Abstract: A collation device includes a light source unit; a camera unit that receives light emitted from the light source unit and reflected in a collation area of an object to acquire a photographed image of the collation area; and a processor configured to, by executing a program: detect a positional relationship between the light source unit and the camera unit by using the photographed image, and notify of a collation result between the photographed image and a registered image prepared in advance by using the positional relationship.

Abstract: A collation device includes a memory that stores, as a registration image group, a random pattern depending on a microscopic pattern on a side surface of a target having an elliptic cylindrical shape including a columnar shape, and a processor, in which the registration image group is composed of plural registration images respectively acquired at plural positions at a predetermined interval over a whole circumference of the side surface, and the processor executes a program to collate a collation image obtained by imaging the side surface at an angle of view including at least one registration image among the plurality of registration images and the registration image group and to output a collation result.

Abstract: A collation device includes a processor configured to: acquire plural captured images obtained by capturing an inspection image to be collated, while changing an irradiation direction of light to be emitted; and provide a notification of a collation result between the inspection image included in each of the captured images, and a collation image of which pattern changes depending on the irradiation direction of the light, according to a similarity between plural registered images obtained by capturing in advance the collation image while changing the irradiation direction of the light to be emitted to the collation image, and the inspection image, after adjusting a positional relationship between a camera, a light source, and an image to be identical to a positional relationship between a camera that captures the inspection image at a time of capturing the inspection image, a light source that irradiates the inspection image with light, and the inspection image.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a processor configured to acquire reservation information for a booth, and give an instruction for change related to a disposed object that is disposed inside and/or outside the booth based on the acquired reservation information.

Abstract: A booth includes: a booth body; a door that is openable and closable and that includes first and second end portions located at different positions in a widthwise direction of the door, a user-operable portion to be touched by a user to open and close the door being provided in the first end portion; and a door lock that is used for locking the door, the door being locked under control of current supply to the door lock. A portion of the door other than the first end portion is secured to the booth body by the door lock.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a feature extraction unit that analyzes a video to extract a feature element, a discriminating unit that, based on a difference in the feature element for each of multiple portions of the video, performs discrimination that discriminates between an explaining scene and an explained scene, the explaining scene being a scene providing explanation, the explained scene being a captured scene of what is explained in the explaining scene, and a categorizing unit that categorizes each portion of the video based on a result of the discrimination.

Abstract: A collation device includes a processor configured to: acquire plural captured images obtained by capturing an inspection image to be collated, while changing an irradiation direction of light to be emitted; and provide a notification of a collation result between the inspection image included in each of the captured images, and a collation image of which pattern changes depending on the irradiation direction of the light, according to a similarity between plural registered images obtained by capturing in advance the collation image while changing the irradiation direction of the light to be emitted to the collation image, and the inspection image, after adjusting a positional relationship between a camera, a light source, and an image to be identical to a positional relationship between a camera that captures the inspection image at a time of capturing the inspection image, a light source that irradiates the inspection image with light, and the inspection image.

Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid sending method using a sample processing chip having a flow path into which a plurality of liquids flow, and the method includes: sending, into the flow path, a first liquid held in a liquid holding portion provided in the sample processing chip by applying pressure to the liquid holding portion; sending, into the flow path, a second liquid in a storage portion provided in a liquid sending device connected to the sample processing chip, through an injection hole provided in the sample processing chip, by applying pressure to the storage portion; and forming, in the flow path, a fluid containing the first liquid having been sent from the liquid holding portion, and the second liquid having been sent through the injection hole.

Abstract: A nucleic acid analyzer according to one or more embodiments may include a container setting part that sets a second container, a rotation drive part that rotates the container setting part by applying a driving force to a surface of the container setting part, to supply the extraction liquid injected through the injection port to the storages through the flow path by a centrifugal force. A first temperature adjustment part that adjusts a temperature of the second container provided in the container setting part, such that a nucleic acid amplification reaction occurs in the storages, and a detector that detects a nucleic acid amplification reaction which occurs in the storages with the second container provided in the container setting part interposed between the first temperature adjustment part and the detector in a vertical direction.

Abstract: A nucleic acid analyzer includes a first container setting part that sets a first container including reagent storages which store reagents for nucleic acid extraction such that the reagent storages are provided along an X-axis extending in a longitudinal direction of the first container; a dispensing unit that transfers, along the-X axis from the first container, extraction liquid containing nucleic acids extracted in the first container using the reagents for nucleic acid extraction; a second container setting part that is provided along the X-axis and sets a second container, the second container including an injection port through which the extraction liquid transferred by the dispensing unit is injected, storages that store reagents for amplifying the nucleic acids in the extraction liquid, and a flow path that connects the injection port and the storages; and a detector that detects a nucleic acid amplification reaction, which occurs in the storages.

Abstract: Provided is an electronic apparatus including a supporting member that supports an electronic pen including a terminal when the electronic pen is inserted into the apparatus, an electrode that is movably supported, and a movement mechanism that moves the electrode to a first position where the electrode comes into contact with the terminal by a force received from the electronic pen, when the electronic pen is inserted into the apparatus.

