Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive composition, containing: 100 parts by mass of an acrylic polymer (A) which contains a vinylic monomer having a nitrogen atom in a skeleton thereof as a monomer unit and does not substantially contain a monomer containing a carboxyl group; 1-70 parts by mass of a (meth)acrylic polymer (B) having a weight average molecular weight of 1,000 or greater and less than 30,000; and 1-50 parts by mass of a hydrogenated tackifying resin (C), and an optical acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive tape including a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer containing the optical acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive composition.

Abstract: Provided is an adhesive method of pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet for vehicle coatings, giving a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet highly adhesive even to a coating surface easily causing the low adhesion by bleed-out of leveling agent or the like. The adhesive method of pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet for vehicle coatings according to the present invention is characterized in that the difference (absolute value) between the solubility parameter (SP value) of a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer (X) formed on the side of the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet in contact with the vehicle coating and the solubility parameter (SP value) of the surface control agent contained in the vehicle coating is 0.6 (cal/cm3)1/2 or less.

Abstract: The present invention provides a pressure-sensitive adhesive tape or sheet exhibiting good adhesiveness to a variety of adherends and further having both characteristics of repelling resistance and easy peelability. The heat-releasable pressure-sensitive adhesive tape or sheet according to the present invention has a heat-releasable pressure-sensitive adhesive layer containing: as an essential component, an acrylic copolymer formed of a monomer mixture comprising the following monomer (ml) and monomer (m2), with a content of the monomer (m1) being from 40 to 97.5% by weight and a content of the monomer (m2) being from 0.5 to 20% by weight, relative to the whole of monomer components; and a thermal foaming agent: (m1) an alkyl(meth)acrylate monomer having an alkyl group with a carbon number of from 1 to 12, represented by the following formula (1): [Chem.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information recommendation device includes following units. The input unit is configured to input a first document and a second document which has been browsed before the first document. The subject-keyword extraction unit is configured to extract first and second subject keywords from the first and second documents, respectively. The interest-keyword extraction unit is configured to extract first interest keywords from the first and second subject keywords, and to extract second interest keywords based on information specifying the first and second documents, the first interest keywords, and the first and second subject keywords. The second interest keywords are estimated to be keywords in which the user is next interested. The acquiring unit is configured to acquire, based on the second interest keywords, recommendation information on third documents which are candidates to be browsed after the first document. The presentation unit presents the recommendation information.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a content recommendation device includes a storage to store metadata; a display unit to display a plurality of pieces of content information corresponding to the contents; a selection unit to select first content information displayed on the display unit and second content information to be displayed after the first content information; an extraction unit to extract a keyword based on a co-occurrence relation between the metadata of the first and second content information; a generation unit to generate a search query based on the keyword; an acquisition unit to acquire third content information from an external database using the search query; a calculation unit configured to calculate similarity between the second and third content information by using the metadata of the second and third content information; and an arrangement control unit to arrange the third content information on the display unit based on the similarity.

Abstract: A document set, and history documents including documents, etc., browsed by a user are input. The document set and the history documents are each analyzed to obtain characteristic vectors. A plurality of topic clusters and a plurality of sub-topic clusters are obtained by clustering the document set. A transition structure showing transitions of topics among the sub-topic clusters is generated, and a characteristic attribute is extracted from each topic cluster and each sub-topic cluster. An cluster-of-interest is extracted in comparison among characteristic vectors of the history documents and a characteristic vector of each document included in the document set, a sub-topic cluster having transition relations with the cluster-of-interest is obtained on the basis of a transition structure owned by the cluster-of-interest, and a document included in the sub-topic cluster is extracted as a recommended document to be presented together with the characteristic attribute.

