Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a first signal processing circuit in which first combination circuits and scan FFs are connected in an order of a scan FF, a first combination circuit, and a scan FF; a second signal processing circuit including a second combination circuit different from the first combination circuit; a first selection circuit configured to select data from a scan FF on an input side of one first combination circuit or data from an input terminal of the second signal processing circuit, and to output the data to the second combination circuit; and a second selection circuit configured to select data from another first combination circuit different from the one first combination circuit or data from the second combination circuit, and to output the data to the scan FF on an output side of the another first combination circuit.

Abstract: A magnetic tape apparatus includes a first and second suction tubes, each of which couples the blade with an edge part of the roller of the roller guide, the first suction tube having a blade side opening area at a location where air is sucked by the blade during a forward rotation of a motor, a second suction tube having a blade side opening area at a location where air is sucked by the blade during the backward rotation of the motor, a shutter unit to perform opening and closing of the first and second suction tubes, and an opening and closing control unit to control the shutter unit to open the first suction tube during the forward rotation and open the second suction tube during the backward rotation.

Abstract: A processor of an image processing apparatus designates a target region. When an image is divided into a plurality of small regions which are smaller than a target region, the processor calculates a centroid obtained by weighting the central coordinates of each of the plurality of small regions by a likelihood of each of the plurality of the small regions and calculates a covariance matrix that depends on the centroid, the likelihood being based on characteristic value histograms of respective small regions inside and outside the target region. The processor detection unit detects a degree of separation according to a histogram, a likelihood, a centroid, and a covariance matrix. The processor also determines a post-update target region according to a degree of separation.

Abstract: A storage-system includes a storage-device, a first-device that controls to transfer data to-and-fro the storage-device and a second-device redundant from the first-device, wherein the first-device includes a processing-device that processes a command related to input-and-output of data stored in the storage-device, a storage-unit that stores, in a correlated manner, the number of commands issued collectively during download of firmware for controlling the processing-device and response delay-time representing time in which a response has been delayed due to the download in a correlated manner, and a control-unit which retrieves the number of issuable commands corresponding to acceptable response-delay-time of the command during download and restricts issue of the command for which an issue request has been newly made if the number of commands being issued is equal to or greater than the retrieved number of issuable commands during the download, when a download request is made.

Abstract: A plurality of servers is connected to a storage system via a network. A control unit in the storage system defines exclusive access groups from an address information of each access interface of the servers, defines logical volumes in which the server is permitted to access for each of the exclusive access groups, and controls the access to the volume of the server by a access list which defines correspondence between the server and the logical volume and the physical volume, which are permitted to access by the server.

Abstract: A network evaluation device evaluates a communication state of an information processing apparatus including a plurality of processors which communicate with one another and which execute a program. The network evaluation device includes: a memory configured to store a network evaluation program; and a processor configured to execute a process based on the network evaluation program in the memory. The process includes: obtaining first communication processing time between the plurality of processors while the plurality of processors are not executing the program; recording the first communication processing time; obtaining second communication processing time between the plurality of processors while the plurality of processors are executing the program; comparing the first communication processing time with the second communication processing time; and outputting a time difference between the first communication processing time and the second communication processing time.

Abstract: A node controller includes: a reception processor configured to receive a packet and to generate a read request or write data and a write request for requesting to write the write data, according to a destination and a type of the packet; a collected data processor configured to collect the received packet, to generate collected data according to the collected packet, and to generate a collected data write request for requesting to write the collected data; a switch configured to output the write data and the write request received from the reception processor or output the collected data and the collected data write request received from the collected data processor; and a memory controller configured to write the write data to a memory and to write the collected data to the memory in accordance with the collected data write request received from the switch.

Abstract: A first apparatus receives, from a second apparatus, a signal including information on first time-periods each associated with an occupancy rate, using a wireless channel. The first time-periods each indicate a time-period during which data are scheduled to be collected by the second apparatus, and the occupancy rate indicates a ratio of a duration-time during which data are actually collected by the second apparatus using the wireless channel, to the each first time-period. The first apparatus, based on the occupancy rate and the received power of the first signal, calculates interference values each indicating a degree of interference caused by a radio wave from the second apparatus during the each first time-period, and acquires, based on the calculated interference values, second time-periods during which data are scheduled to be collected by the first apparatus, and collects data from a node apparatus during the third time-periods using the wireless channel.

Abstract: A magnetic property analyzing apparatus includes a first computing unit to perform a magnetic field analysis utilizing a FEM using an average magnetization given with respect to each of elements to which an analyzing target is segmented, and a second computing unit that computes an effective magnetic field acting on each element using a magnetic field computed by the magnetic field analysis, computes magnetization vectors within each element by obtaining a time integral of a LLG equation using the effective magnetic field, and computes an average magnetization for each element by averaging the magnetization vectors.

