Abstract: An electric mileage estimation apparatus includes a storage device and a hardware processor connected to the storage device. The storage device stores information in which traveling history information is associated with an electric mileage of traveling. The traveling history includes a characteristic of a driver. The hardware processor acquires information about a traveling schedule including a characteristic of a driver. The hardware processor calculates an electric mileage estimation value on the basis of the information about the traveling schedule and parameters calculated from the information stored in the storage device. The hardware processor outputs information based on the electric mileage estimation value.

Abstract: An electric mileage estimation device includes a hardware processor connected to a memory. The hardware processor calculates a first electric mileage estimation value on the basis of traveling condition information included in information about a traveling schedule. The hardware processor also calculates a second electric mileage estimation value on the basis of: information about traveling place information included in the information about the traveling schedule, and electric mileage map information in which map information is associated with an electric mileage corresponding to the map information. The hardware processor estimates an electric mileage on the basis of the first electric mileage estimation value and the second electric mileage estimation value. The hardware processor outputs information based on the electric mileage.

Abstract: A safety confirmation support system includes: a moving object detector which detects a moving object in each of detection regions set around the vehicle; display units each associated with a different one of the detection regions; a line-of-sight detector which detects a line of sight of the driver; and a display controller which controls the display units based on detection results from the moving object detector and the line-of-sight detector. When the moving object is detected in a specified detection region, the display controller (i) displays moving object information on a specified display unit associated with the specified detection region when the line of sight is away from the specified detection region, and (ii) stops display of the moving object information on the specified display unit when the line of sight is towards the specified detection region while the moving object information is displayed on the specified display unit.

Abstract: A driving sound generation device includes: an acquirer that acquires vehicle information; a storage that stores a plurality of sound source data including driving sound source data and masker sound source data for generating a masker sound; a first adjuster that performs a first adjustment of the plurality of sound source data in accordance with the vehicle information; a second adjuster that performs a second adjustment of at least one of the plurality of sound source data after the first adjustment when the determiner determines that a change amount is smaller than or equal to a predetermined change amount; and a synthesizer that mixes the plurality of sound source data after the second adjustment to generate a driving sound to be output into a cabin of the vehicle; and an outputter that outputs, to the cabin of the vehicle, the driving sound generated.

Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus is provided in which the detection range of a left-front-corner sonar (12a) located at the vehicle's left front corner is included in the field of view of a second imaging means (14) located at the vehicle's left front corner. When the left-front-corner sonar (12a) detects a three-dimensional object at the vehicle's left front corner, an image processing means (3) synthesizes an image of the image created using a second imaging means (14) and the images created with four cameras (7a-7d) for imaging the complete periphery of the vehicle, and creates a bird's-eye-view image (40b). The detection range of the left-front-corner sonar (12a) is included within a region of the bird's-eye image (40b) on the basis of the image created with the second imaging means (14).

Abstract: An information processing method performed by a computer includes: determining whether a target sound has been recognized; when it is determined that the target sound has been recognized, acquiring positions and sound recording directions of unmanned aerial vehicles; acquiring noise-related information regarding noise generated by at least one of the unmanned aerial vehicles; acquiring an estimated position of a sound recording target estimated from the target sound; determining at least one of target positions and target sound recording directions of the unmanned aerial vehicles based on the estimated position of the sound recording target, the positions and the sound recording directions of the unmanned aerial vehicles, and the noise-related information; and outputting, to each of the unmanned aerial vehicles, at least one of a request for moving to the target position and a request for setting the sound recording direction to the target sound recording direction.

Abstract: This cathode active material for a secondary battery using a non-aqueous electrolyte includes nickel-rich lithium transition-metal oxide, exhibits a hard X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (HAXPES) peak of 1,560 to 1,565 eV in binding energy from an Al-rich layer, using a photon energy of 6 KeV, and with respect to the mean particle diameter r of the lithium transition-metal oxide particle, the Al concentration is approximately constant within 0.35r of the center.

Abstract: A distance measurement device includes: a light source configured to emit visible illumination light; an imaging element configured to receive reflected light of the illumination light from an object; and a signal processing circuit configured to reduce the emission of the illumination light in a predetermined period, detect a timing when the reception of the reflected light at the imaging element is reduced due to the reduction of the illumination light, and measure a distance to the object on the basis of the detected timing.

