Abstract: A switch device is a switch device that relays data in an in-vehicle network and including a plurality of first communication ports which are connectable to a plurality of functional units in a vehicle, and includes a plurality of first communication circuits disposed corresponding to the first communication ports and capable of communicating with the functional units via the corresponding first communication ports, one or more second communication circuits different from the plurality of first communication circuits, a switching unit capable of switching a connection destination of each of the first communication ports between the corresponding first communication circuit and the second communication circuit, and a control unit that controls the switching unit such that a connection destination of a target port which is the first communication port serving as a target is switched to the second communication circuit when a predetermined condition is satisfied.

Abstract: A tubular insertion device includes a tubular device including a flexible tube portion to be inserted into a subject, a sensor which detects a disposition state of the flexible tube portion in the subject, a prediction calculator which calculates next operation information that is information regarding an operation to be performed next by the tubular device, based on the disposition state detected by the sensor and stored data regarding an operation of the tubular device corresponding to each disposition state of the flexible tube portion, and an output circuit which outputs the next operation information calculated by the prediction calculator.

Abstract: A fiber sensor includes a light guide provided with a plurality of detection portions in a longitudinal direction of the light guide, and a plurality of detection targets each having a light absorber that absorbs light of a specific wavelength, each of the plurality of detection portions including at least one detection target. Each of the light absorbers contains a color material that reduces an influence of an interaction caused by each detection target at another detection portion existing in the light guide.

Abstract: An information providing system according to one mode of the present disclosure includes: one or a plurality of mobile terminals each configured to transmit first information based on own sensor information to a server; one or a plurality of fixed terminals each configured to transmit second information based on own sensor information to the server; and the server configured to generate third information on the basis of the first information and the second information that have been received by the server, and configured to transmit the generated third information to at least the mobile terminal.

Abstract: A shape estimation apparatus includes: a light guide to guide light emitted from a light source; a detection target, provided in the light guide, to change a light quantity of guided light according to the curved state of the light guide; a light detector to detect a light quantity that has been changed; and a curvature arithmetic operator to calculate information related to a curve of the light guide based on the detected light quantity. The light detector includes a light receiving element. The operator calculates information related to the curve of the light guide in which an error of the light detector caused by noise containing dark current of the light detector is corrected based on an output of a part of the light receiving element that the light from the light source does not enter.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a route search system including a route search apparatus that communicates with a mobile terminal. The route search apparatus includes: a communication unit that receives, from the mobile terminal, a search request including identification information of a user, and transmits a search result corresponding to the search request to the mobile terminal of the user; and a control unit that executes a search process for a multimodal route that includes at least one of a pedestrian route, a non-public route, and a public route, in accordance with the received search request, and causes the communication unit to transmit the multimodal route as a search result. The control unit causes a passage schedule of the at least one route, and identification information, of traveling means used for traveling along the at least one route, which is associated with the identification information of the user, to be included in a data content of the multimodal route.

Abstract: A wireless communication system according to one mode of the present invention includes: an information providing terminal being a communication terminal belonging to a first node below, the information providing terminal configured to transmit, to another station, first provision information that includes source data usable for driving support control; a base station belonging to a second node below and configured to transmit, to another station, second provision information based on the source data; a server belonging to a third node below and configured to transmit, to another station, third provision information based on the source data; an information acquiring terminal being a communication terminal belonging to the first node below, the information acquiring terminal being mounted to a target vehicle to which the first to third provision information is to be provided; and a determination unit configured to determine whether or not adoption of the first to third provision information is allowed, on the

Abstract: A float rise speed control tank in a flush toilet is formed so that when the flush water level inside a flush water tank rises and the flush water level reaches a window due to supply of flush water into the flush water tank by a water supply device, the inflow into the float rise speed control tank by flush water in the flush water tank from a window formed above the bottom edge part of the float causes the rise speed of the flush water level in the float rise speed control tank to increase more than the rise speed of the flush water in the flush water tank.

Abstract: A shape calculating apparatus includes a light source and a light guide provided with detection targets to decrease quantity of light guided by the light guide according to a bend shape of the light guide. The apparatus also includes a light detector to detect light quantity information in wavelengths included in light absorption spectra of the detection targets, a calculation unit that makes a calculation relating to a shape of each detection target based on the light quantity information, and a control unit that changes a dynamic range of at least one of an intensity of light input to the light guide and a detection signal output by the light detector for each wavelength range so that a magnitude of the detection signal is within a range between a lower limit threshold and an upper limit threshold of the light detector.

Abstract: A shape calculating apparatus includes a light source, an optical fiber provided with detection targets. The detection targets have mutually different light absorption spectra to decrease a quantity of light propagated by the fiber in accordance with a bend shape of the fiber. The apparatus also includes a light detector to detect light quantity information at wavelengths included in the light absorption spectra, a calculator to execute a calculation relating to a shape of each detection target based on the light quantity information. The apparatus further includes a setting change unit to change, with respect to each of the wavelengths, a dynamic range of at least either an intensity of light input to the optical fiber or an electric signal generated by the detector.

