Abstract: In an optical circuit using a Mach-Zehnder-type element, it is difficult to obtain an optical circuit which has a less wavelength dependence and is suitable for achieving high integration. Accordingly, an optical circuit according to the present invention includes: a first Mach-Zehnder-type element including a first branch waveguide, a first branching/combining unit connected to one end of the first branch waveguide, and a second branching/combining unit connected to another end of the first branch waveguide and having a branch configuration different from that of the first branching/combining unit; and a second Mach-Zehnder-type element including a second branch waveguide, a third branching/combining unit connected to one end of the second branch waveguide, and a fourth branching/combining unit connected to another end of the second branch waveguide and having a branch configuration different from that of the third branching/combining unit.

Abstract: This invention provides a prophylactic and therapeutic agent for dry eye, having new ingredients to reduce the deterioration of the lacrimal secretory ability and to inhibit the generation of radical oxygen in lacrimal gland tissue. The prophylactic and therapeutic agent for dry eye of this invention contains the maqui berry extract as the active substance of this invention, i.e. containing delphinidin glycoside extracted from the maqui berry and at least one or more of the active substances delphinidin-3-sambubioside-5-glucoside, delphinidin-3,5-diglucoside, delphinidin-3-sambubioside and delphinidin-3-glucoside, preferably delphinidin-3,5-diglucoside.

Abstract: A communication system is provided that includes a communication terminal that stores at least one program and a plurality of update apparatuses that provide update data for updating the program to the communication terminal. The communication terminal includes a memory that stores update apparatus information associated with communication bandwidth information, and processing circuitry that calculates an actual bandwidth obtained from a previous downloading of previous update data, determines an update apparatus for downloading next update data based on the calculated actual bandwidth and the update apparatus information stored in the memory, and downloads the next update data from the determined update apparatus.

Abstract: An image processing device, an image processing system, and a method of processing an image. The image processing device and the method includes displaying a first screen and a second screen using an image processing device connected to an image display apparatus, controlling a display to display one of the first screen and the second screen on the image display apparatus, acquiring from the image display apparatus discrimination data including at least data for distinguishing between the first screen and the second screen, and determining a partition between the first screen and the second screen based on the discrimination data. The image processing system includes an image display apparatus and at least one information processing device.

Abstract: The present invention provides compositions incorporating lactic acid bacteria or bifidobacteria with components that act to enhance the function of lactic acid bacteria or bifidobacteria. The present invention relates to a composition containing at least one component selected from the group consisting of lutein, fish oil, lactoferrin, vitamins, ?-aminobutyric acid, and zinc, and a strain of lactic acid bacteria or bifidobacteria.

Abstract: In order to solve the problem of making optical signals pass at a low loss and low polarization dependence, this optical circuit element is configured from rib-type optical waveguides, each of which is configured from a core region, including a planar slab and protruding ribs, and cladding regions that are provided in contact with the top and the bottom of the core region. A first optical waveguide that is provided in the optical circuit element is provided with a plurality of intersection points where the first optical waveguide intersects optical waveguides other than the first optical waveguide, said intersection points being disposed on one straight line.

Abstract: Provided are a practical rib type optical waveguide in which polarization dependence and wavelength dependence and the like are small and an optical multiplexer/demultiplexer using the same. An optical waveguide type optical multiplexer/demultiplexer of the present invention includes a substrate, M input optical waveguides and N output optical waveguides including a single mode rib type optical waveguide, multi-mode optical interference regions including a rib type optical waveguide, and reversible tapered regions that smoothly connect the input/output optical waveguides to the multi-mode optical interference regions and include M×N rib type optical waveguides, and both side surfaces of the multi-mode optical interference region are respectively formed in a stepped shape.

Abstract: A remote conference system includes a plurality of communication terminals having respective imaging units and connected to each other via a network. Further, one of the communication terminals includes a transmission unit transmitting alternative data that differ from imaged data that are captured by the imaging unit to the other communication terminals when a function of the imaging unit is set to be disabled, and a display control unit displaying a screen including the alternative data transmitted from one of the other communication terminals on a display device.

Abstract: A server includes a receiver configured to receive, from an information processing apparatus that executes update, an instruction for transmitting metadata of update data used for the update; a determining unit configured to determine whether the update data includes preliminary download data, wherein the preliminary download data has an update date and time later than a current date and time, and the update date and time is a date and time from which the update becomes available; a transmitter configured to transmit, when the determining unit determines that the update data includes preliminary download data, metadata of the preliminary download data to the information processing apparatus via a communication network; and a prohibiting unit configured to prohibit transfer of the metadata of the preliminary download data on the basis of the number of information processing apparatuses that are downloading the preliminary download data.

Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive metadata of update data for use in updating, a determination unit configured to determine whether there are update data subject to preliminary downloading indicating downloading the update data in advance before an update allowable time, based on a description of the metadata, and an update process unit configured to download the update data when the determination unit determines that there are the update data subject to preliminary downloading.

Abstract: A management system is provided. The management system includes a management unit configured to, when communication between a communication-start-requesting-source communication terminal and a destination communication terminal is disrupted, store specifying information for specifying the communication-start-requesting-source communication terminal, and a selection unit configured to, when a plurality of communication terminals are requesting a communication start with the destination communication terminal, select one of the plurality of the communication terminals to be connected to the destination communication terminal based on the specifying information stored by the management unit.

