Abstract: A power supply circuit includes a power supply which supplies DC power to a load, a switch which is selectively operable to (i) cause a short-circuit to occur between a DC power supply and an input terminal of the power supply and (ii) open a connection between the DC power supply and the input terminal of the power supply, a sensor which measures a temperature and a processor configured to control the switch to open the connection in response to a decision that the DC power is not being supplied to the load even when the switch is being controlled to cause the short-circuit to occur, and control the switch to cause the short-circuit to occur after a predetermined time elapses after controlling the switch to open the connection in response to the decision. The predetermined time is set based on the temperature measured by the sensor.

Abstract: An autonomous mobile apparatus includes a memory and a processor. The processor is configured to acquire environment information that is information of a surrounding environment of the autonomous mobile apparatus, based on the acquired environment information, select, as an estimation environment map, an environment map that is suitable for the surrounding environment from among environment maps that are saved in the memory, and estimate a location of the autonomous mobile apparatus using the selected estimation environment map and an image of surroundings of the autonomous mobile apparatus that is captured by an imager.

Abstract: In a physical strength evaluation system, a reference storage stores a walking heart rate reference in which a correspondence relationship of a standard value of a relative heart rate with respect to a walking speed is defined for every gender and every age, a speed acquisition unit acquires a measured value of a walking speed of a subject, a heart rate acquisition unit acquires a measured value of the relative heart rate of the subject. A standard value derivation unit derives the standard value of the relative heart rate corresponding to the measured value of the walking speed that has been acquired, based on the walking heart rate reference. A level determination unit determines an evaluation value of a physical strength level of the subject, based on a difference between the measured value of the relative heart rate and the standard value of the relative heart rate.

Abstract: A projection device includes an optical lens and a light source. The optical lens has an incident surface of light, a reflecting surface that has a concave curved surface and internally reflects light that has entered through the incident surface, and an exit surface of light that has been reflected by the reflecting surface. The light source that emits light that enters the optical lens.

Abstract: An embodiment of an electronic timepiece includes a cylindrical exterior case, a bezel and a windshield member. In the exterior case, a circuit board is housed. The bezel is formed of a metal material to be ring-shaped, includes an inward flange part that projects from an inner side surface toward a center of the ring-shaped bezel, is arranged on an outer upper side of the exterior case and is electrically connected with the circuit board. The windshield member is formed of a transparent dielectric substance, arranged in the bezel and supported by the inward flange part. The bezel is configured to resonate with a radio wave having a desired frequency by adjustment of at least one of (i) a relative permittivity of the dielectric substance and (ii) an area of an overlap region where the inward flange part and the windshield member overlap each other.

Abstract: A control device includes a wireless communication unit configured to transmit and receive a signal with a communication terminal with which wireless connection has been established, a control unit configured to perform predetermined control according to a request signal from the communication terminal, and a printing unit configured to print on a to-be-printed medium. When the wireless communication unit detects disconnection of the wireless connection with the communication terminal while the printing unit is printing on the to-be-printed medium, the control unit keeps the wireless communication unit in a state in which transmission of the beacon signal containing identification information of the wireless communication unit is stopped.

Abstract: A CAP detection device configured to acquire pulse wave data of a subject, derive a baseline of the data and an envelope of the baseline, identify a local maximum point of the envelope and determine, as CAP candidate points, a first local maximum point of the baseline before the local maximum point of the envelope and a second local maximum point of the baseline after the local maximum point, and identify, for each CAP candidate point, a third local maximum point of the baseline before the CAP candidate point and a local minimum point of the baseline between the CAP candidate point and the third local maximum point and detect the CAP candidate point as a CAP based on an evaluation value obtained from a difference between the CAP candidate point and the third local maximum point and a difference between the CAP candidate point and the local minimum point.

Abstract: A running analysis device includes a processor and a memory storing a program. By executing the program, the processor performs obtainment, setting, and estimation processes. By the obtainment process, first data on an acceleration in an up direction perpendicular to a moving direction of a subject and second data on an acceleration in a direction opposite to the moving direction are obtained from a motion sensor attached to the subject's head or neck and including an acceleration sensor, the first and second data being detected by the acceleration sensor while the subject is running. By the setting process, a candidate time range including a candidate timing for a ground-contacting timing when a foot of the subject contacts the ground is set based on the first data. By the estimation process, the ground-contacting timing is estimated in the candidate time range, based on a timing when the second data is minimum.

