Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a designation unit configured to designate an inspection area included in an image on a sheet; a controller configured to obtain reading data related to the image on the sheet, wherein the reading data is output by a reading device; obtain sheet type information related to a type of the sheet on which the image is formed; determine, based on the sheet type information, a range which is selectable as a determination condition used for inspection of an image of the inspection area; obtain user instruction information related to the determination condition selected from the range; determine the determination condition to be used for the inspection based on the user instruction information; and inspect color of the image of the inspection area based on the determination condition and the reading data.

Abstract: A communication system comprises a transmission apparatus configured to transmit data via a plurality of communication lines, and a reception apparatus configured to receive the data from the transmission apparatus. The transmission apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to generate information regarding QoS of the plurality of communication lines. The processing circuitry is further configured to designate assignment of the data to communication lines of the plurality of communication lines on a basis of at least (i) the information regarding the QoS of the plurality of communication lines and (ii) assignment information indicating an assignment status of a data amount and a communication line transferred in the past. The transmission apparatus includes communication circuitry configured to allocate and transmit the data to the assigned communication lines of the plurality of communication lines on a basis of an instruction from the processing circuitry.

Abstract: An electronic device includes at least one processor configured to perform: receiving a selection operation from a user that selects one of a plurality of data types for a first data, the first data having a hierarchical structure, the plurality of data types being different from each other at least in terms of a way the first data is associated with a second data that is described at a different level in the hierarchical structure; and adapting the first data in accordance with the data type selected by the selection operation, and causing the adapted first data to be saved in a memory.

Abstract: Methods implemented in a system utilizing computing programs for a speaker and a listener in conversation are provided. Aspects include (i) a reminder provisioner for a speaker which is triggered according to speed, pitch or volume of the speaker's speech, (ii) a speech training provisioner for a speaker, and (iii) an application which records and plays back difficult conversation to understand.

Abstract: An improved rotary type carburetor for a stratified scavenging engine designed to enable the easy adjustment of air and fuel flow at the time of initial configuration is disclosed. The improved rotary carburetor includes an air intake passage and an air-fuel mixture passage formed in a horizontal direction on a carburetor main body. The throttle valve of the improved rotary carburetor can be fitted into a cylindrical-throttle-valve hole formed orthogonal to a fuel and an air passage of the carburetor main body. The throttle valve has the air supply side valve hole formed on the air intake passage side and a fuel supply side valve hole formed on the air-fuel mixture passage side.

Abstract: An information processing device includes: an input interface; and at least one processor, configured to perform the following: selecting an instrument, a musical tone of which is to be digitally synthesized based on corresponding musical tone data, via the input interface; acquiring a parameter value that has been set for the selected instrument; generating a random number based on a random function; and changing a pitch of the musical tone of the selected instrument based on the generated random number and the acquired parameter values.

Abstract: There are provided an optical receptacle having an optical fiber including a first portion on another end surface side, a third portion on one end surface side, and a second portion between the first portion and the third portion; a core diameter at the first portion is smaller than the core diameter at the third portion; the core diameter at the second portion increases from the first portion side toward the third portion side; a first elastic member is provided between the optical fiber and an inner wall of a through-hole; a holder holds the another end surface side of a fiber stub; and the sleeve holds the one end surface side of the fiber stub.

Abstract: There is provided a method for a computer to perform evaluating rapid chord playing and/or tonality based on performance actions of a performance; and instructing, during the performance, an outputter to output a reaction sound corresponding to the evaluation.

Abstract: A fuel injection controller for a vessel engine to drive a propulsion apparatus mounted in a vessel is configured or programmed to execute functions of an effective opening area calculator to calculate an effective opening area of a throttle valve based on a throttle opening degree of the vessel engine, a filter value calculator to determine a first-order lag filter value of the effective opening area, a correction value calculator to determine a ratio of the effective opening area to the first-order lag filter value as a correction value, a predictive suction pressure calculator to determine predictive suction pressure by multiplying an average value of suction pressure detected at a suction passage by the correction value determined by the correction value calculator, a fuel injection amount calculator to calculate a fuel injection amount based on the predictive suction pressure, and a fuel injection driver to drive a fuel injector based on the fuel injection amount.

Abstract: An upper die of a forming apparatus includes a first curved portion and a second curved portion between a second concave section and an upper holding surface. The first curved portion is curved in a direction away from the upper die. The second curved portion is curved toward the upper die. A blank holding surface of a blank holder holds a blank between the blank holding surface and the upper holding surface of the upper die. The blank holding surface faces the second curved portion. The blank holding surface includes a blank curved surface recessed along the second curved portion.

