Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention is a printing apparatus including: a print head having a printing element column in which a plurality of printing elements for ejecting ink from ejection ports is arrayed and performing printing on a printing medium by ejecting ink based on print data; a sensor that detects temperature of the print head; an acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating a number of dots to be printed by printing elements corresponding to a predetermined area in the printing element column; and a control unit configured to control a printing operation of the print head based on temperature detected by the sensor and the number of dots acquired by the acquisition unit, and the printing apparatus performs printing on the printing medium by ejecting ink from the print head while the print head and the printing medium are moving relatively.

Abstract: In an image pickup apparatus including first circuits, second circuits, and conversion units, an operation period of the second circuit is shorter than an operation period of the first circuit, and a number of the first circuit arranged in each unit cell is greater than a number of the second circuit arranged in each unit cell.

Abstract: In a photoelectric conversion apparatus, an amplification unit outputs a first amplified signal generated by amplifying a first signal using a first gain, a second amplified signal generated by amplifying the first signal using a second gain, a third amplified signal generated by amplifying a second signal using a third gain, and a fourth amplified signal generated by amplifying the second signal using a fourth gain to an analog to digital (AD) conversion unit in this order. The AD conversion unit generates first to fourth digital signals corresponding to the first to fourth amplified signals, respectively, and outputs the second digital signal and the third digital signal to an output unit prior to the first digital signal and the fourth digital signal.

Abstract: An image processing device includes one or more processors. The processors detects two or more first partial areas corresponding to each of two or more portions among a plurality of portions that are included in an object and that are set in advance from a first image, and detect two or more second partial areas corresponding to each of two or more portions among the portions from a second image. The processors extracts two or more first feature vectors from two or more of the first partial areas, and extract two or more second feature vectors from two or more of the second partial areas. The processors determines whether an object included in the first image and an object included in the second image are same, by using the first feature vectors and the second feature vectors.

Abstract: A water/oil repellent layer-provided article, containing a substrate, a water/oil repellent layer containing a hydrolyzed condensate of a fluorinated compound having a hydrolyzable silyl group, and a silicon oxide layer containing alkali metal atoms, present between the substrate and the water/oil repellent layer, where in the silicon oxide layer, the average concentration of the alkali metal atoms in a region with a depth from the surface in contact with the water/oil repellent layer of at least 0.1 nm and at most 0.3 nm, is at least 2.0×1019 atoms/cm3.

Abstract: Provided is a control system of an industrial machine that can automatically detect the presence or absence of a wiring error at a start-up of a machine, and that prevents a dangerous operation such as high rotation/high torque of a motor from occurring due to a wiring error. A control system of an industrial machine includes: a control unit that controls driving of a drive unit of the industrial machine; a command unit that issues a command to the control unit; and a wiring error detection device that detects a wiring error in a system of the control unit and the drive unit on a basis of a feedback value of actual driving of the drive unit upon a start-up of the industrial machine.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an object detection apparatus includes a hardware processor. The processor calculates, from an input image, first feature aps in which feature quantities of at least some elements are mutually different. The processor generates, based on a first group of the first feature aps calculated in current instance and based on a second group of the first feature maps calculated in past, a time observation map in which an element having a closer relationship in time direction between the first group and the second group is defined to have proportionally a greater first weighting value. The processor generates second feature maps by weighting each of the first feature maps included in the first group or the second group in accordance with first weighting values indicated in the time observation map. The processor detects an object captured in the input image by using the second feature maps.

Abstract: An object detection apparatus includes a calculation section, a first generation section, and a second generation section. The calculation section calculates a plurality of first feature maps from an input image. The first generation section generates a spatial attention map for which a higher first weighted value is defined for an element having a higher relation in terms of a first space on the basis of the first feature maps. The second generation section generates a plurality of second feature maps by performing weighting on each of the first feature maps in accordance with the first weighted value indicated for the spatial attention map. A detection section detects an object included in an input image by using the second feature maps.

Abstract: Provided is a photoelectric conversion apparatus including a plurality of pixels and a control unit, wherein each of the pixels includes a photoelectric conversion unit and a digital-signal output unit configured to output a digital signal based on the output of the photoelectric conversion unit, and the number of bits of the digital signal may be switched.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photoconductor, a light emitting substrate, and imaging optical systems, wherein an optical axis of the imaging optical systems are parallel, imaging magnifications of the imaging optical systems are substantially equal for the light emitting point groups, the imaging optical systems includes a first lens array, a second lens array, and apertures, central points of the light emitting point group exist in a first plane, central points of the imaging lenses exist in a second plane, central points of the apertures exist in a third plane, central points of the imaging lenses exist in a fourth plane, the first plane forms a non-zero predetermined angle with respect to a plane perpendicular to an optical axis direction, and the angle formed with respect to the plane perpendicular to the optical axis direction is greater in the order of the first, second, third, and the fourth plane.