Abstract: A thermally expandable sheet according to the present invention includes a stress buffer layer provided on one surface of a base material and having an elastic property, a thermal expansion layer provided on the stress buffer layer and containing a first thermally expandable material that expands according to heat and a first binder, and a cover layer provided on the thermal expansion layer and having an elastic property.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program executable by at least one processor of an information processing apparatus, wherein the at least one processor acquires first state data indicating a state in which a first target person has used a functional element realized by execution of a target program, acquires estimation data for estimating information on the functional element matched to the first target person, in accordance with an arithmetic model, on the basis of the acquired first state data, the arithmetic model being generated by machine learning based on at least one of second state data indicating a state in which a second target person different from the first target person has used the functional element in the past and the first state data saved in the past, and causes a presentation unit to present the information on the functional element on the basis of the acquired estimation data.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including at least one processor that executes a display control process to display a remote operation screen, a copy of an operation screen displayed on a display of a representative terminal device, for collective remote operation of multiple terminal devices in a first display region. In the display control process, in response to a user operation on the remote operation screen, the processor displays, in the first display region, a result of an input of the user operation to the representative terminal device, and displays, in a second display region, a copy of a screen that is displayed on a display of the multiple terminal devices other than the representative terminal device and that shows a result of an input of the user operation to the multiple terminal devices other than the representative terminal device, the second display region being different from the first display region.

Abstract: An antenna receiving apparatus includes, a first antenna; a second antenna that is synchronized with a frequency band different from the first antenna; a substrate that includes a receiving circuit connected to each of the first antenna and the second antenna; and a back lid that includes a conductor, wherein the conductor is in at least a portion of the back lid. The substrate includes a grounding surface of the first antenna. The substrate and the second antenna are positioned between the first antenna and the back lid. The second antenna is positioned on a side of the substrate opposite of the first antenna, and the second antenna is electrically connected to the conductor of the back lid and grounded.

Abstract: An expansion apparatus includes: a first expander for irradiating with electromagnetic waves emitted from a lamp a thermal conversion layer for conversion of the electromagnetic waves to heat, to cause at least a portion of a thermal expansion layer to expand, the thermal conversion layer being laminated to a molding sheet including a base and the thermal expansion layer laminated to a first main surface of the base; and a second expander for causing expansion of a region (C) of the thermal expansion layer that is smaller in size than a region (B) of the thermal expansion layer expanded by the first expander.

Abstract: A luminescent light emitting device includes a base, a luminescent material layer provided on the base, a heat dissipating rib provided on an outer circumferential side of the luminescent material layer in such a manner as to rise erect from the base, and a collective lens fixed to the heat dissipating rib to seal in the luminescent material layer.

Abstract: A device to determine a number of beats per bar from a music data includes at least one processor configured to calculate a weighted average beat level waveform from a first beat level waveform obtained for a first frequency band and a second beat level waveform obtained for a second frequency band; calculate autocorrelation on the weighted average beat level waveform by varying an amount of a shift interval for the autocorrelation; determine a plurality of the shift intervals at which correlation values of the autocorrelation are n highest, where n is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2; and determine the number of beats per bar based on the determined plurality of the shift intervals at which the correlation values of the autocorrelation are n highest.

Abstract: An illumination control device includes an image data acquirer, a control data acquirer, and a light source controller. The image data acquirer acquires target imaging-related data related to the target imaging in a case in which target imaging is performed in which an image of an inserter inserted into a hole part continuous with a target is captured by an imaging device together with the target. The control data acquirer acquires control data based on the acquired target imaging-related data. The light source controller controls an illumination state of a light source provided around an optical axis of the imaging device, based on the acquired control data.

Abstract: A sensor device includes a processor configured to communicate with a user terminal as a communication apparatus that downloads positioning satellite information from a management server, acquires a current location by using the positioning satellite information, acquires action information indicating a result of an action of a user, and when the action information is acquired, instruct the user terminal to download the positioning satellite information from the management, and execute a process for acquiring a prediction ephemeris from the user terminal.

