Abstract: A bioinformation acquiring apparatus includes at least one processor and a memory configured to store a program to be executed in the processor.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a multicore optical fiber, a design method for the multicore optical fiber and an optical transmission method using the multicore optical fiber including four cores having a standard cladding diameter of 125±1 ?m for an existing single mode optical fiber covering several thousands of kilometers of transmission. The multicore optical fiber according to the present invention disposes two-stage claddings with different refractive indices around each core, and designates as a predetermined range, a core radius a1, a radius a2 of a first cladding region surrounding each core, specific refractive index ?1 relative to the core of the first cladding region and a specific refractive index ?2 relative to the core of a second cladding region including four cores and the first cladding region.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an optical transmission system capable of controlling a transmission capacity and a signal processing load of a MIMO equalizer, without depending on the number of propagation modes of the optical fiber.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus operated by a sales clerk includes a display, a camera configured to capture an image of a code displayed on a screen of a portable registration apparatus operated by a customer in a store, the code corresponding to one or more commodities to be purchased and check data indicating whether each of said one or more commodities needs to be checked by the sales clerk before being checked out, and a processor configured to, when the image of the code is captured by the camera, acquire information indicating said one or more commodities to be purchased and the check data using the code, and control the display to display a screen showing one or more commodities that need to be checked by the sales clerk based on the acquired information.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an evaluation method and an evaluation device for easily determining whether or not a structural parameter of a multi-core fiber satisfies a desired connection loss value (a specification). The evaluation method according to the present invention includes a step of measuring center coordinates of each core with the center coordinates when a clad is approximated by a circle as an origin in an observed cross-sectional structure of the multi-core fiber to be objected, obtaining a length of a line segment connecting the origin and the center of each core and an angle formed by two line segments connecting the origin and two adjacent cores, and judging whether or not a desired connection loss characteristic is satisfied on the basis of whether or not the values satisfy a predetermined determination formula.

Abstract: A cognitive function evaluation device includes: an obtainment unit that obtains utterance data indicating a voice of an evaluatee uttering a sentence as instructed; a calculation unit that calculates, from the utterance data obtained by the obtainment unit, a feature based on the utterance data; an evaluation unit that compares the feature calculated by the calculation unit to reference data indicating a relationship between voice data indicating a voice of a person and a cognitive function of the person to evaluate the cognitive function of the evaluatee; and an output unit that outputs the sentence to be uttered by the evaluatee and outputs a result of evaluation by the evaluation unit.

Abstract: A thermosensitive part sensing temperature; a temperature sensor for measurement provided in the unit and measuring temperature by contacting the unit with a body to be measured; a temperature detecting part detecting, from when the unit contacts the body, the time when the sensor senses a difference from an initial temperature of the sensor, and a measured temperature of the sensor at that time, and detecting, from when the difference is sensed, a time after a certain length of time and a measured temperature of the sensor at that time; an estimating part estimating, from the time when the difference is sensed and a time after a certain length of time, the time when the thermosensitive part contacts the body, and the measured temperature at that time; and a heat conduction analyzing part estimating the measured temperature based on output information from the temperature detecting part and the estimating part.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an optical fiber amplifier capable of seamlessly and collectively amplifying optical signals in a plurality of bands. In order to achieve the aforementioned purpose, the optical fiber amplifier according to the present invention is the optical fiber amplifier that amplifies multiple wavelength bands, and in cross-section, one signal light primary propagation region, and a doped region where rare-earth ions have been added, wherein the doped region includes the rare-earth-doped optical fiber existing other than the propagation region.

Abstract: A magnetic base body is constituted by: metal magnetic grains containing Fe, and Si as an optional component, where the total content of the Fe and Si is 99% by mass or higher; and oxide layers present between the metal magnetic grains; wherein the ratio (IFe2SiO4/IFe) of the strongest diffraction line intensity (IFe2SiO4) observed in a range of 30.8°?2??32.2° to the strongest diffraction line intensity (IFe) observed in a range of 43.8°?2??45.2° in X-ray diffraction measurement using the CuK? ray is 0.0020 or higher; and the ratio (IFe2O3/IFe) of the strongest diffraction line intensity (IFe2O3) observed in a range of 33.0°?2??34.4° to the IFe in X-ray diffraction measurement using the CuK? ray is lower than 0.0010.

Abstract: A control method for an electric vehicle in which a motor is used as a traveling drive source and deceleration is performed by a regenerative braking force of the motor, the electric vehicle including a towing unit configured to tow a separate object, the method including: acquiring an accelerator operation amount; acquiring a total mass of the electric vehicle; estimating a disturbance torque acting on the electric vehicle; acquiring an angular velocity of a rotary body; estimating a vehicle body speed of the electric vehicle; calculating a torque command value for the motor; measuring a load applied to the towing unit; correcting the total mass of the electric vehicle based on the measured load applied to the towing unit and the torque command value; controlling a torque generated in the motor based on the torque command value; and converging the torque command value to the disturbance torque.

