Abstract: A mobile body is driven by power from a non-contact power supply device including a power transmission resonator that transmits the power by a non-contact power supply method. The mobile body includes; a power reception resonator, a power storage, a motor, a controller, and at least two wheels that are driven independently and move the mobile body along the first and the second movement axes. When the mobile body is located in a power supply target range, the controller controls the motor based on power reception status information indicating a status of power reception by the power reception resonator, and rotationally moves the mobile body based on a rotation axis defining the center of rotational movement with which an angle of opposition of the power transmission resonator to the power reception resonator varies.

Abstract: A back-illuminated solid-state imaging element includes a semiconductor substrate which has a front surface and a back surface provided with a recess, and in which a thinned section, which is a bottom section of the recess, is an imaging area, a signal read-out circuit formed on the front surface of the semiconductor substrate, a boron layer formed on at least the back surface of the semiconductor substrate and a lateral surface of the recess, a metal layer formed on the boron layer, and provided with an opening opposing a bottom surface of the recess, and an anti-reflection layer formed on the bottom surface of the recess.

Abstract: Provided is a wiring structural body provided with a wiring pattern including a through-wiring pattern, the wiring structural body including: a silicon substrate having a through hole in which the through-wiring pattern is disposed; an insulating layer provided on a surface of the silicon substrate including an inner surface of the through hole along at least the wiring pattern; a boron layer provided on the insulating layer along the wiring pattern; and a metal layer provided on the boron layer.

Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a wiring structural body provided with a wiring pattern, the method including a first step of forming an insulating layer on a surface of a silicon substrate along at least a region for forming the wiring pattern, a second step of forming a boron layer on the insulating layer along the region, and a third step of forming a metal layer on the boron layer by plating.

Abstract: An information processing device, including: an operation input unit that allows input operations by two types of operating bodies, including an input operation performed via proximity or contact of a part of a human body, and an input operation performed via proximity or contact of a stylus-like input device; and an input control unit that controls switching between the input operation performed via proximity or contact of the part of the human body and the input operation performed via proximity or contact of the stylus-like input device, based on a separation distance between the part of the human body and/or the stylus-like input device and an operation input surface of the operation input unit, and also based on an angle between a central axis of the stylus-like input device and the operation input surface.

Abstract: A diagnostic device for a sensor 100 provided in an exhaust passage 11 of an internal combustion engine 10 of a vehicle and detecting nitrogen compounds in exhaust gas, the diagnostic device including an offset diagnosis unit 42 which diagnoses, during deceleration of the vehicle in which the internal combustion engine 10 stops fuel injection, an offset amount of a sensor value of the sensor 100 from a zero point based on the sensor value of the sensor value, and a diagnosis prohibition unit 44 which prohibits the diagnosing of the offset amount when a flow rate of the exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine 10 rapidly increases while the offset amount is diagnosed by the offset diagnosis unit 42.

Abstract: A back-illuminated solid-state imaging element includes a semiconductor substrate which has a front surface and a back surface provided with a recess, and in which a thinned section, which is a bottom section of the recess, is an imaging area, a signal read-out circuit formed on the front surface of the semiconductor substrate, a boron layer formed on at least the back surface of the semiconductor substrate and a lateral surface of the recess, a metal layer formed on the boron layer, and provided with an opening opposing a bottom surface of the recess, and an anti-reflection layer formed on the bottom surface of the recess.

Abstract: An optical semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a plurality of photoelectric conversion parts and having a trench formed to separate the plurality of photoelectric conversion parts from each other, an insulating layer formed on at least an inner surface of the trench, a boron layer formed on the insulating layer, and a metal layer formed on the boron layer.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an optical semiconductor device includes preparing a semiconductor substrate having a plurality of photoelectric conversion parts, forming a trench in the semiconductor substrate to separate the plurality of photoelectric conversion parts from each other, forming a boron layer on an inner surface of the trench by a vapor phase growth method, and forming an accumulation layer in the semiconductor substrate along the inner surface of the trench by performing a thermal diffusion treatment on the boron layer.

Abstract: A distributed-generator power-generation-amount estimation apparatus and method capable of more accurately and easily estimating output by reflecting a power factor are disclosed.

Abstract: Energy demand in an entire community including multiple demanders is properly predicted and energy consumption thereof is properly controlled. Every day, some demanders are selected from the community and a request to adjust energy consumption for the following day is sent to the selected demanders. To decide a content of the request, energy demand for the following day is predicted. In this case, demanders which did not receive a request on past days are specified, and demand in the community for the following day is predicted based on the actual energy consumption by those demanders on the past days.

