Abstract: A position measurement method includes a step of acquiring an image of the surroundings at a self-position, a step of detecting an area in which a circular shape appears in the image, and a step of measuring the self-position based on the aspect ratio of the area.

Abstract: A modeling method of shape-approximating a shape measurement target provided in a structure having a stack structure by a boundary line, and a standard deviation is provided as a tolerance for a measurement value of the shape measurement target, and a calculation boundary line is arranged to converge within the tolerance, and thereby, a shape of the shape measurement target is expressed.

Abstract: A battery string is configured such that a plurality of battery circuit modules can be connected in series. A middle point between a first capacitor and a second capacitor provided on a detection line connecting a positive electrode output line and a negative electrode output line of the battery string to each other is grounded by a ground line through a limiting resistor. During operation of the battery string, an electric leakage detection unit sets a battery circuit module in a pass-through state, and detects electric leakage in the battery string based on a differential voltage that is a difference between a first voltage being the voltage of the first capacitor and a second voltage being the voltage of the second capacitor.

Abstract: An elastic wiring includes: an elastic tube; a conductor wire arranged within the tube; and fixing portions that fix the conductor wire and the tube at both ends of the tube in the lengthwise direction, wherein the length of the conductor wire between the fixing portions when the tube is in an unextended state is longer than the length of the tube between the fixing portions.

Abstract: An elastic wiring includes: an elastic tube; a conductor wire arranged within the tube; and fixing portions that fix the conductor wire and the tube at both ends of the tube in the lengthwise direction, wherein the length of the conductor wire between the fixing portions when the tube is in an unextended state is longer than the length of the tube between the fixing portions.

Abstract: A power source system includes a first battery string, a second battery string, and a third battery string. Each of the battery strings includes a plurality of batteries capable of outputting direct-current power. The battery strings are Y-connected so as to output three-phase alternating-current power to three-phase output terminals (alternating-current output terminals) as well as connected to a neutral line. On the neutral line, a neutral line capacitor for blocking a direct current, a neutral line switch disposed in series to the neutral line capacitor, and an electric resistance element disposed in parallel to the neutral line switch are provided.

Abstract: The battery string is configured so that a plurality of battery circuit modules can be connected in series. The drive circuit SU5 from the drive circuit SU0 of the battery circuit module transmits a gate signal for ON/OFF of the switch to the downstream drive circuit SU while delaying the gate signal by a predetermined delay time Td. When a particular battery circuit module (drive circuit SU4 in FIG. 4) is passed through, the delay time is switched from the delay time Td to the delay time Tds. The delay time Tds is longer than the delay time Td. As a result, the period of the gate signal, which is the “delay time×the number of battery circuit modules to be operated”, can be suppressed from becoming short (the increase in frequency can be suppressed), and an increase in loss can be suppressed.

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: An information providing device 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: receive a face image; determine whether a person in the face image is unsuitable for iris data acquisition based on the face image; and output information based on determining that the person is unsuitable for the iris data acquisition when the person is determined to be unsuitable for the iris data acquisition.

Abstract: The alternating current sweep unit outputs alternating current power from three battery strings that are Y-connected. The offset voltage command Vst_offset is calculated by adding the offset component V*abc_off of the string voltage obtained from the string voltage command V*abc, the amplitude Vamp of the command voltage calculated using dq shaft voltage command values v*d and v*q, and the margin voltage Vmrg. By determining the on-time ton of the gate signal by using the string voltage command V*abc and the offset voltage command Vst_offset and performing duty control on the gate signal, it is possible to set an offset voltage corresponding to the command voltage, and thus it is possible to suppress an increase in battery loss.

Abstract: A power supply device includes: a first high-voltage line for exchanging the electric power externally; a second high-voltage line for applying current flowing in a direction opposite to the first high-voltage line; a plurality of batteries; a plurality of SUs, the SUs being provided corresponding to the respective batteries, switching a connection state of the batteries to the first high-voltage line, and being disposed in a circle; and an SCU that controls the SUs. The SU can switch between a first state in which the battery corresponding to the SU is connected in series to the first high-voltage line and a second state in which the battery is not connected to the first high-voltage line. The SCU controls the SUs to switch to the first state or the second state in accordance with a voltage of the electric power to be charged and discharged.

