Abstract: A novel method for forming a positive electrode active material is provided. The method for forming a positive electrode active material includes causing a reaction between a cobalt aqueous solution and an alkaline aqueous solution to form a cobalt compound; mixing the cobalt compound and a lithium compound and performing a first heat treatment to form a first composite oxide; mixing the first composite oxide and a compound containing a first additive element and performing a second heat treatment to form a second composite oxide; and mixing the second composite oxide and a compound containing a second additive element and performing a third heat treatment. The first heat treatment is performed at a temperature higher than or equal to 700° C. and lower than or equal to 1100° C. The second heat treatment is performed at a temperature higher than or equal to 700° C. and lower than or equal to 1000° C.

Abstract: A feeding management system for a free stall cow barn includes an evaluation-related information storage unit, an association information storage unit, an evaluating unit, a selecting unit, a transmission unit, a reading unit, a feed information acquiring unit, a device information acquiring unit, and a control information transmitting unit.

Abstract: A patent text generating device including a processor, and a memory including computer program code, the memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the processor, cause the patent text generating device to at least learn a plurality of correlations between a first claim of a patent document, a first description of the patent document, and a second description of a first prior art document to obtain a learning result, the first description being different from the first claim, and the first prior art document being correlated with the patent document, determine a patentability of a new claim, and generate text corresponding to a new claim based on the learning result and the new claim in response to determining the patentability of the new claim is equal to or greater than a level, the text being different from the new claim.

Abstract: A text generating device including at least one processor, and at least one memory including computer program code, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the text generating device to determine a first patent classification of invention text, select a second patent classification corresponding to the first patent classification, extract a patent document corresponding to the second patent classification from a patent document database, the patent document being similar to the invention text, generate additional invention text associated with the invention text based on the patent document, the additional invention text being included in the patent document and not included in the invention text, and transmit the additional invention text to a terminal device.

Abstract: A vehicle display device includes a display unit displaying a display image, an image generating unit generating the display image, and a target object information acquiring unit acquiring target object information relating to a target object present at the periphery of a vehicle and outputting the same to the image generating unit. If the distance from the vehicle to the target object exceeds a first reference value, the image generating unit generates an information image of the target object in a sharply visible region, and if the distance from the vehicle to the target object does not exceed the first reference value, the image generating unit generates the information image of the target object in a blurred region, and in that the information image in the blurred region is generated to be less sharply visible than the information image in the sharply visible region.

Abstract: An evaluating method includes an evaluating step of evaluating a state of ketosis in postpartum dairy cows for a dairy cow using at least one value of concentration values of Ala, Arg, Asn, Asp, BCAA, Cit, Cys, Glu, Gln, Gly, His, Ile, Leu, Lys, Met, 3MeHis, Orn, Phe, Pro, Ser, Tau, Thr, Trp, Tyr, and Val and concentration values of ALB, ALT, AST, BHBA, BUN, Ca, gGTP, Glc, NEFA, T-Bil, TCHO, TG, and TP in blood of the dairy cow before parturition.

Abstract: An information acquiring unit configured to acquire input information input from a user terminal that is able to be operated by a user from the user terminal, a storage unit configured to store a plurality of pieces of document information, a calculation unit configured to decompose the input information into predetermined constituent units and calculate a matching condition with one piece of document information among the plurality of pieces of document information stored in the storage unit as a score for each decomposed constituent unit, an output unit configured to output a comparison table representing a degree of difference between the input information and the document information for each constituent unit on the basis of the score, and an input unit configured to input a self-evaluation of the document information that is performed by the user to the comparison table are included.

Abstract: A patent map display device of the present invention is a patent map display device that displays a patent map on a user terminal that can be operated by a user and includes an information acquisition unit that acquires instruction information input to the user terminal by the user, a bibliographic DB that stores prior patent information, an analysis unit including a comparison section that compares the instruction information with the patent information and an evaluation section that performs patent evaluation of the instruction information by comparing the instruction information with the patent information on the basis of the comparison section, a patent map generation unit including a generation section that generates a map and a character representing an attribute related to an analysis result of the instruction information on the basis of attribute information including the patent evaluation and a disposition section that disposes the character in the map, and a display unit that displays a patent map g

Abstract: An evaluating method includes an evaluating step of evaluating a state of ketosis in postpartum dairy cows for a dairy cow using at least one value of concentration values of Ala, Arg, Asn, Asp, BCAA, Cit, Cys, Glu, Gln, Gly, His, Ile, Leu, Lys, Met, 3MeHis, Orn, Phe, Pro, Ser, Tau, Thr, Trp, Tyr, and Val and concentration values of ALB, ALT, AST, BHBA, BUN, Ca, gGTP, Glc, NEFA, T-Bil, TCHO, TG, and TP in blood of the dairy cow before parturition.

