Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus that includes a control unit that controls a user interface that allows a user to determine whether to adopt collected first sensor data as learning data for machine learning. The control unit presents, on the user interface, the first sensor data, second sensor data that is collected together with the first sensor data, and a label candidate that is estimated from the second sensor data, and receives input related to determination on whether to adopt the first sensor data from the user.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a machine learning program for causing a computer to execute a process. In an example, the process executed by the computer when the program is executed includes: acquiring a current distribution image by an equivalent circuit simulation based on circuit information; acquiring a shape image that indicates a shape of a circuit based on the circuit information; acquiring an EMI value by electromagnetic field analysis based on the circuit information; and generating an EMI prediction model by machine learning based on training data that includes the current distribution image, the shape image, and the EMI value.

Abstract: Disclosed is a hot-pressed member that can exhibit very high tensile strength after hot pressing as high as TS: 1780 MPa or more, excellent resistance to resistance welding cracking, and excellent delayed fracture resistance after resistance welding by having a specific chemical composition, and a microstructure such that a prior austenite average grain size is 7 ?m or less, a volume fraction of martensite is 90% or more, and at least 5 Nb-based precipitates having a grain size of less than 0.08 ?m are present on average per 100 ?m2 of a cross section parallel to a thickness direction of the member within a range of 100 ?m in the thickness direction from a surface of the member, and such that a Ni diffusion region having a thickness of 0.5 ?m or more is present in a surface layer of the member.

Abstract: A method of etching silicon oxide on a surface of a substrate is provided. The method comprises alternately repeating heating the substrate to a heating temperature of 60° C. or higher, supplying hydrogen fluoride gas and ammonia gas onto the substrate to react with the silicon oxide, and modifying the silicon oxide to obtain a reaction product, and removing at least a portion of the reaction product from the substrate while stopping the supply of the above gases and continuing to heat the substrate at the heating temperature; and when a process gas that is at least one of the hydrogen fluoride gas and the ammonia gas is supplied, while continuing to supply the process gas from an upstream side of a flow path, closing a valve disposed in the flow path to pressurize the process gas in the flow path, and then opening the valve.

Abstract: An imaging device for performing phase-difference detection auto-focus includes an image sensor including a plurality of normal pixels and a plurality of phase-difference detection pixels arranged in a matrix shape; an exposure control circuit controlling a first exposure time driving the normal pixels for generating image signals, and a second exposure time driving the phase-difference detection pixels for generating phase-difference detection signals; and a lighting device irradiating the imaging object with a first irradiating light at the first exposure time, and irradiating the imaging object with a second irradiating light at the second exposure time. The wave length range of the second irradiating light is narrower than the wave length range of the first irradiating light.

Abstract: Disclosed is a hot-pressed member that can exhibit very high tensile strength after hot pressing as high as TS: 1780 MPa or more, and excellent indentation peeling strength at projection welds by properly adjusting its chemical composition and its microstructure such that a prior austenite average grain size is 7 ?m or less within a range of 50 ?m or less in a thickness direction from a surface of the member, a volume fraction of martensite is 90% or more, and an average intergrain distance of Nb and Ti carbonitrides having a grain size of less than 0.10 ?m within a depth range of 20 ?m to 100 ?m in the thickness direction from the surface of the member is 5 ?m or less.

Abstract: An image formation apparatus according to an embodiment may include: an image carrier; a transfer part facing the image carrier; a transfer belt that passes between the image carrier and the transfer part, includes a conveyance surface, and configured to convey a medium on the conveyance surface; plural rollers to which the transfer belt is stretched, the plural rollers including a downstream roller provided on a downstream side in the medium conveyance direction among the plural rollers; and a separating member facing the downstream roller and configured to separate the medium from the transfer belt. The separating member includes a guide surface to guide the medium, wherein the guide surface is arranged at an angle such that a distance from the guide surface to a conveyance reference plane becomes shorter as proceeding in the medium conveyance direction, the conveyance reference plane being a virtual plane extending the conveyance surface.

