Abstract: A display apparatus that includes a first imaging unit that images a user, a first distance detector that identifies an eye of the user and measure a first distance that is a distance from the identified eye to the first imaging unit, a second imaging unit that images an object, a second distance detector that measures a second distance that is a distance from the second imaging unit to the object, an image processor that processes the images, and a display unit, the image processor calculating a display imaging range, extracting the calculated display imaging range from the image imaged by the second imaging unit, and causing the display unit to display it, and the display imaging range being such a range that the object displayed and an external scenery not interrupted by the display unit seen from a viewpoint of the user have the same size.

Abstract: A shake correction control device includes a processor that acquires imaging information for selecting mechanical correction of mechanically performing shake correction of a subject image or electronic correction of electronically performing the shake correction of the subject image. The processor performs a switching control from either of the mechanical correction or the electronic correction to the other of the mechanical correction or the electronic correction, and synchronizes shake correction operations of the mechanical correction and the electronic correction during the switching control, and changes an operation ratio of the mechanical correction and the electrical correction in accordance with passage of time during the switching control.

Abstract: A sliding component includes at least one of a pair of sliding members and provided with: a group of recessed portions including a plurality of recessed portions formed in a sliding surface of the sliding member; and a plurality of hollow portions formed inside the sliding member and out of alignment with the recessed portions in a thickness direction of the sliding member. The sliding member is further provided with the hollow portions disposed so as to generate at least part of a new group of recessed portions until the sliding member is worn by the thickness of deepest one of the recessed portions.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a processor configured to execute a firmware program and a monitor program exclusively, switch between multiple operation modes, and start up the firmware program according to the monitor program; and nonvolatile memory which includes, storage regions for a plurality of firmware programs, a signature table that holds signatures of the firmware programs individually stored in the storage regions or a signature of a firmware program including an identification number of an update notification used for update, a firmware program storage for information specifying a firmware program selected to be executed, a first storage that holds an execution result of a firmware program selected in accordance with the monitor program, a second storage that holds the update notification acquired by the execution of the firmware program, and a third storage that holds a maximum identification number of firmware programs that have been executed.

Abstract: The present invention reduces the possibility that poor-quality products are distributed to market. The bag-making and packaging apparatus is a production processing device used in quality management of foodstuffs. The bag-making and packaging apparatus includes a control part, a storage part, and an acquisition part. The control part changes an action performed by the individual parts. The storage part stores an inspection item pertaining to quality management of the foodstuffs. The acquisition part acquires an inspection result pertaining to the inspection item. The control part determines at least one of the following: whether or not the inspection result has been inputted to the acquisition part, whether the input of the inspection results inputted to the acquisition part is normal or not, and whether the inspection result acquired by the acquisition part is good or not. The control part changes the action based on the result of the determination.

Abstract: A content viewing method uses a viewing system including a content distribution server distributing contents, a mobile information terminal, and a viewing device reproducing a content. The mobile information terminal transmits user identification information and a user password to the content distribution server. The content distribution server authenticates the mobile information terminal based on the user identification information and the user password. The mobile information terminal transmits an account issue request requesting an account for reproducing a desired content to the content distribution server. The content distribution server issues the account based on the account issue request and transmits the account to the mobile information terminal. The mobile information terminal stores the account. The mobile information terminal transmits the account by short-range wireless communication. The viewing device stores the account received by short-range wireless communication.

Abstract: There is provided an imaging lens with excellent optical characteristics which satisfies demand of a low profile and a low F-number. An imaging lens comprises in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens with positive refractive power having an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region; a second lens with negative refractive power having an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region; a third lens with negative refractive power having an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region; a fourth lens with negative refractive power in a paraxial region; and a fifth lens with positive refractive power having an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region, and predetermined conditional expressions are satisfied.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a clothes dryer. The clothes dryer includes a drum configured to accommodate and dry clothes, and a lint removal device configured to remove lint in air flowing out of the drum. The lint removal device includes a filter part configured such that the lint is adhered thereto, and a screw rotatably disposed at an inner side of the filter part to push out the lint adhered to the filter part. The screw includes a shaft, and a blade extending from the shaft and having a helical shape, and the blade has elasticity to remove foreign substances introduced into the lint removal device without damage to the filter part.

Abstract: A virtual object display device comprises a display and a display control device configured to perform display control of the display. The display control device includes: a coordinate system calculation unit configured to detect movement and rotation of the virtual object display device in a real world, and use an inertial coordinate system in which a coordinate origin thereof follows the movement of the virtual object display device and an effective field of view of the display is rotated therein in accordance with the rotation of the virtual object display device so as to define an arrangement position of an inertial coordinate system virtual object; and a display control unit configured to, when the inertial coordinate system virtual object is included in the effective field of view of the display, display the inertial coordinate system virtual object within the effective field of view.

Abstract: Two genes, A622 and NBB1, can be influenced to achieve a decrease of nicotinic alkaloid levels in plants. In particular, suppression of one or both of A622 and NBB1 may be used to decrease nicotine in tobacco plants.

Abstract: In order to avoid generation of black unevenness caused by the water intrusion into a liquid crystal display device, there is to provide a liquid crystal display device including a display area and a terminal portion, in which a TFT substrate with an organic passivation film formed and an opposite substrate are adhered to each other by a seal portion and a liquid crystal is enclosed there, wherein in the seal portion of the TFT substrate, a groove-shaped through-hole is formed in the organic passivation film to surround the display area, a water absorption layer formed of the same material in the same process as that of the organic passivation film is formed within the groove-shaped through-hole, and the water absorption layer is not covered with the inorganic insulating film.

