Abstract: Provided is a nonvolatile memory device that makes it possible to achieve high performance. The nonvolatile memory device includes a first electrode, a memory material layer, a second electrode, and a first buffer layer. The memory material layer includes a first element and is provided on the first electrode. The second electrode is provided on the memory material layer. The first buffer layer is provided between the memory material layer and the second electrode. In the first buffer layer, a segregation of the first element is smaller than a segregation of the first element in the second electrode.

Abstract: A storage device of an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a first electrode; a second electrode; a storage layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode and including at least copper, aluminum, zirconium, and tellurium; and a barrier layer provided between the storage layer and the second electrode and including zirconium at a higher concentration than at least the storage layer, the barrier layer having a copper concentration, at an interface with the second electrode, being lower than the storage layer.

Abstract: Provided are a sputtering target that makes it possible to form a chalcogenide material film with enhanced heat resistance, a method of manufacturing the sputtering target, and a memory device manufacturing method. The sputtering target includes an alloy containing a first component containing arsenic and selenium and a second component containing at least one of boron and carbon.

Abstract: A storage apparatus includes a plurality of first wiring layers extending in one direction, a plurality of second wiring layers extending in another direction, and a plurality of memory cells provided in respective opposing regions in which the plurality of first wiring layers and the plurality of second wiring layers are opposed to each other. The plurality of memory cells each includes a selector element layer, a storage element layer, and an intermediate electrode layer provided between the selector element layer and the storage element layer. One or more of the selector element layer, the storage element layer, and the intermediate electrode layer is a common layer that is common between the plurality of memory cells, in which the plurality of memory cells is adjacent to each other and extends in the one direction or the other direction. The intermediate electrode layer includes a nonlinear resistive material.

Abstract: There is provided a storage control device including: a filter detecting unit configured to detect a voice signal estimation filter for estimating a first voice signal heard by a specific user himself/herself; an estimation unit configured to estimate the first voice signal heard by the specific user himself/herself, on the basis of a voice signal including a second voice signal of the specific user collected by an air conduction sound collecting unit in accordance with the voice signal estimation filter detected by the filter detecting unit; and a storage control unit configured to cause a storage unit to store the first voice signal estimated by the estimation unit.

Abstract: A storage apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a plurality of first wiring layers extending in one direction, a plurality of second wiring layers extending in another direction, and a plurality of memory cells provided in respective opposing regions in which the plurality of first wiring layers and the plurality of second wiring layers are opposed to each other. The plurality of memory cells each includes a selector element layer, a storage element layer, and an intermediate electrode layer provided between the selector element layer and the storage element layer. One or more of the selector element layer, the storage element layer, and the intermediate electrode layer is a common layer that is common between the plurality of memory cells, in which the plurality of memory cells is adjacent to each other and extends in the one direction or the other direction. The intermediate electrode layer includes a nonlinear resistive material.

Abstract: A communication system, a control method, and a storage medium, which can guide a user to an action for having the predetermined feeling in accordance with a feeling map. A communication system including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire present position information of a user; a guiding information generation unit configured to generate guiding information in accordance with the present position information and map information in which feeling data is mapped; and a supply unit configured to supply the guiding information to the user.

Abstract: Provided is a storage apparatus provided with a plurality of storage elements having storage layers comprising a plurality of layers and electrodes, one layer among the plurality of layers being extended in a first direction and being shared by the plurality of storage elements disposed in the first direction, the electrodes being extended in a second direction that differs from the first direction and being shared by the plurality of storage elements disposed in the second direction.

Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication apparatus including a communication unit that transmits and receives data in at least one communication mode from among a first communication mode in which wireless communication is conducted with other wireless communication apparatuses present within a predetermined range, and a second communication mode in which wireless communication is conducted with other wireless communication apparatuses present within a wider range than the predetermined range; and a control unit that, when data is being transmitted and received with a second wireless communication apparatus via one or a plurality of other wireless communication apparatuses in the first communication mode, configures the second communication mode and conducts a control for detecting a third wireless communication apparatus that satisfies a predetermined condition.

Abstract: An information processing system including a recognizing unit configured to recognize a given target on the basis of signals detected by a plurality of sensors arranged around a specific user, an identifying unit configured to identify the given target recognized by the recognizing unit, an estimating unit configured to estimate a position of the specific user in accordance with the a signal detected by any one of the plurality of sensors, and a signal processing unit configured to process signals acquired from sensors around the given target identified by the identifying unit in a manner that, when output from a plurality of actuators arranged around the specific user, the signals are localized near the position of the specific user estimated by the estimating unit.

