Abstract: An imaging device including a first filter that passes a first light and a second light; a second filter that blocks the second light; photoelectric converters that have sensitivity to the first light and the second light; and a processor, in which one of the photoelectric converters detects a light passing through the first filter to generate a first signal, one of the photoelectric converters detects a light passing through the first filter and the second filter to generate a second signal, and the processor performs the second light sensing based on the first signal and the second signal.

Abstract: To provide a system, a method and the like for acquiring more images or more quickly focused images. A control device acquires information regarding a situation of a range captured by an imaging device, determines a mode according to an assumed situation of the range captured by the imaging device among a plurality of focusing modes, and transmits designation information specifying the determined mode to the imaging device. The imaging device receives the designation information from the control device, and captures an image using the mode specified by the received designation information.

Abstract: Provided is a composition that is capable of forming a polarizer layer having an excellent degree of alignment and excellent adhesiveness to another layer in a case of being applied to a laminate, a polarizer layer, a laminate, and an image display device. The composition of the present invention is a composition including at least a polymer liquid crystal compound, a dichroic material, and a low-molecular-weight liquid crystal compound, in which the polymer liquid crystal compound is a copolymer having a repeating unit (1) represented by Formula (1), the low-molecular-weight liquid crystal compound is a compound represented by Formula (LC), and relationships represented by Expressions |log P(SP1)?log P(SPL1)|?2.0 (11), |log P(MG1)?log P(SP1)|?4.5 (12), and |log P(ML)?log P(SPL1)|?4.0 (13) are satisfied.

Abstract: An authentication system according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: at least one memory storing a set of instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the set of instructions to: track an object included in a video captured by a first capture device; detect a candidate for biometric authentication in the object being tracked; determine whether biometric authentication has been performed for the candidate based on a record of biometric authentication performed for the object being tracked; and perform the biometric authentication for the candidate based on a video of an authentication part of the candidate when the biometric authentication has not been performed for the candidate, the video of the authentication part being captured by a second capture device having a capture range including a part of a capture range of the first capture device.

Abstract: A first communication device may execute an output control process of externally outputting output information, the output information obtained using a public key of the first communication device, receive an authentication request from a second communication device that has obtained the public key, send a first authentication response to the second communication device via a wireless interface in a case where it is determined that a wireless connection has been established between the first communication device and a first access point, the first authentication response including first role information indicating that the first communication device is to serve a first role which is a role of sending first wireless setting information to the second communication device, and send the first wireless setting information to the second communication device.

Abstract: A light apparatus mounted on a vehicle includes a lamp that emits light into a first region through a first cover and a radar provided on a lower side or an upper side of the lamp. The radar includes a separator provided between the lamp and the radar, a circuit board having a board surface arranged in a substantially horizontal manner, and an antenna that is disposed on the board surface of the circuit board, transmits electromagnetic waves through a second cover in a second region that is at least partially different from the first region, and receives reflected waves through the second cover from objects outside the vehicle in the second region.

Abstract: A communication device may receive a specific signal from a first external device; display a first instruction screen; in a case where it is instructed that the target process is to be executed in a situation where the first instruction screen is displayed, send a public key to the first external device, wherein in a case where it is not instructed that the target process is to be executed in the situation where the first instruction screen is displayed, the public key is not sent; after the public key has been sent to the first external device, receive an authentication request from the first external device; send an authentication response to the first external device; receive connection information from the first external device; and establish, by using the connection information, a wireless connection between the communication device and a second external device.

Abstract: A communication line is connected to first and second chips, and held at a first signal level. A monitor circuit changes a signal level of the communication line from the first signal to a second signal level while one of the first and second chips uses a current larger than a reference current. When the signal level of the communication line is the second signal level, the other of the first and second chips is controlled to a wait state that does not transfer to an operating state of using a current larger than the reference current.

Abstract: Provision of a modified promoter derived from a xylanase promoter. A modified promoter comprising a polynucleotide of Xyn3 promoter comprising a polynucleotide that comprises at least one polynucleotide of Xyn1 promoter cis-element or a complementary strand thereof in a region corresponding to the nucleotides at position 374 to 401 of SEQ ID NO:1. The polynucleotide of Xyn3 promoter consist of the following nucleotide sequences: the nucleotide sequence represented by SEQ ID NO:1; the nucleotide sequence represented by the nucleotides at position 350 to 1084 of SEQ ID NO:1; or a nucleotide sequence that has an identity of at least 90% therewith and that comprises the sequence represented by SEQ ID NO:2 in a region corresponding to the nucleotides at position 374 to 401 of SEQ ID NO:1. The polynucleotide of Xyn1 promoter cis-element consists of the nucleotide sequence represented by SEQ ID NO:4.

