Abstract: An image processing device includes an identification information acquisition unit that acquires identification information for identifying a person, an image acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of images, a setting unit that sets a check timing at which the images are checked, and a control unit that generates an album, and the control unit identifies the person included in the images using the identification information, generates person information related to the identified person, compares the person information of the person with set information at the check timing, and outputs notification information indicating that the person information does not satisfy the set information, when the person information does not satisfy the set information.

Abstract: A vertical motor with a cooling structure for an electrical operation machine is provided. The vertical motor includes a driving shaft, having a rotational axis and arranged along a vertical direction; a rotor, rotating with the driving shaft; a stator, arranged around the rotor; a winding, arranged around the stator; a housing, having a wall portion and a bottom portion and accommodating the driving shaft, the rotor and the stator; and an oil sump, provided on the bottom portion of the housing for accumulating a cooling fluid in a manner that a lower portion of the winding is immersed in the cooling fluid. The oil sump has an inner peripheral side wall, the inner peripheral side wall is vertically arranged with respect to the bottom portion of the housing and positioned at an inner side than the lower portion of the winding.

Abstract: A substrate holding hand includes a supporting plate where a circular reference capture range is defined, a plurality of pads disposed within the reference capture range, at least one stationary stopper that is disposed along an outer circumferential circle of the reference capture range, at least one movable stopper having a part at the same height from the supporting plate as the stationary stopper, and a stopper actuator that moves the movable stopper from a retracted position outside the reference capture range to a deployed position closer to the stationary stopper than the retracted position. A circular reduced capture range is defined by the movable stopper at the deployed position, and the front stopper, and a diameter of the reduced capture range is larger than a diameter of the substrate and smaller than a diameter of the reference capture range.

Abstract: Signal processing is performed using a built-in memory. An imaging apparatus includes: a pixel array unit that includes a plurality of pixels performing photoelectric conversion; a converter that converts an analog pixel signal output from the pixel array unit into digital image data; an image processing unit that performs image processing on the digital image data; and a storage unit that includes a plurality of regions for which a power distribution state is able to be selectively designated, and stores at least the digital image data output by the image processing unit.

Abstract: A cylindrical body for an implant is capable of maintaining a high patency rate by achieving a good antithrombogenicity, a low swelling property and a low Young's modulus. A cylindrical body for an implant includes: a cylindrical substrate having an elongation rate in the longitudinal direction, as measured under a tensile load of 20 N, of from 5 to 100%; and a block copolymer composed of a polyalkylene glycol block(s) and a polyhydroxyalkanoic acid block(s); wherein the ratio of the mass of the polyalkylene glycol with respect to the total mass of the block copolymer is 5 to 25%; and a film composed of the block copolymer has a Young's modulus of 200 MPa or less.

Abstract: A nerve regeneration-inducing tube includes a cylindrical body, and a plurality of fibers that are housed in the body and extend in a longitudinal direction of the body. At least a part of the fibers is a modified cross-section fiber that has an axis extending in a longitudinal direction of the fibers, and at least three protrusions that continue in the longitudinal direction of the fibers, protrude from the axis, and have a height of 0.5 ?m or more from the axis.

Abstract: The information display apparatus includes a sheet display section; a mechanical mechanism that moves the display section, and switches a state of the display section between a deployment state in which a display space is formed and a non-deployment state in which the display space is not formed; a motion sensor that detects a motion of the display section; and a controller that calculates, from data of the detection performed by the motion sensor, at least motion information other than a component related to the movement of the display section that is performed by the mechanical mechanism, and determines an anomaly.

Abstract: A tubular structure has succeeded in achieving excellent puncture resistance as well as maintenance of flexibility in a base by covering the base with a cover having excellent flexibility. The tubular structure includes a tubular base and a cover which covers the base, wherein the cover includes a copolymer containing a silicone monomer and a polymerizable monomer having a fluoroalkyl group(s) as monomer units.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an image sensor, an acquiring unit, and at least one processor. The image sensor is capable of acquiring, from an imaging surface that captures an object image formed by an optical system, first and second paired signals which are respectively acquired by pupil division in first and second directions different from each other. The acquiring unit acquires first and second defocus amounts from phase differences between the first paired signals and between the second paired signals, respectively. The at least one processor functions as a detecting unit and a deciding unit. The detecting unit detects an imaging object in an imaging frame. The deciding unit decides, based on the detected imaging object, at least one defocus amount to be used in focus control for the optical system from the first and second defocus amounts.

Abstract: Provided is a resin that can simultaneously achieve a high refractive index, high heat resistance, and low birefringence. A hydrogenated cycloolefin copolymer is obtained through hydrogenation of a cycloolefin copolymer that includes a structural unit derived from 1-naphthylnorbornene and a structural unit derived from 2-naphthylnorbornene, wherein an average endo isomer ratio of the 1-naphthylnorbornene and the 2-naphthylnorbornene is 50 mol % or more. The hydrogenated cycloolefin copolymer is suitable for use as a material of an optical element such as an optical lens.

Abstract: An imaging device includes a pixel array part having a plurality of pixels that perform photoelectric conversion, a converter that converts an analog pixel signal output from the pixel array part into digital pixel data, a first signal processing unit that performs first signal processing on the digital pixel data, a second signal processing unit that performs second signal processing that is at least partly shared by the first signal processing on the digital pixel data or data that has been subjected to at least a part of the first signal processing, a recognition processing unit that performs predetermined recognition processing on the basis of output data of the second signal processing unit, and an output interface unit that outputs at least one of output data of the first signal processing unit and the output data of the recognition processing unit.

