Abstract: An operation assistance system for a small watercraft includes: a position specification unit that specifies an abnormality occurrence position, which is a position where an abnormality has occurred, when the abnormality has occurred in a small watercraft; a transmission unit that transmits information on the abnormality occurrence position specified by the position specification unit; and a processing circuit, in which the processing circuit includes a storage unit that stores information on the abnormality occurrence position transmitted from the transmission unit, and an information provision unit that creates predetermined operation assistance information based on information on the abnormality occurrence position stored in the storage unit and transmits the created operation assistance information.

Abstract: A power supply device with enhanced safety is provided. A power supply device (100) includes secondary battery cells (1) each including a positive electrode (2) including a safety valve on one end surface of each cell, a battery holder holding the secondary battery cells (1) each including the positive electrode (2) on the one end surface thereof, and a housing (20) having a bottom surface (22), a top surface (23), and an inner space which accommodates the battery holder therein. The battery holder holds the secondary battery cells (1) upright in parallel to one another such that the positive electrode (2) on the one end surface of each cell (1) is directed vertically downward. In the housing (20), the battery holder retains the positive electrode (2) of each cell (1) spaced apart from the bottom surface (22) across a first space (SP1).

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing an information management program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process includes referring to a management storage device that stores correspondence information that associates each post with a storage device that stores information related to each post and specifying a specific storage device that corresponds to a specific post from among a plurality of storage devices, in a case of receiving a browse request of specific property information that indicates certainty of the specific post uploaded over the Internet; referring to the specific storage device and determining whether the specific property information exists; and transmitting the specific property information to a transmission source of the browse request in a case of determining that the specific property information exists.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing therein an information management program for causing a computer to execute a process comprises: receiving property information indicating a reliability of a post uploaded on the Internet and a digital signature generated from the property information; and storing the property information, to which identification information of the post and the digital signature are added, in a storage.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for training a neural network with augmented data. A dataset comprising a plurality of classes is obtained for training a neural network. Prior to initiation of training, the dataset may be augmented by performing affine transformations of the data in the dataset, wherein the amount of augmentation is determined by a data augmentation variable. The neural network is trained with the augmented dataset. A training loss and a difference of class accuracy for each class is determined. The data augmentation variable is updated based on the total loss and class accuracy for each class. The dataset is augmented by performing affine transformations of the data in the dataset according to the updated data augmentation variable, and the neural network is trained with the augmented dataset.

Abstract: An optical signal emitting direction control method of a present embodiment includes arranging a transparent member to extend over an underwater space and an in-air space, causing an optical signal to enter the transparent member from the underwater space via a surface of an underwater portion of the transparent member immersed in the underwater space, and causing the optical signal entered the transparent member to be emitted into the in-air space via a surface of an in-air portion of the transparent member exposed to the in-air space.

Abstract: This invention provides a method for preparing dendritic cells from monocytes using a platelet lysate. This invention also provides a method for preparing cytotoxic dendritic cells from monocytes comprising performing non-adhesion culture of monocytes separated from the peripheral blood using a serum-free medium containing a human platelet lysate (HPL), GM-CSF, and PEGylated interferon ? and performing further non-adhesion culture with the addition of prostaglandin E2 and OK432.

Abstract: A system including: a first information processing device configured to: transmit one or more certificates issued to a specific user; acquire one or more pieces of encrypted information each including identification information of a user, and encrypted with a public key of the user to whom the certificate is issued; generate one or more pieces of decryption information that respectively correspond to the one or more pieces of encrypted information by decrypting the one or more pieces of encrypted information; and transmit the one or more pieces of decryption information; and a second information processing device configured to: receive the one or more certificates and the one or more pieces of decryption information; and evaluate a submission status of the certificate by the specific user based on the number of one or more certificates and the number of pieces of decryption information including the identification information of the specific user.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus receives identification information for identifying a given deal and item information specified by a user amongst multiple pieces of item information included in execution results of the given deal. With reference to a storing unit that stores, for each of multiple deals, identification information for identifying the deal in association with multiple pieces of confidential information which are individually generated by concealing each of multiple pieces of item information included in execution results of the deal, the information processing apparatus acquires, amongst pieces of confidential information associated with the identification information, at least the confidential information corresponding to the item information. The information processing apparatus verifies the authenticity of the item information based on a correspondence between the item information and the confidential information.

Abstract: A sheet feeding apparatus for feeding sheets is provided with a multi feed detecting section for detecting multi feed of conveyed sheets in a predetermined detection position of a conveyance path, and first and second discharge sections to which multi-fed sheets with the multi feed detected are discharged, and corresponding to one of a front end position of the multi-fed sheets at the time the multi feed detecting section detects the multi feed of sheets, a sheet storage state of the second discharge section, sheet storage states of the first and second discharge sections, a size of sheets and weighing, selects one of the first and second discharge sections to discharge the multi-fed sheets to the selected discharge section.

