Abstract: A strain amount calculation system includes an imaging unit, and a strain amount calculation device that acquires an image taken by the imaging unit, measures luminescent brightness from the acquired image, calculates an amount of strain on the object caused by a load on the object, based on a temporal change in the measured luminescent brightness, and outputs information on the calculated strain amount.

Abstract: A switch drive circuit drives a full-bridge output stage connected to a transformer to alternately switch between a first cycle in which a current in a first direction is supplied to the transformer and a second cycle in which a current in a second direction is supplied to the transformer. The switch drive circuit includes a mode in which a dead time of the output stage is set in accordance with a magnitude of a current flown in one of the first and second cycles, the dead time becoming an operation changing factor in the other cycle. Or, the switch drive circuit includes a mode in which the dead time of the output stage is set in accordance with a magnitude of an average current obtained by averaging currents flown in the first and second cycles. Or, the switch drive circuit switches between these modes in accordance with a signal.

Abstract: A pairing management method includes detecting, by a computer, a peripheral device configured to perform short-range wireless communication with the computer; transmitting, by the computer, to a server storing pairing information generated by a pairing process of a management terminal and the peripheral device, an acquisition request for the pairing information of the detected peripheral device; and performing data communication, by the computer, with the detected peripheral device, based on the pairing information, when the pairing information associated with the transmitted acquisition request is received from the server.

Abstract: An information processing method executed in a computer, the processing method including: starting a network application that belongs to a specified network domain, starting a security application that restricts accesses from the network application except for specified accesses including accesses within same network domain, detecting a peripheral device coupled to the computer, and generating an interface for accessing to the detected peripheral device so that the generated interface belongs to the same specified network domain as the network application.

Abstract: An information processing method for a computer to manage resources is disclosed. The method includes: generating, when receiving an acquisition request of a ticket indicating a use right of a resource available to a user from a first apparatus, the ticket including command information, the command information indicating a command concerning use of the resource, based on available resource information indicating the resource; transmitting the ticket to the first apparatus; and executing, when receiving the ticket from a second apparatus that acquired the ticket via the first apparatus, the command indicated by the command information included in the ticket.

Abstract: A vehicle comprises a head lamp which irradiates a head lamp irradiation region set in front of a vehicle body; an auxiliary lamp which irradiates an auxiliary lamp irradiation region set in front of the head lamp irradiation region; a bank state detecting section which detects a bank state of the vehicle body; and a lighting control section which lights the auxiliary lamp depending on the bank state, the lighting control section causes the auxiliary lamp to be lighted in a set lighting state when the bank state detecting section detects a predetermined set bank state, and the lighting control section causes the auxiliary lamp to be lighted in a preceding lighting state at luminosity lower than that of the set lighting state, when the bank state detecting section detects a preceding bank state which occurs before the vehicle body reaches the set bank state.

Abstract: A system includes an apparatus among apparatuses configured to relay communication between equipment, and another apparatus coupled to the apparatuses through a network. The apparatus receives a beacon from one or more equipment for which given operation is executed by a user among a plurality of equipment, the beacon including first identifier whose value is common to the plurality of equipment, each of the plurality of equipment being configured to transmit the beacon; transmits the first identifier and second identifier identifying the one or more equipment, in the beacon, to the another apparatus; and executes relaying communication between equipment relating to a list of second identifier from the another apparatus. The another apparatus transmits, to one of apparatuses, a list of second identifier received in relation to first identifier with a common value in a plurality of the first identifier received from the one of apparatuses.

Abstract: An information processing device including: a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to: execute an application software, execute a specified process for coordinating a software module described in a first language with a software module described in a second language that is different from the first language, and load a device driver for the application software using a peripheral device, the device driver including a first software module described in the first language and a second software module described in the second language, the first software module being a software module in which a plurality of first interfaces are defined, the second software module being a software module in which a plurality of second interfaces are defined, the plurality of first interfaces being associated with the plurality of second interfaces respectively.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a memory and a processor configured to acquire a device driver corresponding to a device, deploy the acquired device driver so as to be operable, generate an address allowing a function of the device to be called from one or more client apparatuses, register the address and a path to the device driver in association with each other, generate, based on first information in which a function to be provided by each device is described and the address, second information including the function of the device and the address, and register the second information.

Abstract: A strain amount calculation system includes an imaging unit, and a strain amount calculation device that acquires an image taken by the imaging unit, measures luminescent brightness from the acquired image, calculates an amount of strain on the object caused by a load on the object, based on a temporal change in the measured luminescent brightness, and outputs information on the calculated strain amount.

