Abstract: An antiviral agent according to the present disclosure includes, as an active ingredient, an extract extracted from a microalga Pseudochoricystis ellipsoidea Sekiguchi et Kurano gen. et sp. nov. MBIC11204 strain. The microalga may be cultured in a culture medium comprising sufficient nitrogen or may be cultured in a nitrogen-deficient medium thereafter. The extract is extracted from the microalga with alcohol, hot water, or the like as an extraction solvent. The extract may be extracted from the residue thereof with hot water. The antiviral agent may include the extract obtained using one extraction solvent, or may include a mixture of the extracts obtained using multiple extraction solvents.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a sound collector configured to collect an operation sound of a sound collection target device to obtain sound data; a context information obtaining unit configured to obtain context information at a time of an operation of the sound collection target device; a feature generator configured to generate feature of sound data corresponding to the context information; and a clustering unit configured to generate an operation status table of the sound collection target device by using the feature.

Abstract: A culture method for microalgae that cultures unicellular green microalgae belonging to the genus Coccomyxa and groups of organisms closely related thereto, or the Watanabea clade, in an open outdoor culture system using broth having a pH of 4 or lower. A culture method for microalgae that cultures microalgae of the genus Coccomyxa and groups of organisms closely related thereto, or Pseudococcomyxa, in an open outdoor culture system using broth having a pH of 4 or lower containing ammonia nitrogen.

Abstract: A body fat measurement apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a current-applying electrode pair including two electrodes for applying a current, and a voltage-measuring electrode pair including two electrodes for measuring a voltage. The current-applying electrode pair is provided in such a way that a line which joins the two current-applying electrodes is inclined with respect to a trunk axis of a body to be measured. The voltage-measuring electrode pair is provided between the two current-applying electrodes.

Abstract: A pattern recognition system includes a learning unit, a learning unit, a threshold calculation unit, and a determining unit. The learning unit learns, based on learned data of a first pattern, a model for determining whether recognition object data is the first pattern. The learning unit calculates likelihood indicating how likely the recognition object data is the first pattern by using the model learned by the learning unit. The threshold calculation unit calculates a threshold to be compared with the likelihood to determine whether the recognition object data is the first pattern, based on first likelihood that is calculated with respect to learned data of the first pattern and second likelihood that is calculated with respect to learned data of a second pattern. The determining unit determines whether the recognition object data is the first pattern by using the threshold.

Abstract: In response to receiving a sound signal representing sounds originated from a viewer for each one of a plurality of projectors, which are collected at each one of a plurality of microphones that are associated with the plurality of projectors, a projector control apparatus generates, for each one of the plurality of projectors, distance information indicating a distance of the viewer relative to the projector using the sound signal, and determines a layout of a projection image to be displayed by at least one of the plurality of projectors, based on the distance information of each one of the plurality of projectors.

Abstract: A body fat measurement device, including: a plurality of electrodes which contact a body surface of the subject; a current application unit which passes a current between a pair of electrodes of the plurality of electrodes; a first measurement unit which measures a voltage between another pair of electrodes, while current is passed between the pair of electrodes; a calculation unit which calculates an abdominal impedance of the subject on the basis of the voltage measured by the first measurement unit and calculates an amount of body fat of the subject; a second measurement unit which outputs a signal indicating a parameter other than the abdominal impedance; a cable in which a first core wire which connects between at least one of the current application unit and the pair of electrodes, and the first measurement unit and the other pair of electrodes, and a second core wire which connects the second measurement unit and the calculation unit are provided inside a same insulating coating; and an isolating unit

Abstract: Provided is a body composition measurement device capable of accurately acquiring visceral fat quantity-related information as body composition-related information of a human body. A body composition measurement device has a current supply electrode pair and a voltage measurement electrode pair which are in contact with the abdomen of a subject, a compensating resistor unit, a current generation unit, a voltage detection unit, and a calculation unit. The voltage detection unit detects a voltage that occurs at a human-body-mimic resistor in order to measure a resistance value of the compensating resistor unit. The voltage detection unit detects a voltage that occurs at the voltage measurement electrode pair as a result of current that is generated by the current generation unit and that is supplied to the abdomen of the subject via the current supply electrode pair.

Abstract: A test program allows an information technology equipment connected to a tester hardware to control the tester hardware. The tester hardware is configured to be capable of changing at least a part of its functions according to configuration data stored in rewritable nonvolatile memory. The test program comprises: an operation flow display control module that displays an operation flow on a display device of an information technology equipment in a form that allows the user to select a desired step, and an input screen display control module that displays an input screen on the display device according to the step selected from among the operation flow.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a method for aggregating and separating algae dispersed in a liquid efficiently. According to the present invention, a method for aggregating and separating algae dispersed in a liquid, which comprises adding an alkaline inorganic aggregating agent to the liquid at pH of 2.0 to 4.0 in which algae are dispersed, followed by adding a cationic polymer aggregating agent, is provided. Further, according to the present invention, a method for producing biofuel utilizing algae is provided.

