Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a mobile agent in an RFID system with reduced power consumption and increased localization capabilities. In one aspect, a relay circuit attached to a mobility mechanism such as a drone or robot is in communication with an RFID reader and a backend host computer. The mobile agent moves around a warehouse, for instance, in which landmark RFID tags are arranged. The mobile agent can transmit with an adjustable power to identify a single landmark tag and associate it with object tags of one or more objects within the range of the mobile agent. The host computer can communicate with the mobile agent to instruct it to adjust its power when multiple landmark tags are detected.

Abstract: An image processing device includes an image processing unit configured to execute image processing on an image based on an input image and output a result of the image processing, the input image is a post-conversion image obtained by performing image conversion on an original image, and the conversion includes image conversion for further decreasing a data size of the original image while maintaining a feature quantity used in the image processing and processing accuracy of the image processing.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a reproducing device, a reproducing method, and a program that enable a wide angle of view video and a planar video that is a part of the wide angle of view video to be switched and viewed without a sense of incongruity. A. video controller determines whether or not a line quality is capable of bearing a display of the wide angle of view video on the basis of the line quality including a line speed of the wide angle of view video supplied. from a server or a remaining amount of buffer data of the wide angle of view video and the partial video. In a case where the line quality is not capable of bearing the display of the wide angle of view video, at a timing immediately before switching the display between. the wide angle of view video and the partial video, after the wide angle of view video together with a white frame indicating the angle of view of the partial video corresponding to the wide angle of view video is displayed, and the display is switched to the partial video.

Abstract: An inside of a processing vessel is set to be in a vacuum atmosphere when a substrate processing is performed. A sealing member is provided with a pipe-shaped cavity formed between a low-temperature region having a relatively low temperature and a high-temperature region having a relatively high temperature when the substrate processing is performed. The sealing member is configured to seal the processing vessel.

Abstract: A slip sensor includes a first insulating layer, a second insulating layer, and a member configured to elastically deform in accordance with a force. A difference between a resistance value set between a given pair of electrodes associated with a given first resistive portion and a resistance value set between a given pair of electrodes associated with a given second resistive portion facing the given first resistive portion continuously varies in accordance with elastic deformation of the member that is caused by a shear force.

Abstract: A server disclosed herein may include a controller configured to: receive a location information request for requesting sending of location information from a function executing device; receive a first screen request including the location information from a first terminal device that has obtained the location information; send screen data representing the setting change screen to the first terminal device; receive a change request for requesting a change of the setting information from the first terminal device; and in a case where the change request is received from the first terminal device, change the setting information in the memory according to the change request.

Abstract: Provided are a seat system and a computer program product by which an occupant seated on a seat can grasp his/her own reflexes or the like. The seat system includes a seat which includes a seat body, and a sensor configured to acquire information for use in detecting motion of an occupant seated on the seat body, and a terminal configured to acquire the information from the sensor. The terminal outputs an instruction to prompt the occupant to make a predetermined motion, makes a determination based on the information acquired from the sensor as to whether or not the occupant has made the predetermined motion, and notifies the occupant of a response time elapsed between outputting the instruction and making the predetermined motion, and/or a performance level evaluated based on the response time.

Abstract: A communication device may, in response to a wireless link via a first wireless interface being established with a terminal device while the communication device is a first parent station state, receive predetermined information from the terminal device via a second wireless interface, if the predetermined information is received, shift the communication device from the first parent station state to a second parent station state, wherein the communication device is maintained in the first parent station state if the predetermined information is not received even if the wireless link via the first wireless interface has been established with the terminal device and after the communication device has been shifted to the second parent station state, establish a first wireless connection via the second wireless interface with the terminal device so as to cause the terminal device to participate in the second wireless network as a child station.

Abstract: A fuel cell system has a cell (1) that is capable of generating electric power. The cell (1) has a fuel electrode (1a), an air electrode (1b) and an electrolyte (1c). The fuel electrode (1a) is supplied with hydrogen obtained by reforming fuel gas. The air electrode (1b) is supplied with oxygen in the air. The electrolyte (1c) is interposed between the fuel electrode (1a) and the air electrode (1b) to enable oxygen ions to pass through to the fuel electrode (1a). A water vapor retaining mechanism (6) is disposed in a flow path of the fuel gas supplied to the fuel electrode (1a). The mechanism (6) retains water vapor generated in the fuel electrode (1a) during electric power generation by the cell (1). The mechanism (6) enables the water vapor to be mixed with the fuel gas.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a lead frame having a die pad; a semiconductor chip having a front surface in which an integrated circuit is formed, and a back surface that is die-bonded onto the die pad through intermediation of an interposing film and an adhesive layer; and an encapsulating resin for encapsulating the lead frame, the adhesive layer, the interposing film, and the semiconductor chip. The interposing film has a first opening which forms a space between a part of the back surface of the semiconductor chip and the adhesive layer.

