Abstract: Composing messages and receiving messages using text is time consuming and can lose meaning for recipients. Systems and methods are provided to generate a digital message. A digital wrapper is used to precede the digital message. A recipient interacts with the digital wrapper and the digital using an interface, such as a voice interface. The digital message includes, for example, both audio and visual data. A physical object is also generated and sent in a coordinated manner with the digital message.

Abstract: A robot apparatus according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a robot arm mechanism mounted on a base, and a controller to control the robot arm mechanism to execute a predetermined task. The controller controls the robot arm mechanism to move the base.

Abstract: Composing messages and receiving messages using text is time consuming and can lose meaning for recipients. Systems and methods are provided to generate a digital gift. A digital gift wrapper is used to precede the digital gift. A gift recipient interacts with the digital gift wrapper and the digital gift using a voice interface. The digital gift includes, for example, both audio and visual data. A physical gift is also generated and sent in a coordinated manner with the digital gift.

Abstract: A steering control device is configured to control a steering device that changes a transmission ratio between an operation angle of an operation member and a steering angle of a steerable wheel. The steering control device includes: communication lines for transmitting vehicle speed information; and calculators communicably connected to each other and individually connected to the communication lines. Each calculator calculates the transmission ratio based on the vehicle speed information received via a corresponding one of the communication lines and determines whether the received vehicle speed information is valid.

Abstract: A wiring substrate includes a wiring layer that includes a first pad on which a first recess portion is formed and a second pad on which a second recess portion is formed; an insulating layer that includes a first opening portion penetrating to the first recess portion and a second opening portion penetrating to the second recess portion; a first metal layer filling each of the first opening portion and the second opening portion, extending on an upper surface of the insulating layer, and including a third recess portion and a fourth recess portion; and a second metal layer a part of which is stored in the third recess portion and the fourth recess portion, wherein the first metal layer has a uniform thickness at a portion extending on the upper surface, and the fourth recess portion is deeper than the third recess portion.

Abstract: In a motor control device for a steer-by-wire steering device, the motor control device having a redundant system consisting of two systems, a first turning current command value is calculated in a first system, and a second turning current command value is calculated in a second system. A third processor outputs the first turning current command value when the two current command values are not divergent and outputs the second turning current command value when the two current command values are divergent. When a determination of a rapid steering operation is made, the third processor outputs the first turning current command value regardless of whether or not the two current command values are divergent.

Abstract: A mutant MAD7 protein with higher target-site cleavage activity is provided. The mutant MAD7 protein includes an amino acid sequence B obtained by introducing mutations into an amino acid sequence A represented by SEQ ID NO:1, the amino acid sequence B including amino-acid substitution mutations of K169 and D529 in the amino acid sequence A.

Abstract: A vehicle speed calculating device includes a vehicle speed calculating unit configured to calculate a control vehicle speed that is acquired by estimating a vehicle body speed that is a speed at which a vehicle is actually traveling, as a state variable used to control an onboard device configured to operate to realize various functions provided in the vehicle. The vehicle speed calculating unit is configured to include an extraction function of extracting at least one wheel speed acquired from at least one wheel that is assumed to be rotating in a state in which an influence causing a difference from the vehicle body speed is likely to be small, out of wheel speeds of a plurality of wheels, and a calculation function of calculating the control vehicle speed based on the at least one wheel speed extracted by the extraction function.

Abstract: A capacitor includes: a capacitor element; a pair of external electrodes provided at opposite ends of the capacitor element; and a pair of metal caps and or a metal foil, the pair of metal caps each covering a corresponding one of the pair of external electrodes, the metal foil covering at least part of the capacitor element.

Abstract: A steering control device is configured to control a steering device that changes a transmission ratio between an operation angle of an operation member and a steering angle of a steerable wheel. The steering control device includes: communication lines for transmitting vehicle speed information; and calculators communicably connected to each other and individually connected to the communication lines. Each calculator calculates the transmission ratio based on the vehicle speed information received via a corresponding one of the communication lines and determines whether the received vehicle speed information is valid.

Abstract: A wiring substrate includes a wiring layer that includes a first pad on which a first recess portion is formed and a second pad on which a second recess portion is formed; an insulating layer that includes a first opening portion penetrating to the first recess portion and a second opening portion penetrating to the second recess portion; a first metal layer filling each of the first opening portion and the second opening portion, extending on an upper surface of the insulating layer, and including a third recess portion and a fourth recess portion; and a second metal layer a part of which is stored in the third recess portion and the fourth recess portion, wherein the first metal layer has a uniform thickness at a portion extending on the upper surface, and the fourth recess portion is deeper than the third recess portion.

