Abstract: A control device includes one or more processors configured to: operate a robot in a user recognition mode in response to the one or more processors recognizing a specific user based on detection data from a sensor of the robot; and operate the robot in a normal mode when not operating the robot in the user recognition mode. During operating the robot in the user recognition mode, the one or more processors determine an action to be performed by the robot by selecting the action from a candidate action group based on a length of a simulated growth period of the robot. The candidate action group includes a specific action that is not performed in the normal mode but is performable in the user recognition mode.

Abstract: A judgment apparatus includes one or more processors. The one or more processors judge a type of an external stimulus received by a robot and involving contact with the robot, based on first detected data and second detected data. The first detected data is obtained by a sensor capable of detecting contact with the robot. The second detected data is related to sound and obtained by a sound detector included in the robot.

Abstract: A control apparatus includes one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to, transition, based on a drowsiness value representing a degree of pseudo drowsiness of a robot, an operation mode of the robot between a normal mode representing that the robot is not sleeping and a sleep mode representing that the robot is sleeping, determine, based on detection data from a sensor included in the robot, a type of an external stimulus received by the robot, in response to determining that the type of the external stimulus is a predetermined first external stimulus, change the drowsiness value in a first direction in which the drowsiness becomes higher, and in response to determining that the type of the external stimulus is a second external stimulus, change the drowsiness value in a second direction that decreases the drowsiness value.

Abstract: In a robot, a processor updates a personality parameter representing a pseudo personality of an own device on the basis of a personality parameter representing a pseudo personality of another device in a case of an approaching state that is a state in which the own device approaches another device of the same type as the own device within a predetermined distance or a state in which a terminal device corresponding to another device approaches a terminal device corresponding to the own device within a predetermined distance.

Abstract: A light emission control device includes at least one processor. The processor performs dimming control on a light emitting device by interrupt processing.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device, including: a case; a ground conductor plate that is accommodated in the case; a push button that penetrates the case from an outer surface of the case through to an inner surface of the case, and is slidable in a direction of penetration; a fixed contact that is fastened to the ground conductor plate inside the case and is disposed in front of the push button; an electrical insulator that is interposed between the ground conductor plate and the fixed contact and electrically insulates the fixed contact from the ground conductor plate; and a movable contact that is electrically connected to the ground conductor plate, and is pushed against the fixed contact by the push button being pushed toward inside the case.

Abstract: A diagnosis support apparatus that is a diagnosis apparatus comprises a multi-modal classifier (multi-modal classifier (30x)) that corresponds to a plurality of mutually different modalities, and a plurality of single-modal classifiers (single-modal classifier (30a), single-modal classifier (30b)) that correspond to each of the plurality of mutually different modalities. The multi-modal classifier is configured to classify, based on a plurality of classification scores calculated by the plurality of single-modal classifiers and a plurality of feature quantities that are obtained in a process of calculating the plurality of classification scores and are respectively calculated by the different single-modal classifiers, a target.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a processing unit that acquires, based on an image captured by an imaging unit and including an identifier disposed in a space, a plurality of positions on an outline of a shape of the identifier in an image coordinate system, and determines a position of the imaging unit, based on the plurality of positions on the outline of the shape of the identifier in the image coordinate system and positions on the outline of the shape of the identifier in a world coordinate system.

Abstract: An apparatus control device includes a processor that: acquires stimulus data representing an external stimulus acting on an apparatus; estimates information on a user of the apparatus based on the acquired stimulus data; estimates a bedtime of the user from the estimated information on the user; and controls the apparatus to execute a drowsiness notification action when an amount of time from a current time to the estimated bedtime is less than or equal to a go-to-bed amount of time threshold.

