Abstract: A case of a keyboard instrument includes a lower case formed from a resin material which is a first material and extended long in a left-right direction which is a first direction, plural reinforcement members (a first reinforcement member, a second reinforcement member) fixed to the lower case, made from a sheet of steel which is a second material whose linear expansion coefficient is smaller than a linear expansion coefficient of the first material, and disposed to be divided in the left-right direction, a front case formed in such a manner as to extend long in the first direction and fixed to each of the plural reinforcement members, and side cases (a left side case, a right side case) disposed adjacent to the front case and fixed to ends of the reinforcement members.

Abstract: A rotary operation device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a rotation detection unit configured to detect rotation; a knob; and an accommodation unit configured to accommodate the rotation detection unit, wherein the knob includes an operation portion configured to rotate in interlock with the rotation detection unit, and a stopper portion disposed more on a radially inner side than an outer edge portion of the operation portion, and the accommodation unit includes an engaging portion configured to be engaged with the stopper portion.

Abstract: A manipulator includes a case; an axis-having member having a rotatable member; an operation member attached to the rotatable member of the axis-having member so as to be rotatable together with the rotatable member; and a fixing member that fixes the axis-having member to the case, the fixing member having a flexible member that is attached to the axis-having member.

Abstract: A manipulator includes a light source that emits light; a rotatable member that is rotatable around an axis; and an operation member having a substantially disk shape, attached to the rotatable member so as to be rotatable together with the rotatable member, the operation member including a light guide member that guides light incident from the light source, and a wheel member arranged on one plate surface side of the light guide member, wherein the rotatable member has a holding portion that holds the light guide member.

Abstract: A manipulator, comprises a light source that emits light; and an operation member rotationally operatable around an axis by a user, the operation member having a substantially disk shape and including a light guide member that guides light incident from the light source and emits the light to an outside in radical directions of the substantially disk shape from an outer peripheral portion thereof, and a reflecting member reflecting a portion of the light guided by the light guide member in a direction perpendicular to the radial directions at said outer peripheral portion.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a route information acquisition unit configured to acquire route information that is information on a route along which a user performs at least two types of moving with different moving speeds, and a section setting unit configured to set, on the route based on the acquired route information, a first section as a section in which the user performs first moving at a first speed and a second section as a section in which the user performs second moving at a second speed lower than the first speed.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes the following. A timekeeper keeps time. A recorder records data. At least one processor is configured to perform, associating the time at a timing that the data is recorded in the recorder to the data as recorded time, the time based on the kept time kept by the timekeeper, obtaining modified time regarding modification of the kept time, and in a situation that it is determined that a predetermined condition to determine whether there is a possibility that the modified time is before the recorded time associated to the latest data is satisfied, associating the time in which the kept time is not modified based on the modified time to the data recorded thereafter as the recorded time.

Abstract: A sound output device includes a processor, the processor being configured to generate a first output signal for sound to be output from a first output device by mixing a left-channel signal and a right-channel signal based on a first ratio, generate a second output signal for sound to be output from a second output device by mixing the left-channel signal and the right-channel signal based on a second ratio, generate a third output signal for sound to be output from a third output device by mixing the left-channel signal and the right-channel signal based on a third ratio, and generate a fourth output signal for sound to be output from a fourth output device by mixing the left-channel signal and the right-channel signal based on a fourth ratio.

Abstract: A character input method according to the present disclosure, a computer is configured to execute a process of causing, in a case where each of characters of an answer character string corresponding to a correct-answer character string is input by a user by using a plurality of keys included in a keyboard layout displayed on a display, the display to display the keyboard layout, in a state indicating that a first character of the correct-answer character string, and at least one second character other than the first character, are inputtable, and a third character other than the first character and the second character is non-inputtable, the first character corresponding to an input character position of the answer character string.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel that has a curved part at least at a part of an outer edge of the display panel. The display device also includes a bent connector that is arranged along the curved part and electrically connected to the display panel.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing method, a program, and an information processing device capable of limiting a warning function more appropriately.