Abstract: A keyword analysis device obtains word vectors represented by the documents by analyzing keywords contained in each of documents input in a designated period. A topic cluster extraction device extracts topic clusters belonging to the same topic from a plurality of documents. A keyword extraction device extracts, as a characteristic keyword group, a predetermined number of keywords from the topic cluster in descending order of appearance frequency. A topic structurization determination device determines whether the topic can be structurized, by segmenting the topic cluster into subtopic clusters with reference to the number of documents, the variance of dates contained in the documents, or the C-value of keyword contained in the documents, as a determination criterion. And a keyword presentation device presents the characteristic keyword group in the subtopic cluster upon arranging the keyword group on the basis of the date information.

Abstract: In one embodiment, there is provided a keyword presenting device including: an extraction unit configured to extract a plurality of keywords from a browsing document; a determination unit configured to arrange keywords with spellings similar to each other among the plurality of keywords to obtain a plurality of groups of similar keyword; an integration unit configured to classify the keywords into main keywords that are titles and the other sub-keywords for each group of similar keywords, and to integrate the sub-keywords into the main keywords; and a presentation unit configured to present the main keywords to a user.

Abstract: The present invention provides a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet having a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer which has both high corrosion resistance and adhesion reliability. The acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet of the present invention contains at least an acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive layer containing as a main component an acrylic polymer formed from a composition containing a monomer mixture or a partially polymerized product thereof, in which the monomer mixture contains the following (m1), (m2) and (m3), or (m1), (m2), (m3) and (m4), and in which a content of each component (m1), (m2), (m3), and (m4) is 35 to 97.5% by mass, 2 to 40% by mass, 0.1 to 25% by mass, and 0 to 30% by mass, respectively: (m1) an alkyl(meth)acrylate monomer having an alkyl group with 1 to 12 carbon atoms, which is represented by Formula (1), [Chem.

Abstract: External data acquired via an input device during display of presentation information on a display device is recorded, and feature amounts are calculated from the external data. An importance level is calculated by integrating the feature amounts for each section during the display period of the presentation information. First headline information of a part of the presentation information corresponding to a section having an importance level which exceeds a predetermined threshold is generated, and is presented to be aligned along the time axis. Previous display contents of the presentation information are searched for in response to a selection operation of the first headline information, and are displayed on the display device. Second headline information of a part of the presentation information corresponding to the section when the selection operation was made is generated, and is presented on the display device.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive composition comprising a copolymerization reaction product of a monomer mixture satisfying the following both conditions: (a) the monomer mixture includes a monomer m1 in an amount of 50% by mass or more based on whole monomer components constituting the monomer mixture, wherein the monomer m1 is an alkyl (meth)acrylate represented by the following formula (I): CH2?C(R1)COOR2??(I) wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and R2 represents an alkyl group having from 1 to 20 carbon atoms; and (b) the monomer mixture includes a monomer m2 in an amount of 12% by mass or more based on the whole monomer components constituting the monomer mixture, or a monomer m2 and a monomer m3 in an amount in total of 12% by mass or more based on the whole monomer components constituting the monomer mixture, wherein the monomer m2 is an imidazole group-containing unsaturated monomer, and the monomer m3 is an amide group-containing unsatura