Abstract: A system and method for tuning and infrared source laser in the Mid-IR wavelength range. The system and method comprising, at least, a plurality of individually tunable emitters, each emitter emitting a beam having a unique wavelength, a grating, a mirror positioned after the grating to receive at least one refracted order of light of at least one beam and to redirect the beam back towards the grating, and a micro-electro-mechanical systems device containing a plurality of adjustable micro-mirrors.

Abstract: There are provided an apparatus, a method and a system. The apparatus comprises: a transmitter operative to transmit wireless data or signals to a second node; and a circuitry operative to determine whether one or more reserved periods are reserved between two continuous data or signals transmitted by the transmitter based on a length of configured transmission time intervals (TTIs), wherein the circuitry is further operative to: determine the one or more reserved periods are reserved between two continuous data or signals in a case that the length of configured TTI is shorter than or equal to a threshold.

Abstract: A DC-DC converter includes a switch element connected to an input end, a coupling capacitor connected to the switch element at a first node, a first inductor connected to the coupling capacitor at a second node and connected to an output end at a third node, a control circuit that controls the switch element, a second inductor connected to the first node and a ground, a first diode connected to the second node and the ground, a smoothing capacitor connected to the third node and the ground, a comparator, a second diode connected to the second node and the comparator to supply a power voltage powering the comparator, and an output capacitor connected to the second diode and the ground. The comparator compares a voltage at the output end with a reference voltage so as to output a comparison result to the control circuit. This DC-DC converter operates stably.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a transmitting device for transmitting vehicular data via a sidelink interface to one or more receiving devices. The transmitting device performs autonomous radio resource allocation for transmitting the vehicular data via the sidelink interface. An application layer generates the vehicular data and forwards the vehicular data together with a priority indication and one or more quality of service parameters to a transmission layer responsible for transmission of the vehicular data via the sidelink interface. The transmission layer performs autonomous radio resource allocation based on the received priority indication and the one or more quality of service parameters. The transmission layer transmits the vehicular data via the sidelink interface to the one or more receiving devices according to the performed autonomous radio resource allocation.

Abstract: An imaging device including: a first pixel and a second pixel that are arranged along a first direction, the first pixel and the second pixel each including a photoelectric converter that converts light into a charge, a charge accumulator that accumulates the charge, and a first transistor one of a source and a drain of which is connected to the charge accumulator; a first line and a second line that each extend along the first direction; first voltage supply circuitry that is connected to the first transistor of the first pixel through the first line; and second voltage supply circuitry that is connected to the first transistor of the second pixel through the second line.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a communication apparatus that comprises a Primary Connectivity Radio (PCR) capable of transmitting and receiving wireless signals; a low power Wake Up Receiver (WURx) capable of receiving Wake-Up Radio (WUR) signals, the WURx being configured to receive WUR signals on a first WUR channel assigned to the apparatus by an Access Point (AP); a WUR channel scheduler programmed to configure the WURx to switch to a second WUR channel designated as a broadcast WUR channel by the AP, when the first WUR channel is different from the second WUR channel, wherein the channel switch occurs in time for the WURx to receive the scheduled WUR Beacon frames from the AP.

Abstract: Provided are wireless communication methods, an eNB and a UE. The wireless communication method performed by an eNB includes transmitting downlink control information (DCI) to a user equipment (UE), wherein the DCI is designed based on a coverage enhancement level for the UE.

Abstract: A notification determinator determines whether or not an inspection result of a winding body indicates defective on the basis of whether or not continuous positions of a first end surface and a second end surface indicated by first group data and second group data are separated from reference positions by a predetermined distance or more. In a case where the inspection result of the winding body indicates defective, a notification determinator performs a notification that inspection in an inspection machine is not performed normally, and outputs information indicating that a cause of the defect is a take-out chuck of an inspection machine or any of a plurality of winding cores to a display for maintenance.

Abstract: An optical system includes a light guide member having a light-incident surface, a first surface, a light-emitting surface facing the first surface, a first end surface, a second end surface, a plurality of collimating lenses disposed on the light-incident surface and being arranged along a first direction, and a plurality of prism pieces. The plurality of prism pieces include two or more prism pieces having different inclination angles with respect to the light-incident surface depending on positions of the prism pieces in at least the first direction, and each of the inclination angles of the two or more prism pieces is an angle formed between the first direction and the longitudinal axis of a corresponding prism piece. Each of the inclination angles of the two or more prism pieces increases as the corresponding prism piece is positioned closer to any of the first end surface or the second end surface.

