Abstract: A case includes a main case body and an exterior member. The exterior member is welded to the main case body with laser light. The laser light is irradiated onto an irradiation surface. A welding part of the main case body and the exterior member is formed on the inner periphery surface extending along a height direction of the case and is formed such that the irradiation surface is perpendicular to the incident laser light.

Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes a playing operator, and a sound source which performs processing of receiving, in response to a user operation on the playing operator, a sound generation instruction according to playing operation information including the pitch information indicating the certain pitch and sound volume information indicating a certain volume, and generating sound according to the certain pitch and the certain volume, based on excitation data generated by multiplying partial data by a window function, the partial data being included in excitation signal waveform data generated based on a plurality of waveform data items which are respectively different from each other in sound intensity in the certain pitch.

Abstract: An identification device has a processor configured to carry out plural identification processing by which an individual is identified based on plural acquired data different from each other indicating the individual and, when the identification of the individual by one or more identification processing of the plural identification processing fails and the identification of the individual by one or more other identification processing of the plural identification processing succeeds, learn the at least one identification processing by which the identification of the individual fails.

Abstract: A case includes a main case body and an exterior member. The exterior member is welded to the main case body with laser light. The laser light is irradiated onto a welding part of the main case body and the exterior member and reflected at an irradiation surface, and a reflected-light receiving part is formed at a position where the reflected laser light is irradiated according to an incidence angle of the laser light to the irradiation surface. The exterior member includes a flange part which is disposed on an upper side of the main case body and which protrudes toward an inner side of the main case body. A lower surface of the flange part includes a module receiving surface which receives a module to be disposed inside the main case body, and the reflected-light receiving part is formed at a part of the module receiving surface.

Abstract: A push button capable of improving shock resistance and a timepiece equipped therewith are provided. This push button includes an operation member having a shaft section inserted into a through hole of a case and a head section provided on the outer end of the shaft section, and an elastic member which presses the head section toward the outside of the case or is elastically deformed, and this elastic member includes a buffer section that buffers a pressure externally applied to the head section which is greater than a predetermined pressure. Accordingly, when a pressure greater than the predetermined pressure is applied to the head section, the head section comes in contact with the buffer section while elastically deforming the elastic member so as to buffer the pressure. By this structure, shock resistance is improved.

Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus includes (i) a wireless communicator capable of broadcasting an extended advertising packet having a large transmittable capacity and a compatible advertising packet having a transmittable capacity smaller than the extended advertising packet, and (ii) a processor. The wireless communicator periodically broadcasts the extended advertising packet based on a command from the processor. The processor sets offset information for acquiring of a time at which the extended advertising packet is receivable in an offset notification packet that is the compatible advertising packet, and broadcasts the offset notification packet via the wireless communicator. The offset information is set based on a transmission timing of the offset notification packet and a transmission timing of the extended advertising packet.

Abstract: A timepiece includes a clock circuit, a signal receiver configured to receive signals including time information, a processor configured to control a changing operation of changing a current time measured by the clock circuit based on the time information obtained from the signal receiver and controls a presenting operation of whether or not the changing operation is successful. The processor controls the changing operation based on a first flag indicating whether or not the signal receiver successfully receives the time information. The processor controls the presenting operation based on a second flag indicating whether or not the changing operation is successful within a predetermined period of time.

Abstract: A rotation detecting apparatus includes a rotating member, detectors regarding a rotating direction of the rotating member, and a predetermined unit. Each detector detects whether a predetermined standard direction is included in detecting ranges different for each rotating member and outputs a result. The predetermined unit combines the detection result output from each detector and extracts an angle range. The predetermined unit specifies the rotating direction of the rotating member based on changes in the angle ranges extracted a plurality of times occurring in the plurality of times. The detecting range corresponding to each of the plurality of detectors is determined to be able to identify relative positions before and after a change from the angle range extracted by the predetermined unit to the angle range that is clockwise or counterclockwise apart a predetermined number or less to the angle range extracted, the predetermined number being two or more.

