Abstract: Provided is a content generation apparatus capable of reducing a processing load of generating a hash value to be registered in a blockchain in a configuration using audio data in video files. An image pickup apparatus 102 generates a video file including video data, audio data, and metadata, and generates a hash value from the audio data and the metadata. The image pickup apparatus 102 transmits the video file and the hash value to a management system 101 that registers the hash value and the metadata in a blockchain.

Abstract: A method is of processing a wafer that includes on a side of a front surface a plurality of intersecting planned dividing lines and a plurality of devices formed in respective areas defined by the planned dividing lines, and a metal layer laminated on a side of a back surface. The method includes: forming a mark indicating positions of the planned dividing lines of the wafer on the back surface; and dicing the wafer from the side of the back surface using the formed mark as a reference to divide the wafer into individual chips.

Abstract: A processing method is for thinning a wafer formed with a chamfered portion on an outer periphery, and includes: forming an annular groove from the first surface side of the wafer along an outer peripheral edge of the wafer to a predetermined thickness and forming a remaining portion below the annular groove, the annular groove being formed so that a distance between a groove bottom and the second surface side of the wafer decreases from a center side of the wafer toward the outer peripheral edge side and a position of the groove bottom in a thickness direction of the wafer varies in a width direction; and bringing a grinding stone into contact with the second surface and moving the grinding stone in the thickness direction to grind the second surface side while crushing and removing the remaining portion, so as to thin the wafer to the predetermined thickness.

Abstract: A cooling device includes a container, a heat receiver to receive heat from a cooling target and evaporate a refrigerant inside the container, a condenser disposed away from the heat receiver, and to condense the gas-phase refrigerant, a liquid transporter to couple the condenser and the heat receiver, and transport the liquid-phase refrigerant to the heat receiver from the condenser, a first transporter to couple the heat receiver and the condenser, and include a first transport-space inside the first transporter, in which the gas-phase refrigerant is transported to the condenser from the heat receiver, and a second transporter provided in pairs over two sides in a direction orthogonal to a moving-direction of the refrigerant in the first transporter, and to couple the heat receiver and the condenser, and include a second transport-space inside the second transporter, in which the gas-phase refrigerant is transported to the condenser from the heat receiver.

Abstract: A substrate processing system, which includes a transfer device configured to simultaneously transfer a plurality of substrates and suitably corrects positions of the substrate, and a method of controlling the substrate processing system are provided. The substrate processing system includes: a process chamber in which a plurality of substrates is processed; a vacuum transfer chamber connected to the process chamber; a transfer device provided in the vacuum transfer chamber and configured to simultaneously transfer a plurality of substrates; a module connected to the vacuum transfer chamber and having a plurality of stages on which substrates are placed; and a controller. The controller is configured to measure an amount of change of an arm of the transfer device that has transferred processed substrates, and to correct positions of the stages based on the amount of change of the arm of the transfer device.

Abstract: A measurement system including an imaging device and a plasma processing device having a plasma generator configured to generate plasma from a gas supplied into a processing chamber and a controller. The imaging device is configured to generate optical information of the plasma from image data of imaged plasma in the processing chamber, and the controller is configured to convert the generated optical information of the plasma into a plasma parameter that determines physical characteristics of the plasma with reference to a storage that stores correlation information between the optical information of the plasma and measurement results of the plasma parameter.

Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell, an electric power recovery device, and a control device that controls the fuel cell and the electric power recovery device. In a state where supplying of the liquid fuel to the fuel cell is stopped, the control device charges post-stop electric power generated by the fuel cell using the liquid fuel that has been already supplied, thereby recovering the post-stop electric power into the electric power recovery device, and thereafter stopping an electrode reaction in an electrode structure of the fuel cell.

Abstract: A method of processing a workpiece includes holding a face side of the workpiece on a holding table having a region made of a transparent material and forming a processed groove in the workpiece with a cutting blade. The forming a processed groove includes capturing an image of the processed groove on a reverse side and the face side of the workpiece, and detecting whether a position of a first central line of the processed groove on the reverse side and a position of a second central line of the processed groove on the face side are in conformity in a predetermined plane. If the positions of the first and second central lines are not in conformity, then the forming a processed groove further has correcting a position of the center of the cutting blade in order to bring the positions of the first and second central lines into conformity.

Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes: a processing container; a substrate holder disposed within the processing container and configured to hold a substrate thereon; a dielectric window disposed below the substrate holder; and a plurality of phased array antennas disposed below the dielectric window and configured to irradiate a plurality of electromagnetic waves.

Abstract: A shower plate includes a plate-shaped dielectric main body having gas holes, and a plurality of sealed areas formed in the dielectric main body. Each of the sealed areas has a permittivity lower than a permittivity of the dielectric main body. A volume density of the sealed areas at a central region of the dielectric main body is higher than a volume density of the sealed areas at a peripheral region of the dielectric main body.

