Abstract: Provided is a communication system in which at least a master unit of the master unit and a slave unit is driven by a finite power source, in which the master unit notifies the slave unit by including period information indicating a shortest sleep period, which is a shortest possible period of a sleep period, in a communication signal with the slave unit before transitioning to a sleep state in which a power saving operation is possible and communication is disabled, with respect to the sleep period of operating in the sleep state after transitioning to the sleep state, and the slave unit performs a power saving operation during the shortest period notified of by the master unit.

Abstract: An optical transmission apparatus includes: a distributing unit which distributes a laser beam based on a first oscillation frequency; a phase modulator which generates, using the laser beam based on the first oscillation frequency, a phase-modulated signal that is an optical signal phase-modulated in accordance with a modulated signal; a multiplexing unit which multiplexes a laser beam based on a second oscillation frequency and the phase-modulated signal; a detecting unit which generates a frequency-modulated signal by performing detection processing on a result of multiplexing of the laser beam based on the second oscillation frequency and the phase-modulated signal; and an intensity modulator which generates, using the laser beam based on the first oscillation frequency, an optical signal intensity-modulated in accordance with the frequency-modulated signal.

Abstract: An optical communication device includes: a control signal generation unit that generates, on the basis of a communication log, a sleep cancellation signal including information about at least one time at which communication with a terminal device performing wireless communication with a power-receiving optical communication device is expected to be successful, the communication log including information about a result of communication at a time when sleep state cancellation is performed on the power-receiving optical communication device that is driven by electrical power obtained from an optical signal for power supply; and an optical communication unit that converts the generated sleep cancellation signal into an optical signal, and transmits the optical signal to the power-receiving optical communication device.

Abstract: There is provided a signal amplification method executed by an optical reception device, the method including: an electrical conversion step of converting an optical intensity modulation signal according to a frequency modulation signal which is converted from a frequency division multiplexing signal into the frequency modulation signal; a delay control step of controlling a delay amount of the frequency modulation signal based on a center frequency of the frequency modulation signal and a shift amount of a highest frequency of the frequency modulation signal; a delay detection step of demodulating the frequency modulation signal into the frequency division multiplexing signal by executing demodulation processing based on delay detection on the frequency modulation signal of which the delay amount is controlled; an amplification factor derivation step of deriving an amplification factor of the demodulated frequency division multiplexing signal based on the delay amount; and an amplification step of amplifying

Abstract: [Problem of invention] To provide a recombinant microorganism and a method for manufacturing a diamine that realize at least one of a simplified process and a reduction in effluent treatment cost in production of a diamine, and to provide a halophilic and/or alkalophilic recombinant microorganism having suppressed N-acetyldiamine production. [Solution of problem] A halophilic and/or alkalophilic recombinant microorganism having a diamine producing ability, in which the diamine is represented by formula NH2CH2(CH2)nCH2NH2 (in the formula, n is an integer of 0 to 10), and the recombinant microorganism resulting from modification of a halophilic and/or alkalophilic host microorganism so as to impart a diamine producing ability; and a halophilic and/or alkalophilic recombinant microorganism having a diamine producing ability, the recombinant microorganism containing one or more genetic modifications that suppress an N-acetylation enzyme that N-acetylates a diamine compound to produce an N-acetyldiamine compound.

Abstract: A communication method determination apparatus includes a comparison unit and an instruction unit. The comparison unit obtains a bit string of a portion of a physical header for synchronization from a wireless frame that includes the physical header for synchronization in which information for synchronization in a physical layer is set and a physical data portion in which data of a higher-level layer than the physical layer is set, and compares the obtained bit string with a bit string pattern specific to a communication method targeted for determination. The instruction unit performs communication method determination processing for determining whether or not the communication method targeted for determination is used for the wireless frame, based on a result of comparison.

Abstract: An optical transmission device includes: a first optical phase modulator that outputs a first optical signal by phase-modulating the laser beam having a first oscillation frequency according to the first electric signal in a case where the first electric signal is output to the first transmission path, a second optical phase modulator that outputs a laser beam having a second oscillation frequency as the second optical signal in a case where the first electric signal is output to the first transmission path; an optical multiplexer/distributor that outputs a third optical signal and a fourth optical signal by multiplexing the first optical signal and the second optical signal and distributing a result of the multiplexing; a first detection unit that converts the third optical signal into a first heterodyne detection signal; a second detection unit that converts the fourth optical signal into a second heterodyne detection signal; and a first optical intensity modulator that intensity-modulates a laser beam havi

Abstract: Provided are a recombinant polypeptide having an excellent acyl-CoA compound reducing activity, and a production method of an aliphatic compound using the recombinant polypeptide.

Abstract: Provided are a recombinant microorganism having a 2,3-dehydroadipyl-CoA reductase activity and a production method of a C6 compound, and are a recombinant microorganism capable of producing adipic acid or an adipic acid derivative, and a production method of adipic acid or an adipic acid derivative. A recombinant microorganism contains at least one of an exogenous gene encoding a protein having an enzymatic activity to reduce 2,3-dehydroadipyl-CoA for conversion into adipyl-CoA and an exogenous gene encoding a 3-hydroxyadipyl-CoA dehydratase.

Abstract: An interference wave arithmetic operation method performed by a wireless communication system including a plurality of antennas, the method including: determining an interferer antenna on the basis of information regarding directivity, a position, and an orientation of each of the plurality of antennas; and calculating interference wave reception intensity of a victim antenna using an interference wave from the determined interferer antenna.

