Abstract: Provided is an information collection apparatus which collects information on one or more devices through one or more mediation apparatuses, the information collection apparatus comprising: a communication unit which receives, from a plurality of provider apparatuses that provide a customer with a service of managing the one or more devices, first job information describing a specific processing that a target is caused to execute, in a manner unique to each of the plurality of provider apparatuses, the target including both the one or more mediation apparatuses and the one or more devices, or only the one or more mediation apparatuses; and a conversion unit which converts the first job information into second job information describing the processing in a manner such that the one or more mediation apparatuses can recognize it, and delivers the second job information to the one or more mediation apparatuses through the communication unit.

Abstract: A working machine may include: a working part; a prime mover configured to drive the working part; a housing supporting the working part; a handle attached to the housing such that the handle is rotatable about a rotation axis with respect to the housing and configured to be grasped by a user; and an elastic member arranged between the housing and the handle. The housing may comprise a first surface. The handle may include a second surface that faces the first surface in a rotation axis direction with an interval therebetween. The elastic member may be arranged between the first surface and the second surface.

Abstract: A backpack type assembly may include a backpack type carrier configured to be worn by a user and a device configured to be attached to the backpack type carrier. The backpack type carrier may include a pair of shoulder straps configured to be worn on both shoulders of the user, a back plate to which the pair of shoulder straps and the device are attached, a waist belt configured to be wrapped around a waist of the user, and a connection mechanism configured to connect between the back plate and the waist belt. The connection mechanism may include an elastic member having a flexural rigidity smaller than a flexural rigidity of the back plate. A force applied to the connection mechanism from one of the back plate and the waist belt may be transmitted through the elastic member to the other of the back plate and the waist belt.

Abstract: The advertising expression assessment device of this invention is equipped with a storage unit that stores assessment data for determining the usage acceptability of an advertising expression in multiple countries based on advertising review guidelines, an acquisition unit that obtains the advertising expression, a translation unit that obtains language expressions translated into the language of each of said countries for the obtained advertising expression, an expression assessment unit that determines the usage acceptability to ascertain whether an advertising expression is acceptable for use in each of said countries based on the assessment data, and an output unit that outputs display data listing the language expressions for each of said countries and their respective usage acceptability.

Abstract: Provided is a particle quantitative measurement device according to which the number of particles that can be accurately recognized in a particulate sample has a wider range. An observation device 1 comprises a computer 108 and an imaging camera 107 for acquiring a sample image representing the particulate sample. As an extraction unit, the computer 108 extracts a low-brightness pixel for which I<M?k? is satisfied for brightness I from pixels of the sample image. Here, M represents brightness for a reference image, k represents a real positive number, and ? represents a standard deviation for the brightnesses of the pixels in the reference image. The computer 108 also functions as a particle recognition unit or a particle quantitative measurement unit and quantitatively measures the particulate sample on the basis of the low-brightness pixel.

Abstract: An information processing system includes one or more processors configured to: if an error involving a restart occurs on an image processing apparatus remotely operated by a terminal having established communication, store error information including a cause of the error in a memory region before the restart; and if the communication is established again after an interruption of the communication caused by the restart, notify the terminal of the error information stored in the memory region.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide an electrophoresis apparatus which makes it possible to execute protein analysis with a high throughput. The electrophoresis apparatus according to the present invention is equipped with a capillary array which is configured by arraying a plurality of capillaries, a measurement light irradiation unit which irradiates with measurement light, a first lens array which includes a plurality of first lenses which are arrayed in correspondence with the plurality of capillaries, a second lens array which includes a plurality of second lenses which are arrayed in correspondence with the plurality of capillaries, and a light receiving unit which receives light which is incident upon the capillaries via the first lens array from the measurement light irradiation unit via the second lens array.

Abstract: The information processing system includes at least one processor, in which the processor is configured to: acquire a recording instruction to record a series of sequences for automatically executing plural input operations, which are performed by a user, for processing of a target to be processed; and then record input operation information, which is given by the user to an information processing apparatus, and sensing information, which is obtained by a sensor that senses information about arrangement of the target to be processed, in the series of sequences capable of execution in a chronological order.

Abstract: A distance image processing unit executes either the normal mode or a power saving mode having lower power consumption than the normal mode, in the power saving mode, accumulates the charge in the charge accumulation unit at a frequency which is the same as that in the normal mode or smaller than that in the normal mode, determines whether or not a moving object is present in the space, and releases the power saving mode as satisfying a return condition in a case where the moving object is present in the space, and determines whether a moving object is present in the space according to the amount of charge accumulated in each of the charge accumulation units in the normal mode, and shifts to the power saving mode in a case where determining that the moving object is not present in the space.

Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus has an airflow direction deflector having a shaft located in a second airflow passage extending from a heat exchanger to an air outlet of an outer panel, the shaft being connected to a vane, and an airflow speed reducer provided between the heat exchanger and the shaft in the second airflow passage. The airflow speed reducer is spaced apart from a first airflow passage wall located between a first airflow passage extending from an air inlet of the outer panel to the heat exchanger and the second airflow passage. The airflow moves between the airflow speed reducer and the shaft at an airflow speed slower than the airflow speed thereof between the heat exchanger and the airflow speed reducer.