Abstract: Disclosed is an analysis method for detecting and analyzing light from a sample prepared so as to emit light in accordance with an amount of a test substance, the analysis method including taking an image of a storage member configured to store the sample therein; switching a state of a reflector to a state in which light from the sample is reflected toward a light detection unit and detecting light from the sample by the light detection unit; and outputting an analysis result of the sample on the basis of a light amount detected by the light detection unit.

Abstract: Disclosed is a nucleic acid detection device which includes an installation unit on which a cartridge is installed, the cartridge including a chamber configured to store nucleic acid, a reagent for amplifying the nucleic acid and a dispersion medium for dispersing the nucleic acid and the reagent; a sample processing unit configured to produce, within the chamber, an emulsion in which droplets containing the nucleic acid and the reagent are dispersed in the dispersion medium; a temperature regulating unit configured to regulate a temperature of the cartridge to amplify the nucleic acid contained in the droplet; and a detection unit configured to detect a signal based on the nucleic acid amplified by temperature regulation by the temperature regulating unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a feature extraction unit that analyzes a video to extract a feature element, a discriminating unit that, based on a difference in the feature element for each of multiple portions of the video, performs discrimination that discriminates between an explaining scene and an explained scene, the explaining scene being a scene providing explanation, the explained scene being a captured scene of what is explained in the explaining scene, and a categorizing unit that categorizes each portion of the video based on a result of the discrimination.

Abstract: A nucleic acid analyzer according to one or more embodiments may include a container setting part that sets a second container, a rotation drive part that rotates the container setting part by applying a driving force to a surface of the container setting part, to supply the extraction liquid injected through the injection port to the storages through the flow path by a centrifugal force. A first temperature adjustment part that adjusts a temperature of the second container provided in the container setting part, such that a nucleic acid amplification reaction occurs in the storages, and a detector that detects a nucleic acid amplification reaction which occurs in the storages with the second container provided in the container setting part interposed between the first temperature adjustment part and the detector in a vertical direction.

Abstract: A nucleic acid analyzer includes a first container setting part that sets a first container including reagent storages which store reagents for nucleic acid extraction such that the reagent storages are provided along an X-axis extending in a longitudinal direction of the first container; a dispensing unit that transfers, along the-X axis from the first container, extraction liquid containing nucleic acids extracted in the first container using the reagents for nucleic acid extraction; a second container setting part that is provided along the X-axis and sets a second container, the second container including an injection port through which the extraction liquid transferred by the dispensing unit is injected, storages that store reagents for amplifying the nucleic acids in the extraction liquid, and a flow path that connects the injection port and the storages; and a detector that detects a nucleic acid amplification reaction, which occurs in the storages.

Abstract: Disclosed is a specimen processing chip installed in a liquid feeder, comprising a flow path into which a first liquid and a second liquid flow, a first well having a first injection port into which the first liquid is injected by an operator, and a first liquid feed port for feeding the first liquid injected from the first injection port to the flow path, that is smaller in diameter than the first injection port, a second well having a second injection port into which the second liquid fed from the liquid feeder is injected, and a second liquid feed port for feeding the second liquid injected from the second injection port to the flow path, that is smaller in diameter than the second injection port, and an identification section for distinguishing between the first injection port and the second injection port.

Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid sending method using a sample processing chip having a flow path into which a plurality of liquids flow, and the method includes: sending, into the flow path, a first liquid held in a liquid holding portion provided in the sample processing chip by applying pressure to the liquid holding portion; sending, into the flow path, a second liquid in a storage portion provided in a liquid sending device connected to the sample processing chip, through an injection hole provided in the sample processing chip, by applying pressure to the storage portion; and forming, in the flow path, a fluid containing the first liquid having been sent from the liquid holding portion, and the second liquid having been sent through the injection hole.

Abstract: An analysis device for particle analysis, configured in such a manner that a reagent container is set in the device by inserting the reagent container from a side surface of the device toward the inside thereof, the reagent container having, near the forward end thereof, a suction pipe entrance portion into which a suction pipe can enter. The analysis device is provided with: a reagent container holding portion which holds the reagent container inserted from the suction pipe entrance portion side; and the suction pipe which enters, from above, the suction pipe entrance portion of the reagent container held by the reagent container holding portion and which sucks a reagent within the reagent container. The reagent container holding portion includes a guide member for guiding the insertion of the reagent container, which is inserted from the suction pipe entrance portion side, into the reagent container holding portion.

Abstract: Disclosed is an analysis method for detecting and analyzing light from a sample prepared so as to emit light in accordance with an amount of a test substance, the analysis method including taking an image of a storage member configured to store the sample therein; switching a state of a reflector to a state in which light from the sample is reflected toward a light detection unit and detecting light from the sample by the light detection unit; and outputting an analysis result of the sample on the basis of a light amount detected by the light detection unit.