Abstract: A projector includes an optical apparatus, a control circuit board disposed above an upper side of the optical apparatus, a cooling fan disposed near a rear surface outside air inlet port in a case which lies opposite to a projection direction and having an upper surface outside air inlet port configured to let in outside air from an upper surface and a lower surface outside air inlet port configured to let in outside air from a lower surface of the case, and a heat sink provided corresponding to a discharge port of the cooling fan and connected with the optical apparatus, and a flow path resistance on a side facing the lower surface outside air inlet port is smaller than a flow path resistance on a side facing the upper surface outside air inlet port.

Abstract: An information processing method causes a computer to: execute a first event for evaluating a first activity state of a subject when the subject is performing a first activity; determine whether the subject receives the evaluation in the first event; and execute a second event for evaluating a second activity state different from the first activity state, the second activity state being an activity state of the subject when the subject is performing a second activity, at least on a condition that it is determined that the subject receives the evaluation in the first event.

Abstract: An editing method being performed by a computer according to one aspect includes executing processing of: causing a display to display an editing screen on which a layout of an object is capable of being edited; and enabling switching of a selection condition for each object on the editing screen to be brought into one of a selected state and an unselected state based on an operation by a user. The switchable selection condition may include a combination of a first selection condition for bringing an object whose own area is entirely included in a range designated by an operation of designating the range into a selected state and a second selection condition for bringing an object whose own area is at least partially included in the designated range into a selected state.

Abstract: A first cooling apparatus includes a first heat sink having multiple first fins having a U-shaped opening and an O-shaped opening which are provide therein, a first heat receiving member configured to be brought into abutment with a heat source, and a first heat pipe which extends from one end which is connected with the heat receiving member towards the other end, and the first heat pipe has a first extending portion which extends from the one end, a bent portion which is bent from the first extending portion and at least a part of which is disposed inside the U-shaped opening, and a second extending portion which extends from the bent portion and at least a part of which is disposed inside the O-shaped opening.

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: 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: An electronic musical instrument according to one aspect of the invention is configured to generate, in response to an excitation signal corresponding to a specified pitch, a first string signal to be output from one of right and left channels based on a first accumulated signal in which outputs of at least a first closed-loop circuit and a second closed-loop circuit among the first closed-loop circuit, the second closed-loop circuit and a third closed-loop circuit, which are provided to correspond to the specified pitch, are accumulated, and generate a second string signal to be output from the other channel based on a second accumulated signal in which outputs of the second closed-loop circuit and the third closed-loop circuit are accumulated.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a cylindrical case, a display, an annular light-transmitting parting member, an annular solar cell and an annular elastic member. At least the upper end of the case is open. The display is disposed in the case and exposed to a side where the upper end is located. The parting member is annular along the inner circumferential surface of the case. The annular solar cell is disposed under the parting member. The elastic member fixes the outer edge of the annular solar cell.

Abstract: A rear panel of an electronic keyboard instrument has a frame portion including multiple sound radiation holes, and the frame portion has a first hole frame including a hole forming surface of the sound radiation hole and a second hole frame including a hole forming surface of the sound radiation hole which is longer in a thickness direction of the frame portion (a Y-axis direction) than the first frame.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a solar cell, a wiring board, a connector, a first circuit, a second circuit and a fixing member. The wiring board includes a feeder wiring connected to the solar cell. The connector is continuous with the wiring board and includes a feeder electrode electrically connected to the feeder wiring. The first circuit includes a first electrode and a first wiring continuous with the first electrode. The second circuit includes a second electrode and a second wiring continuous with the second electrode. The fixing member fixes the feeder electrode, the first electrode and the second electrode in a state in which the electrodes are superposed on top of one another, to electrically connect each one of the electrodes to another one or more of the electrodes.

Abstract: A cutting mechanism for a printing apparatus, the cutting mechanism includes: a cutter including a cutting blade and a blade receiving member, the cutter being configured to cut at least part of a printing medium with the cutting blade while the blade receiving member is receiving a force from the cutting blade; and a support member provided to suppress deformation of the blade receiving member, wherein the blade receiving member is adjacent to and fixed to the support member.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a print head that includes a plurality of nozzles ejecting an ink and performs printing on a print target; and at least one processor that controls an ejection operation of the print head based on ejection specification data defining ejection of the ink. At least a “first mode” and a “second mode” are provided with respect to the application of the ejection specification data, and the processor switches between the “first mode” and the “second mode” based on a set printing density.

