Abstract: When there are no customers in a store, a laser is scanned along an aisle between product shelving units installed in the store, and if that laser is reflected midway in the optical path, it is determined that there is an object in the sensing range according to the laser. The determination result is then notified to a user by a site that corresponds to the position where the laser has been reflected being marked in a layout image that represents the product shelving units, displayed on a terminal device.

Abstract: A control method for controlling at least one of a plurality of apparatuses. The control method includes: displaying candidate information and obtaining, via a network, an operation history of each of the apparatuses. The method includes generating a control signal for performing a predetermined control on a target apparatus, when the user confirms that the predetermined control is to be performed.

Abstract: A device that detects an object includes a receiver that receives information about the object detected by a sensor, multiple circuits that detect the object by performing different detection processes, and a control circuit that controls the circuits. The control circuit detects whether the detection circuits are in an abnormal state, based on a change in a state of the circuits, when the control circuit detects that a first circuit of the circuits is in an abnormal state, the control circuit causes the first circuit to stop a detection process being performed by the first circuit and causes one or more circuits, other than the first circuit, to detect the object by causing the one or more circuits to stop performing detection processes performed by the one or more circuits, and to perform detection processes different from the detection processes being performed by the one or more circuits.

Abstract: In a rotary electric device for a power working machine capable of being braked by a brake mechanism, a cover having a bottomed cylindrical shape and covering a yoke of the device, includes: a cover cylindrical portion concentrically surrounding an outer peripheral surface of a cylindrical portion of the yoke with an annular clearance therebetween, and having an outer peripheral surface with which a brake shoe is capable of being placed in pressure contact; and a cover bottom wall portion continuous to one end of the cover cylindrical portion, and connected to a bottom wall portion of the yoke. A ventilation clearance communicating with the annular clearance is formed between the bottom wall portion and the cover bottom wall portion. Vent holes communicating the ventilation clearance with an outside of the yoke are provided through the bottom wall portion and the cover bottom wall portion.

Abstract: An information storage device installed in a removable device configured to be removably installed in an image forming apparatus body, includes: an information storage unit that stores information communicated between the image forming apparatus body and the removable device; a terminal that comes in contact with a body side terminal; and a substrate that holds the information storage unit and the terminal and includes a hole configured to be engaged with a protruding section installed in the image forming apparatus body. The terminal includes a plurality of terminals each including one of a plurality of metallic plates arranged in a transverse direction thereof. An earth terminal, which comes in contact with a body side earth terminal formed in the protruding section, is formed in the hole. The hole is disposed at a position sandwiched between two metallic plates among the plurality of metallic plates.

Abstract: A method for processing an image includes calculating a vanishing point located at a same position in a plurality of images that are temporally successive, receiving specification of a target object whose privacy is to be protected in at least one of the plurality of images, calculating a target location area, which includes the vanishing point and in which the target object is located in each of the plurality of images, on the basis of the specification of the target object in the at least one of the plurality of images received in the receiving and the vanishing point calculated in the calculating the vanishing point, and performing image processing for protecting privacy in an area in each of the plurality of images located at a same position as the target location area calculated in the calculating the target location area.

Abstract: A control method used in a remote control system according to the present disclosure includes: a step of displaying candidates for a target apparatus to be controlled among apparatuses on a user interface region of a display unit of an information terminal; a step of obtaining, via a network, control indexes used to determine a display mode for the user interface region; a step of displaying, on the user interface region, one or more control menus in a display mode determined based on a selected target apparatus and the control indexes; a step of generating a control signal for causing the target apparatus to perform an operation according to control corresponding to a control menu, when the control menu is selected from the one or more displayed control menus; and a step of transmitting the control signal to the target apparatus via the network.

Abstract: Disclosed is a compound represented by formula (1): wherein A1 represents N(O)p or CH; A2 represents N(O)q; R1 represents a trifluoromethyl group, a halogen atom or a hydrogen atom; R2 represents a C1-C3 perfluoroalkyl group, p represents 0 or 1; q represents 0 or 1; n represents 0, 1 or 2; and m represents 0, 1 or 2, having an excellent controlling effect on pests.

Abstract: A mode setting part 112 has a function to selectively set 2D and 3D display output modes. A play control part 132 changes the manner in which to control switching between display images in accordance with the display output mode set by the mode setting part 112. The play control part 132 changes the opacities of first and second display images with time so that when the two display images are cross-faded, the sum of the opacities of the first and second display images in a 3D display output mode is equal to or smaller than the sum of the opacities of the first and second display images in a 2D display output mode during a cross-fading period.

Abstract: An air conditioning system utilizing outdoor air for cooling an indoor space wherein a rack is disposed, includes at least one rack disposed in the indoor space, the rack having the heating element, an air inlet face and an air discharge face; and at least one air conditioning device using outdoor air for cooling and unitized in accordance with the at least one rack, the air conditioning device having an air supply face and a cold air supply unit for generating cold air and being disposed in vicinity of the rack such that the air supply face faces the air inlet face to form a rack row and an air conditioning device row substantially parallel to the rack row, the rack row being formed of the at least one rack and the air conditioning device row being formed of the at least one air conditioning device.

