating a state of the other controller from the other controller via each of the ports; and switch, when the own device is in a standby state, the own device from the standby state to an operating state, when a breakdown of the other controller indicated by the received second state signal and an unreceived state in which the second state signal is not received for a predetermined time or more from both the communication and connection ports are monitored and at least one of the breakdown and the unreceived state is detected.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a wall detection device includes an acquirer and processing circuitry. The acquirer acquires a point cloud, which includes a series of coordinates of a plurality of points corresponding to a first wall and a second wall that oppose each other. The processing circuitry detects a first detected wall and a second detected wall based on a model and the acquired point cloud, the model representing a first plane which corresponds to the first detected wall and indicates a surface of the first wall and a second plane which corresponds to the second detected wall and indicates a surface of the second wall, and the model representing the first plane and the second plane being parallel to each other.

Abstract: An electrode according to an embodiment including a support and a catalyst layer provided on the support and alternately stacked with sheet layers and gap layers. The catalyst layer is for electrolysis. The catalyst layer comprises a first metal which is one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Ir, Ru, Pt, Pd, Hf, V, Au, Ta, W, Nb, Zr, Mo, and Cr, and a second metal which is one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Ni, Co, Mn, Fe, Cu, Al, and Zn. The catalyst layer comprises a first region and a second region. The first metal in the first region is more oxidized than the first metal in the second region. A ratio of the second metal in the first region is greater than the ratio of the second metal in the second region.

Abstract: A separator of an embodiment is a separator of an electrochemical cell stack obtained by stacking a cell including a polymer electrolyte membrane, an anode electrode, and a cathode electrode, and the separator. The separator includes a substrate formed of a metal material, and a corrosion-resistant film formed on a surface on the anode electrode side of the substrate and a surface on the cathode electrode side of the substrate, and formed of crystals of a corrosion-resistant material. An arithmetic average roughness Ra and a maximum height roughness Rz at the surface of the substrate are smaller than a particle size of the crystals.

Abstract: A plane filter includes a dielectric substrate, a filter part provided on the dielectric substrate, and an input/output line connected to the filter part on the dielectric substrate. The filter part and the input/output line are provided on a front surface of the dielectric substrate. The dielectric substrate includes first and second regions. The filter part is provided in the first region, and the input/output line is provided in the second region. The first region having a first thickness in a first direction toward the front surface from a back surface at a side opposite to the front surface. The second region having a second thickness in the first direction, the second thickness being less than the first thickness. The back surface includes a step corresponding to a difference between the first thickness and the second thickness.