Abstract: A first synthesized characteristic value calculated based on a first blending ratio of constituent materials contained in a first composite material and on a first characteristic value corresponding to the constituent materials contained in the first composite material, as well as first blending information of the constituent materials contained in the first composite material are used as input parameters (explanatory variables) for an approximate function to estimate a value of physical quantity (objective variable) for the first composite material.

Abstract: There is provided with an information processing apparatus. An acquisition unit acquires a first processing result including information for identifying the position of the mobile object and a second processing result including information for identifying the position of the mobile object. The first processing result is obtained by executing a first processing method on an image obtained by measuring at least surroundings of the mobile object by using a light receiving sensor installed on the mobile object. The second processing result is obtained by executing a second processing method different from the first processing method on an observation result obtained by observing the mobile object by using a light receiving sensor installed at a location at which it is possible to observe the mobile object.

Abstract: An ion sensor includes an ion detection element, a reference electrode that provides a reference point of a potential, and a solution in which an ion concentration can be changed in a sensing area of the ion detection element. The sensing area of the ion detection element is disposed in the solution. A method for detecting a target substance employs an ion sensor. The target substance bound to a label having a function of changing the amount of ions detectable by the ion sensor is introduced into the solution, and a change in the amount of ions is detected using the ion sensor.

Abstract: A vehicle display control device includes a detection unit, a reception unit, and a control unit. The detection unit detects lane markings in the target lane in which the vehicle is traveling. The reception unit receives a display mode from a vehicle occupant. The control unit causes the display unit to display, in the received display mode, an execution image indicating whether lane keeping control in which the vehicle travels staying in the target lane, is executed.

Abstract: The manufacture method disclosed herein is a method for manufacturing an electrical storage device, including a step of preparing an outer case in which a peripheral part of an opening is a flat surface, and a lid assembly obtained by integral molding of a lid, a terminal member and an insulating member, a step of attaching the lid assembly to the opening of the outer case, and a step of irradiating the boundary of the peripheral part and an outer edge part with laser light. The lid assembly is placed so that an inclined part will become thinner from the outer surface toward the boundary with the outer case, and the outer surface of the lid is placed at a higher place than the peripheral part of the opening, and the inner surface of the lid is placed at a lower place than the peripheral part of the opening.

Abstract: A local variance or an edge amount is calculated as an image feature amount by analyzing a reference image of the same field of view as multiple band images constituting a multispectral image, a filter parameter is calculated from the image feature amount, and smoothing the band images while preserving edges is performed by using the filter parameter. When a multispectral image including a band image of a wavelength band in which a sufficient signal amount is not obtained is obtained, it is possible to improve the S/N ratio of the multispectral image without destroying edges.

Abstract: Provided is a method for producing metal titanium by molten salt electrolysis using a conductive material containing titanium, aluminum, oxygen and other impurities. A method for producing metal titanium, wherein a refining process includes: a rough electrodeposition step of performing a molten salt electrolysis using an electrode containing a TiAlO conductive material in a chloride bath Bf to obtain a titanium-containing electrodeposit TC; and one or more refinement electrodeposition steps of performing a molten salt electrolysis using an electrode containing the titanium-containing electrodeposit TC in a chloride bath Bf, and wherein at least one of the chloride bath Bf used for the rough electrodeposition step and the chloride bath Bf used for the refinement electrodeposition step contains 30 mol % or more of magnesium chloride.

Abstract: A parking assist device includes a control device configured to execute automated parking control and a notification device. The automated parking control is control for assisting an operation of a target vehicle to park the target vehicle in a predetermined target parking spot while a driver of the target vehicle sits on a driver's seat of the target vehicle. The control device is configured to calculate a frontage of the target parking spot in advance before a start of execution of the automated parking control. The control device is configured to control the notification device, based on the calculated frontage, such that the notification device gives a notification about information related to a size of a drop-off space.

Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a titanium-containing electrodeposit, which can achieve good refinement by an electrodeposition without using the Kroll method. A method for producing a titanium-containing electrodeposit, including an electrodeposition step of electrodepositing a titanium-containing electrodeposit in a chloride bath, the chloride bath being a molten salt, using an anode including a TiAlO conductive material containing titanium, aluminum, and oxygen, and a cathode, wherein, in the electrodeposition step, a current density of the cathode is in a range of 0.3 A/cm2 or more and 2.0 A/cm2 or less, and wherein the chloride bath contains 1 mol % or more of a titanium subchloride.

Abstract: An evaluation item generation unit (107) acquires a plurality of candidates for security evaluation items to be adopted to a plurality of apparatuses included in an information system. Further, the evaluation item generation unit (107) analyzes at least one of: whether or not each apparatus of the plurality of apparatuses has a communication path with an outside communication apparatus being an apparatus which is in the information system and performs communication with the outside of the information system; and whether or not there exists in each apparatus of the plurality of apparatuses, a security evaluation item an adoption of which is to be exempted due to an adoption of which to another apparatus in the information system, and selects for each apparatus of the plurality of apparatuses, a security evaluation item to be adopted, from the plurality of candidates for the security evaluation items based on an analysis result.