Abstract: An exercise support method includes: acquiring an indicator value related to body movement information of a user during exercise; causing an outputter to output advice information on the exercise of the user, based on the acquired indicator value; and determining whether the indicator value acquired after outputting the advice information has improved over the indicator value acquired before outputting the advice information. When it is determined that the indicator value has not improved even though the outputter has outputted the advice information, the outputter is caused to output advice information that includes a different expression from the advice information that has already been outputted and with which the indicator value has not improved.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes an electric double-layer capacitor and at least one processor that, in response to the capacitor being charged in a first charging mode where a self-discharge amount of the capacitor per unit time after start of self-discharge that is performed after a voltage of the capacitor reaches a predetermined voltage by the capacitor being charged is smaller than a predetermined threshold value, performs a predetermined process in a first mode with electric power supplied from the capacitor, and in response to the capacitor being charged in a second charging mode where the self-discharge amount of the capacitor per unit time after the start of the self-discharge is equal to or larger than the threshold value, performs the process in a second mode where current consumption in performing the process is smaller than current consumption therein in the first mode with the power supplied from the capacitor.

Abstract: A display device includes: a case; a circuit board having electronic components; and a member, in which the electronic components include a first electronic component and a second electronic component, a distance between an end surface of the first electronic component and the member being shortest among one or more of the electronic components arranged in the first region, a distance between an end surface of the second electronic component and the member being shortest among one or more of the electronic components arranged in the second region, the electronic components being arranged in such a manner that the distance between the end surface of the first electronic component and the member is greater than the distance between the end surface of the second electronic component and the member.

Abstract: A display device includes a transmissive liquid crystal panel including a liquid crystal layer in which a liquid crystal material is sandwiched between transparent electrodes, an upper polarizing plate disposed on a viewing side of the liquid crystal layer, and a lower polarizing plate disposed on a non-viewing side of the liquid crystal layer. A film having a moth-eye structure is disposed on a rear surface of the lower polarizing plate disposed on the non-viewing side of the liquid crystal layer.

Abstract: A cover component attachable to and detachable from an electronic device body includes a hook part and a protrusion. The hook part stands in a first direction and engages a recess provided in a lateral face of the electronic device body. The protrusion regulates a position of the electronic device body in the first direction by the protrusion and a rib being superposed when the cover component is attached to the electronic device body. The rib is provided adjacent to the recess in the lateral face of the electronic device body.

Abstract: An arm wearable device including a case, a module which has a brittle member and is provided in the case, and a plurality of holding portions which holds the module in the case such that flexural deformation of the module is restricted to deformation where a virtual straight line extending in a longitudinal direction of the brittle member serves as a center line.

Abstract: An applying system includes the following. A drying apparatus dries a first applying material applied to a surface of a nail. An applying apparatus applies a second applying material on the surface of the nail with the first applying material dried by the drying apparatus in between.

Abstract: An information processing method for causing a computer to perform authentication processing by using authentication information in response to a request from a client apparatus for a Web application configured to provide an image analysis function, the request including the authentication information and information on an image file and predetermined processing in a case where the authentication processing is successful.

Abstract: An electronic stringed instrument includes: at least one linear string member to be plucked by a user; a plurality of string support members each supporting the string member at different positions in a longitudinal direction of the string member, each of the string support members being individually deformable in accordance with a plucking of the string member by the user; a plurality of sensors that output signals indicating respective deformation states of the plurality of string support members, wherein the respective deformation states of the plurality of string support members may be different from each other depending on a way the string member is plucked; and at last one processor configured to generate a musical tone control signal based on the signals output from the plurality of sensors.

Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes: a performance controller; and at least one processor, configured to perform the following: instructing sound generation of a first musical tone in response to a first operation on the performance controller; in response to a second operation on the performance controller during the sound generation of the first musical tone, obtaining a first amplitude value of the first musical tone at a time of the second operation, and obtaining a second amplitude value at which a second musical tone is to be sound-produced in response to the second operation on the performance controller; acquiring a parameter value for determining at least one of pitch, timbre, and volume of the second musical tone based on a ratio of the first amplitude value to the second amplitude value; and instructing sound generation of the second musical tone in accordance with the acquired parameter value.

Abstract: An information processing method involves receiving, from a user, a selection to anonymize or not to anonymize file information, and outputting the file information without anonymization in response to the selection not to anonymize the file information is received, or outputting the anonymized file information in response to the selection to anonymize the file information is received.