Abstract: A vertical motor with a cooling structure for an electrical operation machine is provided. The vertical motor includes a driving shaft, having a rotational axis and arranged along a vertical direction; a rotor, rotating with the driving shaft; a stator, arranged around the rotor; a winding, arranged around the stator; a housing, having a wall portion and a bottom portion and accommodating the driving shaft, the rotor and the stator; and an oil sump, provided on the bottom portion of the housing for accumulating a cooling fluid in a manner that a lower portion of the winding is immersed in the cooling fluid. The oil sump has an inner peripheral side wall, the inner peripheral side wall is vertically arranged with respect to the bottom portion of the housing and positioned at an inner side than the lower portion of the winding.

Abstract: In various embodiments, degradation of epoxy within packages for ultraviolet light-emitting devices is reduced or substantially eliminated via package venting, prevention of transmission of ultraviolet light to one or more regions of epoxy utilized in the package, and/or utilization of packaging schemes that reduce or avoid utilization of epoxy and/or specific metals.

Abstract: An electric outboard motor includes a screw, an electric motor, an outboard motor case, and a cooling portion. The outboard motor case accommodates the electric motor. The cooling portion cools a heat generation portion at an inside or an outside of the outboard motor case by a cooling liquid. At least a lower region of the outboard motor case that is submerged in outside water is constituted of a multiple case structure body that includes an outer case and an inner case. In the multiple case structure body of the lower region, at least part of a space portion that is surrounded by the outer case and the inner case is a cooling liquid passage through which the cooling liquid supplied to the cooling portion flows.

Abstract: Signal processing is performed using a built-in memory. An imaging apparatus includes: a pixel array unit that includes a plurality of pixels performing photoelectric conversion; a converter that converts an analog pixel signal output from the pixel array unit into digital image data; an image processing unit that performs image processing on the digital image data; and a storage unit that includes a plurality of regions for which a power distribution state is able to be selectively designated, and stores at least the digital image data output by the image processing unit.

Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a shaping material that contains a cyclic olefin polymer and has a low content of a volatile impurity. This method for producing a shaping material is a method which includes passing a raw-material resin in a molten state through an extruder to produce a shaping material, and in which the extruder is equipped with a cylinder, a screw housed within the cylinder, a resin introduction port for introducing the raw-material resin into the cylinder, a resin discharge port for discharging the molten resin from the cylinder, a fluid injection port for injecting carbon dioxide or water into the cylinder between the resin introduction port and the resin discharge port, and a fluid discharge port for removing fluid in the cylinder by suction downstream of the fluid injection port and between the resin introduction port and the resin discharge port.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a signal processing apparatus, a signal processing method, and a program that make it possible to achieve further enhancement of the functionality. An embedded data separator extracts embedded data embedded in phase data supplied from an iTOF sensor, and an OPD calculation section calculates OPD data indicative of a detected light amount necessary for execution of automatic exposure from the phase data. A depth data processing section executes a signal process for the phase data to acquire depth data indicative of a depth to a target object that is a target of distance measurement. A transmission processing section transmits the embedded data, the OPD data, and the depth data in an output format that complies with the MIPI format. The present technology can be applied, for example, to a distance measurement system that includes an iTOF sensor.

Abstract: A joining device comprises a die and driving means. A first concave portion is recessed in a substantially cylindrical shape in a driving direction on the die, and a second concave portion is recessed in the driving direction in a central portion on a bottom face of the first concave portion. A portion on an external side of the second concave portion on the bottom face of the first concave portion forms a terrace portion that is shallower than the second concave portion, and a diameter of the foot portion of the self-piercing rivet corresponds to a diameter of the terrace portion. In driving the foot portion of the self-piercing rivet toward the terrace portion of the first concave portion, the foot portion of the self-piercing rivet is spread outward by the terrace portion and a part of the members to be joined runs into the second concave portion.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a toner binder that maintains low-temperature fixability and hot offset resistance while having excellent grindability, image strength, heat-resistant storage stability, electrostatic charge stability, gloss-imparting properties, and durability. The toner binder of the present invention contains an amorphous resin (A) and a crystalline vinyl resin (B), wherein a weight ratio [(A)/(B)] of the amorphous resin (A) to the crystalline vinyl resin (B) is 81/19 to 97/3, the toner binder has an endothermic peak top temperature (Tm) derived from the crystalline vinyl resin (B) of 40° C. to 100° C. and a half-width of the endothermic peak derived from the crystalline vinyl resin (B) of 6° C. or less, the crystalline vinyl resin (B) has an acid value of 60 mg KOH/g or less, and the toner binder satisfies the following relation (1): 3° C.?Tfb(A)?Tfb(C)?30° C.

Abstract: A piston of an internal combustion engine configured to be reciprocable along an axial direction in a cylinder includes a cavity formed to be recessed in a center of a piston top surface, and an outer circumferential edge portion located on a radially outer side of the cavity in the piston top surface. The cavity includes a lip portion, a raised portion, and a curved portion. The curved portion includes an outer circumference-side curved surface which includes a curved surface connected to the lip portion, an inner circumference-side concave surface which is located on a radially inner side of an outer circumference-side curved surface and includes a surface connected to a raised portion, the inner circumference-side concave surface including a deepest portion of the cavity, and a convex surface formed between the outer circumference-side curved surface and the inner circumference-side concave surface, as well as protruding upward.