Abstract: An entertainment system includes a user terminal, a robot, and a control device. The user terminal causes a display unit to display contents which allow a user to select any one character from a plurality of characters for which personalities different from one another are defined. The control device determines an operation mode of the robot on the basis of a parameter corresponding to a personality of the character selected on the user terminal.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing device that controls a motion of a robot having a torso and a head. The information processing device includes an acquisition section that acquires an image of a face of a user that is captured by a camera of a mobile terminal device, a motion detection section that detects an orientation of the face of the user from the acquired image, a control signal generation section that generates a control signal for rotating the first or the second rotating device of the robot according to the detected orientation of the face of the user, and a transmission section that transmits the generated control signal to the robot.

Abstract: A camera generates a first video having visibility lower than a predetermined visibility suitable for a process using a video in a video output apparatus, encodes the generated first video, and transmits the encoded first video, and an adjustment instruction including a parameter for adjusting the visibility of the first video to be equivalent to the predetermined visibility, to the video output apparatus. The video output apparatus acquires the first video and the adjustment instruction, transmitted from the camera, adjusts the visibility of the first video to be equivalent to the predetermined visibility by using the parameter, based on the adjustment instruction, and outputs the adjusted video to an output unit.

Abstract: A camera generates a first video having visibility lower than a predetermined visibility suitable for a process using a video in a video output apparatus, encodes the generated first video, and transmits the encoded first video, and an adjustment instruction including a parameter for adjusting the visibility of the first video to be equivalent to the predetermined visibility, to the video output apparatus. The video output apparatus acquires the first video and the adjustment instruction, transmitted from the camera, adjusts the visibility of the first video to be equivalent to the predetermined visibility by using the parameter, based on the adjustment instruction, and outputs the adjusted video to an output unit.

Abstract: To provide an image encoding device that can record desired hours of encoded data in a recording medium having a predetermined storage capacity, in a VBR encoding system. An image encoding device includes an image encoding unit that encodes a plurality of sequentially input images to generate a plurality of encoded data that configures video data, an average image complexity calculation unit that calculates average image complexity of complexity of the input images in a fluctuation cycle, based on the plurality of encoded data, and a code amount control unit that controls a code amount of the encoded data generated in the image encoding unit based on the average image complexity.

Abstract: An image encoding device includes a degree of importance calculating unit that calculates a degree of importance on each of a plurality of input images which are consecutively input, a degree of importance period calculating unit that calculates a degree of importance period which is a period of the degree of importance, an average degree of importance calculating unit that calculates an average degree of importance which is an average of degrees of importance of times corresponding to a current in each of a plurality of previous degree of importance periods, an image quality control parameter calculating unit that calculates an image quality control parameter based on the average degree of importance, and an image encoding unit that encodes the input image using the image quality control parameter and generates video data.

Abstract: To provide an image encoding device that can record desired hours of encoded data in a recording medium having a predetermined storage capacity, in a VBR encoding system. An image encoding device includes an image encoding unit that encodes a plurality of sequentially input images to generate a plurality of encoded data that configures video data, an average image complexity calculation unit that calculates average image complexity of complexity of the input images in a fluctuation cycle, based on the plurality of encoded data, and a code amount control unit that controls a code amount of the encoded data generated in the image encoding unit based on the average image complexity.

Abstract: An image encoding device includes a degree of importance calculating unit that calculates a degree of importance on each of a plurality of input images which are consecutively input, a degree of importance period calculating unit that calculates a degree of importance period which is a period of the degree of importance, an average degree of importance calculating unit that calculates an average degree of importance which is an average of degrees of importance of times corresponding to a current in each of a plurality of previous degree of importance periods, an image quality control parameter calculating unit that calculates an image quality control parameter based on the average degree of importance, and an image encoding unit that encodes the input image using the image quality control parameter and generates video data.

Abstract: The present invention provides an industrially advantageous process for the preparation of an optically active 2-halo-1-(substituted phenyl)ethanol useful as medicines, agricultural chemicals or as intermediates thereof; and a simple process for the preparation of an optically active substituted styrene oxide or 2-amino-1-(substituted phenyl)ethanol useful as medicines, agricultural chemicals or intermediates thereof. A 2-halo-1-(substituted phenyl)ethanol represented by the following general formula (I) is allowed to contact, in the presence of a carboxylic anhydride, with an enzyme stereoselectively catalyzing ester interchange to produce an optically active 2-halo-1-(substituted phenyl)ethanol: ##STR1## (wherein X represents a chlorine atom or a bromine atom, and R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 may be the same or different and each represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a C.sub.1-5 alkyl group, a C.sub.1-5 haloalkyl group, a C.sub.

Abstract: Microbial cells and/or a preparation therefrom of a microorganism is allowed to act on an ester of .gamma.-substituted-acetoacetic acid, and a carbonyl group at its .beta.-position is stereospecifically reduced, wherein the microorganism is selected from the group consisting of those belonging to the genera Yarrowia, Filobasidium, Metschnikowia, Galactomyces, Ambrosiozyma, Trichosporonoides, Aureobasidium, Phaeococcomyces, Rosulomyces, Dothichiza, Emericellopsis, Calonectria, Colletotrichum, and Ceratocystis, preferably, the microorganism is microorganism belonging to the genus Aureobasidium. Thus an optically active ester of .gamma.-substituted-.beta.-hydroxybutyric acid having a high optical purity is produced in a short period of time at a high accumulated concentration and a high yield.

Abstract: 6-Hydroxy nitrogen-containing 6-membered ring compounds of the following general formula (II): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents carboxy group, carbamoyl group, cyano group, formyl group, C.sub.1 -C.sub.5 hydroxyalkyl group, C.sub.2 -C.sub.6 alkoxycarbonyl group, carboxyvinyl group, carboxymethyl group or oxime group, R.sup.2 represents hydrogen atom or carboxy group, and A represents carbon atom or nitrogen atom, can be prepared by reacting a nitrogen-containing 6-membered ring compounds of the following general formula (I): ##STR2## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and A are as defined in the general formula (II) above, with a microorganism or physico-chemically treated microorganism in an aqueous medium. Efficiency of the above reaction can be raised by conducting the reaction in the presence of phenazine methosulfate.