Abstract: A nail printer includes a print head, a placement table, a fingerprint sensor, a memory, a placement table shifter and a processor. The fingerprint sensor acquires reference information including a reference fingerprint image and reference positional information on a position of the reference fingerprint image in the placement table from an object placed at a reference position which is a position suitable for printing on a nail of the object on the placement table with the print head. The processor compares positional information on a fingerprint image of the object currently placed on the placement table with the reference positional information preliminarily stored in the memory, and controls the placement table shifter to shift the object based on a result of the comparing such that the position of the object on the placement table substantially agrees with the reference position.

Abstract: A portable terminal 1 includes an information acquisition unit 55, an output control unit 56 and an output unit 20. The information acquisition unit 55 acquires move locus information on a move due to daily behavior of a user and a move due to non-daily behavior. The output control unit 56 controls an output unit 20 such that the output unit 20 outputs the acquired move locus information in a state where it is possible to distinguish the move due to non-daily behavior of the user.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a first determination unit that determines whether or not a privacy level indicating a level of difficulty in identifying a person's face included in an image as a face of a specific person satisfies a predetermined condition; and an image capture control unit that performs control to execute a predetermined image-related process, in the case where the first determination unit determines that the privacy level satisfies the predetermined condition.

Abstract: A medical imaging device changes a state between a first capturing state for capturing a lesion in a regular capturing state and a second capturing state for capturing a lesion in a capturing state that is different from the regular capturing state and captures an image for assisting in diagnosis of the lesion. The medical imaging device includes an imaging device body that includes a first light source, a second light source, an imaging element, a set of lenses that are situated on an optical axis that connects the imaging element and an object, uses at least the first light source as a light source that emits light to the object in the first capturing state, and uses at least the second light source as a light source that emits light to the object in the second capturing state.

Abstract: According to an embodiment of the invention, there is provided a light source unit including a solid light emitting device which emits light source light, a diffuse plate which diffuses the light source light, and a light guiding device which diffuses light which exits from the diffuse plate, wherein the diffuse plate has a plurality of arc-shaped diffuse cells arranged along either of a first direction of an exit side surface thereof which lies opposite to an entrance side where the light source light enters and a second direction that intersects the first direction at substantially right angles, and wherein a diffuse angle in the first direction differs from a diffuse angle in the second direction.

Abstract: A hammer unit of an electronic keyboard instrument to enhance working efficiency for assembling hammer members is provided. The hammer unit comprises a plurality of hammer members which apply loads to a plurality of keys, and a holding member which holds the plurality of hammer members. The holding member is configured to have one of a first holding state in which the plurality of hammer members are temporally locked at a first position and a second holding state in which the plurality of hammer members are released from the temporally locking at the first position.

Abstract: A thermally expandable sheet includes: a first thermally expansive layer that is formed on one side of a base and contains a first thermally expandable material and a first binder, the first thermally expansive layer having a first ratio of the first thermally expandable material with respect to the first binder; and a second thermally expansive layer that is formed on the first thermally expansive layer and contains a second thermally expandable material and a second binder, the second thermally expansive layer having a second ratio of the second thermally expandable material with respect to the second binder, wherein the second ratio is lower than the first ratio.

Abstract: A server device capable of appropriately determining country information, and automatically and appropriately setting a calculation method according to the country represented by the country information, to perform calculation, even if a user does not set the calculation method or the country information, is provided. A server device includes a data reception unit that receives calculation target data and calculation type data from a terminal; a country information acquisition unit that acquires country information of the terminal; a calculation unit that performs calculation of the calculation target data with a calculation method according to the country information regarding the calculation type data; and a calculation result transmission control unit that controls to transmit, to the terminal, calculation result data being a calculation result.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a learning support apparatus includes a display unit and a processor. The processor executes a process of reading out map data of a designated age from a plurality of map data corresponding to a plurality of ages, and outputting the read-out map data; and reading out, if a position on a map is designated on the output map data, historical information relating to the designated position and the designated age of the map from historical dictionary data, and outputting the read-out historical information.

