Abstract: A control apparatus (10) includes a position information acquiring unit (110) and a control unit (120). The position information acquiring unit (110) acquires information (position information) indicating a position of a person in a store. The position information acquiring unit (110) generates position information by, for example, acquiring and processing image data generated by an image capture apparatus installed in the store in real time. The control unit (120) controls a plurality of speakers (22 and 24) in the store independently of each other by using the position information generated or acquired by the position information acquiring unit (110). A target of control to be performed herein includes, as described above, at least one of selection of sound data to be supplied, a timing of supplying sound data, and a sound volume.

Abstract: A triple containment tank includes an outer tank, an intermediate tank located in the outer tank, an inner tank located in the intermediate tank and storing a liquefied gas therein, and a pipe penetrating the outer tank, the intermediate tank, and the inner tank. The pipe is coupled to the outer tank through a first expandable pipe, is coupled to one of the inner tank and the intermediate tank through a second expandable pipe, and is joined to the other of the inner tank and the intermediate tank.

Abstract: Provided is a concealment signal generation unit that acquires learning constellation data and identification constellation data output from a signal processing circuit for optical communication, reduces and conceals the number of pieces of data from each of the pieces of constellation data through random projection, and generates a learning concealment signal and an identification concealment signal based on each piece of constellation data after the reduction and concealment of the number of pieces of data. Provided are a sparse dictionary learning unit that learns a concealment sparse dictionary using a sparse dictionary learning algorithm based on the learning concealment signal; and an identification unit that estimates a state of the optical communication using the concealment sparse dictionary based on the identification concealment signal.

Abstract: A steering control device includes an electronic control unit that stores an end position corresponding angle. The electronic control unit is configured to execute end strike relaxation control, to execute partial release control in a case where turning of a vehicle is attempted during execution of the end strike relaxation control, to make a non-following determination and acquire a release-time restriction position determination angle that corresponds to the absolute steering angle detected at a time when the electronic control unit determines that the movement of the steered shaft is restricted, and to permit update of the end position corresponding angle based on the release-time restriction position determination angle, and update the end position corresponding angle in a case where the update of the end position corresponding angle is permitted.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes first and second processor cores configured to perform a lock step operation and including first and second scan chains. The semiconductor device further includes a scan test control unit that controls a scan test of the first and second processor cores using the first and second scan chains, and a start-up control unit that outputs a reset signal for bringing the first and second processor cores into a reset state. The start-up control unit outputs an initialization scan request before the start of a lock step operation, and the scan test control unit performs an initialization scan test operation on the first and second processor cores by using an initialization pattern.

Abstract: An air conditioning device (10) is an air conditioning device (10) for a reclining seat (10) comprising a seat part (1b) and a backrest part (1a), the air conditioning device (10) comprising a ventilator and a controller (11). The ventilator is provided to at least one of the seat part (1b) and the backrest part (1a), and includes a first air flow path (A1, A2) formed inside the seat part (1b) or the backrest part (1a). The controller (11) determines a reclining state of the backrest part (1a) with respect to the seat part (1b), and controls air in the first air flow path (A1, A2) in accordance with the determined reclining state.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to enabling acquisition of information of an argument corresponding to a case. The present disclosure is a language processing apparatus which refers to an argument emergence history database 14 which stores argument emergence patterns associated with cases and arguments of verbs for each meaning of a word or usage of a verb, acquires an argument emergence pattern which matches a verb and a case of the verb included in a request from a user from the argument emergence history database 14, and generates a response to the user using an argument included in the argument emergence pattern acquired from the argument emergence history database 14.

Abstract: Provided is a separation and recovery apparatus for continuously separating and recovering, from a resin mixture containing a resin containing a hydrolyzable polymer and a resin containing a nonhydrolyzable polymer, a hydrolytic component a of the hydrolyzable polymer A and the nonhydrolyzable polymer B, the apparatus including: a crushing unit that crushes the resin mixture a melting/discharging unit that melts a crushed product obtained by the crushing unit to form a fluid and discharges the fluid at a high pressure; and a hydrothermal reaction treatment unit that continuously subjects the fluid discharged from the melting/discharging unit to a hydrothermal reaction treatment, wherein, in the melting/discharging unit, the hydrolyzable polymer A is hydrolyzed, and the hydrolytic component a thereof is dissolved and transferred into water permeating a sintered alloy diaphragm, thereby separating the nonhydrolyzable polymer B.

Abstract: A display device includes an organic EL element layer, a liquid crystal element layer disposed on top of the organic EL element layer, and a polarizing plate disposed at a side of the liquid crystal element layer that faces an observer. The liquid crystal element layer includes two transparent substrates and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the two transparent substrates. The liquid crystal element layer is configured to be able to, by applying a voltage to the liquid crystal layer, cause a substantially quarter-wavelength retardation in light passing through the liquid crystal layer.

