Abstract: A control device includes a processor. The processor acquires positional information indicating a position of an observation target. The processor sets, from among a plurality of irradiation positions, a required irradiation position, which is an irradiation position corresponding to the position of the observation target indicated by the positional information and is an irradiation position required for obtaining a plurality of the interference fringe images that are sources of a super-resolution interference fringe image having a resolution exceeding a resolution of an imaging element. The processor causes a light source to emit an illumination light from the required irradiation position by controlling an operation of the light source, and causes the imaging element to outputs the interference fringe image at each required irradiation position.

Abstract: This laser processing apparatus is for forming modified regions in an object, which includes a sapphire substrate having a C-plane as a main surface, along cutting lines by focusing laser light on the object, and is provided with a laser light source, a spatial light modulator, and a focusing optical system. The spatial light modulator performs aberration correction by a first aberration correction amount smaller than an ideal aberration correction amount when the modified region is formed along a first cutting line along an a-axis direction of the sapphire substrate, and performs aberration correction by a second aberration correction amount smaller than the ideal aberration correction amount and different from the first aberration correction amount when the modified region is formed along a second cutting line along an m-axis direction of the sapphire substrate.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an optical member includes: providing a polycrystalline wavelength conversion member including phosphor particles and having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; forming a modified portion inside the wavelength conversion member by focusing laser light inside the wavelength conversion member; and cleaving the wavelength conversion member with the modified portion being a starting point, which includes pressing the wavelength conversion member from a first surface side.

Abstract: An imaging system includes: a light source that emits light toward a flow channel through which a sample containing a cell flows; an imaging sensor that generates an interference fringe image including an interference fringe by imaging light that has passed through the flow channel; and a processor that estimates a cell concentration in the sample based on the interference fringe image or a reconstructed image obtained by reconstructing the interference fringe image, and adjusts the cell concentration in the sample based on an estimated value of the cell concentration.

Abstract: A position estimation method for estimating a position of a mobile terminal includes: an acquisition step of acquiring distance values and radio wave intensity values between communication devices provided in a vehicle and the mobile terminal by communicating the communication devices with the mobile terminal; a communication availability determination step of determining that a corresponding communication device is communicable when the distance value is not more than a first value and the intensity value is not less than a second value; an area determination step of, based on a result of the communication availability determination step and communication maps mapping communicable ranges of the communication devices, determining an area where the mobile terminal exists by superimposing the communication maps; and an estimation step of estimating the position of the mobile terminal based on a result of the area determination step.

Abstract: An antenna device includes a ground portion including a linear portion connecting a first point and a second point to each other along a first direction parallel to a surface of a substrate, on one side in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, a power feeding portion provided in a first range including the first point, and an element portion configured to receive power from the power feeding portion and formed in a conductor portion of the substrate that is insulated from the ground portion in a state in which the element portion protrudes from the first range toward the other side in the second direction. The element portion includes a first element portion protruding in the first range toward the other side in the second direction, and a second element portion extending along the first direction from the first element portion toward the second point.

Abstract: Provided are a building board package suitable to suppress generation of a gloss that could be caused as a result of pressing a coating film on the surface of a building board, and a method for manufacturing the building board package. A building board package X1 according to the present invention includes a first building board 10, and a packing sheet 20 stacked on top of the first building board 10. The first building board 10 has a first surface 11 on the packing sheet 20 side, and a second surface 12 opposite the first surface 11. The first surface 11 includes a first coating film surface 11A. The packing sheet 20 has a third surface 21 on the first building board 10 side, and a fourth surface 22 opposite the third surface 21. The third surface 21 is in contact with the first coating film surface 11A. An absolute value of a difference between a 60-degree gloss value of the first coating film surface 11A and a 60-degree gloss value of the third surface 21 is 3.

Abstract: In order to provide a film forming material for lithography or the like that has high film formability and solvent solubility, is applicable to a wet process, is excellent in curability, film heat resistance, film etching resistance, embedding properties to a substrate having difference in level, and film flatness, and is useful for forming a photoresist underlayer film, a film forming material for lithography according to the present disclosure contains a compound having an amino group bonded to an aromatic ring, and the compound is one represented by, for example, formula (1A), formula (1B), formula (2), formula (3), formula (4), or the like, as described in the specification.

