Abstract: A water-dispersible pressure-sensitive adhesive composition for an optical film includes emulsion particles each having a core-shell structure in which (A) a (meth)acryl copolymer forms a core layer and (B) a (meth)acryl copolymer forms a shell layer in a single emulsion particle, wherein the (meth)acryl copolymer (A) includes a monomer unit derived from an alkyl (meth)acrylate, the (meth)acryl copolymer (B) includes a monomer unit derived from an aromatic ring-containing (meth)acrylic monomer and a monomer unit derived from an alkyl (meth)acrylate, and a content of the monomer unit derived from the aromatic ring-containing (meth)acrylic monomer in the (meth)acryl copolymer (B) is from 1 to 28% by weight based on the total weight of monomer component used to form the (meth)acryl copolymers (A) and (B).

Abstract: Provided is a dye-sensitized solar cell element comprising at least one dye-sensitized solar cell, wherein the dye-sensitized solar cell includes a first base material including a transparent substrate, a second base material which faces the first base material, an annular sealing portion which bonds the first base material and the second base material, and an oxide semiconductor layer which is provided between the first base material and the second base material, wherein the second base material has a flexibility, wherein the second base material includes an annular bonding edge portion which is bonded to the sealing portion and a main body portion in an inner side of the bonding edge portion, and wherein a portion of the main body portion is a convex bending portion which is bent to be convex toward a side opposite to the first base material.

Abstract: Provided are a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer-carrying optical member having good antistatic properties, having high tackiness between an optical member and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer made from a water-dispersible pressure-sensitive adhesive composition, and allowing the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer to have high durability; an image display device including such a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer-carrying optical member; and a method for producing such a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer-carrying optical member, in which the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer-carrying optical member includes a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer made from a water-dispersible pressure-sensitive adhesive composition, an anchor layer made from an anchor-layer-forming coating liquid, and an optical member, wherein the anchor-layer-forming coating liquid includes a polythiophene based polymer, an oxazoline group-containing polymer, and an aqueous solvent including 60% by weight or more of water, and the anchor layer

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a phase detector includes an amplifier and an analog-to-digital converter. The amplifier amplifies a voltage of a signal which is output from a digitally-controlled oscillator and is held based on a reference signal. The analog-to-digital converter converts the voltage amplified by the amplifier into a digital signal, based on the reference signal.

Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a water-dispersible pressure-sensitive adhesive composition capable of forming a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer having removability and a sufficient level of adhesion reliability and to provide a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer made from such a water-dispersible pressure-sensitive adhesive composition. It is another object of the invention to provide a pressure-sensitive adhesive optical film including an optical film and such a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer provided on at least one side of the optical film and to provide an image display device having such a pressure-sensitive adhesive optical film. The present invention relates to a water-dispersible pressure-sensitive adhesive composition, comprising emulsion particles each having a core-shell structure in which (A) a (meth)acryl copolymer forms a core layer and (B) another (meth)acryl copolymer forms a shell layer, wherein the (meth)acryl copolymer (B) has a glass transition temperature of ?10° C.

Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive composition for an optical film, includes a (meth)acryl-based polymer obtained by polymerization of a monomer component including, as a main component, an alkyl(meth)acrylate having an alkyl group of 4 to 18 carbon atoms; and a phosphate ester compound. The pressure-sensitive adhesive composition is capable of forming a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer for optical films. The pressure-sensitive adhesive layer that is for use on optical films and makes it possible to suppress an increase in the surface resistance of a transparent conductive layer even when a laminate including a transparent conductive layer and an optical film such as a polarizing plate with the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer interposed therebetween is stored under hot and humid conditions.

Abstract: A method for producing a dye-sensitized solar cell includes: preparing a first electrode comprising a transparent substrate and a transparent conductive film, and a second electrode comprising a metal substrate that is formed of a metal capable of forming a passivation film; forming an oxide semiconductor layer on the first electrode; supporting a photosensitized dye on the oxide semiconductor layer; disposing an electrolyte on the oxide semiconductor layer; facing the first electrode and the second electrode, and sealing the electrolyte by a sealing section; and fixing a connection member formed of a metal having lower resistance than the metal substrate, onto the surface of the metal substrate, with the surface being on the opposite side of the first electrode, in which method in fixing the connection member, the connection member is bonded to the metal substrate by resistance welding, and thereby the connection member is fixed onto the metal substrate.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an input unit, an attention object detection unit, and a calculation unit. The input unit is configured to input a plurality of temporally continuous images taken by an image pickup apparatus. The attention object detection unit is configured to detect an attention object as an attention target from a first image which is an image taken at a first time point out of the plurality of images input. The calculation unit is configured to compare the first image with one or more second images which are one or more images taken at a time point previous to the first time point, to calculate, as a second time point, a time point when the attention object appears in the continuous plurality of images.

