Abstract: In order to accomplish the above-mentioned objective, a display control apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a control unit. The control unit controls, on the basis of a viewpoint of a user, a position of an operating part of the user, and a position of a virtual object, a display format of at least a portion of the operating part. Accordingly, it is possible to provide high-quality viewing experience. Moreover, when approaching the virtual object which is the operation target and operating the virtual object, the transparency of the operating part is controlled, such that the operation target can be carefully checked. Accordingly, operation time and operation mistakes can be reduced. Moreover, the display format is controlled on the basis of the distance between the operating part and the operation target, such that a distance to the operation target can be accurately grasped.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a position processing unit, a correction unit, and a display control unit. The position processing unit estimates a head position of a user and estimates a position of a predetermined part of a body of the user based on the estimated head position. The correction unit corrects the position of the predetermined part estimated by the position processing unit based on the head position and an angle of inclination of a head of the user. The display control unit executes processing of displaying an image operated by the user to be overlapped with a space visually recognized by the user based on the position corrected by the correction unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a hold determination unit. The hold determination unit determines, in a case where a rate of decrease of a distance between a first hold-side object and a second hold-side object that set a virtual object as a pinch-and-hold target becomes smaller than a predetermined threshold value, that the virtual object has been held by the first hold-side object and the second hold-side object. Accordingly, a high-quality virtual experience can be achieved.

Abstract: An inorganic structure body has a free-standing structure including a fibrous member and/or a shell. The fibrous member and/or the shell include a metal and/or an inorganic material and have a three-dimensionally continuous configuration. The free-standing structure may have a structure that is based on a nonwoven fabric or a porous membrane used as a substrate.

Abstract: An oxide ion conductor has a X3Z2(TO4)3 structure, where X is a divalent metal element, Z is a trivalent metal element, and T is a tetravalent metal element, and has a composition expressed by (X1-xAx)3(Z1-yBy)2(T1-zCz)3O12+? where the element X is Ca, Fe, Gd, Ba, Sr, Mn, and/or Mg, the element Z is Al, Cr, Fe, Mn, V, Ga, Co, Ni, Ru, Rh, and/or Ir, the element T is Si and/or Ge, an element A is La, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu, and/or Sr, an element B is Zn, Mn, Co, Ru, and/or Rh, and an element C is Si, Al, Ga, and/or Sn, 0?x?0.2, 0?y?0.2, and 0?z?0.2 are satisfied, and ? is a value securing electrical neutrality.

Abstract: An oxide ion conductor has a X3Z2(TO4)3 structure, where X is a divalent metal element, Z is a trivalent metal element, and T is a tetravalent metal element, and has a composition expressed by (X1-xAx)3(Z1-yBy)2(T1-zCz)3O12+? where the element X is Ca, Fe, Gd, Ba, Sr, Mn, and/or Mg, the element Z is Al, Cr, Fe, Mn, V, Ga, Co, Ni, Ru, Rh, and/or Ir, the element T is Si and/or Ge, an element A is La, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu, and/or Sr, an element B is Zn, Mn, Co, Ru, and/or Rh, and an element C is Si, Al, Ga, and/or Sn, 0?x?0.2, 0?y?0.2, and 0?z?0.2 are satisfied, and ? is a value securing electrical neutrality.

Abstract: An inorganic structure body has a free-standing structure including a fibrous member and/or a shell. The fibrous member and/or the shell include a metal and/or an inorganic material and have a three-dimensionally continuous configuration. The free-standing structure may have a structure that is based on a nonwoven fabric or a porous membrane used as a substrate.

Abstract: A powder magnetic core having excellent specific resistance or strength. The powder magnetic core has soft magnetic particles, first coating layers that coat the surfaces of the soft magnetic particles and include aluminum nitride, and second coating layers that coat at least a part of the surfaces of the first coating layers and include a low-melting-point glass having a softening point lower than an annealing temperature for the soft magnetic particles. The first coating layers including aluminum nitride are excellent in the wettability to the low-melting-point glass which constitutes the second coating layers and suppress diffusion of constitutional elements between the soft magnetic particles and the low-melting-point glass of the second coating layers. The powder magnetic core can stably exhibit a higher specific resistance and higher strength than the prior art owing to such a synergistic action of the first coating layers and second coating layers.

Abstract: A dust core includes soft magnetic particles, a first coating layer, a second coating layer, and a third coating layer. The first coating layer is made of aluminum oxide with which at least a part of surfaces of the soft magnetic particles are coated. The second coating layer is made of aluminum nitride with which at least a part of a surface of the first coating layer is coated. The third coating layer is made of low-melting-point glass with which at least a part of a surface of the second coating layer is coated. The low-melting-point glass has a softening point lower than an annealing temperature of the soft magnetic particles.

Abstract: A powder magnetic core having excellent specific resistance or strength. The powder magnetic core has soft magnetic particles, first coating layers that coat the surfaces of the soft magnetic particles and include aluminum nitride, and second coating layers that coat at least a part of the surfaces of the first coating layers and include a low-melting-point glass having a softening point lower than an annealing temperature for the soft magnetic particles. The first coating layers including aluminum nitride are excellent in the wettability to the low-melting-point glass which constitutes the second coating layers and suppress diffusion of constitutional elements between the soft magnetic particles and the low-melting-point glass of the second coating layers. The powder magnetic core can stably exhibit a higher specific resistance and higher strength than the prior art owing to such a synergistic action of the first coating layers and second coating layers.