Abstract: A feature extractor extracts feature quantities from a digitized speech signal and outputs the feature quantities to a likelihood calculator. A distance determiner determines the distance between a user providing speech and a speech input unit. The likelihood calculator selects registered expressions for speech recognition from a recognition target table based on the determined distance, to be used in calculation of likelihoods at the likelihood calculator. The likelihood calculator calculates likelihoods for the selected registered expressions based on the feature quantities extracted by the feature extractor, and outputs one of the registered expressions having the maximum likelihood as a result of speech recognition.

Abstract: A cash storage apparatus including a housing which is arranged in a horizontal orientation state where a surface from which a cash storage case is pulled out or pushed out serves as a front surface, or in a vertical orientation state where this front surface serves as an upper surface, an open/close cover which is provided to be positioned on a portion of an upper surface or undersurface of the housing when the housing is in the horizontal orientation state and is opened frontward when the housing is in the vertical orientation state, a lock mechanism which individually locks the cash storage case and the open/close cover, and an open/close mechanism having a rotator which releases locking of the cash storage case by the lock mechanism when rotating in one direction and releases locking of the open/close cover by the lock mechanism when rotating in a reverse direction.

Abstract: A thermally expandable sheet includes: a first thermally expansive layer that is formed on one side of a base and contains a first thermally expandable material and a first binder, the first thermally expansive layer having a first ratio of the first thermally expandable material with respect to the first binder; and a second thermally expansive layer that is formed on the first thermally expansive layer and contains a second thermally expandable material and a second binder, the second thermally expansive layer having a second ratio of the second thermally expandable material with respect to the second binder, wherein the first ratio is lower than the second ratio.

Abstract: An image capture apparatus includes an image capture unit, a communication unit, and a control unit which communicates with an external device by first or second communication systems. The first system maintains communication connection even if the apparatus and device are not in a predetermined operational mode for executing image transmission processing. The second system maintains communication connection if the apparatus and device are in the predetermined mode. The control unit can automatically transmit a photographed image to an external device through the communication unit by the second communication system, and switch and control first and second functional modes for enabling and disabling a photography function, respectively. Where an image is photographed in the first mode, the control unit records the image as a target for automatic transmission. If the transmission target image is recorded, automatic transmission is not started during the first mode, and started during the second mode.

Abstract: A timepiece includes: one or more processors; and a display unit controlled by the one or more processors, wherein the one or more processors perform: a clock hand image obtaining process that obtains a clock hand image; an information obtaining process that obtains prescribed information; a display control process that controls the display unit so as to display on the display unit the clock hand image obtained by the clock hand image obtaining process and the prescribed information obtained by the information obtaining process; a synthesizing process that synthesizes image data of the clock hand image and an image for the prescribed information such that the clock hand image does not overlap with a display region for the prescribed information on the display unit; and a process of causing the display unit to display the clock hand image and the prescribed information in accordance with the synthesized image data.

Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an input processing system including: an information storage device; and an information processing device, in which the information storage device includes: an input information storage unit configured to store information for performing input processing and identification information so that both of the information corresponds to each other; an identification information receiving unit configured to receive the identification information from the information processing device; an information transmitting unit configured to transmit, to the information processing device, the information for performing input processing stored to correspond to the identification information received by the identification information receiving unit; an identification information storage unit configured to store the identification information; an identification information transmitting unit configured to transmit the identification information to the informati

Abstract: A task management device includes a first display controller which controls a display to display a schedule template including a plurality of schedule areas, predetermined date information or time zone information being associated with each schedule area; a first selecting unit which selects a predetermined stamp mark in accordance with a user's operation from a plurality of stamp marks which indicate different types of tasks and with which different message information is associated; and a second selecting unit which selects a schedule area in which the stamp mark selected by the first selecting unit is placed in accordance with a user's operation from the plurality of schedule areas. The first display controller controls the display to display the schedule template where the stamp mark selected by the first selecting unit is placed in the schedule area selected by the second selecting unit.

