Abstract: There are provided a device and a method that execute light output control that eliminates an occlusion region and does not disturb blinking pattern light of a mobile device. At least one of a light application region or a light output timing of output light of a light output unit is determined on the basis of a data analysis result based on sensor input information and reception information from another device, the light output unit is controlled according to the light application region or the light output timing that has been determined, and a light output process is executed. Specifically, for example, light output control is executed so as to eliminate an occlusion region which no light reaches due to a pillar or the like, and moreover, so as not to disturb blinking pattern light output from the mobile device.

Abstract: An inspection device and an inspection method are provided. The inspection device includes: a main body portion, configured to be held by an inspector; a camera portion, disposed on the main body portion and configured to capture an inspected portion of a vehicle; and a guiding portion, configured to guide a camera direction of the camera portion to the inspector, so that an image obtained through the camera portion becomes a prescribed image suitable for inspection.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided and includes a first extraction unit configured to perform first extraction processing on an image of a registration target, the first extraction processing extracting first feature information indicating a feature of the registration target, a second extraction unit configured to perform second extraction processing on the image of the registration target, the second extraction processing extracting second feature information, a comparison unit configured to compare the first feature information with the second feature information, and a registration unit configured to register registration information associated with the registration target, the registration information indicating which one of the first extraction processing and the second extraction processing is to be used for collation processing based on a result of comparison by the comparison unit.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a clustering unit configured to perform clustering on a data group based on a feature value of each of a plurality of pieces of data, a determination unit determines a representative cluster among clusters generated by the clustering unit, a first identification identifies a first cluster based on a degree of similarity between each of the clusters generated by the clustering unit and the representative cluster, a second identification unit identifies a second cluster based on a first degree of similarity, which is the degree of similarity between each of the clusters generated by the clustering unit and the representative cluster, and a second degree of similarity, which is a degree of similarity between each of the clusters generated by the clustering unit and the first cluster, and a selection unit selects data for display from among the representative cluster, the first cluster, and the second cluster.

Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet has a specific composition and a microstructure. In the microstructure, the area fraction of elongated ferrite phase grains having an aspect ratio of 3 or more is 1% or less, the average crystal grain size of martensite included in a region extending 50 ?m from a surface of the steel sheet is 20 ?m or less, the content of oxide particles having a minor axis length of 0.8 ?m or less in the region extending 50 ?m from the surface of the steel sheet is 1.0×1010 particles/m2 or more, and the content of coarse oxide particles having a minor axis length of more than 1 ?m in the region extending 50 ?m from the surface of the steel sheet is 1.0×108 particles/m2 or less. The content of hydrogen trapped in the steel sheet is 0.05 ppm by mass or more.

Abstract: The present disclosure prevents learning a miscorrection made by a user on an OCR result. Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a character recognition unit configured to extract a character string containing at least one character by performing character recognition on an image obtained by scanning of a document; a display control uniit configured to display the extracted character string on a display apparatus; an obtaining unit configured to receive a user correction on the extracted character string and obtaining a corrected character string based on the user correction; and a learning unit configured to learn a correction characteristic of a difference portion between the extracted character string and the corrected character string. The learning unit does not learn the correction characteristic of the difference portion in a case where a reliability level of the character recognition on the difference portion is equal to or above a predetermined threshold.

Abstract: When a character required to be corrected is specified in a character string of a character recognition result, a plurality of candidate character strings are generated by using a substitution candidate for the specified character and not using a substitution candidate for a character other than the specified character, and one correct character string is finalized from the plurality of generated candidate character strings.

Abstract: When a character required to be corrected is specified in a character string of a character recognition result, a plurality of candidate character strings are generated by using a substitution candidate for the specified character and not using a substitution candidate for a character other than the specified character, and one correct character string is finalized from the plurality of generated candidate character strings.

Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet has a specific composition and a microstructure. In the microstructure, the area fraction of elongated ferrite phase grains having an aspect ratio of 3 or more is 1% or less, the average crystal grain size of martensite included in a region extending 50 ?m from a surface of the steel sheet is 20 ?m or less, the content of oxide particles having a minor axis length of 0.8 ?m or less in the region extending 50 ?m from the surface of the steel sheet is 1.0×1010 particles/m2 or more, and the content of coarse oxide particles having a minor axis length of more than 1 ?m in the region extending 50 ?m from the surface of the steel sheet is 1.0×108 particles/m2 or less. The content of hydrogen trapped in the steel sheet is 0.05 ppm by mass or more.

Abstract: In a case that a toner concentration of a liquid developer in a mixer is high and a liquid amount is small, when a supply flow rate of a carrier liquid by a carrier supplying pump is set, a “carrier amount for concentration adjustment” is preferentially assigned. Then, a remaining one is assigned to a “carrier amount for liquid amount adjustment”. By doing so, by a non-interacting function, a supply agent can be supplied to the mixer. That is, the carrier liquid can be supplied by decreasing the supply agent so that a liquid amount can be easily satisfied while improving followability of a toner concentration.

Abstract: A recess detection device includes a reference value decision processor that extracts, from distance image information, pieces of reference information respectively corresponding to reference regions at different positions within a detection range with a distance from a three-dimensional sensor being within a predetermined range, and determines a reference value based on the reference information, and a presence identification processor that extracts, from the distance image information, pieces of comparison information respectively corresponding to comparison regions within the same detection range, respectively, derives comparison values based on the respective pieces of comparison information, and indicates a presence of a recess when a difference between the reference value and the comparison value exceeds a predetermined threshold.

