Abstract: An information processing device that performs communication via a network includes: a storage unit that stores a receiving unit that receives data acquired by a device; the data; and past data received by the receiving unit before the data; a calculating unit that calculates a delay time in the network; a determination unit that determines, based on the calculated delay time, one or more past data used for prediction of future data that is not received by the receiving unit from the past data stored in the storage unit; and a predicting unit that predicts the future data using the determined past data.

Abstract: An image sensor includes an optical system including a liquid lens, a nonvolatile memory that stores property information about an amount of change in a refractive power of the liquid lens in response to an application voltage, a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of the liquid lens, and a body module. The optical system, the nonvolatile memory, and the temperature sensor are disconnectable from the body module that includes a controller that performs image processing on image data received from a imaging device and performs liquid lens control for determining the application voltage to be applied to the liquid lens based on the property information stored in the nonvolatile memory, the temperature of the liquid lens detected by the temperature sensor, and a target value for the refractive power of the liquid lens and applying the application voltage to the liquid lens.

Abstract: A blank panel of the present disclosure includes a partial panel and a partial panel, in which the partial panel includes an attachment portion attached to a rack and a link portion linked to the partial panel, and the partial panel includes an attachment portion attached to the rack and a link portion linked to the partial panel.

Abstract: In the case in which a blank panel having holes is mounted obliquely on a rack having holes, the blank panel includes an alignment mechanism for aligning the holes with the holes having a misalignment. For example, the alignment mechanism is a mechanism which causes the blank panel to have a shape in which corners of the blank panel are cut out.

Abstract: [Problem] To reduce a setting burden on a media path in a media gateway. [Solution] A MG (1) includes a first interface for connecting to a first network among a plurality of communication networks, a second interface for connecting to a second network among a plurality of communication networks, and a test command issuing unit (13) configured to establish, when a mapping between the first interface and the second interface is set by first setting data for associating a media path ID in the first interface with a termination ID in the first interface and second setting data for associating a media path ID in the second interface with a termination ID in the second interface, a test call for a media path passing through the first interface and the second interface based on the mapping and test, by assigning a resource to the media path that is established, whether data transmission and reception are possible on the media path that is established.

Abstract: A link management device with a special function is connected to the IP network, and the link management device controls a process of establishing a link between an IP converter device and a signal transfer point. The IP converter device transmits a request including a point code to the link management device, and the link management device determines the IP address and the like of the signal transfer point as a connection destination from the received point code. The link management device transmits information for identifying the signal transfer point to the IP converter device, and also transmits information for identifying the IP converter device to the signal transfer point as the connection destination. The port number of the IP converter device is determined by the link management device. The port number of the signal transfer point is determined by the link management device.

Abstract: An ultrasonic apparatus includes a transmitting circuit, an ultrasonic transducer, a receiving circuit, and a capacitance measuring circuit. The ultrasonic transducer is a three-terminal ultrasonic transducer that includes a transmitting electrode, a receiving electrode, and a common electrode. The transmitting circuit outputs a driving signal to the transmitting electrode to cause the ultrasonic transducer to transmit ultrasonic waves. The receiving circuit receives a receive signal from the receiving electrode. The capacitance measuring circuit is electrically connected to the receiving electrode to measure the electrostatic capacitance of the ultrasonic transducer.

Abstract: An image sensor includes a body module including a refractive power controller that adjusts an application voltage applicable to a liquid lens in a lens module to control a refractive power of the liquid lens, a recognition processor that analyzes, after a preset period elapses from when the refractive power controller changes the application voltage to the liquid lens, image data from an imaging device in an imaging module, and an adjuster that reads first information from a memory in the lens module and second information from a memory in the imaging module and adjusts, based on the first and second information, the preset period to a period corresponding to a combination of the lens module and the imaging device. The first information indicates a specification for or a type of the lens module. The second information indicates a specification for or a type of the imaging device.

Abstract: An ultrasonic apparatus includes an ultrasonic transducer, a transmitting circuit, a receiving circuit, a Q-factor measuring circuit, and a frequency measuring circuit. The ultrasonic transducer is a three-terminal ultrasonic transducer that includes a transmitting electrode, a receiving electrode, and a common electrode. The transmitting circuit outputs a driving signal to the transmitting electrode to cause the ultrasonic transducer to transmit ultrasonic waves. The receiving circuit receives a receive signal from the receiving electrode. The frequency measuring circuit measures a resonant frequency of the ultrasonic transducer from a reverberation signal in the receive signal. The Q-factor measuring circuit measures a Q factor of the ultrasonic transducer from the reverberation signal in the receive signal.

