Abstract: Example implementations described herein are directed to an improved interface for a computational notebook that represents cells of the computational notebook in a graph form involving nodes and links. Through such an improved interface, the execution order of the cells can be immediately understood, as well as the dependencies between different cells of executable code and the variables contained therein.

Abstract: A cleaning device includes a scraping portion whose edge is pressed against a rotational body to which toner adheres and that scrapes the toner off the rotational body, and a container that contains the toner that has been scraped off the rotational body. The container has a through-hole that opens in a portion of the container facing the scraping portion and that allows a gas to flow from an inside of the container toward the scraping portion.

Abstract: A novel solution to generate an optimal spatial placement map of Radio Frequency (RF) beacons, such as Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons, which can be used for indoor localization. A described embodiment solves for both generating optimal number of beacons required in a given environment and optimizing their location. The solution also incorporates behavior of RF signal due to various environmental factors such as signal reflection and absorption due to static and dynamic obstacles. In one embodiment, the framework is built upon Genetic Algorithm (GA) for optimization of beacon placement. The experimental results achieved using one implementation of the described method reduced the number of beacons by 50% as compared to beacons placed using expert knowledge. Furthermore, the overall localization error increased by ˜0.4 m when the results using the RF/BLE map generated by the described system were compared with the RF/BLE map generated using expert knowledge.

Abstract: A transmission and reception apparatus includes a first communication unit that performs communication by a first communication method, a second communication unit that performs communication by a second communication method which is higher in directivity than the first communication method and is faster than the first communication method, and a control unit that performs control such that storage confirmation information, which indicates whether data has been stored in a storage device provided in a first target machine without an error, is received through the first communication unit after the data is transmitted to the first target machine through the second communication unit, data transmission confirmation is received from the first target machine, and the data is transmitted to a second target machine through the second communication unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium and method for processing information are provided. The information processing apparatus includes a display device; and one or more processors configured to form a display area to be displayed on a screen of the display device; set a first display area and a second display area next to each other in the display area; assign a first and a second conversation screens to the first and second display areas respectively, each of the first and second conversation screens comprising a plurality of conversation messages; and move the display area along the screen in response to an operation on the screen, such that the screen sequentially displays all of the first display area, a portion of the first display area and a portion of the second display area, and then all of the second display area and none of the first display area.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a creating unit, a state informing unit, and a setting unit. The creating unit creates an application for implementing a specific object by using at least one basic processing function. The state informing unit provides information concerning a processing state of the at least one basic processing function and a processing state of the application. The setting unit receives information for determining a display mode of a setting screen for setting settings information or a checking screen for checking the processing state of the application, and sets a determined display mode. The display mode is used for executing the application.

Abstract: A hyperspectral imaging system, comprising an input polarizer arranged to receive and polarize a first light, a liquid crystal variable retarder to change a polarization of the first light in a wavelength-dependent manner, an output polarizer arranged to receive the wavelength-dependent polarized first light, a voltage source electrically connected to the liquid crystal variable retarder, a controller connected to the voltage source, the controller configured to control voltages applied to the liquid crystal variable retarder to control a retardance of the first light. A linear image sensor has a length extending in a direction to obtain images of the first light, the linear image sensor synchronized with the controller to collect the images as a function of retardance of the liquid crystal variable retarder after the first light passes through the output polarizer, for generation of an output signal corresponding to a portion of the linear image sensor.

Abstract: In a telepresence scenario with remote users discussing a document or a slide, it can be difficult to follow which parts of the document are being discussed. One way to address this problem is to provide feedback by showing where the user's hand is pointing at on the document, which also enables more expressive gestural communication than a simple remote cursor. An important practical problem is how to transmit this remote feedback efficiently with high resolution document images. This is not possible with standard videoconferencing systems which have insufficient resolution. We propose a method based on using hand skeletons to provide the feedback. The skeleton can be captured using a depth camera or a webcam (with a deep network algorithm), and the small data can be transmitted at a high frame rate (without a video codec).

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a position specifying unit that specifies a position of each member of an assembly, a biometric information acquiring unit that acquires biometric information from members of which the number is smaller than the number of all members, an activeness degree specifying unit that specifies, from the biometric information acquired by the biometric information acquiring unit, an activeness degree of the member from which the biometric information is acquired by the biometric information acquiring unit, and specifies, from the activeness degree and the position specified by the position specifying unit, an activeness degree of a member other than the member from which the biometric information is acquired by the biometric information acquiring unit among the members, and a determination unit that determines a state of the assembly from the activeness degree specified by the activeness degree specifying unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit receiving a query, an acquisition unit acquiring, on each content unit serving as a search target, multiple nodes corresponding to the query from data representing a relationship between the nodes and includes information on each node representing a concept of the content unit serving as a search target, a search unit searching for a path including mutually related nodes from the nodes acquired by the acquisition unit, and a calculating unit calculating a score of the path of at least one of the content units, the path searched and found by the search unit, by using at least one of a hop count representing a number of nodes included between a node representing the concept included in the query and the content unit, degree of importance of the concept of the content unit, and type of the relationship of the concepts.

