Abstract: A door handle device for a vehicle includes: a handle member attached to a door to be handled by a user, the handle member having a front cover, and a back cover; and a handling detection sensor for detecting the handling of the handle member, wherein the back cover includes: a pair of movement-restricted portions arranged at both ends of the back cover, wherein relative movement of the pair of movement-restricted portions to the front cover is restricted; and a flexible portion arranged between the pair of movement-restricted portions, the flexible portion being bendable according to the handling; and wherein the handling detection sensor detects the bending of the flexible portion.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a text providing method includes providing chord input data, in which chords are aligned in chronological order, to a trained model in which a relationship between chord sequence data, in which chords are aligned in chronological order, and explanatory text related to the chords included in the chord sequence data is learned, and obtaining text corresponding to the chord input data from the trained model.

Abstract: A common electrode driver includes an inverting amplifier including a first resistor, a second resistor, and an operational amplifier, and a resistance ratio adjustment circuit that adjusts, in accordance with a length of one horizontal scan period, a resistance ratio being a ratio of a resistance value of the second resistor to a resistance value of the first resistor. A feedback voltage is provided to one end of the first resistor. The resistance ratio adjustment circuit sets the resistance ratio when second driving is performed, in which a length of one horizontal scan period is a second time longer than a first time, to be smaller than the resistance ratio when first driving is performed, in which a length of one horizontal scan period is the first time.

Abstract: The present embodiment is a catalyst for a fuel cell including: a catalyst metal; and a carrier that supports the catalyst metal, in which an outer surface area of the carrier to an inner surface area of the carrier, which is a ratio between the inner and outer surface areas of the carrier, is 0.56 to 0.69, and a proportion of the catalyst metal supported on an outer surface of the carrier is 23% to 35%.

Abstract: A system includes a first apparatus and a second apparatus, the first apparatus comprises a detection unit configured to detect an error, and a notification unit configured to notify occurrence of the error, and the second apparatus comprises a reception unit configured to receive the notification, and a revocation unit configured to revoke a certificate of the first apparatus based on the notification received by the reception unit.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photoconductor drum, a developing roller, a first shaft provided for one of the photoconductor drum and the developing roller, a second shaft provided for the other of the photoconductor drum and the developing roller, a first housing supporting the first shaft, and removable in an axial direction of the first shaft, a second housing supporting the second shaft, and removable in an axial direction of the second shaft, a first contact member provided on an axial end portion of the first housing, a second contact member provided on an axial end portion of the second housing, and located in contact with the first contact member, a first cover covering the first contact member, and a first cleaning device provided on the first cover, and configured to rub against the second contact member, when the second housing is inserted or removed.

Abstract: A control device for a ground power supply apparatus judges if it has received from one moving body among a plurality of moving bodies a first signal notifying it that the one moving body has become an immobilized state on an electrified road at which a ground power supply apparatus has been installed. The control device, if receiving the first signal, when receiving from another moving body among the plurality of moving bodies, a power supply request signal requesting noncontact power supply at the ground power supply apparatus or an approach signal notifying it of approach the ground power supply apparatus, sends to the other moving body originating the power supply request signal or approach signal a second signal notifying it that there is a moving body in an immobilized state present on the electrified road.

Abstract: A viewing abandonment factor estimation device includes a memory; and a processor configured to include an estimation model for estimating a factor, the estimation model including a plurality of feature quantities measurable for viewing of a video relevant to an adaptive bit rate video distribution as inputs and the factor of the viewing abandonment in the viewing as an output.

Abstract: This steel has a steel sheet substrate and a protective film formed on at least a part of a surface of the steel sheet substrate, the chemical composition of the steel sheet substrate is, by mass %, C: 0.25% to 0.65%, Si: 0.05% to 2.00%, Mn: 0.30% to 3.00%, P: 0.050% or less, S: 0.0100% or less. N: 0.010% or less, O: 0.010% or less, Cr: 0.05% to 1.00%, and Cu: 0.10% to 1.00%, in an X-ray analysis in which measurement is carried out using a CuK? radiation, in a case where a peak intensity at a diffraction angle (2?) position of 36.6±0.5° is regarded as 100%, the protective film has a peak having a peak intensity of more than 250% at a diffraction angle (2?) position of 35.5±0.5° and a tensile strength is more than 1,500 MPa.

Abstract: Porous oxide semiconductor particles have a connected structure in which porous primary particles having an aggregate of crystallites composed of an oxide semiconductor are connected to each other and have a specific surface area of 60 m2/g or more. The porous oxide semiconductor particles have preferably a pore diameter of 1 nm or more and 20 nm or less. The porous oxide semiconductor particles have preferably a tap density of 0.005 g/cm3 or more and 1.0 g/cm3 or less. The oxide semiconductor is preferably SnO2 or SnO2 doped with at least one element selected from the group consisting of Nb, Sb, W, Ta, and Al.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a controller that executes virus quarantine using a pattern file, and a storage that stores the pattern file. The controller, when being connected to a network, determines whether the pattern file stored in the storage is updatable, and when it determined that the pattern file is updatable, the controller updates the pattern file, and executes virus quarantine by using the updated pattern file.

