Abstract: A signal transmission cable is provided with a conductor, an insulator covering around the conductor, a shield layer covering around the insulator, a sheath covering around the shield layer, and a plating base layer is provided between the insulator and the shield layer to cover around the insulator. The shield layer has a plating layer provided to cover the plating base layer to be in contact with an outer peripheral surface of the plating base layer. A surface roughness of an outer peripheral surface of the plating layer is less than a surface roughness of an inner peripheral surface of the plating layer.

Abstract: A time that is a predetermined period before an operation start time which is a time in a schedule at which a first device starts an operation is obtained as a prompt start time, a pattern extended or compressed along a time axis from an initial pattern indicating a temporal change in an intensity of a prompt is generated; and a second device is caused to start outputting the prompt at the prompt start time and to output the prompt with an intensity indicated by the pattern generated.

Abstract: Weight information is determined for each of an individual evaluation criterion that is determined on the basis of a sleep log that includes a log of specific sleep information relating to the sleep of a specific user and a general evaluation criterion that is determined on the basis of sleep information relating to the sleep of a plurality of users; and an evaluation process is performed, which is a process of evaluating the sleep of the specific user from the specific sleep information, using the individual evaluation criterion, the general evaluation criterion, and the weight information.

Abstract: A control method executed by a computer to control a device that outputs a stimulus to a user includes: obtaining a stimulus start time that is a time when the device is to start outputting the stimulus; determining whether or not the stimulus start time obtained satisfies a predetermined condition; generating a pattern extended or contracted in a time direction from an initial pattern indicating a timewise change in an intensity of the stimulus when the stimulus start time obtained is determined to satisfy the predetermined condition; and controlling the device to start outputting the stimulus at the stimulus start time and output the stimulus at the intensity indicated by the pattern generated.

Abstract: A data transformation apparatus (1) includes: data transformation means (11) for performing data transformation on each of a plurality of data sets so that data distributions of the plurality of data sets are brought close to each other; first calculation means (12) for calculating a class classification loss from a result of class classification performed by class classification means on at least some of a plurality of first transformed data sets obtained after the data transformation; second calculation means (13) for calculating an upper bound and a lower bound of a domain classification loss from a result of domain classification performed by domain classification means on each of the plurality of first transformed data sets; and first learning means (14) for performing first learning by updating a parameter of the domain classification means so that the upper bound is reduced and updating a parameter of the data transformation means so that the class classification loss is reduced and the lower bound is

Abstract: A microwave oven avoids being upsized. The microwave oven includes a housing including a cooking chamber inside the housing, a component chamber inside the housing, a first opening in a front portion of the housing and communicating with the cooking chamber, and an outlet in a rear portion of the housing and allowing air to be discharged from the component chamber to flow through the outlet. The microwave oven also includes a heat-generating component in the component chamber, a door at a front portion of the housing to cover and uncover the first opening, and a battery mount at a rear portion of the housing to detachably receive a battery pack.

Abstract: A data conversion learning apparatus includes a data conversion unit that performs data conversion of source data and target data, a first deduction unit that deduces data of a non-appearing class on the basis of a domain certainty factor acquired by a domain identification using converted data, a second deduction unit that deduces data of a non-appearing class on the basis of a class certainty factor acquired by a class identification using converted data, a class identification learning unit that performs machine learning for class identification using the data of the non-appearing class deduced by the first deduction unit and the source data and the target data which are inputs, and a domain identification learning unit that performs machine learning for domain identification using the data of the non-appearing class deduced by the second deduction unit and the source data and the target data which are inputs.

Abstract: This prediction model preparation device is provided with: a calculation means which calculates, from a datum in which a sample and a label are associated with each other, an importance level according to the difference between a first possibility that an event influencing the sample occurs in a source domain and a second possibility that the event occurs in a target domain; and a preparation means which constructs prepares a prediction model relating to the target domain by calculating association between the sample and the label included in the datum to which the importance level is added.

Abstract: A state estimation system includes a processor configured to: obtain first input data related to a first user; obtain second input data related to a second user; perform an estimation operation for estimating a state of the first user and a training operation for optimizing a content of the estimation operation by using i) first training data which includes the first input data and the first label data associated with each other, ii) second training data which includes the first input data so as not to associate the first input data and the first label data with each other, and iii) third training data which includes the second input data and the second label data associated with each other; and output information related to the content of the estimation operation.

Abstract: A state prediction apparatus includes an information processing device. The information processing device is configured to acquire first input data related to at least one of biological information and action information of a user. The information processing device is configured to execute a prediction operation to predict a status of the user based on the first input data. The information processing device is configured to repeat a learning process for optimizing details of the prediction operation by using a first data portion and second data portion of second input data. The second input data is related to at least one of the biological information and action information of the user. The second input data is not associated with correct data indicating the status of the user. The second data portion is different from the first data portion.

Abstract: A state estimation system includes a processor configured to: obtain first input data related to a first user; obtain second input data related to a second user; perform an estimation operation for estimating a state of the first user and a training operation for optimizing a content of the estimation operation by using i) first training data which includes the first input data and the first label data associated with each other, ii) second training data which includes the first input data so as not to associate the first input data and the first label data with each other, and iii) third training data which includes the second input data and the second label data associated with each other; and output information related to the content of the estimation operation.

