Abstract: Provided is a PSA sheet having a PSA layer. The PSA layer includes a layer A forming at least one surface thereof. The PSA sheet has an adhesive strength N0 of 2.0 N/10 mm or greater, after one day at room temperature following application of the layer A side to a surface of an alkaline float glass plate as an adherend having a contact angle of 5°-10° with distilled water; has an N1 to N0 reduction rate of 30% or lower, wherein N1 is a water-resistant adhesive strength measured after stored at room temperature for one day, immersed in water for 30 minutes, taken out from the water and then residual water is wiped off, and has an N2 to NO reduction rate of 40% or higher, wherein N2 is a water-peel strength measured after stored at room temperature for one day, 20 ?L distilled water is dropped onto the adherend and is allowed to enter a PSA layer/adherend interfacial edge. N2 is measured at a tensile speed of 300 mm/min at a peel angle of 180°.

Abstract: An X-ray generation device includes an X-ray tube, and an electron beam adjustment part. The X-ray tube includes a housing, an electron gun, a target, and a window member. When a first defect exists in the target, the electron beam adjustment part adjusts an electron beam such that the first defect is not included in an irradiation region of the electron beam on the target, and when a second defect exists in the window member, the electron beam adjustment part adjusts the electron beam such that the second defect is not included in a projection region of the electron beam on the window member.

Abstract: An X-ray tube includes a housing, a cathode disposed in the housing and configured to release electrons, a target disposed in the housing and configured to generate X-rays upon incidence of the electrons, a first tubular body surrounding the cathode inside the housing, and a getter disposed in a region where a trajectory of the electrons from the cathode to the target is not allowed to be seen in an inner region of the first tubular body.

Abstract: This non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery comprises: an electrode body in which a positive electrode and a negative electrode are wound with a separator therebetween; an electrolyte; and a cylindrical outer can, wherein the positive electrode has a current collector and a mixed layer laminated on at least a portion of the surface of the current collector, a plurality of exposed parts where the current collector is exposed are formed on the surface of the positive electrode, tabs are connected to the respective exposed parts, and when the rotation angle of the electrode body from a winding start-side end to a winding finish-side end of the exposed parts relative to the winding center is defined as an exposed part angle, the exposed part angle of the exposed parts positioned on the winding start side is greater than the exposed part angle of the exposed parts positioned on the winding finish side.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a thermal energy storage power plant includes a thermal accumulator to accumulate thermal energy and heat a thermal medium with the thermal energy, and a steam generator to generate steam using the thermal medium. The plant further includes a first path to convey the thermal medium from the accumulator to the generator, and a second path to convey the thermal medium from the generator to the accumulator. The plant further includes an auxiliary module provided on the first path, and a bypass path to convey the thermal medium flowing through the second path to the auxiliary module by bypassing the accumulator, wherein the auxiliary module is supplied with a first thermal medium from the accumulator via the first path, supplied with a second thermal medium from the second path via the bypass path, and supplies a third thermal medium to the generator via the first path.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus, an information processing system, an updating method, and a program that can properly update software even when a network function has a redundant configuration are provided. An information processing apparatus (1) includes: an information acquiring unit (2) configured to acquire redundant configuration information contained in network definition information from a MANO implementation apparatus performing instantiation of network functions by using the network definition information that contains the redundant configuration information being information about a redundant configuration of the network functions, and implementing MANO for the network functions; and an update control unit (3) configured to propose an update sequence of nodes in updating software of the nodes that execute processing for providing the network functions, based on the redundant configuration information.

Abstract: A difference detection device includes a difference detection unit configured to, based on association among a first image and a second image captured at different times and illustrating a substantially identical space and encoding information of each of the first image and the second image, detect difference between a third image and a fourth image captured at different times and illustrating a substantially identical space, and the encoding information is information acquired from data including the first image encoded and data including the second image encoded, before inverse transform processing is executed in decoding processing executed on each of the first image and the second image.

Abstract: A reference region determination device is for determining a reference region to be stored in a reference image buffer, and includes: a motion vector acquisition portion configured to acquire a motion vector for each one of already encoded blocks; a position change amount derivation portion configured to derive a position change amount for the reference region based on the acquired motion vectors; and a reference region determination portion configured to determine a position of the reference region to be used in encoding of a next block for encoding after the already encoded blocks based on the position change amount.

Abstract: A statistical data processing device includes: a first statistical image generation unit for generating statistical images including a first statistical image representing a first statistical value as a corresponding pixel value, and a second statistical image representing a second statistical value as a corresponding pixel value; a mask generation unit for generating a mask image, the mask image extracting, if one of a pixel of a first statistical image and a corresponding pixel of a second statistical image does not have a pixel value indicating a statistical value, a pixel not having a pixel value indicating the statistical value or other pixel; and a second statistical image generation unit for generating a third statistical image in which a pixel value of a pixel not having a pixel value indicating the statistical value is complemented with a pixel value of the other statistical image.

