Abstract: A device for providing a reverse pass-through view of a user of a headset display to an onlooker includes an eyepiece comprising an optical surface configured to provide an image to a user on a first side of the optical surface. The device also includes a first camera configured to collect an image of a portion of a face of the user reflected from the optical surface in a first field of view, a display adjacent to the optical surface and configured to project forward an image of the face of the user, and a screen configured to receive light from the display and provide the image of the face of the user to an onlooker.

Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to production of a virus vector plasmid in Bacillus subtilis. According to one aspect, the present disclosure provides a method for producing a virus vector plasmid having a sequence to be replicated in Bacillus subtilis. The method includes a step for forming a plasmid in a host cell by introducing, into the host cell, a nucleic acid that has a sequence to be replicated in Bacillus subtilis and that includes a nucleic acid sequence for producing a virus vector. In one embodiment, Bacillus subtilis could have the ability to form a plasmid from a nucleic acid acquired from outside, and therefore, in this method, the nucleic acid introduced does not have be a plasmid.

Abstract: A polyarylene sulfide resin composition includes: 100 parts by weight of (A) a polyarylene sulfide; and 10 to 200 parts by weight of (B) a glass fiber, wherein, when a cumulative integral value from a molecular weight of 100 to a molecular weight of 10,000 in a molecular weight distribution curve of (A) the polyarylene sulfide is taken as 100, the cumulative integrated value at a molecular weight of 4,000 is 48 to 53, and when a melt flow rate of the polyarylene sulfide is defined as MFR1, and when the melt flow rate obtained after mixing the polyarylene sulfide with an epoxy silane coupling agent at a weight ratio of 100:1, and heating the resulting mixture at 315.5° C. for 5 minutes is defined as MFR2, a rate of change represented by MFR2/MFR1 is not more than 0.085.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material that is unlikely to generate defects even when charging and discharging at a high voltage and/or at a high temperature is provided. A positive electrode active material in which crystal structures are unlikely to collapse even when charging and discharging are repeated is also provided. The positive electrode active material contains lithium, cobalt, oxygen, and an additive element. The positive electrode active material includes a surface portion, an inner portion. The positive electrode active material contains the additive element in the surface portion. The surface portion is a region extending from a surface of the positive electrode active material to a depth of 10 nm or less toward the inner portion, and the surface portion and the inner portion are topotaxy. A degree of diffusion of the additive element vary between crystal planes of the surface portion, and the additive element is at least one or two or more selected from nickel, aluminum, and magnesium.

Abstract: A method of forming a pixel-aligned volumetric avatar includes receiving multiple two-dimensional images having at least two or more fields of view of a subject. The method also includes extracting multiple image features from the two-dimensional images using a set of learnable weights, projecting the image features along a direction between a three-dimensional model of the subject and a selected observation point for a viewer, and providing, to the viewer, an image of the three-dimensional model of the subject. A system and a non-transitory, computer readable medium storing instructions to perform the above method, are also provided.

Abstract: A method and system for cloth registration to improve modeling clothes by providing, for example, wrinkle-accurate cloth registration. The method includes obtaining an input scan of clothing in motion. The method includes generating a mesh representing the cloth in the scan based on a diffusion-based shape prior. The method includes registering a model of the cloth from the scan using a guidance process including at least: guiding deformation of the clothing based on a coarse registration signal based on the mesh and guiding the deformation of the clothing based on a distance between points in the mesh and a template mesh.

Abstract: A device for providing a reverse pass-through view of a user of a headset display to an onlooker includes an eyepiece comprising an optical surface configured to provide an image to a user on a first side of the optical surface. The device also includes a first camera configured to collect an image of a portion of a face of the user reflected from the optical surface in a first field of view, a display adjacent to the optical surface and configured to project forward an image of the face of the user, and a screen configured to receive light from the display and provide the image of the face of the user to an onlooker.

Abstract: A drill has two to four cutting edges each made of cemented carbide or polycrystalline diamond. Helical flutes are formed alternately with the cutting edges. X-shaped thinning has been applied to the cutting edges. A rake angle of the cutting edges is not less than 30 degrees and not more than 40 degrees. A clearance angle of the cutting edges is more than 0 degrees and not more than 8 degrees. The cutting edges each has a honed face by chamfer honing. A honing angle of the honed face is not less than ?3 degrees and not more than 8 degrees.

Abstract: A method for updating a gaze direction for a transmitter avatar in a receiver headset is provided. The method includes verifying, in a receiver device, that a visual tracking of a transmitter avatar is active in a transmitter device, and adjusting, in the receiver device, a gaze direction of the transmitter avatar to a fixation point. Adjusting the gaze direction of the transmitter avatar comprises estimating a coordinate of the fixation point in a receiver frame at a later time, and rotating, in the receiver device, two eyeballs of the transmitter avatar to a point in a direction of the fixation point. A headset, a memory in the headset storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to perform the above method, are also provided.

