Abstract: A system may include a sensing device and an application device. The sensing device includes an imaging device, an image processing unit that detects a whole or part of a person from an image captured with the imaging device as a sensing target and extracts information on the detected sensing target, and a wireless communication unit that transmits the sensing result including the information extracted by the image processing unit through wireless communication. The application device includes a communication unit that receives the sensing result from the sensing device and an application processing unit that performs processing using information included in the sensing result received by the communication unit. The information transmitted from the sensing device as the sensing result includes neither a person's image nor information that can directly identify an individual.

Abstract: A health care assisting device includes: an image acquisition part that acquires a plurality of images in which a target person is photographed in time series; an expression recognizer that recognizes a feature of an expression of the target person from the plurality of images acquired by the image acquisition part; a storage in which expression recognition results of the plural images are stores as time-series data; a health state estimator that detects a feature associated with a temporal change of the expression of the target person from the time-series data stored in the storage, and estimates a mental health state of the target person based on the detected feature; and an output part that outputs information on the mental health state of the target person based on an estimation result of the health state estimator.

Abstract: A system may include a sensing device and an application device. The sensing device includes an imaging device, an image processing unit that detects a whole or part of a person from an image captured with the imaging device as a sensing target and extracts information on the detected sensing target, and a wireless communication unit that transmits the sensing result including the information extracted by the image processing unit through wireless communication. The application device includes a communication unit that receives the sensing result from the sensing device and an application processing unit that performs processing using information included in the sensing result received by the communication unit. The information transmitted from the sensing device as the sensing result includes neither a person's image nor information that can directly identify an individual.

Abstract: A room information inferring apparatus that infers information regarding a room has an imaging unit that captures an image of a room that is to be subjected to inferring, a person detector that detects a person in an image captured by the imaging unit, and acquires a position of the person in the room, a presence map generator that generates a presence map indicating a distribution of detection points corresponding to persons detected in a plurality of images captured at different times, and an inferring unit that infers information regarding the room based on the presence map.

Abstract: An area information estimating device has a camera that photographs an image within a sensing area, a person detector that detects a person from the image from the camera, and a position calculator that calculates an existence position of the person in the sensing area based on a coordinate on the image in which the person is detected by the person detector. The person detector excludes the person in whom a relationship between the coordinate and a size on the image does not satisfy a predetermined condition from a detection target.

Abstract: An area information estimating device has a camera that photographs an image within a sensing area, a person detector that detects a person from the image from the camera, and a position calculator that calculates an existence position of the person in the sensing area based on a coordinate on the image in which the person is detected by the person detector. The person detector excludes the person in whom a relationship between the coordinate and a size on the image does not satisfy a predetermined condition from a detection target.

Abstract: A room information inferring apparatus that infers information regarding a room has an imaging unit that captures an image of a room that is to be subjected to inferring, a person detector that detects a person in an image captured by the imaging unit, and acquires a position of the person in the room, a presence map generator that generates a presence map indicating a distribution of detection points corresponding to persons detected in a plurality of images captured at different times, and an inferring unit that infers information regarding the room based on the presence map.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for the evaluation of the virus-removing capability of a porous polymeric membrane module for removing viruses by filtration, which comprises testing I in which a transmembrane pressure lowering from predetermined value Ph a predetermined period of time after the termination of the supply of a gas is measured with respect to the porous polymeric membrane module, wherein the value Ph satisfies the formula: d<Ph<c, wherein d and c are respectively the transmembrane pressures at points (d) and (c) in FIG. 1 hereof. By the method of the present invention, it has become possible for the first time to effectively and efficiency select a module which can be suitably used for removing viruses from a virus-containing fluid and to obtain to fluid substantially free of the virus.

Abstract: A porous regenerated cellulose hollow fiber is obtained by a micro-phase-separation method. The hollow fiber is characterized in that the viscosity average molecular weight is at least 5.times.10.sup.4, each of the average pore diameter D.sub.1 on the inner wall surface of the hollow fiber and the average pore diameter D.sub.2 on the outer wall surface is 0.02 to 10 .mu.m, the in-plane porosity Pr on the outer wall surface is at least 10%, and the hollow fiber comprises a wall thickness portion having pores piercing therethrough between the inner wall surface and outer wall surface and a hollow portion extending continuously over the entire fiber length.

Abstract: A process for separating and condensing at least one selected organic liquid from a feed comprising a mixture thereof in the state of one phase or two phases which comprises conducting ultrafiltration by using a polymeric porous membrane having a mean pore size(2ra ) of at least 10.sup.-6 cm and a porosity (Pr) of at least 50% under the conditions that the effective pressure gradient (.DELTA.P/d) loaded on the polymeric porous membrane satisfies the following equations:.DELTA.P/d<1000 (cmHg/cm) (1)and.DELTA.P/d.ltoreq.1.times.10.sup.-1 d.eta./[(ra).sup.2 .multidot.Pr](cmHg/cm) (2)wherein.DELTA.P (cmHg) is the effective pressure difference between one and the other surfaces of the membrane,d(cm) is a thickness of the membrane,ra(cm) is a mean pore radius of the membrane,Pr(%) is a porosity of the membrane and.eta.(centipoise) is a viscosity of the selected organic liquid.