Abstract: A power supply system includes a forcible disconnecting unit configured to forcibly disconnect a battery in a battery module from series regardless of a gate drive signal. The power supply system obtains the number of batteries included in the battery modules which can be forcibly disconnected from the series according to the maximum voltage of the batteries that can be connected in the series and a voltage command value indicating a voltage to be output, and forcibly disconnects the obtained number of the batteries from the series by the forcible disconnecting unit.

Abstract: To provide a group management apparatus capable of appropriately determining whether to allow a user to join a group. A group management apparatus (100) according to the present disclosure includes: an authentication unit (1) configured to determine a result of identity authentication of a user; an acquisition unit (3) configured to acquire an activity history of the user from a blockchain where the activity history of the user being authenticated is saved; a determination unit (2) configured to make determination regarding whether to allow the user to join a group based on the acquired activity history; and a recording unit (4) configured to record a result of the determination in the blockchain.

Abstract: A modeling method of shape-approximating a shape measurement target provided in a structure having a stack structure by a boundary line, and a standard deviation is provided as a tolerance for a measurement value of the shape measurement target, and a calculation boundary line is arranged to converge within the tolerance, and thereby, a shape of the shape measurement target is expressed.

Abstract: A power supply system includes a power supply circuit that includes a plurality of battery modules, each of which has a battery. The power supply circuit is configured such that the batteries in the battery modules are connected to each other in series in response to a gate driving signal from a controller. An alternating current voltage having a different phase is output by temporally changing the number of the batteries connected in series in each of a plurality of power supply circuits.

Abstract: An authentication device 100 of the present invention includes a registration unit 121 and a collation unit 122. The registration unit 121 acquires person identification information for identifying a registration requesting person who requests registration of authentication information, and individual identification information with which an individual can be identified, the individual identification information using a surface pattern of an object from an object image for registration in which the object held by the registration requesting person is captured, and registers the person identification information and the individual identification information in association with each other as registration data.

Abstract: A power supply device includes: a first high-voltage line for exchanging the electric power externally; a second high-voltage line for applying current flowing in a direction opposite to the first high-voltage line; a plurality of batteries; a plurality of SUs, the SUs being provided corresponding to the respective batteries, switching a connection state of the batteries to the first high-voltage line, and being disposed in a circle; and an SCU that controls the SUs. The SU can switch between a first state in which the battery corresponding to the SU is connected in series to the first high-voltage line and a second state in which the battery is not connected to the first high-voltage line. The SCU controls the SUs to switch to the first state or the second state in accordance with a voltage of the electric power to be charged and discharged.

Abstract: A power supply system includes a plurality of battery modules and a control unit, and supplies electric power from the battery modules in an uppermost stage and a lowermost stage to a load. The control unit is configured to perform ON/OFF control for setting the battery modules to an ON state in an active time, setting the battery modules to an OFF state in a non-active time, and alternately repeating the active time and the non-active time. The control unit is configured to delay an ON/OFF control timing for the battery module in a lower stage adjacent to the battery module in a higher stage by a control delay time in comparison with the battery module in the higher stage. The control unit is configured to randomly determine the control delay times for the battery modules in lower stages than the battery module in the uppermost stage.

Abstract: A power supply system includes a plurality of battery modules and a control unit, and supplies electric power from the battery modules in an uppermost stage and a lowermost stage to a load. The control unit is configured to perform ON/OFF control for setting the battery modules to an ON state in an active time, setting the battery modules to an OFF state in a non-active time, and alternately repeating the active time and the non-active time. The control unit is configured to delay an ON/OFF control timing for the battery module in a lower stage adjacent to the battery module in a higher stage by a control delay time in comparison with the battery module in the higher stage. The control unit is configured to randomly determine the control delay times for the battery modules in lower stages than the battery module in the uppermost stage.

Abstract: A method and system for imaging an object to be inspected and obtaining an optical image; creating a reference image from design pattern data; preparing an inspection recipe including one or more templates and parameter settings necessary for the inspection; checking the pattern and the template against each other, and selecting the reference image which corresponds to the template; detecting first and second edges in the selected reference image in accordance with the parameter setting using determined coordinates as a reference; detecting first and second edges in the optical image, this optical image corresponds to the selected reference image; and determining an inspection value by acquiring the difference between the line width of the optical image and the reference image using the first edge and second edge of the reference image and the first edge and second edges of the optical image.