Abstract: A base station on the basis of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing solution and an interference coordination method thereof are provided. The base station can include an interference estimation unit, which estimates the interference state of each physical resource block according to the feedback information from the user equipment, and in the condition that the interference of the physical resource block is greater than or equal to a first threshold and less than or equal to a second threshold which is greater than the first threshold, the interference of the physical resource block is estimated as medium interference state. The base station can also include an interference coordination request unit, which at least responses the medium interference state estimation to transmit the interference coordination request to one or a plurality of predetermined base stations, wherein interference coordination request includes the information for indicating the interference state of said physical resource block.

Abstract: When receiving a hello packet, a node registers information on a control header of the hello packet in a work table. The information on the control header of the hello packet includes a plurality of sets of an address, a destination, and ?Pav of a node. The node stores information, in which a set of an address, a destination, and ?Pav of the own node from the own node to the destination is added to the information on the control header, in the control header of the hello packet and transmits the hello packet. These processes are performed by each node included in an ad-hoc network.

Abstract: A failure detection method executed by a system having a plurality of nodes and detecting failures at an information processing device base on a plurality of types of messages output by the information processing device, the method includes collecting messages belonging to a first set, which is a part of the plurality of types, at a first node; collecting messages belonging to a second set different from the first set, which is a part of the plurality of types, at a second node; generating first failure candidate information based on messages of the type belonging to the first set, collected at the first node; generating second failure candidate information based on messages of the type belonging to the second set, collected at the second node; and detecting failure at the information processing device, based on the first failure candidate information and the second failure candidate information.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes an insulation layer, a first semiconductor element and a second semiconductor element which are disposed within the insulation layer, a frame which has higher thermal conductivity than the insulation layer and surrounds the first semiconductor element and the second semiconductor element via the insulation layer, and a wiring layer which is disposed over the insulation layer and includes an electrode which electrically connects the first semiconductor element and the second semiconductor element.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an image generation unit configured to generate an image that is changed according to operation commands received from a terminal and to be displayed at the terminal; a video-coding area determining unit configured to identify, in the image, a video-coding area that is changed within a predetermined period of time for a number of times greater than a first threshold and to be encoded according to a video compression format; an estimation unit configured to estimate a maximum data rate based on a round trip time of the network; a filtering unit configured to thin out the operation commands according to a thin-out rate when the operation commands are of a predetermined type and the estimated maximum data rate is less than a second threshold; and a threshold changing unit configured to change the first threshold based on the thin-out rate.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a unit to store a partial data constituting a part of a processing target file to be stored on an object storage as a new object on an object storage, and to add object management information containing data extent information indicating a position and a size of the partial data within the processing target file, name information representing an object name of the new object and storage sequence information indicating a storage sequence of the new object to update history information on the processing target file; and a unit to read and output readout target data from the object storage on the basis of the readout target extent information and each object management information in the update history information related to the processing target file.

Abstract: An encoding device includes a determination unit configured to determine, when performing detection of a motion vector using the decoded image of a frame image encoded in increments of blocks prior to the frame image to be encoded regarding an encoded block to be encoded of a plurality of blocks included in this frame image to be encoded at the time of encoding a frame image included in a moving image where a first image and a second image are arrayed using inter-image prediction encoding processing, correlation height as to the image of the encoded block regarding each of the image of a first area corresponding to the first image and the image of a second area corresponding to the second image included in a boundary block straddling a boundary between the first image and the second image of a block included in the decoded image.

Abstract: A wireless transmission method capable of transmitting a data stream between a wireless transmitter having a plurality of transmitting antennas and a wireless receiver, the wireless transmission method includes controlling to increase the number of transmission beams to be formed for transmitting said data stream depending on the number of data streams to be transmitted from said transmitting antennas becoming small, and receiving any one or more transmission beam from said transmission beams by said wireless receiver, wherein said transmission beams are formed by predetermined number of the plurality of transmitting antennas.

Abstract: A determination unit determines the type of a command received via a communication interface. A counting unit counts, among commands received via the communication interface, the number of commands currently being executed. A control unit performs, when the number of commands currently being executed is less than or equal to a limit value corresponding to the type of a command received via the communication interface, data access to a memory device according to the received command. In addition, the control unit prevents the data access according to the received command when the number of commands currently being executed exceeds the limit value corresponding to the type of the received command.

Abstract: A storage device includes a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor executes a process comprising: calculating an upper limit value of the number of input/output processings determined based on priority set to an information processing device, a port that is an interface between the information processing device and the storage device and a memory device of the storage device; scheduling an execution order of input/output processings based on the number of input/output processings received from the information processing device and the calculated upper limit value; and executing the input/output processings in the scheduled execution order.

Abstract: A display device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor executes a process including acquiring user information including a parallax amount, counting the number of users from each piece of the user information and generating a display schedule indicating timing of opening/closing of first and second shutters of each pair of glasses with shutters of each user on the basis of the number of users; adjusting data of a plurality of stereo images, included in image information, each of which includes a pair of a first image and a second image according to a parallax amount of each user included in each piece of the user information, controlling opening/closing of each of the first and second shutters of the each pair of glasses with shutters on the basis of the display schedule, and outputting image information adjusted by the adjustment unit.