Abstract: A sales data processing apparatus includes the following. An operation unit is associated with a display and receives operation by touch. A setting unit associates an operator group with each operator according to a predetermined condition and associates a predetermined number of operator groups with each tab or each screen displayed on the display. A display control unit generates an operator selection screen to select the operator based on contents set by the setting unit and displays the operator selection screen on the display.

Abstract: A three-dimensional image data reviewing device includes a processor that obtains first distension data for causing a thermally distensible layer of a thermally distensible sheet to distend from one of a front surface and a rear surface of the thermally distensible sheet and that obtains second distension data for causing the thermally distensible layer to distend from another of the front surface and the rear surface, a display unit connected to the processor, wherein the processor causes the display unit to display, on a preview screen, an appearance of the thermally distensible sheet after the thermally distensible layer is caused to distend in accordance with the first distension data and the second distension data, the processor also causing the display unit to identifiably display, in a prescribed manner, an abnormal region of the thermally distensible layer where the thermally distensible layer is predicted to distend abnormally.

Abstract: A moving image generation system includes a plurality of image capture apparatuses respectively having an image capture unit and a CPU.

Abstract: In a map matching apparatus, a processor executes, by the program stored in a storage unit, position measurement processing of measuring a current position, matching processing of performing, based on the current position measured in the position measurement processing, matching with a corresponding road position in the road map data stored in the map storage unit, determination processing of determining whether a candidate of a road position to be matched in the matching processing is correct or not, and matching control processing of setting, based on a determination result of the determination processing, the candidate of the road position to be matched in the matching processing.

Abstract: A utilizing function apparatus includes at least one processor, and a memory storing instructions, that when executed by the processor, cause the at least one processor to execute at least one function, based on an operation, set one of the at least one function temporarily unable to be executed, and when a time elapses after setting the one function temporarily unable to be executed, irrespective of whether a power supply of the utilizing function apparatus is on or off, keep a state where the one function temporarily unable to be executed without releasing the state.

Abstract: A companion determining device determines presence of a companion of a tracked user. The device includes a receiver, a receipt determiner and a presence determiner. The receiver receives a user identifier from an external device via a near-field wireless communication link. The receipt determiner determines whether the receiver has received the user identifier sent from the external device. The presence determiner determines presence of a companion acting with the tracked user based on determination by the receipt determiner.

Abstract: A lid opening and closing apparatus including a lid, a shaft guide member which has a guide groove, a front side guide shaft which is provided on a front side of the lid and moved along the guide groove, a first braking member whose at least one portion is arranged on a movement trajectory of the front side guide shaft, and which brakes a closing movement of the lid, and a second braking member which brakes movement of the one portion of the first braking member which occurs by the front side guide shaft pressing the one portion of the first braking member on the movement trajectory when the closing movement is made.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a processor and a memory. The processor executes a program stored in the memory to perform operations including: acquiring a series of position information of a user; detecting whether or not a loss part, in which position information corresponding to a predetermined time or a predetermined number of times of measurement is lost, is present in the series of position information acquired; and specifying the detected loss part in a case where the loss part is detected.

Abstract: A conversion-to-note apparatus includes: a key which is operated by a user; and a processor. The processor obtains, from a memory, first information and second information. The first information is information to associate a key operation on the key with an open/close state of a tone hole or virtual tone hole. The second information is information to associate the open/close state of the tone hole or virtual tone hole with a note. Further, the processor identifies, based on the first information, the open/close state of the tone hole or virtual tone hole for the key operation detected. Further, the processor determines, based on the second information, the note for the identified open/close state of the tone hole or virtual tone hole.

Abstract: A driving processor for driving a motor having a rotor and one or more coils for rotating the rotor is 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 one or more coils; receive a signal indicating a detected value of current flowing in the at least one of the one or more coils after the detection pulse has been outputted to the at least one of the one or more coils; and determine whether or not the rotor has rotated to one or more prescribed positions on the basis of the detected value of current.