Abstract: An apparatus receives data access parameters from an external device of a transmission destination, where the data access parameters includes an access ticket, a transmission condition to transmit data, and information on the transmission destination of the data, and the access ticket includes a first program accessible to the data whose utilization by others is authorized by a user. The apparatus generates a notice object corresponding to the information on the transmission destination, and transmits the notice object to the transmission destination. The apparatus executes the first program of the access ticket to acquire the data when the transmission condition is satisfied, and transmits the acquired data to the transmission destination to set the acquired data in the notice object.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus generates a commitment by obfuscating item values, and generates zero-knowledge proof information for proving that a user has knowledge of the item values. The information processing apparatus sends an item value, the commitment, and the zero-knowledge proof information to an information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus generates a commitment from the item value. The information processing apparatus verifies the authenticity of the received item value on the basis of the relationship between the commitments and a commitment registered in a database and the zero-knowledge proof information.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus acquires a first verifiable credential (VC) that proves the validity of attribute information of a holder by a first signature verifiable by verification procedures of a first decentralized identifiers (DID) infrastructure and a second VC that proves the validity of the attribute information of the holder by a second signature verifiable by verification procedures of a second DID infrastructure. Next, the information processing apparatus verifies the second signature contained in the second VC by the verification procedures of the second DID infrastructure. Further, the information processing apparatus transmits a verification request for verifying the first signature contained in the first VC to a verification device capable of verifying the first signature contained in the first VC by the verification procedures of the first DID infrastructure, and then acquires, from the verification device, verification results of the first signature contained in the first VC.

Abstract: An attribute information conversion device includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: issue first access information and second access information linked to each other in response to a request upon reception of the request for conversion from attribute information of a first type of a user that may be used in a first service into the attribute information of a second type that may be used in a second service different from the first service; perform, upon acquisition of the attribute information of the user from a terminal through the first access information, conversion of the acquired attribute information from the attribute information of the first type into the attribute information of the second type; and output the converted attribute information to a terminal that has made access through the second access information.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a sealing resin being an insulating resin sealing the semiconductor element therein, and a plurality of electrode terminals each including a root portion being a root protruding from the sealing resin, a tip portion being a tip and portion extending from the root portion, and a middle portion provided between the tip portion and the root portion, and the middle portion includes first middle portions having a width wider than those of the root portion and the tip portion in the first direction, and a second middle portion having a width wider than those of the root portion and the tip portion in the first direction, a width narrower than those of the first middle portions in the first direction, and a bent portion bent toward in a third direction orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction.

Abstract: A film capacitor that includes first and second dielectric films, first and second inner electrodes, and first and second outer electrodes. The first inner electrode includes a first connection portion, a first main electrode portion joined to the first connection portion and thinner than the first connection portion, and a first thin portion extending from the first main electrode portion and thinner than the first main electrode portion. The second inner electrode includes a second connection portion and a second main electrode portion joined to the second connection portion and thinner than the second connection portion. The first main electrode portion opposes the second main electrode portion across the first dielectric film. The second connection portion includes a reduction region having a thickness that decreases from the second connection portion toward the second main electrode portion. The first thin portion opposes the reduction region across the first dielectric film.

Abstract: An all-solid-state battery manufacturing apparatus disclosed herein includes a transport apparatus, a press roller, and an adhesive provision apparatus. The transport apparatus transports an active material layer. The press roller has a foil attachment surface, which is a cylindrical surface to which the current collection foil is to be attached. The press roller rotates and moves the current collection foil attached to the foil attachment surface to the surface of the active material layer being transported by the transport apparatus and presses the current collection foil and the active material layer between the press roller and the transport apparatus. The adhesive provision apparatus is provided on a movement path of the current collection foil rotated and moved by the foil attachment surface of the press roller, and provides an adhesive to the current collection foil attached to the press roller.

Abstract: A bag processing apparatus includes: a defect detection unit which detects occurrence of a defect in processing of a bag; and an imaging unit which is separately provided from the defect detection unit and takes images of a location creating a cause of occurrence of the defect to acquires video data, the vide data being stored in association with the occurrence of the defect.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores therein a learning program for causing a computer to execute a process comprising: referring to, at time of learning a computation model that is a target of deep learning and has a plurality of nodes, a storage unit in which route information that indicates a calculation route followed by a tensor in each stage of learning prior to the time of learning, and statistical information regarding a position of a decimal point used in the calculation route are associated with each other; acquiring, when executing each piece of calculation processing set in each of the plurality of nodes at the time of learning, the statistical information corresponding to the route information that reaches each of the plurality of nodes; and executing the each piece of calculation processing using the position of the decimal point specified by the acquired statistical information.

Abstract: A film capacitor including a first dielectric film, a second dielectric film, a first internal electrode, a second internal electrode, a first external electrode, and a second external electrode. The first internal electrode includes a first connection portion, a first main electrode portion contiguous with the first connection portion and thinner than the first connection portion, and a first thin film portion extending from the first main electrode portion and thinner than the first main electrode portion. The second internal electrode includes a second connection portion and a second main electrode portion contiguous with the second connection portion and thinner than the second connection portion. The first main electrode portion opposes the second main electrode portion with the first dielectric film interposed therebetween and does not oppose the second connection portion, and the first thin film portion opposes the second connection portion with the first dielectric film interposed therebetween.