Abstract: [Problem] There is provided an exhaust system capable of sufficiently exhausting a fuel leakage gas leaked from a marine internal combustion engine without diffusing the fuel leakage gas into an engine room. [Solution] An exhaust system according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: an exhaust duct provided above a marine internal combustion engine installed in an engine room of a ship; and a suction fan that sucks a fuel leakage gas leaking from the marine internal combustion engine into the inside of the exhaust duct from an engine upper unit side of the marine internal combustion engine. The exhaust duct exhausts the fuel leakage gas sucked by the suction fan to the outside of the engine.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a feeding roller, a conveyance roller, a first driving unit configured to drive the conveyance roller, a second driving unit configured to drive the feeding roller, a control unit configured to control the first and second driving units, a detection unit configured to detect an error related to the second driving unit, and a determination unit configured to determine, when the detection unit has detected the error related to the second driving unit, whether to continue the conveyance of a first print medium based on a leading edge position of a second print medium. In a case in which an error is detected by the detection unit, the control unit controls the conveyance of the first print medium by the conveyance roller based on a determination result of the determination unit.

Abstract: A video streaming device that divides a video in which a plurality of viewing directions are defined into divided data pieces and distributes each of the divided data pieces in a chronological order. The video streaming device includes: a prediction unit that refers to information indicating the viewing direction of a viewer for each of the divided data pieces with respect to multiple views of the video in the past, and predicts, for a terminal playing the video, the viewing direction of a user of the terminal in a first divided data piece that is undistributed; and a streaming unit that distributes the first divided data piece to the terminal by setting an area corresponding to the viewing direction predicted by the prediction unit to be in a relatively high image quality among selectable image qualities. Thereby, probability of viewing the video of a low image quality is decreased.

Abstract: A light detecting device includes a reception optical system that guides a reflected beam along a reception optical axis and a light receiver that outputs a detection signal by receiving the reflected beam. The light receiver forms a reception surface having a reception aspect ratio in which a long side extends along a first reference axis orthogonal to the reception optical axis. The reception surface is inclined around the first reference axis with respect to a second reference axis orthogonal to the reception optical axis and the first reference axis.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a connector, a conveyance unit, and a controller. The conveyance unit includes first and second sensors, first and second light sources, and a capacitor. Based on the first and second sensors, the controller determines a position of a paper jam having occurred during an image formation job. The first light source is turned-on when the position of the paper jam corresponds to a position of the first sensor and the second light source is turned-on when the position of the paper jam corresponds to a position of the second sensor. When the conveyance unit is pulled out of the image forming apparatus, the connector shuts off the electrical connection between the conveyance unit and a power source, and a light source controlled to turn on by the controller glows based on electric power accumulated in the capacitor during the image formation job.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer containing metal atoms, a charge storage layer provided on a surface of the semiconductor layer via a first insulating film, and an electrode layer provided on a surface of the charge storage layer via a second insulating film. The thickness of the first insulating film is 5 nm or more and 10 nm or less. The concentration of the metal atoms in the semiconductor layer is 5.0×1017 [EA/cm3] or higher and 1.3×1020 [EA/cm3] or lower.

Abstract: A sheet sorting apparatus includes a second tray arranged below a first tray detachable from a main body having a first discharge port corresponding to the first tray and a second discharge port corresponding to the second tray, a discharge unit, a tray detecting unit, and a control unit. The discharge unit discharges a sheet toward the first or second discharge port. In a state that the first tray is detached from the main body and the discharge unit discharges sheets from the first discharge port to the second tray and then the first tray is detected as attached to the main body, the control unit selects a discharge destination of a second sheet, subsequent to a first sheet discharged and stacked first after the first tray is attached to the main body, such that the second sheet is stacked on a tray having the first sheet thereon.

Abstract: A feature amount acquisition device (100) includes an activation level calculator (12) deriving, as an activation level, a level at which, in a CNN classifier (11) including a plurality of layers and configured to, by processing input data based on image data of an input image capturing a first target and a second target around the first target in the layers, output a classification result of the first target, an unit in a layer among the layers influences a classification result and a feature amount acquirer (14) acquiring, based on the derived activation level and the image data of the input image, a feature amount of the input image so that a feature amount of a low activation level image region that is a region in the input image corresponding to a second unit having a lower activation level than a first unit is smaller than a feature amount of a high activation level image region that is a region in the input image corresponding to the first unit.