Abstract: An in-vehicle equipment control system includes a wire harness configured to be connected with a power source mounted on a lower side of a vehicle than a ceiling of the vehicle, and provided in an extending manner from the lower side to the ceiling along a pillar of a vehicle body; and a ceiling side controller configured to control an equipment provided at least to the ceiling, the ceiling side controller being provided to the ceiling, electric power of the power source being supplied to the ceiling side controller via the wire harness passing through the pillar.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a device assisting a user to easily generate, in relation to an issue of interest to the user, a question sentence guaranteed to have an answer of a certain accuracy or higher in a question-answering system. [Solution] A question sentence generating device is used with a question-answering system, and it includes: word receiving means for receiving a word 480 as a source for generating a question sentence; and question sentence generating database 502 comprised of a plurality of entries for generating a question sentence. Each of the plurality of entries has a word as a key and includes an answer sentence pattern co-occurring with the word, used in the question-answering system.

Abstract: A work picking system according to embodiments includes a three-dimensional measuring unit, a hand, a calculating unit, a determining unit, and an instructing unit. The three-dimensional measuring unit measures a three-dimensional shape of a work that is a gripping target. The hand is provided on a terminal movable unit of a multi-axis robot and includes a mechanism that changes a distance between gripping claws and a mechanism that changes a tip end direction of the gripping claws. The determining unit determines a tip end direction of the gripping claws based on the attitude of the work calculated by the calculating unit and a direction of a rotation axis of the terminal movable unit.

Abstract: A work picking system according to embodiments includes a three-dimensional measuring unit, a hand, a calculating unit, a determining unit, and an instructing unit. The three-dimensional measuring unit measures a three-dimensional shape of a work that is a gripping target. The hand is provided on a terminal movable unit of a multi-axis robot and includes a mechanism that changes a distance between gripping claws and a mechanism that changes a tip end direction of the gripping claws. The determining unit determines a tip end direction of the gripping claws based on the attitude of the work calculated by the calculating unit and a direction of a rotation axis of the terminal movable unit.

Abstract: The present invention provides an access control method of controlling acceptance or rejection of access to content from metadata. The access control method according to the present invention includes a step of producing metadata 3A for content 6A and embedding a digital signature 4A of a producer who has produced the metadata as producer information in the produced metadata 3A, a step of embedding an identifier 5A indicating which metadata are accessible to the content in license information required to play back the content 6A, and an access propriety control step of comparing the digital signature 4A with the identifier 5A to control propriety of access to the content 6A from the produced metadata 3A.

Abstract: The present invention provides a manufacturing method of a high performance active matrix substrate at a high throughput with a less expensive apparatus, and an image display device using the active matrix substrate. On a stage moving in the short axis direction X and long axis direction Y on a rail, a glass substrate is carried, which has an amorphous silicon semiconductor film formed. Polycrystallized and large grain silicon film may be obtained by intensity modulating the pulsed laser beam in a line beam shape by means of a phase shift mask with a periodicity in the long axis direction Y of the laser beam, moving the laser beam randomly in the modulation direction of the amorphous silicon semiconductor film formed on the glass substrate to expose to crystallize the film. The image display device may incorporate an active matrix substrate having active elements such as thin film transistors formed by this silicon film.

Abstract: It is intended to provide methods for suppressing the huntington gene expression by using a double-stranded RNA (dsRNA), huntington gene expression inhibitors to suppress the huntington gene expression, and preventives and/or remedies of Huntington's disease. Targeting against a specific sequence of mRNA at immediately upstream of CAG repeats in HD genes of Huntington's disease, the huntington gene expression is suppressed by using a dsRNA homologous to the sequence. In this invention, a short siRNA (short double-stranded RNA) having bp as short as around 21-23 bp can be effectively used as the dsRNA homologous to a specific RNA sequence in a region at immediately upstream of CAG repeats. The dsRNA of this present invention can be used as a huntington gene expression inhibitor, or a preventive and/or a remedy of Huntington's disease by administering or introducing into a living body or a living cell in mammals for the prevention and/or treatment of Huntington's disease.