Abstract: A light source apparatus includes a light source, a light collection optical system configured to collect a pencil of light emitted from the light source using multiple lenses, a microlens array formed into a size corresponding to a collected light diameter of a pencil of light collected by the light collection optical system and caused to be incident thereon from the light collection optical system, and a display device on to which light transmitted through the microlens array to be superimposed together is incident.

Abstract: The printing device comprises: a print head for printing on a tape; a platen roller for conveying the tape by rotation with the tape held between the print head and the platen roller; a supporter for rotatably supporting the platen roller; and a cam including a first guide for releasing pressing of the platen roller against the print head and a second guide for pressing the platen roller against the print head.

Abstract: A musical sound signal generation device continuously connects any one of a connected zeroth delay unit and a connected second delay unit to a fractional delay block and connects at least any one of a new zeroth delay unit and a new second delay unit to at least any one of the fractional delay block other than the fractional delay block connected to a new first delay unit in response to setting any one of the connected zeroth delay unit and the connected second delay unit as the new first delay unit, setting a delay unit in a preceding stage of the new first delay unit as the new zeroth delay unit, and setting a delay unit in a subsequent stage of the new first delay unit as the new second delay unit in accordance with a change in a designated tone pitch.

Abstract: An electronic timepiece, including: a motor having a rotor and at least two coils, the rotor being configured to rotate to a plurality of prescribed positions; and a driving processor for driving the motor, the driving processor being configured to: generate a detection pulse for detecting whether or not the rotor has rotated; cause the generated detection pulse to be applied to at least one of the at least two coils; receive a signal indicating a detected value of current flowing in the at least one of the at least two coils that is generated in response to the detection pulse outputted to the at least one of the at least two coils; and determine whether or not the rotor has rotated to one of the plurality of prescribed positions on the basis of the detected value of current.

Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes an operation unit that receives a user performance; and at least one processor. wherein the at least one processor performs the following: in accordance with a user operation specifying a chord on the operation unit, obtaining lyric data of a lyric and obtaining a plurality of pieces of waveform data respectively corresponding to a plurality of pitches indicated by the specified chord; inputting the obtained lyric data to a trained model that has been trained and learned singing voices of a singer so as to cause the trained model to output acoustic feature data in response thereto; synthesizing each of the plurality of pieces of waveform data with the acoustic feature data so as to generate a plurality of pieces of synthesized waveform data; and outputting a polyphonic synthesized singing voice based on the generated plurality of pieces of synthesized waveform data.

Abstract: A printing device includes a printer including a printing head to print a printing subject on a printing medium; a transporter including a roller to, while pressing the printing medium against the printing head, transport the printing medium in a feeding direction and a retracting direction; and a presser to, when the printing medium is transported in a feeding direction, cause the roller to press the printing medium against the printing head with first pressure and, when the printing medium is transported in a retracting direction, cause the roller to press the printing medium against the printing head with second pressure different from the first pressure.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises at least one processor that executes a program stored in a storage unit, the processor being configured to: acquire a plurality of registration information items relating to a word searched by a user; determine whether or not each of the registration items relating to the word satisfies a condition that is set in association with each of the registration information items, and derive the number of registration information items that satisfy the condition; and set a frequency of outputting a quiz relating to the word in a case where the quiz is repeatedly output to a value corresponding to the derived number.

Abstract: The robot includes a storage unit and a control unit. The control unit acquires outside stimulus feature amounts that are feature amounts of an outside stimulus acting from outside, stores the acquired outside stimulus feature amounts in the storage unit as a history, compares outside stimulus feature amounts acquired at a certain timing with outside stimulus feature amounts stored in the storage unit to calculate a first similarity degree, and controls operations based on the calculated first similarity degree.

Abstract: A sensor device includes a first main body portion and a second main body portion which are configured to be detachably attached to a holding member worn by a user, and the first main body portion is disposed on a side of the holding member which lies opposite to a side facing a body of the user and includes therein an antenna for receiving or transmitting a radio wave, while the second main body portion is disposed on the side of the holding member which lies to face the body of the user and includes therein a circuit unit including a measuring unit configured to measure information of the user.

