Abstract: The purpose of one embodiment of the present invention is to provide a lithium ion secondary battery which has improved cycle characteristics and the negative electrode of which comprises a silicon oxide. The present invention relates to a lithium ion secondary battery comprising a silicon oxide and an electrolyte solution comprising a fluorinated acid anhydride.

Abstract: A music playing device 100 of the present invention includes an acquisition means 121 for acquiring a plurality of feature points of a person from a captured image in which the person is captured, a detection means 122 for detecting a position relationship between a plurality of the feature points in a feature point set in which the plurality of feature points are combined, and an output means 123 for outputting a sound specified based on the detected position relationship.

Abstract: An image processing device includes an extraction unit configured to extract a two-dimensional feature regarding a part of a person in an image, a conversion unit configured to convert the two-dimensional feature into a three-dimensional feature regarding a human body structure, and a training data generation unit configured to generate training data using the three-dimensional feature and a label indicating a physical state of the person.

Abstract: A search unit (105) of an image selection apparatus (10) includes a query acquisition unit (610) and an image selection unit (620). The query acquisition unit (610) acquires query information indicating a pose of a person. The image selection unit (620) selects at least one target image from a plurality of images subject to selection by using the query information. Herein, the query information includes relative positions of a plurality of keypoints indicating different portions of a human body from each other. Then, the image selection unit (620) selects the at least one target image by using a relative position of the keypoint of a person included in the image subject to selection, at least one of a kind of a lacking keypoint and a number of lacking keypoints, and the query information, the lacking keypoint being the keypoint that lacks in the person.

Abstract: Provided is an electrode for a battery which effectively suppress a short circuit between a positive electrode and a negative electrode at high temperature of the battery. The electrode includes a current collector 110, an active material layer 111 formed on at least one side of the current collector 110 and an insulating layer 112 formed on the surface of the active material layer 111. The electrode was formed so that peeling occurs between the current collector 110 and the active material layer 111 and the peeling strength was 10 mN/mm or more when a 90° peeling test was performed at a peeling rate of 100/min.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus (100) including: an image acquisition unit (101) that acquires an image; a selection unit (109) that selects at least one person included in the image, based on a user input; a skeleton structure detection unit (102) that detects a two-dimensional skeleton structure of a person included in the image; a feature value computation unit (103) that computes a feature value of the detected two-dimensional skeleton structure; and a search unit (105) that searches, from analysis target images, for the analysis target image including a person in a state similar to a state of the selected person, based on a degree of similarity to a feature value of the two-dimensional skeleton structure.

Abstract: An image selection apparatus includes a query acquisition unit (610) and an image selection unit (620). The query acquisition unit (610) acquires query information indicating a pose of a person. The query information includes relative positions of a plurality of keypoints indicating different portions of a human body from each other. The image selection unit (620) selects at least one target image from a plurality of images subject to selection by using the query information. Specifically, the image selection unit (620) determines weighting for at least one of the keypoints by using a difference between reference pose information indicating reference relative positions of the plurality of keypoints and the query information. Then, the image selection unit (620) selects a target image by using relative positions of the plurality of keypoints of a person included in the image subject to selection, the query information, and the weighting.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus (100) including an image acquisition unit (101) that acquires a query image, based on an input keyword, a skeleton structure detection unit (102) that detects a two-dimensional skeleton structure of a person included in the query image, a feature value computation unit (103) that computes a feature value of the detected two-dimensional skeleton structure, and a search unit (105) that searches, based on a degree of similarity of the computed feature value, for an analysis target image including a person in a state similar to a state of a person included in the query image from the analysis target image.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus including: an image acquisition unit acquiring a candidate of a query image; a skeletal structure detection unit detecting a two-dimensional skeletal structure of a person included in a candidate of the query image; a query evaluation unit computing an evaluation value of a candidate of the query image, based on a detection result of the two-dimensional skeletal structure; a selection unit selecting a query image out of candidates of the query image, based on the evaluation value; a feature value computation unit computing a feature value of the two-dimensional skeletal structure detected from the query image; and a retrieval unit retrieving an analysis target image including a person in a pose similar to a pose of a person included in the query image out of analysis target images, based on a degree of similarity of the computed feature value.

Abstract: A tracking device that includes a tracking unit that extracts image frames from video data based on a time threshold value that is a reference for extracting the image frames to be collated with a verification frame that is a verification target, detects a tracking target in the image frames, and sets a collation range for the tracking target based on a space threshold value that is a reference of the collation range for the tracking target, a display information generation unit that generates display information including a tracking image in which the collation range is associated with the tracking target in the image frames and an operation image for setting the time threshold value and the space threshold value, and a threshold value update unit that updates the space threshold value and the time threshold value with values set by the user who refers to the display information.