Abstract: An information terminal is used with a wrist information device. The information terminal includes a position measurement module, communication circuit, a memory, and a processor. The position measurement module obtains position information. The communication circuit communicates with the wrist information device. The processor obtains information about an operation of a clock function input into the wrist information device during establishment of connection of the communication, obtains the position information from the position measurement module, and stores, in the memory, the position information and the information about the operation of the clock function in association with each other.

Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus includes a wireless communicator configured to perform wireless communication with another wireless communication apparatus, and a processor. The processor controls the wireless communicator to transmit to the other wireless communication apparatus prescribed information while incrementally changing transmission power by a prescribed degree until a change occurs in a signal reception state of a connection request from the other wireless communication apparatus, and starts transmission of the prescribed information to the other wireless communication apparatus during a next communication onwards at a transmission power based on a transmission power occurring when the change occurs in the signal reception state of the connection request.

Abstract: An image processing device includes an acquirer, a face detector, and a change detector. The acquirer acquires images captured in succession by an image capturer. The face detector executes a first detection processing (face detection processing) that detects a certain target (face of a person) from a central area of the acquired image. The change detector executes second detection processing to detect a change over time in a surrounding area other than the central area in the acquired image. The second detection processing has a smaller processing load required per unit pixel in the image than that of the first detection processing.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a display, a sensor, and a processor. The sensor measures a predetermined physical amount. The processor can change an obtaining interval at which the processor obtains measurement results of the measurement by the sensor; causes the display to display a graph that shows a shift in the measurement results; and in causing the display to display the graph, changes a display mode of the graph in a section in the graph depending on the obtaining interval. The display does not display a mark representing the obtaining interval while displaying the graph.

Abstract: An exercise information acquisition equipment of the present invention is an electronic equipment which builds therein a battery, is driven with electric power of the battery and acquires information relating to an exercise that a user performs and includes a battery remaining amount acquisition device which acquires a battery remaining amount of the battery, a time information acquisition device which acquires information relating to a time taken for the exercise which is information that how long the user plans to perform the exercise and an electric power control device which controls an operation pertaining to a power consumption reduction of the electronic equipment on the basis of the battery remaining amount and the information relating to the time taken for the exercise.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided an electronic apparatus comprises: a memory storing an instruction and configured to secure therein: a key transfer memory storage area configured to store at least a numerical value transferred from the external device; an entered numeral storage area configured to store a definitive entered numeral used for an arithmetic operation; and an entered numeral input area configured to store at least a numerical value input through a key input device for display; a processor configured to, in accordance with the instruction, cause the key transfer memory storage area to store a value transferred from the external device via a communication device, and then cause the entered numeral storage area and the entered numeral input area to store the value stored in the key transfer memory storage area.

Abstract: There is provided a data processing apparatus including a processor, the processor is configured to: receive one or more sets of data output from at least one data output apparatus via a communication network, each set of the data including sensor data obtained by at least one sensor and first specifying information that specifies the data processing apparatus; determine whether or not the first specifying information included in the received one or more sets of data satisfies a predetermined condition; classify the one or more sets of data determined to satisfy the condition into a same group; and generate and output an output file based on the one or more sets of data classified into the same group.

Abstract: In a three-dimensional object formed by bending and deforming a sheet-like base material made of a thermoplastic resin at a ridge line, a surface of the base material bent and oriented outward at least at the ridge line is covered with a thermal expansion layer that expands when heated to a thermal deformation temperature of the thermoplastic resin or a higher temperature, and the thermal expansion layer is expanded at the ridge line.

Abstract: Disclosed is a charge protection circuit including: a switch that switches between allowing and not allowing power supply from an external power source to a charging circuit that supplies power for charging a rechargeable battery; a detector that detects at least one of a current flowing from the charging circuit to the rechargeable battery and a voltage between two electrodes of the rechargeable battery; a determiner that determines whether a detection result of the detector is abnormal; and a controller that, in response to the determiner determining that the detection result of the detector is abnormal, causes the switch to switch to an interrupting state so as to interrupt power supply to the charging circuit.