Abstract: Provided is a display control method for a display control device including a processor and a storage. The method includes generating first display data for a display to display user marks at intervals so as to be added one by one as a time elapses from a timing. The intervals each correspond to a user's step length of a user obtained based on measured data on running or walking of the user. The user marks each represent a position where a foot of the user lands by one step. The method further includes generating second display data for the display to display reference marks at intervals so as to be added one by one as the time elapses. The intervals each correspond to a predetermined reference step length. The reference marks each represent a position where a reference foot lands by one step.

Abstract: A mobile electronic device including: a movement detection sensor; a positioning module; a processor; and a memory, wherein the processor determines whether the device is moving on the basis of a first tentative determination result obtained by determining whether the device is moving based on a value obtained from the movement detection sensor as well as a second tentative determination result obtained by determining whether the device is moving based on positional information detected by the positioning module, and, upon determining that the device is moving, stores the positional information detected by the positioning module in the memory.

Abstract: An information processing device includes: an input interface; and at least one processor, configured to perform the following: selecting an instrument, a musical tone of which is to be digitally synthesized based on corresponding musical tone data, via the input interface; acquiring a parameter value that has been set for the selected instrument; generating a random number based on a random function; and changing a pitch of the musical tone of the selected instrument based on the generated random number and the acquired parameter values.

Abstract: Provided are a projection processing device, a storage medium, and a projection method that can realize efficient guidance of customers who receive services. A projection processing device 10 includes a processor 20 that executes projection processing for acquiring a number of available servings of a service and projecting a notification image 50 used to notify information on the number of available servings. Further, the processor 20 is capable of changing display contents of notification images 50 and 51 for each kind of the service, and changing display contents of notification images 50, 50a, and 50b according to the number of available servings.

Abstract: A screen generation method that causes an information processing apparatus to generate an image of a timepiece includes: acquiring component information relating to a component in which a position of at least one portion or displayed information provided on a board surface of the timepiece can change, and placement information indicating a position of the component on the board surface of the timepiece; specifying, based on the placement information, a placement position in a case of placing a component image corresponding to the component information on the image of the timepiece; and generating, based on the specified placement position, a board surface image for operation used in response to operating the timepiece from an external terminal.

Abstract: Provided are an information processing apparatus, an information processing method and a non-transitory computer readable recording medium making it possible to display more appropriate reference designs.

Abstract: A management server serving as an information processing apparatus includes ROM or RAM that stores programs, and at least one processor executing the stored programs. The processor is configured to execute processing including: acquiring the component information comprising at least one selected from the 24-hour meter or the small clock or the 24-hour meter or the date window or the function display board provided on the board surface of the timepiece, which points a symbol indicating certain information or displays the certain information, and the component image such as the 24-hour meter image or the small clock image or the 24-hour meter image or the date window image or the function display board image corresponding to the component information; and setting the component image which is common to a plurality of types of timepieces by associating the component information with the plurality of types of the timepieces.

Abstract: An electronic device includes: a date indicator that includes a letter part and a non-letter part different from the letter part, the non-letter part being a through hole; and a solar battery disposed below the date indicator.

Abstract: A projection processing device comprises a processor control unit that acquires, in response to acceptance of input information, projection position information associated with the input information, and instructs a projector to emit light or project an image enabling a user to identify a position based on the acquired projection position information.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus according to an embodiment of the disclosure includes: an input device; a storage; and at least one processor, wherein the processor identifies identification information on a key subjected to a key operation with the input device, determines, when the identification information is identified, whether the key operation satisfies a predetermined condition, and performs control in such a manner that, when the key operation is determined to satisfy the predetermined condition, virtual key information indicating a function that is designated by the key operation is stored in the storage rather than storing the identified identification information in the storage.

Abstract: Disclosed is a heat radiation device including: a heat receiver configured to be in contact with a heat radiation target; a heat radiator that radiates heat into air; and a heat pipe that transfers heat from the heat receiver to the heat radiator. The heat pipe includes a bend that bends in a direction away from the heat radiation target. The heat receiver includes a section that follows at least part of the bend and is in contact with the bend.

