Abstract: The disclosed apparatus includes a plurality of differential transmitters, and a power supply circuit that supplies a power supply voltage to each of the plurality of differential transmitters. The power supply circuit includes a common circuit unit that defines the power supply voltage supplied to the plurality of differential transmitters, and a plurality of individual circuit units provided in association with the plurality of differential transmitters and each connected to the common circuit unit. Each of the plurality of individual circuit units has an output node that outputs the power supply voltage defined by the common circuit unit to a corresponding differential transmitter of the plurality of differential transmitters, and respective output nodes of the plurality of individual circuit units are connected to each other.

Abstract: A straddled vehicle including a vehicle body frame, an engine unit, and at least one front wheel. The engine unit includes a turbocharger, and an engine body including a cylinder head and a cylinder head cover. The cylinder head cover is fixed to a first surface of the cylinder head. The turbocharger is fixed to a second surface of the cylinder head, a surface of the turbocharger through which the turbocharger is fixed to the cylinder head being a third surface. When the vehicle body frame is in an upright state, a turbocharger rotation axis, the second and third surfaces are positioned above a first horizontal plane in which the front axle lies, above a second horizontal plane in which the crankshaft axis lies, and below a third horizontal plane in which a front end of the first surface lies, in the upward-downward direction of the straddled vehicle.

Abstract: An information processing method includes: obtaining travel information on travel of mobile bodies capable of autonomous travel and remote operation and/or monitoring; predicting, based on the travel information and location information on a first area in which the remote operation and/or monitoring is required, a first mobile body having a travel route scheduled to pass through the first area and being to enter the first area; identifying, based on the travel information and the location information, a second mobile body having a travel route scheduled to pass through the first area; determining whether the second mobile body catches up with the first mobile body before the first mobile body enters the first area; and outputting instruction information for causing the second mobile body to perform following control to follow the first mobile body, when the second mobile body catches up with the first mobile body.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body and a moveable unit. The apparatus body includes an image forming device and a restriction portion. The moveable unit includes an image reading device and is detachably attached to the apparatus body. The moveable unit is opened and closed with respect to the apparatus body by rotation about a rotation shaft when the moveable unit is attached to the apparatus body. The moveable unit is attached to and detached from the apparatus body by moving in an axial direction of the rotation shaft. The moveable unit further includes a restricted portion that engages with the restriction portion that restricts a movement of the moveable unit in the axial direction. The restriction portion or the restricted portion further includes a deformation portion having elasticity. The deformation portion is deformed so that the moveable unit is attached to and detached from the apparatus body.

Abstract: An optical signal processing circuit (1) includes: an FDE-MIMO equalizer (2) configured to generate, based on continuous subcarrier signals including a target subcarrier signal in an optical multicarrier signal to be received, the continuous subcarrier signals that have been subjected to frequency-domain MIMO equalization processing; and a TDE-MIMO equalizer (3) configured to generate, based on the continuous subcarrier signals that have been subjected to the frequency-domain MIMO equalization processing, the target subcarrier signal that has been subjected to time-domain MIMO equalization processing.

Abstract: A chromatic dispersion compensation filter is configured to multiply each of a real component and an imaginary component of each of a first polarization and a second polarization of a polarization-multiplexed optical signal by a filter coefficient that compensates for chromatic dispersion. An adaptive equalizer is configured to multiply input signals and their phase conjugates by a complex impulse response and add the signals multiplied by the complex impulse response. The adaptive equalizer is configured to perform, for each polarization, phase rotation for carrier phase compensation including a frequency offset and rotation reverse to the phase rotation and add, for each polarization, the signals subjected to the phase rotation and the signals subjected to the rotation reverse to the phase rotation.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion apparatus is provided. The photoelectric conversion apparatus includes: a photoelectric conversion unit configured to receive incident light; a differential circuit configured to receive a first signal and a second signal, which are signals respectively corresponding to signal charges generated by the photoelectric conversion unit based on the incident light, and output a third signal indicating a difference between the first signal and the second signal; and an oversampling conversion circuit configured to perform analog-digital conversion of the third signal.

Abstract: In order to estimate a polarization fluctuation speed with high accuracy independently of the quality of a received signal, a polarization-fluctuation estimating device according to the present invention includes: a polarization de-multiplexing unit that generates a single-polarization optical signal from an input polarization-multiplexed optical signal; a photoelectric converting unit that converts the generated optical signal into an electrical signal; and an estimation unit that estimates the polarization fluctuation speed of the polarization-multiplexed optical signal in accordance with the electrical signal.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a first substrate including a pixel array having a plurality of pixels including a pixel configured to output a focus detection signal and a second substrate layered on the first substrate, the second substrate including an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter including a plurality of A/D conversion circuits that converts a signal output from the first substrate to a digital signal, wherein the second substrate further includes a plurality of signal processing sections configured to perform a mechanical learning process, the second substrate including a first signal processing section and a second signal processing section, wherein the plurality of A/D conversion circuits includes a plurality of different sets, wherein the first signal processing section is disposed in correspondence with one of the plurality of sets, and wherein the second signal processing section is disposed in correspondence with another of the plurality of sets.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method of producing a copolymer that produces an aromatic vinyl-diene copolymer having a low glass transition temperature, and a method of producing a rubber composition using the method. The subject method produces an aromatic vinyl-diene copolymer having a content of repeating units derived from an aromatic vinyl in an amount of 18 mass % or greater, and among repeating units derived from a diene, a proportion of a vinyl structure of 8 mol % or less, a proportion of a 1,4-trans structure of 60 mol % or less, and a proportion of a 1,4-cis structure from 40 to 95 mol %, the method including copolymerizing a monomer containing an aromatic vinyl and a diene using an initiator prepared with an organolithium compound, an alkylaluminum, a metal alcoholate, and at least one polar compound selected from the group consisting of water and an alcohol.