Abstract: An information processing method is an information processing method to be executed by an information processing apparatus including a memory storing a program and a processor, wherein the processor executes the program to perform operations including: performing control to display, on a display, a slider including an icon associated with a product registered by a user, on a list information about products; causing the slider to operate based on an operation of the slider by the user and moving the icon according to the operation of the slider; and transitioning, in response to selection of the icon, to information about the product registered by the user associated with the icon.

Abstract: In an information processing method executed by a computer including a memory that stores a program and at least one processor that executes the program, the processor controls an action of an avatar corresponding to a user in a virtual space in response to an operation of the user, causes a display unit to display an interface in the virtual space, the interface being operated by the avatar to perform customization of a product object, and changes a setting related to the product object, in a case where the interface is operated by the avatar, to make the product object be customized in accordance with a content of the operation.

Abstract: An input apparatus includes a touch detection substrate having a first opening and including a touch pattern provided on an outer circumference of the first opening, a control substrate having a light emitting element, a reflector provided between the touch detection substrate and the control substrate and including a light reflection region disposed in such a manner as to correspond to the light emitting element, a panel including a touch surface, and a case having a second opening and to which the panel is attached, and light emitted by the light emitting element is released to an exterior by way of the first opening and the second opening, and the case and the reflector are detachably fixed together with a fastening component.

Abstract: An information recording apparatus includes a processor. The processor obtains index information representing a lapse situation after a start of movement. The processor obtains either of a time elapsed from the start of movement and a distance passing from a start point of movement. The processor controls, by using either of the elapsed time and the passing distance, to obtain the index information to, as either of a lapse of time from the start of movement and the distance passing from the start point of movement increases, decrease a frequency of obtainment of the index information at the start of movement or from the start point of movement. The processor records the obtained index information.

Abstract: An information collection device includes a moving body on which a first camera is mounted and at least one processor. The processor derives, based on an image obtained by imaging multiple registered light sources having information about a light emission pattern and information about an installation coordinate position stored in a memory, a coordinate position where the first camera images the registered light sources and a first direction in which the first camera images the registered light sources and derives, by detecting a second direction allowing an unregistered light source to fall within an angle of view of the first camera as viewed from a coordinate position where the registered light sources are imaged, an installation coordinate position where the unregistered light source is installed, and stores information about the derived installation coordinate position in the memory in association with information as information about a new registered light source.

Abstract: A robot to autonomously act includes a sensor to detect an external stimulus, and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor causes, in a case where an action trigger that is predetermined is satisfied, the robot to execute an action selected, from a selection candidate list corresponding to the action trigger, at a selection probability dependent on a growth level, the growth level representing a degree of pseudo-growth of the robot, and changes, in a case where the sensor detects the external stimulus during a period from when the robot is caused to execute the action until an elapse of a predetermined time, the selection probability that the action is selected from the selection candidate list.

Abstract: An electronic timepiece includes a plurality of hands; a plurality of detection units that detect external light, arranged corresponding to the plurality of hands; and a control unit, wherein the control unit is configured to perform external light detection operations that respectively determine whether or not external light of a threshold value or more is detected at the plurality of detection units while moving the plurality of hands by a predetermined distance, respectively, and when there is a hand among the plurality of hands for which the external light detection operation detected external light and there is another hand among the plurality of hands for which the external light detection operation did not detect external light, perform the external light detection operation for said another hand again.

Abstract: An apparatus control device for controlling an apparatus includes at least one processor configured to determine a characteristic of performance sound around a robot that is the apparatus, determine a situation of the robot or a situation around the robot, and when causing the robot to execute a performance coordinated action that is coordinated with the performance sound based on the determined characteristic of the performance sound, reflect the determined situation to the performance coordinated action.

Abstract: A drive control device includes a processor configured to control a driver that drives a hand to rotate. The processor measures an elapsed time while a reference period elapses in a timing module that measures time, and based on the elapsed time, causes the driver to drive the hand to rotate a unit number of times per the reference period with a reference interval shorter than the reference period, the unit number of times being plural, and initializes the elapsed time each time the reference period elapses.