Abstract: A processor performs processing which includes inputting a plurality of mathematical formulas in response to operations performed on operation keys, displaying a list of the plurality of inputted mathematical formulas on a display, and displaying, in different display forms, a first mathematical formula which is a mathematical formula currently being inputted and a second mathematical formula which is a mathematical formula previously inputted, when displaying the list of the plurality of mathematical formulas.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus 5 is provided with a processing unit, the processing unit acquiring images 44 that are continuous over time, acquiring a position of a visible light source in a lit-up state in each of the continuous images 44, as a position of a movable body 3; and acquiring identification information about the movable body 3 based on a blinking pattern of invisible light of an invisible light source provided on the movable body 3.

Abstract: A band including a band main body in which a catching portion with one end open is provided extending in a longitudinal direction, and a decorative member having a decorative main body which is arranged on at least an outer surface of the band main body and an engaging portion which is provided on the decorative main body and slidably caught in the catching portion.

Abstract: An electronic device includes: a memory configured to a program; and one or more processors configured to execute the program stored in the memory. The one or more processors are connected to a first circuit and a second circuit, the first circuit being configured to execute a first operation cyclically and output an interrupt signal corresponding to the first operation, the second circuit being configured to execute a second operation in response to an operation instruction. In response to receiving the interrupt signal, the one or more processors output the operation instruction to the second circuit such that the second operation is not executed in a period in which the first operation affects the second operation.

Abstract: A keyboard instrument includes a key base member, a first member which is disposed on either of a left and a right of the key base member, and a second member which is disposed on the other side of disposing the first member, and a length hb in an up-down direction of a portion of the first member which corresponds to a nearer side of a key differs from a length ha in the up-down direction of a portion of the second member which corresponds to the nearer side of the key.

Abstract: A robot includes an umbrella portion capable of performing a rotational movement and an opening/closing movement of an umbrella; and a processor. The processor acquires emotion data representing a pseudo emotion in accordance with an external stimulus, and controls, based on the emotion data, at least one of the rotational movement or the opening/closing movement of the umbrella of the umbrella portion.

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.

Abstract: A sound radiation apparatus includes a speaker, a first cover having an opening area provided to be superposed above at least a sound radiation port of the speaker and made up of multiple opening portions at a location superposed above the speaker, a second cover superposed on a front side of the first cover while surrounding the opening area of the first cover, and a saran net covering the first cover and a front side of the second cover and bonded to the second cover, wherein the second cover and the saran net are bonded together at an area on the second member excluding a portion surrounding the opening area of the first cover with a first adhesive and an area on the second cover surrounding the opening area of the first cover with a second adhesive having a higher bonding strength than that of the first adhesive.

Abstract: A rear panel 15, which is an external member, includes a frame portion 110 including multiple sound radiation holes 150 including a first sound radiation hole 160-1 and a second sound radiation hole 160-2, a first sloping portion 160b disposed in the frame portion 110 with a first sloping surface 161a oriented in a first direction 161c, the sloping surface 161a being disposed within an area of the first sound radiation hole 160-1 in such a manner as to slope from a thickness direction (a Y-axis direction) of the frame portion 110, and a second sloping portion 162b disposed in the frame portion 110 with a sloping surface 162a oriented in a second direction 162c which differs from the first direction 161c, the sloping surface 162a being disposed within an area of the second sound radiation hole 160-2 in such a manner as to slope from the thickness direction (the Y-axis direction) of the frame portion 110.

Abstract: Provided is an automatic music playing control device that provides an instruction of playing music, the control device implementing natural music playing capable of expressing the timing and voicing in live music playing of a musical instrument by a player. The automatic music playing control device includes at least one processor, and the at least one processor selects a voicing pattern corresponding to a combination of the probabilistically-selected number of sounds to be emitted and a decided voicing type corresponding to a range from among a plurality of voicing patterns based on a scale decided according to the tune and chords of a music piece and instructs a sound source to emit a chord voiced based on the selected voicing pattern.

Abstract: A matrix operation method performed by a computer includes the following, displaying on a display a matrix in which a plurality of components are arrayed; and changing an arrangement of at least one of the plurality of components in the matrix displayed on the display based on a gesture operation to the matrix.