Abstract: A drawing apparatus and a control method of a drawing apparatus that can suppress the movement of a finger inserted in a finger insertion section more reliably and also hold the finger more softly are provided. The drawing apparatus includes: a finger holding case including a finger insertion section in which a finger is inserted and an opening through which the nail of the finger is exposed at the position facing a drawing head section; and a finger holding section located in the finger holding case and including an annular section, wherein a fluid is supplied to the annular section to circumferentially press the finger and suppress the movement of the finger, and the fluid is discharged from the annular section to release the press.

Abstract: A portable terminal including a grip section provided as one end of a terminal main body and structured to be gripped by one hand in a gripping style where a user places a thumb of the one hand on a first surface of the terminal main body and holds a second surface on a side opposite to the first surface by at least an index finger and a middle finger extended from a side of the terminal main body, a raised portion provided on the second surface of the grip section such that a vertex portion is positioned between the index finger and the middle finger in the gripping style, and a switch section provided such that a pressing target portion is exposed in a sloped surface area of the raised portion where the index finger is positioned in the gripping style.

Abstract: A three-dimensional image forming system according to an embodiment of the present invention is a system that expands the front side of a thermally expandable sheet formed by laminating a thermally expanding layer on a base material and forms irregularities in a desired area, the system includes a print data density adjusting unit that adjusts, in print data for printing, on the back side of the thermally expandable sheet, a grayscale image for expanding the thermally expandable sheet to a surface height according to a density, the density of an outline part obtained by setting a region from a boundary between adjacent two regions having different densities in the grayscale image to a predetermined distance as the outline part in at least either of the two regions having different densities such that steep steps are formed on the front side of the thermally expandable sheet at the boundary.

Abstract: A waveform data structure includes a plurality of types of frames having different data sizes. Each of the plurality of types of frames includes an auxiliary information area and a data area. The auxiliary information area includes an area for storing common effective-bit length data for a section of waveform samples, and an area for storing an identifier for identifying one of the plurality of types of frames. The data area is an area for storing extracted waveform samples which are extracted from the waveform samples based on the common effective-bit length. The number of the extracted waveform samples is determined based on the common effective-bit length.

Abstract: A display control apparatus includes the following. A first display controller controls a display to display a schedule in which predetermined date information or time span information is corresponded with each of a plurality of schedule frames in a schedule template in which the plurality of schedule frames are provided in a predetermined format. A second display controller controls the display to display a predetermined operation button so that the first display controller displays a plurality of schedules in an aligned state. When the first display controller displays the plurality of schedules in the aligned state according to operation of the predetermined operation button, a portion of each schedule is displayed.

Abstract: An electronic device 10 that are wirelessly connected to other electronic devices within a range of a limited communication distance, and the device has a controller CNT that configured to determine at least one of whether or not there are a plurality of members who each have an electronic device within a predetermined range and whether or not a plurality of members who each have an electronic device show a same behavior, and to transmit, if it is determined that there are a plurality of members who each have an electronic device within the predetermined range, or that a plurality of members who each have an electronic device show a same behavior, a request to the plurality of electronic devices to generate rhythm signals at a same tempo to encourage improvement in cooperation among the plurality of members.

Abstract: In a pairing establishment process, a controller (220) of a central (200) notifies a peripheral of the application identification information on the central (200). The controller (220) of the central (200) stores the device identification information on the peripheral received therefrom in a ROM (240). The application identification information is information to identify an application (that is, software) owned by the central (200). The application is to perform various communications with the peripheral.

Abstract: A printing device includes a print head that prints on a print medium image data of a print target and a decorative image and a processor that controls the print head to print image data of the decorative image on the print medium while the printing device that is held by a user moves on the print medium in a first movement, wherein the processor causes the print head to print the image data of the print target in a range that is indicated by the printed decorative image while the held printing device moves on the print medium in a second movement after the image data of the decorative image is printed.