Abstract: A resin molded sheet includes: a base material made of resin; a first thermal expansion layer including a thermally expandable material and provided on a first surface of the base material; and a second thermal expansion layer including a thermally expandable material and provided on a second surface of the base material, wherein the first thermal expansion layer is provided at least on a first region, where the base material is deformed by the first thermal expansion layer, on the first surface of the base material, and the second thermal expansion layer is provided at least in a second region, where the base material is deformed by the second thermal expansion layer, on the second surface of the base material.

Abstract: A keyboard instrument including a hammer unit which includes a plurality of hammer members each of which has an effort point provided on one end side, a load point provided on an other end side, and a fulcrum provided between the effort point and the load point, and a hammer holder which rotatably holds the plurality of hammer members, and a keyboard chassis which includes a restriction member for restricting rotations of the plurality of hammer members performed in response to key depression operations within a restriction range and in which the hammer unit is mounted, in which the hammer holder has a plurality of contact points on the effort point side which comes in contact with portions of the plurality of hammer members on the effort point side when the hammer unit is in a vertically inverted state.

Abstract: A thermally expandable sheet including two or more thermally expandable layers that are laminated, the thermally expandable layers each expanding upon being heated to or above a predetermined expansion start temperature, wherein the thermally expandable layers include two adjacent layers different from each other in the expansion start temperature.

Abstract: A keyboard instrument includes a plurality of key blocks, each including key main bodies, connecting sections, and a supporting section. Each key main body has a top surface that can be pressed by a user to play the keyboard instrument. Each connecting section extends from a key main body and deforms in response to pressing at the top surface of the key main body. The supporting section supports the key main bodies as one key block through the connecting sections. The key blocks are stacked at the supporting section in an instrument case so that a plurality of connecting sections of one key block and a plurality of connecting sections of another key block overlap each other. In at least one key block, each connecting section extends from a top surface side of the corresponding key main body.

Abstract: A thermal printer includes a thermal head in which a plurality of heating elements are arranged in a line, and a processor that executes a printing process of energizing the thermal head successively a predetermined number of times so at to print a printing data by causing a predetermined voltage to be applied to the thermal head the predetermined number of times in accordance with and in synchronization with strobe pulses in a strobe signal, a strobe width of each strobe pulse in the strobe signal defining a duration during which the thermal head is being applied with the predetermined voltage, wherein among the strobe pulses for the predetermined number of times of energizing the thermal head, a strobe width of at least one predetermined strobe pulse is set to be always shorter than a strobe width of another predetermined one of the strobe pulses.

Abstract: An autonomous mobile apparatus creates an environment map and estimates a position using images captured by an imaging device. The autonomous mobile apparatus includes a controller and a storage unit. The controller creates environment maps in accordance with changes in the surrounding environment, normalizes the created environment maps to enable unified handling and saves the normalized environment maps in the storage unit, and estimates the position using the normalized environment maps.

Abstract: A microcapsule includes a shell including a conducting component; and a thermally expandable component contained in the shell and having a property of expanding by heating, the shell deforming due to expansion of the thermally expandable component to come in contact with another capsule and have a conducting state with the other capsule.

Abstract: A thermally expandable material includes microcapsules and a binder having a conducting property, each microcapsule including a shell having an insulating property, and a thermally expandable component contained in the shell and having a property of expanding by heating, the shell deforming due to expansion of the thermally expandable component to come in contact with another capsule and have an insulating state with the other capsule.

Abstract: There is provided a computer readable storage medium storing a program executable by a computer, and the program causes the computer to execute functions including: forming a first image in accordance with an electronic circuit diagram, in which a resistance value of a wiring portion is defined, to form the wiring portion by printing with a conductive ink; and correcting the first image in accordance with a second image, which is formed with a photothermal conversion material, when the first image is formed at least partially overlapping the second image, wherein the second image is an image for expanding a thermally expandable layer that thermally expands with heat and, when the image is irradiated with light, expanding the thermally expandable layer by converting the light into heat with the photothermal conversion material.

Abstract: A thermally expandable sheet includes a base, an intermediate layer provided on a first surface of the base, the intermediate layer including a thermally expandable material, and a thermally expansive layer provided on the intermediate layer. The peeling strength between the intermediate layer and the base is less than the peeling strength between the thermally expansive layer and the intermediate layer, and the intermediate layer and the thermally expansive layer are peelable from the base.

