Abstract: A crane includes a boom and a hook suspended from the boom by a wire rope and transports a load in a state in which the load W is suspended from the hook, and further includes a sensor that detects the position of an obstacle, and a control device that generates a transport path CR by arranging a plurality of node points in an area containing a lifting-up point and a lifting-down point of the load and connecting the node points. The control device generates a new transport path after increasing a number of node points arranged around the obstacle when the sensor detects movement of the obstacle.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus determines, based on results of extracting a foreground area from a captured image by learning, a threshold value that is used for generation of a foreground image based on a difference between the captured image and a background image corresponding to the captured image. The image processing apparatus generates a foreground image based on a difference between the captured image and the background image by using the determined threshold value.

Abstract: The present disclosure appropriately shortens a processing step for processing a substrate in which a silicon layer and a silicon germanium layer are alternatively laminated. The present disclosure provides a substrate processing method of processing the substrate in which the silicon layer and the silicon germanium layer are alternatively laminated, which includes forming an oxide film by selectively modifying a surface layer of an exposed surface of the silicon germanium layer by using a processing gas including fluorine and oxygen and converted into plasma.

Abstract: The image processing apparatus obtains a captured image including a foreground object and a background image not including the foreground object, adjusts pixel values of a pixel included in the background image, a color represented by the pixel values being in a specific color range, and generates an image representing an area of the foreground object based on a difference between the adjusted background image and the captured image.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus determines, based on results of extracting a foreground area from a captured image by learning, a threshold value that is used for generation of a foreground image based on a difference between the captured image and a background image corresponding to the captured image. The image processing apparatus generates a foreground image based on a difference between the captured image and the background image by using the determined threshold value.

Abstract: A semiconductor device manufacturing method includes: forming a core layer, an anti-reflection film and a photoresist layer on a layer to be etched of a substrate; trimming first line patterns of the photoresist layer; forming a first film on the first line patterns; removing the first film such that the first film is left in sidewall portions of the first line patterns of the photoresist layer; removing the photoresist layer; producing the core layer into second line patterns by etching the anti-reflection film and the core layer; forming a second film on the core layer produced into the second line patterns; removing the second film such that the second film is left in sidewall portions of the second line patterns of the core layer; and producing the layer to be etched into third line patterns by etching the layer to be etched.