Abstract: A route searching device may obtain map information including a plurality of roads. The route searching device may determine a reference position and a destination on the map information. The route searching device may determine a restricting condition for a mobile body to travel by departing from the reference position and reaching the destination. The route searching device may search a route from the reference position to the destination satisfying the restricting condition. The route searching device may identify a predetermined road from among the plurality of roads. The predetermined road may be a road on which the mobile body has travelled or which has been selected as the route before in the past. The route searching device may search the route such that a percentage at which the identified predetermined road is included in the route becomes low.

Abstract: A semiconductor laser device A1 comprises a semiconductor laser chip 2 and a stem 1. The stem 1 includes a base 11 and leads 3A, 3B, and 3C fixed to the base, and supports the semiconductor laser chip 2. The semiconductor laser device A1 further comprises a first metal layer 15 including a first layer 151 covering the base 11 and the leads 3A, 3B, and 3C, a second layer 152 interposed between the first layer 151 and each of the base 11 and the leads 3A, 3B, and 3C, and a third layer 153 interposed between the second layer 152 and each of the base 11 and the leads 3A, 3B, and 3C. Crystal grains in the second layer 152 are smaller than crystal grains in the third layer 153. Such a configuration can suppress corrosion.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus capable of generating a color-reduced image having high object reproducibility. The image processing apparatus: determines a first representative color(s)/a second representative color/a third representative color, based on an RGB value of a pixel determined to have a high chroma attribute/a low chroma attribute/a low brightness attribute based on a chroma binary image/on a chroma binary image/on a brightness binary image, among pixels constituting an acquired image; generates a converted image by converting the RGB value of the pixel having the high chroma attribute/low chroma attribute into an RGB value indicating the first representative color/second representative color; generates a color-reduced image by converting the RGB value of the pixel determined to have the low brightness attribute among pixels constituting the converted image into an RGB value indicating the third representative color.

Abstract: An image capturing unit captures an image including an embedded image that is printed on the basis of image data in which at least a color component has been modulated according to additional information. An adjustment unit adjusts a white balance of the image captured by the image capturing unit on the basis of an adjustment value associated with the embedded image. A processing unit processes image data of the image captured by the image capturing unit whose white balance has been adjusted by the adjustment unit to read the additional information in the image captured by the image capturing unit.

Abstract: A cause-effect sentence analysis device including: a cause-effect sentence extraction unit configured to extract a cause-effect sentence including a cause expression and an effect expression from a text; an acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating a reference expression for analyzing the degree of similarity; a similarity degree analysis unit, for a cause-effect sentence extracted by the cause-effect sentence extraction unit, configured to calculate a cause similarity degree, namely, the degree of similarity between the reference expression and the cause expression included in the cause-effect sentence, and an effect similarity degree, namely, the degree of similarity between the reference expression and the effect expression; and a desired cause-effect sentence extraction unit for extracting a cause-effect sentence in which one of the cause expression and the effect expression included in the cause-effect sentence is similar to the reference expression and the other is not similar to the

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes at least one processor and at least one memory storing a computer-readable program executable by the processor, the at least one processor and the at least one memory are operatively coupled to function as an acquisition unit that acquires image data by an application for causing a printer corresponding to a printer driver to execute printing, and a setting unit that, if an instruction to execute double-sided printing of the image data is accepted by the application, decides a binding setting of a document to print the image data based on information of the image data acquired by the acquisition unit, and set the decided binding setting for the printer driver.

Abstract: An image capturing unit captures an image including an embedded image that is printed on the basis of image data in which at least a color component has been modulated according to additional information. An adjustment unit adjusts a white balance of the image captured by the image capturing unit on the basis of an adjustment value associated with the embedded image. A processing unit processes image data of the image captured by the image capturing unit whose white balance has been adjusted by the adjustment unit to read the additional information in the image captured by the image capturing unit.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a reduction unit configured to perform color reduction processing for quantizing a color in the generated image data, a change unit configured to change, in a case where brightness of an edge pixel indicating an edge portion in an image based on the image data with the color quantized is equal to or higher than a threshold value, a pixel value of the edge pixel to a pixel value of a color of a pixel having highest brightness among pixels surrounding the edge pixel, and change, in a case where the brightness of the edge pixel is lower than the threshold value, the pixel value of the edge pixel to a pixel value of a color of a pixel having lowest brightness among the pixels surrounding the edge pixel.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus capable of generating a color-reduced image with high object reproducibility is provided. The image processing apparatus includes a data processing unit configured or programmed to function as a generating unit generating a binary image for judging whether each of pixels constituting an image obtained is a background attribute or a character attribute, a first determining unit determining a first type representative color based on a histogram of RGB values of pixels judged to be the background attribute based on the binary image among all the pixels constituting the image, a second determining unit determining a second type representative color based on a histogram of RGB values of pixels judged to be the character attribute based on the binary image among all the pixels constituting the image, and a processing unit performing a color reduction processing on the image to generate a color-reduced image.

Abstract: A center pillar manufacturing method includes: a first step of stacking a projected crest portion and a pair of projected joining wall portions of a primary steel plate on a secondary steel plate, and temporarily joining the primary steel plate to the secondary steel plate; a second step of forming a stiffener by subjecting the primary steel plate and the secondary steel plate to hot press; a third step of joining the stiffener to a center pillar outer member having an outer wall portion of the center pillar; and a fourth step of joining a pillar inner member having an inner wall portion of the center pillar to the pillar outer member after joining the stiffener.

Abstract: A method comprises acquiring print setting information related to printing of image data, and, in a case where the print setting information specifies printing using at least special ink, which is ink other than ink for a process color, during printing of the image data, determining a first method as a method of processing for reducing a data size of the image data and, in a case where the print setting information specifies printing using ink for the process color without using the special ink during printing of the image data, determining a second method different from the first method as a method of processing for reducing the data size of the image data.

Abstract: Arrangement processing for arranging image data on a printing medium can differ according to a printer type, and it may not be possible to obtain the print product intended by a user. A method is provided that includes determining, at a processor configured to perform the determining, to perform processing for generating image data without appending margins in a case where the printer type is identified to be a large-format printer based on printer type information, and determining, at the processor configured to perform the determining, to perform processing for generating the image data with appended margins in a case where the printer type is identified to be a small-format printer based on the printer type information and borderless printing is identified to be executed based on print setting information.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus that makes it possible to reproduce image information without omission and improves the compression efficiency of image data. Character pixels are detected from an image generated by reading an original using a scanner. Color information for use in compressing image data is determined. A color-converted image image is generated on which colors of the detected character pixels are corrected based on the color information, without changing colors of pixels other than the colors of the detected character pixels. The color-converted image is divided into images of respective colors of the color information. Compressed data of binary images is generated from the divided images of the respective colors.

Abstract: Disclosed is an adhesive film for circuit connection. This adhesive film for circuit connection includes a first adhesive layer containing conductive particles, a cured product of a photocurable resin component, and a first thermosetting resin component, and a second adhesive layer provided on the first adhesive layer and containing a second thermosetting resin component. A thickness of the first adhesive layer is 5 ?m or less.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes an image interface, an input interface, a display interface, a manipulation interface, a storage unit, and a processor. The processor is configured to cause a display terminal through a display interface to display a screen so as to receive an input of a key through the manipulation interface; transmit an operation signal indicating the key to the one of external devices through the input interface; and when the key is a repeat key, transmit an operation signal for inputting a character string indicated by repeat information to the one of the external devices through the input interface.