Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a message display module which, when a predetermined event is predicted to occur at a set location of interest, displays a message indicating occurrence of the predetermined event and the time until the occurrence of the predetermined event. The location of interest may be set to a current position of the information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus may also include a map display module that displays a map including the location of interest, wherein the message displaying module displays the message in such a manner as to be superimposed on the map.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller that acquires images captured by a camera mounted in a vehicle, and a memory that can store the images. The controller acquires travel data on the vehicle for when the image was captured and stores the image in the memory in a case in which the travel data satisfies a predetermined condition.

Abstract: A wiring board includes: a substrate having transparency; a plurality of first wirings which are arranged on an upper surface of the substrate and extend in a first direction and each of which has a back surface in contact with the substrate and a front surface facing an opposite side of the back surface; and has a back surface in contact with the substrate and a front surface facing an opposite side of the back surface. The first wiring has a pair of side surfaces which extend in the first direction and are adjacent to the back surface of the first wiring, and each of the pair of side surfaces of the second wiring is recessed inward. The second wiring has a pair of side surfaces which extend in the second direction and are adjacent to the back surface of the second wiring.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a press-formed product includes: a heating step; a transportation step; and a pressing step. The transportation step includes: using claws of a pair of first arms to support the lower surface, at both ends, of a first heated workpiece and lift the workpiece; using claws of a pair of second arms to support the lower surface, at both ends, of a second heated workpiece and lift the workpiece; transporting the first heated workpiece with the lower surface supported, at both ends, by the claws of the pair of first arms and the second heated workpiece with the lower surface supported, at both ends, by the claws of the pair of second arms, where the first and second heated workpieces overlap each other in the direction normal to the sheet surfaces; driving the pair of first arms to lower the first heated workpiece to a pressing location on a press machine; and driving the pair of second arms to lower the second heated workpiece to a pressing location on the press machine.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a press-formed product includes a heating step, a transportation step, and a pressing step. At the heating step, workpieces are heated while a first workpiece W1 is placed on a first group of struts 3 extending upward from a tray body 2, and a second workpiece W2 is placed on a second group of struts 3 to be located above the first workpiece W1 and overlap it. At the transportation step, the second workpiece W2, while located above the first workpiece W1 and overlapping it, is transported, together with the tray body 2, from the heating device 14 to the lifting location. At the lifting location, the second workpiece W2 is lifted upward by the transportation device 46 and the first workpiece W1 is lifted by the transportation device 46 before they are transported to their respective pressing locations.

Abstract: Disclosed is a service providing system capable of providing an information processing function effective for a variety of system constructions as a service. The service providing system of the present embodiment realizes an information retrieval function, a knowledge base construction function, and a knowledge presentation function. The information retrieval function retrieves information on an analysis target and information indicating a condition of the analysis target; the knowledge base construction function constructs a knowledge database for acquiring knowledge corresponding to the condition of the analysis target based on the information retrieved by the information retrieval function. The knowledge presentation function presents knowledge corresponding to the condition of the analysis target from the knowledge database.

Abstract: Disclosed is a service providing system capable of providing an information processing function effective for a variety of system constructions as a service. The service providing system of the present embodiment realizes an information retrieval function, a knowledge base construction function, and a knowledge presentation function. The information retrieval function retrieves information on an analysis target and information indicating a condition of the analysis target; the knowledge base construction function constructs a knowledge database for acquiring knowledge corresponding to the condition of the analysis target based on the information retrieved by the information retrieval function. The knowledge presentation function presents knowledge corresponding to the condition of the analysis target from the knowledge database.

Abstract: The invention provides Scaevola plants that produce at least one flower with a floral phenotype characterised by at least one of: a fused, or partially fused, dorsal slit, a radially, or near radially symmetrical, arrangement of petals, and delayed senescence. The phenotype is a result of reduced or eliminated expression or activity of a CYCLOIDEA2 (CYC2) gene or protein, and or presence of a novel allele designated the FUSED allele. The invention further provides plant cells, plant parts, propagules, seeds and tissue cultures of such plants. The invention further provides methods for the productions and selection of such plants, plant cells, plant parts, propagules, seeds and tissue cultures.

Abstract: A central ECU includes a download execution feasibility determination unit that determines whether or not execution of download of data from an external distribution server of a vehicle is feasible based on position information of the vehicle, a download execution unit that executes the download in a case where the download execution feasibility determination unit determines that the execution of the download is feasible, and a transmission unit that records execution failure result information including position information of the vehicle when the download is executed by the download execution unit and fails, in an external monitoring server of the vehicle, in which the download execution feasibility determination unit determines whether or not the execution of the download is feasible based on the execution failure result information recorded in the distribution server and the current position information of the vehicle.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a press-formed product includes a heating step, a transportation step, and a pressing step. At the heating step, a sheet-shaped heat storage member 5 and a sheet-shaped workpiece W1 placed above the heat storage member 5 are heated by a heating device 14 while overlapping in the direction normal to the sheet surfaces of the workpiece W1. At a first transportation sub-step, the heat storage member 5 and the workpiece W1 placed above the heat storage member 5 are transported from the heating device 14 to a lifting location while overlapping in the direction normal to the sheet surfaces of the workpiece W1. At a second transportation sub-step, the workpiece W1 placed above the heat storage member 5, when at the lifting location, is lifted upward by a transportation device 46 and transported to a pressing location on a press machine 20. At the pressing step, the workpiece W1 is processed by the press machine 20.