Abstract: A glass substrate includes at least one selected from the group consisting of Li, Na, K, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba and Zn as a reaction factor component, and includes a surface depletion layer at a surface side of the glass substrate. A total molar concentration (mol/cm3) of the reaction factor component in the surface depletion layer is decreased relative to an inside of the glass substrate. A total depletion amount (mol/cm2) of the reaction factor component in the surface depletion layer is 1.00×10?8 or more. The glass substrate has a refractive index (nd) of 1.68 or more.

Abstract: A solution is provided for a current balance feedback method to improve stability in a multi-phase DC-DC switching converter, where the current balance feedback signal is added to the PWM duty signal, after the PWM comparator. Using this feedback method, current balance oscillation issues caused by the non-linearity of the main control loop can be solved, and provide better current balance stability in the switching converter. Advantages include improving the stability of the current balance feedback loop by introducing the correction post PW modulation in the time domain, effectively bypassing interaction with the PW modulator. The current balance feedback loop stability improvement reduces PCB design effort and iteration.

Abstract: A knocking sensor (18) detecting vibration of an engine body (1) and a pressure sensor (19) detecting a pressure of a combustion chamber (5) are provided. A value representing the knocking strength is acquired from output values of the pressure sensor (19). Weights of a neural network are learned using a value representing the vibration of the engine body (1) detected by the knocking sensor (18) as an input value of the neural network and using the acquired value representing the knocking strength as training data. The value representing the knocking strength is estimated from the output values of the knocking sensor (18) by using the learned neural network.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having a game program is provided. The game program is to be executed by a server device in a game system. The game system includes user terminals operated by respective users. The server device is capable of being connected to the user terminals through communication. The program causes the server device to set one or more kinds of game media to be in a state of being capable of being given to users. A predetermined upper limit is set to a number of game media capable of being given to the users. The program further causes the server device to give a user a game medium that the user desires to be given among the game media which are set by the server device in a range not exceeding the predetermined upper limit.

Abstract: Relax oscillation circuits have at least one comparison circuit that is structured with a flipped gate transistor and a normal MOS transistor wherein the two transistors having different threshold voltages. The relaxation oscillators are configured for charging and discharging capacitances between the threshold voltages of the flipped gate transistor and the normal MOS transistor by toggling the state of a latching circuit to control the charging and discharging of the capacitances.

Abstract: Provided is a photoelectric conversion apparatus including a plurality of pixels and a control unit, wherein each of the pixels includes a photoelectric conversion unit and a digital-signal output unit configured to output a digital signal based on the output of the photoelectric conversion unit, and the number of bits of the digital signal may be switched.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a light-emitting element that includes light-emitting point groups; and an optical system that includes imaging systems focusing light from light-emitting points of the light-emitting point groups, wherein the light-emitting point groups and the imaging systems are combined into sets, the light-receiving surface has a cylindrical shape, each imaging system has a negative imaging magnification, light-emitting point groups are arranged at different positions, the imaging systems adjacent to each other have optical axes non-parallel to each other, each optical axis has an angle being not zero relative to the central normal, and a plane including the optical axis and the central normal is perpendicular to a rotational symmetry axis, and an angle between the optical axis and a line normal to the light-receiving surface is smaller than an angle between the central normal and a line normal to the light-receiving surface.

Abstract: An exposure apparatus is provided. An illumination optical system in the apparatus includes a diffraction optical element, a condensing optical system a detector that detects a light beam that exited from the condensing optical system, and a first diaphragm that can be inserted/removed in/from a position near a predetermined plane in an optical path where the condensing optical system condenses a light beam. The first diaphragm has an opening diameter such that an output of the detector decreases when an incident angle of light from a light source on the diffraction optical element deviates from a target angle. Based on an output of the detector when the first diaphragm is inserted in the position and an output of the detector when the first diaphragm is retracted from the position, a controller performs a process of adjusting the incident angle.

Abstract: A glove includes a glove body configured to cover a hand of a wearer. The glove body has an outermost layer including cellulose particles and constituting an outer surface of the glove. At least some of the cellulose particles are at least partially exposed from the outer surface.

Abstract: To provide a fluorinated ether compound, a fluorinated ether composition and a coating liquid capable of forming a surface layer excellent in initial water/oil repellency, fingerprint stain removability, abrasion resistance, light resistance and chemical resistance, an article having a surface layer, and a method for producing it. A fluorinated ether compound represented by A-O—(Rf1O)m—Rf2—[C(O)N(R1)]p-Q1-C(R2)[-Q2-SiR3nL3-n]2, wherein A is a C1-20 perfluoroalkyl group, Rf1 is a linear fluoroalkylene group, m is an integer of from 2 to 500, Rf2 is a linear fluoroalkylene group, R1 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, p is 0 or 1, Q1 is a single bond or an alkylene group, R2 is a hydrogen atom, a monovalent hydrocarbon group or the like, Q2 is an alkylene group, R3 is a hydrogen atom or a monovalent hydrocarbon group, L is a hydrolyzable group, and n is an integer of from 0 to 2.