Abstract: Provided is an air compressor that suppresses a rise in delivery temperature due to a change in atmospheric pressure, and consequently improves the life of parts. The air compressor 1 includes a motor 2, a compressor main body 3 driven by the motor 2 to compress air, a delivery pressure sensor 12 that senses a delivery pressure of the compressor main body 3, an atmospheric pressure sensor 13 that senses an atmospheric pressure, and a controller 15. The controller 15 compares the delivery pressure sensed by the delivery pressure sensor 12 with a set pressure, and performs operation control based on a result of the comparison. The controller 15 corrects the set pressure such that a ratio between the atmospheric pressure sensed by the atmospheric pressure sensor 13 and the set pressure becomes a set value set in advance.

Abstract: A distributed computer system includes a central server, a computing device of a user, and point-of-sale terminals. The central server is configured to assign a global user ID to a user and store, in association with the global user ID, local user IDs. The computing device is configured to generate and display a code symbol representing at least one user ID. A point-of-sale terminal is configured to scan the displayed code symbol and code symbols of merchandise being purchased, and generate transaction information. A local server is configured to transfer the transaction information from the point-of-sale terminal to the central server. When the transaction information includes a local user ID, a point total of the user is updated based on the transaction information and transmitted to the computing device. The central server stores the transaction information, which is received from the local server, in association with the global user ID.

Abstract: A projector includes: an exterior casing having a first wall section; a projection optical part accommodated in the exterior casing and having a lens group projecting image light onto a projection surface; a focus lever moving a position of the lens group; a power switch being pressed to generate a control signal; and a coupling terminal electrically coupled to a cable transmitting an electrical signal. The focus lever, the power switch, and the coupling terminal are arranged at the first wall section.

Abstract: An interconnect substrate includes a first interconnect layer, a first insulating layer covering a side surface and a lower surface of the first interconnect layer, a second insulating layer disposed on the first insulating layer and covering an upper surface of the first interconnect layer, a second interconnect layer formed on a lower surface of the first insulating layer, and a third interconnect layer formed on an upper surface of the second insulating layer, wherein the second interconnect layer includes a first ground plane, wherein the third interconnect layer includes a second ground plane, and wherein the first ground plane, the first insulating layer, the first interconnect layer, the second insulating layer, and the second ground plane constitute a stripline.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus operated by a sales clerk includes a display, a camera configured to capture an image of a code displayed on a screen of a portable registration apparatus operated by a customer in a store, the code corresponding to one or more commodities to be purchased and check data indicating whether each of said one or more commodities needs to be checked by the sales clerk before being checked out, and a processor configured to, when the image of the code is captured by the camera, acquire information indicating said one or more commodities to be purchased and the check data using the code, and control the display to display a screen showing one or more commodities that need to be checked by the sales clerk based on the acquired information.

Abstract: A wiring board includes a first wiring layer including a wiring pattern and a pad, a first insulating layer that covers the first wiring layer and exposes, from an upper surfaces thereof, surfaces of the wiring pattern and the pad of the first wiring layer, a second insulating layer that is formed on the upper surface of the first insulating layer, an opening portion that penetrates through the second insulating layer to the pad of the first wiring layer, and a connecting terminal that is formed in the opening portion of the second insulating layer, that is connected to the pad of the first wiring layer, that has one end protruding from the opening portion of the second insulating layer, and that includes, at the one end, a top portion having a larger width than the pad of the first wiring layer.

Abstract: A magnetic base body according to one embodiment of the invention includes soft magnetic metal particles that have an insulating film on their surfaces. In a Raman spectrum obtained by observing light scattered when the magnetic base body is irradiated with an excitation laser with a wavelength of 488 nm, a peak intensity ratio. that is defined as a ratio of the peak intensity of a first peak existing at around a wave number of 712 cm?1 to the peak intensity of a peak existing at around a wave number of 1320 cm?1, is 1 to 70.

Abstract: A communication control system for a number of gas compressors where one gas compressor is set as a master gas compressor that controls communication with N slave gas compressors. A cycle of communication with the N slave compressors in N communication sets is defined as a total compressor number communication cycle. In first to Nth communication sets, a first response request is transmitted to each of the first to Nth gas compressors. When a response is received from one of the gas compressors, the system determines that connection with the one gas compressor has succeeded. When no response is received, the system determines that connection has failed. In following communication cycles, a second response request is transmitted to the slave compressors with which communication has succeeded. The first response request is then transmitted to the slave compressors with which the communication connection has failed using a different timing sequence.

Abstract: A computing device installed in or mountable to a shopping cart, includes a camera configured to capture an image, and a processor configured to acquire commodity data of a registered commodity, when an object is placed in the shopping cart, perform object recognition on an image of the object captured by the camera, and determine whether the recognized object is a commodity corresponding to the acquired commodity data, and upon determining that the recognized object is not the commodity corresponding to the acquired commodity data, issue a request for displaying a message instructing registration of the recognized object as a registered commodity.

Abstract: A control method for an electric vehicle using a motor as a traveling drive source to decelerate by a regenerative braking force of the motor, including: obtaining an accelerator operation amount; estimating a disturbance torque acting on a vehicle body of the electric vehicle; obtaining an angular velocity of a rotating body that correlates to a rotation speed of a drive shaft which drives the electric vehicle; calculating a first torque command value based on the accelerator operation amount; setting the first torque command value to a torque command value; controlling a torque generated in the motor based on the torque command value; setting a target stop position at the time of stopping the electric vehicle; calculating a target angular velocity of the rotating body according to a distance from the electric vehicle to the target stop position; calculating a second torque command value for stopping the electric vehicle at the target stop position based on a difference between the target angular velocity an