Abstract: A driving force transmitting device includes a case, an electric motor, and a gearbox. The electric motor includes an output shaft. The gearbox includes a spur gear that rotates coaxially with the output shaft. The case includes a partition wall, a first accommodating chamber accommodating the electric motor, and a second accommodating chamber that accommodates a second driven gear. The partition separates the first accommodating chamber and the second accommodating chamber from each other. The partition wall includes a connecting hole that connects the first accommodating chamber and the second accommodating chamber to each other. The connecting hole is located on one direction side in relation to the central axis of the output shaft. At least part of the connecting hole overlaps with the spur gear when viewed in a direction along the central axis.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: acquire a read image of a document that is read by a document reading apparatus; and control an image output device such that the read image is outputted to a medium with a significance portion and an edge region prevented from overlapping, and a length of the medium in a sub scanning direction is increased in a case where the significance portion of the read image and the edge region in the sub scanning direction in which the read image is outputted to the medium overlap.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus 1 includes a message display module 142 which, when a predetermined event is predicted to occur at a set location of interest, displays a message indicating occurrence of the predetermined event and the time until the occurrence of the predetermined event. The location of interest may be set to a current position of the information processing apparatus 1. The information processing apparatus 1 may also include a map display module 141 that displays a map including the location of interest, wherein the message displaying module 142 displays the message in such a manner as to be superimposed on the map.

Abstract: The power conversion apparatus includes a converter circuit that converts an alternating-current voltage output from an alternating-current power supply into a direct-current voltage. The converter circuit includes unit converters. The power conversion apparatus includes current detectors that detect respective currents flowing through respective reactors. In first and second unit converters adjacent to each other among the unit converters, a phase difference between a first phase and a second phase is changed from a reference phase difference when a total current of currents detected by the respective current detectors is greater than a threshold. The first phase is a phase at a time when the switching element of the first unit converter is turned on. The second phase is a phase at a time when the switching element of the second unit converter is turned on.

Abstract: A semiconductor element drive device is provided to solve a problem that because a case of a change in the temperature of the semiconductor element or a current flowing through the semiconductor element is not take into consideration, switching loss and noise cannot be reduced sufficiently. In accordance with input sensing information (temperature T, current I), a timing control unit 3 outputs a delay signal Q to control timing of driving a current increasing circuit 5 so that a reduction of switching loss of an IGBT 101 is maximized. When the IGBT 101 is in turn-on mode or turn-off mode, the current increasing circuit 5 outputs a drive signal in response to the delay signal Q delayed by a given time from output of the drive instruction signal P. In this way, the current increasing circuit 5 increases the current that causes the gate capacitor of the IGBT 101 to be charged/discharged in response to the delay signal Q, thereby increasing a switching speed to reduce switching loss.

Abstract: A solid oxide electrochemical cell includes an oxygen electrode containing a strontium-containing perovskite-type composite oxide represented by Ln1-xSrxCo1-y-zFeyBzO3-? (Ln is a trivalent lanthanide element, B is a tetravalent element, 0<x<1, 0?y<1, 0<z<1, and 0<z+y<1, and ? is a value that is determined to satisfy charge neutrality conditions), a solid electrolyte containing zirconium oxide, a hydrogen electrode, and an interlayer containing a rare-earth-doped cerium oxide that is provided between the solid electrolyte and the oxygen electrode.

Abstract: At least an electrode of a first electrode group and at least an electrode of a second electrode group are formed in a region nearer to one edge portion of a substrate than to a center of the substrate in a longer-side direction of the substrate, and the electrode that is nearest to the second electrode group in the longer-side direction among the first electrode group formed in the region nearer to the one edge portion and the second electrode group are provided with a space between the electrode and the second electrode group.

Abstract: Provided is a social game capable of, when a new group is created, allowing such a group to progress a game smoothly. A server device that provides a game, in which a plurality of players can participate, is connected to terminal devices operated by the players via a communication line, and comprises: an information storage unit; and a control unit. The information storage unit stores information on a first group, in which the players participate, and information on a second group, in which the players are supposed to participate; the control unit receives notification on acceptance of participation in the second group from the terminal devices, and when it is determined that the number of players in the second group reaches a certain number, stores the second group as a new first group at the information storage unit.

Abstract: A method for forming a composite material that includes a product portion and a surplus portion formed on an end side of the product portion. The method includes placing in a forming jig having a forming surface the composite material before curing; and curing the composite material placed in the forming jig. The forming jig has a surplus forming section provided between the forming surface and the surplus portion. The surplus forming section is shaped in such a manner as to become thicker toward the outside of the composite material. The placing of the composite material includes mounting the surplus portion of the composite material on the surplus forming section to lift the surplus portion with respect to the product portion.

Abstract: A semiconductor optical integrated element according to the present disclosure includes:; a first optical amplifier which amplifies a signal beam inputted from a first end surface; a first passive optical waveguide which guides the amplified signal beam toward a direction different from a direction of the optical waveguide; an optical splitter which splits the guided signal beam into a plurality of signal beams; a phase modulator which is connected to the first passive optical waveguide and performs phase modulation on the plurality of signal beams; a second passive optical waveguide which guides each phase-modulated signal beam toward the direction of the optical waveguide; an optical multiplexer which multiplexes the plurality of phase-modulated signal beams into one signal beam; and a second optical amplifier which amplifies the signal beam guided by the second passive optical waveguide, and whose saturated beam output is smaller than that of the first optical amplifier.