Abstract: A semiconductor storage device includes a first signal line extending in a first direction, and second signal line extending in the first direction and adjacent to the first signal line in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The first signal line includes a trunk wiring extending in the first direction, and one or more branch wirings branched from the trunk wiring and extending on one side toward the second signal line in the second direction.

Abstract: A lubricant container part 7 is provided to a robot arm drive unit 5 pertaining to a first arm 2, 2a and a second arm 3, 3a which displace relative to each other via a reduction mechanism 4, and a receiving member 9, 9a having a recess 10 forming a concave shape facing vertically upward is provided below the liquid level 8 of a lubricant 6 inside the lubricant container part 7, and through this configuration, even when time elapses after stopping of the robot, the lubricant can be extracted from the receiving member 9, 9a in a manner suitable for observing the state of iron powder included in the lubricant 6.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an illumination device that has a plurality of light sources which irradiate an observation target with illumination light beams at different irradiation angles; an imaging sensor that captures an interference fringe image generated by the observation target irradiated with the illumination light beams to generate image data; a height adjustment mechanism that enables a height of the illumination device with respect to the imaging sensor to be adjusted; and an angle change mechanism that changes the irradiation angle of the illumination light beam in accordance with the height such that an intersection of central axes of the illumination light beams emitted from the plurality of light sources is located on the observation target.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for eliminating the hydroxyl group at the 9-position of a urolithin to produce another kind of urolithin. This object is achieved by a method for producing a second urolithin, including Step (a): allowing, in a solution containing a first urolithin, a microorganism having an ability to produce the second urolithin from the first urolithin to produce the second urolithin from the first urolithin.

Abstract: A processor performs control of causing illumination light with a first set light quantity to be emitted from a plurality of emission positions one by one in order to obtain a plurality of interference-fringe images serving as a source of a super-resolution interference-fringe image with a resolution exceeding a resolution of an imaging element that picks up an image of interference fringes, and at least one of control of setting a light quantity of the illumination light to a second set light quantity different from the first set light quantity during switching from a current emission position to a next emission position, or control of causing the illumination light to be emitted at a separate emission position separated by at least one emission position from both the current emission position and the next emission position during the switching from the current emission position to the next emission position.

Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is at least to provide a technique for promoting elimination of a methyl group(s) of a methoxy group(s) in causing a microorganism having a demethylation ability of eliminating a methyl group(s) of a methoxy group(s) from a compound with the methoxy group(s) in a side chain(s) to produce a demethylated compound in which a methyl group(s) of a methoxy group(s) has eliminated from a compound with the methoxy group(s) in a side chain(s).

Abstract: A health information generating apparatus includes an acquiring unit, an attribute information generating unit, and a health information generating unit. The acquiring unit acquires customer identification information of a customer whose health information is to be generated, and acquires prescription information associated with the customer identification information. The attribute information generating unit generates attribute information of the customer by using the prescription information acquired by the acquiring unit. The attribute information includes information indicating a health state of the customer. The health information generating unit generates the above-described health information by using the attribute information generated by the attribute information generating unit. The health information relates to at least one of maintenance, improvement, and future change in health of the customer.

Abstract: A user management method according to the present disclosure includes: storing (S101) appliance use information including: appliance identification information for identifying an appliance; user information for identifying a user of the appliance; and an operating state of the appliance when the appliance was used; analyzing (S102) the appliance use information stored in the storing (S101) to identify, from among a plurality of functions of the appliance, one or more first functions each having a use frequency less than or equal to a threshold value; and providing (S103) the user with a notice which prompts use of the one or more first functions identified in the analyzing (S102).

Abstract: A composition for film formation containing a polycyclic polyphenolic resin having repeating units derived from at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of aromatic hydroxy compounds represented by the formulas (1-0), (1A), and (1B), wherein the repeating units are linked by a direct bond between aromatic rings:

Abstract: Sonic logging data including a sonic waveform associated with a plurality of shot gathers is accessed. A transformation operator is applied to the sonic logging data to provide a transformed sonic image, the transformation operator including at least one of a short time average long time average (STA/LTA) operator, a phase shift operator, and a deconvolution operator. A machine learning process is performed using the transformed sonic image to determine a sonic slowness associated with the sonic logging data. The sonic slowness is provided as an output.

Abstract: A new variety of Citrus ‘Mikanken16’ that has dark orange fruit color, no seeds, high juiciness, orange-like flavor, ease of peeling the fruit by hand, good appearance and good tasting qualities.