Abstract: A refrigeration cycle apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit in which a compressor, a heat source side heat exchanger, an expansion valve, and a user side heat exchanger are connected by a refrigerant pipe. Further, the refrigeration cycle apparatus includes a detector configured to detect a discharge temperature of the compressor, and a heat transfer pipe temperature and an outlet pipe temperature of the heat exchanger functioning as a condenser; and a controller capable of performing a supercooling degree control and a discharge temperature control or a discharge superheating degree control, based on a result of the detection by the detector. The controller is configured to control an opening degree of the expansion valve based on any of the supercooling degree control and the discharge temperature control or the discharge superheating degree control, according to operating characteristics of the refrigeration cycle apparatus.

Abstract: Image data expressed in a first color space is converted into an expression in a second color space to be used during rendering by using a color conversion profile, and converted image data is generated. A setting related to an application to physically-based rendering is performed on a parameter to be used when performing physically-based rendering on a print medium as a 3D object and related to an appearance of the print medium, the physically-based rendering of a printed print medium on which an input image is printed is performed using the set parameter, and a rendering image corresponding to an appearance of the print medium in a virtual space is displayed in a mode in which a difference in applications of the parameter during rendering is comparable.

Abstract: An image processing device includes an image data acquisition section configured to acquire image data of an image to be printed on a print medium; a parameter acquisition section configured to acquire parameters for performing physical based rendering of the print medium on which the image is to be printed as a 3D object, the parameters including a normal line map representing a normal line direction of an irregularities surface of the print medium related to a reflection direction of light incident on the print medium; a correction section configured to correct strength of an application effect of the normal line map corresponded with the 3D object; and a rendering execution section for generating a rendering image representing the print medium on which the image is printed by executing the physical based rendering using the image data and the parameters.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus sets, when image data expressed in a first color space is converted, using a color conversion profile prepared in advance, into expression in a second color space used in rendering, whether to apply a printing profile including a parameter relating to color development at the time when an image is printed. The image processing apparatus performs color conversion according to the setting of the propriety of the printing profile, generates converted image data, performs, using the converted image data and a necessary parameter, physically-based rendering of a printed printing medium on which the image is printed, and generates a rendering image corresponding to appearance in a virtual space of the printed printing medium. The image processing apparatus displays the rendering image obtained in this way in a form in which a difference in the propriety of the printing profile can be compared.

Abstract: An image processing device converts image data, which is data of an image expressed in a first color space, into an expression in a second color space used in rendering by using a color conversion profile prepared in advance, generates a converted image data, and generates a rendering image corresponding to the appearance of the printed-on print medium in a virtual space by performing physical based rendering of the printed-on print medium on which the image has been printed, using the converted image date and parameters necessary for performing physical based rendering of the print medium as a 3D object.

Abstract: An occupant imaging device captures images of occupants inside a vehicle in which a display device having a display area is provided in front of and between a driver's seat and a passenger seat. The occupant imaging device includes an illumination unit that illuminates an area around the face of an occupant seated in a seat, and an imaging unit that captures images of the area around the face of the occupant seated in the seat. The display device includes an outer frame extending on at least left and right sides of the display area. The illumination unit and the imaging unit are arranged in the vertical direction in a region of the outer frame of the display device excluding a passenger seat side portion. The imaging unit captures images of an area around the face of an occupant including at least a driver seated in the driver's seat.

Abstract: The present invention provides a notification system (10) including: a customer status information generation unit (11) generating, based on an image in which the inside of a store is captured, customer status information indicating at least one of the number of customers waiting for checkout and the number of customers in the store; a checkout work region information generation unit (12) generating, based on an image in which the inside of the store is captured, checkout work region information indicating status of a checkout work region where a clerk performing checkout work is positioned; a determination unit (13) determining, based on the customer status information and the checkout work region information, whether to make notification of an assistance request for checkout work; and a notification unit (14) making notification of the assistance request through an output apparatus when notification of the assistance request is determined to be made.

Abstract: A cooling structure includes a flow path-forming member that forms a flow path for a refrigerant to pass through, wherein: the flow path-forming member includes, on a basal inner wall thereof, a cooling fin installation section provided with at least one cooling fin projecting from the basal inner wall toward an inner side of the flow path, the cooling fin installation section being disposed separately from side inner walls of the flow path-forming member; and the flow path-forming member includes, on a side inner wall thereof, at least one obstacle projecting from the side inner wall toward the inner side of the flow path.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a first insulating film formed on an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate in an outer peripheral region so as to surround a cell region in plan view, and a resistive element formed on the first insulating film so as to surround the cell region in plan view. A second insulating film having a thickness thinner than that of the first insulating film is formed on the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate in the outer peripheral region. A dummy pattern is formed from a portion over the second insulating film to a portion over the first insulating film so as to cover a step occurring between the second insulating film and the first insulating film.

Abstract: Uneven distribution of current is suppressed even in a condition that semiconductor elements are mounted in a limited area on a circuit board. A power supply device includes a secondary battery cell, charging/discharging FETs, and a circuit board including a first terminal block and a second terminal block. A first charging/discharging FET and a third charging/discharging FET are disposed at a side of the first terminal block on circuit board. A second charging/discharging FET and a fourth charging/discharging FET are disposed at a side of the second terminal block on circuit board. A first current path connecting the first charging/discharging FET in series to the second charging/discharging FET is longer than a second current path connecting the third charging/discharging FET in series to the fourth charging/discharging FET. The first current path includes a first current impeding region configured to impede current flow.

