Abstract: Initial pattern data (50) and gauge data are stored, the pattern data is converted into knitting data based on the gauge data, and a knitted product is test-knitted. Sizes of the test-knitted product are compared with sizes indicated by the initial pattern data (50), and the pattern data or the knitting data is corrected. The correction amounts for the pattern data or for knitting data for two sizes are stored, and interpolation or extrapolation is performed based on the stored correction amounts to correct pattern data or knitting data for other sizes.

Abstract: A biometric image capturing apparatus includes an irradiating unit configured to irradiate a subject with light, a camera configured to capture an image of the subject, a polarizing unit which is disposed on an optical path between the irradiating unit and the camera, and configured to allow passage of light in a first polarization direction and light in a second polarization direction, a processor configured to perform computation using a first image captured by the camera according to the light in the first polarization direction that has passed through the polarizing unit and a second image captured by the camera according to the light in the second polarization direction that has passed through the polarizing unit, and to determine whether the subject is a biological body according to a result of the computation performed by the computing unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: calculate a positional difference and a degree of similarity in feature value between each feature point in a verification image captured by an imaging device and each of a plurality of feature points in a registered image registered in advance; and match the verification image against the registered image by using the degree of similarity to a feature point having the degree of similarity that is second highest or lower for each feature point in the registered image in a case where a positional difference from a feature point having the degree of similarity that is highest in the verification image is greater than a threshold value.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: extract a plurality of feature points from a biometric image; calculate, for each of the feature points, respective feature vectors including the respective feature points from the biometric image; calculate bit strings by binarizing a value of each of dimensions for each of the calculated feature vectors; attach reliability to each of the calculated bit strings based on stability of the binarizing of the corresponding feature vector; and select a specific number of the bit strings from the calculated bit strings in accordance with values of the reliability.

Abstract: In order to obtain a crosslinked cellulose without derivatization, a polymer according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is a polymer having a structure in which cellulose substantially represented by the following formula (c1) is crosslinked with a polyfunctional epoxy compound: wherein in the formula (c1), n represents an integer of 2 or more.

Abstract: Provided is a method for stably sticking a sheet to skin for a long time without giving a skin stress and strange feeling of appearance. In the present disclosure, a self-supporting cellulose membrane having a thickness of not less than 20 nm and not more than 1,300 nm and containing regenerated cellulose having a weight average molecular weight of not less than 150,000 is used, and after applying to skin an aqueous cosmetic agent containing water and at least one polyhydric alcohol and having a content of glycerin of the polyhydric alcohol of 0% by weight to 15% by weight, the cellulose membrane is stuck to the position of the skin on which the cosmetic agent is applied.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus approximates a three-dimensional shape of a target object, acquired from an image of of the target object, by a quadric surface, applies a plane expansion process that expands the quadric surface into an expansion plane, to data of the image, computes corresponding points before and after the plane expansion process, and generates normalized data of the image from the corresponding points that are computed. The corresponding points are computed based on a point on a straight line of the expansion plane in contact with a point on the quadric surface and corresponding to a reference point on the target object, and an intersection point of an imaginary straight line, passing through the point on the straight line and extending in a direction of a first normal vector with respect to the straight line, and a quadratic curve of the quadric surface.

Abstract: A separator for a fuel cell, to be disposed opposing to a membrane electrode assembly, is provided. The separator includes a separator central area portion opposing to a center area of the membrane electrode assembly that concerns generating power, an outer edge portion located in an outer edge of the separator central area portion, a rubber molded body made of rubber, the rubber molded body being formed in the outer edge portion by die-casting a die-casting rubber material using die, and an adhesive layer formed in the outer edge portion, for adhering the rubber molded body to the outer edge portion. The adhesive layer is formed over an adhesive layer area that includes and is larger than an area where the rubber molded body is die-casted in the outer edge portion. Thus, a disadvantage due to burrs which are generated when die-casting the rubber molded body can be reduced.

Abstract: An information processing device includes: a memory; and a processor configured to, store, for each user, narrowing data and confirming data, which are associated with each other, as registration data in the memory, obtain candidates having a fewer number than a number of the users by collating the narrowing data extracted from collating biometric data acquired from a person to be authenticated with the narrowing data of each user in the memory, confirm a specific candidate from the candidates in response to respective pieces of similarity between the confirming data extracted from the collating biometric data and the confirming data of the registration data related to the candidates in the memory, and register the narrowing data extracted from the collating biometric data in the registration data of the specific candidate in a case where the similarity of the specific candidate is equivalent to or more than a threshold value.