Abstract: A portable terminal including a battery accommodating section having an opening for battery insertion and removal which is provided at a position shifted to one end of a terminal main body on a predetermined surface of the terminal main body, a battery cover for covering the opening, and a switch section provided closer to an other end of the terminal main body than the battery accommodating section, on the predetermined surface of the terminal main body, in which the battery cover is provided extending from the one end to a position beyond the switch section.

Abstract: A stepping motor includes a rotor, a stator and three coils. The rotor is two-pole magnetized in a radius direction. The stator is provided with a rotor receiving section for receiving the rotor. The three coils are magnetically connected with the stator. At least one of the three coils is an integrated coil which is integrally formed with the stator by winding a coil around a part of the stator.

Abstract: The electronic watch of an embodiment includes a receiver that receives data from a smart phone, a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of the electronic watch, a memory that stores rewriting target data, and a processor. The processor determines whether the rewriting target data stored in the memory is rewritable with data expected to be received from the smartphone based on the temperature of the electronic watch detected by the temperature sensor.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a touch sensor that, by operating in a predetermined operation direction, inputs a predetermined instruction to the electronic device, and a frame-like member that is provided so as to surround the touch sensor. A predetermined first processing is carried out on a first region of the frame-like member corresponding to the predetermined operation direction, and second processing, which is different from the first processing, is carried out on a second region, which is a region of the frame-like member other than the first region.

Abstract: A smartphone includes a receiver, a log acquirer, a determiner, an information notifier, and a display. The receiver is in wireless communication with a time display device. The log acquirer acquires log data from the time display device by the receiver. The determiner determines the usage status of the time display device on the basis of the log data acquired by the log acquirer. The information notifier provides, via the display, notification of information corresponding to the usage status determined by the determiner.

Abstract: An analog electronic timepiece, including: a hand which is provided to be rotatable; and a processor which makes the hand perform at least one of an acceleration operation and a deceleration operation as a speed change operation when the hand is made to perform a fast forward movement, the acceleration operation being an operation of gradually increasing a fast forward speed of the hand from a stopped state when the fast forward movement is started, and the deceleration operation being an operation of gradually decreasing the fast forward speed until the hand comes into the stopped state when the fast forward movement is ended.

Abstract: A CPU acquires a first focal position where a photographic subject is in focus by following a predetermined control rule, performs first control processing of controlling the motor such that the focus lens stops at the first focal position, and performs second control processing of controlling the motor such that the focus lens stops at a second focal position different from the first focal position. The second focal position is a focal position where a user does not recognize that the photographic subject is out of focus in an output from the imaging apparatus, and power consumption for stopping the focus lens is lower than power consumption for driving the motor so as to stop the focus lens at the first focal position.

Abstract: A coil block manufacturing method of winding a wire around a coil core in which a core portion is provided between a first attachment portion and a second attachment portion, includes: a first step of fixing one end of the wire; a second step of, in a state of holding the first attachment portion of the coil core by a first chuck to expose the whole core portion, winding the wire around an end of the core portion; and a third step of, in a state of holding the second attachment portion of the coil core by a second chuck to expose the whole core portion, winding the wire around the whole core portion, to form a coil portion.

Abstract: A musical sound playback method that is performed by a processor using data in a memory, including generating a plurality of interpolated data where input data for a segment corresponding to musical sounds has been interpolated, based on values in the input data which are related to both the segment corresponding to the musical sounds and a change amount of the musical sounds, generating a plurality of instruction data for providing instructions regarding musical sound states to be achieved at a plurality of timings in the segment, based on the plurality of interpolated data, and sequentially transmitting the plurality of instruction data to a sound source circuit so as to cause the sound source circuit to generate the musical sounds while sequentially changing the musical sounds to be in the musical sound states instructed by the instruction data, when a musical sound playback for the segment is performed.