Abstract: There is provided an electronic device including a display, a designation device configured to designate any range of a character string displayed on the display by a user, and a processor. The processor is configured to target as a processing target at least one character included in the range designated by the designation device, determine to which of a plurality of predetermined combinations a combination of a character type of the at least one character and a position of the at least one character in the range corresponds, and execute a process on characters included in the designated range based on the determined combination.

Abstract: A shaping system includes: a printing device that prints an image using predetermined ink on a thermal expansion sheet having a thermal expansion layer on one side; and an expansion device that performs: a drying process of heating the thermal expansion sheet to an extent that allows the thermal expansion layer to maintain a non-expansion state, to dry the image printed by the printing device using the predetermined ink; and an expansion process of, after the drying process, heating the thermal expansion sheet to an extent that allows the thermal expansion layer to expand, to expand the thermal expansion layer.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a biometric detection value acquirer to acquire a biometric detection value for calculation of biometric information of a wearer of the electronic device and a processor, in which the processor estimates a change trend of information related to an action detail of the wearer and, based on the estimated change trend of information related to an action detail, selects an algorithm to calculate the biometric information from the biometric detection value.

Abstract: Provided are a light source device capable of reducing color irregularities while having a compact size, and a projector including this light source device. A light source device includes: an excitation light irradiation unit 70 that emits excitation light; a rotary wheel unit 100 including a rotary wheel 101 having a filter region 104 that reflects or transmits light in a predetermined wavelength band different from a wavelength band of the excitation light and transmits the excitation light, and a transmission bending region 106 that bends and transmits the excitation light; and a fixed phosphor 200 that is irradiated with the excitation light transmitted through the filter region 104 and emits fluorescence including light in the predetermined wavelength band toward the filter region 104.

Abstract: A light source apparatus includes an excitation light shining device for emitting excitation light, a rotational wheel device including a rotational wheel including a filter area for transmitting light in a predetermined wavelength range differing from a wavelength range of the excitation light and reflecting the excitation light and a direction-changing transmission area for transmitting the excitation light while changing a direction thereof, and a luminescent light emission device which receives the excitation light reflected on the filter area to thereby emit luminescent light including the light in the predetermined wavelength range towards the filter area, and the rotational wheel device is disposed so that an axis of the excitation light which passes through the direction-changing transmission area and an axis of the luminescent light in the predetermined wavelength range which passes through the filter area are superposed on each other.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a display to display information with a hand and at least one processor, in which the processor is configured to acquire the number of pulsations of a living body during a predetermined period and control the display to express a pulsation period based on the acquired number of pulsations of the living body with the hand.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory and at least one processor. In the memory, a program is stored. The processor is configured to execute the program stored in the memory, and generate prescription data for skincare of a skin based on history data of an index value representing change in blood flow before and after treatment. The index value is calculated based on a first skin image and a second skin image. The first skin image is obtained by imaging the skin before a blood flow enhancement treatment, and the second skin image is obtained by imaging the skin after the blood flow enhancement treatment.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a processing unit which acquires body motion information of a user during a movement action by the user, and determines terrain while the user is moving based on the body motion information acquired.

Abstract: A temperature estimation apparatus includes: a first temperature sensor that measures first temperature of first part of a target that has a heat source; a second temperature sensor that measures second temperature of second part that is farther from the heat source than the first part; and a processor. The processor obtains temperature-for-estimation data regarding the first and second temperatures that are measured in a state where a predetermined condition is satisfied, the predetermined condition corresponding to a certain state of change in the temperature of the heat source. Based on the obtained temperature-for-estimation data, the processor obtains a single thermal resistance parameter in a thermal model. Based on the obtained thermal resistance parameter and the measured first and second temperatures, the processor estimates the temperature of the heat source as a deep-body temperature of the target.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a first outputter and a processor. The processor is configured to acquire biometric information that is information about a living body, calculate a reliability of the biometric information based on the acquired biometric information, and output the biometric information to the first outputter in an output mode associated with the calculated reliability.

Abstract: Disclosed is a printing device including: a print head; a camera that photographs a printing target which is printed by the print head; and at least one processor that determines whether or not printing is properly performed to the printing target based on a printed image which is photographed by the camera, and that changes a printing setting by the print head in response to determination that the printing is not properly performed to the printing target.