Abstract: A disclosed communication apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives metadata of update data used for an update; a determination unit that determines, based on a description of the metadata, whether or not there is update data that is subject to advance download in which download of the update data is executed before a point of time at which the update is able to start; a control unit that determines whether or not it is timing to perform the advance download; and an update processing unit that downloads the update data in a case in which the determination unit determines that there is the update data that is subject to the advance download and the control unit determines that it is the timing to perform the advance download.

Abstract: An optical waveguide of the present invention is an optical waveguide having a first rib and a second rib being provided on a slab layer along one direction from one side to the other side and a barrier layer being connected between said first rib and said second rib, in which: the first rib includes a first taper part having a width widening from a first end in said one side to a second end connected with said barrier layer; and the second rib includes a first layer and a second layer laminated on a face of said slab layer in turn.

Abstract: A communication system includes a division size determining unit configured to determine a division size when update data for an application that is executed by a first communication device is divided into a plurality of pieces of data based on band information indicating a band capable of being used for communication by the first communication device, a dividing unit configured to divide the update data into a plurality of pieces of data using the division size determined by the division size determining unit, and a relevant information generation unit configured to generate relevant information relating to the pieces of data divided by the dividing unit. In the communication system, a second communication device transmits the relevant information to the first communication device, and the first communication device receives the update data divided into the division size so as to perform update in accordance with the relevant information.

Abstract: Provided is a method for producing an electronic component, which is capable of forming a cured adhesive layer easily with high accuracy. The method for producing a curable film electronic component according to the present invention includes an application step in which an adhesive is applied onto a first electronic component body using an ink jet device to form an adhesive layer, a first light irradiation step in which an adhesive layer is irradiated with light from a first light irradiation part, an attachment step in which a second electronic component body is disposed on the adhesive layer irradiated with light and attached, and a step in which the adhesive layer is cured by heating, thereby giving an electronic component, the ink jet device includes an ink tank to store the adhesive, a discharge part, and a circulation flow path part, and in the application step, the adhesive is applied while being circulated in the ink jet device.

Abstract: An optical waveguide type optical terminator forms an optical waveguide structure including at least an optical absorption core (103) which is formed on a clad layer (102) and includes a portion composed of silicon in which an impurity of 1019 cm?3 or more is doped, and is used by being optically connected in series with an optical waveguide including a core (105) composed of silicon. The optical absorption core (103) is sufficient provided that, at least, an impurity of around 1019 cm?3 is doped therein. For example, its impurity concentration is sufficient provided that it falls within a range of 1019-1020 cm?3. The existence of this impurity causes absorption of light in the optical absorption core (103).

Abstract: Provided is a method for producing an electronic component, which is capable of forming a cured adhesive layer easily with high accuracy. The method for producing a curable film electronic component according to the present invention includes an application step in which an adhesive is applied onto a first electronic component body using an ink jet device to form an adhesive layer, a first light irradiation step in which an adhesive layer is irradiated with light from a first light irradiation part, an attachment step in which a second electronic component body is disposed on the adhesive layer irradiated with light and attached, and a step in which the adhesive layer is cured by heating, thereby giving an electronic component, the ink jet device includes an ink tank to store the adhesive, a discharge part, and a circulation flow path part, and in the application step, the adhesive is applied while being circulated in the ink jet device.

Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a cured product film, which is capable of increasing the formation accuracy of a fine cured product film and also increasing the adhesion of the cured product film. The method for producing a curable film according to the present invention includes an application step in which a curable composition that is photocurable and thermocurable and also is in liquid form is applied using an ink jet device, a first light irradiation step in which the curable composition is irradiated with light from a first light irradiation part, and a heating step in which a precured product film irradiated with light is heated, the ink jet device has an ink tank to store the curable composition, a discharge part, and a circulation flow path part, and in the application step, the curable composition is applied while being circulated in the ink jet device.

Abstract: Provided is a curable composition for inkjet capable of improving uniformity of a cured product film and heat resistance of a cured product. The curable composition for inkjet according to the present invention contains a compound having a (meth)acryloyl group and a cyclic ether group, a photoreactive compound, a compound having a cyclic ether group, a photopolymerization initiator, and a potential curing agent, the photoreactive compound and the compound having a cyclic ether group each are a compound other than the compound having a (meth)acryloyl group and a cyclic ether group, the compound having a (meth)acryloyl group and a cyclic ether group has one or two (meth)acryloyl groups, and the viscosity at 25° C. of the curable composition for inkjet according to the present invention is 160 mPa·s or more and 1200 mPa·s or less.

Abstract: This invention provides a prophylactic and therapeutic agent for dry eye, having new ingredients to reduce the deterioration of the lacrimal secretory ability and to inhibit the generation of radical oxygen in lacrimal gland tissue. The prophylactic and therapeutic agent for dry eye of this invention contains the maqui berry extract as the active substance of this invention, i.e. containing delphinidin glycoside extracted from the maqui berry and at least one or more of the active substances delphinidin-3-sambubioside-5-glucoside, delphinidin-3,5-diglucoside, delphinidin-3-sambubioside and delphinidin-3-glucoside, preferably delphinidin-3,5-diglucoside.