Abstract: An authentication system according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: at least one memory storing a set of instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the set of instructions to: track an object included in a video captured by a first capture device; detect a candidate for biometric authentication in the object being tracked; determine whether biometric authentication has been performed for the candidate based on a record of biometric authentication performed for the object being tracked; and perform the biometric authentication for the candidate based on a video of an authentication part of the candidate when the biometric authentication has not been performed for the candidate, the video of the authentication part being captured by a second capture device having a capture range including a part of a capture range of the first capture device.

Abstract: Provided are a photon up-conversion film, which is capable, of high-efficiency up-conversion even in air and even when low-intensity light is used, and a simple method of producing the film. The photon up-conversion film according to one embodiment of the present invention includes: a matrix including a resin; and a pore portion, wherein the photon up-conversion film includes at least a sensitizing component capable of absorbing light in a first wavelength region ?1, and a light-emitting component capable of radiating light in a second wavelength region ?2 including wavelengths shorter than those of the first wavelength region ?1, and wherein the sensitizing component and the light-emitting component are present at an interface between the matrix and the pore portion.

Abstract: The disclosure is inputting a first image obtained by capturing an object of authentication moving in a specific direction; inputting a second image at least for one eye obtained by capturing a right eye or a left eye of the object; determining whether the second image is of the left eye or the right eye of the object, based on information including the first image, and outputting a determination result associated with the second image as left/right information; comparing characteristic information relevant to the left/right information, the characteristic information being acquired from a memory that stores the characteristic information of a right eye and a left eye pertaining to object to be authenticated, with characteristic information associated with the left/right information, and calculating a verification score; and authenticating the object captured in the first image and the second image, based on the verification score, and outputting an authentication result.

Abstract: A first-aid information provision system of the example embodiments includes: an information display device that includes first capture means for capturing an iris image, code acquisition means for acquiring a code associated with the captured iris image, and code display means for displaying the acquired code; and an information output device that includes second capture means for imaging the code displayed by the information display device, first-aid information acquisition means for acquiring first-aid information about an individual associated with the iris image by using the imaged code, and first-aid information output means for outputting the first-aid information.

Abstract: An interference determination device includes a controller that determines interference between a robot and an object. The controller obtains a plurality of vertices of at least one object within a motion range of the robot in a real space and positional information regarding the plurality of vertices. The controller determines interference between the robot and the object in the real space on a basis of the plurality of vertices and the positional information.

Abstract: A robot control apparatus includes a control unit that generates, as control information, information regarding an amount of movement for controlling a motion of a robot and that outputs the control information, an information obtaining unit that obtains, as actual physical information, physical information indicating a result of an actual motion of the robot based on the control information, a motion estimation unit that outputs information output from a model plant, which is obtained by modeling an ideal state of the robot, by inputting the control information to the model plant as estimated physical information, which is obtained when the robot is assumed to move ideally on a basis of the control information, and a state estimation unit that estimates a state of the robot on a basis of the actual physical information and the estimated physical information. The control unit generates the control information further on a basis of a result of the estimation of the state of the robot.

Abstract: A heat sink includes a graphite plate, two base materials each of which is disposed adjacent to the graphite plate, and a fixing member, in which the graphite plate has a strip shape and includes a fin portion and a base portion provided at one end of the fin portion, the base material includes a hole into which the fixing member can be inserted, the fixing member is inserted into the holes of the two base materials so that the two base materials are disposed to be adjacent to both sides of the base portion in a thickness direction, the base portion is in close contact with the base material adjacent to each other on both sides of the base portion in the thickness direction, the adjacent base materials are crimped and fixed by the fixing member in a state of being in close contact with each other, and in a case where a surface roughness of the fin portion is defined as Ra1, a surface roughness of the base material is defined as Ra2, and a surface roughness of the base portion is defined as Ra3, a relationship

Abstract: A slide door driving device includes a support plate that is an elongated plate member, two driven pulleys supported respectively by opposite ends of the support plate in a longitudinal direction of the support plate; a belt wound around the two driven pulleys; a connector by which the belt is connected to the slide door; and a driving portion supported by the support plate and configured to drive the belt.

Abstract: To provide an inventory management server, an inventory management system, an inventory management program, and an inventory management method which are capable of carrying out inventory management such as warehousing processing and delivery processing easily and inexpensively by using an image for identifying merchandise together with an image of the merchandise.

Abstract: A phosphor according to the present disclosure has excellent light emission properties in a blue-green region and high color rendering properties. The phosphor is represented by a chemical formula of Lu(3-x-y-z)MgxZnyAl5O12:Cez, in which when z is in a range of 0.01?z?0.03, then 0?x?1.4 and 0?y?1.4, excluding x=0 and y=0; when z is in a range of is 0.03<z?0.06, then y<0.2 and 0.1?x?1.4, or x<0.2 and 0.1?y?1.4, or x=0.2 and y=0.2; when z is in a range of 0.06<z?0.09, then y<0.2 and 0.1?x<1.4, or x<0.2 and 0.1?y<1.4; and when z is in a range of 0.09<z?0.12, then y<0.2 and 0.1?x<0.9, or x<0.2 and 0.1?y<0.9.