Abstract: A print controller includes a processor and a memory. When an instruction to execute a specific calculation function is received, the processor obtains a calculation result related to the specific calculation function. When an instruction to print is received, if the instruction to execute the specific calculation function has been received a plurality of times without printing the calculation result related to the specific calculation function, which was obtained when the instruction to execute the calculation function was received one or more times before the instruction received at a last time of the plurality of times, the processor causes a printing device to print the calculation result related to the specific calculation function, which was obtained when the instruction to execute the specific calculation function was received at the last time of the plurality of times.

Abstract: A display system includes an electronic apparatus, a display and a processor. The electronic apparatus is configured to display a first display screen on a first display. The display is configured to receive a touch input and is configured to display an operation panel as a second display screen. The processor is configured to execute a processing including a display control processing. The display control processing controls the second display screen on the display so that the first display screen is displayed on the operation panel, during a predetermined conduct including a control on the first display screen in accordance with user operation via a first operation unit, when the display is connected to the electronic apparatus as a second operation unit.

Abstract: A shaped object production method includes a first preparation step (S30) of preparing a molding sheet that includes a base, a thermally expansive layer laminated on a first main surface of the base, the thermally expansive layer including a thermally expandable material, and a brushed layer laminated on a surface of the thermally expansive layer on a side that is opposite to the base, the brushed layer including fiber; a first heat conversion layer laminating step (S40) of laminating a heat conversion layer that converts electromagnetic waves into heat onto a surface of the molding sheet on a side that is opposite to the brushed layer; and a first unevenness forming step (S50) of forming an unevenness on the surface of the thermally expansive layer on the side that is opposite to the base by irradiating the heat conversion layer with electromagnetic waves, thereby causing the thermally expandable material to expand.

Abstract: A portable terminal includes a device body, a grip section located closer to a first end than to a second end of the device body, and a projecting section located closer to the second end than to the first end of the device body. An operation switch is provided between the projection section and the first end of the device body. The operation switch includes a pressing surface that is at an angle with respect to a thickness direction of the device body to face outward from the device body and in a direction toward the second end of the device body. The grip section includes a sloped surface provided between the operation switch and the first end of the device body. And the sloped surface faces away from a direction faced by the pressing surface of the operation switch.

Abstract: A projector according to an aspect of the present invention includes a projection unit and a processor configured to execute functions as below, wherein the processor functions to acquire image information, select part of an image included in the image information as a display subject image, and cause the projection unit to project the display subject image so selected and an image synthesizing area image indicating an image synthesizing area.

Abstract: A light source unit of the invention includes a light source device including first and second light sources held by a holding member, each light source being configured to emit light in a predetermined polarizing direction, a first reflection device on which light from the first light source is incident, a second reflection device on which reflection light from the first reflection device and light from the second light source are incident, and a light source control device configured to selectively drive the first and second light sources in response to an input signal, and the first reflection device reflects light in the polarizing direction incident thereon from the first light source, while the second reflection device transmits light in the polarizing direction reflected by the first reflection device for incidence thereon and reflects light in the polarizing direction from the second light source for incidence thereon.

Abstract: An electronic device of the present invention is an electronic device including a display operation unit in which a display function and an operation function are integrated together, the electronic device including a processor configured to execute processing below, in which the processing, when communication connection is made with a predetermined sales data processing apparatus, includes control processing of substituting either one or both of a display unit and an operation unit arranged on the sales data processing apparatus for at least part of a function of the display operation unit.

Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes: a memory that stores a trained acoustic model obtained by performing machine learning on training musical score data and training singing voice data of a singer; and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor: in accordance with a user operation on an operation element in a plurality of operation elements, inputs prescribed lyric data and pitch data corresponding to the user operation of the operation element to the trained acoustic model so as to cause the trained acoustic model to output the acoustic feature data in response to the inputted prescribed lyric data and the inputted pitch data, and digitally synthesizes and outputs inferred singing voice data that infers a singing voice of the singer on the basis of the acoustic feature data output by the trained acoustic model.

Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes: a memory that stores a trained acoustic model obtained by performing machine learning on training musical score data and training singing voice data of a singer; and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor: in accordance with a user operation on an operation element in a plurality of operation elements, inputs prescribed lyric data and pitch data corresponding to the user operation of the operation element to the trained acoustic model, and digitally synthesizes and outputs inferred singing voice data that infers a singing voice of the singer on the basis of at least a portion of acoustic feature data output by the trained acoustic model, and on the basis of instrument sound waveform data that are synthesized in accordance with the pitch data corresponding to the user operation of the operation element.

Abstract: An object is to clarify a correspondence relation between a subject that is an audio source in image data and audio emitted from the subject. When image data having audio data is acquired, this image data having audio data is analyzed so as to identify a subject that is an audio source in the image data. Then, audio data corresponding to the subject identified as the audio source is selected from the acquired successive audio data, and this audio data and the subject are associated with each other. In this case, for example, the audio data corresponding to the subject is outputted in association with the display of the subject that is the audio source, or in other words, in synchronization with the image display.

Abstract: A keyboard instrument including a plurality of keys and a keyboard chassis, in which each key has a shaft or a shaft hole provided on one end side thereof. The keyboard chassis is provided with shafts when the plurality of keys has shaft holes, and is provided with shaft holes when the plurality of keys has shafts. This keyboard chassis supports the plurality of keys by the shafts being arranged in the shaft holes. Also, first spaces and second spaces are formed between an inner surface of the shaft hole and the shaft. The first spaces are positioned in a vertical direction of the key, and the second spaces are positioned in a longitudinal direction of the key. In addition, the second spaces are larger than the first spaces.

Abstract: A processor in an audio extraction apparatus performs a preprocessing operation to determine, for a stereo audio source including first channel audio data including an accompaniment sound and a vocal sound for a first channel and second channel audio data including an accompaniment sound and a vocal sound for a second channel, a difference between the first channel audio data and the second channel audio data to generate center cut audio data, and an audio extraction operation to input the first channel audio data, the second channel audio data and the center cut audio data to a trained machine learning model to extract any one of the accompaniment sound and the vocal sound.

Abstract: There is provided a display apparatus which includes an input device having a plurality of video signal terminals including a digital video signal terminal, a display configured to display an input signal which is input from the input device, and a controller configured to set a search time of a digital video signal in accordance with presence or absence of power supply to a power supply terminal of the digital video signal terminal, and a connection status in a case in which the power supply is present, and configured to execute a search of the digital video signal in the search time.

Abstract: In a robot, an actuator causes the robot to operate. A processor is configured to acquire, when a holding portion is held by a predetermined target, physical information on a physical function of the predetermined target, and cause, by controlling the actuator depending on the acquired physical information, the robot to perform at least one of an examination operation for examining the physical function of the predetermined target and a training support operation for training the physical function of the predetermined target.

Abstract: A voice recognition device provided with a processor configured to determine a breathing period immediately before uttering which is a period in which a lip of a target person has moved with breathing immediately before uttering based on a captured image of the lip of the target person, to detect a voice period which is a period in which the target person is uttering without including the breathing period immediately before uttering determined above based on the captured image of the lip of the target person captured, to acquire a voice of the target person, and to recognize the voice of the target person based on the voice of the target person acquired above within the voice period detected above.

Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes: a memory that stores a machine-learning trained acoustic model mimicking voice of a singer and at least one processor. When a vocoder mode is on, prescribed lyric data and pitch data corresponding to a user operation of an operation element of the musical instrument are inputted to the trained acoustic model, and inferred singing voice data that infers a singing voice of the singer is synthesized on the basis of acoustic feature data output by the trained acoustic model and on the basis of instrument sound waveform data that are synthesized in accordance with the pitch data corresponding to the user operation of the operation element. When the vocoder mode is off, the inferred singing voice data is synthesized based on the acoustic feature data without using the sound waveform data.