Abstract: A display control method executed by one or more processors, the method including: based on history information representing history of a state of an object, displaying a portion of a plurality of time period information representing the state of the object in a predetermined first time period in chronological order in a first display region of a display; displaying a graph representing a time-series change of a parameter regarding the history information in the first time period in a second display region; in response to receiving an operation designating a position in the second display region, based on a designated time corresponding to the designated position, determining a target time period; and changing a portion of the time period information in a manner in which the time period information corresponding to the determined target time period is displayed at a predetermined position in the first display region.

Abstract: A control method executed by a computer includes: processing a processing target medium placed on a medium holding member, a protrusion that bites into the medium holding member being formed on a contact surface of a conveyance roller with the medium holding member; controlling a driver by the computer such that a conveyance roller conveys a medium holding member in a first conveyance direction and the medium holding member is sequentially conveyed in a second conveyance direction opposite to the first conveyance direction in a state where a processing portion is separated from a processing target medium; and controlling the driver and the processing portion by the computer based on processing data after controlling the driver such that the processing portion processes the processing target medium while causing the conveyance roller to convey the medium holding member together with the processing target medium.

Abstract: An ear device includes, a main body that is placed on a back side of an auricle and that is provided with a battery; a sound emitter that is placed in a concha cavity and that includes a sound emitting hole which emits sound output from a speaker; and a coupler that couples the main body and the sound emitter. An ear tip including a sound conduit inside can be attached to and detached from the sound emitter. A sound emitting direction in which the sound conduit extends and a depth direction of the ear canal are different in a state that the ear tip is in use with the ear tip attached to the sound emitter.

Abstract: A setting controller includes at least one processor and a memory. The at least one processor saves, in the memory, a setting value that is before start of a specific operation in which the setting value is changed a plurality of times and, when a single return instruction operation for making an instruction to return the changed setting value to an original state is performed after the setting value is changed the plurality of times in response to the specific operation, the at least one processor returns the changed setting value to the setting value that is before the start of the specific operation and is saved in the memory.

Abstract: A classification device includes one or more processors configured to classify, using an inference model, a classification target in an input image. The inference model is a model trained through machine learning using a training image. The training image is an image obtained by replacing pixel values of selected pixels within a region of a training target in an original image with values independent of pixel values of pixels within the region of the training target.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: at least one of a microphone and a communication interface; and a processor, wherein the processor: sequentially acquires frames which are music data input from the outside through at least one of the microphone and the communication interface and in which the input music data is divided at set time intervals, and sequentially outputs comment data for the frames of the music data corresponding to at least one emotion label determined from among a plurality of emotion labels on the basis of the sequentially acquired divided frames.

Abstract: A display method executed by at least one processor provided in a computer, the method including: performing a first process in which a parameter electronic sticky note for displaying a parameter of a predetermined object is displayed when the predetermined object is displayed in an electronic sticky note; in the first process, displaying the parameter electronic sticky note for displaying the parameter of an image object in response to the image object being displayed; and not displaying the parameter electronic sticky note for displaying the parameter of the handwriting object in response to the handwriting object being displayed.

Abstract: A decorative bezel includes an inner side surface including a flat surface region that abuts a flat surface region of an outer side surface of a rigid timepiece case in a state in which the decorative bezel is disposed around the timepiece case. The decorative bezel is made of a brittle material.

Abstract: A drive control device includes a processor configured to control a driver that drives a hand to perform a rotational movement by a unit angle. The hand points to one of specific positions each time the hand performs the rotational movement by the unit angle a unit number of times that is plural, thereby performing rotational movements corresponding to the unit number of times. In a case of changing a position to which the hand points from one specific position to another specific position of the specific positions for each reference period, the processor sets unit-period intervals between the rotational movements to be either uniform or non-uniform.

Abstract: A hand movement control device includes a processor configured to, in a case of causing a hand to perform a display operation synchronized with time, output, to a driver, a signal to cause the hand to perform a rotational movement by a unit angle per unit period obtained by dividing a reference period by two or more. The signal includes a first signal for the hand to perform the movement each time the reference period elapses based on a current time and a second signal for the hand to perform the movement each time the unit period elapses from a timing of the movement caused by the first signal. The processor causes the hand to move to a position for a first point in time that is ahead of the current time and in units of the reference period and starts controlling the display operation from the first point in time.