Abstract: Typical graphical user interfaces and predefined data fields limit the interaction between a person and a computing system. An oral communication device and a data enablement platform are provided for ingesting oral conversational data from people, and using machine learning to provide intelligence. At the front end, an oral conversational bot, or chatbot, interacts with a user. On the backend, the data enablement platform has a computing architecture that ingests data from various external data sources as well as data from internal applications and databases. These data and algorithms are applied to surface new data, identify trends, provide recommendations, infer new understanding, predict actions and events, and automatically act on this computed information. The chatbot then provides audio data that reflects the information computed by the data enablement platform. The system and the devices, for example, are adaptable to various industries.

Abstract: A control device for a steer-by-wire type vehicle calculates a target turn angle being represented as a function of a steering angle of a steering wheel, and controls a turning device such that a turn angle of a wheel becomes the target turn angle. A variation range of the steering angle includes: an effective steering range in which the steering angle is an effective maximum steering angle or smaller; and an adjustment steering range in which the steering angle is between the effective maximum steering angle and a predetermined maximum steering angle. The target turn angle calculated according to the effective maximum steering angle is an effective maximum turn angle. The control device variably sets the function according to a road surface condition such that the effective maximum turn angle in a case of a low-? condition is smaller than that in a case of a high-? condition.

Abstract: A vehicle speed calculating device includes a vehicle speed calculating unit configured to calculate a control vehicle speed that is acquired by estimating a vehicle body speed that is a speed at which a vehicle is actually traveling, as a state variable used to control an onboard device configured to operate to realize various functions provided in the vehicle. The vehicle speed calculating unit is configured to include an extraction function of extracting at least one wheel speed acquired from at least one wheel that is assumed to be rotating in a state in which an influence causing a difference from the vehicle body speed is likely to be small, out of wheel speeds of a plurality of wheels, and a calculation function of calculating the control vehicle speed based on the at least one wheel speed extracted by the extraction function.

Abstract: Composing messages and receiving messages using text is time consuming and can lose meaning for recipients. Systems and methods are provided to generate a digital gift. A digital gift wrapper is used to precede the digital gift. A gift recipient interacts with the digital gift wrapper and the digital gift using a voice interface. The digital gift includes, for example, both audio and visual data. A physical gift is also generated and sent in a coordinated manner with the digital gift.

Abstract: Assistive technologies are herein provided to assist leaders in engaging one or more group participants using a combination of private data specific to a participant and public data specific to a participant. The system includes: a group bot that has public group data and private group data, a first bot for a first participant that has private data and public data associated with the first participant, and a leader bot for a leader. The leader bot is data interactive with the group bot and the first bot, and can cause the first bot to appropriately serve private data on a permissioned private device of the first participant and to serve public data on a permissioned group output device.

Abstract: The present invention addresses a problem of providing a high quality seamless capsule, with excellent uniformity of shell thickness and virtually no eyes in the shell. The problem can be solved by manufacturing a seamless capsule using a shell composition comprising at least one polysaccharide selected from the group consisting of agar, carrageenan and gellan gum, and a PVA copolymer comprising the following structural units: (i) polyvinyl alcohol, (ii) at least one unsaturated carboxylic acid selected from the group consisting of acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, fumaric acid and maleic acid, and (iii) at least one unsaturated carboxylic acid ester selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by formula [I]: H2C?C(R1)—COOR2??[I] (wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and R2 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms).

Abstract: Assistive technologies are herein provided to assist leaders in engaging one or more group participants using a combination of private data specific to a participant and public data specific to a participant. The system includes: a group bot that has public group data and private group data, a first bot for a first participant that has private data and public data associated with the first participant, and a leader bot for a leader. The leader bot is data interactive with the group bot and the first bot, and can cause the first bot to appropriately serve private data on a permissioned private device of the first participant and to serve public data on a permissioned group output device.

Abstract: A capacitor includes: a capacitor element; a pair of external electrodes provided at opposite ends of the capacitor element; and a pair of metal caps and or a metal foil, the pair of metal caps each covering a corresponding one of the pair of external electrodes, the metal foil covering at least part of the capacitor element.

Abstract: Devices, systems and computing processes are provided that can ingest human creativity using human inputs (e.g. oral data, text, pictures, musical riffs, white board drawings, gestures, dances, haptic inputs, brain waves, biological inputs, etc.), process and organize these creative inputs using data science, perform real time, autonomous searching, apply data science to search results for supporting and contrasting results related to each topic, subtopic, etc., and provide results and recommendations to the human in real time. As a result, the human is not encumbered with the labor and time intensive research that might already be answered, solved, experimented, written, painted, etc. These efficient tools eliminate research time so that the person focuses on unique theories, thought works, and new artistic works (e.g. what humans do very well). Furthermore, contextually relevant “shadow results” are presented or outputted to the user, which spurs more creative ideas and thoughts.