Abstract: A transport item moves in a process direction to transport sheets of media. The transport item is positioned between an inkjet printhead and a receptacle. The inkjet printhead has nozzles. The transport item has openings arranged in a pattern, the pattern of the openings is consistent along all of the transport item, and the pattern of the openings in the transport item aligns at least one opening with each of the locations of the nozzles as the transport item moves in the process direction. The nozzles eject ink through the openings to the receptacle when the nozzles are aligned with the openings. When controlling the nozzles to eject ink through the openings to the receptacle, a controller can control the nozzles to simultaneously eject ink on a sheet of media while ejecting ink through the openings to the receptacle.

Abstract: A management apparatus includes a storage unit that, if plural individual processing targets are grouped in accordance with predetermined conditions, stores the predetermined conditions and processing target groups generated by grouping the plural individual processing targets in accordance with the predetermined conditions while associating the predetermined conditions and the processing target groups with each other and a display control unit that, if one of the processing target groups stored in the storage unit is selected, displays another processing target group that shares at least one of the predetermined conditions with the selected processing target group.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a reception unit that receives an input of a query, a generation unit that generates a word combination from a plurality of words included in the query, an obtaining unit that obtains a node corresponding to each word combination of the query for each word combination of the query from data representing a first node representing a single concept, a second node representing a compound concept, and a relationship between concepts, and a specifying unit that specifies a content corresponding to the node obtained by the obtaining unit.

Abstract: A system and method scan a document printed by a first document processing device (using a second document processing device separate from the first document processing device). The document has printed thereon machine readable markings that comprise information of a patient, information of at least one lab test to be performed, and formatting information for the return of the lab test results. The second document processing device identifies the lab test to be performed on the patient based on the machine readable markings. After the lab tests have been performed on the patient, the second document processing device prepares the lab test results by formatting them. These formatted lab test results are then output from the second document processing device to the first document processing device.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a setting unit and a display unit. The setting unit sets additional information to each of components constituting a relation diagram on the relation diagram expressing a structure between events. The display unit distinguishably displays each of the components having the additional information set thereto in accordance with the additional information.

Abstract: An information processing device includes an acquiring unit, a shaping unit, and an integration unit. The acquiring unit is configured to acquire operation history information from plural systems, respectively. The shaping unit is configured to shape each operation history information acquired by the acquiring unit into operation history information in a unified format. The integration unit is configured to arrange and integrate the operation history information after being shaped by the shaping unit in chronological order.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire pieces of information on position of the information processing apparatus; a receiving unit configured to receive radio waves from a search target apparatus; a calculation unit configured to calculate the position of the search target apparatus using the pieces of information on position of the information processing apparatus acquired at plural points by the acquisition unit and using a distance between the information processing apparatus and the search target apparatus estimated from an intensity of the radio waves received by the receiving unit at each of the plural points; and a notification unit configured to send notification to guide a searcher to the position of the search target apparatus calculated by the calculation unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a segment obtaining section that obtains a segment described in a document designated by a user, an extraction condition obtaining section that obtains an extraction condition for extracting information including a concept related to the segment as knowledge information from a concept structure information storage section storing concept structure information in which concepts representing events and relationships related to knowledge are related to each other in a hierarchical structure, a specifying section that specifies a storage location of the knowledge information in the concept structure information storage section and an extraction method for the concept included in the knowledge information from a designated content of the extraction condition, an extraction section that extracts the knowledge information in accordance with the specified extraction method from the storage location specified by the specifying section, and a presentation section that presen

Abstract: A file management apparatus includes a generation part that generates a coded file having a content processed not to be browsed in a user terminal from a file using key information associated with identification information of the file in a case where the identification information of the file is received from the user terminal before an expiry of the file in a storage device, and a control part that performs control for transmitting the coded file generated by the generation part to the user terminal as a transmission source of the identification information of the file and, in a case where the identification information of the file is received from an information processing apparatus after the expiry of the file, causing the content of the coded file input into the information processing apparatus to be browsed using the key information by transmitting the key information associated with the identification information of the file to the information processing apparatus as a transmission source of the identi

Abstract: A semiconductor optical amplifier includes: a substrate; a light source unit that is formed on the substrate; and an optical amplification unit that includes a conductive region extending, from the light source unit, in a predetermined direction along a surface of the substrate, and a nonconductive region around the conductive region. The optical amplification unit amplifies propagation light that propagates, from the light source unit, in the predetermined direction as slow light, and emits the propagation light that is amplified in an emission direction that intersects with the surface. The maximum optical power of the propagation light is larger than the maximum optical power in a vertical oscillation mode.