Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer readable media which perform an operation comprising establishing a video conference between a first application instance and a second application instance, and during the video conference: receiving, by an application server from the first application instance, an indication of a first data element required to prepare a tax return, storing, by a notification server, the indication of the first data element, and publishing, by a notification server, the indication of the first data element to the second application instance, wherein the second application instance is configured to output the indication of the data element for display.

Abstract: A wiring substrate includes: a plurality of wiring layers; and a plurality of insulating layers. The wiring substrate includes: a mounting region on which an electronic component is to be mounted; and a non-mounting region on which no electronic component is to be mounted and which is configured to be bent in a first direction. At least one of the wiring layers comprises a shield pattern. The shield pattern disposed in the non-mounting region is defined by a plurality of through holes arranged at predetermined intervals. Each of the through holes has a bent portion bent in plan view.

Abstract: An input terminal that includes a casing defining an opening; a holding member; a piezoelectric sensor; and an adhesive material adhering an outer peripheral edge portion of the holding member to an end edge portion of an opening of the casing. The adhesive material includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion and the second portion differ from each other in at least one of modulus of elasticity, thickness or width.

Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products for processing video of tax documents and associated verbal input provided by a user and populating at least a portion of an electronic tax return with processing results. A video/voice processor associated with a tax return preparation application executed by a computing apparatus such as mobile communication device receives a video of a tax document and voice data. The document type is determined using video and/or voice data. Voice to text conversion can be used to determine what a user said about the document to determine the document type. Tax data determined from the video is used to populate a field of the electronic tax return. A front facing camera may be used to take a video of a tax document while a rear facing camera is used to detect a facial expression, which may result in certain dialogue with the user.

Abstract: A method for producing heparosan is provided. Heparosan is produced by culturing an Escherichia bacterium having a heparosan-producing ability and modified so that expression of one or more genes, such as rbsR, rbsK, rbsB, hsrA, glgB, glgX, micF, rcsD, rcsB, ybiX, ybil, ybiJ, ybiC, ybiB, rfaH, nusG, pcoR, pcoS, pcoE, yhcN, yhcO, aaeB, aaeA, aaeX, g1455, alpA, g1453, yrbA, mlaB, mlaC, mlaD, mlaE, mlaF, yrbG, norW, ybjI, ybjJ, ybjK, rybB, yjjY, yjtD, thrL, thrA, thrB, fruA, psuK, ytfT, yjfF, fbp, yagU, paoA, paoB, gsiC, gsiD, yliE, irp2, irp1, bhsA, ycfS, lepB, rnc, era, dapA, gcvR, bcp, hyfA, rpoE, nadB, yfiC, srmB, g1414, g1413, nuoE, nuoF, nuoG, glmZ, hemY, hemX, hemD, rlmL, artQ, artM, artJ, rlmC, ybjO, yejO, yejM, yejL, rpoS, ygbN, ygbM, ygbL, g3798, g3797, g3796, g3795, g3794, g3793, g3792, ryjA, soxR, soxS, yjcC, yjcB, efeU, and efeO, is/are increased in a medium, and collecting heparosan from the medium.

Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products for processing video of tax documents and associated verbal input provided by a user and populating at least a portion of an electronic tax return with processing results. A video/voice processor associated with a tax return preparation application executed by a computing apparatus such as mobile communication device receives a video of a tax document and voice data. The document type is determined using video and/or voice data. Voice to text conversion can be used to determine what a user said about the document to determine the document type. Tax data determined from the video is used to populate a field of the electronic tax return. A front facing camera may be used to take a video of a tax document while a rear facing camera is used to detect a facial expression, which may result in certain dialogue with the user.

Abstract: Provided is a titanium cast product for hot rolling made of commercial pure titanium or a titanium alloy, the titanium cast product including, in a surface serving as a rolling surface, a fine structure layer that is formed of an acicular structure formed in the outermost surface by melting and re-solidification treatment and that has a thickness of more than or equal to 5 mm and less than 9 mm in depth. In the titanium cast product for hot rolling according to the present invention, the surface is flat, the number of minute voids in the interior immediately below the surface is small, and the outermost surface has a significantly fine structure. When the titanium cast product is subjected to hot rolling, the occurrence of concavities on the surface in the early stage of hot rolling and the occurrence of surface defects on the hot rolled sheet can be stably prevented at a practical level.

Abstract: An operation detection device that includes a panel that receives a touch operation from a first main surface or a second main surface; a pressing operation detection unit that detects a pressing operation on the first main surface or the second main surface of the panel; an electrostatic capacitance sensor that detects the touch operation on the first main surface or the second main surface of the panel; and a control unit that determines, according to a detection result of the pressing operation detection unit, which of the first main surface and the second main surface the pressing operation is performed and switches a driving mode of the electrostatic capacitance sensor.

Abstract: An electronic device is provided that includes a flexible body, a stress sensor, and a detector. The stress sensor has a piezoelectric film that is deformed by a stress resulting from bending of the body. The stress sensor detects stresses that develop respectively at an end part and a central part of the body. When the end part and the central part are bent at the same radius of curvature, the stress sensor outputs output values such that a first output value based on a stress having developed at the end part is different from a second output value based on a stress having developed at the central part. Moreover, the detector detects at least one of the first output value and the second output value having exceeded a given threshold.

