Abstract: A content playback control device includes: an acquirer for acquiring an attribute of a listener that is the target of providing content; a determiner for determining a language when playing back the content, based on the attribute of the listener acquired by the acquirer; and a playback controller for playing back the content through audio in the determined language determined by the determiner.

Abstract: A sales registration apparatus includes a storage device which previously stores a number of sheets setting data indicating whether the number of issue sheets of a voucher is set without regard to a purchase quantity of a commodity or to be equal to the purchase quantity of the commodity for each voucher of a plurality of categories, an issuing module configured to issue vouchers of the plurality of categories, a determination module configured to determine, in response to the sales registration of the commodity for which the voucher of at least one category is issued, the number of issue sheets of the voucher based on the number of sheets setting data and the purchase quantity of the commodity, and an issuing control module configured to control the issuing module to issue the voucher by the number of issue sheets determined by the determination module upon the purchase of the commodity.

Abstract: Estimating operational states of a plurality of electrical devices connected to an electrical power line, that is, an electricity usage condition is appropriately carried out. Current and voltage are calculated as time-series from the electrical power line to which the plurality of electrical devices is connected. Signal components of power frequency and harmonics thereof are extracted from the time-series of the current and the voltage. Admittance vector time-series are calculated from the signal components. The admittance vector time-series are compared with combinations of feature vectors of the plurality of electrical devices connected to the electrical power line, to obtain an estimated result of the operational states of the plurality of electrical devices.

Abstract: A process for enabling the production of a particulate composition containing crystalline trehalose dihydrate is provided. Including allowing an ?-glycosyltrehalose-forming enzyme to act on liquefied starch derived from a microorganism of the genus Arthrobacter and a trehalose-releasing enzyme derived from a microorganism of the genus Arthrobacter along with a starch debranching enzyme and a cyclomaltodextrin glucanotransferase; allowing glucoamylase to act on the resulting mixture to obtain a saccharide solution containing ?,?-trehalose; precipitating crystalline ?,?-trehalose dihydrate from the above saccharide solution; collecting the precipitated crystalline ?,?-trehalose dihydrate by a centrifuge; and ageing and drying the collected crystals. Cyclomaltodextrin glucanotransferase derived from a microorganism of the genus Paenibacillus or a mutant enzyme thereof is used to increase the ?,?-trehalose content in the saccharide solution to over 86.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises an extraction module configured to extract a feature amount from an image of a commodity captured by an image capturing module; a calculation module configured to compare the feature amount of each commodity registered in a dictionary in association with instruction information instructing whether or not to execute automatic determination with the feature amount extracted by the extraction module to calculate a similarity degree therebetween; a recognition module configured to recognize a commodity of which the similarity degree is higher than a threshold value as a commodity candidate from the commodities registered in a dictionary; a determination module configured to determine the instruction information associated with the commodity candidate; and a display control module configured to selectably display each commodity candidate recognized by the recognition module if it is determined that the instruction information instructing not to execute the automatic de

Abstract: The invention provides a process for enabling the production of a particulate composition containing anhydrous crystalline ascorbic acid 2-glucoside that does not significantly cake even when the production yield of ascorbic acid 2-glucoside does not reach 35% by weight.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a particulate composition containing anhydrous crystalline 2-O-?-D-glucosyl-L-ascorbic acid having a significantly, hardly solidifiable property compared to conventional ones in a grade for use in quasi-drugs; a process for producing the same; and uses thereof. The present invention solves the above object by providing a particulate composition containing anhydrous crystalline 2-O-?-D-glucosyl-L-ascorbic in an amount of over 98.0% by weight but less than 99.9% by weight, on a dry solid basis; or a degree of crystallinity of 90% or higher for anhydrous crystalline 2-O-?-D-glucosyl-L-ascorbic acid; and by providing a process for producing the same and uses thereof.

Abstract: The invention provides a process for enabling the production of a particulate composition containing anhydrous crystalline ascorbic acid 2-glucoside that does not significantly cake even when the production yield of ascorbic acid 2-glucoside does not reach 35% by weight.

Abstract: An index calculating unit calculates a tonality index of a signal component of each area of the input signal transformed into a time frequency domain based on intensity of the signal component and a function obtained by approximating the intensity of the signal component. A similarity calculating unit calculates a similarity between a feature quantity in each area of the input signal obtained based on the index and the feature quantity in each area of the reference signal obtained based on the index calculated on the reference signal transformed into the time frequency domain. A music identifying unit identifies music of the input signal based on the similarity. The present technology can be applied to a music search apparatus that identifies music from an input signal.

Abstract: There is provided a sound processing device including an input signal processing unit configured to calculate a first acoustic feature quantity indicating a likelihood being of a sinusoidal wave of a signal in each time frequency domain and a second acoustic feature quantity different from the first acoustic feature quantity based on an input signal of content to be identified, a reference signal processing unit configured to calculate the first acoustic feature quantity and the second acoustic feature quantity based on a reference signal of content prepared in advance, and a matching processing unit configured to calculate a similarity between the input signal and the reference signal based on the first and second acoustic feature quantities of the input signal and the first and second acoustic feature quantities of the reference signal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical filter, a solid-state imaging element and an imaging device lens which contain a near infrared ray absorbing layer having a specific near infrared ray absorbing dye dispersed in a transparent resin having a refractive index of 1.54 or more, and also relates to an imaging device containing the solid-state imaging element or the imaging device lens. The near infrared ray absorbing layer has a transmittance of visible light of from 450 to 600 nm of 70% or more, a transmittance of light in a wavelength region of from 695 to 720 nm of not more than 10%, and an amount of change of transmittance of not more than ?0.