Abstract: A biometric authentication device includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to execute a process, the process comprising: acquiring a plurality of sets of palm images taken under different illumination conditions of an illumination source from one another in obtaining images of a palm with light emitted from the illumination source; adjusting a time interval at which the imaging device acquires the image sets, in accordance with a condition for imaging the palm; extracting a biological feature from each of the image sets; and comparing each biological feature extracted by the extracting with a biological feature registered in advance.

Abstract: An ionic liquid represented by the following chemical formula, [(CH3)3N(CH2)2OH]+[NH2(CH2)3CH(NH2)COO]?, which provides an ionic liquid capable of dissolving cellulose within twenty-four hours.

Abstract: A cellulose membrane according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is a self-supporting cellulose membrane having a thickness of between 20 nm and 1300 nm, inclusive, composed of regenerated cellulose having a weight average molecular weight of 150,000 or more.

Abstract: Initial pattern data (50) and gauge data are stored, the pattern data is converted into knitting data based on the gauge data, and a knitted product is test-knitted. Sizes of the test-knitted product are compared with sizes indicated by the initial pattern data (50), and the pattern data or the knitting data is corrected. The correction amounts for the pattern data or for knitting data for two sizes are stored, and interpolation or extrapolation is performed based on the stored correction amounts to correct pattern data or knitting data for other sizes.

Abstract: There is provided a terminal plate comprising a plate stacked body including a first metal plate that is electrically conductive and has a current collecting terminal for power collection, and second metal plates that have higher corrosion resistance than the first metal plate and are placed across the first metal plate. A first gasket is mounted to the second metal plate and is provided to surround at least a gas flow hole used for supply of a gas on the second metal plate-side. A second gasket is mounted to the second metal plate and is provided to surround a cooling water flow area which communicates with a cooling water flow hole used for supply of cooling water on the second metal plate-side. The current collecting terminal is protruded from a plate outer circumferential end of the first metal plate in a direction from one flow hole of the gas flow hole and the cooling water flow hole toward the plate outer circumferential end of the first metal plate.

Abstract: A speaker in the present disclosure includes a magnetic circuit having a magnetic gap, a frame fixed to the magnetic circuit, a voice coil disposed in the magnetic gap, a cylindrical bobbin around which the voice coil is formed, and a diaphragm configured so that the inner circumferential side of the diaphragm is fixed to the bobbin and the outer edge of the diaphragm is supported by the frame with an edge member intervening therebetween. The diaphragm has an elliptical shape that is non-axisymmetric with respect to a center axis passing through the center of the bobbin. The diaphragm is formed by vacuum molding of a sheet-like raw material (thermoplastic CFRP sheet) in which long-fiber fillers are oriented in one direction in a thermoplastic resin. The orientation of the long-fiber fillers is set so as to match the short-axis direction of the diaphragm.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a processor that extracts a plurality of feature points from a biological image, calculates a feature value of each of the plurality of extracted feature points, normalizes the calculated feature values to values of N levels (N is any natural number) based on a distribution of the feature values, and translates each normalized feature value to binary data by setting a number of bits corresponding to the normalized feature value to one of two digits in accordance with to a given order to make the normalized feature value and the number of bits with the one digit proportional to each other.

Abstract: An ionic liquid represented by the following chemical formula, [(CH3)3N(CH2)2OH]+[NH2(CH2)3CH(NH2)COO]?, which provides an ionic liquid capable of dissolving cellulose within twenty-four hours.

Abstract: A sensor embedding device according to the present disclosure is a sensor embedding device which embeds a sensor in a subject, the sensor having a sensing region in which to detect a state of the subject, including: a needle to be inserted in the subject, the needle having a hole; a sensor retainer to retain the sensor so that the sensor is ready to be embedded inside the subject in such a manner that the sensing region is oriented in a predetermined direction; and a movable section to move the sensor into the subject with a slide of the sensor retainer inside the hole.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to obtain an image in which a subject is captured, calculate a modified luminance value of a first pixel included in the image by using a luminance value of the first pixel, luminance values of a plurality of pixels located in a surrounding region of the first pixel, and information indicating illumination intensity at each of the plurality of pixels; and correct the image in accordance with the modified luminance value of the first pixel.

Abstract: A core for a wire-wound electronic component. The core has a winding base to be wound with a wire, and flanges located at both ends of the winding base in an extending direction of the winding base. The flanges protrude from the winding base in a first direction perpendicular to the extending direction. Each of the flanges has a plurality of protrusions on a first surface at a side of the flange in the first direction. An inclined surface is provided to extend from the first surface of each of the flanges to a second surface of the winding base at a side of the winding base in the first direction.