Abstract: A piezoelectric sensor includes: a piezoelectric sheet which is stretched in a uniaxial direction; an electrode which detects electric charges generated in the piezoelectric sheet; and an optical compensation layer which includes a slow axis stacked on at least one side of the piezoelectric sheet and intersects the uniaxial direction, and optically compensates for a phase difference produced when the piezoelectric sheet is stretched in the uniaxial direction.

Abstract: A wiring substrate includes a plurality of wiring layers, a component mounting part on which an electronic component can be mounted, and a component non-mounting part on which an electronic component cannot be mounted. A portion located in the component non-mounting part of one wiring layer of the plurality of the wiring layers includes a plurality of first through-holes having an elongated shape as seen from above and aligned with predetermined intervals with longitudinal directions of the first through-holes being faced toward a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the wiring substrate.

Abstract: A press detecting touch panel that includes a housing defining an opening, a piezoelectric film, and a holding member which holds the piezoelectric film within the opening. An entire periphery of the holding member is fixed to the housing such that the holding member covers the opening, and a first cross sectional shape along a first direction of the holding member is different than a second cross sectional shape along a second direction of the holding member.

Abstract: A welding apparatus includes a housing having facing surfaces in the axial direction, and a welding head turning gear and first to third ring gears inside of the housing. A guide surface is formed on the facing surfaces. The welding head turning gear is coupled to a guide member, and the first to third ring gears are supported by the welding head turning gear and the guide member. Since a roller provided to the guide member rolls on the guide surface to rotatably support the first to third ring gears with respect to the housing, the welding apparatus can be lighter in weight and more compact compared to a conventional welding apparatus.

Abstract: An apparatus for moving a counterweight includes an attachment fixed to a frame of a machine, a supporting member that includes a supporting face for placing a counterweight thereon when the counterweight is mounted on the machine, and a link mechanism that moves the counterweight. The link mechanism includes an arm and a rotating cylinder that rotates the arm. One end of the arm is pivotally supported by the attachment while the other end of the arm is pivotally supported by the upper inner portion of a recess of the counterweight. One end of the rotating cylinder is pivotally supported by the upper inner portion of the recess of the counterweight. The supporting face is shaped so as to coincide with the arc locus drawn by a contact face arranged on the side of the counterweight, as the counterweight moves. The contact face comes into contact with the supporting face when the counterweight is mounted on the machine.

Abstract: A control method of a continuously variable transmission mounted on a vehicle includes performing advance compensation in a speed ratio control system of the continuously variable transmission, and making an advance amount according to a vibration frequency of torsional vibration of an input shaft of the continuously variable transmission which is the advance amount of the advance compensation variable in accordance with an operation state of the vehicle. A feedback gain of speed ratio control of the continuously variable transmission performed in the speed ratio control system is variable in accordance with an operation state of the vehicle. When the advance amount is made variable, the advance amount is made variable in accordance with the feedback gain.

Abstract: Provided is a titanium cast product made of commercially pure titanium, the titanium cast product being produced by electron-beam remelting or plasma arc melting, comprising: a melted and resolidified layer in a range of 1 mm or more in depth at a surface serving as a surface to be rolled, the melted and resolidified layer being obtained by adding one or more kinds of ?stabilizer elements to the surface and melting and resolidifying the surface. An average value of ? stabilizer element(s) concentration in a range of within 1 mm in depth is higher than ?stabilizer element(s) concentration in a base material by, in mass %, equal to or more than 0.08 mass % and equal to or less than 1.50 mass %. As the material containing the ? stabilizer element, powder, a chip, wire, or foil is used. As means for melting a surface layer, electron-beam heating and plasma arc heating are used.

Abstract: A display device includes a casing (11) an operation plate, a piezoelectric sensor, a controller, and a display. The piezoelectric sensor includes a piezoelectric film, an optically clear adhesive, a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of first wiring lines, a plurality of second electrodes, a second wiring line, a pair of substrates and a reception circuit. The piezoelectric sensor is bonded to a surface of the operation plate on a side opposite to an operation surface. The plurality of first wiring lines includes a region, which overlaps one of the piezoelectric film and the plurality of second electrodes but does not overlap either the piezoelectric film or the plurality of second electrodes at the same time when a first surface is viewed from a front. The region is provided between the second electrodes when the first surface is viewed from the front.

Abstract: A resin-made fuel tank mounting structure for construction machine is provided that provides a tank capacity without significantly affecting the layouts of other components and easily achieves assembling quality required for the resin-made fuel tank. A resin-made fuel tank mounting structure for mounting resin-made fuel tank on a construction machine including stepwise maintenance steps having plurality of treads and connecting a body floor on body frame and maintenance floor arranged above the body floor, wherein stepwise portion constituting a part of a plurality of treads of maintenance steps is formed on resin-made fuel tank, and horizontal surface of first bracket for fixing resin-made fuel tank onto the body floor is used as the lowest tread on the body floor of the plurality of treads.

Abstract: A touch input device that includes a housing; a touch detecting sensor having a piezoelectric film; a holding member; an interlayer pressure-sensitive adhesive that fixes the touch detecting sensor to the holding member; and a fixing adhesive that fixes the holding member to the housing. The interlayer pressure-sensitive adhesive has a large Young's modulus at lower temperatures and a small Young's modulus at higher temperatures. The fixing adhesive has a large Young's modulus at lower temperatures and a small Young's modulus at higher temperatures.