Abstract: Data search by secure computation is efficiently performed and retrieved data is safely provided. A searcher terminal acquires condition data. The searcher terminal extracts a feature from the condition data. The searcher terminal encrypts the feature of the condition data. A secure search apparatus acquires a search result indicating a ciphertext of target data corresponding to a feature of target data similar to the feature of the condition data while keeping the feature of the target data and the feature of the condition data secret. The secure search apparatus transmits the search result to an encryption apparatus and the searcher terminal. The searcher terminal acquires the ciphertext of the target data indicated by the search result. The encryption apparatus transmits a decryption key to the searcher terminal. The searcher terminal decrypts the ciphertext of the target data using the decryption key.

Abstract: A searcher terminal acquires condition data. The searcher terminal extracts a feature from the condition data. The searcher terminal generates a flag from the feature of the condition data. The searcher terminal encrypts the flag of the condition data. The searcher terminal encrypts the feature of the condition data. The secure search apparatus acquires an intermediate search result indicating a ciphertext of a target feature corresponding to a target flag matching the condition flag while keeping the target flag and the condition flag secret. The secure search apparatus acquires a search result indicating a ciphertext of target data corresponding to a target feature similar to the condition feature among target features indicated by the intermediate search result while keeping the target feature and the condition feature secret. The secure search apparatus transmits the search result to an encryption apparatus and the searcher terminal.

Abstract: A control mode of speed control includes a first control mode in which an actual speed is caused to follow a target speed through active use of a brake and a second control mode in which the actual speed is caused to follow the target speed while use of the brake is suppressed. An autonomous driving system changes a threshold value to a value larger than a value in the first control mode when the control mode is switched from the first control mode to the second control mode, and changes the threshold value to a value smaller than a value in the second control mode when the control mode is switched from the second control mode to the first control mode.

Abstract: A light source unit that emits a light pulse, a light receiving unit that includes pixels each including a photoelectric conversion device generating electric charge according to incident light and a plurality of electric charge accumulating units accumulating the electric charge and a pixel driving circuit that distributes the electric charge to the electric charge accumulating units of the pixels to be accumulated therein at a predetermined accumulation timing synchronized with the emission of the light pulse, and a distance image processing unit that measures the distance to a subject present in the measurement space on the basis of amounts of electric charge accumulated in the electric charge accumulating units are included, and the distance image processing unit includes a timing control unit that controls the accumulation timing in accordance with a measurement mode set in advance in accordance with a range of distances that are measurement targets.

Abstract: To calculate PageRank with high accuracy using transaction data held by a plurality of data sources as input and keeping the transaction data of each data source secret. A data source apparatus (1) calculates a transaction rate for each combination of transaction entities (S12). The data source apparatus (1) encrypts the transaction rate and transmits the encrypted transaction rate to each secure computation apparatus (2) (S13). Each secure computation apparatus (2) receives a ciphertext of the transaction rate from a plurality of data source apparatuses (1) (S21). The secure computation apparatus (2) securely calculates a ciphertext which becomes, when decrypted, PageRank of the computational objective transaction entity by using the ciphertext of the transaction rate related to the computational objective transaction entity and the ciphertext of the PageRank of a transaction counterpart (S22).

Abstract: An apparatus that utilizes high-pressure air therein includes a main body, an air pipe configured to be supplied with high-pressure air from a high-pressure air supply source and supply the high-pressure air into the main body, a filter configured to remove oil contained in the high-pressure air flowing through the air pipe, a gas detector configured to detect an organic gas derived from oil and contained in the high-pressure air that has passed through the filter, and a reporting unit configured to report, when the gas detector detects the organic gas contained in the high-pressure air, that the high-pressure air is mixed with the oil.

Abstract: An estimation device (10) receives a device ID for identifying a device in a network and an observation event that has occurred in the device from a user terminal (20) as an input. The estimation device (10) acquires attribute information of the device corresponding to the received device ID from a device information storage unit (13c), estimates a risk that the device in the network is subject to an attack on the basis of the acquired attribute information and the received observation event, and outputs the estimated attack risk to the user terminal (20).

Abstract: A hot-press molding apparatus includes an upper mold (14) having a molding surface for molding a to-be-molded portion (4) of a metal sheet material (2) and a blade (32a) serving as a punch (32), a lower mold (13) having a molding surface (21) for molding the to-be-molded portion by sandwiching it in cooperation with the upper mold, and a die (16) configured to separate, from the to-be-molded portion, a trimming portion (3) positioned outside the to-be-molded portion in the metal sheet material in which the to-be-molded portion is molded by the upper mold and the lower mold, in cooperation with the blade of the upper mold. An outer side surface (14a) of the upper mold is so formed as to extend in the cutting direction of the punch, and defines, on the side of the upper mold, a cooling suppression space (62) to which the trimming portion is exposed and which suppresses cooling of the trimming portion.

Abstract: A range imaging device includes a light source unit that emits light pulses to a measurement space; a light-receiving unit including a photoelectric conversion element that generates charge according to light incident from the space, a pixel circuit including charge storage units in which the charge is integrated in a frame cycle, and a pixel drive circuit that performs switching operation of transfer transistors to distribute the charge to the storage units for integration at integration timing synchronizing with emission of the pulses; and a distance calculation unit that calculates a distance between object in the space and the light-receiving unit based on charge determined by a first charge integrated in each storage unit. The calculation unit calculates the distance by subtracting a second charge from each first charge, the second charge being noise charge as an integrated charge other than the charge distributed and integrated by the switching operation.