Abstract: Erroneous fuse-blowout during assembling is avoided, thereby improving workability. A power supply device includes a battery unit and a circuit unit electrically connected to the battery unit for controlling charging and discharging. The battery unit includes a series connection including secondary battery cells connected at least in series to one another, a battery-side ground on a low-voltage side of the series connection, and a battery-side output on a high-voltage side of the series connection. The circuit unit includes an overvoltage-detecting fuse configured to detect an overvoltage and to blow upon detecting the overvoltage.

Abstract: An electric compressor includes: a compression part; an electric motor; an inverter; a housing including a plurality of housing forming members made of metal; a seal member that has an insulation property and is provided between the housing forming members adjacent to each other; and a potential equalization member that is made of metal and is in contact with both the adjacent housing forming members to equalize potentials of the adjacent housing forming members. The adjacent housing forming members include mating surfaces, respectively. An insertion hole is formed in one of the mating surfaces of the adjacent housing forming members, at a position in which the seal member is not provided. The potential equalization member includes an insertion portion inserted into the insertion hole, and a contact portion that is a plate portion extending in a gap between the mating surfaces and is in contact with both the mating surfaces.

Abstract: Unintentional damage of a power supply device during assembling of the device is avoided to increase workability of the assembling. The power supply device includes secondary battery cells each including an electrode terminal, a battery holder holding the cells, and a circuit board including a control circuit mounted thereon and electrically connected to the cells to control charging and discharging. A method of manufacturing the device includes connecting, to a board-side ground terminal disposed on the board, a battery-side ground terminal drawn outside from the holder as a ground of a total output of the cells electrically connected in series and/or parallel, mounting the board on a surface of the holder, and connecting, to respective one or more board-side intermediate terminals disposed on the board, one or more battery-side intermediate terminals disposed on the holder being electrically connected to at least one of the cells.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes one or more memories, and one or more processors. The one or more processors and the one or more memories are configured to retain a program relating to start-up processing obtained from a device, and perform detection processing of detecting whether a falsification is present in the program relating to the start-up processing. The detection processing is performed based on a start-up of the information processing apparatus in a case where information relating to the device satisfies a predetermined condition, even in a state where a setting to execute the detection processing is not set.

Abstract: In a case where read information is a reading start location of second information, a controller causes a storage device to store location information regarding the read information as second location information, and in a case where the read information is not the reading start location of the second information, the controller causes a reading unit to read information based on location information different from the location information.

Abstract: According to an aspects of the present disclosure, an information processing apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store at least one program and at least one processor that reads the at least one program from the storage unit and verifies validity of the read at least one program, wherein the processor executes the at least one program based on a determination that the at least one program is valid, the processor verifies validity of a backup corresponding to the at least one program based on a determination that the at least one program is invalid, and the processor overwrites the at least one program that is stored in the storage unit with the backup corresponding to the at least one program based on a determination that the at least one program is invalid and the backup corresponding to the at least one program is valid.

Abstract: A high-frequency module is capable of two-uplink of a transmission signal in Band A and transmission of Band C, and includes a module substrate, a metal shield plate arranged on a principal surface, power amplifiers, a transmission filter of Band A, and a transmission filter of Band C. In a plan view, the metal shield plate is arranged between a first transmission component and a second transmission component. The first transmission component is one of the power amplifier, the transmission filter, a switch circuit, and a first inductor and a first capacitor arranged in a first transmission path, and the second transmission component is one of the power amplifier, the transmission filter, a switch circuit, and a second inductor and a second capacitor arranged in a second transmission path.

Abstract: A method for producing a toner for developing electrostatic charge images includes: preparing a first dispersion containing, dispersed therein, first aggregated particles containing a binder resin; preparing a second dispersion containing second aggregated particles dispersed therein, the second aggregated particles being prepared by attaching resin particles to surfaces of the first aggregated particles in the first dispersion; heating the second dispersion to a fusion temperature at which the second aggregated particles in the second dispersion are fused to each other; and holding the second dispersion at the fusion temperature. 20 mass% or more of a weak acid relative to the mass of the second aggregated particles is added to the second dispersion during the heating of the second dispersion or the holding of the second dispersion, or during the heating of the second dispersion and the holding of the second dispersion.

Abstract: A cooling structure including a flow path configuration member made of resin and forming a flow path through which a refrigerant flows, a heat diffuser having a plate shape, including a metal, and being embedded in the flow path configuration member or joined to the flow path configuration member, and one or more cooling fins extending from the heat diffuser into the flow path and having a surface made of resin.

Abstract: A method for producing an electrostatic charge image developing toner includes forming aggregated particles by aggregating at least resin particles in a dispersion liquid containing the resin particles, and fusing/coalescing the aggregated particles by heating an aggregated particle dispersion liquid containing a base having volatility and the aggregated particles dispersed therein in a fusion/coalescence tank which houses the aggregated particle dispersion liquid. In fusing/coalescing the aggregated particles, at least one of conditions (1) to (3) below is satisfied, (1): The fusion/coalescence tank has one or plural openings in an upper portion thereof, and the total area ratio of the openings is 5 cm2/m3 or more per unit amount of the aggregated particle dispersion liquid, (2): The aggregated particles are fused/coalesced in the fusion/coalescence tank in a state of reduced pressure within a range of (atmospheric pressure?0.