Abstract: A method for separation of a liquid mixture wherein a component, intended to be separated, in the liquid mixture is concentrated in the interiors of particles having an average size of 0.1 to 10 .mu.m; the particles are then transported to the surface of a polymeric porous membrane having an average pore size 0.1 to 50 times the average size of the particles under an electrostatic field; and the particles are then separated by a pressure difference loaded on the membrane.

Abstract: A porous regenerated cellulose hollow fiber obtained by a micro-phase-separation method is described. The hollow fiber is characterized in that the viscosity average molecular weight is at least 5.times.10.sup.4, each of the average pore diameter D.sub.1 on the inner wall surface of the hollow fiber and the average pore diameter D.sub.2 on the outer wall surface is 0.02 to 10 .mu.m, the in-plane porosity Pr on the outer wall surface is at least 10%, and the hollow fiber comprises a wall thickness portion having pores piercing therethrough between the inner wall surface and outer wall surface and a hollow portion extending continuously over the entire fiber length.

Abstract: A porous regenerated cellulose membrane consisting essentially of cellulose molecules having a viscosity average molecular weight of at least about 5.times.10.sup.4, the crystalline region of the cellulose molecules being substantially cellulose II crystal, cellulose III-2 crystal or the mixture thereof and having a degree of crystal orientation at a face of (101) in the crystalline region in the direction of the surface of the membrane of at most about 40%, the membrane having a dynamic modulus at 30.degree. C. measured with a frequency of 110 Hz of at least about 1.5.times.10.sup.8 (100-pr.rho.) dyn/cm.sup.2 wherein Pr.rho. is a porosity by percentage, a mean pore size represented by D(.mu.m) of about 0.01 .mu.m to about 20 .mu.m and at the same time a porosity in a plane of at least one plane of at least about 30% or a number of pores in a plane per 1 cm.sup.2 of about 6.times.10.sup.5 /D to about 3.times.10.sup.7 /D; and a process for preparing the same.

Abstract: A fiber consisting essentially of polyethylene terephthalate capable of being dyed under normal pressure and having an initial modulus at 30.degree. C. of about 55 g/d to about 130 g/d, a relationship between a peak temperature [T.sub.max (.degree.C.)] at the peak of a dynamic mechanical loss tangent (tan .delta.) measured with a frequency of 110 Hz and a peak value of the dynamic mechanical loss tangent [(tan .delta.).sub.max ] represented by the formula:(tan .delta.).sub.max .gtoreq.1.times.10.sup.-2 (T.sub.max -105)and a (tan .delta.).sub.max of about 0.14 to about 0.30 and a dynamic mechanical loss tangent at 220.degree. C. (tan .delta..sub.220) of at most about 0.055. The fiber is produced by subjecting a polyethylene terephthalate fiber obtained at a spinning speed of at least about 4000 m/min. to heat treatment at a temperature ranging from a temperature at which a dynamic modulus (E') of the fiber deviates from a tangent line at 180.degree. C.

Abstract: A high Young's modulus poly-p-phenylene-terephthalamide fiber having a unique fine-structure and excellent properties, including excellent resistance to lateral stress and to friction. The fiber is made by extruding an anisotropic dope in a non-coagulating layer, passing the extrudate through a coagulating layer, washing and drying the resulting coagulated fibers in the absence of substantial tension, and heating the fibers under tension.

Abstract: A fiber consisting essentially of polyethylene terephthalate capable of being dyed under normal pressure and having an initial modulus at 30.degree. C. of about 55 g/d to about 130 g/d, a relationship between a peak temperature ]T.sub.max (.degree.C.)] at the peak of a dynamic mechanical loss tangent (tan .delta.) measured with a frequency of 110 Hz and a peak value of the dynamic mechanical loss tangent [(tan .delta.).sub.max ] represented by the formula:(tan .delta.).sub.max .ltoreq.1.times.10.sup.-2 (T.sub.max -105)and a (tan .delta.).sub.max of about 0.14 to about 0.30 and a dynamic mechanical loss tangent at 220.degree. C. (tan .delta..sub.220) of at most about 0.055. The fiber is produced by subjecting a polyethylene terephthalate fiber obtained at a spinning speed of at least about 4000 m/min. to heat treatment at a temperature ranging from a temperature at which a dynamic modulus (E') of the fiber deviates from a tangent line at 180.degree. C.

Abstract: A poly-p-phenylene-terephthalamide fiber with excellent fatigue resistance resulting from a unique combination of properties. The fibers are prepared by extruding an anisotropic polymer dope in a non-coagulating layer, passing the extrudate through a coagulating layer, depositing the resulting coagulated fibers on a net conveyor, and in the absence of substantial tension sequentially washing the fibers, holding the fibers in saturated steam, and drying the fibers under specified conditions.

Abstract: A high Young's modulus poly-p-phenylene-terephthalamide fiber having a unique fine-structure and excellent properties, including excellent resistance to lateral stress and to friction. The fiber is made by extruding an anisotropic dope in a non-coagulating layer, passing the extrudate through a coagulating layer, washing and drying the resulting coagulated fibers in the absence of substantial tension, and heating the fibers under tension.