Abstract: A transmission device includes: a weighting synthesizer that generates a first precoded signal and a second precoded signal from a first baseband signal and a second baseband signal, respectively; a phase changer that applies a phase change of i×?? to the second precoded signal; an inserter that inserts a pilot signal into the second precoded signal applied with the phase change; and a phase changer that applies a phase change to the second precoded signal applied with the phase change and inserted with the pilot signal. The weighting synthesizer performs, in the precoding process, a calculation that uses F = ( e j ? ? 11 e j ? ( ? 11 + ? 4 ) e j ? ? 21 e j ? ( ? 21 + ? + ? 4 ) ) on the first baseband signal and the second baseband signal modulated via a modulation scheme of QPSK.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a unit pixel including a pixel electrode, a charge accumulation region electrically connected to the pixel electrode, and a signal detection circuit electrically connected to the charge accumulation region; a counter electrode facing the pixel electrode; a photoelectric conversion layer disposed between the electrodes; and a voltage supply circuit configured to selectively apply any one of first, second, and third voltages between the electrodes. The photoelectric conversion layer exhibits first and second wavelength sensitivity characteristics in a wavelength range when the voltage supply circuit applies the first and second voltages between the electrodes, respectively, and becomes insensitive to light in the wavelength range when the voltage supply circuit applies the third voltage between the electrodes.

Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a PHY frame generating circuit that generates a PHY frame including either of a short Sector Sweep frame and a Sector Sweep frame; and an array antenna that selects, based on the PHY frame, any sector from among a plurality of sectors and transmits the PHY frame. In a case where, in the PHY frame including the short Sector Sweep frame, a Direction field of the short Sector Sweep frame indicates Initiator Sector Sweep, the PHY frame generating circuit replaces a Short Sector Sweep Feedback field indicating a number of a selected best short Sector Sweep with a Short Scrambled Basic Service Set ID field indicating an abbreviated address generated from an address of a destination communication apparatus.

Abstract: A mounting structure for an optical module includes a light emitting element, a submount board on which the light emitting element is mounted, a main board on which the submount board is mounted, a light guide member provided on the main board, and a diffraction grating optical coupler provided on the main board and connected to the light guide member. The submount board and the main board are bonded to each other on a surface of the submount board different from a surface on which the light emitting element is mounted.

Abstract: A visible light communication method transmits a signal by visible light communication. The visible light communication method includes modulating the signal into a predetermined blinking pattern, and transmitting the signal by causing visible light to blink according to the predetermined blinking pattern, from a projector disposed in an indoor space surrounded by a wall toward the wall. The visible light communication method also includes projecting video from the projector toward the wall, wherein the visible light is reflected by the wall to prevent the signal from being received in an outside of the indoor space, and the signal is used to transmit data related to the video projected to a plurality of terminals in the indoor space.

Abstract: A linear motor system includes: a stator including first to tenth coils; a mover including a permanent magnet; a switcher that switches one or more power supply target coils; and a control device that supplies power to the one or more power supply target coils by using a deviation integral value obtained by integrating a speed deviation that is a difference between an instructed speed of the mover and an actual speed of the mover. The control device includes: a compensator that calculates a post-division deviation integral value by dividing a post-summation deviation integral value, which is a value obtained by summing the deviation integral value used to supply power to each of the one or more power supply target coils immediately before the switching, by the total number of the one or more power supply target coils immediately after the switching; and a current control unit.

Abstract: A terminal includes a receiver, which, in operation, receives time unit information related to an amount of an uplink time resource per a time unit, and receives a number of repetitions over a plurality of the time units, wherein the time unit includes a downlink time resource for a downlink signal and the uplink time resource for a response signal. The amount of the uplink time resource is expressed as a fixed number of consecutive symbols that remains the same number over the plurality of the time units over which the response signal is repeatedly transmitted. The terminal includes a transmitter, which, in operation, repeatedly transmits the response signal over the plurality of the time units.