Abstract: An adsorbent contains a carbohydrate having an ether linkage. Alternatively, an adsorbent contains a carbohydrate having a cross-linkage formation produced by a dehydration reaction using a strong acid. In collection of a precious metal using the adsorbent, the adsorbent selectively adsorbs a precious metal dissolved in a solution.

Abstract: An image processing unit includes a first image processing unit that processes image data from a reading unit and a second image processing unit that processes image data from either one of the first image processing unit and a storing unit. A control unit determines a processing to be performed on the image data by the second image processing unit depending on a result of a processing performed on the image data by the first image processing unit, and selects an image processing route depending on a processing to be performed on the image data by the second image processing unit.

Abstract: Disclosed is a body composition measurement device provided with a current electrode pair for applying current and a plurality of voltage electrode pairs for measuring voltage at a plurality of measurement points. A controller measures body fat on the basis of voltages measured at the plurality of measurement points by means of the voltage electrode pairs. The controller uses the measured voltages at the plurality of measurement points to perform integration and calculates the amount of body fat on the basis of the integration result.

Abstract: A body fat measurement apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a current-applying electrode pair including two electrodes for applying a current, and a voltage-measuring electrode pair including two electrodes for measuring a voltage. The current-applying electrode pair is provided in such a way that a line which joins the two current-applying electrodes is inclined with respect to a trunk axis of a body to be measured. The voltage-measuring electrode pair is provided between the two current-applying electrodes.

Abstract: A visceral fat measurement device includes a current-applying electrode pair including a first current-applying electrode and a second current-applying electrode, and a voltage measurement electrode pair including a first voltage measurement electrode and a second voltage measurement electrode. The current-applying electrode pair is arranged on a projected line obtained by projecting the body trunk axis of a measured body to the body surface of an abdominal part of the measured body. The first and second current-applying electrodes are separated from each other at a predetermined interval determined so that a current path connecting the first current-applying electrode, visceral fat, and the second current-applying electrode is formed. The voltage measurement electrode pair is arranged between the first and second current-applying electrodes in a direction along the body trunk axis of the measured body.

Abstract: In a first route, image data from an image reading unit is processed by both a first image processing block and a second image processing block and sent to a storage unit, and in a second route, the image data processed by the first image processing block is stored in the storage unit and image data from the storage unit is processed by the second image processing block and sent to the storage unit. The control unit switches a process of the second image processing block according to a result of a process of the first image processing block, and switches an input source to the second image processing block according to a process content of the second image processing block.

Abstract: An adsorbent contains a carbohydrate having an ether linkage. Alternatively, an adsorbent contains a carbohydrate having a cross-linkage formation produced by a dehydration reaction using a strong acid. In collection of a precious metal using the adsorbent, the adsorbent selectively adsorbs a precious metal dissolved in a solution.

Abstract: A body fat measurement device, including: a plurality of electrodes which contact a body surface of the subject; a current application unit which passes a current between a pair of electrodes of the plurality of electrodes; a first measurement unit which measures a voltage between another pair of electrodes, while current is passed between the pair of electrodes; a calculation unit which calculates an abdominal impedance of the subject on the basis of the voltage measured by the first measurement unit and calculates an amount of body fat of the subject; a second measurement unit which outputs a signal indicating a parameter other than the abdominal impedance; a cable in which a first core wire which connects between at least one of the current application unit and the pair of electrodes, and the first measurement unit and the other pair of electrodes, and a second core wire which connects the second measurement unit and the calculation unit are provided inside a same insulating coating; and an isolating unit

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an animal urinary function measuring device and an animal urinary function measuring method each with high accuracy in sampling a urine amount of an animal. There are provided an accommodating portion which accommodates an animal other than humans, a collecting portion which is provided below the accommodating portion and collects urine discharged by the animal in the accommodating portion, a reticulated portion which is provided below the accommodating portion, allows the passage of the urine of the animal into the collecting portion, collects an object other than the urine, and whose wire diameter of a net thereof being not more than 0.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a method for aggregating and separating algae dispersed in a liquid efficiently. According to the present invention, a method for aggregating and separating algae dispersed in a liquid, which comprises adding an alkaline inorganic aggregating agent to the liquid at pH of 2.0 to 4.0 in which algae are dispersed, followed by adding a cationic polymer aggregating agent, is provided. Further, according to the present invention, a method for producing biofuel utilizing algae is provided.