Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit and a processor. The storage unit stores a private key corresponding to a public key stored in a storage apparatus connected to the information processing apparatus through a network. The processor receives first data from the network. The processor decrypts second data included in the first data using the private key. The processor determines whether a result of the decryption is third data. The processor activates the information processing apparatus when the result of the decryption is the third data.

Abstract: A p-type semiconductor block is made of a p-type thermoelectric conversion material, and has a pillar portion and a connection portion laterally protruding from the pillar portion. In addition, an n-type semiconductor block is made of an n-type thermoelectric conversion material, and has a pillar portion and a connection portion laterally protruding from the pillar portion. The p-type semiconductor block and the n-type semiconductor block are alternately arranged in such a way that the connection portion of the p-type semiconductor block is connected with the pillar portion of the n-type semiconductor block and the connection portion of the n-type semiconductor block is connected with the pillar portion of the p-type semiconductor block. The connection portions and tip-end portions of the pillar portions are made of a thermoelectric conversion material containing metal powder.

Abstract: A computer-readable storage medium storing an image processing program that causes a computer to execute a process includes, synthesizing, for each of frames included in a video image and to be processed, a synthesis image with an image of a synthesis target region existing in the frame by repeatedly executing a calculation using a Poisson's equation on the basis of the image of synthesis target region existing in the frame to be processed and the synthesis image to be replaced with the image of the synthesis target region, and thereby calculating, from an initial value image, a synthesis result image corresponding to a result obtained by synthesizing the synthesis image with the synthesis target region so as to sequentially execute a synthesis process on the frames of the video image; and setting, for each of the frames to be processed, initial values by setting, as the initial value image.

Abstract: A median filtering apparatus and related method for finding out a median from 2r+1 input data, which includes 2(r+1) comparators, a counter, a circuit to obtain a minimum, a register, a state machine, and an adder. 2r+1 comparators of the comparators compare input data with a first predetermined value and compare the 2r+1 input data with an output value of the register. The counter counts the number of input data that are not larger than the first predetermined value or the output value of the register of the input data. The circuit finds out a minimum value of the input data that are larger than the first predetermined value or the output value of the register of the input data and a second predetermined value. The remaining one comparator of the 2(r+1) comparators compares the number counted by the counter with “r”.

Abstract: A switch device includes a relay unit relaying communication data when information processing units included in an information processing apparatus perform communications with external devices; an address learning unit registering ports receiving the communication data in association with addresses indicating transmission sources of the communication data; and a band control unit controlling a bandwidth to be allocated to the communications by setting a first port and a second port of the ports to belong to a same group and by setting the first port and the second port to belong to different groups based on a number of addresses registered by the address learning unit in association with each of the ports.

Abstract: The compound semiconductor device comprises an i-GaN buffer layer 12 formed on an SiC substrate 10; an n-AlGaN electron supplying layer 16 formed on the i-GaN buffer layer 12; an n-GaN cap layer 18 formed on the n-AlGaN electron supplying layer 16; a source electrode 20 and a drain electrode 22 formed on the n-GaN cap layer 18; a gate electrode 26 formed on the n-GaN cap layer 18 between the source electrode 20 and the drain electrode 22; a first protection layer formed on the n-GaN cap layer 18 between the source electrode 20 and the drain electrode 22; and a second protection layer 30 buried in an opening 28 formed in the first protection layer 24 between the gate electrode 26 and the drain electrode 22 down to the n-GaN cap layer 18 and formed of an insulation film different from the first protection layer.

Abstract: A shared memory device transmits information indicating the validity of data to be stored to each information processing apparatus, and acquires information indicating the validity of data that each shared memory device stores. Further, the shared memory device acquires information indicating the on-line state between each information processing device and each shared memory device, and determines whether the multiplexing of the data that the shared memory device stores is guaranteed based on the acquired information.

Abstract: An access restriction device including a processor; and a memory. The processor executes: receiving an email from a transmission source; specifying including analyzing, when a file is attached to the email, information in the file, and specifying a character string from the file; executing including specifying, from a storing unit in which a character string is associated with an access restriction process, an access restriction process that is associated with the character string specified at the specifying the character string, and executing the specified access restriction process on the file; and sending including attaching, instead of the file attached to the email, the file that has been subjected to the access restriction process at the executing to the email, and sending the email to which the file subjected to the access restriction process is attached to a transmission destination of the email.

Abstract: A code converter 11 of a simulation apparatus 1 detects, during the execution of a program in a target CPU, an externally dependent instruction affected by the external environment in each of divided blocks, predicts the execution result of the externally dependent instruction, simulates the instruction execution in the predicted result, and generates a host code in which a code for performance simulation is embedded based on the simulation result. A simulation executor 12 performs performance simulation about instruction execution in the prediction result of the program using the host code, and when the execution result of the externally dependent instruction is different from the setting of the prediction result during the execution, corrects the execution time of the instruction in the prediction result using the execution time of instructions executed before and after the instruction, and the like. A simulation information collector 13 collects and outputs performance simulation information.

