Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to execute a program to input, to a learning unit, capture setting information that is used to capture an image before color conversion, a lightness of a background region of the image before the color conversion, and a set of the image before the color conversion and an image after the color conversion, and prepare color conversion characteristics for performing color conversion on an image in accordance with the capture setting information and the lightness of the background region.

Abstract: Provided is a flow rate regulating device including a valve body section having a flat valve body surface; a main body section including a valve chamber, an inflow channel, an outflow channel, and a communication channel; a valve seat section having a flat valve seat surface provided around an inflow opening; a regulation mechanism that moves the valve body section along an axis to regulate a distance between the valve body surface and the valve seat surface; and a control unit that controls the regulation mechanism so that the valve body section moves in a movement range in which the valve body surface and the valve seat surface maintain a non-contact state, wherein a channel cross-sectional area of the communication channel is smaller than each of a channel cross-sectional area of the inflow channel and a channel cross-sectional area of the outflow channel.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an input device to which a pre-color conversion image and a post-color conversion image are input; and a processor. The processor is configured to execute a program to extract color data in a certain region of at least one of the pre-color conversion image and the post-color conversion image, change at least one of a position and a range of the certain region in a case where the extracted color data meet a certain condition, and prepare a color conversion model using color data in the certain region after being changed.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an input device to which a pre-color conversion image and a post-color conversion image are input; and a processor. The processor is configured to execute a program to extract color data in a certain region of at least one of the pre-color conversion image and the post-color conversion image, change at least one of a position and a range of the certain region in a case where the extracted color data meet a certain condition, and prepare a color conversion model using color data in the certain region after being changed.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to execute a program to input, to a learning unit, capture setting information that is used to capture an image before color conversion, a lightness of a background region of the image before the color conversion, and a set of the image before the color conversion and an image after the color conversion, and prepare color conversion characteristics for performing color conversion on an image in accordance with the capture setting information and the lightness of the background region.

Abstract: Provided is a flow rate regulating device including a valve body section having a flat valve body surface; a main body section including a valve chamber, an inflow channel, an outflow channel, and a communication channel; a valve seat section having a flat valve seat surface provided around an inflow opening; a regulation mechanism that moves the valve body section along an axis to regulate a distance between the valve body surface and the valve seat surface; and a control unit that controls the regulation mechanism so that the valve body section moves in a movement range in which the valve body surface and the valve seat surface maintain a non-contact state, wherein a channel cross-sectional area of the communication channel is smaller than each of a channel cross-sectional area of the inflow channel and a channel cross-sectional area of the outflow channel.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a charging management system. Based on an estimated duration from a time when an electric vehicle having arrived at each of a charging facilities starts charging until the charging is complete, the system determines the charging facility a charging facility utilization of which is to be recommended to be one of the charging facilities related to a path to a destination which has a shortest maximum wait time from a time when a plurality of electric vehicles arrive at the charging facility until the charging is complete, and reports information indicative of the determined charging facility to the electric vehicle not having arrived at the charging facility.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, there is provided a consumed power amount estimation apparatus including an estimation unit configured to estimate a power amount necessary for an electric vehicle having a similar power consumption tendency to run, based on a parameter used to compensate for information affecting power consumption by running of the electric vehicle based on consumed power amount information of each of a plurality of electric vehicles having similar power consumption tendencies.

Abstract: A dielectric layer is formed over the substrate in the capacitor region and the memory region and a select gate layer is formed over the dielectric layer. A select gate is formed over the memory region and a plurality of lines of electrodes over the capacitor region from the select gate layer. A charge storage layer is formed over the capacitor region and the memory region including over the select gate and the plurality of lines. A control gate layer is formed over the charge storage layer over the capacitor region and over the memory region. The control gate layer is patterned to form a control gate of a memory cell over the memory region and a first electrode of a capacitor over the capacitor region. The plurality of lines are connected to the capacitor region to form a second electrode of the capacitor.

Abstract: The present invention includes: acquiring plural web pages of an identical category into which targets stated in the web pages are classified (S1); acquiring an attribute-related term related to an attribute of the targets stated in the web pages or an attribute description pattern used to describe the attribute of the targets as initial data (S2); extracting the attribute-related term of the attribute matching the attribute description pattern from the plural web pages (S3); and extracting an attribute description pattern matching the attribute-related term from plural web pages (S4).

Abstract: A dielectric layer is formed over the substrate in the capacitor region and the memory region and a select gate layer is formed over the dielectric layer. A select gate is formed over the memory region and a plurality of lines of electrodes over the capacitor region from the select gate layer. A charge storage layer is formed over the capacitor region and the memory region including over the select gate and the plurality of lines. A control gate layer is formed over the charge storage layer over the capacitor region and over the memory region. The control gate layer is patterned to form a control gate of a memory cell over the memory region and a first electrode of a capacitor over the capacitor region. The plurality of lines are connected to the capacitor region to form a second electrode of the capacitor.

Abstract: A recommendation information presentation device includes a topic generation unit that mechanically classifies words extracted from text information about a plurality of products and generates a plurality of topics made up of a plurality of words, a product profile generation unit that generates a product profile indicating the tendency of distribution of words contained in the text information about products over topics, a presentation unit that presents words contained in at least two topics to a user terminal for each topic, an extraction unit that generates a user profile indicating the tendency of selection of a topic by a user based on selection of a topic by the user and extracts a product profile indicating the tendency of distribution that coincides with the tendency of selection with a certain degree or higher, and a recommendation information presentation unit that presents information about a product associated with the extracted product profile.