Abstract: The present invention provides a terminal capable of suitably performing random access processing. In a terminal (100), a RACH resource determination unit (104) determines the format of a random access signal on the basis of a parameter related to the transmission of the random access signal, which includes a preamble part and a data part. A wireless transmission unit (109) transmits the random access signal on the basis of the format.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal, a base station, an operating method for a mobile terminal and an operating method for a base station. The mobile terminal is for communicating in a mobile communication system with a base station using at least one of a first bandwidth part, BP1, and a second bandwidth part, BP2. Both, the first and second bandwidth part BP1 and BP2 are within a system bandwidth, wherein the first bandwidth part, BP1, is smaller than the second bandwidth part, BP2. The mobile terminal comprises a transceiver which, in operation, receives a configuration of a discontinuous reception, DRX, cycle. Further, the mobile terminal comprises a processor which, in operation, configures, upon reception of the configuration of the DRX cycle, the a downlink communication during at least one of the communication periods within the DRX cycle to use a specific one of at least the first bandwidth part, BP1, and the second bandwidth part, BP2.

Abstract: An information processing device according to the present disclosure includes one or more hardware processors configured to function as a risk calculation unit configured to calculate a degree of risk indicating a risk of ignition of a battery as an index based on information concerning an ignition factor of the battery mounted on a vehicle, and an insurance premium determination unit configured to determine an insurance premium in accordance with the degree of risk.

Abstract: A loudspeaker to be attached to an attachment member, the loudspeaker including: a temporary joint pin which is inserted into a temporary joint hole and temporarily holds the loudspeaker in a suspended state. The temporary joint pin includes a rod-like portion backwardly projects from a rear end surface of a frame; a tilted surface portion which is part of an inner circumferential surface of a circumferential surface of the rod-like portion to be brought into contact with the temporary joint hole, and is tilted to become closer to the central axis of the rod-like portion from a base end toward a distal end of the rod-like portion in a direction of projection; and a flanged portion which is adjacent to the tilted surface portion at the distal end of the rod-like portion, protrudes in a direction crossing the direction of projection, and catches onto the attachment member.

Abstract: A method for forming a metal film includes forming an oxide layer on a to-be-treated surface of a to-be-treated object by bringing the to-be-treated surface into contact with a reaction solution containing fluorine and an oxide precursor, removing fluorine in the oxide layer, supporting a catalyst on the oxide layer by bringing the oxide layer into contact with a catalyst solution, and depositing a metal film on the oxide layer by bringing the oxide layer into contact with an electroless plating liquid.

Abstract: Provided is a system used in various facilities, which enables every specific event as a sign of an accident to be detected without missing to ensure transmission of an alert message at a proper time, thereby preventing accidents from occurring. The system includes cameras for capturing images of a monitoring area, and a monitoring server for controlling transmission of an alert message based on the images, wherein the monitoring server is configured to: set a sensing area around an entrance to a risky point (escalator entrance) and a notifying area closer to the risky point than the sensing area; sense a person in the sensing area and detect a specific event associated with the person based on images captured by each camera; and, when the sensed person enters the notifying area, transmits an alert message corresponding to the specific event associated with the person.

Abstract: A parking assistance device includes an imager that captures an image of a surrounding of a vehicle, and a display that displays a guidance image for guiding the vehicle from a parking start position to a target parking position and displays a moving area in which the vehicle can move during a parking operation. An area and dimension of the moving area displayed on the display changes based on a change in a steering angle of the vehicle.

Abstract: A gateway device is connected via network(s) to electronic controllers on-board a vehicle, where at least one of the electronic controllers is implemented in a virtual machine. The gateway device includes one or more memories, and circuitry that acquires firmware update information. The circuitry determines whether a first electronic controller satisfies a second condition based on second information, which is whether the first electronic controller includes a firmware cache for performing a pre-update firmware cache operation. The circuitry also causes, when the second condition is not satisfied, the gateway device to execute a proxy process, where the gateway device requests the first electronic controller to transmit boot ROM data to the gateway device, creates updated boot ROM data with the updated firmware, and transmits the updated boot ROM data to the first electronic controller that updates the boot ROM and resets the first electronic controller with the updated firmware.

Abstract: An encoder includes processing circuitry and a memory coupled to the processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to: select a filter based at least on a prediction mode used for a first block, the filter including first filter coefficients for the first block and second filter coefficients for a second block; multiply values of first pixels among the first block and second pixels among the second block by the first filter coefficients to change a value of a first pixel in the first pixels; and multiply the values of the first pixels among the first block and the second pixels among the second block by the second filter coefficients to change a value of a second pixel in the second pixels.