Abstract: There is provided a solid electrolyte including stabilized or partially stabilized zirconia, and a gas sensor provided with the solid electrolyte. A change rate of a crystallite diameter for at least one of a cubic phase and a tetragonal phase in crystal particles constituting the solid electrolyte, before and after heating the solid electrolyte from room temperature to 1200° C., is 10% or less. The solid electrolyte preferably includes partially stabilized zirconia.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a tactile sense presentation apparatus, an electronic apparatus, an accessory, and a holding apparatus that can achieve an improvement in mountability. [Solving Means] A tactile sense presentation apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a mounting portion, a pump unit, and a control unit. The mounting portion is mounted on a target object and includes a surface material which is deformable in at least a part of a contact portion with the target object. The pump unit includes a flow path, which is connected to the mounting portion, and feeds a fluid for deforming the surface material to the mounting portion. The control unit controls driving of the pump unit.

Abstract: A system and method for providing an authentication state of a function execution device to a communication terminal is described. In some examples, the authentication state indicates whether authentication information is needed from the communication terminal before the communication terminal can request performance of one or more functions performable by the function execution device. In other examples, the communication terminal may provide to the communication terminal the authentication information irrespective of whether the function execution terminal has previously provided its authentication state to the communication terminal.

Abstract: To provide an excellent sound output device which is worn on an ear of a user and used. The sound output device includes a sound generation part and a holding part that has an opening portion and holds the sound generation part in the vicinity of an entrance of an ear canal of a user. The holding part includes a ring body having the opening portion, and a housing of the sound generation part is integrated with a part of the ring body. The sound generation part includes a sound generation element having a dynamic type driver, and has a hollow exhaust part joining with a rear surface of the housing of the sound generation part. The exhaust part extends from a rear surface side of the housing across an intertragic notch and has an exhaust hole outside an auricle.

Abstract: The present invention provides a solid state image sensor, an image capturing apparatus, and an image capturing method that can realize a wide dynamic range while suppressing an increase in a signal amount. A solid state image sensor includes a sensor that issues pulses at a frequency corresponding to a frequency at which photons are incident; and a counter circuit that thins out the pulses issued from the sensor at a thinning ratio corresponding to the number of pulses issued from the sensor, and counts the pulses.

Abstract: A communication device may receive a specific signal from a first external device; display a first instruction screen; in a case where it is instructed that the target process is to be executed in a situation where the first instruction screen is displayed, send a public key to the first external device, wherein in a case where it is not instructed that the target process is to be executed in the situation where the first instruction screen is displayed, the public key is not sent; after the public key has been sent to the first external device, receive an authentication request from the first external device; send an authentication response to the first external device; receive connection information from the first external device; and establish, by using the connection information, a wireless connection between the communication device and a second external device.

Abstract: A refrigeration cycle device including a first pressure reducing valve, a first evaporator that exchanges heat between the refrigerant decompressed in the first pressure reducing valve and air, a second pressure reducing valve that is disposed in parallel with the first pressure reducing valve; a second evaporator in which the refrigerant decompressed in the second pressure reducing valve to absorbs heat from a battery; a third pressure reducing valve that reduces the pressure of the refrigerant evaporated in the second evaporator; and a controller configured to control opening degrees of the second pressure reducing valve and the third pressure reducing valve. The controller performs a limit control for controlling the opening degree of the second pressure reducing valve to an opening degree of smaller one of a battery cooling opening degree and an air cooling opening degree.

Abstract: An image capture apparatus comprising a plurality of pixels, each pixel having a light-receiving circuit that outputs a pulse signal in response to incidence of a photon and a counting circuit configured to count the pulse signal, is disclosed. The image capture apparatus further comprises a detection circuit that detects whether or not a flickering light source is present in a field of view, based on an output frequency of the pulse signal.

Abstract: A gas sensor element includes a solid electrolyte body, a measurement electrode film, and a measured-gas intake port. The measurement electrode film includes a noble metal region, a solid electrolyte region, and a mixed region in which a noble metal and a solid electrolyte are mixed together. The measurement electrode film has a structure in which a first average thickness of the mixed region within a first region is greater than a second average thickness of the mixed region within a second region that is closer to a center of the measurement electrode film than the first region in a direction along an intake direction of a measured gas is. The first region is a region from an electrode end on the measured-gas intake port side to ¼ of an overall length of the measurement electrode film in the direction along the intake direction of the measured gas.

Abstract: A sound output device includes a sound generating portion that generates a sound, a sound guiding portion that takes in the sound generated in the sound generating portion from one end, and a holding portion that holds the sound guiding portion in the vicinity of the other end. The holding portion is engaged with an intertragic notch, and supports the sound guiding portion such that a sound output hole of the other end of the sound guiding portion to face a depth side of an ear canal. Even in a state where the listener wears the sound output device, the sound output device does not block an ear cavity of the listener, and the listener can listen to the ambient sound.