Abstract: An actuator system that picks up workpieces aims to shorten tact time and to reduce damages to workpieces. The actuator system includes an actuator that picks up a workpiece, an external force detection sensor that detects a physical quantity that is correlated with an external force that is applied to the workpiece, a head unit that is connected to the actuator and the external force detection sensor without a communication network, the head unit being configured to control the actuator based on a sensing result from the external force detection sensor when a pickup request signal that is a signal requesting pickup of the workpiece is received, and a control device that is connected to the head unit over the communication network, the control device being configured to transmit the pickup request signal to the head unit.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a selection unit and an embedding unit. The selection unit selects, in a case where a moving image obtained by photographing plural targets that are present in front of a display screen of a display device is displayed on the display screen, plural related targets that are related to each other from the plural targets, based on a frame image of the moving image. The embedding unit embeds a composite image obtained based on an image of at least part of the plural related targets and a presentation image into the frame image.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a selection unit and an embedding unit. The selection unit selects, in a case where a moving image obtained by photographing plural targets that are present in front of a display screen of a display device is displayed on the display screen, plural related targets that are related to each other from the plural targets, based on a frame image of the moving image. The embedding unit embeds a composite image obtained based on an image of at least part of the plural related targets and a presentation image into the frame image.

Abstract: A specified brand trade screen where a buy/sell transaction of a particular brand is performed is displayed on a user terminal which is used by an investor (user) for an online stock trade. In the specified brand trade screen, a selectable profit-portion sell button is arranged when a sell button is selected and the screen changes into a sell transaction state. When the profit-portion sell button is selected by the user, the user terminal transmits a sell instruction for a profit portion of the particular brand according to the currently-displayed specified brand trade screen, to a securities company system. When the securities company system receives the sell instruction for the profit portion, it calculates the profit portion of the user for the particular brand, identifies the number of stocks corresponding to the calculated profit portion, and performs a sell transaction based on the identified number of stocks.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a receiver unit that receives record information related to a record, the record including information about an item and time and date information about time and date on which the item has been preformed, a classifying unit that classifies the received record information into at least one of multiple series, a standard event specifying unit that specifies a standard event on a per series basis, the standard event serving as a standard in the generation of a structure, a structuring unit that performs a structuring operation on the classified record information in accordance with the standard event specified by the standard event specifying unit, a pattern extraction unit that extracts a common pattern from multiple pieces of record information that are structured in the structuring operation of the structuring unit, and an output unit that outputs the pattern extracted by the pattern extraction unit.

Abstract: A computer readable medium stories a program causing a computer to execute a process for information processing. The process includes acquiring first data, generating first structure data based on the first data, generating substructure data, acquiring second data, generating second structure data based on the second data, generating structure data based on the substructure data, and determining whether the structure is included in the second structure.

Abstract: A process in which participants in different situations define in plural epistemological spaces can be easily accommodated. An epistemological space synthesizing part synthesizes different epistemological spaces to generate a new epistemological space, thereby juxtaposing therein business processes defined in each of the epistemological spaces. An accommodated activity extraction part extracts a combinable activity from the activities of the combined business process. A common resource extraction part extracts a combinable resource (common resource) used or produced by the extracted activity. A pre- and post-activity extraction part extracts pre- and post-activities to be accommodated. A combined business process generation part generates a business process which automatically synthesizes combinable parts from the juxtaposed business processes. An accommodating activity extraction selection part uses information acquired by the accommodation information extraction part to present an accommodating method.

Abstract: A process is described based on activities and dependence relationship between the activities. The dependence relationship is described based on resource and coordination method. An epistemological ground is set corresponding to the domain of the process and other components of the process are described for each epistemological ground. The epistemological grounds are classified according to abstract-concrete relationship, inclusion relationship, cluster relationship, etc., and are retrieved. The activity, dependence relationship, and resource also have classification structures. Setting an epistemological ground or using a global epistemological ground, the activity, dependence relationship, and resource are defined and the process is described and analyzed.

Abstract: A process in which participants in different situations define in plural epistemological spaces can be easily accommodated. An epistemological space synthesizing part synthesizes different epistemological spaces to generate a new epistemological space, thereby juxtaposing therein business processes defined in each of the epistemological spaces. An accommodated activity extraction part extracts a combinable activity from the activities of the combined business process. A common resource extraction part extracts a combinable resource (common resource) used or produced by the extracted activity. A pre- and post-activity extraction part extracts pre- and post-activities to be accommodated. A combined business process generation part generates a business process which automatically synthesizes combinable parts from the juxtaposed business processes. An accommodating activity extraction selection part uses information acquired by the accommodation information extraction part to present an accommodating method.

Abstract: The invention provides an image formation device based on the electrophotographic system, whereby, when an outputted image varies from the halftone area to the background area in the sub-scanning direction, the density reduction of a rear end area of the halftone area that borders on the background area can be prevented, by means of simplified and small-scale processing. In this image formation device, a backward edge of the halftone area that borders on the background area is extracted, and an image data value of the background area including m pixels after this backward edge in the sub-scanning direction, of input image data Si, is modified to a setting value with correction data. The setting value is set to a value slightly lower than the threshold value corresponding to the dot area coverage of an image recurrence start point.

Abstract: To equally assign processing to a plurality of processing units which perform drawing processing in parallel. The drawing data generating unit generates vectors from drawing data. The load estimated value calculating means obtains existence frequency of the vectors on each scan line as a load estimated value, and the processing responsibility range assignment unit assigns a drawing processing area within a page to each of the drawing processing units, on the basis of load estimated values and a reference value. The drawing data storage control unit transfers a vector required for drawing processing in a drawing processing area assigned to each of the drawing processing units to a corresponding drawing processing unit. Each of the drawing processing units performs drawing processing using the transferred vector. The processing result storage control unit synthesizes and outputs the results of drawing processing in the drawing processing unit.

Abstract: Described herein is an apparatus for and a method of performing image-drawing processing on image-drawn objects such as at least characters or graphics with the image-drawn objects as an input.

Abstract: A drawing processing apparatus has a drawing data input section 2 for receiving the drawing data to be drawn. A drawing data determination section 3 determines the drawing data type from the drawing data input to the drawing data input section 2 and passes the drawing data having an outline shape to a vector generation section 4 and a drawing attribute processing section 5 and the drawing data having no outline shape to the drawing attribute processing section 5 according to the drawing data type. The vector generation section 4 prepares a vector representing an outline shape from the drawing data received from the drawing data determination section 3. The drawing attribute processing section 5 gets different drawing attributes for each drawing data type from the drawing data passed from the drawing data determination section 3 and performs processing as required.

Abstract: An overlap judgment device writes job sequence divided by a job sequencing device to map memory constituted at coarser resolution than the resolution of a final generated image. At this time, if an image element where a job sequence number is already written is overwritten, the dependence of the job sequence upon processing order is extracted and if an image element is not overwritten, the independence of the job sequence is extracted. A number allocated to job sequence is written to the map memory, if an image element is overwritten, the number of the preceding job sequence is allocated to the overwritten job sequence and referred to when a final image is generated.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for creating a drawing program used by a printer to print a document calculates the load on the printer for printing portions of the document, and embeds the calculated loads in the drawing program. Document data is converted into page description language commands that are used by a printer to print the document. Load parameters indicating the time and/or the memory capacity required by the printer to process each command of the page description language are stored in a memory unit. The load of the printer for each of the converted commands is calculated for each process unit of the document, which corresponds to a command string, based on the load parameters. A drawing program to be processed by the printer is then created from commands and the calculated loads.