Abstract: An inspection system that includes an image forming apparatus including an image forming unit configured to form an image on a recording sheet based on a print job, an information processing apparatus configured to transmit the print job to the image forming apparatus, and an inspection apparatus configured to execute an inspection on the image based on an inspection job, includes one or a plurality of storage units configured to store the print job and the inspection job, and a controller configured to delete a first print job from the storage units when a delete instruction is received for the first print job stored in the storage units, wherein, based on the delete instruction being received for the first print job, the controller executes control to delete one or a plurality of inspection jobs associated with the first print job from the storage units.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire, for each of a plurality of different locations on a passage line set based on a user operation on an image captured by an imaging unit, a number of objects that have passed through the passage line, and a display control unit configured to display, for each of the plurality of different locations on the passage line, information based on the number of objects that have passed through the passage line on a display unit.

Abstract: A resource allocation method includes splitting requirements into split requirements for each subsection of a physical network. The subsections of the physical network each have one of a plurality of policies applied to them. The method includes calculating a resource allocation for each of the subsections based on the split requirements, integrates a result of the allocations to determine a plurality of solutions candidates for resource allocations based on the split requirements, evaluates, for each solution candidate, compliance with the one of the plurality of policies, and selects one of the solution candidates based on the evaluation.

Abstract: A route calculation control device includes a calculator configured, among a plurality of nodes constituting a physical network having a plurality of sections to which respective policies different from each other are applied when allocating resources, based on a policy corresponding to a section including a start point node specified in a use request of the resources of the physical network, to calculate a route from the start point node to an end point node specified in the use request; and a controller configured to replace the start point node, among nodes constituting the route calculated by the calculator, with a first node included in a section different from the section including the start point node, so as to cause the calculator to calculate a route to the end point node. This enables to allocate resources to a network that includes multiple sections to which different policies are applied.

Abstract: The present invention enables one to easily set an image capturing condition, and to easily grasp a state of a captured image. For doing so, an instruction of either a zooming-in control or a zooming-out control of the image capturing apparatus, is determined based on a position relation of a first coordinate and a second coordinate instructed with respect to an image from the image capturing apparatus displayed on a display unit. The image capturing apparatus is controlled based on the result of that determination, the first coordinates and the second coordinates.

Abstract: A battery charging apparatus that acquires a remaining battery charge amount by detecting a battery voltage after charging of a battery by a charging circuit has been temporarily stopped and a given wait time has elapsed, wherein, regardless of the temporary stopping of charging by the charging circuit, a charging display control unit that controls display of a charging displaying section causes the charging displaying section to display that charging control is being performed while charging control is being performed.

Abstract: A control apparatus of a network camera includes a determination unit configured to determine an overlapping state of a cursor with each of a slider bar and a slider thumb, which configure a slider control, on a display screen of a display unit, a decision unit configured to decide information that relates to the slider control and is to be displayed on the display unit, based on a condition corresponding to a result of the determination by the determination unit, a display control unit configured to display the information decided by the decision unit on the display unit, and a transmission unit configured to transmit, to the network camera, a control signal that corresponds to a position of the slider thumb and is changed in response to input of an instruction by a user.

Abstract: Provided is a rubber composition that allows for manufacturing a tread rubber that is high in braking performance on a dry surface road and also high in braking performance even on a wet road surface such as a manhole surface that is slipperier than an asphalt road surface. The rubber composition is prepared by compounding a rubber component (A) including a natural rubber by 70 mass % or more, and by further compounding, with the rubber component as 100 parts by mass: (B) at least one kind of thermoplastic resins selected from among C5-based resins, C5- to C9-based resins, C9-based resins, terpene-based resins, terpene-aromatic compound-based resins, rosin-based resins, dicyclopentadiene resins, and alkylphenol-based resins, at 5 parts by mass to 50 parts by mass; and (C) a filler including silica, at 20 parts by mass to 120 parts by mass, in which the filler (C) contains silica by 50 mass % to 100 mass %.

Abstract: A resource allocation device is provided that, responsive to a use request for resources of a network, the use request having a pair of nodes as terminal points designated among a plurality of nodes constituting the network, searches for one or more candidate paths between the terminal points, with which amounts of the resources related to the use request can be allocated, in a state where the resources that have been allocated to one or more other use requests are set aside from the network. The device calculates, for each of the one or more searched-for-candidate paths, in a state where the resources are allocated to the candidate path, a maximum number of paths that can be allocated between the terminal points of a virtual path related to the service, and selects the candidate path with which a sum total of the maximum numbers of paths becomes greatest.

Abstract: An energy storage apparatus includes a plurality of energy storage devices connected in series, a voltage detection unit configured to detect voltage of each of the energy storage devices, and a monitoring unit configured to monitor the plurality of energy storage devices. The monitoring unit determines a state of the energy storage apparatus in accordance with average cell voltage or an average SOC of the plurality of energy storage devices and minimum cell voltage of the plurality of energy storage devices.