Abstract: A conveyance apparatus configured to convey a substrate (100) in order to irradiate the substrate (100) with laser light for forming a line-shaped irradiation area (15a) according to an embodiment includes a levitation unit (10) configured to levitate the substrate (100) over its top surface, a holding mechanism (12) configured to hold the substrate (100), and a moving mechanism (13) configured to move the holding mechanism (12) in a direction inclined from a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the line-shaped laser light in a plan view so as to change an irradiation place of the laser light in the substrate (100).

Abstract: A recycle information management system includes a communication device and a management device. The communication device transmits recycle information acquired from a recycle system via a network. The recycle system includes at least a recycling device that removes at least oil from the collected refrigerant to recycle the refrigerant. The management device includes a storage unit that stores the recycle information in association with a recycle system ID usable to identify the recycle system.

Abstract: Crystals of the compound represented by formula (1), a method for the production thereof, and a method for producing an antibody-drug conjugate using the crystals.

Abstract: A transmission system includes a calculation unit 251 that calculates a jitter pattern sequence of a plurality of packets transmitted by a transmission device 1 via a network using a transmission interval of the plurality of packets and a difference between arrival times at which the packets arrive at a reception device 2, a generation unit 252 that inputs the jitter pattern sequence to a first learning model 254 to generate a state index indicating a state of the network, and a buffer estimation unit 26 that determines a buffer size of a reception buffer 23 of the reception device 2 based on the state index.

Abstract: A field effect transistor comprising: a non-doped diamond layer which has a hydrogen-terminated surface; first and second p+diamond layers which are formed on the non-doped diamond layer and sandwich a hydrogen-terminated region; a source electrode which is formed on the first p+diamond layer and is made of metal; a drain electrode which is formed on the second p+diamond layer and is made of metal; an insulating layer which is formed on the hydrogen-terminated region of the non-doped diamond layer; and a gate electrode which is formed on the insulating layer, a mutual conductance being equal to or higher than 0.5 mS/mm at room temperatures, after an X-ray is applied for an amount of 5 Mgy.

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, in a case of duplex printing, a sheet is transported toward an image forming device along a sheet transport route, the image forming device forms an image on a first face, which is one of faces of the sheet, a reverse transport device reverses the front and back faces of the sheet and transports the sheet to a position upstream of a show-through reading device in a sheet transport direction, and the show-through reading device reads a second face, which is another face of the sheet. Then the show-through detector decides whether a show-through has occurred, on a basis of the image that has been read.

Abstract: A steering control device includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to acquire a limit position determination angle corresponding to an absolute steering angle when it is determined that movement of a turning shaft is limited, to compare a first stroke width which is a sum of an absolute value of the limit position determination angle on a right side and an absolute value of the limit position determination angle on a left side with a stroke threshold value corresponding to an entire stroke range of the turning shaft when the limit position determination angles on the right and left sides are acquired, and to set end-position-corresponding angles on the right and left sides based on the limit position determination angles on the right and left sides when the first stroke width is greater than the stroke threshold value.

Abstract: Provided is a soft candy having excellent shape retention and detachability, wherein the soft candy is made from a base composition containing a sugar, a glucide that inhibits crystallization of the sugar, and a thickener, wherein the base composition has a specific gravity of 1.00 to 1.25 g/cm3; and a ratio of the sugar to a total mass of the sugar and the glucide that inhibits crystallization of the sugar in the base composition is from 50 to 75 mass %, or among bubbles present in a cross section of a soft candy produced by shaping the base composition, a total area of bubbles having an area of 0.05 mm2 or greater is 80% or less relative to a total area of the bubbles.

Abstract: A steering control device includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to perform end contact relaxation control for correcting a current command value such that a decrease of an end separation angle indicating a distance of an absolute steering angle from an end-position-corresponding angle is limited when the end separation angle is equal to or less than a predetermined angle and to perform partial release control for decreasing a correction value of the current command value due to execution of the end contact relaxation control based on a steering torque which is input to a steering system when a vehicle is intended to travel while turning at the time of execution of the end contact relaxation control.

Abstract: The present disclosure has an object of proposing a method and a device for estimating the state of a transmission path or an optical transmitter capable of mechanically estimating a factor causing an error with a small amount of constellation data and a low computing amount.

Abstract: An air-conditioning system includes: a compressor unit including a housing accommodating a refrigerant compressor; a high-pressure gas refrigerant pipe connected to a discharge side of the refrigerant compressor; a low-pressure gas refrigerant pipe connected to a suction side of the refrigerant compressor; and air-conditioners. The air-conditioners each include: a return-air inlet and a supply-air outlet each communicating with a predetermined space that is to be air-conditioned; a first heat exchanger configured to cause heat-exchange between refrigerant flowing in the first heat exchanger and air passing through the first heat exchanger; an exhaust-air outlet and an outside-air inlet each communicating with an outside of the predetermined space; and a second heat exchanger configured to cause heat-exchange between refrigerant flowing in the second heat exchanger and air passing through the second heat exchanger.