Abstract: A dust core includes soft magnetic particles, a first coating layer, a second coating layer, and a third coating layer. The first coating layer is made of aluminum oxide with which at least a part of surfaces of the soft magnetic particles are coated. The second coating layer is made of aluminum nitride with which at least a part of a surface of the first coating layer is coated. The third coating layer is made of low-melting-point glass with which at least a part of a surface of the second coating layer is coated. The low-melting-point glass has a softening point lower than an annealing temperature of the soft magnetic particles.

Abstract: A powder for a powder magnetic core, a powder magnetic core, and methods of producing those products are provided, so that mechanical strength of a powder magnetic core can be enhanced by hydrosilylation reaction between vinylsilane and hydrosilane without degrading magnetic properties. The powder for a powder magnetic core is composed of magnetic particles 2 having a surface 21 coated with an insulating layer 3, wherein the insulating layer 3 includes a polymer resin insulating layer 33 comprising vinylsilane 4 and hydrosilane.

Abstract: A photovoltaic device includes a light absorbing layer as a p-type semiconductor, a buffer layer, and a window layer. The light absorbing layer, the buffer layer, and the window layer are provided in this order. A film of a sulfide-based compound semiconductor containing Cu, Zn, Sn, and S is used as the light absorbing layer. In addition, the buffer layer includes a material having a composition of Zn1-xMgxO (0<x?0.4), and including a phase having a hexagonal crystal structure as a main component.

Abstract: A method for producing a powder for a magnetic core, in which an alkoxide film formation step and a silicone resin film formation step are carried out to form an insulation film composed of an alkoxide film and a silicone resin film on the surface of a pure iron powder, wherein the alkoxide film formation step comprises immersing a pure iron powder in an alkoxide-containing solution which is prepared by mixing a Si alkoxide having at least one organic group having a polar group comprising at least one of N, P, S and O atoms and an Al alkoxide with a dehydrated organic solvent, and drying to remove the dehydrated organic solvent, thereby forming an alkoxide film comprising an Al—Si—O type composite oxide on the surface of the pure iron powder; and the silicone resin film formation step comprises immersing the pure iron powder having the alkoxide film formed thereon in a silicone resin-containing solution which is prepared by mixing a silicone resin with an organic solvent, and drying to remove the organic solv

Abstract: Disclosed is a low cost, low magnetostriction body which is decreased only in magnetostriction while maintaining magnetic characteristics such as loss and saturation magnetization at desired values. Also disclosed is a dust core using such a low magnetostriction body. Specifically disclosed is a low magnetostriction body obtained by shaping a soft magnetic material powder added with an organic compound having an effect of changing the magnetostriction of the soft magnetic material when combined with it, and heat-treating a green compact in an inert atmosphere. The absolute value of the magnetostriction ?O-P (1 T/50 Hz) of the low magnetostriction body is not more than 1.0×10?6. Also specifically disclosed is a dust core using such a low magnetostriction body.

Abstract: An insulation film whose requisite constituent elements are first elements and a second element. The first elements include B, P, O and Fe. The second element can generate cations whose hexa-coordinated ion radius, defined by Shannon, R. D., is 0.073 nm or more, and which are bivalent or more. Since the second element having a large ion radius is incorporated into network formers made from the first elements, it is possible to improve the heat resistance of the insulation film.

Abstract: A dynamic quantity sensor device capable of measuring a dynamic quantity at a high precision and securing insulation of a pressure sensing body easily. This dynamic quantity sensor includes a pressure sensing body composed of composite ceramics in which a material having a pressure resistance effect is dispersed on a matrix made of an electrical insulation ceramic material and a pressure receiving body having an electrical insulation characteristic and disposed on a pressure receiving surface of the pressure receiving body, wherein the pressure sensing body and the pressure receiving body are integrated with each other.

Abstract: The present invention is characterized in that, in a powder magnetic core obtained by compaction of an iron-based magnetic powder covered with an insulation film, a saturation magnetization Ms is Ms?1.9 T in a 1.6 MA/m magnetic field; a specific resistance ? is ??1.5 ??m; a magnetic flux density B2k is B2k?1.1 T in a 2 kA/m magnetic field; and a magnetic flux density B10k is B10k?1.6 T in a 10 kA/m magnetic field. In accordance with the present invention, it has been possible to industrially carry out compacting iron-based magnetic powders under remarkably high compacting pressures. As a result, high-performance powder magnetic cores are obtained which have a high density, and which are good in terms of the specific resistance and magnetic permeability.

Abstract: Grain oriented ceramics constituted of a polycrystalline body of a layered cobaltite in which a {001} plane of each grain constituting the polycrystalline body has an average orientation degree of 50% or more by the Lotgering's method. In this case, the layered cobaltite is preferably a layered calcium cobaltite expressed by the following general formula: {(Ca1−xAx)2CoO3+&agr;} (CoO2+&bgr;)y (where A represents one or more elements selected among an alkali metal, an alkaline earth metal and Bi, 0≦×≦0.3, 0.5≦y≦2.0, and 0.85≦{3+&agr;+(2+&bgr;)y}/(3+2y)≦1.15). Such grain oriented ceramics are obtained by molding a mixture of the first powder constituted of a Co(OH)2 platelike powder and the second powder constituted of CaCO3 and the like such that a developed plane of the platelike powder is oriented, and by heating the green body at a predetermined temperature.

Abstract: An object of this invention is to provide a dynamic quantity sensor device capable of measuring a dynamic quantity at a high precision and securing insulation of a pressure sensing body easily. This dynamic quantity sensor comprises a pressure sensing body 11 composed of composite ceramics in which material having pressure resistance effect is dispersed on a matrix made of electrical insulation ceramic material and a pressure receiving body 12 having electrical insulation characteristic and disposed on a pressure receiving surface of the pressure receiving body 11, wherein the pressure sensing body and the pressure receiving body are integrated with each other.