Abstract: A signal processing device that identifies a piece of music of an input signal by comparing the input signal with a plurality of reference signals including only a piece of music includes a weight distribution generating section that generates a weight distribution corresponding to a likeness to music in regions of the input signal transformed into a time-frequency domain, and a similarity calculating section that calculates degrees of similarity between a feature quantity in the regions of the input signal transformed into the time-frequency domain and feature quantities in the regions of the reference signals transformed into the time-frequency domain on the basis of the weighting based on the weight distribution.

Abstract: A resin substrate includes a primer layer, a hard coating layer, and a middle layer between the primer layer and the hard coating layer. The primer layer contains an acrylic polymer as a main component, the hard coating layer contains a cured product of an organopolysiloxane as a main component, and the middle layer includes a mixture of components constituting both the primer layer and the hard coating layer. The middle layer has a thickness Mt, the hard coating layer has a thickness Ht, and a ratio Mt/Ht is from 0.05 to 1.0.

Abstract: To provide a resin substrate provided with a hard coating film which is excellent in weather resistant adhesion and weather cracking resistance. The resin substrate 1 provided with a hard coating film, comprises a resin substrate 2, and formed on at least one surface thereof, a primer layer 3 containing an acrylic polymer (P) as a main component, and a hard coating layer 4, sequentially from the resin substrate 2 side, wherein the silyl group-containing acrylic polymer (?) contained in the primer layer 3 comprises polymerized units derived from methyl methacrylate (MMA) and silyl group-containing polymerized units and does not contain polymerized units having an aromatic hydrocarbon group in a side chain; and the value of (content of the acrylic polymer (P))/(total amount of content of the acrylic polymer (P) and content of the silyl group-containing acrylic polymer (?))×100, is from 50 to 98 mass %.

Abstract: The invention provides a process for enabling the production of a particulate composition containing anhydrous crystalline ascorbic acid 2-glucoside that does not significantly cake even when the production yield of ascorbic acid 2-glucoside does not reach 35% by weight.

Abstract: A resin substrate 1 provided with a hard coating film, which is excellent in weather resistant adhesion and weather cracking resistance, and which comprises a resin substrate 2, and, formed on at least one surface thereof in order from the resin substrate 2 side, a primer layer 3 containing as the main components an acrylic polymer (P) and a silyl group-containing acrylic polymer (?), and a hard coating layer 4 containing as the main component a cured product of an organopolysiloxane, wherein the silyl group-containing acrylic polymer (?) has polymerized units derived from MMA, polymerized units having a hydrolysable silyl group and polymerized units having a hydroxyalkyl group, and the primer layer 3 further contains a modified product (X) obtained by reacting a silyl group-containing acrylic polymer (?) and a compound (?) having at least two crosslinkable functional groups reactive with hydroxy groups.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a particulate composition containing pullulan, which can be produced without employing any complicated purification step such as solvent precipitation and, when formed into a film, exhibits a higher rupture strength compared to conventional ones; a process for producing the same; and uses thereof.

Abstract: The present invention has objects to provide a novel crystalline 2-O-?-glucosyl-L-ascorbic acid and its production process and uses, and solves the above objects by providing hydrous crystalline 2-O-?-glucosyl-L-ascorbic acid, a particulate composition containing hydrous crystalline 2-O-?-glucosyl-L-ascorbic acid, and their production processes and uses.

Abstract: To provide a resin substrate provided with a coating layer having excellent weather resistance and thereby capable of maintaining properties of the resin such as transparency and fracture resistance over a long period of time. A resin substrate provided with a coating layer, which comprises a substrate made of a resin containing an aromatic ring and a coating layer containing an acrylic polymer having an acid value of at most 1 mg KOH/g, a glass transition point of from 60° C. to 150° C. and a mass average molecular weight of from 90,000 to 1,000,000, and an ultraviolet light absorbing component selected from a polymer having ultraviolet light absorbing groups and an ultraviolet light absorber, having an average of absorption coefficients of from 3.5 g/(mg·cm) to 100 g/(mg·cm) to light in a wavelength region of from 350 nm to 380 nm, formed on at least one surface of the substrate.

Abstract: There is provided a resin substrate having a hard coating layer in which a silicone type hard coating layer is provided on the resin substrate via a primer layer, the resin substrate having the hard coating layer being excellent in the abrasion resistance and excellent in the weather resistance. A resin substrate having a hard coating layer comprising a primer layer containing an acrylic polymer, as a main component, and a hard coating layer formed of a cured product of a hard coating agent composition containing organopolysiloxane, sequentially laminated on at least one surface of the resin substrate, wherein the primer layer contains an acrylic polymer (A) in which at least one member selected from a specific alkyl acrylate and a specific alkyl methacrylate is set as main monomer units, a triazine type ultraviolet absorber (B), and a hindered amine photostabilizer (C).