Abstract: A float rise speed control tank in a flush toilet is formed so that when the flush water level inside a flush water tank rises and the flush water level reaches a window due to supply of flush water into the flush water tank by a water supply device, the inflow into the float rise speed control tank by flush water in the flush water tank from a window formed above the bottom edge part of the float causes the rise speed of the flush water level in the float rise speed control tank to increase more than the rise speed of the flush water in the flush water tank.

Abstract: A shape estimation device includes an input circuit, a storage circuit and an arithmetic circuit. The input circuit receives light amount information being a relationship between a wavelength and a light amount. The light amount information is acquired by using a sensor configured such that the light amount to be detected with respect to the wavelength corresponding to each of sensing parts varies in accordance with a shape of each sensing part. The storage circuit stores a light amount estimation relationship including a relationship among the shape, the wavelength and the light amount. The arithmetic circuit calculates a light amount estimation value by an optimization arithmetic operation such that the estimation value based on the light amount estimation relationship and the light amount information satisfy a predetermined condition.

Abstract: There is provided an autonomous distributed type file system which is connected to a data reference device through a first network. The autonomous distributed type file system includes a plurality of storage device units which are mutually connected through a second network and are connected to the first network. Each of the storage device unit includes a local storage and a local controller. The local controller includes a storage directory and a duplicated data maintaining unit. The duplicated data maintaining unit refers to the storage directory, and continuously keeps same contents of duplicated data items in a range without running out of storage capacity of an own node. When there is no free space in the storage capacity, duplicate writing of the data with the same contents is prevented.

Abstract: The present invention provides a mesothelioma therapeutic agent containing an interleukin-6 (IL-6) antagonist such as antibody to IL-6 receptor (IL-6R), and a mesothelioma cell growth inhibitor containing an IL-6 antagonist such as antibody to IL-6R.

Abstract: A light emitting device is provided, including a resin which can be manufactured according to a simple process and deliver a desired scattering property. The light emitting device is manufactured according to a step for mixing two or more types of immiscible liquid materials to obtain a composition containing at least two types of materials phase-separated in a sea-island structure, and a step for arranging the composition in proximity to an LED chip, curing the composition with the sea-island structure being maintained, thereby forming an encapsulation resin. Accordingly, it is possible to form an island region which serves as a scattering center, according to a simple step of mixing materials.

Abstract: A method of generating optimum parallel codes from a source code for a computer system configured of plural processors that share a cache memory or a main memory is provided. A preset code is read and operation amounts and process contents are analyzed while distinguishing dependence and independence among processes from the code. Then, the amount of data to be reused among processes is analyzed, and the amount of data that accesses the main memory is analyzed. Further, upon the reception of a parallel code generation policy inputted by a user, the processes of the code are divided, and while estimating an execution cycle from the operation amount and process contents thereof, the cache use of the reuse data, and the main memory access data amount, a parallelization method with which the execution cycle becomes shortest is executed.

Abstract: Barrier synchronization between multiprocessors is performed at high speed while reducing overhead of parallel processing without adding any special hardware mechanism. A parallel computer synchronization method is provided to synchronize threads through barrier synchronization for parallel execution of plural threads on plural processor modules. The parallel computer has plural processor modules (P0 and P1) equipped with plural processor cores (cpu0 to cpu3). The processor cores are each assigned plural threads (Th0 to Th7) to execute multithread processing. The plural threads (Th0 to Th7) are set in hierarchical groups (Gr), and barrier synchronization is performed on each group separately.

Abstract: A light emitting device is provided, including a resin which can be manufactured according to a simple process and deliver a desired scattering property. The light emitting device is manufactured according to a step for mixing two or more types of immiscible liquid materials to obtain a composition containing at least two types of materials phase-separated in a sea-island structure, and a step for arranging the composition in proximity to an LED chip, curing the composition with the sea-island structure being maintained, thereby forming an encapsulation resin. Accordingly, it is possible to form an island region which serves as a scattering center, according to a simple step of mixing materials.

Abstract: Provided is a method of reliably reducing power consumption of a computer, while promoting prompt compilation of a source code and execution of an output code. The method according to this invention includes the steps of: reading a code which is preset and analyzing an amount of operation of the CPU and an access amount with respect to the cache memory based on the code; obtaining an execution rate of the CPU and an access rate with respect to the cache memory based on the amount of operation and the access amount; determining an area in which the access rate with respect to the cache memory is higher than the execution rate of the CPU, based on the code; adding a code for enabling the power consumption reduction function to the area; and generating an execution code executable on the computer, based on the code.

Abstract: In order to improve throughput by suppressing contention of hardware resources in a computer to which a data transfer unit is coupled, a control unit for transferring data between a first interface coupled to the computer and a second interface coupled to a memory transaction issuing unit for issuing, when one of the first interface and the second interface receives an access request to a memory of the computer, a memory transaction for the main memory to the first interface, the first interface includes a plurality of interfaces coupled in parallel to the computer, and the control unit further includes a memory transaction distribution unit for extracting an address of the main memory, which is contained in the memory transaction issued by the memory transaction issuing unit, and selecting an interface having address designation information set therein, which corresponds to the extracted address to transmit the memory transaction.