Abstract: A display control apparatus includes circuitry configured to obtain information indicating a period to generate a panoramic image generated by a plurality of captured images, the period being specified by a user, to display a range in accordance with the obtained information on a user interface of a display unit, and to generate the panoramic image corresponding to the range displayed on the user interface.

Abstract: Steps include splitting requirements related to use of resources of a physical network into split requirements for each of the subsections; calculating, for each of the subsections, a resource allocation that satisfies the split requirements for the subsection according to the policy applied to the subsection; integrating results of the resource allocations, to calculate multiple solution candidates for a resource allocation that satisfies the requirements for the physical network; calculating, for each of the solution candidates, for each of the subsections, a first evaluation value representing a degree to what extent the resource allocation by the solution candidate in the subsection conforms to the policy applied to the subsection; and calculating a second evaluation value obtained by giving weights to the first evaluation values calculated for the respective subsections for each of the solution candidates according to importance of the policies applied to the respective subsections, and scalarizing the w

Abstract: A route calculation control device includes a calculator configured, among a plurality of nodes constituting a physical network having a plurality of sections to which respective policies different from each other are applied when allocating resources, based on a policy corresponding to a section including a start point node specified in a use request of the resources of the physical network, to calculate a route from the start point node to an end point node specified in the use request; and a controller configured to replace the start point node, among nodes constituting the route calculated by the calculator, with a first node included in a section different from the section including the start point node, so as to cause the calculator to calculate a route to the end point node. This enables to allocate resources to a network that includes multiple sections to which different policies are applied.

Abstract: A resource allocation device includes a searcher configured, in response to a use request for resources of a physical network, the use request having a pair of nodes as terminal points designated among a plurality of nodes constituting the physical network, to search for one or more candidate paths between the terminal points, with which amounts of the resources related to the use request can be allocated, in a state where the resources that have already been allocated to one or more other use requests are set aside from the physical network; a calculator configured to calculate, for each of the one or more searched-for candidate paths, in a state where the resources are allocated to the candidate path, for each of the one or more other existing use requests to which the resources have already been allocated, a maximum number of paths that can be allocated between the terminal points related to the use request; and a selector configured to select the candidate path with which a sum total of the maximum number

Abstract: A control apparatus of a network camera includes a determination unit configured to determine an overlapping state of a cursor with each of a slider bar and a slider thumb, which configure a slider control, on a display screen of a display unit, a decision unit configured to decide information that relates to the slider control and is to be displayed on the display unit, based on a condition corresponding to a result of the determination by the determination unit, a display control unit configured to display the information decided by the decision unit on the display unit, and a transmission unit configured to transmit, to the network camera, a control signal that corresponds to a position of the slider thumb and is changed in response to input of an instruction by a user.

Abstract: A battery charging apparatus that acquires a remaining battery charge amount by detecting a battery voltage after charging of a battery by a charging circuit has been temporarily stopped and a given wait time has elapsed, wherein, regardless of the temporary stopping of charging by the charging circuit, a charging display control unit that controls display of a charging displaying section causes the charging displaying section to display that charging control is being performed while charging control is being performed.

Abstract: The present invention provides a bowed string instrument that allows a player to hold it in a stable manner and to handle a bow and strings without much effect. A bowed string instrument 1 has a body 102, a shoulder pad 103 connected to the body 102, a body receiver 106 disposed below the body 102 so as to receive a load of the body, and an operative joint portion 107 coupling the body 102 and the body receiver 106 to each other while allowing the body 102 to be slidable on a spherical surface. The body 102 includes a fingerboard 105, a plurality of strings 104 extending above the fingerboard 105, and a pair of bridges for supporting and tensioning the plurality of strings 104 above the fingerboard 105.

Abstract: On a display screen of a display unit which displays an image captured by an imaging unit, the image capturing direction and the zoom magnification for a specified imaging region to be captured by the imaging unit are determined. If the determined image capturing direction is out of a range of the image capturing direction of the imaging unit that can be changed, the zoom magnification of the imaging unit is restricted to be lower than the zoom magnification determined in the determination.

Abstract: An energy storage apparatus includes a plurality of energy storage devices connected in series, a voltage detection unit configured to detect voltage of each of the energy storage devices, and a monitoring unit configured to monitor the plurality of energy storage devices. The monitoring unit determines a state of the energy storage apparatus in accordance with average cell voltage or an average SOC of the plurality of energy storage devices and minimum cell voltage of the plurality of energy storage devices.

Abstract: The present invention enables one to easily set an image capturing condition, and to easily grasp a state of a captured image. For doing so, an instruction of either a zooming-in control or a zooming-out control of the image capturing apparatus, is determined based on a position relation of a first coordinate and a second coordinate instructed with respect to an image from the image capturing apparatus displayed on a display unit. The image capturing apparatus is controlled based on the result of that determination, the first coordinates and the second coordinates.