Abstract: A position coordinates setter sets position coordinates being coordinates of an image region of an LED in an image. An image region determiner determines whether or not an image region having a predetermined luminance value is present at the position coordinates. If an image region having the predetermined luminance value is not present at the position coordinates, the image region determiner determines whether or not the image region at the position coordinates is overexposed or underexposed, and the exposure controller continues setting, if the image region is overexposed, the exposure time shorter by one degree at a time until the luminance value of the image region at the position coordinates becomes the predetermined luminance value, and continues setting, if the image region is underexposed, the exposure time longer by one degree at a time until the luminance value of the image region at the position coordinates becomes the predetermined luminance value.

Abstract: An electronic musical instrument including a musical instrument body which is supported by first finger of a hand of an instrument player and at least one finger other than the first finger, scale keys which are provided at positions that are contacted with fingers other than the first finger on one surface of the musical instrument body, and each of which specifies a scale of a musical sound, a touchpad which is provided in an area that is contacted with the first finger on an other surface of the musical instrument body, and includes a sensor that has a planar detection area for detecting a contact position of the first finger, and a processor which controls emission of the musical sound whose scale has been specified by the scale key in accordance with the contact position of the first finger detected by the touchpad.

Abstract: A robot control device and the like capable of improving the motivation of a learner for learning is provided. A controller of a communication terminal controls behavior of a student role-playing robot so that the student role-playing robot responds to a user in a position of a student learning together with the user. The controller of the communication terminal comprises an behavior mode selector, a student role-playing robot behavior controller, and a teacher role-playing robot behavior controller. The student role-playing robot behavior controller controls behavior of the student role-playing robot based on one or more behavior modes selected by the behavior mode selector. The teacher role-playing robot behavior controller makes the teacher role-playing robot perform behavior collaborative with behavior of the student role-playing robot.

Abstract: An audio device and an electronic instrument are provided by which a device case can be downsized. An elastic member is interposed between an attachment hole provided in a panel-side sealed frame section of a speaker panel and a projection section of a speaker grill and, in this state, the speaker grill is fixed to the speaker panel by the projection section being subjected to torsion deformation. By the elastic member being deformed inside the attachment hole and coming in close contact with the surface of the projection section and the inner surface of the attachment hole, the attachment hole that is a through hole is filled. As a result of this structure, an attachment hole that is used when a speaker grill is attached to a speaker panel can be arranged at a position where it penetrates to an acoustic space.

Abstract: A reading device includes: an imaging unit that acquires an image by imaging an object; and a reading unit that emits a scanning light having a prescribed scanning angle range in a prescribed one-dimensional direction and that detects the scanning light reflected by the object so as to acquire a target information displayed on the object. The imaging unit and the reading unit are disposed such that a center line of the prescribed scanning angle range of the scanning light and an optical axis of the imaging unit intersect with each other at a point that is away from the reading device by at a prescribed distance.

Abstract: A tape cassette stores a first medium having: a first base having a print surface for printing and first adhesive applied on an opposite side of the print surface; and a first separator removably attached to the first base via the first adhesive, and a second medium having a second separator. The tape cassette includes a pressing member that is movable in a direction intersecting with a direction of a plane of the print surface, and the pressing member is disposed at a position of, when a pressing force is externally applied to perform bonding of the first medium and the second medium mutually, receiving the pressing force.

Abstract: An image capture apparatus includes an image capture unit, a communication unit, and a control unit which communicates with an external device by first or second communication systems. The first system maintains communication connection even if the apparatus and device are not in a predetermined operational mode for executing image transmission processing. The second system maintains communication connection if the apparatus and device are in the predetermined mode. The control unit can automatically transmit a photographed image to an external device through the communication unit by the second communication system, and switch and control first and second functional modes for enabling and disabling a photography function, respectively. Where an image is photographed in the first mode, the control unit records the image as a target for automatic transmission. If the transmission target image is recorded, automatic transmission is not started during the first mode, and started during the second mode.