Abstract: The finger electrode is formed by hard-soldered silver paste. The melting point of the first type solder layer provided on the surface of the terminal wiring member is higher than the melting point of the second type solder layer provided on the surface of the wire. The first width, in the first direction, of the second type solder layer in the first portion where the wire is connected to the terminal wiring member is larger than the second width, in the first direction, of the second type solder layer in the second portion where the wire is connected to the finger electrode.

Abstract: Provided is a battery comprising a cathode, an anode, and an electrolyte layer. The electrolyte layer includes a first electrolyte layer and a second electrolyte layer. The first electrolyte layer includes a first solid electrolyte material. The second electrolyte layer includes a second solid electrolyte material which is different from the first solid electrolyte material. The first solid electrolyte material includes lithium, at least one kind selected from the group consisting of metalloid elements and metal elements other than lithium, and at least one kind selected from the group consisting of chlorine and bromine. The first solid electrolyte material does not include sulfur.

Abstract: A portable electronic device includes a display, an operation receiver, and a controller. The display displays a menu screen including menu items. The operation receiver receives a user operation on the menu screen. The controller controls the display according to the user operation via the operation receiver. The menu screen further includes: first tab information indicating a category for classifying the menu items; second tab information indicating a plurality of sub categories included in the category; and third tab information indicating, for each of the sub categories, a menu item set number in which menu items in one sub category are partitioned to be displayed per a set on the menu screens. The controller changes menu items to be displayed on the menu screen, according to a user operation input via the operation receiver with the first, second, and third tab information displayed on the menu screen.

Abstract: A method for verifying content data to be used in a vehicle is provided. The method includes acquiring content data, acquiring, from partial data divided from the content data, a respective plurality of first hash values, acquiring a signature generated by using the first hash values and a key, acquiring state information that indicates a state of a vehicle, determining an integer N that is greater than or equal to one based on the acquired state information, generating, from N pieces of partial data included in the partial data, respective second hash values, verifying the content data by using each of (a) a subset of the plurality of first hash values respectively generated from partial data other than the N pieces of partial data, (b) the second hash values, and (c) the signature, and outputting information that indicates a result of the verifying.

Abstract: A decoder that decodes a current block using a motion vector includes: a processor; and memory. Using the memory, the processor: derives a first candidate vector from one or more candidate vectors of one or more neighboring blocks that neighbor the current block; determines, in a first reference picture for the current block, a first adjacent region that includes a position indicated by the first candidate vector; calculates evaluation values of a plurality of candidate regions included in the first adjacent region; and determines a first motion vector of the current block, based on a first candidate region having a smallest evaluation value among the evaluation values. The first adjacent region is included in a first motion estimation region determined based on the position indicated by the first candidate vector.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an image sensor that captures a subject image to generate image data; a controller that controls an image shooting operation, based on image data resulting from a plurality of times of imaging by the image sensor, the image shooting operation generating image data indicating a synthetic image into which a plurality of captured images is synthesized; a shake detector that detects a shaking state of the imaging apparatus; and a display that displays information, wherein the controller controls the display to display shaking state information including a plurality of shaking states detected by the shake detector during the plurality of times of imaging by the image sensor in the image shooting operation for the synthetic image.

Abstract: An imaging device is provided with an amplification transistor having a gate connected to a charge accumulator, a feedback transistor of which the source or drain is electrically connected to the charge accumulator and the other is connected to the source or drain of the amplification transistor, a current supply that supplies a current to a first node, a first select transistor of which the source or drain is connected to the other of the amplification transistor, a second select transistor of which the source or drain is connected to the source or drain of the amplification transistor, a current source/voltage source switching circuit that selectively connects a current source or a first voltage supply circuit to the other of the first select transistor, and a second voltage supply circuit connected to the other of the second select transistor.

Abstract: A laser processing apparatus emits processing light, measurement light, processing guide light, and measurement guide light with which a surface of a workpiece is irradiated. Respective wavelengths of the processing guide light and the measurement guide light are set to wavelengths at which a deviation amount between an irradiation position of the processing guide light and an irradiation position of the measurement guide light due to a chromatic aberration of magnification of a lens, and a deviation amount between an irradiation position of the processing light and an irradiation position of the measurement light due to the chromatic aberration of magnification of the lens are equal to each other. Therefore, positioning of spot positions of a plurality of laser lights having different output differences can be realized with high accuracy and high speed.