Abstract: An image evaluation device includes a determination result acquisition unit acquires a result of determining the presence or absence of a difference between an object image that is one of a plurality of images that include three or more images obtained by imaging substantially the same spatial region and each of reference images that are images other than the object image among the plurality of images and an evaluation index acquisition unit configured to acquire an evaluation index for the plurality of images on the basis of at least one of the number of determinations of the presence of the difference between the object image and each reference image and the number of determinations of the absence of the difference between the object image and each reference image.

Abstract: An evaluation device for evaluating coding quality of coded data of an image for a first viewpoint in a multi-viewpoint image, the evaluation device includes an evaluation unit that evaluates coding quality of coded data relating to the first viewpoint by associating a pixel value of an original image for the first viewpoint, a pixel value obtained from the coded data relating to the first viewpoint, a pixel value of an original image for a second viewpoint that is different from the first viewpoint and a pixel value obtained from coded data relating to the second viewpoint with one another.

Abstract: A learning data generation device of an embodiment includes a detection unit that detects a changed region in a space between a first map and a second map based on first map data which indicate the first map and second map data which indicate the second map which indicates a substantially same space as the first map and represents the space at a different time point from the first map and a changed region image acquisition unit that acquires images which correspond to the changed region detected by the detection unit from a first image in which the space represented by the first map is captured and a second image in which the space represented by the second map is captured.

Abstract: A prediction device for predicting a motion vector of a coding target block in coding of a composite image formed by combining multiple viewpoint images includes: a storage unit that stores a first predicted motion vector indicating a predicted motion vector candidate; and an update unit that if a predetermined condition is met, generates a second predicted motion vector that is a vector indicating a pixel in an adjacent viewpoint, the pixel being located at a position that is same as a position of the coding target block, and stores the second predicted motion vector the storage unit.

Abstract: A coding amount estimation device includes: a feature vector generation unit that generates a feature vector on the basis of a feature map generated by an estimation target image and at least one filter set in advance; and a coding amount evaluation unit that evaluates a coding amount of the estimation target image on the basis of the feature vector.

Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for writing data to a memory array are disclosed. When data is duplicative across multiple data lines, data may be transferred across a single line of a bus rather than driving the duplicative data across all of the data lines. The data from the single data line may be provided to the write amplifiers of the additional data lines to provide the data from all of the data lines to be written to the memory. In some examples, error correction may be performed on data from the single data line rather than all of the data lines.

Abstract: An image processing device that updates a pixel value of a processing target image and generates a new image generates a first feature vector based on the processing target image and a first feature map generated with at least one pre-decided filter; updates the processing target image to generate an updated image; generates a second feature vector based on the updated image and a second feature map generated with at least one pre-decided filter; performs quality evaluation of the updated image based on the first and second feature vectors and generates a quality feedback vector which is a vector based on a result of the quality evaluation; performs an encoding amount evaluation on the updated image and generates an encoding amount feedback vector which is a vector based on a result of the encoding amount evaluation; and determines an updating amount in updating of the updated image based on the quality feedback vector and the encoding amount feedback vector.

Abstract: A coding device executes coding having divided an image into blocks, and includes: a candidate obtainment unit that obtains a plurality of provisional motion vector candidates in a coding target block; an evaluation information obtainment unit that obtains a correspondence vector that is a vector having a same direction and a same magnitude as a direction and a magnitude of the obtained provisional motion vector candidates, and evaluation information of a search center indicated by the correspondence vector in a coded block; and a selection unit that, on the basis of the evaluation information, selects, from the plurality of provisional motion vector candidates, a number of motion vector candidates that is lower than the number of the plurality of provisional motion vector candidates.

Abstract: A predictive image acquisition device is a predictive image acquisition device for associating an observation signal, the observation signal being a signal obtained from an original image serving as a decoding target image and being a lower dimensional signal than the original image, a first predictive image having a high correlation with the original image, and a second predictive image having a high correlation with the original image with each other to obtain a combined predictive image, and includes an interpolation factor acquisition unit configured to obtain an interpolation factor set for each pixel of the combined predictive image from the first predictive image, the second predictive image, and the observation signal, and a combined predictive image acquisition unit configured to combine the first predictive image and the second predictive image for each pixel using the interpolation factor to obtain the combined predictive image, and the pixels constituting the observation signal are expressed by a

Abstract: An image processing apparatus for performing correction for each frame group including a predetermined number of frames into which video data is divided includes a decoding unit configured to obtain a corrected frame group by correcting a second frame group, which is a frame group continuous with a first frame group in time, using a feature quantity of the first frame group. The decoding unit performs the correction so that subjective image quality based on a relationship between the second frame group and a frame group subsequent to the second frame group in time is increased and so that a predetermined classifier classifies that a frame group in which the second frame group is concatenated with the frame group subsequent to the second frame group in time is the same as a frame group in which the corrected frame group is concatenated with a corrected frame group obtained by correcting the frame group subsequent to the second frame group in time.

Abstract: An encoding device includes a division unit that acquires three-dimensional data representing positions of a plurality of points distributed along a surface of an object in a three-dimensional space and divides a parent space including the points in the three-dimensional space into a plurality of child spaces and an encoding unit that changes, based on a position of a target space, which is the child space, to which a sign representing whether the points are included is allocated, according to whether the points are included in a first child space adjacent to the target space, processing for allocating the sign to the target space and a second child space adjacent to the target space.