Abstract: A sensor device includes at least one processor configured to execute processing including: communicating with a user terminal serving as a communication device, acquiring a current position by using prediction ephemeris, acquiring the prediction ephemeris from the user terminal, storing position information indicating the current position acquired, repeating, at intervals, acquiring communication device position information indicating the position of the user terminal and updating the position information based on the communication device position information, and shortening the interval for acquiring the communication device position information when a discrepancy, between the communication device position information and the stored position information prior to being updated is larger than a prescribed reference.

Abstract: Provided is an automatic music playing control device that automatically plays chords to achieve a good music playing. The automatic music playing control device has at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor probabilistically selects any one of a plurality of timing types that defines the number of sound emissions, probabilistically selects any one of a plurality of note timing tables that defines sound emission timings, corresponding to the selected timing type, and instructs a sound source to emit a chord at a sound emission timing based on the selected note timing table.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a hardware processor and a printer. The hardware processor is configured to set a temporary base coat region which is a region where a base coat is to be applied, set a temporary design region which is a base design region and which includes an outer shape corresponding to a bounding polygon of the temporary base coat region, detect a base coat region of a nail where the base coat is applied, and adjust the temporary design region so that an outer shape of the temporary design region matches the outer shape of a bounding polygon of the base coat region, set a portion of the adjusted temporary design region overlapping with the base coat region as a design region, and generate design printing data. The printer prints a design on the nail based on the design printing data.

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: A connection structure includes: a connection pin that includes a first part and a second part between which a step is formed and that connects a first target and a second target by being inserted in an insertion hole; and a pin locker movable in a moving direction in a recess formed in either the first or second target. The pin locker has a pin engaging part that engages with the step of the connection pin and a pin insertion part. One of the recess and the pin locker has a first abutting part, and another has a first abutted part. When the pin locker is at a specific position and the first abutting part abuts the first abutted part, at least either an orientation or a position of the pin insertion part is limited such that the second part is allowed to pass through the pin insertion part.

Abstract: A connecting structure includes a connecting pin, a pin catch, a biasing member, and a holder. The connecting pin has a first portion, a second portion thicker than the first portion, and a step therebetween and connects a connecting object and a connected object (objects) by being inserted into their insertion holes. The pin catch moves in a recess in one of the objects in moving directions that are not an extending direction of the insertion holes and has a pin engagement portion that engages the step. The biasing member biases the pin catch in one of the moving directions. The holder is on the one of the objects and transitions, in response to user operation, to a first state where the holder and the biasing member holds the pin catch or a second state where the pin catch is detachable from the recess.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes at least one processor. The processor is configured to, based on question-giving history information on questions, identify, among users, a similar user who is similar to a target user among the users in proficiency tendency of the questions. The question-giving history information includes results of determination as to whether the users have correctly answered given questions that have been given to the users. The processor is further configured to derive a probability of the target user correctly answering a question as a deriving target question among the questions, based on a result of determination as to whether the similar user has correctly answered the deriving target question. The deriving target question is a question for which the probability is derived, and is a given question for the similar user. The processor is further configured to perform a specific process based on the derived probability.

Abstract: A central processing unit (CPU) of an information processing device acquires search history information on a word related to a question asked to a user and determines hint information related to the question to be presented to the user based on a discrimination result obtained by determining whether or not the acquired search history information satisfies a predetermined search history condition.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a titanium or titanium alloy member and to a surface hardening method for the titanium or titanium alloy member. The titanium or titanium alloy member includes a base material of titanium or titanium alloy, and at a surface of the base material, a hardened layer formed by diffusion of oxygen into the surface.

Abstract: A musical performance apparatus including at least one processor configured to: determine any phrase as a first phrase that is to be a performance target performed by a user from among a plurality of phrases included in a musical piece, and determine a set of phrases from the first phrase to a second phrase to be phrases that are to be the performance target performed by the user according to operation by the user in order to select the second phrase from the plurality of phrases.

Abstract: An electronic device includes at least one processor configured to perform: receiving a selection operation from a user that selects one of a plurality of data types for a first data, the first data having a hierarchical structure, the plurality of data types being different from each other at least in terms of a way the first data is associated with a second data that is described at a different level in the hierarchical structure; and adapting the first data in accordance with the data type selected by the selection operation, and causing the adapted first data to be saved in a memory.

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: 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: 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: 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 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.