Abstract: The participant terminal 80 includes imaging means 81 for shooting video of the participant who uses the participant terminal 80, frequency measurement means 82 for measuring the number of nods of the participant from the shot video, and action information transmission means 83 for transmitting action information that information of the participant is associated with the number of nods to the server 70. The server 70 includes transmission means 71 for transmitting the action information to the speaker terminal 90. The speaker terminal 90 includes participant output means 91 for outputting the information of the participant in order according to the number of nods included in the action information.

Abstract: A thermocompression bonding method for thermocompression bonding a sheet to a workpiece, where the method includes a stacking step of placing the sheet between a flat plate and the workpiece to form a stack in which the sheet is held between the workpiece and an entire surface of the flat plate and a thermocompression bonding step of thermocompression bonding the sheet to the workpiece while planarizing the sheet with the flat plate by heating the sheet and applying an external force to the stack, after performing the stacking step.

Abstract: A fuel cell system having a direct liquid fuel cell that uses a liquid containing a formic acid or an alcohol as a fuel includes: a fuel tank that stores the fuel to be supplied to the fuel cell; a fuel supply device that supplies the fuel in the fuel tank to the fuel cell; and a bubbling device that blows an inert gas into the fuel stored in the fuel tank.

Abstract: A fuel flow groove formed in a fuel electrode current collector of a fuel electrode of a fuel cell includes a plurality of flow groove portions disposed in parallel, and a plurality of return groove portions connecting an end portion of one side edge portion or an end portion of the other side edge portion of the flow groove portions of two adjacent groups. Each of the return groove portions has an inner wall surface portion facing the end portion of the flow groove portions in the return groove portions. The inner wall surface portion has a curved surface shape in which a distance facing each other from the inner wall surface portion to the end portion of the flow groove portions, gradually decreases toward both end portions of the inner side wall surface portion in a direction orthogonal to an extending direction of the flow groove portions.

Abstract: A processing method for a workpiece includes forming a first processing groove by a first processing unit, imaging the first processing groove by a first imaging unit and imaging, by a second imaging unit provided on an opposite side of the first imaging unit with respect to the holding table, a predetermined line that is formed in a position corresponding to that of the first processing groove in a thickness direction of the workpiece, detecting whether or not a position of a first center line of the first processing groove and a position of a second center line of the predetermined line are aligned in a predetermined plane, and correcting the processing position in such a manner as to make the positions of the two center lines aligned when the detected positions of the first center line and the second center line are not being aligned.

Abstract: A fuel cell includes a discharge structure that discharges water generated in a cathode electrode in association with an electrode reaction in the MEA to the outside. The discharge structure includes a discharge path through which air that is an oxidant flows, a passage that communicably connects an oxidant supply flow path and the discharge path and that moves water generated in the cathode electrode to the discharge path, and a discharge portion that discharges the generated water moved to the discharge path to the outside.

Abstract: A processing apparatus includes a chuck table including a plate-shaped holding component having a predetermined region transparent from one surface to the other surface, a processing unit that processes a workpiece, a first imaging unit disposed over the chuck table to acquire a normal image of the back surface side, and a second imaging unit disposed under the chuck table to acquire a normal image of the front surface side, a display device, and a control part that executes image processing of the normal image of either the back or front surface side to cause the normal image subjected to the image processing to be displayed on the display device in the state of being inverted in a predetermined direction in order to allow the orientation of the normal image of the back surface side to correspond with the orientation of the normal image of the front surface side.

Abstract: A measurement system including an imaging device and a plasma processing device having a plasma generator configured to generate plasma from a gas supplied into a processing chamber and a controller. The imaging device is configured to generate optical information of the plasma from image data of imaged plasma in the processing chamber, and the controller is configured to convert the generated optical information of the plasma into a plasma parameter that determines physical characteristics of the plasma with reference to a storage that stores correlation information between the optical information of the plasma and measurement results of the plasma parameter.

Abstract: A fuel cell system having a direct liquid fuel cell that uses a liquid containing a formic acid or an alcohol as a fuel includes: a fuel tank that stores the fuel to be supplied to the fuel cell; a fuel supply device that supplies the fuel in the fuel tank to the fuel cell; and a bubbling device that blows an inert gas into the fuel stored in the fuel tank.

Abstract: To enable guidance to be given more understandably, depending on the guidance location. Provision of an image recognizing unit for analyzing the state of a guidance object that serves as a landmark for a guidance location, through image recognition using an image captured for the direction forward of a vehicle; a guidance information generating unit for generating guidance information that includes a supplementary explanation regarding the state of the guidance object, depending on the result of the analysis; and an output processing unit for outputting the guidance information.