Abstract: Disclosed is a fault diagnosis apparatus for an airflow meter for determining that the airflow meter has a fault when a divergence ratio, i.e., a divergence value of an estimated intake-air quantity with respect to an actual intake-air quantity obtained by the airflow meter is greater than a fault-determination reference value determined based on a rotation speed of an internal combustion engine. As the engine speed reduces, an upper-limit diagnosis criterion increases and a lower-limit diagnosis criterion decreases, so as to narrow an area for determining that the airflow meter has a fault. Hence, the fault diagnosis for the airflow meter can be performed in the entire engine rotation speed range, i.e., in the entire operation range of the internal combustion engine, thus preventing a deterioration in the exhaust performance, which may occur owing to a failure in the airflow meter, beforehand.

Abstract: To enable, with a simple control, a malfunction of a type wherein the output from a knock sensor becomes excessively large to be detected, a knock-sensor malfunction diagnosis device includes a control section configured to determine that knocking has occurred when the magnitude of a knocking vibration frequency component derived from an output signal from a knock sensor exceeds a first threshold value, and diagnose the knock sensor as malfunctioning when a prescribed diagnostic condition wherein knocking cannot occur is satisfied and the magnitude of the knocking vibration frequency component derived from the output signal from the knock sensor exceeds a second threshold value. The control section is further configured to determine that the diagnostic condition is satisfied for a time interval from a time when a predetermined time period has expired after fuel-cutoff has started to a time when the fuel-cutoff ends, during execution of the fuel-cutoff.

Abstract: A standing wave attenuation device is installed in a cabin of a vehicle so as to reduce a standing wave caused by external noise such as road noise. The standing wave attenuation device provides a closed loop including a feedback comb filter with a feedback loop, a microphone, a speaker, and a delay element. The delay element adjusts the phase of the output signal of the feedback comb filter such that the time needed for one-time circulation of a signal through the feedback loop matches a half period of the standing wave. An original sound including the standing wave is picked up by the microphone and subjected to processing so that the speaker produces a sound wave with the inverse phase against the phase of a sound wave constituting the standing wave, so that the standing wave is canceled out by the sound wave emitted from the speaker.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a charging management system. Based on an estimated duration from a time when an electric vehicle having arrived at each of a charging facilities starts charging until the charging is complete, the system determines the charging facility a charging facility utilization of which is to be recommended to be one of the charging facilities related to a path to a destination which has a shortest maximum wait time from a time when a plurality of electric vehicles arrive at the charging facility until the charging is complete, and reports information indicative of the determined charging facility to the electric vehicle not having arrived at the charging facility.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, there is provided a consumed power amount estimation apparatus including an estimation unit configured to estimate a power amount necessary for an electric vehicle having a similar power consumption tendency to run, based on a parameter used to compensate for information affecting power consumption by running of the electric vehicle based on consumed power amount information of each of a plurality of electric vehicles having similar power consumption tendencies.

Abstract: Disclosed is a fault diagnosis apparatus for an airflow meter for determining that the airflow meter has a fault when a divergence ratio, i.e., a divergence value of an estimated intake-air quantity with respect to an actual intake-air quantity obtained by the airflow meter is greater than a fault-determination reference value determined based on a rotation speed of an internal combustion engine. The apparatus determines that the airflow meter is normal when the engine speed is higher than or equal to a predetermined speed under a specific condition that the divergence value is less than or equal to the reference value, and also maintains a current determination result when the engine speed is less than the predetermined speed under the specific condition, thereby determining, based on the engine speed, whether the airflow meter is normal or the current determination result is maintained, and thus improving the fault-diagnosis accuracy.

Abstract: A natural language processing apparatus includes a result acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of analysis results indicating parts of speech of morphemes contained in one or more common sentences from a plurality of types of morphological analyzers, a pattern acquisition unit that detects a common segmentation point in the plurality of analysis results, extracts one or more parts of speech corresponding to a character string segmented at the common segmentation point from each of the analysis results, and acquires a set of the parts of speech as a part-of-speech differing pattern, and a candidate specifying unit that extracts the part-of-speech differing pattern with the number of appearances being equal to or less than a predetermined threshold and specifies the character string corresponding to the extracted part-of-speech differing pattern as a character string containing a candidate for an unknown word.

Abstract: One exemplary aspect comprises a computer system comprising: (a) a preprocessing unit that extracts text from a webpage to produce at least a first set of candidate keywords, applies language processing to produce at least a second set of candidate keywords, and combines said first and second sets of candidate keywords into a first candidate pool; (b) a candidate extraction unit that receives data from said preprocessing unit describing at least said first candidate pool and produces a second candidate pool; (c) a feature extraction unit that receives data describing at least said second candidate pool and analyzes said second candidate pool for general features and linguistic features; and (d) a classification unit that receives said data describing at least said second candidate pool and related data from said feature extraction unit, and determines a likelihood of each candidate in said second candidate pool being a primary or secondary keyword.