Abstract: Masking particles which comprise a drug-containing particle containing a drug, an acid, and a carbonate, the drug-containing particle being coated with a coating layer containing a water-insoluble polymer sufficiently suppress drug release in the oral cavity and pharynx, rapidly release a drug after swallowing, and easily control the release suppression time of a drug. The acid may be at least one organic acid. The carbonate may be at least one water-soluble carbonate. Oral pharmaceutical compositions include tablets, granules, fine granules, powders.

Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide an optical transmission apparatus, system, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium that can reduce noise generated due to IQ mixing in a subcarrier multiplexing method. An optical transmission apparatus according to the present disclosure includes pilot addition means for generating a first digital signal by adding a first pilot signal to a first data signal and generating a second digital signal by adding a second pilot signal to a second data signal, and optical modulation means for generating an optical modulation signal by optically modulating the first digital signal with a first subcarrier (SC1) included in a negative frequency band to a center frequency of a used frequency band, optically modulating the second digital signal with a second subcarrier (SC2) included in a positive frequency band to the center frequency of the used frequency band, and transmitting the optical modulation signal.

Abstract: The disclosed apparatus includes a plurality of differential transmitters, and a power supply circuit that supplies a power supply voltage to each of the plurality of differential transmitters. The power supply circuit includes a common circuit unit that defines the power supply voltage supplied to the plurality of differential transmitters, and a plurality of individual circuit units provided in association with the plurality of differential transmitters and each connected to the common circuit unit. Each of the plurality of individual circuit units has an output node that outputs the power supply voltage defined by the common circuit unit to a corresponding differential transmitter of the plurality of differential transmitters, and respective output nodes of the plurality of individual circuit units are connected to each other.

Abstract: A laminate film including a base material layer and a sealant layer including a polyolefin resin, the base material layer including a first resin layer that includes a polyolefin resin and a second resin layer that includes a laser beam-absorbing resin, in which the laser beam-absorbing resin absorbs a laser beam used to form a half-cut line, the polyolefin resins included in the sealant layer and the first resin layer do not absorb the laser beam, and a total content percentage occupied by the polyolefin resins in the entirety of the laminate film is 90% by mass or greater.

Abstract: To provide a user with a test result of a viral infection or a bacterial infection based on detection data obtained by detecting particles of the virus or bacteria from the user even if the user has not been tested in a hospital or the like. An information processing device includes a test request reception unit receiving, from a communication terminal, test request information including detection data obtained by a detection device that detects particles of virus or bacteria contained in a specimen collected from a user, an infection calculation unit calculating an infection state of the user based on the detection data, and a test result output unit generating test result information including a calculation result from the infection calculation unit and outputting the test result information to the communication terminal.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a frame, which is a part of a main assembly frame, extending along a predetermined plane, a cover provided outside of the frame and extending along the predetermined plane and a circuit board, provided between the frame and the cover with in a direction perpendicular to the predetermined plane and extending along the predetermined plane. An opening portion penetrating the circuit board is formed in the circuit board. The frame includes a first abutting portion protruding toward the circuit board and the cover includes a second abutting portion protruding toward the circuit board. The first and second abutting portions are opposite to each other via the circuit board and positioned in an area where the opening portion of the circuit board is sandwiched therebetween in the direction perpendicular to the predetermined plane.

Abstract: The disclosed apparatus includes a plurality of differential transmitters, and a power supply circuit that supplies a power supply voltage to each of the plurality of differential transmitters. The power supply circuit includes a common circuit unit that defines the power supply voltage supplied to the plurality of differential transmitters, and a plurality of individual circuit units provided in association with the plurality of differential transmitters and each connected to the common circuit unit. Each of the plurality of individual circuit units has an output node that outputs the power supply voltage defined by the common circuit unit to a corresponding differential transmitter of the plurality of differential transmitters, and respective output nodes of the plurality of individual circuit units are connected to each other.

Abstract: A light emitting component includes: a first light emitting element row including light emitting elements arranged in a main scanning direction; and a second light emitting element row including light emitting elements arranged in the main scanning direction such that the second light emitting element row is deviated from the first light emitting element row in a sub scanning direction and each of the light emitting elements in the second light emitting element row is positioned between light emitting elements adjacent to each other in the first light emitting element row, and a light emitting point area that is an area where each light emitting element of the first light emitting element row emits light, and a light emitting point area that is an area where each light emitting element of the second light emitting element row emits light are overlapped with each other in the main scanning direction.

Abstract: A distortion compensation filter whose filter coefficient is adaptively controlled compensates for a distortion included in a reception signal obtained by performing coherent reception of a signal transmitted from a transmitter in a receiver. A group delay ripple calculation device calculates a group delay included in the reception signal based on a filter coefficient of a distortion compensation filter and calculates group delay ripple from the calculated group delay. The feedback calculation unit calculates a phase response based on the calculated group delay ripple. The feedback calculation unit feeds the calculated phase response back to one or more filters having a phase compensation function disposed in a stage before an adaptive equalization filter included in the receiver, and causes one or more filters to at least partially compensate for the group delay ripple.

Abstract: An optical signal processing circuit (1) includes: an FDE-MIMO equalizer (2) configured to generate, based on continuous subcarrier signals including a target subcarrier signal in an optical multicarrier signal to be received, the continuous subcarrier signals that have been subjected to frequency-domain MIMO equalization processing; and a TDE-MIMO equalizer (3) configured to generate, based on the continuous subcarrier signals that have been subjected to the frequency-domain MIMO equalization processing, the target subcarrier signal that has been subjected to time-domain MIMO equalization processing.