Abstract: A pixel circuit includes a control transistor for driving current for a pixel and a pulse width modulation circuit to supply a control signal to the control transistor. The pulse width modulation circuit switches ON/OFF the control transistor with the control signal to control an emission period of the pixel in one frame period. The pulse width modulation circuit switches ON/OFF a driving transistor that outputs the control signal, using a gray-level data voltage from a control circuit, a first ramp signal, and a second ramp signal steeper than the first ramp signal. The second ramp signal is used in control for a low gray-level range including the minimum gray level and not used in control for a high gray-level range including gray levels higher than the low gray-level range. The first ramp signal is used in at least the control for the high gray-level range.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a rotor comprises forming a first portion including at least a part of a rotor cylindrical portion of the rotor by mechanical processing, and forming a second portion including rotor blades by laminating onto the first portion.

Abstract: A tracking apparatus includes a memory storing instructions, and a processor that implements the instructions as a first controller that executes image capturing direction control by pan drive or tilt drive to capture an object within a predetermined position, and a second controller, different from the first controller, that executes angle of view control by shifting an angle of view of an image capturing apparatus to capture the object within the predetermined position, wherein tracking the object is executed by at least any one of the first controller and the second controller, wherein the first controller determines whether to execute the image capturing direction control by the first controller, based on a shift amount of the angle of view determined based on a moving amount of the object.

Abstract: To reduce deformation of a stator in an upper-lower direction. A vacuum pump includes a rotor housed in a housing and rotationally driven, plural stages of rotor blades provided in the rotor, and plural stages of stators, each of which is disposed between adjacent ones of the plural stages of rotor blades. The stator has an inner peripheral rib, an outer peripheral rib, and a stator blade connecting the inner peripheral rib and the outer peripheral rib, and is housed in the housing in a state of the outer peripheral rib being sandwiched between spacers. At least part of the outer peripheral rib of the stator is provided with a deformable portion configured to allow deformation of the inner peripheral rib and/or the stator blade in a radial direction.

Abstract: A shut-off valve includes a valve seat disposed between a first opening and a second opening, and a valve body disposed on the second opening side of the valve seat and configured to move in a first direction from the second opening toward the first opening due to pressure of gas flowing from the second opening toward the first opening. The valve body has a valve body shaft extending in the first direction, and a contact surface configured to contact the valve seat when the valve body moves in the first direction. The contact surface is disposed on the second opening side of a first end on the first direction side of the valve body shaft.

Abstract: The present invention is to prevent speculative execution by a malicious program and reduce a size of a branch prediction buffer. Security IDs of several bits associated with an execution context are registered in a context table, and an instruction address executed in the past and a security ID at the time of execution are stored in a branch prediction buffer. The branch prediction mechanism searches for an entry in the branch prediction buffer with the instruction address of the branch prediction target and the security ID associated with the execution context at the time of branch prediction, and responds to an instruction address generator with a branch target address of the matching entry. The number of bits of the security ID is smaller than the number of bits of the execution context and a program ID that identifies a process included in the execution context.

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus comprises: an image sensor for generating an image signal from an object image formed by an imaging optical system; a tilt control unit configured to execute tilt control of tilting the image sensor with respect to a principal surface of the imaging optical system; a deriving unit configured to derive, by a phase difference detection pixel included in the image sensor, a defocus amount with respect to an object image at a position of the phase difference detection pixel; and a control unit configured to control to execute the tilt control by the tilt control unit in deriving the defocus amount by the deriving unit, and to derive, by the deriving unit, a defocus amount based on an object image obtained while executing the tilt control.

Abstract: To reduce deformation of a stator in an upper-lower direction. A vacuum pump includes a rotor housed in a housing and rotationally driven, plural stages of rotor blades provided in the rotor, and plural stages of stators, each of which is disposed between adjacent ones of the plural stages of rotor blades. The stator has an inner peripheral rib, an outer peripheral rib, and a stator blade connecting the inner peripheral rib and the outer peripheral rib, and is housed in the housing in a state of the outer peripheral rib being sandwiched between spacers. At least part of the outer peripheral rib of the stator is provided with a deformable portion configured to allow deformation of the inner peripheral rib and/or the stator blade in a radial direction.

Abstract: A vacuum pump includes a housing having a suction port, a rotor housed in the housing and rotationally driven to suck gas through the suction port and pump the gas, and a lid member that covers a recess of the rotor. The lid member has a cone shape having a vertex on a side close to the suction port and having a bottom on a side close to the rotor. The generatrix of the cone shape includes a first curved portion having such a curve that an angle between a tangent to the generatrix and a gas flow direction increases from a vicinity of the vertex to a vicinity of the bottom.

Abstract: To manufacture, using a method by material lamination, a rotor blade resistible to stress generated upon high-speed rotation. A method of manufacturing a rotor blade includes, forming, using a first material, a center portion and a first portion of a blade extending from a connection portion between the blade and the center portion by a predetermined length, and forming, using a second material laminated and formed on the first material, a second portion extending from a tip end of the first portion to a tip end of the blade.

