Abstract: Credit information is obtained from an operational status of a vehicle, for example, and a credit limit is increased based on this credit information. A credit screening support system includes a vehicle-mounted device configured to acquire operational information on the vehicle and a server configured to compute the credit information on a user of the vehicle based on the operational information received from the vehicle-mounted device. The server includes an input element for inputting the operational information acquired by the vehicle-mounted device, a credit information computing element for computing credit information on the user based on the operational information input by the input element, and an output element for outputting the credit information on the user computed by the credit information computing element.

Abstract: A measuring device includes an illumination system configured to radiate light to a measuring target object located on an object plane, an image formation system configured to form a conjugate plane optically conjugate with the object plane, a diffracted light restricting part configured to restrict at least some of a plurality of rays of diffracted light from the measuring target object and to pass a first diffracted light and a second diffracted light different from the first diffracted light among the plurality of rays of diffracted light, and an imaging part disposed on the conjugate plane and configured to image a periodic light and dark pattern formed by the first diffracted light and the second diffracted light.

Abstract: A vehicle starting control system includes a server for managing a starting state of a vehicle and a vehicle-mounted device for controlling the starting state of the vehicle based on a control command for controlling the starting state of the vehicle provided from the server. The server is accessibly connected to a financial system and can monitor a status of payment of a predetermined charge for the vehicle via the financial system. When the payment of the predetermined charge for the vehicle is detected, the server can control the starting state of the vehicle by providing the vehicle-mounted device with the control command for controlling the starting state of the vehicle via at least one of a communication means, a mobile terminal, and an IC card.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus continuously applies a plurality of processes to input data to generate output data. In the data processing apparatus, a first process, which is one of the plurality of processes, generates a data file including first processed data obtained by performing first processing on data stored in a first storage area, and subsequent process information indicating a second process subsequent to the first process, and the second process indicated by the subsequent process information in the data file performs at least second processing on the first processed data to generate second processed data.

Abstract: A culturing assistance device includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a captured image of cells during culturing at determined times, a storage control unit configured to store the captured image acquired by the image acquisition unit and event information indicating an event related to culturing of the cells, and a learning unit configured to learn a relationship between the stored captured image and the stored event information.

Abstract: A sintered body includes a crystal grain containing silicon nitride, and a grain boundary phase. If dielectric losses of the sintered body are measured while applying an alternating voltage to the sintered body and continuously changing a frequency of the alternating voltage from 50 Hz to 1 MHz, an average value ?A of dielectric losses of the sintered body in a frequency band from 800 kHz to 1 MHz and an average value ?B of dielectric losses of the sintered body in a frequency band from 100 Hz to 200 Hz satisfy an expression |?A??B|?0.1.

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 control apparatus that access first cameras capturing a first subject of a first area, and second cameras capturing a second subject of a second area, detects a viewing direction of a spectator group in the first subject on the basis of image data of the first subject captured by any one of first cameras, identifies a focus area in the second area that is focused on by the spectator group on the basis of the viewing direction of the spectator group, identifies a focus subject, focused on by the spectator group, that is present in the focus area on the basis of image data of the second subject captured by each of the second cameras, determines a specific second camera to be a transmission source of image data from among the second cameras on the basis of the focus subject, and transmits image data from the specific second camera.

Abstract: A sintered body includes a crystal grain containing silicon nitride, and a grain boundary phase. If dielectric losses of the sintered body are measured while applying an alternating voltage to the sintered body and continuously changing a frequency of the alternating voltage from 50 Hz to 1 MHz, an average value ?A of dielectric losses of the sintered body in a frequency band from 800 kHz to 1 MHz and an average value ?B of dielectric losses of the sintered body in a frequency band from 100 Hz to 200 Hz satisfy an expression |?A??B|?0.1.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a processor configured to: transmit an inquiry as to whether or not printing of print data is allowed to an authenticated terminal when the print data are received from an external terminal, the authenticated terminal having an authority to perform printing and the external terminal being not registered in advance as the authenticated terminal; and make preparation to print the print data when a permission to print the print data is received from the authenticated terminal.

Abstract: Credit information is obtained from an operational status of a vehicle, for example, and a credit limit is increased based on this credit information. A credit screening support system includes a vehicle-mounted device configured to acquire operational information on the vehicle and a server configured to compute the credit information on a user of the vehicle based on the operational information received from the vehicle-mounted device. The server includes an input element for inputting the operational information acquired by the vehicle-mounted device, a credit information computing element for computing credit information on the user based on the operational information input by the input element, and an output element for outputting the credit information on the user computed by the credit information computing element.

Abstract: The automatic joining system includes: a fixing device; a friction stir device; a measuring unit; and a controlling device, in which a rotating tool includes a base end side pin and a tip end side pin formed continuously to the base end side pin, the controlling device sets a target moving route along which the rotating tool moves when friction stir joining of a butting portion is performed, based on a ridge line position before the friction stir joining is performed, and also sets a modified moving route at a position displaced toward a first metallic member side in substantially parallel with respect to the target moving route, and the friction stir device controls the rotating tool to move along the modified moving route and thereby performing the friction stir joining along the target moving route.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a processor configured to: transmit an inquiry as to whether or not printing of print data is allowed to an authenticated terminal when the print data are received from an external terminal, the authenticated terminal having an authority to perform printing and the external terminal being not registered in advance as the authenticated terminal; and make preparation to print the print data when a permission to print the print data is received from the authenticated 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: Provided is a particle quantifying device in which there is a wider range of the number of particles that can be accurately recognized in a particulate sample. An observation device 1 comprises an imaging camera 107 that acquires a sample image representing a particulate sample and a computer 108 that performs a computation process relating to the sample image. The computer 108 acquires a frequency domain representation of the sample image, separates the frequency domain representation into a high-frequency component and a low-frequency component, acquires a high-frequency image as a spatial domain representation of the high-frequency component, acquires a low-frequency image as a spatial domain representation of the low-frequency component, and recognizes or quantifies the particulate sample on the basis of the high-frequency image and the low-frequency image.

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: A liquid composition contains a macrocyclic compound enclosing a metal ion, water, and an organic solvent, wherein a recording medium where the liquid composition has been applied has at least one of an antibacterial activity or an antiviral activity.

Abstract: A surface position detection device that information of a detected surface along an axis that intersects the detected surface includes: a light transmission unit having a modulated intensity in the detected surface in a first direction within the detected surface are radiated and superimposed onto the detected surface obliquely from a direction having a direction component in the first direction and forms an irradiation region on the detected surface; a light reception unit arranged with respect to the detected surface, receives at a different position of each light reception surface, the plurality of detection lights reflected by a detection region of which a width in the first direction is a predetermined value in the irradiation region, and outputs photoelectric conversion signal of the plurality of detection lights; and calculates the detected surface based on the photoelectric conversion signal of the plurality of detection lights output from the light reception unit.

Abstract: An edge system configured by an edge terminal that implements a predetermined function by operating a container using a hardware resource logically allocated by an orchestration technique, wherein the edge terminal is configured to acquire a corresponding image from an image registry based on predetermined setting information, and perform a setting process of deploying to the edge terminal using the acquired image, the edge terminal further includes a device having a predetermined function, and the setting information includes information related to the device.

Abstract: An information calculation method includes: calculating liquid information regarding a liquid on an object, which faces an optical member that emits exposure light, when moving the object; and calculating region information indicating a region, in which the liquid information satisfies predetermined conditions, on the object.