Abstract: A ticket issuing system has a processor and a storage with instructions thereon. The storage stores a feature value table that associates and stores feature value data including feature information pertaining to biometric information and a feature ID for identifying the feature value data. The instructions upon execution by the processor, cause the processor to: acquire user feature information pertaining to biometric information of a user of a ticket to be issued; identify, from among the feature value data stored in the feature value table, similar feature value data for which a similarity with the user feature information satisfies a predetermined criterion to obtain a feature ID corresponding to the similar feature value data; and issue a ticket on which authentication information that includes the feature ID corresponding to the similar feature value data is recorded.

Abstract: To provide an endoscope or the like that can reuse an image sensor or the like. An endoscope includes: an imaging unit including an image sensor and an optical component that forms an image of light incident from a first end surface on the image sensor; a cable inserted into an insertion portion and having a first end connected to the imaging unit; an exterior cylinder covering a connected portion between the imaging unit and the cable; and a distal tip piece in which a housing portion having a shape fitted with a shape of the exterior cylinder is provided and which is arranged at a distal tip of the insertion portion.

Abstract: An apparatus including processing circuitry configured to: detect use of a ticket; and grant a token whose ownership can be clarified to an owner of the ticket in response to the detection of the use of the ticket.

Abstract: An endoscope has an insertion portion with a simple configuration. The endoscope is an endoscope having an insertion portion and an operation unit connected to one end of the insertion portion. The insertion portion includes a tube provided with a plurality of channels penetrating in a longitudinal direction, an operation unit connected to one end of the tube, and a distal tip that covers another end of the tube and smoothly communicates with a part of the plurality of channels.

Abstract: An endoscope capable of both improving accuracy of position control of a treatment tool and ensuring a gap for sucking a liquid is provided. The endoscope includes an insertion portion having a round tubular shape to be inserted into a body lumen, and includes: a treatment tool passage having one end opened on a distal tip surface of the insertion portion, penetrating the insertion portion in an axial length direction, and allowing a treatment tool to pass through; and a fluid passage having one end opened on the distal tip surface of the insertion portion, penetrating the insertion portion in the axial length direction, and allowing a fluid that has flowed from the one end to flow through, in which the treatment tool passage and the fluid passage are partially continuous in a cross-sectional view.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a server, a client, and a tag reader. The server and the client are connected via a network. The tag reader includes: a reading unit that reads an endoscope ID assigned to a single-use endoscope; and a transmitting unit that transmits the endoscope ID read by the reading unit to the client. The client includes: a receiving unit that receives the endoscope ID transmitted from the transmitting unit; and a use information transmitting unit that transmits use information on the endoscope based on the endoscope ID received by the receiving unit. The server includes a use information acquisition unit that acquires the use information transmitted from the use information transmitting unit.

Abstract: An information processing server for managing a ticket, including: a server storage unit storing feature quantity data obtainable from biological information and created in advance, feature quantity identification information associated with the feature quantity data, and prescribed data that is identical to prescribed data stored in a determination device for determining a usage validity of a ticket; and a server control unit determining an item of feature quantity data from a piece of biological information on a user who is to use a ticket, determine a piece of feature quantity identification information based on a comparison between the determined item of feature quantity data and items of feature quantity data stored in the server storage unit, generate a code to be attached to the ticket based on an assigned piece of ticket identification information, the determined piece of feature quantity identification information, and the prescribed data, and generate ticket data.

Abstract: A device, system, and method that: acquires information that a sterilized endoscope, having reusable and non-reusable parts, is used; outputs an instruction for collecting the used endoscope from a medical institution; acquires information on the number of endoscopes scheduled for inspection, a predetermined number of endoscopes not scheduled for inspection, and the number of endoscopes in an endoscope inventory; outputs an instruction for delivering a non-used replaceable endoscope to the institution in response to the collection instruction; and outputs an instruction for delivering a non-used endoscope to the institution when equation (2) is not satisfied, equation (2) being: endoscope inventory quantity>number of endoscopes scheduled for inspection+predetermined number.

Abstract: An endoscope 100 is provided with an insertion unit 110 including an imaging unit 120 and an operation unit 130 that bends a part of the insertion unit 110. At least a part of the insertion unit 110 includes a tube 110a formed of a resin. The tube 110a includes a plurality of channels 110b formed of the resin included in the tube 110a.