Abstract: There is provided a medical pressure-sensitive adhesive composition including an acrylic copolymer obtained by copolymerizing monomer components containing (a) at least one kind of a monomer of a (meth)acrylic acid alkyl ester and (b) at least one kind of a monomer of an N-hydroxyalkyl(meth)acrylamide, wherein: a content of the (meth)acrylic acid alkyl ester monomer (a) with respect to a total amount of the monomer components is 50 weight % to 99.9 weight % and a content of the N-hydroxyalkyl(meth)acrylamide monomer (b) with respect to the total amount is 0.1 weight % to 20 weight %; and the monomer components are substantially free of a monomer having a carboxyl group. The medical pressure-sensitive adhesive composition of the present invention is particularly suitable for applications such as medical patches and patch preparations.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical-use pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet, which includes a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer containing a polymer formed of one or more monomer ingredients containing, as an indispensable monomer ingredient, a monomer of which homopolymer has a glass transition temperature of not lower than ?10° C., said sheet having a moisture content of at least 0.65% by weight after stored in an environment at 60° C. and 95% RH for 120 hours. The pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is preferably an acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive layer.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display is furnished with: a liquid crystal display element having a pair of substrates, to which alignment members are provided to their respective opposing surfaces, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched by the pair of substrates; an alignment mechanism for providing at least two different director configurations simultaneously on different arbitrary regions used for display in the liquid crystal layer; and a reflection film provided to at least one of the different arbitrary regions showing different director configurations; wherein the different arbitrary regions showing different director configurations are used for a reflection display section for showing reflection display and a transmission display section for showing transmission display, respectively.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display is furnished with: a liquid crystal display element having a pair of substrates, to which alignment members are provided to their respective opposing surfaces, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched by the pair of substrates; an alignment mechanism for providing at least two different director configurations simultaneously on different arbitrary regions used for display in the liquid crystal layer; and a reflection film provided to at least one of the different arbitrary regions showing different director configurations; wherein the different arbitrary regions showing different director configurations are used for a reflection display section for showing reflection display and a transmission display section for showing transmission display, respectively.

Abstract: A connector has a base having an opening to be inserted with a tip portion of a flexible printed circuit board at a front surface, and having a plurality of insertion holes passing from the front surface to a rear surface juxtaposed at a predetermined pitch, a connection terminal arranged in a projecting manner with a substantially T-shaped operating piece having at one end a movable contacting point that comes into pressure contact with joints juxtaposed at the tip portion of the flexible printed circuit board, the connection terminal having one end that becomes a fixed contacting point inserted to the insertion hole from the rear surface side, and an operating lever in which a cam portion is fitted into a turning recessed portion arranged at an upper side of the connection terminal to act as a turning supporting point, the cam portion driving an operation receiving portion positioned at the other end of the operating piece.

Abstract: A context estimation rule is applied to spare time on a user's schedule, and contexts are estimated. On the basis of a task template, an input task is divided into plural subtasks. A task recommendation rule for recommending tasks to do from the relation between contexts and metadata of tasks is applied to the spare time of the user, and tasks to do in the spare time are recommended on the basis of the contexts of the spare time and the metadata of the subtasks. The recommended tasks are managed as schedules.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a first memory to store a plurality of contents and pieces of content information including a plurality of elements; an element selector to select at least part of the plural elements correspond to a first content; a determine unit to determine whether or not the selected element matches the plural elements correspond to the contents; a generator to generate corresponding information for each of the contents based on a result of the determination; a second memory to store pieces of the corresponding information; a content selector to select a second content; a calculator to calculate degrees of association to the second content; a deciding unit to decide a arrangement positions of the plural contents except the second content according to the degrees of association calculated by the calculator; and a display unit to display the contents at the arrangement positions decided by the deciding unit.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet including: a viscoelastic material layer (X) containing hollow microspheres; and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer (Y) provided on at least one face of the viscoelastic material layer (X) and formed from a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition including, as a main component, an acrylic copolymer which is constructed from the following monomers (m1) and (m2) as an essential monomer component, in which a content of the monomer (m1) is 50 to 99.9% by weight and a content of the monomer (m2) is 0.1 to 25% by weight based on a total amount of monomer components constituting the acrylic copolymer, (m1) an alkyl(meth)acrylate monomer including an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, which is represented by the following formula (1), [Chem.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet including: a viscoelastic material layer (X) containing hollow microspheres; and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer (Y) provided on at least one face of the viscoelastic material layer (X) and formed from a monomer composition, in which the monomer composition includes the following monomers (m1), (m2) and (m3) as essential monomer components, in which a content of the monomer (m1) is 50 to 85% by weight, a content of the monomer (m2) is 0.1 to 20% by weight, and a content of the monomer (m3) is 2 to 40% by weight, based on a total amount of monomer components constituting the monomer composition, (m1) an alkyl(meth)acrylate monomer including an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, which is represented by the following formula (1), [Chem.