Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a porous body having excellent adsorption performance, an adsorbent including the porous body, and a method of removing a metal and/or a metal ion from a liquid to be treated, with the adsorbent, and, in order to achieve the object, the present invention provides a porous body having a co-continuous structure formed by: a ceramic skeleton including mesopores; and macropores, wherein a surface of the ceramic skeleton is modified by a metal- and/or metal ion-adsorbable nitrogen atom-containing group, wherein the nitrogen atom-containing group is at least one selected from a primary amino group, a secondary amino group, a tertiary amino group, a quaternary ammonium group, an imino group, a nitrilo group and a nitrogen atom-containing heterocyclic group, and wherein an amount of the nitrogen atom-containing group contained in the porous body is 1.5 mmol/g or more and 5.4 mmol/g or less.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a medium processing apparatus, including: a banknote device configured to process a banknote, including a banknote device door arranged at an opening of a safe box and being movable between an open position and a closed position; a banknote device lock configured to switch the banknote device door between a locked state and an unlocked state, a loose coin device configured to process a loose coin, including a loose coin device door arranged at an opening of a safe box and being movable between an open position and a closed position; a loose coin device lock configured to switch the loose coin device door between a locked state and an unlocked state, wherein the banknote device lock and the loose coin device lock perform a switching between the locked state and the unlocked state independently from each other.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing device which is capable of suppressing a deterioration in accuracy of detecting an anomaly and accuracy of analyzing the anomaly, while suppressing an increase in an amount of data to be stored. The information processing system includes anomaly detection unit that collects event data indicating a predetermined event detected in a process of a device to be monitored, determines whether a predetermined index value related to the event exceeds a preset first threshold, and instructs enhanced monitoring of the device to be monitored and the process related to the event when the index value exceeds the first threshold, and collection instruction unit that determines an additional event being an event to be additionally monitored when the enhanced monitoring is instructed, and instructs the device to be monitored, which is subjected to the enhanced monitoring, to monitor the determined additional event.

Abstract: This invention provides a processing apparatus for determining a state of secular change of a deformation of a construction, comprising a selection unit that selects, as a target for determination of secular change, at least a portion of deformations from among a plurality of deformations included in a first image at a first time period, on the basis of at least one of information relating to deformations, information relating to the construction, user selection, or a shape and a relative positional relationship of two or more deformations; a first determination unit that determines a deformation corresponding to a selected deformation among a plurality of deformations included in a second image at a second time period; and a second determination unit that determines a state of secular change between a selected deformation and a deformation determined by the first determination unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus that inspects a state of a target object using distance information obtained by measuring the target object includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire position information indicating a position of a part of the target object based on the distance information, and an output unit configured to output, in a case where a position of a part of the target object does not satisfy a predetermined condition, based on the position information and the condition, information regarding a direction in which the target object is to be moved from a current state of the target object to a state satisfying the condition.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus as one aspect of the present invention detects a predetermined behavior of a person, specifies first tracking information of a first person for which the predetermined behavior has been detected and second tracking information of a second person for which it is estimated that replacement has occurred during movement of the first person, generates third tracking information based on the first tracking information and the second tracking information, and determines whether or not the first person satisfies a predetermined condition based on a detection result of the predetermined behavior corresponding to the third tracking information.

Abstract: In an image processing apparatus, an image corrector ascertains, for each pixel of a selected pixel region included in an image captured by an imaging unit, luminance-value ratios of respective colors of color filters in accordance with (i) a color luminance value of the corresponding pixel of the selected pixel region, and (ii) ascertainment data items predetermined for the respective colors if a measured illumination level around the imaging unit is lower than or equal to a predetermined threshold illumination level. The ascertainment data item, predetermined for each color, represents a corresponding color luminance-value ratio at any pixel in the selected pixel region with respect to a predetermined peak luminance value of the corresponding color in the selected pixel region. The image corrector generates a corrected image in accordance with the luminance-value ratios of the respective colors ascertained for each pixel of the selected pixel region.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an image obtaining unit configured to obtain an image, a first determining unit configured to determine a first image range to be used in making a determination related to inspection of an inspection target included in the image, based on a detection result of the inspection target from the image, and a second determining unit configured to determine a second image range to be used in recording an inspection result of the inspection target, the second image range being an image range indicating a wider range than a range indicated by the first image range.

Abstract: As learning data, an image of a virtual space corresponding to a physical space and geometric information of the virtual space is generated. Learning processing of a learning model is performed using the learning data. A position and/or orientation of an image capturing device is calculated based on geometric information output from the learning model when a captured image of the physical space captured by the image capturing device is input to the learning model.

Abstract: A measurement method includes: measuring a reception intensity of radio waves transmitted from a radio wave transmitting apparatus at an installable position of a radio wave receiving apparatus operated by power of radio waves transmitted from the radio wave transmitting apparatus; and determining, on the basis of the reception intensity of radio waves, if the radio wave receiving apparatus can operate when installed at the installable position.

