Abstract: Provided are a device and a method by which high-precision auto focus (AF) processing can be performed while a focus lens or a zoom lens is being operated. An interchangeable lens acquires position information regarding a focus lens and a zoom lens at a predetermined time interval during an exposure time period of detection information acquisition pixels for use in calculation of a defocus amount (DF), and outputs the position information to an imaging device. The imaging device calculates the defocus amount (DF) by using information regarding the detection information acquisition pixels, calculates a reference focus lens position (Ref_fc) by using points, on a cam curve, corresponding to the inputted lens position information, calculates a target focus lens position (Tgt_fc) in an in-focus position, from the reference focus lens position (Ref_fc) and the defocus amount (DF), and outputs the target focus lens position (Tgt_fc) to the interchangeable lens.

Abstract: Provided is an article sorting device that can handle various containers without necessarily requiring a change of parts. The article sorting device includes a rotating table, a pocket, a guide, a position control unit, and a sorting unit. The position control unit controls a radial position of the pocket to a specified position that is a first position or a second position located radially outward relative to the first position. The sorting unit guides an article to different paths depending on whether the radial position of the pocket is at the first position or the second position when a circumferential position of the pocket reaches a sorting position.

Abstract: A method creates determination spaces for determining a road surface state of a road surface on which a vehicle is running from output waveform data obtained by measuring changes in a physical quantity of a tire of the vehicle during the running using information regarding road surfaces and the output waveform data. The method includes obtaining the output waveform data in a plurality of different road surface states and a running condition at times of measurement of the output waveform data, classifying the output waveform data into a plurality of groups on a basis of the running condition, performing, for each group, machine learning using training data where the output waveform data is associated with information regarding the road surface states, and creating the determination space corresponding to the group.

Abstract: A signal generation unit 2, a DA converter 3, variable attenuators 40, 42, 44, and 46 that attenuate an analog signal converted by the DA converter 3, a measurement unit 6 that detects a level of the signal attenuated by the variable attenuators 40, 42, 44, and 46 and passed through one or more semiconductor components, and a control unit 7 that obtains a value of a step error, which is a correction value of an attenuation amount of the variable attenuators 40, 42, 44, and 46 in each of a plurality of steps obtained by dividing a maximum value of the attenuation amount of the variable attenuators 40, 42, 44, and 46 by a variation amount, which is a predetermined attenuation amount are included.

Abstract: A signal generation unit 2, a DA converter 3, variable attenuators 40, 42, 44, and 46, a measurement unit 6 that detects a level of the signal attenuated by the variable attenuators 40, 42, 44, and 46 and passed through one or more semiconductor components, a switch 48 that switches between an Internal path through which the signal attenuated by the variable attenuator 40, 42, 44, and 46 is transmitted to the measurement unit 6 and an External path through which the signal attenuated by the variable attenuator 40, 42, 44, and 46 is output from an output terminal 10, and a control unit 7 that obtains a correction value of an attenuation amount of the variable attenuators 40, 42, and 44 with the Internal path and obtains a correction value of an attenuation amount of the variable attenuator 46 with the External path.

Abstract: To enable appropriate analysis to easily be performed in accordance with an object to be analyzed, provided is an apparatus for determining a chromatograph analysis method includes: an input portion (220) configured to receive input of a sample name of a sample to be analyzed and a component name; a storage (230) configured to store an analysis method for a component corresponding to the component name in the sample corresponding to the sample name so that the analysis method is associated with the sample name and the component name; and a controller (210) configured to search the storage for the analysis method, which corresponds to the sample name and the component name input to the input portion, to read the analysis method from the storage, and present the analysis method to a user.

Abstract: A communication system includes a user terminal that transmits and receives a message, and a server device that manages a public key and a private key, wherein the user terminal includes first processing circuitry configured to, when transmitting the message to another user terminal, acquire a public key corresponding to identification information about a recipient of the message, and encrypt the message or a file attached to the message, using the acquired public key, transmit, to the another user terminal, the message encrypted or the file attached to the message, when receiving the message from the another user terminal, request the server device to provide a private key for decrypting the message or the file attached to the message, and receive the private key from the server device, and decrypt the message or the file attached to the message, using the private key received.

Abstract: An air-sending device includes a fan configured to blow air into a space, an airflow direction adjusting unit configured to adjust an airflow direction of the air blown out from the fan, and a controller configured to control the fan and the airflow direction adjusting unit. The controller is configured to, when a predetermined condition is met, execute a forced swing mode regardless of a setting made by a user for the airflow direction. In the forced swing mode, a swing operation is forcibly performed in which the airflow direction adjusting unit is controlled to change the airflow direction over time.

Abstract: An abnormality cause determining device that is applied to a vehicle including an electromagnetic actuator includes a storage device and an execution device. The storage device is configured to store map data which is data for defining a map. The map includes a current variable which is a variable indicating a current flowing actually in the electromagnetic actuator as an input variable and includes a cause variable which is a variable indicating a cause of an abnormality of an onboard unit including the electromagnetic actuator as an output variable. The execution device is configured to perform an acquisition process of acquiring a value of the input variable based on a detection value from a sensor which is mounted in the vehicle and a calculation process of calculating a value of the output variable by inputting the value of the input variable to the map.

Abstract: A sound generation device includes: at least one memory storing instructions; and at least one processor that executes the instructions to: output an output sound signal representing a performance based on performance data including a plurality of tracks each including at least one sound signal including an attribute; designate attribute information of the attribute of at least one of the at least one sound signal of at least one of the plurality of tracks as a search target; and search for a sound signal including the designated attribute information from the performance data. The performance in the output sound signal includes, omits, or changes the searched sound signal.

Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus includes a heat source side unit including a compressor, a load side unit including a load side heat exchanger, a fan provided in the load side unit, an air direction adjuster that is provided in the load side unit and that adjusts an air direction, and a controller that controls the compressor, the fan, and the air direction adjuster. The controller determines whether an air-conditioned space is being ventilated and executes, in a case where the air-conditioned space is being ventilated, a fixed-swing mode in which a swing operation in which the air direction is changed over time by controlling the air direction adjuster is forcefully performed. At a time when the fixed-swing mode is to be entered, the controller activates the compressor when the compressor is stopped and continues operation of the compressor when the compressor is operating.

Abstract: An air-sending device includes a fan configured to blow air into a space, an airflow direction adjusting unit configured to adjust an airflow direction of the air blown out from the fan, and a controller configured to control the fan and the airflow direction adjusting unit. The controller is configured to, when a predetermined condition is met, execute a forced swing mode regardless of a setting made by a user for the airflow direction. In the forced swing mode, a swing operation is forcibly performed in which the airflow direction adjusting unit is controlled to change the airflow direction over time.

Abstract: A cooling device includes a heat-radiating fin group having a plurality of heat-radiating fins that are arranged parallel to each other in a first direction; first heat pipes, one end of each first heat pipe being configured to be thermally connected to a first heat-generating element, another end of each first heat pipe being thermally connected to the heat-radiating fin group; and second heat pipes, one end of each second heat pipe being configured to be thermally connected to a second heat-generating element, another end of each second heat pipe being thermally connected to the heat-radiating fin group, wherein respective inserted another ends of the first and second heat pipes are disposed on a plane parallel to the first direction and defined in the heat-radiating fin group and have portions parallel to the first direction.

Abstract: The indoor unit has an air passage formed therein to allow the indoor air drawn in the indoor unit to pass therethrough. The first indoor heat exchanger, the adsorption and desorption device, and the second indoor heat exchanger are arranged in the air passage. The second indoor heat exchanger is disposed downstream of the first indoor heat exchanger, and the adsorption and desorption device is disposed downstream of the first indoor heat exchanger and upstream of the second indoor heat exchanger. To perform dehumidifying control, the controller controls the opening degree of the first expansion valve and the second expansion valve to enable switching between cooling adsorption mode where the adsorption and desorption device adsorbs moisture in the indoor air and cooling desorption mode where the adsorption and desorption device desorbs the adsorbed moisture.

Abstract: Provided is a heat pipe which is installed in a cold region in a bottom heat posture in which a longitudinal direction of a container is substantially in parallel with a gravitational direction, is capable of preventing the container from deforming even when a working fluid has become frozen, and has excellent heat transport properties.

Abstract: A signal generation unit 2, a DA converter 3, variable attenuators 40, 42, 44, and 46, a measurement unit 6 that detects a level of the signal attenuated by the variable attenuators 40, 42, 44, and 46 and passed through one or more semiconductor components, a switch 48 that switches between an Internal path through which the signal attenuated by the variable attenuator 40, 42, 44, and 46 is transmitted to the measurement unit 6 and an External path through which the signal attenuated by the variable attenuator 40, 42, 44, and 46 is output from an output terminal 10, and a control unit 7 that obtains a correction value of an attenuation amount of the variable attenuators 40, 42, and 44 with the Internal path and obtains a correction value of an attenuation amount of the variable attenuator 46 with the External path.

Abstract: A signal generation unit 2, a DA converter 3, variable attenuators 40, 42, 44, and 46 that attenuate an analog signal converted by the DA converter 3, a measurement unit 6 that detects a level of the signal attenuated by the variable attenuators 40, 42, 44, and 46 and passed through one or more semiconductor components, and a control unit 7 that obtains a value of a step error, which is a correction value of an attenuation amount of the variable attenuators 40, 42, 44, and 46 in each of a plurality of steps obtained by dividing a maximum value of the attenuation amount of the variable attenuators 40, 42, 44, and 46 by a variation amount, which is a predetermined attenuation amount are included.

Abstract: A signal generation unit 2, a DA converter 3, variable attenuators 40, 42, 44, and 46 that attenuate the analog signal converted by the DA converter 3, a measurement unit 6 that detects a level of the signal attenuated by the variable attenuators 40, 42, 44, and 46 and passed through one or more semiconductor components, and a control unit 7 that obtains a value of a step error, which is a correction value of an attenuation amount of the variable attenuators 40, 42, 44, and 46 in each of a plurality of steps obtained by dividing a maximum value of the attenuation amount of the variable attenuators 40, 42, 44, and 46 by a variation amount, which is a predetermined attenuation amount are included.

Abstract: A musical sound producing apparatus includes a plurality of keys, a sound production information generator that generates sound production information for producing a musical sound based on a first key operation on any key among the plurality of keys, a control information generator that generates control information for controlling, on the basis of a second key operation different from the first key operation, a mode of the musical sound produced on the basis of the first key operation, and a musical sound signal generator that generates a musical sound signal on the basis of the sound production information and the control information.

Abstract: A first heat exchanger, a desiccant block, and a second heat exchanger are arranged in series. In a dehumidifying operation, a first operation mode and a second operation mode are alternately repeated. In the first operation mode, the first heat exchanger is operated as a condensor or a radiator and the second heat exchanger is operated as an evaporator. In the second operation mode, the first heat exchanger is operated as the evaporator and the second heat exchanger is operated as the condensor or radiator. A pressure reducing amount in the first operation mode is controlled to be smaller than in the second operation mode so that a degree of superheat in the evaporator (second heat exchanger in the first operation mode, first heat exchanger in the second operation mode) in each of the first operation mode and the second operation mode is appropriately controlled to increase a dehumidifying amount.