Abstract: A method includes acquiring an image including an object's face, detecting multiple candidate regions having characteristics of human eyes from the image, extracting high-frequency components of spatial frequencies in the image from the multiple candidate regions, distinguishing first regions likely to correspond to the eyes over second regions likely to correspond to eyebrows for the multiple candidate regions based on amounts of the high-frequency components of the multiple candidate regions, and outputting results of the distinguishing.

Abstract: To intuitively identify the state o an electronic device. There is provided an electronic device that implements a predetermined function, the electronic device including: an operation detection unit configured to detect a physical operation on the electronic device; a transmitter configured to transmit operation information indicating the operation to an external device; a receiver configured to receive feedback information indicating at least a type of feedback representing a state relating to the function, the feedback information being transmitted by the external device in response to the operation information; and a feedback unit configured to provide the feedback in accordance with the feedback information.

Abstract: Provided is a technique for fabricating a novel thin membrane with a starting material such as a biocompatible compound that is not easily processible into a membrane, particularly a technique for fabricating a novel thin membrane of a composition that is gradually polymerized from a membrane surface into the membrane in the cross sectional direction of the membrane, and having, for example, different structures on the front and back of the membrane. The technique includes the steps of preparing a solution of a starting material compound; forming a thin membrane of the solution on a base material surface; and forming the organic polymer thin membrane through a polymerization reaction caused by irradiating the exposed surface of the thin membrane with a plasma or an electron beam.

Abstract: A gaze detection apparatus includes: an image capturing unit which generates an image representing both eyes of a user; an eye detection unit which, for each of the eyes, detects an eye region containing the eye from the image; a pupil detection unit which, for one of the eyes, detects a pupil region containing a pupil from the eye region; an estimating unit which obtains, based on the pupil region detected for the one eye, an estimated shape of the pupil region on the image for the other one of the eyes; a redetection unit which detects the pupil region by searching for a region having a shape that matches the estimated shape from within the eye region detected for the other eye; and a gaze detection unit which detects the user's gaze direction based on a position of the pupil region detected for each of the eyes.

Abstract: A communication system comprising computers and a management computer, wherein the computers include a communication control unit configured to control a communication using a session of a terminal. The communication control unit manages a database storing in a plurality of pieces of session information. The management computer includes property management information for managing a property of each of the plurality of pieces of session information. The session information migration control unit is configured to: detect a migration trigger of the plurality of pieces of session information stored in a first database; select the plurality of pieces of session information from the plurality of pieces of session information stored in the first database based on the property management information; determine a migration order for the selected plurality of pieces of session information based on the property of the each of the selected plurality of pieces of session information.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a first inlet to be connected to a commercial power source, a second inlet to be connected to a battery of an HEMS (Home Energy Management System) which supplies electric power greater than electric power supplied by the commercial power source, and an ECU. The ECU indicates one of the first inlet and the second inlet to a user in accordance with a state of a battery of the vehicle.

Abstract: Provided is a technique for fabricating a novel thin membrane with a starting material such as a biocompatible compound that is not easily processible into a membrane, particularly a technique for fabricating a novel thin membrane of a composition that is gradually polymerized from a membrane surface into the membrane in the cross sectional direction of the membrane, and having, for example, different structures on the front and back of the membrane. The technique includes the steps of preparing a solution of a starting material compound; forming a thin membrane of the solution on a base material surface; and forming the organic polymer thin membrane through a polymerization reaction caused by irradiating the exposed surface of the thin membrane with a plasma or an electron beam.

Abstract: A line-of-sight detection method includes detecting an eye region of a subject from an image, determining whether a position of a boundary between a pupil and an iris is detected from the image based on a brightness change in the eye region, executing, in accordance with a result of the determining, at least one of first processing in which a position of a center of the pupil is detected based on an outline of the pupil and second processing in which the position of the center of the pupil is detected based on another outline of the iris, and detecting a line of sight of the subject based on the position of the center of the pupil detected by the at least one of the first processing and the second processing.

Abstract: A combined-blade-type open flow path device being a fluid flow path device where a plurality of flow paths are adjacent to each other, the combined-blade-type open flow path device comprising: a substrate configured to constitute a bottom portion of the flow paths; and a plurality of blades erected on a surface of the substrate, the plurality of blades configured to constitute side walls of the flow paths, wherein the plurality of blades are erected in a plurality of numbers at a space in a direction from an upstream side to a downstream side of a flow of the fluid, and conduction of the fluid between the flow paths adjacent at the space is made possible, and wherein the flow of the fluid is made possible by one end of the flow path being in contact with the fluid.