Abstract: This invention relates to an attribute factor analysis method, which is a method of analyzing a factor of an attribute based on a training sample set including training samples each being a combination of reference image data and attribute data associated with the reference image data.

Abstract: Acquiring correspondence among a plurality of time zones and target upper limit temperatures and target lower limit temperatures of the air conditioner that correspond to the respective plurality of time zones. A display allows a user to set the preset temperatures of the air conditioner in the respective plurality of time zones. The display includes a graph region having a first axis corresponding to the plurality of time zones and a second axis corresponding to the preset temperatures of the air conditioner. The graph region includes, in each of the plurality of time zones, a first temperature region having a first appearance and a second temperature region displayed having a second appearance. A symbol indicative of a corresponding preset temperature is displayed in the first temperature region in a corresponding one of the plurality of time zones in the graph region.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method of analyzing a factor of an attribute based on a case sample set containing combinations of image data and attribute data associated with the image data. The attribute factor analysis method includes: a division step of dividing an image region of the image data forming each element of the case sample set into parts in a mesh shape of a predetermined sample size; a reconstruction step of reconstructing, based on the case sample set, the case sample sets for the respective parts to obtain reconstructed case sample sets; an analysis step of analyzing, for each of the reconstructed case sample sets, a dependency between an explanatory variable representing a feature value of image data on each part and an objective variable representing the attribute data, to thereby obtain an attribute factor analysis result; and a visualization step of visualizing the attribute factor analysis result to produce the visualized attribute factor analysis result.

Abstract: Provided is a photocurable resin composition that has a low viscosity and is capable of yielding a high refractive index. Specifically, a urethane (meth)acrylate resin (A) obtained by a reaction of an aromatic diisocyanate compound (a), a polyol compound (b), and a hydroxyl-group-containing (meth)acrylate compound (c) as essential raw material components is used. The urethane (meth)acrylate resin (A) contains a structural moiety (a-1) represented by structural formula (1) below: (where R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group) and a structural moiety (a-2) represented by structural formula (2) below: (where R1, R2, R3, X1, and X2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a methyl group) at a (a-1)/(a-2) molar ratio of 45/55 to 60/40. The polyol compound (b) has an aromatic hydrocarbon skeleton.

Abstract: In the use of a touch panel which vibrates in synchronization with a touch operation, discomfort caused by a panel vibration sound is reduced while an operational feeling of a touch operation on the touch panel being maintained. A vibration control device that is used for a touch panel which vibrates in synchronization with a touch operation, includes a sound data acquirer that acquires sound data of a surrounding sound of the touch panel; a predominant frequency acquirer that extracts a predominant frequency of the surrounding sound from the acquired sound data; a consonant sound determiner that determines a consonant sound frequency based on the extracted predominant frequency, the consonant sound frequency being a frequency of a sound which is in consonant with a sound having the extracted predominant frequency; and a vibrational frequency setter that sets a vibrational frequency of the touch panel to the determined consonant sound frequency.

Abstract: In the use of a touch panel which vibrates in synchronization with a touch operation, discomfort caused by a panel vibration sound is reduced while an operational feeling of a touch operation on the touch panel being maintained. A vibration control device used for an electronic apparatus which includes a touch panel that vibrates in synchronization with a touch operation and a vibrating source that is different from the touch panel, includes a predominant frequency acquirer that acquires a main component of a vibrational frequency of the vibrating source as a predominant frequency of vibrations of the vibrating source; a consonant sound determiner that determines a consonant sound frequency based on the acquired predominant frequency, the consonant sound frequency being a frequency of a sound which is in consonant with a sound having the acquired predominant frequency; and a vibrational frequency setter that sets a vibrational frequency of the touch panel to the determined consonant sound frequency.

Abstract: An air-conditioning setting screen has a coordinate space defined by a Y-axis along which temperature items are indicated in increments of one degree and an X-axis along which time-point items are indicated in increments of one hour. Operation points PT corresponding to the time-point items are arranged in the coordinate space. The air-conditioning setting screen displays time-series changes in a previous day's body-movement values such that the density of a background color is higher for times at which the body-movement value is larger and the density of a background color is lower for times at which the body-movement value is smaller.

Abstract: There is provided a control method for an information terminal device having a display and controlling an air conditioner over a network. The control method makes the information terminal device perform processing including: displaying a temperature setting screen where an air conditioner temperature is settable for each of a plurality of time periods; calculating a first time period preset temperature using a first preset temperature at a boundary time and a second preset temperature at a go-to-bed time; calculating a second time period preset temperature using the first preset temperature and a third preset temperature at a wake-up time; displaying the first time period preset temperature and second time period preset temperature; and outputting to the network a control command corresponding to the first preset temperature and second preset temperature when the first time period preset temperature and second time period preset temperature have been fixed.

Abstract: In a chain saw, an operating shaft member axially rotated by a manual operation of a rotating lever is disposed so that an axial direction thereof may be inclined against an attaching surface of a guide bar in which a saw chain is wound around a circumference thereof, a driving bevel gear attached to an end portion of the operating shaft member meshes with a driven bevel gear attached to an end portion of a rotating shaft member, and the rotating shaft member is axially rotated. Thus, the guide bar is moved in a longitudinal direction thereof to adjust tension of the saw chain.