Abstract: A care recording device has an imaging data acquisition unit 341 that acquires imaging data from a camera capturing an image of the care recipient; a person determination unit 342 that detects a person imaged, to determine whether the person is the care recipient or the caregiver, a care recipient state determination unit 343 that determines a state type of the care recipient and stores, in a care history storage unit 337, care history information in which date and time are associated with the state type, and an assistive task determination unit 344 that, in a case where the person includes the caregiver, determines a type of the assistive task of the caregiver, associates the type of the assistive task with the care history information, and stores the association in the care history storage unit 337.

Abstract: A heat sink includes a graphite plate, two base materials each of which is disposed adjacent to the graphite plate, and a fixing member, in which the graphite plate has a strip shape and includes a fin portion and a base portion provided at one end of the fin portion, the base material includes a hole into which the fixing member can be inserted, the fixing member is inserted into the holes of the two base materials so that the two base materials are disposed to be adjacent to both sides of the base portion in a thickness direction, the base portion is in close contact with the base material adjacent to each other on both sides of the base portion in the thickness direction, the adjacent base materials are crimped and fixed by the fixing member in a state of being in close contact with each other, and in a case where a surface roughness of the fin portion is defined as Ra1, a surface roughness of the base material is defined as Ra2, and a surface roughness of the base portion is defined as Ra3, a relationship

Abstract: A phosphor has a plate-shaped phosphor, a joining-member, and a light collecting optical member. The light collecting optical member has at least one convex surface and is fixed to the plate-shaped phosphor by the joining-member. The joining-member forms a fillet shape between a surface of the plate-shaped phosphor to which the light collecting optical member is joined and a convex surface of the light collecting optical member. In a case where a height of the fillet shape from the surface of the plate-shaped phosphor to which the light collecting optical member is joined is set as a height X and a maximum distance of the light collecting optical member from the surface of the plate-shaped phosphor to which the light collecting optical member of is joined is set as a maximum distance Y, the height X is equal to or less than ? of the maximum distance Y.

Abstract: A phosphor has a plate-shaped phosphor, a joining-member, and a light collecting optical member. The light collecting optical member has at least one convex surface and is fixed to the plate-shaped phosphor by the joining-member. The joining-member forms a fillet shape between a surface of the plate-shaped phosphor to which the light collecting optical member is joined and a convex surface of the light collecting optical member. In a case where a height of the fillet shape from the surface of the plate-shaped phosphor to which the light collecting optical member is joined is set as a height X and a maximum distance of the light collecting optical member from the surface of the plate-shaped phosphor to which the light collecting optical member of is joined is set as a maximum distance Y, the height X is equal to or less than ? of the maximum distance Y.

Abstract: A phosphor according to the present disclosure has excellent light emission properties in a blue-green region and high color rendering properties. The phosphor is represented by a chemical formula of Lu(3-x-y-z)MgxZnyAl5O12:Cez, in which when z is in a range of 0.01?z?0.03, then 0?x?1.4 and 0?y?1.4, excluding x=0 and y=0; when z is in a range of is 0.03<z?0.06, then y<0.2 and 0.1?x?1.4, or x<0.2 and 0.1?y?1.4, or x=0.2 and y=0.2; when z is in a range of 0.06<z?0.09, then y<0.2 and 0.1?x<1.4, or x<0.2 and 0.1?y<1.4; and when z is in a range of 0.09<z?0.12, then y<0.2 and 0.1?x<0.9, or x<0.2 and 0.1?y<0.9.

Abstract: An electrolytic capacitor includes a capacitor element, a case housing the capacitor element, and a first heat radiation layer having an insulating property. The first heat radiation layer covers at least part of the capacitor element. A thermal conductivity ?C of the case in a thickness direction is greater than or equal to 1 W/m·K. A thermal emissivity ?1 of the first heat radiation layer is greater than or equal to 0.7.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device, a controller, and a storage. The fixing device includes a fixing part that fixes a toner image on a sheet, a heating part that heats the fixing part, and a detecting part that detects an actual temperature of the fixing part. The controller controls the actual temperature of the fixing part based on a target temperature of the fixing part and a cumulative deviation of the actual temperature of the fixing part. The storage stores a convergence value of the cumulative deviation. Every time a heating operation to the fixing part by the heating part is executed, the controller updates the convergence value of the cumulative deviation stored in the storage by a convergence value of the cumulative deviation of a latest heating operation.

Abstract: To provide an inventory management server, an inventory management system, an inventory management program, and an inventory management method which are capable of carrying out inventory management such as warehousing processing and delivery processing easily and inexpensively by using an image for identifying merchandise together with an image of the merchandise.

Abstract: Provided herein is a resin fluxed solder paste that exhibits a desirable solder bump reinforcement effect without requiring an underfill process. The disclosure also provides a mount structure. The resin fluxed solder paste includes a non-resinic powder containing a solder powder and an inorganic powder; and a flux containing a first epoxy resin, a curing agent, and an organic acid. The non-resinic powder accounts for 30 to 90 wt % of the total, and the surface of the inorganic powder is covered with an organic resin.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device, a controller, and a storage. The fixing device includes a fixing part that fixes a toner image on a sheet, a heating part that heats the fixing part, and a detecting part that detects an actual temperature of the fixing part. The controller controls the actual temperature of the fixing part based on a target temperature of the fixing part and a cumulative deviation of the actual temperature of the fixing part. The storage stores a convergence value of the cumulative deviation. Every time a heating operation to the fixing part by the heating part is executed, the controller updates the convergence value of the cumulative deviation stored in the storage by a convergence value of the cumulative deviation of a latest heating operation.