Abstract: A security chip is used in a contents data playing device. The security chip includes a storage unit configured to store firmware data including a firmware program, and a firmware update management unit configured to determine whether an update process is to be executed on the firmware data based on a comparison between expiration information set for the firmware data and time information received via a network, in response to a request input to the security chip to acquire a contents key or to decrypt contents data, and to reject the request when the update process is to be executed. The firmware program causes the security chip to function as a contents key acquisition control unit configured to acquire, via the network, the contents key for decrypting the contents data, and a decryption unit configured to decrypt the contents data by using the contents key.

Abstract: In a mobile communication system, a relay station connects to a first or second base station, and communicates with a mobile station at a timing corresponding to the destination base station. Before execution of a handover for switching a destination of the relay station from the first base station to the second base station, the relay station transmits a signal regarding the second base station. The mobile station synchronizes with the relay station after execution of the handover, on the basis of the signal regarding the second base station which is received from the relay station before the handover.

Abstract: In a cellular mobile communication system that operates in a first state in which UE has not established a connection with eNB and in a second state in which the connection has been established with eNB, the UE transmits cell selection history to the eNB of a second cell when handover from a first cell to the second cell in accordance with second criteria for handover in the second state, the cell selection history containing a history of cell selection performed in accordance with first criteria for cell reselection in the first state. When the UE performs handover from the first cell to the second cell within a period after transition from the first state to the second state, the eNB of the second cell specifies the cell in which the first criteria and the second criteria are not aligned from among the first cell and the second cell.

Abstract: In a wireless apparatus, a first receiver receives, from a wireless reception apparatus, a transmit beam pattern with better reception quality among transmit beam patterns of a transmitter switched to by a first switching unit. A generation unit generates a transmit beam pattern obtained by rotating a phase of the received transmit beam pattern. A second switching unit switches a transmit beam pattern of the transmitter to the received transmit beam pattern and the generated transmit beam pattern. A second receiver receives, from the wireless reception apparatus, the transmit beam pattern of a combination with better reception quality out of combinations of the switched transmit beam patterns and receive beam patterns switched to by the wireless reception apparatus. A setting unit sets a transmit beam pattern of the transmitter in the transmit beam pattern received by the second receiver.

Abstract: An amplifier includes an amplifying element that amplifies an input signal; an output terminal that outputs the signal amplified by the amplifying element; a matching circuit disposed in series between the amplifying element and the output terminal, and performing impedance matching; an impedance converter disposed in series between the amplifying element and the matching circuit or between the matching circuit and the output terminal; and a first resonator and a second resonator connected at the ends of the impedance converter.

Abstract: Each of two or more base stations notifies a communication controller of information on a first frequency band that the base station uses for radio communication. Based on the information on the first frequency bands acquired from the two or more base stations, the communication controller selects a second frequency band to be used by the two or more base stations to transmit the data with common content, and notifies the two or more base stations of information on the selected second frequency band. The two or more base stations transmit the data with common content based on the information on the second frequency band acquired from the communication controller.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a computer configured to set respectively a storage location for each value of a common variable among threads of a thread group having write requests to write the values of the common variable of the threads in a given process, from a specific storage location defined in the write requests, to the storage locations respectively set for the threads; store, for each thread of the thread group, a value of the common variable to the storage location set for the thread; and read out in order of execution of the threads of the thread group defined in the given process and when all the threads in the thread group have ended, each value of the common variable stored at the first storing, and in the order of execution, overwrite a value in the specific storage location with each read value of the common variable.

Abstract: A communication control device measures a size of burst data transmitted from a first device through the use of a predetermined protocol in a transport layer. The communication control device selects a protocol ruled by an algorithm with the smallest latency, which is estimated from the measured size of burst data and characteristics of a network, from among plural protocols used in the transport layer. The communication control device terminates the communication of the burst data transmitted through the predetermined protocol from the first device and transmits the burst data to a destination through the use of the selected protocol.

Abstract: A method for decoding an image divided into plural blocks includes acquiring decoding information of a decoded block in a decoding target image from a storage unit that stores the decoding information of the decoded block and decoding information of blocks in plural decoded images; selecting a decoded image from the plural decoded images; acquiring decoding information of a corresponding block in the selected decoded image from the storage unit; predicting a division mode, which indicates a division shape of a decoding target block, by using the acquired decoding information of the decoded block and the acquired decoding information of the corresponding block; decoding division mode information, which indicates the division mode of the decoding target block based on coded data, and determining the division mode of the decoding target block based on the predicted division mode and the decoded division mode information.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a memory; and a processor that executes a program stored in the memory, wherein the processor executes an operation including: receiving first stream data and second stream data that each include a piece of reception data representing a set of a key and a numerical value, when detecting, from the second stream data, a piece of reception data with the same key as a key of a piece of reception data of the first stream data, obtaining a processing result by adding together numerical values of the pieces of reception data that have the same key, and storing the processing result in the memory.

Abstract: An input support device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire an attribute of a first document that is an input target of a user, and acquire a second document corresponding to the acquired attribute from a storage unit storing the attribute and the second document relevant to the attribute; a first determination unit configured to determine whether a sentence example, which is stored beforehand in association with reading information, is included in the second document; and a second determination unit configured to determine a display format of the sentence example to be displayed together with the first document when a character string included in the reading information is input to the first document by the user, based on a determination result of the first determination unit.