Abstract: There is provided a communication device including an acceptation unit configured to accept a service execution request for requesting execution of a service, a control unit configured to specify a service providing device to which a request for execution of a service provided by the service providing device is made based on a device record that includes the service and provision destination group information that indicates a provision destination group of the service, and the service execution request accepted by the acceptation unit, a transmission unit configured to transmit the service execution request to the service providing device specified by the control unit.

Abstract: There is provided a server including a reception section which receives, from a client terminal, present position information showing a position of the client terminal, and direction information showing an orientation of the client terminal, a retrieval section which retrieves sensory data to which detection position information is added corresponding to a position in a vicinity of an axial line extending in a direction shown by the direction information from the position of the client terminal, and a transmission section which transmits the sensory data retrieved by the retrieval section to the client terminal.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a communication system, a control method, and a storage medium, which can guide a user to an action for having the predetermined feeling in accordance with a feeling map. [Solution] Provided is a communication system including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire present position information of a user; a guiding information generation unit configured to generate guiding information in accordance with the present position information and map information in which feeling data is mapped; and a supply unit configured to supply the guiding information to the user.

Abstract: There is provided a mobile object including an input detection unit configured to detect an input from an outside, an acquisition unit configured to acquire environmental information detected by a sensor in a remote location, in accordance with a content of detection performed by the input detection unit, and a control unit configured to control an actuator other than a driving actuator in accordance with the environmental information acquired by the acquisition unit, the driving actuator relating to movement of the mobile object.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing system including a recognizing unit configured to recognize a first target and a second target on the basis of signals detected by a plurality of sensors arranged around a specific user, an identifying unit configured to identify the first target and the second target recognized by the recognizing unit, an estimating unit configured to estimate a position of the specific user in accordance with the a signal detected by any one of the plurality of sensors, and a signal processing unit configured to process each of signals acquired from sensors around the first target and the second target identified by the identifying unit in a manner that, when being output from a plurality of actuators arranged around the specific user, the signals are localized near the position of the specific user estimated by the estimating unit.

Abstract: The present invention provides a memory element and a memory device realizing reduced variations in resistance values in an initial state or erase state of a plurality of memory elements and capable of retaining the resistance value in a write/erase state for writing/erasing operations of a plurality of times. The memory element includes a first electrode, a memory layer, and a second electrode in order. The memory layer has: an ion source layer containing at least one of chalcogen elements of tellurium (Te), sulfur (S), and selenium (Se) and at least one metal element selected from copper (Cu), silver (Ag), zinc (Zn), and zirconium (Zr); and two or more high-resistance layers having a resistance value higher than that of the ion source layer and having different compositions.

Abstract: A memory element includes an amorphous thin-film that is between a first electrode and a second electrode in which at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode contains Ag or Cu. The amorphous thin film is a non-phase changing, amorphous material. A storage device includes a plurality of memory elements. Each memory element includes a wiring connected to a side of the first electrode and a wiring connected to a side of the second electrode.

Abstract: A memory component including first and second electrodes with a memory layer therebetween, the memory layer having first and second memory layers, the first memory layer containing aluminum and a chalcogen element of tellurium, the second memory layer between the first memory layer and the first electrode and containing an aluminum oxide and at least one of a transition metal oxide and a transition metal oxynitride having a lower resistance than the aluminum oxide.

Abstract: There is provided an image processing device including an extraction nit configured to extract an object from an image picked up by use of a certain imaging parameter, a ranging unit configured to acquire distance information indicating a distance between an image pickup unit that has picked up the image and the object that has been imaged, a communication unit having a first transmission function, a second transmission function, and a reception function, and a composition unit configured to combine the object candidate image received by the communication unit in a region of the object included in the second image.

Abstract: A method of making memory element, including: a first electrode, a memory layer, and a second electrode in this order. The memory layer includes a resistance change layer containing an oxide, and the resistance change layer being provided on the first electrode side, and an ion source layer in a stacking structure of two or more of a unit ion source layer, the unit ion source layer including a first layer and a second layer, the first layer containing one or more of chalcogen elements of tellurium (Te), sulfur (S), and selenium (Se) and an easy-to-move element that is easy to move in the memory layer, and having a density distribution of the easy-to-move element from the first electrode to the second electrode, and the second layer containing a difficult-to-move element that is difficult to move in the memory layer.