Abstract: An electronic instrument includes a plurality of music-playing operators which designates pitch data in accordance with a music-playing operation and at least one processor which instructs a sound source which generates music sounds to emit sounds, in which the at least one processor, in a case where the music-playing operation meets a first instruction condition, instructs the sound source to emit the sound in a first sound emission form which corresponds to pitch data which meets the first instruction condition which is designated in accordance with the music-playing operation, and in a case where the music-playing operation meets a second instruction condition which is different from the first instruction condition, instructs the sound source to emit a sound which is different from the sound which is emitted in the first sound-emission form, that is, in a second sound-emission form which corresponds to pitch data which meets the second instruction condition which is designated in accordance with the music-

Abstract: There are provided an optical receptacle having an optical fiber including a first portion on another end surface side, a third portion on one end surface side, and a second portion between the first portion and the third portion; a core diameter at the first portion is smaller than the core diameter at the third portion; the core diameter at the second portion increases from the first portion side toward the third portion side; a first elastic member is provided between the optical fiber and an inner wall of a through-hole; a holder holds the another end surface side of a fiber stub; and the sleeve holds the one end surface side of the fiber stub.

Abstract: A display device includes a transparent light guiding layer having a bottom face on which a light diffusing region is formed as a design, a retroreflective layer, a polarizing beam that allows light having a first polarization direction to pass therethrough, and an emission unit configured to emit into the light guiding layer the light having the first polarization direction, or light having a different second polarization direction. When light having the first polarization direction is emitted, light reflected by the light diffusing region passes through the polarizing beam splitter such that the design is viewable. When light having the second polarization direction is emitted, light reflected by the retroreflective layer passes through the polarizing beam splitter such that an aerial image of the design is viewable.

Abstract: A printing method for performing printing while complementing black with composite black, the printing method including: printing a test pattern having a plurality of patch images for which composite mode varies, this test pattern being printed for each dot size of the black to be complemented; causing a user to select a desired patch image from among the plurality of the patch images included in the printed test pattern, the selection being made for each of the dot size of the black ink to be complemented; and performing printing while complementing the black to be complemented with the composite black generated on a basis of the composite mode corresponding to the desired patch image selected correspondingly to the dot size of the black ink to be complemented.

Abstract: A joining device includes: a pair of pressing members disposed to face each other to sandwich joining target members from both sides in a stacking direction of the joining target members and configured to press the joining target members; and power supply members disposed on one or both sides in the stacking direction of the joining target members to sandwich a pressing target portion of the joining target members by the pressing members and configured to come into contact with and supply power to the joining target members. The power supply members are provided at positions not overlapping the pressing members in the stacking direction of the joining target members, and the pressing members press the joining target members while the power supply members supply power to the joining target members, thereby generating resistance heat in the pressing target portion and joining the joining target members.

Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes: a performance controller; and at least one processor, configured to perform the following: instructing sound generation of a first musical tone in response to a first operation on the performance controller; in response to a second operation on the performance controller during the sound generation of the first musical tone, obtaining a first amplitude value of the first musical tone at a time of the second operation, and obtaining a second amplitude value at which a second musical tone is to be sound-produced in response to the second operation on the performance controller; acquiring a parameter value for determining at least one of pitch, timbre, and volume of the second musical tone based on a ratio of the first amplitude value to the second amplitude value; and instructing sound generation of the second musical tone in accordance with the acquired parameter value.

Abstract: An electronic musical instrument comprises: a performance controller; and at least one processor, configured to perform the following: instructing sound generation of a first musical tone in response to a first operation on the performance controller; in response to a second operation on the performance controller during the sound generation of the first musical tone, obtaining a first amplitude value of the first musical tone at a time of the second operation, and obtaining a second amplitude value at which a second musical tone is to be sound-produced in response to the second operation on the performance controller; determining a parameter value for adjusting a decay rate of the first musical tone based on a ratio of the first amplitude value to the second amplitude value; and causing the first musical tone to decay based on the determined parameter value.

Abstract: A duct for guiding air outside an image forming apparatus to a charging device includes: a first flow passage; a second flow passage bent from the first flow passage and extending in a direction orthogonal to a rotational direction and a rotational axis direction of a photosensitive drum, the second flow passage being provided with an outlet; and a plurality of flow dividing plates provided in the second flow passage, the plurality of flow dividing plates being disposed in parallel along the rotational axis direction and forming a third flow passage between the flow dividing plates adjacent to each other, in which a relationship between a length in the orthogonal direction and a length in the rotational axis direction of the third flow passage is a predetermined relationship.

Abstract: One form of a display device of the present disclosure includes a first optical structure and a second optical structure stacked on the first optical structure. The first optical structure includes a light source, a light guide layer, a reflection layer, and a half mirror, and a light diffusion surface for generating a design of a multiple image that is formed on a bottom portion of the light guide layer. The second optical structure includes a light source, a light guide layer, a retroreflective layer, and a half mirror, and a light diffusion surface for generating a design of the aerial image is formed on a bottom portion of the light guide layer. The aerial image and the multiple image are simultaneously observed from the viewpoint of the user, and a sense of depth or a stereoscopic effect can be imparted to the aerial image.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, an optical sensor configured to detect a pattern image formed on the image bearing member, and an attachment member to which the optical sensor is attached. The optical sensor includes a circuit board, a light emitting element and a light receiving element which are provided on a first side of the circuit board, and a connector provided on a second side opposite to the first side of the circuit board. The attachment member has a surface contacting the second side of the circuit board. In an insertion/removal direction of a cable to be connected to the connector, a first thickness, from the surface, of a part of a portion, contacting the second side, of the attachment member is smaller than a second thickness, from the surface, of a portion, not contacting the second side, of the attachment member.