Abstract: A ticket issuing system has a processor and a storage with instructions thereon. The storage stores a feature value table that associates and stores feature value data including feature information pertaining to biometric information and a feature ID for identifying the feature value data. The instructions upon execution by the processor, cause the processor to: acquire user feature information pertaining to biometric information of a user of a ticket to be issued; identify, from among the feature value data stored in the feature value table, similar feature value data for which a similarity with the user feature information satisfies a predetermined criterion to obtain a feature ID corresponding to the similar feature value data; and issue a ticket on which authentication information that includes the feature ID corresponding to the similar feature value data is recorded.

Abstract: The resin tube is a porous resin that has a porosity changing in a radial direction from a larger porosity at the center of the tube to a non-porous resin layer on a radially outer surface of the tube.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a tool for water supply, which has luster and rarely undergoes the leaching out of nickel. A tool for water supply 100 which is provided with a nickel-plated layer 102 formed on a base material 101, wherein the nickel-plated layer 102 contains no sulfur component, the corrosion potential of the nickel-plated layer 102 in a leaching solution as measured against a saturated calomel electrode is ?0.01 or more (preferably +0.04 V or more), and the Wa value of the nickel-plated layer 102 as measured using a WaveScan device manufactured by BYK is 5.1 or less.

Abstract: To provide an endoscope or the like that can reuse an image sensor or the like. An endoscope includes: an imaging unit including an image sensor and an optical component that forms an image of light incident from a first end surface on the image sensor; a cable inserted into an insertion portion and having a first end connected to the imaging unit; an exterior cylinder covering a connected portion between the imaging unit and the cable; and a distal tip piece in which a housing portion having a shape fitted with a shape of the exterior cylinder is provided and which is arranged at a distal tip of the insertion portion.

Abstract: To provide an information processing method that reduces the burden on a health-care personnel engaging in endoscopic examination. An information processing method includes acquiring use information indicating that a sterilized endoscope in which a reusable part that is able to be used repeatedly and a non-reusable part that is able to be used only once are combined is used, outputting a collection instruction for collecting the endoscope corresponding to the acquired use information from the medical institution, and outputting a delivery instruction for delivering a non-used replaceable endoscope to the medical institution.

Abstract: An endoscope has an insertion portion with a simple configuration. The endoscope is an endoscope having an insertion portion and an operation unit connected to one end of the insertion portion. The insertion portion includes a tube provided with a plurality of channels penetrating in a longitudinal direction, an operation unit connected to one end of the tube, and a distal tip that covers another end of the tube and smoothly communicates with a part of the plurality of channels.

Abstract: A single use endoscope device which is inserted inside a subject includes: a distal end portion which includes at least an imaging element; an operation unit which operates an operation of the endoscope device; a curved portion which can be curved inside the subject by operating the operation unit; a fractured portion which detaches the distal end portion from the curved portion; and a soft portion which is extended from the operation unit to the curved portion. The distal end portion, the curved portion and the soft portion are inserted in the subject, the operation unit, the curved portion, and the soft portion are discarded after use of the endoscope device, and the distal end portion and at least the imaging element included in the distal end portion are reused.

Abstract: A single use endoscope device which is inserted inside a subject includes: a distal end portion which includes at least an imaging element; an operation unit which operates an operation of the endoscope device; a curved portion which can be curved inside the subject by operating the operation unit; a fractured portion which detaches the distal end portion from the curved portion; and a soft portion which is extended from the operation unit to the curved portion. The distal end portion, the curved portion and the soft portion are inserted in the subject, the operation unit, the curved portion, and the soft portion are discarded after use of the endoscope device, and the distal end portion and at least the imaging element included in the distal end portion are reused.

Abstract: A display device displays a first medical image to a user. Touchless sensor technology detects user actions. The touchless sensor technology includes at least one sensor that does not rely on physical touch to detect the user actions. An image processor that compares detected user actions with currently valid user action within a list of currently valid user actions for the first medical image to determine when a detected user action matches a currently valid user action from the currently valid user actions contained in the list. A medical image processing engine uses metadata identifying the first medical image and an action identifier for a currently valid user action that is matched by the detected user action to generate a second medical image based on the metadata and the action identifier. Thee display device displays the second medical image to the user.

Abstract: An endoscope 100 is provided with an insertion unit 110 including an imaging unit 120 and an operation unit 130 that bends a part of the insertion unit 110. At least a part of the insertion unit 110 includes a tube 110a formed of a resin. The tube 110a includes a plurality of channels 110b formed of the resin included in the tube 110a.

Abstract: An entertainment quality control device capable of controlling various types of entertainment quality. The entertainment quality control apparatus includes: user evaluation means for evaluating a user; and sales permission determination means for determining whether or not to sell a ticket in accordance with a received purchase request in response to a purchase request of a ticket relating to an entertainment from the user, based on evaluation of the ticket to the user by the user evaluation means.