Abstract: The present invention is aimed at radiating a linear light beam without distortion regardless of an incident angle of the scanning light beam in an optical module that irradiates a target object with a light beam and detects the reflected light. In an optical module of the present invention, an optical scanning unit (150) causes the light beam to scan in a predetermined direction (perpendicular direction). An optical conversion unit (161) converts the scanning light beam into a linear light beam in a linear direction (horizontal direction) substantially orthogonal to the scanning direction. A light detection unit (180) detects reflected light, which is the linear light beam reflected from a target object.

Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet having a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.15% to 0.25%, Si: 1.00% to 2.20%, Mn: 2.00% to 3.50%, P: 0.05% or less, S: 0.005% or less, Al: 0.01% to 0.50%, N: 0.010% or less, B: 0.0003% to 0.0050%, one, two, or more selected from Ti: 0.005% to 0.05%, Cu: 0.003% to 0.50%, Ni: 0.003% to 0.50%, Sn: 0.003% to 0.50%, Co: 0.003% to 0.05%, and Mo: 0.003% to 0.50%, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities and a microstructure including, in terms of volume fraction, 15% or less (including 0%) of ferrite, 2% to 15% of retained austenite, 10% or less (including 0%) of martensite, and the balance being bainite and tempered martensite, in which the average number of cementite grains having a grain diameter of 0.04 ?m or more existing in the bainite and tempered martensite grains is 10 or more.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a low-resistance a multi-layer electrode and method of making a multi-layer electrode. Silicon is deposited on a substrate to form a top silicon layer. Nickel is deposited onto the top silicon layer to form a nickel layer. The substrate is annealed for a first time period and at a first temperature to form a di-nickel silicide layer with a remainder silicon layer between the di-nickel silicide layer and the substrate. Unreacted nickel of the nickel layer is removed to expose the di-nickel silicide layer. The substrate is annealed for a second time period and at a second temperature to form a nickel monosilicide layer from the di-nickel silicide layer and the remainder silicon layer such that the nickel monosilicide layer forms between a remainder di-nickel silicide layer and the substrate. The remainder di-nickel silicide layer and nickel monosilicide layer form a multi-layer electrode.

Abstract: There are provided a control device of an image reading apparatus, an operation method and an operation program thereof, and an image detection system capable of quickly and easily outputting an image having an appropriate density for analysis from an image reading apparatus. An image receiving unit receives a pre-image output in pre-scanning performed before main scanning for outputting a main image for analysis in an image reading apparatus. A region information receiving unit receives information of a region in the pre-image designated by a user. A calculation unit calculates an appropriate voltage value that is a voltage value of the photomultiplier at which a density of the region becomes an appropriate density for analysis. A scanning conditions setting unit sets the appropriate voltage value as temporary scanning conditions of main scanning.

Abstract: There is provided a high-strength steel sheet in which content amounts of a specific steel composition are limited and manufacturing conditions are optimized and that has a steel structure that contains ferrite and a harder phase and in which ferrite accounts for 30% to 70% in terms of area ratio, the harder phase contains bainitic ferrite, tempered martensite, martensite (including 0%), and retained austenite (including 0%), the maximum grain diameter of ferrite dmax is 2.5 ?m or less, and the area ratio of ferrite AF and the average grain diameter of ferrite dF satisfy AF [%]/dF [?m]?15.

Abstract: A high-strength cold rolled steel sheet having a specified chemical composition and a method for producing the same. The steel sheet having a microstructure including, in terms of volume fraction, 35% or less of ferrite, 1% or more and 10% or less of retained austenite, 2% or more and 12% or less of as-quenched martensite, and a total of 25% to 70% of bainite and tempered martensite. The microstructure has an average crystal grain diameter of the ferrite: 5.0 ?m or less, an average crystal grain diameter of the retained austenite: 2.0 ?m or less, an average crystal grain diameter of the as-quenched martensite: 3.0 ?m or less, an average crystal grain diameter of the bainite and the tempered martensite phase: 4.0 ?m or less, and an average intergrain distance of the as-quenched martensite of 1.0 ?m or more.

Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet having a specified chemical composition and a method for producing the same. The steel sheet including a multi-phase structure including, by volume fraction, ferrite of 35% to 65%, residual austenite of 7% or less (including 0%), martensite of 20% to 60%, bainite of 20% or less (including 0%), the ferrite having an average crystal grain size of 8 ?m or less and an average aspect ratio of 3.5 or less, the martensite having an average crystal grain size of 3 ?m or less, and the bainite having an average crystal grain size of 3 ?m or less when contained. A standard deviation of Vickers hardness of the steel sheet being 30 or less when measured at 200 ?m intervals from a position of 100 ?m from a surface to a central portion in a thickness direction of the sheet.

Abstract: A laser processing apparatus includes: a work support portion which supports the work and forms a closed space between the work and the work support portion; pads which are movable upward and downward inside the closed space and include upper surfaces respectively coming into contact with regions obtained by dividing a processing object region having the through-holes formed in the work to surround the region of the work over one circle when the pads move upward; a drive unit which drives the pads to move forward and backward between a state in which the pad is in contact with the work and a state in which the pad is separated from the work; a gas supply unit which supplies a gas into the closed space; and clamps which contact the work supported by the work support portion on inner circumferential surfaces and outer circumferential surfaces from above over one circle.

Abstract: Provided is a resin bush capable of slidably supporting a shaft when the bush has been fitted in a housing; particularly, a resin bush suitable for use in an environment in which the effects of a difference in thermal expansion coefficients are likely to be prominent, such as a high-temperature environment, even when the housing and the shaft are made of a material such as a metal that has a different thermal expansion coefficient from that of the resin bush. In the resin bush (1), which is molded by extrusion molding, a slit (12) is formed from one axial end surface (11a) towards another axial end surface (11b). A recessed section (13) for a gate (a gate position), which is provided to the one axial end surface (11a), is provided in a position that is deviated from being symmetrical with the slit (12), at least with respect to a center axis O of a bush body (10).

Abstract: An image processing apparatus that can accurately detect and/or suppress flicker in multiple images with different exposure conditions using a simple configuration is provided. The apparatus acquires a plurality of image data captured using different exposures; selects an image data on which flicker noise detection is to be performed among the plurality of image data; applies flicker noise detection processing to the image data selected by the selection unit; computes, if flicker noise is detected, a correction value for suppressing the flicker noise; and applies the correction value to image data of the same type as the image data selected, wherein the apparatus selects image data being captured with a shutter speed not having a predetermined value, from among the plurality of image data.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide a signal generation apparatus that is used in a ToF camera system especially adopting the indirect system and it can suppress occurrence of a cyclic error with a simple configuration. [Solving means] There is provided a signal generation apparatus including a first pulse generator configured to generate a pulse to be supplied to a light source that irradiates light upon a distance measurement target, a second pulse generator configured to generate a pulse to be supplied to a pixel that receives the light reflected by the distance measurement target, and a signal selection section configured to select and output a duty of a signal to be outputted from the first pulse generator from between a first duty and a second duty different from the first duty.

Abstract: A drilling method capable of preventing hole clogging easily and at low cost is provided. A drilling method of the disclosure includes: a hole forming step in which a surface of a workpiece is drilled to form at least one penetration hole from the surface to a back surface of the workpiece; a liquid intrusion step in which the workpiece is immersed in a tank containing a liquid, and the inside of the tank is decompressed to a predetermined pressure to allow the liquid to intrude into the penetration holes; a liquid solidification step in which the liquid that has intruded into the penetration holes is solidified after the workpiece is taken out of the tank; and a burr removing step in which the surface of the workpiece is blasted to remove burrs formed around openings of the penetration holes.

Abstract: Disclosed is a hot-pressed member that can exhibit very high tensile strength after hot pressing as high as TS: 1780 MPa or more, and excellent resistance to resistance welding cracking by properly adjusting its chemical composition and its microstructure such that a prior austenite average grain size is 7.5 ?m or less, a volume fraction of martensite is 95% or more, and at least 10 Nb-based and Ti-based precipitates having a grain size of less than 0.10 ?m are present on average per 100 ?m2 of a cross section parallel to a thickness direction of the member within a range of 100 ?m or less in the thickness direction from the surface of the member, and such that a B concentration in prior austenite grain boundaries is at least 3.0 times a B concentration at a position 5 nm away from the grain boundaries.