Abstract: An image sensor includes an imaging device, an optical system including a liquid lens, a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of the liquid lens, a heater that heats the liquid lens, a temperature adjuster that controls the heater to adjust the temperature of the liquid lens to a predetermined temperature, a nonvolatile memory storing property information about the liquid lens, a refractive power controller that determines, based on a target refractive power and the property information stored in the nonvolatile memory, an application voltage applicable to the liquid lens adjusted to have the predetermined temperature and applies the application voltage to the liquid lens to control a refractive power of the liquid lens to match the target refractive power, and an image processor. The optical system, the nonvolatile memory, and the temperature sensor are disconnectable from a body module including the refractive power controller and the image processor.

Abstract: An image sensor includes an imaging device, an optical system including a liquid lens to form an image of a subject on an imaging surface of the imaging device, and a controller that performs a refractive power control process of adjusting an application voltage applicable to the liquid lens to control a refractive power of the liquid lens, and a recognition process of analyzing image data from the imaging device to recognize predetermined information about the subject. The controller is operable in a plurality of operation modes each with a different wait period from a change in the application voltage to the liquid lens in response to the refractive power control process to a start of the recognition process.

Abstract: To achieve, when a common-channel signal of a public switched telephone network is connected to an IP network, the automation of the operation of allocating logical links for accommodating the common-channel signal, and thus increase the efficiency of the operation of a continuity test and the like. A link management device with a special function is connected to the IP network, and the link management device controls a process of establishing a link between an IP converter device and a signal transfer point (IP-STP). The IP converter device transmits a request including a point code to the link management device, and the link management device determines the IP address and the like of the signal transfer point as a connection destination from the received point code.

Abstract: A driving assist device is mounted on a vehicle. The driving assist device includes a derivation unit that derives driving characteristics of a user who drives the vehicle, a determination unit that determines, based on the driving characteristics, whether a driving operation by the user corresponds to a driving operation that falls outside the driving characteristics, and an inhibition unit that performs, in a case where the determination unit determines that the driving operation by the user corresponds to a driving operation that falls outside the driving characteristics, control for inhibiting traveling based on the driving operation by the user.

Abstract: In the case in which a blank panel (1A) having holes (11a and 21a) is mounted obliquely on a rack (2) having holes (f1a and f2a), the blank panel (1A) includes an alignment mechanism for aligning the holes (11a and 21a) with the holes (f1a and f2a) having a misalignment. For example, the alignment mechanism is a mechanism which causes the blank panel (1A) to have a shape in which corners of the blank panel (1A) are cut out.

Abstract: A blank panel (1A) of the present disclosure includes a partial panel (10) and a partial panel (20), in which the partial panel (10) includes an attachment portion (11) attached to a rack (2) and a link portion (12) linked to the partial panel (20), and the partial panel (20) includes an attachment portion (21) attached to the rack (2) and a link portion (22) linked to the partial panel (10).

Abstract: [Problem] To reduce a setting burden on a media path in a media gateway. [Solution] A MG (1) includes a first interface for connecting to a first network among a plurality of communication networks, a second interface for connecting to a second network among a plurality of communication networks, and a test command issuing unit (13) configured to establish, when a mapping between the first interface and the second interface is set by first setting data for associating a media path ID in the first interface with a termination ID in the first interface and second setting data for associating a media path ID in the second interface with a termination ID in the second interface, a test call for a media path passing through the first interface and the second interface based on the mapping and test, by assigning a resource to the media path that is established, whether data transmission and reception are possible on the media path that is established.

Abstract: Provided is an ink composition used for image formation by an ink jet method. The ink composition includes plate-like metal particles that include a metal element having a standard oxidation-reduction potential nobler than ?1.65 V, that have an average equivalent circle diameter of 10 nm or more and less than 500 nm, and that have an average aspect ratio, which is the ratio of the average equivalent circle diameter to an average thickness, of 3 or more. Also provided are an ink set, an image forming method, and a printed matter.

Abstract: An additive for oil well cement contains a vinyl alcohol polymer and has good fluid loss reducing performance. The additive for oil well cement is a saponified product of a copolymer of a vinyl ester monomer and a multifunctional monomer, and has a degree of saponification of 70 to 95 mol % and a viscosity-average degree of polymerization of 1000 to 10000.

Abstract: The disclosure provides an image sensor. A body module of the image sensor acquires specification information of each module from the installed imaging module and lens module, generates shading correction information corresponding to the combination of the installed two modules based on the acquired specification information, and performs shading correction of a content corresponding to the generated shading correction information on image data from the imaging module.

Abstract: Provided is a vinyl alcohol polymer having good fluid loss reducing performance. The vinyl alcohol polymer is a saponified product of a copolymer of a vinyl ester monomer and a multifunctional monomer, and has a degree of saponification of 70 to 95 mol % and a viscosity-average degree of polymerization of 1000 to 10000.