Abstract: An intellectual property support device is disclosed comprising a reception unit configured to receive technical information representing an evaluation object; a storage unit configured to store other technical information including at least one of incidental technical information, prior art information, and similar technical information detected on the basis of the technical information and intellectual property information including document information; a calculation unit configured to set a technical wording included in the technical information as a query and to calculate a new query representing a technical wording included in the other technical information or the intellectual property information using the set query at the time of performing a labeling process on the technical information and the other technical information or the intellectual property information; and a detection unit configured to detect document information associated with the evaluation object from the intellectual property inform

Abstract: An information acquiring unit configured to acquire input information input from a user terminal that is able to be operated by a user from the user terminal, a storage unit configured to store a plurality of pieces of document information, a calculation unit configured to decompose the input information into predetermined constituent units and calculate a matching condition with one piece of document information among the plurality of pieces of document information stored in the storage unit as a score for each decomposed constituent unit, an output unit configured to output a comparison table representing a degree of difference between the input information and the document information for each constituent unit on the basis of the score, and an input unit configured to input a self-evaluation of the document information that is performed by the user to the comparison table are included.

Abstract: A feeding management system for a free stall cow barn includes an evaluation-related information storage unit, an association information storage unit, an evaluating unit, a selecting unit, a transmission unit, a reading unit, a feed information acquiring unit, a device information acquiring unit, and a control information transmitting unit.

Abstract: A patent evaluation and determination method includes: an invention input step of receiving an input of an invention sentence relating to an invention; a keyword extraction step of performing a syntactic analysis on the input invention sentence in units of words, and then extracting any search keyword in the invention sentence; a patent sentence group extraction step of extracting a patent sentence group in which the search keyword is contained from a database using the extracted search keyword; and a determination step of comparing the invention sentence and a sentence included in the patent sentence group and determining the patentability of the invention sentence on the basis of a result obtained by multiplying a reciprocal number of an edit distance of the sentence included in the patent sentence group by a length index of the invention sentence and a content rate of the search keyword.

Abstract: A patent map display device of the present invention is a patent map display device that displays a patent map on a user terminal that can be operated by a user and includes an information acquisition unit that acquires instruction information input to the user terminal by the user, a bibliographic DB that stores prior patent information, an analysis unit including a comparison section that compares the instruction information with the patent information and an evaluation section that performs patent evaluation of the instruction information by comparing the instruction information with the patent information on the basis of the comparison section, a patent map generation unit including a generation section that generates a map and a character representing an attribute related to an analysis result of the instruction information on the basis of attribute information including the patent evaluation and a disposition section that disposes the character in the map, and a display unit that displays a patent map g

Abstract: A vehicle display device includes a display unit displaying a display image, an image generating unit generating the display image, and a target object information acquiring unit acquiring target object information relating to a target object present at the periphery of a vehicle and outputting the same to the image generating unit. If the distance from the vehicle to the target object exceeds a first reference value, the image generating unit generates an information image of the target object in a sharply visible region, and if the distance from the vehicle to the target object does not exceed the first reference value, the image generating unit generates the information image of the target object in a blurred region, and in that the information image in the blurred region is generated to be less sharply visible than the information image in the sharply visible region.

Abstract: An evaluating method includes an evaluating step of evaluating a state of ketosis in postpartum dairy cows for a dairy cow using at least one value of concentration values of Ala, Arg, Asn, Asp, BCAA, Cit, Cys, Glu, Gln, Gly, His, Ile, Leu, Lys, Met, 3MeHis, Orn, Phe, Pro, Ser, Tau, Thr, Trp, Tyr, and Val and concentration values of ALB, ALT, AST, BHBA, BUN, Ca, gGTP, Glc, NEFA, T?Bil, TCHO, TG, and TP in blood of the dairy cow before parturition.

Abstract: A method, a program, and a device for evaluating food preference of pets that do not require humans to eat a pet food itself. The preference of pets can be evaluated by conducting sensory analysis on selected palatants contained in a pet food by humans. Accordingly, highly precise prediction of the preference can be made by a simple and intuitive method based on sensory attributes for human. Further, humans are not required to eat a pet food itself because the humans may conduct sensory analysis on selected palatants contained in the pet food.

Abstract: A beam-forming device includes a first target sound blocker 103 and a second target sound blocker 104 that remove a target signal having a correlation mutually from a first sound signal x1 and a second sound signal x2 which are converted by first and second microphones 101 and 102, a phase synchronizer 105 that synchronizes the phases of the first sound signal x1 and the second sound signal x2 and synthesizes these sound signals by using information acquired when the first target sound blocker 103 removes the target signal, and a noise learner 106 that learns a noise component included in an output signal of the phase synchronizer 105 from signals from which the target signal is removed by the first target sound blocker 103 and the second target sound blocker 104.

Abstract: A reverberation suppression device comprises: an echo canceller that removes an echo component included in an input signal; a howling suppressor that detects occurrence of howling based on a frequency characteristic of the input signal from which the echo component has been removed and attenuates a frequency level of a component of the detected howling; and an initial sound suppressor that detects a sound section of the input signal in which the frequency level of the howling component has been attenuated and suppresses a signal value at a sound start portion of the detected sound section.

Abstract: A plasma device including a vacuum container, an arc-type evaporation source, a negative electrode member, a shutter, a power source, and a trigger electrode is described. The arc-type evaporation source is fixed to the side wall of the vacuum container so as to face the substrate. The negative electrode member is made from vitreous carbon having a protrusion and is mounted on the arc-type evaporation source. The power source applies a negative voltage to the arc-type evaporation source. The trigger electrode comes into contact with or separates away from the protrusion on the negative electrode member. A negative voltage is applied to the arc-type evaporation source, the trigger electrode is brought into contact with the protrusion on the negative electrode member, an arc discharge is generated, the shutter is opened, and a carbon thin film is formed on the substrate.