Abstract: An acquisition section acquires a position and a rotation of a head portion of a user. A sound source data generation section generates sound source data on the basis of the position and the rotation acquired at a first time while a predetermined position is set as an origin of a three-dimensional coordinate system of a virtual space. A correction processing section applies correction processing including at least any one of a translation and a rotation of the virtual sound source in the virtual space to the sound source data at the first time on the basis of differences of the position and the rotation at the first time from the updated position and rotation at a second time after the first time. A sound generation section generates a sound to be rendered through use of the sound source data to which the correction processing has been applied.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and storage media for modeling subjects in a virtual environment are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receiving, from a client device, image data including at least one subject; extracting, from the image data, a face of the at least one subject and an object interacting with the face, wherein the object may be glasses worn by the subject; generating a set of face primitives based on the face, the set of face primitives comprising geometry and appearance information; generating a set of object primitives based on a set of latent codes for the object; generating an appearance model of photometric interactions between the face and the object; and rendering an avatar in the virtual environment based on the appearance model, the set of face primitives, and the set of object primitives.

Abstract: In an example, use of a solder joint may include a solder joint layer having a melted solder material containing Sn as a main component and further containing Ag and/or Sb and/or Cu; and a joined body including a Ni—P—Cu plating layer on a surface of the joined body in contact with the solder joint layer. The Ni—P—Cu plating layer may contain Ni as a main component and may contain 0.5% by mass or greater and 8% by mass or less of Cu and 3% by mass or greater and 10% by mass or less of P, and the Ni—P—Cu plating layer may have a microcrystalline layer at an interface with the solder joint layer.

Abstract: A solder material having a good thermal-cycle fatigue property and wettability. The solder material contains not less than 6.0% by mass and not more than 8.0% by mass Sb, not less than 3.0% by mass and not more than 5.0% by mass Ag, and the balance of Sn and incidental impurities. Also, a semiconductor device may include a joining layer between a semiconductor element and a substrate electrode or a lead frame, the joining layer being obtained by melting this solder material.

Abstract: A method for updating a gaze direction for a transmitter avatar in a receiver headset is provided. The method includes verifying, in a receiver device, that a visual tracking of a transmitter avatar is active in a transmitter device, and adjusting, in the receiver device, a gaze direction of the transmitter avatar to a fixation point. Adjusting the gaze direction of the transmitter avatar comprises estimating a coordinate of the fixation point in a receiver frame at a later time, and rotating, in the receiver device, two eyeballs of the transmitter avatar to a point in a direction of the fixation point. A headset, a memory in the headset storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to perform the above method, are also provided.

Abstract: The present invention provides a highly reliable solder joint, the solder joint including a solder joint layer having a melted solder material containing Sn as a main component and further containing Ag and/or Sb and/or Cu; and a joined body including a Ni—P—Cu plating layer on a surface in contact with the solder joint layer, wherein the Ni—P—Cu plating layer contains Ni as a main component and contains 0.5% by mass or greater and 8% by mass or less of Cu and 3% by mass or greater and 10% by mass or less of P, the Ni—P—Cu plating layer has a microcrystalline layer at an interface with the solder joint layer, and the microcrystalline layer includes a phase containing microcrystals of a NiCuP ternary alloy, a phase containing microcrystals of (Ni,Cu)3P, and a phase containing microcrystals of Ni3P.

Abstract: A solder material having a good thermal-cycle fatigue property and wettability. The solder material contains not less than 5.0% by mass and not more than 8.0% by mass Sb, not less than 3.0% by mass and not more than 5.0% by mass Ag, and the balance of Sn and incidental impurities. Also, a semiconductor device may include a joining layer between a semiconductor element and a substrate electrode or a lead frame, the joining layer being obtained by melting this solder material.

Abstract: An audio signal processing apparatus in which different pieces of predetermined parameter information regarding acoustic transfer in a head of a listener are retained as preset candidates, a parameter information list including the retained preset candidates is presented, to prompt a user to select parameter information, and an audio signal for the user is generated by using the user-selected parameter information.

Abstract: A sightline-position determination device includes: a sightline-position input unit to which a position of a sightline of a user is inputted; a determination region setting unit which sets a determination region; a determination unit which determines whether or not the position of the sightline inputted from the sightline-position input unit falls within the determination region; and an output unit which outputs feedback to the user when the determination unit has determined that the position of the sightline falls within the determination region.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus processes an audio signal and is connected to a speaker system having a plurality of speakers. The information processing apparatus receives input of audio output setting information indicating the direction of each speaker of the speaker system relative to an orientation of a user, records the received audio output setting information, and outputs the recorded audio output setting information as requested for use in processing the audio signal.

Abstract: A method for providing a relightable avatar of a subject to a virtual reality application is provided. The method includes retrieving multiple images including multiple views of a subject and generating an expression-dependent texture map and a view-dependent texture map for the subject, based on the images. The method also includes generating, based on the expression-dependent texture map and the view-dependent texture map, a view of the subject illuminated by a light source selected from an environment in an immersive reality application, and providing the view of the subject to an immersive reality application running in a client device. A non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing instructions and a system that executes the instructions to perform the above method are also provided.