Abstract: In a method and device for creating a moving route of a mobile body, a moving route that is appropriately shifted right or left with respect to a passage is created. The moving route creating method and device create a reference route on a passage present on an environment map representing an environment in which an autonomous mobile body moves, set a widthwise-shift attribute as an attribute region that is independent from the environment map, and create a traveling schedule for autonomous movement of the autonomous mobile body by shifting the reference route right or left based on the widthwise-shift attribute.

Abstract: In a case that a toner concentration of a liquid developer in a mixer is high and a liquid amount is small, when a supply flow rate of a carrier liquid by a carrier supplying pump is set (S38), a “carrier amount for concentration adjustment” is preferentially assigned (S33 or S35). Then, a remaining one is assigned to a “carrier amount for liquid amount adjustment” (S36). By doing so, by a non-interacting function, a supply agent to be supplied to the mixer can be made less than a conventional case. That is, the carrier liquid can be supplied by decreasing the supply agent more than the conventional case, so that a liquid amount can be easily satisfied while improving followability of a toner concentration.

Abstract: A calculating portion 300 acquires resistance of a carrier liquid in a carrier tank. A resistance calculating portion 302 acquires the resistance of the carrier liquid on the basis of a “liquid amount of a carrier liquid for each of numbers of times of passing of the carrier liquid through a separation and extraction device” and “resistance of the carrier liquid for each of the numbers of times of passing of the carrier liquid through the separation and extraction device”. The “liquid amount of a carrier liquid for each of numbers of time of passing” is calculated by a deterioration degree distribution calculating portion 301 and is stored in a memory 201. As regards the “resistance of the carrier liquid for each of the numbers of times of passing”, the resistance of the carrier liquid after passing through the separation and extraction device is stored in the memory 201 in advance for each of the numbers of times of passing.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a developing device developing an electrostatic latent image with a liquid developer containing toner and a liquid carrier, a carrier storing container storing the carrier, and a mixer to mix the toner and the carrier to form the liquid developer to be supplied to the developing device, wherein the liquid developer has a predetermined toner ratio. A first discharging portion on the carrier storing container discharges the carrier toward the mixer, a collecting mechanism collects the carrier from the developing device into the carrier storing container, and a second discharging portion on the carrier storing container discharges the carrier toward a carrier collecting container configured to collect the carrier. The carrier collecting container is detachably mountable to the carrier storing container.

Abstract: A recess detection device includes a reference value decision processor that extracts, from distance image information, pieces of reference information respectively corresponding to reference regions at different positions within a detection range with a distance from a three-dimensional sensor being within a predetermined range, and determines a reference value based on the reference information, and a presence identification processor that extracts, from the distance image information, pieces of comparison information respectively corresponding to comparison regions within the same detection range, respectively, derives comparison values based on the respective pieces of comparison information, and indicates a presence of a recess when a difference between the reference value and the comparison value exceeds a predetermined threshold.

Abstract: A transmission device and reception device for digital data that have excellent resistance to noise are provided. An encoder (11-1) of this disclosure, included in a transmission device (1) of this disclosure, applies LDPC encoding to digital data using a unique check matrix for each code rate by using a check matrix in which, taking a check matrix initial value table established in advance for each code rate at a code length of 44880 bits as initial values, 1 entries of a partial matrix corresponding to an information length appropriate for a code rate of 93/120 are allocated in the column direction over a cycle of 374 columns. A demodulator (23) of this disclosure, included in a reception device (2) of this disclosure, decodes digital data encoded by the encoder (11-1).

Abstract: In an autonomously traveling floor washer, a position estimating unit estimates position data. When a manual operation teaching mode is being executed, a taught data obtaining unit obtains taught position data and a taught cleaning condition at a taught data obtaining time. A cleaning schedule generation unit generates a cleaning schedule. When an autonomous cleaning mode is executed, a cleaning reproduction unit calculates and outputs a reproduced travel control command and a reproduced cleaning condition in an elapsed time based on the cleaning schedule. An elapsed time determining unit determines the taught data obtaining time and the elapsed time.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member; a developing device configured to develop an electrostatic latent image with a liquid developer containing toner and a liquid carrier; a carrier storing container configured to store the carrier; a mixer configured to mix the toner and the carrier to form the liquid developer to be supplied to the developing device, wherein the liquid developer has a predetermined toner ratio; a first discharging portion provided on the carrier storing container and configured to discharge the carrier toward the mixer; a collecting mechanism configured to collect the carrier from the developing device into the carrier storing container; and a second discharging portion provided on the carrier storing container and configured to discharge the carrier toward a carrier collecting container configured to collect the carrier, wherein the carrier collecting container is detachably mountable to the carrier storing container.

Abstract: In a method and device for creating a moving route of a mobile body, a moving route that is appropriately shifted right or left with respect to a passage is created. The moving route creating method and device create a reference route on a passage present on an environment map representing an environment in which an autonomous mobile body moves, set a widthwise-shift attribute as an attribute region that is independent from the environment map, and create a traveling schedule for autonomous movement of the autonomous mobile body by shifting the reference route right or left based on the widthwise-shift attribute.