Abstract: A light source drive circuit according to an embodiment includes: a first delay circuit (10) that gives, based on a clock signal, a delay to an input signal with first time resolution and a second delay circuit (20) that is connected in series to the first delay circuit, gives, based on the clock signal, a delay to an input signal with a second time resolution having accuracy different from accuracy of the first time resolution, and outputs the signal as a signal for driving a light source.

Abstract: A film forming method includes preparing a substrate having an amorphous silicon film on a surface thereof, diffusing nickel into the amorphous silicon film by supplying a nickel source gas to the amorphous silicon film, and forming a polycrystalline silicon film by heating the amorphous silicon film, and crystallizing the amorphous silicon film by metal-induced lateral crystallization using the nickel diffused in the amorphous silicon film as a nucleus.

Abstract: A parking assistance system includes a remote control device that transmits a signal for remotely controlling the own vehicle from outside the vehicle in response to an operation by the user, a surrounding sensor that acquires surrounding information that is information about a target object, a processor specifies a parking spot in which the own vehicle is parked based on the surrounding information, a function of setting a target position inside the parking spot, a function of setting a route to the target position, and a processor having a function of moving the own vehicle along the route to reach the target position and waiting in response to the first signal. After the own vehicle reaches the target position, the remote control device transmits a second signal for correcting the position of the own vehicle, and the processor moves the own vehicle in response to the second signal.

Abstract: Provided is an infrared imaging device capable of reducing streak noise by calculating correction coefficients for correcting streak noise from a single image. The infrared imaging device includes: a thermal image generator to generate a single thermal image on the basis of a signal from a thermal image sensor; a correction coefficient calculator to calculate multiple correction coefficients included in a correction equation for converting pixel values of pixels included in the single thermal image into target values in which streak noise is reduced; and a thermal image corrector to correct a thermal image generated by the thermal image generator by using the multiple correction coefficients, wherein the correction coefficient calculator calculates the multiple correction coefficients on the basis of difference between pixel values of pixels arranged in a direction in which the streak noise occurs in the single thermal image.

Abstract: A method for producing a titanium foil according to the present invention includes an electrodeposition step of performing electrolysis with electrodes including an anode and a cathode using a molten salt bath comprising titanium ions and having at least one molten chloride to deposit metal titanium onto an electrolytic surface of the cathode, wherein the electrodeposition step includes maintaining a ratio of a molar concentration of titanium ions to the total molar concentration of metal ions in the molten salt bath at 7% or more, and maintaining a temperature of the molten salt bath at 510° C. or less, and conducting a current to the electrodes under conditions where a continuous stop time of current conduction is less than 1.0 second, a current density is 0.10 A/cm2 or more and 1.0 A/cm2 or less, and a time for electrodepositing the metal titanium onto the electrolytic surface of the cathode is 120 minutes or less.

Abstract: Provided is a lathe capable of shortening the spindle. The lathe comprises a spindle, a spindle support which supports the spindle through a bearing on an outer side of the spindle, a collet disposed on a front end of the spindle, an inner ring holder provided on the spindle to hold a front of an inner ring of the bearing, an outer ring holder provided on the spindle support to hold a front of an outer ring of the bearing, a cap screwed into the spindle in front of the inner ring holder, and a cover detachably provided on the spindle support side. The cover has an inner circumferential surface facing an outer circumferential surface of the cap. A first air purging unit is provided between the inner circumferential surface of the cover and the outer circumferential surface of the cap.

Abstract: A delay adjustment circuit according to an embodiment includes: a plurality of delay adjustment units connected in series, each of the plurality of delay adjustment units including one or more first delay elements (102) connected in series that delay an input signal on the basis of a clock, and a first selector (120) that outputs one of the input signal and an output of the first delay element at a last stage among the one or more first delay elements; and an output unit (103, 104, 130a, 130b, 140) that outputs a clock according to an output of the first selector included in a delay adjustment unit at a last stage among the plurality of delay adjustment units, in which each of the plurality of delay adjustment units includes a different number of the first delay elements.

Abstract: The present invention provides an access controller, and a data transfer method. The access controller controls accesses to the MRAM by reading data in advance and backing up the data when data is to be read from the MRAM.

Abstract: A tape autoloading device includes a tape leading-end processing device, which forms the leading end of a carrier tape into a predetermined shape, and a transfer device, which carries the carrier tape in a first direction different from the tape longitudinal direction and transfers the carrier tape to the next step. Tape leading-end processing device includes a feeding device for conveying the carrier tape along a conveyance path formed in a groove in a guide member, a pressing device for pressing the upper surface of the carrier tape, and a cutting device for cutting the leading-end of the carrier tape. The transfer device includes a guide device for guiding the carrier tape having a leading end formed into a predetermined shape, a gripping device for gripping the leading end of the carrier tape, and a moving device for moving the carrier tape in the first direction.

Abstract: A registration apparatus is configured to access a network formed of a set of first nodes and first edges, the first nodes each representing a first feature vector including a plurality of elements, the first edges each coupling two first nodes representing two first feature vectors to each other based on two first feature vectors, a processor in the registration apparatus is configured to execute: obtaining processing of obtaining a second feature vector; and registration processing of registering a second node representing the second feature vector to the network based on a similarity relationship among third feature vectors in a set of third feature vectors included in the set of first feature vectors, and coupling the second node and a third node representing the third feature vector to each other with a second edge, the number of third feature vectors being smaller than the number of first feature vectors.