Abstract: A shut-off valve 1 is a shut-off valve arranged on the downstream side with respect to an exhaust port of a vacuum pump, and includes a valve seat, a valve element, and a pressure receiving portion. The valve element is arranged on the downstream side with respect to the valve seat, and is configured movable so as to contact the valve seat or separate from the valve seat. The pressure receiving portion is arranged on the downstream side with respect to the valve element, and is movable to the valve seat by receiving the pressure of gas flowing back to the valve seat. The valve element is connected to the pressure receiving portion, and moves to the valve seat along with movement of the pressure receiving portion to the valve seat.

Abstract: A tracking apparatus includes a memory storing instructions, and a processor that implements the instructions as a first controller that executes image capturing direction control by pan drive or tilt drive to capture an object within a predetermined position, and a second controller, different from the first controller, that executes angle of view control by shifting an angle of view of an image capturing apparatus to capture the object within the predetermined position, wherein tracking the object is executed by at least any one of the first controller and the second controller, wherein the first controller determines whether to execute the image capturing direction control by the first controller, based on a shift amount of the angle of view determined based on a moving amount of the object.

Abstract: A vacuum pump includes a rotor having a shaft, a base housing the shaft, a thrust disc provided at a lower portion of the shaft, and a magnetic bearing supporting the shaft. The magnetic bearing has a first electromagnet arranged to face an upper surface of the thrust disc, and a second electromagnet arranged to face a lower surface of the thrust disc. The second electromagnet includes a core. The core includes a fastening portion provided with a through-hole into which a bolt that fastens the core to the base is to be inserted. The thickness of the fastening portion in a depth direction of the through-hole is greater than the nominal diameter of the bolt, or the center position of the fastening portion in the depth direction of the through-hole is higher than the center position of the second electromagnet in an up-down direction.

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus comprises: an image sensor for generating an image signal from an object image formed by an imaging optical system; a tilt control unit configured to execute tilt control of tilting the image sensor with respect to a principal surface of the imaging optical system; a deriving unit configured to derive, by a phase difference detection pixel included in the image sensor, a defocus amount with respect to an object image at a position of the phase difference detection pixel; and a control unit configured to control to execute the tilt control by the tilt control unit in deriving the defocus amount by the deriving unit, and to derive, by the deriving unit, a defocus amount based on an object image obtained while executing the tilt control.

Abstract: A vehicular washing device includes: a nozzle (4); a flow passage forming body (2) of which an internal space is a flow passage of a fluid; and a valve (21) that has a pressing tube part (22) with an axial direction coinciding with a flow direction of the fluid, is elastically deformable in a direction in which the diameter of the pressing tube part changes, and opens and closes the flow passage according to the state of deformation. A first flow passage (2a) and a second flow passage (2b) are formed as the flow passage on opposite sides of the pressing tube part. A shaft (9) with which the pressing tube part is capable of coming into close contact is located inside the valve. The valve deforms elastically according to the magnitude of the pressure of the first flow passage or the pressure of the second flow passage relative to an atmospheric pressure.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first obtaining unit configured to obtain optical information about an image capturing apparatus including an imaging optical system including at least one movable lens movable in an optical axis direction, a second obtaining unit configured to obtain orientation information indicating an orientation of a lens barrel holding the imaging optical system, a third obtaining unit configured to obtain installation information indicating an installation direction of the image capturing apparatus, and a control unit configured to control a position of the movable lens based on the optical information, the orientation information, and the installation information.

Abstract: A vacuum pump includes a rotor having a shaft, a base housing the shaft, a thrust disc provided at a lower portion of the shaft, and a magnetic bearing supporting the shaft. The magnetic bearing has a first electromagnet arranged to face an upper surface of the thrust disc, and a second electromagnet arranged to face a lower surface of the thrust disc. The second electromagnet includes a core. The core includes a fastening portion provided with a through-hole into which a bolt that fastens the core to the base is to be inserted. The thickness of the fastening portion in a depth direction of the through-hole is greater than the nominal diameter of the bolt, or the center position of the fastening portion in the depth direction of the through-hole is higher than the center position of the second electromagnet in an up-down direction.

Abstract: The multi-agent simulation system includes a plurality of back-end servers provided for each of a plurality of service systems and a plurality of agent simulators provided for each of the plurality of agents. Each of the plurality of service systems provides a service used in the target world. The plurality of agent simulators are programmed to simulate a state of each of the plurality of agents while causing the plurality of agents to interact with each other by exchange of first messages. The plurality of back-end servers and the plurality of agent simulators are programmed to simultaneously simulate a plurality of services by exchanging second messages different from the first messages.

Abstract: The following are observed using a camera: a first position of a small hole of a workpiece, which is fixed to a linear-and-tilting-motion stage and rotating with a rotating body, and a second position thereof different from the first position, at a first rotation angle of the rotating body; and the first position and the second position of the small hole of the workpiece at a second rotation angle different from the first rotation angle of the rotating body. A position and a tilt of the small hole are calculated from coordinates of the respective observed positions, and small hole information, which includes the position and the tilt of the small hole, is outputted.