Abstract: A system and method for recommending content to a user. In embodiments of the system and method, one or more content groups is generated, at least one of the content groups including more than one type of content, and a display indicative of the one or more content groups is presented to the user.

Abstract: Provided is an equipment operation plan generating device for generating an operation plan of a plurality of pieces of equipment for supplying energy from an energy supply network to a customer includes a group unit characteristic generating unit that divides the plurality of pieces of equipment into a plurality of groups, and generates group unit characteristic information indicating an energy consumption amount with respect to magnitude of output of a group unit from device unit characteristic information indicating an energy consumption amount with respect to magnitude of output of the equipment, a group unit plan generating unit that generates group unit operation plan information by regarding the plurality of pieces of equipment in the group as one equipment based on demand forecast information of the customer and the group unit characteristic information, and an equipment unit plan generating unit that generates the operation plan for each equipment based on the group unit operation plan information and

Abstract: A diagnostic device for a sensor 100 provided in an exhaust passage 11 of an internal combustion engine 10 of a vehicle and detecting nitrogen compounds in exhaust gas, the diagnostic device including an offset diagnosis unit 42 which diagnoses, during deceleration of the vehicle in which the internal combustion engine 10 stops fuel injection, an offset amount of a sensor value of the sensor 100 from a zero point based on the sensor value of the sensor value, and a diagnosis prohibition unit 44 which prohibits the diagnosing of the offset amount when a flow rate of the exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine 10 rapidly increases while the offset amount is diagnosed by the offset diagnosis unit 42.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display control unit that displays a list screen of thumbnails associated with content, an execution unit that executes any application using the content associated with the thumbnails, and an image generation unit that generates an execution state image showing an execution state of the application by the execution unit, wherein the display control unit displays the execution state image generated by the image generation unit in at least a portion of an area where the list screen is displayed.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display control unit that displays a list screen of thumbnails associated with content, an execution unit that executes any application using the content associated with the thumbnails, and an image generation unit that generates an execution state image showing an execution state of the application by the execution unit, wherein the display control unit displays the execution state image generated by the image generation unit in at least a portion of an area where the list screen is displayed.

Abstract: A power demand regulation system has a power demand regulation device that regulates the load applied to equipment of an electrical power system by a load apparatus operating by means of power from the electrical power system, which supplies power to consumers. When regulating the load to the equipment, the power demand regulation device selects a load apparatus as the subject of a request for an alteration of operating state on the basis of by-apparatus load information, which is information of each load apparatus, and a regulation target value, which is the amount of load that is to be regulated, and, in the period from the start to the end of regulation, executes a plurality of times the outputting of an alteration request that requests the alteration of the operating state of the selected load apparatus.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to minimize impact on the comfort of people in a room and to achieve energy conservation in heat-source functions in an energy network comprising a plurality of heat-source functions that generate cold water and/or warm water, and a plurality of air-conditioning functions that obtain an air-conditioning effect by consuming the cold water and/or warm water generated by the heat-source functions. Disclosed is an energy network comprising a plurality of heat-source functions that generate thermal energy, and a plurality of air-conditioning functions that obtain an air-conditioning effect by consuming the thermal energy generated by the heat-source functions, wherein the energy network comprises: a first control function that selectively starts or stops the heat-source functions; and a second control function that controls the output of the air-conditioning functions.

Abstract: [Object] To improve user convenience in terms of input operability in a device that allows input operations via the human body or a stylus-like input device. [Solution] Provided is an information processing device, including: an operation input unit that allows input operations by two types of operating bodies, including an input operation performed via proximity or contact of a part of a human body, and an input operation performed via proximity or contact of a stylus-like input device; and an input control unit that controls switching between the input operation performed via proximity or contact of the part of the human body and the input operation performed via proximity or contact of the stylus-like input device, based on a separation distance between the part of the human body and/or the stylus-like input device and an operation input surface of the operation input unit, and also based on an angle between a central axis of the stylus-like input device and the operation input surface.

Abstract: The priority of a demand regulating control for a device is changed in accordance with a simple operation by a consumer. A demand regulating system has an operation unit that selects from among a plurality of consumption devices, on the basis of priority information and a regulating quantity, a plurality of control-target devices, which are targeted for demand regulating control reducing consumption of the resource. A control unit executes the demand regulating control on the basis of a control instruction; and an input unit receives a first operation by the consumer, and transmits first request information requesting a change in the priorities of the plurality of control-target devices, to the operation unit in accordance with the first operation. The operation unit, upon receiving the first request information, specifies the plurality of control-target devices, and changes the priorities of the plurality of control-target devices in the priority information.