Abstract: A light source discrimination device includes at least one processor discriminating whether each of a plurality of light source images included in a Bayer image obtained by imaging a predetermined area by a camera indicates a first light source serving as a transmitter for visible light communication and undergoing change in color with a predetermined change pattern or a second light source serving as a white light source installed for lighting. The at least one processor generates a reduced image for each of the light source images by averaging brightness values of pixels for each unit of pixels in which a red component, a blue component, and a green component are included at a ratio of 1:1:2, and discriminates whether each of the plurality of light source images indicates the first light source or the second light source, based on magnitude of a brightness value in the reduced image.

Abstract: A learning support method executed by a computer of an information processing apparatus, the learning support method includes: managing grade information indicating whether a user has correctly or incorrectly answered a question associated with a difficulty level, and executing at least one of: deemed correct answer addition of adding, to the grade information, and deemed incorrect answer addition of adding, to the grade information.

Abstract: A data creation method executed by a computer, includes: creating processing data for controlling an operation of a processing device including a cutter configured to cut a medium to be processed placed on a medium holding member, and creating processing data for cutting a print medium, on which a print image included in print data is printed by a printing device, as the medium to be processed placed on the medium holding member, based on a position of the print medium on the medium holding member when the print medium is placed on the medium holding member as the medium to be processed, and cut data for cutting at least one contour included in the print image generated by converting the print image.

Abstract: A timepiece includes: a first plate-shaped member formed of a conductive material; a second plate-shaped member disposed on a first side of the first plate-shaped member and formed of a conductive material; a circuit board disposed between the first plate-shaped member and the second plate-shaped member; and a connecting member that electrically connects the first plate-shaped member to the second plate-shaped member. A through hole is formed in the circuit board, and the connecting member is inserted in the through hole to electrically connect the first plate-shaped member to the second plate-shaped member.

Abstract: An image processing device includes one or more processors to execute processing including: acquiring a first image in which a subject is captured; acquiring a second image in which the subject is captured that corresponds to a partial range within an image capturing range of the first image and that is captured under a same type of image capturing condition as the first image; performing position alignment between the first image and the second image; and arranging the second image at a position determined by the position alignment in the first image.

Abstract: A keyboard device includes: a lower case; a board disposed above the lower case; keys disposed above the board; a reinforcement member disposed between the lower case and the board; and a stopper attachment that is part of the reinforcement member. The stopper attachment is at a position higher than the board.

Abstract: A position obtaining device includes a processor. The processor, in response to a condition being met, derives a first attitude angle as an attitude angle of the device based on first light sources and positions thereof on an image obtained by a first camera; in response to the attitude angle of the device being known, derives a three-dimensional position of the device based on two or more second light sources and positions thereof on an image obtained by a second camera, and in response to a predetermined number of second light sources or more being captured in the image, derives the three-dimensional position and a second attitude angle as the attitude angle of the device; and integrates a result of the first attitude angle and a result of the three-dimensional position and the second attitude angle to estimate the attitude angle and the three-dimensional position of the device.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a case and an antenna provided on the case. The electronic device also includes the following. A first adjuster is formed of a metal material. The first adjuster (i) is provided in a position in which one end side is provided to come into contact with or to be near the antenna and (ii) in which the other end side is provided in the case. A cylinder is included in the case, is formed of a metal material, and the other end side of the first adjuster is inserted therein. A second adjuster is formed of a dielectric material and is provided in the cylinder to exist between the cylinder and the first adjuster.

Abstract: In a terminal device, a control unit acquires a parameter value that is related to a robot executing a gesture according to an event, the parameter value changing according to the event. The control unit generates aggregate data of the acquired parameter value in a target period. The control unit causes a display unit to display the generated aggregate data.

Abstract: A watch according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a first pointer, a first magnetic body fixed to the first pointer, a second magnetic body arranged facing the first magnetic body, a first shaft body fixed to the second magnetic body, and a wheel train mechanism including a first rotary wheel interlocked with the first shaft body.