Abstract: An optical transmission apparatus includes: a distribution unit configured to distribute a modulation signal to a plurality of amplification units connected in parallel; a plurality of phase modulators which are connected in cascade to generate a phase-modulated optical signal in accordance with each modulation signal of which voltage is amplified by the plurality of amplification units connected in parallel by using a laser beam based on a first oscillation frequency; a multiplexing unit configured to multiplex a laser beam based on a second oscillation frequency and the optical signal; and a detection unit configured to generate a frequency modulation signal by executing detection processing on a result of multiplexing the laser beam based on the second oscillation frequency and the optical signal.

Abstract: An optical power supply system comprising: a power supply optical communication device that supplies power using an optical signal for power supply; and a power reception optical communication device that is driven by power obtained from the optical signal for power supply transmitted from the power supply optical communication device, wherein the power supply optical communication device includes an optical power supply unit that transmits the optical signal for power supply to the power reception optical communication device, and an optical signal generation unit that converts a continuous wave used for frequency conversion of a radio signal received by the power reception optical communication device into an optical signal and transmits the optical signal to the power reception optical communication device, the power reception optical communication device includes a photoelectric conversion unit that converts the optical signal transmitted from the power supply optical communication device into an electric

Abstract: An optical transmission device includes: an FM batch conversion unit that performs FM batch conversion on a carrier signal input from the outside, to generate an FM batch conversion signal; a signal branching unit that causes the FM batch conversion signal to branch into a first path and a second path; an optical transmission unit that is provided in the first path, converts the FM batch conversion signal into an optical signal, and transmits the optical signal to the outside; and a detection unit that is provided in the second path, and detects quality degradation of the FM batch conversion signal on the basis of the signal level of the FM batch conversion signal.

Abstract: A control device of the present invention is for provision in a gateway device that includes multiple communication units that perform wireless communication with terminal devices using different communication methods. Based on communication unit individual information that is acquired from the communication units and includes information indicating at least characteristics of the communication methods of the communication units, operations of the communication units are scheduled so as to prevent the overlapping of periods in which the communication units perform signal transmission/reception with the terminal devices.

Abstract: An optical power supply system includes a power supply optical communication device that supplies power using an optical signal for power supply and a power reception optical communication device that is driven by power obtained from the optical signal for power supply transmitted from the power supply optical communication device, wherein the power supply optical communication device includes an optical power supply unit that transmits the optical signal for power supply to the power reception optical communication device and a data transmission/reception unit that transmits the optical signal for power supply to the power reception optical communication device when there is no data to be transmitted to the power reception optical communication device, and the power reception optical communication device includes a power storage unit that stores power obtained based on the optical signal for power supply transmitted from the optical power supply unit and the optical signal for power supply transmitted from t

Abstract: An optical power supply system, comprising: a power supply optical communication device that supplies power using an optical signal for power supply; and a power receiving optical communication device that is driven by power obtained from the optical signal for power supply transmitted from the power supply optical communication device, wherein the power supply optical communication device includes an optical power supply unit that transmits the optical signal for power supply to the power receiving optical communication device, when there is data to be transmitted to the power receiving optical communication device, transmit a sleep control signal having a shape corresponding to the time length of the data or having a shape with high noise resistance, to cancel a sleep state of a part of function units of the power receiving optical communication device, to the power receiving optical communication device, and the power receiving optical communication device includes a signal detection unit that detects the

Abstract: One aspect of the present invention is a wireless communication system including: one or more terminal devices of which operation mode transitions between a first mode in which a wireless signal can be intermittently detected and a second mode in which data can be transmitted or received; and a gateway device that transmits, at a predetermined transmission interval, an instruction frame instructing the one or more terminal devices to shift to the second mode, wherein the one or more terminal devices each include an instruction frame detection unit that performs detection processing on the instruction frame, and a control unit that shifts an operation mode of the device from the first mode to the second mode on the basis of the number of times the instruction frame is detected.

Abstract: An aspect of the present invention provides a wireless communication system including: one or more terminal devices that transitions between a first state in which a wireless signal can be intermittently detected and a second state in which a wireless signal can be transmitted and received; and a gateway device that transmits an instruction frame instructing the one or more terminal devices to transition to the second state at a predetermined transmission interval.

Abstract: An interference source hunting method of hunting for an interference source of electromagnetic waves while moving between multiple measurement points, includes the steps of acquiring strength information of electromagnetic waves, estimating a distance from the measurement point to the location of the interference source, based on the strength information, calculating a first presence probability that the interference source is present at each position, based on whether a distance from the measurement point to the position is within the distance, updating second presence probabilities acquired in hunting in the past, based on the first presence probabilities, determining a position obtained by moving, by a predetermined distance, the measurement point toward a position with the second presence probability higher than the second presence probability at the measurement point, as a new measurement point, and determining, in a case where a size of an area in which each of the second presence probabilities is great

Abstract: A modified microorganism containing a genetic modification that suppresses a transcription factor that controls expression of pyruvate dehydrogenase, in which the microorganism has and a production pathway of a C6 compound, and in which the C6 compound is at least one compound selected from the group consisting of adipic acid, hexamethylenediamine, 1,6-hexanediol, 6-aminohexanoic acid, 6-amino-1-hexanol, 6-hydroxyhexanoic acid, 3-oxoadipic acid, 3-hydroxyadipic acid, and 2,3-dehydroadipic acid.