Abstract: An image processing device is enabled to appropriately restore a contrast of a camera image. An in-vehicle camera has an image capture unit that captures images of surroundings of a vehicle through a windshield of the vehicle. A hood is disposed below the image capture unit and is present within an angle of view of the image capture unit. The control unit includes a luminance acquirer that acquires a luminance parameter indicating a degree of luminance of the hood appearing in a camera image, a whitish blur degree calculator that calculates a degree of whitish blur of the camera image caused by a reflection of natural light by the hood and the windshield in accordance with the luminance parameter, and a contrast corrector that corrects a contrast of the camera image in accordance with the whitish blur degree.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit acquiring a first image and a second image, the first image being an image of a target area in an initial state, the second image being an image of the target area where a first object conveyed from a supply area is placed, an estimation unit estimating one or more second areas in the target area, based on a feature of a first area estimated using the first image and the second image, the first area being where the first object is placed, the one or more second areas each being an area where an object in the supply area can be placed and being different from the first area. A control unit controls a robot to convey a second object different from the first object from the supply area to any of the one or more second areas.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus selects, as a reference defect, at least one defect from among first defects associated with a first image and selects, as a correction target defect, at least one defect from among second defects associated with a second image captured at a time different from an image capturing time of the first image. Additionally, the information processing apparatus generates a correction candidate by modifying the correction target defect, acquires a matching level representing a matching relationship between the reference defect and the correction candidate, and generates a corrected defect by correcting the correction target defect based on the matching level. Then, the information processing apparatus acquires a progress level representing a change in defect from the reference defect based on a comparison between the reference defect and the corrected defect.

Abstract: An imaging system to be mounted in a vehicle is provided. The imaging system includes an optical wide-angle camera acquiring an image, and an object identifying apparatus. This object identifying apparatus executes a distortion correcting process with the acquired image and apply previously-prepared reference patterns to the image which has been subjected to the distortion correcting process such that objects in the acquired image are recognized.

Abstract: To reduce complication of a configuration of a vehicle while suppressing an increase in weight of the vehicle, a camera system mounted on a vehicle includes an imaging unit to capture multiple frame images of an outside of the vehicle per cycle and an image processor to obtain the multiple frame images from the imaging unit and separate the multiple frame images into a first given number of frame images as a recognition target and a second given number of frame images as a storage target to be stored in an image recorder. The image processor separately outputs the first and second given numbers of frame images to be recognized and stored, respectively.

Abstract: To reduce complication of a configuration of a vehicle while suppressing an increase in weight of the vehicle, a camera system mounted on a vehicle includes an imaging unit to capture multiple frame images of an outside of the vehicle per cycle and an image processor to obtain the multiple frame images from the imaging unit and separate the multiple frame images into a first given number of frame images as a recognition target and a second given number of frame images as a storage target to be stored in an image recorder. The image processor separately outputs the first and second given numbers of frame images to be recognized and stored, respectively.

Abstract: In an image processing apparatus, an image obtaining unit obtains, from a vehicular camera, an image captured by the vehicular camera based on a predetermined imaging condition. An image processing unit executes an image-processing task of the image. A histogram generation unit generates a histogram based on the luminance values of the pixels included in the road-surface region in the image. The histogram graphically represents a frequency of each of the luminance values of the pixels included in the road-surface region in the image. A histogram determination unit determines whether the histogram has first and second separate crests. A change unit changes, upon determination that the histogram has first and second separate crests, at least one of 1. The imaging condition of the vehicular camera 2. The image-processing task to be executed by the image processing unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus that obtains, with high accuracy, the gripping position for gripping the target object by a gripping apparatus is provided. The information processing apparatus includes an image acquisition unit that acquires a captured image obtained by capturing an image of the target object, an image feature detection unit that detects a plurality of image features in the captured image, and a unit detection unit that detects a unit of a pattern in which a plurality of image features repeatedly appear. In addition, the information processing apparatus further includes a snipping position determining unit that determines a gripping position using the unit detected by the unit detection unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus is configured to output a histogram for inspecting a state of a target object based on presence of a peak in a specific class in the histogram, the histogram representing a distribution of depth values from a measurement apparatus to the target object, the information processing apparatus including an acquisition unit configured to acquire depth information obtained from a result of measurement of a depth value from the measurement apparatus to the target object by the measurement apparatus and an output unit configured to output a histogram based on the acquired depth information so that a frequency of a class including a predetermined depth value to be applied when the depth value is not obtained is reduced.

Abstract: An image processing device is enabled to appropriately restore a contrast of a camera image. An in-vehicle camera has an image capture unit that captures images of surroundings of a vehicle through a windshield of the vehicle. A hood is disposed below the image capture unit and is present within an angle of view of the image capture unit. The control unit includes a luminance acquirer that acquires a luminance parameter indicating a degree of luminance of the hood appearing in a camera image, a whitish blur degree calculator that calculates a degree of whitish blur of the camera image caused by a reflection of natural light by the hood and the windshield in accordance with the luminance parameter, and a contrast corrector that corrects a contrast of the camera image in accordance with the whitish blur degree.