Abstract: A search information acquisition unit acquires a plurality of pieces of search pose information generated for each of a plurality of target images and indicate a pose of a person included in the target image. An exclusion information acquisition unit acquires exclusion pose information indicating a pose of a person included in an exclusion query image. The exclusion query image is an image to be a query of an image needed to be excluded from a search result, and includes at least a person. An exclusion score computation unit computes an exclusion score for each of the plurality of pieces of search pose information. The exclusion score indicates a degree of similarity of the search pose information to the exclusion pose information. An exclusion image selection unit selects, from the plurality of target images by using the exclusion score, an image needed to be excluded from a search result.

Abstract: A tracking device including a designation range acquisition unit that acquires a designation range designated for each of a plurality of image frames constituting video data, a tracking unit that extracts the image frame to be verified from the video data, detect a tracking target for each of the extracted image frames, set a collation range for the detected tracking target, and adjust the collation range based on the designation range set for each of the image frames, and a display information generation unit that generates, for each of the image frames, a tracking image in which the collation range is associated with the tracking target.

Abstract: A query acquisition unit (610) acquires a plurality of pieces of query information. The query information is information generated for each of a plurality of query images, and indicates a feature of the query image. A similar image selection unit (620) selects, as a similar image by using the plurality of pieces of query information, an image whose degree of similarity to at least one of the query images satisfies a reference. A display control unit (630) displays the similar image selected by the similar image selection unit (620) on a display unit. When the similar image selection unit (620) selects a plurality of the similar images, the display control unit (630) sets a display position or a display order of each of the plurality of similar images on the display unit by using the number of the query images in which the similar image satisfies a reference.

Abstract: A query acquisition unit (610) acquires pose information (hereinafter, described as query pose information) that is information to be a query and indicates a pose of a person. A search information acquisition unit (620) acquires a plurality of pieces of search pose information. The search pose information is pose information about an image (hereinafter, described as a target image) to be a search target, and is stored in a database by a plurality of target images. A selection unit (630) selects, from among the plurality of pieces of search pose information, two or more pieces of the search pose information whose degree of similarity to the query pose information satisfies a reference. The selection processing becomes substantially processing of selecting a target image similar to an image (hereinafter, described as a query image) associated with the query pose information.

Abstract: The lithium ion secondary battery is a secondary battery in which a positive electrode 30 and a negative electrode 40 are stacked alternatively via a separator 25, wherein the separator 25 is a single layer and is not melted or softened at least 200° C., a thermal shrinkage ratio of the separator being 3% or below, wherein an insulating layer 70 is formed on a surface of the positive electrode 30, the surface facing to the separator 25.

Abstract: One of the objects of the present invention is to suppress a short circuit due to metal deposition in an insulating layer in a secondary battery in which a positive electrode and a negative electrode are disposed to face each other via the insulating layer. The secondary battery comprises a battery element including at least one positive electrode 11 and at least one negative electrode 12, and a casing that seals the battery element together with an electrolyte. At least one of the positive electrode 11 and the negative electrode 12 comprises a current collector, an active material layer formed on at least one surface of the current collector, and an insulating layer 112 formed on the surface of the active material layer. The electrolyte comprises an electrolyte component and a crosslinked gelling agent.

Abstract: One of the objects of the present invention is to suppress mixing of a first layer and a second layer while forming the second layer before drying the first layer when manufacturing the electrode for the secondary battery in which the first layer and the second layer are laminated on the current collector. A method for manufacturing an electrode used as a positive electrode and a negative electrode of a secondary battery according to the present invention comprises applying a first layer slurry to a surface of a current collector, applying a second layer slurry on the first layer slurry before the first layer slurry is dried, and drying the first layer slurry and the second layer slurry after applying the first layer slurry and the second layer slurry to obtain a laminated structure in which a first layer and a second layer are laminated in this order on the current collector.

Abstract: A purpose of the present invention is to provide a lithium ion secondary battery in which an increase in internal resistance is suppressed and a halogenated cyclic anhydride is used as an electrolyte additive. The lithium ion secondary battery according to the present invention comprises a positive electrode and an electrolyte solution, wherein a porous layer comprising an insulating filler is formed on the positive electrode, and the electrolyte solution comprises 0.005 to 10 weight % of a halogenated cyclic acid anhydride.

Abstract: A height estimation apparatus (10) according to the present disclosure includes an acquisition unit (11) for acquiring a two-dimensional image obtained by capturing an animal, a detection unit (12) for detecting a two-dimensional skeletal structure of the animal based on the two-dimensional image acquired by the acquisition unit (11), and an estimation unit (13) for estimating a height of the animal in a three-dimensional real world based on the two-dimensional skeletal structure detected by the detection unit (12) and an imaging parameter of the two-dimensional image acquired by the acquisition unit (11).

Abstract: An image processing apparatus (10) according to the present disclosure includes: a skeleton detection unit (11) configured to detect two-dimensional skeleton structures of a plurality of persons based on an acquired two-dimensional image; a feature calculation unit (12) configured to calculate features of the plurality of two-dimensional skeleton structures that have been detected by the skeleton detection unit (11); and a recognition unit (13) configured to perform processing of recognizing states of the plurality of persons based on a degree of similarity among the plurality of features that have been calculated by the feature calculation unit (12).