Abstract: An electrolytic solution generator includes an electrolyzing unit having a stacked structure in which a conductive film is interpose between a cathode and an anode, the electrolyzing unit electrolyzing a liquid, and a housing in which the electrolyzing unit is placed. A channel is disposed in the housing, and a groove is disposed in the electrolyzing unit, as a groove which is open to the channel and to which at least a part of an interface between the conductive film and the cathode and an interface between the conductive film and the anode is exposed. A space is disposed between at least either an outer periphery of the cathode or an outer periphery of the anode and an inner surface of the housing.

Abstract: A learning method for learning an action of an agent using model-based reinforcement learning is provided. The learning method includes: obtaining time series data indicating states and actions of the agent when the agent performs a series of actions; establishing a dynamics model by performing supervised learning using the time series data obtained; deriving a plurality of candidates for an action sequence of the agent from variational inference using a mixture model as a variational distribution, based on the dynamics model; and outputting, as the action sequence of the agent, one candidate selected from among the plurality of candidates derived.

Abstract: A delivery notification mail for notifying each of users of information regarding a corresponding one of packages to be delivered by a delivery vehicle is transmitted to a first information terminal (2) owned by the user. Opening time information indicating an opening time of each of the delivery notification mails is received from the corresponding first information terminal (2). A degree of interest of each of the users in the corresponding package is calculated. The degree of interest is calculated on the basis of a difference between a transmission time of the delivery notification mail corresponding to each of the packages and the opening time indicated by the opening time information. Order of delivery of the packages is set on the basis of the degrees of interest. Delivery order information indicating the order of delivery is transmitted to a second information terminal (3).

Abstract: A switching power supply device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: power supply circuits corresponding to phases of a polyphase AC power supply as an external power supply; a switching circuit configured to switch a connection destination of another power supply circuit other than a specific power supply circuit corresponding to a specific phase of the external power supply among the power supply circuits to a phase corresponding to the other power supply circuit or the specific phase; and a control unit configured to connect, to each phase of the external power supply connected to the switching power supply device, the other power supply circuit corresponding to the phase, and connect the other power supply circuit as a surplus to the specific phase when the number of phases of the external power supply is smaller than the number of the power supply circuits.

Abstract: A switching power source device includes a plurality of power source circuits including a first power source circuit corresponding to a first phase of an external power source, and a second power source circuit corresponding to a second phase of the external power source that is different from the first phase; a first switching circuit capable of switching between a plurality of connection modes including a first mode of connecting the second power source circuit to the first phase in parallel with the first power source circuit, and a second mode of connecting the second power source circuit to the second phase; a memory; and a hardware processor coupled to the memory, the hardware processor being configured to open and close a switching element included in the first power source circuit and a switching element included in the second power source circuit, in different phases in the first mode.

Abstract: A user equipment in a wireless communications system supporting direct communication between user equipments selects a sidelink destination group (ProSe destination) associated with a sidelink logical channel having a highest logical channel priority among sidelink logical channels, which have data available for transmission in a sidelink control period (SC period) and which have not previously been selected in the same SC period, wherein each of the sidelink logical channels belongs to a sidelink destination group, each of the sidelink logical channels is allocated to a logical channel group (LCG) depending on a priority of said each sidelink logical channel and on a priority of the logical channel group, and the logical channel group is defined per sidelink destination group. The user equipment allocates radio resources to sidelink logical channels belonging to the selected sidelink destination group in decreasing priority order, and transmits the data using the allocated radio resources.

Abstract: A method for producing a composite magnetic body includes: pressure molding a metal magnetic material into a predetermined shape, the metal magnetic material being an Fe—Si-based metal magnetic material; performing a primary heat treatment of heating the metal magnetic material in an atmosphere with a first oxygen partial pressure to form an Si oxide coating film on a surface of the metal magnetic material; and performing a secondary heat treatment of heating the metal magnetic material that has undergone the primary heat treatment in an atmosphere with a second oxygen partial pressure, which is higher than the first oxygen partial pressure, to form an Fe oxide layer at least partially on a surface of the Si oxide coating film.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus including a memory and a processor is provided. The image processing apparatus is configured to perform selecting one of data compression processing modes in response to a user input, and executing, according to the selected data compression processing mode, data compression processing on an input captured image based on an inter-frame prediction. The image processing apparatus is further configured perform generating a compressed image from the executed data compression processing. A group of pictures with respect to the generated compressed image is different according to the data compression processing modes. When receiving a request for acquiring vital information from a person captured in the input captured image, one of the data compression processing modes is selected so that the generated compressed image is configured by I pictures only.