Abstract: A display apparatus and a control method capable of preventing its user from viewing an image in an improper viewing position are provided. The display apparatus includes: an imaging unit that captures a moving image in a predetermined range with respect to an image display direction; an image analyzer that analyzes the moving image captured by the imaging unit, and calculates a position of a target that should be guided to a proper viewing position; and a display controller that causes a display unit to perform display to guide the target to the proper viewing position when the target position calculated by the image analyzer is at an improper viewing position.

Abstract: To provide a display method capable of displaying the original power saving effect if a monitoring display of the power saving effect is not made when the monitoring display of the power saving effect is made. Provided is a display method including capturing an image in front of an image display surface included in a display apparatus that displays the image and detecting presence of a moving body positioned in front of the image display surface, deciding a power saving amount of the display apparatus including the power saving amount of the image display surface by using an analysis result of the presence or absence of a human face and a detection result of the moving body in the captured image, and deriving and displaying the actual power saving amount when no display is made on the image display surface on the image display surface when information about the power saving amount is displayed on the image display surface.

Abstract: The present invention is a dye-sensitized solar cell module provided with a pair of mutually opposed electrodes, partitions that connect the pair of electrodes and form a plurality of cell spaces together with the pair of electrodes, and an electrolyte filled into the cell spaces, wherein one electrode of the pair of electrodes has oxide semiconductor portions that face each of the plurality of cell spaces and are loaded with a photosensitizing dye, at least one electrode of the pair of electrodes is composed of at least two layers, the thickest layer is a metal substrate having a thickness of 100 ?m or less or a resin film having a thickness of 500 ?m or less, and the electrode containing the metal substrate or the resin film has a bending portion that bends so as to protrude towards the opposing electrode.

Abstract: A method for an information processing apparatus includes causing display of an image, and recognizing a subject in a selected portion of the image. The method also includes identifying image settings modes based on the subject recognized in the selected portion of the image, and causing display of icons corresponding to the image setting modes identified. One of the image setting modes is then specified based on selection of one of the icons.

Abstract: Provided is a dye-sensitized solar cell element including: a dye-sensitized solar cell; and a back sheet facing the solar cell, the solar cell including a conductive substrate, a current collector disposed on the conductive substrate, a counter substrate facing the conductive substrate, a power generation layer disposed on the conductive substrate, an electrolyte disposed between the conductive substrate and the counter substrate, and an annular sealing portion enclosing the power generation layer and the electrolyte together with the conductive substrate and the counter substrate and joining the conductive substrate and the counter substrate, and the solar cell element further including: an adhesive part adhering the back sheet and the conductive substrate in an annular region surrounding the solar cell, in which the current collector is provided only at an outer side of the sealing portion and only at the inner side of an outer peripheral surface of the adhesive part.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an obtaining unit configured to obtain a plurality of segments compiled from at least one media source, wherein each segment of the plurality of segments contains at least one image frame within which a specific target object is found to be captured, and a providing unit configured to provide image frames of the obtained plurality of segments for display along a timeline and in conjunction with a tracking status indicator that indicates a presence of the specific target object within the plurality of segments in relation to time.

Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a water-dispersible pressure-sensitive adhesive composition that is suitable for use on a transparent conductive layer and capable of forming a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer effective in suppressing the corrosion of various adherends such as transparent conductive thin coatings, in particular, effective in suppressing the corrosion in a high-temperature environment and a high-temperature, high-humidity environment, and capable of providing good optical properties on a transparent conductive layer.

Abstract: To provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a program, and an information processing system, by which a useful monitoring camera system can be realized. An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes an input unit and a control unit. The input unit inputs a first image that is captured by a first imaging apparatus that sets a first imaging space as an imaging target, and a second image that is captured by a second imaging apparatus that sets a second imaging space different from the first imaging space as an imaging target and switched to/from the first image and displayed. The control unit outputs, when the first and second images are switched to each other, a switching moving image reflecting positional relevance between the first and second imaging spaces.

Abstract: The photoelectric conversion element of the present invention includes: a pair of electrodes facing one another; a oxide semiconductor layer provided on one of the pair of electrodes; an electrolyte disposed between the electrodes; and a sealing part that connects the electrodes, and surrounds and seals the oxide semiconductor layer and the electrolyte. At least a portion of the sealing part comprises an inorganic sealing part formed of an inorganic material and on a surface of at least one of the electrodes and a resin sealing part that is connected to the inorganic sealing part along the direction connecting the electrodes and comprises a material including a resin. A region on a surface of the inorganic sealing part on a side closer to the electrolyte than a region connected to the resin sealing part is covered with a protective resin layer that is resistant to the electrolyte.

Abstract: An information processing includes processing circuitry configured to generate data to control a display device to superimpose on a displayed image a control object associated with a voice input, wherein the displayed image is a feedback image of a gesture operation performed by a user, and the displayed image is an image derived from a camera-captured image.

Abstract: An information processing system includes processing circuitry configured to control a movement of a UI object on a display screen from a pre-recognition position toward a post-recognition position in response to recognition of an operation object initiated by a user, wherein the post-recognition position is spatially related to a displayed position of a predetermined displayed feature, and the predetermined displayed feature is an image derived from a camera captured image.