Abstract: There is included forming an oxide film on a substrate by alternately performing: forming the first oxide film containing an atom X by performing a first cycle including non-simultaneously performing forming a first layer including a component in which a first functional group is bonded to the atom X, and forming a second layer containing the atom X and oxygen by oxidizing the first layer; and forming the second oxide film containing the atom X by performing a second cycle including non-simultaneously performing forming a third layer including a component in which the first functional group is bonded to the atom X, and forming a fourth layer containing the atom X and oxygen by oxidizing the third layer, under a processing condition that an oxidizing power is higher than an oxidizing power when oxidizing the first layer.

Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a lens member having at least one lens surface; a submount; and a plurality of light emitting elements arranged in a row on an upper face of the submount, including a first light emitting element configured to emit first light having an emission peak at a first wavelength and a second light emitting element configured to emit second light having an emission peak at a second wavelength from a second light emission point, the second wavelength being different from the first wavelength, and the second light emission point being located farther from the lens member than a first plane that is perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens surface and that passes through the first light emission point.

Abstract: An optical connector cleaning tool includes a fitting portion (44) fitted in the first or second hole (36, 37) of a connection component (32) into which a compact dual core optical connector is fitted on one end side and a cleaning medium (45) projecting from the fitting portion (44). The fitting portion (44) is formed to have a shape by which the fitting portion (44) is fitted in the first or second hole (36, 37) in each of the first and second postures as postures shifted through 180° with respect to as the center the middle (P2) of a virtual straight line connecting the centers of the two ferrules when viewed from an axial direction of the compact dual core optical connector. The fitting portion (44) contacts one ferrule in a state in which the fitting portion (44) is set in the first posture. The fitting portion (44) contacts the other ferrule in a state in which the fitting portion (44) is set in the second posture.

Abstract: A bolt fastening structure has an upper flange and a lower flange of a casing to which inner pressure is applied, the upper flange and the lower flange defining an abutting interface therebetween; a bolt hole formed through the abutting interface; and a counterbored portion formed asymmetric about a bolt hole center. The abutting interface includes a first region extending from a bolt hole inner side edge to an upper and lower flanges inner edge and being a region where the upper flange and the lower flange are in surface-to-surface contact with each other; and a partial contact region extending from a bolt hole outer side edge to an upper and lower flanges outer edge and being a region where the upper flange and the lower flange are partially in surface-to-surface contact with each other. In the partial contact region, the upper flange and the lower flange are in surface-to-surface contact with each other in a second region, and the first region is larger than the second region.

Abstract: An operation circuit contains a parallel operation circuit including operators storage circuits. Each storage circuit has an input storage circuit that stores elements of an input vector in an order based on an index of each element; and a coefficient storage circuit including a ring buffer that stores elements of a row or column vector of a coefficient matrix in an order based on an index of each element. Each operator sequentially multiplies the elements of the coefficient matrix in the storage circuit by a corresponding one of the elements of the input vector, and adds a result of multiplication to a corresponding one of elements of the output vector based on the index thereof.

Abstract: A valve body has: a tubular portion, which is rotatably placed at an inside of a housing; and a partition wall which partitions an inside space of the tubular portion into a first valve chamber located on one axial side of the partition wall and a second valve chamber located on another axial side of the partition wall. A seal member is placed between an inner wall of the housing and the tubular portion of the valve body and extends in a circumferential direction. The seal member partitions an inside space of the housing into a first housing chamber, at which a first fluid inlet and a first fluid outlet of the housing are placed, and a second housing chamber, at which a second fluid inlet and a second fluid outlet of the housing are placed.

Abstract: An arithmetic operation method for a convolutional layer in a neural network includes: generating a coefficient matrix by converting a kernel used in the convolutional layer such that the coefficient matrix is associated with an input vector obtained by expanding, into one column, a feature map input to the convolutional layer; searching for non-zero elements included in the coefficient matrix; assigning multiplications of the non-zero elements included in the coefficient matrix and corresponding elements of the input vector to a plurality of calculators with each of the multiplications being handled as a unit of process, so as to level out the numbers of units of process among the calculators, each of the calculators being capable of performing a process in parallel with one another; and sequentially performing, by the calculators, the assigned multiplications, and sequentially adding, by the calculators, results of the multiplications to corresponding elements of an output vector.

Abstract: A management device includes circuitry configured to acquire sensor data that indicates measurement results of one or more of a plurality of sensors, control display of first content on a first screen in response to receiving a setting of a monitoring target range regarding measurement values, and control display of second content on a second screen in response to receiving a setting of a determination condition of an abnormality determination, perform a statistical process on a data group including intra-range data, the intra-range data being the sensor data included in the monitoring target range regarding the measurement values, out of the sensor data previously acquired, and in response to a result of the statistical process satisfying the determination condition, perform a predetermined output operation related to the abnormality determination.

Abstract: A programming device including a shape indication section which receives at least one first user operation for indicating a shape by specifying two or more portions among a plurality of tangible portions arranged at different positions with each other in a planar direction; and a control section which generates a command list for moving a control target section along the indicated shape.