Abstract: An information storage device installed in a removable device configured to be removably installed in an image forming apparatus body, includes: an information storage unit that stores information communicated between the image forming apparatus body and the removable device; a terminal that comes in contact with a body side terminal; and a substrate that holds the information storage unit and the terminal and includes a hole configured to be engaged with a protruding section installed in the image forming apparatus body. The terminal includes a plurality of terminals each including one of a plurality of metallic plates arranged in a transverse direction thereof. An earth terminal, which comes in contact with a body side earth terminal formed in the protruding section, is formed in the hole. The hole is disposed at a position sandwiched between two metallic plates among the plurality of metallic plates.

Abstract: An image transmitted, through a network, from any of at least one terminal having a function of capturing an image or obtaining an image from another device is obtained. A probability that the obtained image includes a certain imaging target is calculated. If the probability is higher than a first threshold, information indicating the certain imaging target is added to the image. If the probability is lower than a second threshold, the information indicating the certain imaging target is not to the image. If the probability is equal to or higher than the second threshold and if the probability is equal to or lower than the first threshold, the image and request reception information for requesting addition of the information is transmitted to the image to any of the at least one terminal through the network.

Abstract: A method, executed by a processor of an image generation system, includes obtaining an image of a first area included in a first image and an image of a second area included in a second image, calculating a first conversion parameter for converting the image of the first area such that color information regarding the image of the first area becomes similar to color information regarding the image of the second area, converting the first image using the first conversion parameter, and generating a third image as a training image used for machine learning for image recognition by combining the converted first image and the second image with each other.

Abstract: A glass ceramic composition of the present invention includes a main component composed of a first glass, a second glass, Al2O3, and SiO2. The first glass is SiO2—K2O—B2O3 based glass. The second glass is MO—SiO2—Al2O3—B2O3 based glass (“M” is an alkaline-earth metal) and/or CaO—SiO2—Al2O3—ZnO—ZrO2—B2O3 based glass. In case that the total amount of the main component is 100 wt %, the main component contains the second glass of 12 to 30 wt %, the first and second glass of 40 to 56 wt % in total, and further Al2O3 of 7 to 18 wt %.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing device including a download executing section downloading application software and patch data, a progress state display section displaying a progress state of the downloading, and an executing section executing an application by using the application software and the patch data, the progress state display section displaying the progress state of the downloading of a combined total of the application software and the patch data.

Abstract: Composite electronic including coil, capacitor and intermediate parts, wherein coil part includes coil-conductor and magnetic-layer, capacitor part includes internal electrodes and dielectric-layer, which contains SrO—TiO2 or ZnO—TiO2 based oxide, intermediate part between coil and capacitor parts, intermediate part includes intermediate material layer, which contains ZnO, TiO2 and boron, ZnO contained in intermediate material layer 50-85 parts by mole and TiO2 contained the intermediate material layer 15-50 parts by mole when total content of ZnO and TiO2 in intermediate material layer is 100 parts by mole, content boron in intermediate material layer is 0.1-5.0 parts by weight of B2O3 when total of ZnO and TiO2 in intermediate material layer set to 100 parts by weight, part of ZnO and TiO2 intermediate material layer constitute ZnO—TiO2 compound, which in intermediate material layer is 50 wt % or more when total weight of ZnO and TiO2 in intermediate material layer is set to 100 wt %.

Abstract: A method for constructing a cylindrical tank which has a metallic inner tank and a concrete outer tank includes a step of building up a PC wall in an outer circumferential edge portion of a base plate, a step of assembling an outer tank roof on the base plate other than the outer circumferential edge portion of the base plate, a step of lifting the outer tank roof which is on the base plate using a jack-up unit while the PC wall is being built up and then holding the outer tank roof on the PC wall, and a step of assembling the inner tank independently of the outer tank roof in a space under the outer tank roof which is created due to the lifting.

Abstract: A blanket installation method includes: a transporting step of transporting a blanket unit (1), in which a blanket (2) and a transport jig (3) are integrally coupled, between an inner tank (60) and an outer tank (50) of a double shell structure tank in a suspended condition; and a mounting step of mounting the blanket unit (1) on a shell plate of the inner tank (60). The transport jig (3) is formed by attaching a blanket fixing pin (34) to a jig main body (3A) through pin coupling. The blanket (2) is held at the blanket fixing pin (34).

Abstract: Article specifying information for specifying articles collected in an article collection site is detected from an image captured by an imaging unit (101). When the article specifying information is detected, a position of the article in the article collection site are determined from the position of the article specifying information in the captured image, and article information in which the detected article specifying information is correlated with position information indicating the determined position of the articles is stored. The position information of a pickup target article corresponding to the article specifying information of the pickup target article is acquired with reference to the article information. A laser beam output unit (108) presents the position of the pickup target article to a pickup operator so as to recognize the presented position by irradiating the position of the pickup target article with a laser beam on the basis of the acquired position information.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a technology for realizing an environment in which a user can play a game comfortably. [Solving Means] A download executing block 104 obtains a digital content from a server connected to a network. A recording processing block 106 records the digital content in an auxiliary storage device 2. The digital content is constituted of a plurality of files. Each file belongs to at least one of a plurality of groups, and at least one file belongs to each group. A determining block 108 determines where a file is recorded in the auxiliary storage device 2 in group units.