Abstract: Provided is an observation method by an electron microscope, in which a biological sample can be observed as it is alive and a situation that the biological sample is moving can be observed using an electron microscope, and a composition for evaporation suppression under vacuum, a scanning electron microscope, and a transmission electron microscope used in the method. The sample observation method by an electron microscope according to the invention includes applying a composition for evaporation suppression containing at least one kind selected from an amphiphilic compound, oils and fats, and an ionic liquid to the surface of a sample to form a thin film, and covering the sample with the thin film, and displaying an electron microscopic image of the sample, which is covered with the thin film and accommodated in a sample chamber under vacuum, on a display device.

Abstract: Provided are a protective agent for electron microscopic observation in a vacuum which can protect a biological sample in a water-containing state, such as a mammal, a plant tissue or a cultured cell, and a single cell in the living state without deforming it even in a vacuum, a kit using the same, methods for observation, diagnosis, evaluation, and quantification of a sample by an electron microscope, and a sample stage to be used for the observation. The protective agent for electron microscopic observation of the present invention contains a a component to impart the survival environment, a saccharide, and an electrolyte.

Abstract: A vehicle 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied to a charge-discharge system CDS. The charge-discharge system includes the vehicle 10, an electric power cable 20, a plug-in station 30, a HEMS 40, and a commercial power supply 50. In a state where the connector 21 of the electric power cable 20 is connected with the inlet of the vehicle 10, an electric power is discharged/supplied from the vehicle electric storage device 11 to an external electric load (e.g., external electric storage device 41). Further, the vehicle electric storage device 11 is capable of being charged by the external power supply 50 through the electric power cable 20. A control device 12 of the vehicle 10 obtains/detects a permissible current value of the electric power cable 20, based on a specific signal (control pilot signal) which is transmitted through a CPLT terminal of the connector 21 before it starts the discharge to the external electric load from the vehicle electric storage device 11.

Abstract: A power supply system for a vehicle includes a power storage device, a plurality of charging paths for charging the power storage device with electric power from the outside, a plurality of relays provided on the plurality of charging paths respectively, each for switching between supply and cut-off of electric power, and a charge control unit for making selection as to through which charging path among the plurality of charging paths charging of the power storage device is permitted, based on a state of welding of the plurality of relays.

Abstract: A vehicle 10 according to the embodiment of the present invention is applied to a charge-discharge system CDS. The charge-discharge system includes the vehicle 10, an electric power cable 20, a plug-in station 30, a HEMS 40, and a commercial power supply 50. From the HEMS 40 to the vehicle 10, a request for charge to charge an electric storage device 11 and a request for discharge to allow an external electric load to use an electric power of the electric storage device 11 are transmitted. When a request is changed from the request for charge to the request for discharge, or vice versa, the vehicle 10 realizes a charge-discharge stop state in which neither a charging operation nor a discharging operation is performed without directly changing from the charging operation to the discharging operation, or vice versa.

Abstract: A communication system comprising computers and a management computer, wherein the computers include a communication control unit configured to control a communication using a session of a terminal. The communication control unit manages a database storing in a plurality of pieces of session information. The management computer includes property management information for managing a property of each of the plurality of pieces of session information. The session information migration control unit is configured to: detect a migration trigger of the plurality of pieces of session information stored in a first database; select the plurality of pieces of session information from the plurality of pieces of session information stored in the first database based on the property management information; determine a migration order for the selected plurality of pieces of session information based on the property of the each of the selected plurality of pieces of session information.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a charging unit receiving electric power supplied from an external power supply through a power feeding cable connected to an inlet for charging a power storage device; a discharging unit for supplying electric power from the power storage device to the power feeding cable through the inlet; a discharge relay; and a charge relay. When ending a discharging operation, an ECU outputs an opening instruction to the discharge relay and determines based on the state of a power line during output of the opening instruction whether the discharge relay is welded or not. When starting the discharging operation, the ECU outputs a closing instruction to the discharge relay and does not determine during output of the closing instruction whether the discharge relay is welded or not.

Abstract: a management apparatus is capable of more precisely distributing the load in redundant system reconstruction. The management apparatus is configured to detect a data migration instruction to migrate data of any one of plurality of data processing units; identify a plurality of groups that a plurality of operational data clusters stored by the any one of the plurality of data processing units belong to; identify a plurality of data processing units corresponding to each group; and change a redundant data cluster of the same group as an operational data cluster stored by the any one of the plurality of data processing units to an operational data cluster.

Abstract: It is provided a control apparatus being configured to: calculate a number of groups to which plurality of data processing apparatus are to belong; determine an associated group of each of the plurality of data processing apparatus; determine an operational data item to be assigned to the associated group; determine as an assignment destination of the operational data item assigned to the associated group, any one of the data processing apparatus belonging to the associated group whose number is the minimum count or larger, and determine as an assignment destination of a redundant data item, the data processing apparatus that is different front the data processing apparatus corresponding to an assignment destination of the operational data item; and assign based on determination results, the group of operational data items and a group of the redundant data items to the plurality of data processing apparatus.