Abstract: A camera system including an imaging device that captures a first image by a normal exposure including only one exposure and that captures a second image by a multiple exposure including a plurality of exposures; and a control circuit. The the imaging device captures the second image in a first frame period, and the control circuit determines, based on the second image captured in the first frame period, whether to capture an image by the normal exposure or capture an image by the multiple exposure in a second frame period following the first frame period.

Abstract: To provide a system, a method and the like for acquiring more images or more quickly focused images. A control device acquires information regarding a situation of a range captured by an imaging device, determines a mode according to an assumed situation of the range captured by the imaging device among a plurality of focusing modes, and transmits designation information specifying the determined mode to the imaging device. The imaging device receives the designation information from the control device, and captures an image using the mode specified by the received designation information.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an imaging system, a control method, and a program that make it possible to implement setting for an external flash by an operation on a camera side. Setting coordination processing is executed in which: setting information of an external flash (13) is transmitted and received between a first communication unit (67A) and a second communication unit (47); a second display unit is caused to display a setting screen to be used for setting a setting item of the external flash; and the setting information changed by an operation on the second operation unit is caused to be transmitted from the imaging device (12) to the external flash (13) via the first communication unit (67A) and the second communication unit (47), and a setting for the external flash (13) is caused to be applied. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an imaging system (11) including an external flash (13) and an imaging device (12).

Abstract: An imaging device having an imager that includes first pixels having sensitivity to a first light and second pixels having sensitivity to a second light, a wavelength of the first light being different from a wavelength of the second light. The imager being configured to acquire first image data from the first pixels and being configured to acquire second image data from the second pixels. Each of the first image data and the second image data including an image of a code, the code being configured to output the second light. The imaging device further including an image processor configured to extract an image of the code based on the first image data and the second image data.

Abstract: An authentication system according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: at least one memory storing a set of instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the set of instructions to: track an object included in a video captured by a first capture device; detect a candidate for biometric authentication in the object being tracked; determine whether biometric authentication has been performed for the candidate based on a record of biometric authentication performed for the object being tracked; and perform the biometric authentication for the candidate based on a video of an authentication part of the candidate when the biometric authentication has not been performed for the candidate, the video of the authentication part being captured by a second capture device having a capture range including a part of a capture range of the first capture device.

Abstract: A semiconductor wafer manufacturing method including: forming a plurality of trench capacitors at a main surface of a semiconductor wafer, wherein each of the plurality of trench capacitors is configured as unit cells that internally include unit trench capacitors, and wherein a length component in a predetermined direction of a layout pattern of trenches of the plurality of trench capacitors is made equivalent, within a fixed tolerance range, to a length component in a direction that intersects the predetermined direction.

Abstract: A communication line is connected to first and second chips, and held at a first signal level. A monitor circuit changes a signal level of the communication line from the first signal to a second signal level while one of the first and second chips uses a current larger than a reference current. When the signal level of the communication line is the second signal level, the other of the first and second chips is controlled to a wait state that does not transfer to an operating state of using a current larger than the reference current.

Abstract: A communication device may establish a first wireless connection with a first external device, and receive target wireless setting information from the first external device by using the first wireless connection, the target wireless setting information being for participating as a child station in a target wireless network formed by a target access point different from the first external device. The communication device may control a display unit to display a predetermined screen for accepting a trigger operation, the trigger operation being a trigger of participation in the target wireless network, and establish a target wireless connection with the target access point by using the target wireless setting information so as to participate as the child station in the target wireless network, in a case where the trigger operation is accepted after the predetermined screen has been displayed.

Abstract: A wafer grinding method includes grinding a central portion of a wafer by using a plurality of abrasive members annularly arranged so as to form a circular ring, thereby forming a circular recess at the central portion of the wafer and simultaneously forming an annular projection around the circular recess, recognizing a height of a grinding unit after grinding the center by using a height recognizing unit and next storing the height recognized above, and grinding an upper surface of the annular projection to a predetermined value for a height of the annular projection previously set by a setting section as a grinding end height where the grinding of the annular projection by the grinding unit is ended.

Abstract: An information collecting apparatus according to an embodiment includes a sensor data acquisition unit configured to acquire sensor data related to work performed by a worker, a work information data generation unit configured to generate work information data related to work performed by the worker for a specific period of time based on the sensor data acquired by the sensor data acquisition unit, and a danger information specification unit configured to specify work information data related to an action that indicates danger as dangerous work information data indicating dangerous work performed by the worker when an action of the worker in a predetermined period of time, which is indicated by the work information data generated, is the action that indicates danger.

Abstract: An image capture control device includes a recognition unit that determines whether a peripheral situation corresponds to a predetermined situation based on image data, and a controller that controls an infrared light irradiation unit to increase a pulse number of transmission pulses to be emitted to a target, when the recognition unit determines that the peripheral situation corresponds to the predetermined situation.