Abstract: A correction process is realized by a simpler method. An imaging apparatus 1 includes an image acquisition unit 51, a template storage unit 62, an adaptive position specifying unit 53, and a distortion correction processing unit 55. The image acquisition unit 51 acquires an image including a predetermined subject. The template storage unit 62 stores a template including correction degrees of respective positions in a shape corresponding to a correction target region of the predetermined subject, the correction degrees being different at the respective positions. The adaptive position specifying unit 53 specifies coordinates adapting to a template in the image. The distortion correction processing unit 55 corrects the image on the basis of coordinates specified by the adaptive position specifying unit 53 and the correction degree included in the template.

Abstract: A light source unit of the present invention includes a light emitting device emitting light having a characteristic in which emitted light travels in a predetermined direction in which a uniformity in intensity distribution relative to an axis of the emitted light is high and an unstable direction in which a uniformity in intensity distribution relative to the axis of the emitted light is lower than that in the predetermined direction, the unstable direction being at right angles to the predetermined direction, an intensity transforming lens formed to control the intensity distribution in the predetermined direction and on which the light emitted from the light emitting device is incident, and a superposition transforming optical device formed to control the intensity distribution in the unstable direction by dividing the intensity distribution into a plurality of directions and superposing divided intensity distributions one on the other.

Abstract: A display control apparatus includes a display and a processor, in which the processor performs processing of acquiring an image of an object, displaying an auxiliary substitute image in which auxiliary information is added to a substitute image on the display, switching between i) a first display mode in which the object's image which is acquired is displayed on the display as a first image and the auxiliary substitute image is displayed on the display as a second image and ii) a second display mode in which the object's image which is acquired is displayed on the display as the second image and the auxiliary substitute image is displayed on the display as the first image, and displaying the object's image and the auxiliary substitute image on the display unit in the display mode which is switched.

Abstract: Among twelve lines indicating a 3D space (Ad) (X-axis direction lines (Xa)(Xb)(Xc)(Xd), Y-axis direction lines (Ya)(Yb)(Yc)(Yd), Z-axis direction lines (Za)(Zb)(Zc)(Zd)), display colors of red (R), green (G) and blue (B) are allocated to three lines (three-dimensional directions), i.e. an X-axis direction line (Xa), a Y-axis direction line (Ya) and a Z-axis direction line (Za), which have, as starting points, a 3D space minimum point (M) at which each of an X value, a Y value and a Z value becomes minimum, and red gradation display (Rgr), green gradation display (Ggr) and blue gradation display (Bgr) (first origin direction distinct display) are executed such that the colors become darker toward an origin (O) of the 3D space (Ad) and become lighter away from the origin (O).

Abstract: An optical wheel device according to the present invention includes a first wheel on one side of which a luminescent material layer is disposed, a second wheel disposed on the other side of the first wheel, a first opening portion provided on the first wheel or the second wheel to be situated near a center of rotation, a second opening portion provided further radially outwards than the first opening portion, a communication passage formed between the first wheel and the second wheel to establish a communication between the first opening portion and the second opening portion, a motor configured to rotationally drive the first wheel and the second wheel, and a drive control device configured to control driving of the motor.

Abstract: A digital-to-analog conversion device which performs integration processing for integrating a difference between an input signal and a first return signal generated based on the input signal, and outputting an integration result, first quantization processing for quantizing the integration result, and outputting a first quantization signal, first return signal output processing for outputting the first return signal by adding to the first quantization signal a correction value delay signal acquired by a correction value signal outputted based on the integration result being delayed, and output processing for outputting output signals including a signal whose pulse width is asymmetrical to center of a processing period, based on the first quantization signal, in which the correction value signal includes a signal indicating a correction value for correcting a difference between a center of the pulse width asymmetrical to the center of the processing period and the center of the processing period.

Abstract: A light source unit of the present invention includes a luminescent material plate, a joining plate on one side of which the luminescent material plate is disposed, a heat dissipating member disposed on the other side of the joining plate, and a heat conductive layer configured to thermally connect the joining plate and the heat dissipating member together and disposed between the joining plate and the heat dissipating member, and a heat conductivity of an area of the heat conductive layer which corresponds to the luminescent material plate is lower than a heat conductivity of a periphery of the area of the heat conductive layer which corresponds to the luminescent material plate.