Abstract: A mashup method is disclosed. The Web APIs which the Web application uses are specified by analyzing descriptions of drivers used to access the multiple Web APIs from a Web application to external devices. A Web Application Programing Interface list is created to indicate the Web APIs. The Web application is analyzed. The external devices including the Web APIs which the Web application accesses are estimated. An external device list which indicates the estimated external devices is created. By referring to the external device list, when one or more external devices do not exist, an access to each of the Web APIs pertinent to the Web application is restricted where the one or more external devices include the Web APIs used in a process of the Web application and the process is realized by mashup.

Abstract: A vehicle which turns in a state in which a vehicle body is banked from an upright state to a first side in a vehicle width direction of the vehicle body, comprises a lamp which is attached to the vehicle body, and irradiates a lamp irradiation region set in front of the vehicle body; a detecting section which detects a change over time of a posture of the vehicle body while the vehicle is traveling; and a control section which controls the lamp in such a manner that the lamp irradiation region is changed based on the change over time of the posture of the vehicle body which is detected by the detecting section.

Abstract: A control method executed by a processor included in an information processing device includes receiving a content; extracting one or more keywords of the content from the content; acquiring information in which an identifier identifying a target object, image information on the target object, and one or more keywords of the target object are associated; calculating a position of the target object on a camera image, based on the image information, when the target object is included in the camera image; calculating a display position of an image relating to the content, based on the position of the target object, when the one or more keywords of the content and the one or more keywords of the target object have a correspondence relationship; and displaying the image relating to the content on a screen, in a state of being superimposed onto the camera image, at the display position.

Abstract: A non-transitory, computer-readable recording medium having stored therein a program for causing a computer execute a process of transmitting a first random value by proximity radio communication to a device coupled via a server and a network, receiving data in which the first random value is encoded, from the device by the proximity radio communication, determining whether the first random value matches a value obtained by decoding the data with a server key obtained in advance from the server, when the value obtained by decoding the data matches the first random value, authenticating a user, and causing the information processing device to execute processing for transmitting a result of the authenticating the user to the server via the device.

Abstract: A switch drive circuit drives a full-bridge output stage connected to a transformer to alternately switch between a first cycle in which a current in a first direction is supplied to the transformer and a second cycle in which a current in a second direction is supplied to the transformer. The switch drive circuit includes a mode in which a dead time of the output stage is set in accordance with a magnitude of a current flown in one of the first and second cycles, the dead time becoming an operation changing factor in the other cycle. Or, the switch drive circuit includes a mode in which the dead time of the output stage is set in accordance with a magnitude of an average current obtained by averaging currents flown in the first and second cycles. Or, the switch drive circuit switches between these modes in accordance with a signal.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus stores information concerning a communication path for authentication between a first apparatus and a second apparatus that provides a service, in response to a service access request from the first apparatus; transmits the service access request to the second apparatus by using the information concerning the communication path for authentication; transfers, in response to an authentication request from the second apparatus, the authentication request to the first apparatus by using the information concerning the communication path for authentication; transfers, in response to a response including authentication information from the first apparatus, the response including the authentication information to the second apparatus by using the information concerning the communication path for authentication; and receives data of the service provided by the second apparatus and output a content based on the received content.

Abstract: A terminal device including: a first network interface configured to perform a first wireless communication with a first device, the first network interface being configured to couple to a specified network via the first device, a second network interface configured to perform a second wireless communication with a second device, and a processor configured to: select one of the first network interface and the second network interface, the first network interface being selected when the second network interface not being configured to couple to the specified network via the second device, the second network interface being selected when the second network interface being configured to couple to the specified network via the second device, and control the selected one of the first network interface and the second network interface to perform a wireless communication.

Abstract: A system includes circuitry configured to store, as information that identifies an authentication method, identification information shared with an authentication device that performs authentication of a user of an information processing device in association with an event that occurs in accordance with an operation of the information processing device, which is performed by the user, into a memory, transmit, when the event occurs, the identification information stored in association with the event in the memory to the authentication device, receive a result of the authentication of the user by the authentication method in accordance with the identification information in the authentication device from the authentication device, and execute, when the result of the authentication of the user indicates a success, processing in accordance with the event that has occurred.

Abstract: A vehicle comprises first and second operation units operated to perform switching between an electric power supply state and an electric power cut-off state of respective first and second electric components and a retaining device which starts electric power supply to the second electric component in response to the operation of the first and operation units to form the first and second electric power supply states, and retains the electric power supply to the second electric component, until the second operation unit is operated to form the second electric power cut-off state, despite a rider's operation of the first operation unit to form the first electric power cut-off state, after the retaining device started the electric power supply to the second electric component.

Abstract: An information processing method including: starting, by an information processing device, an application program designating a peripheral device type of a plurality of peripheral device types, each of the plurality of peripheral device types corresponding to each peripheral device set, the application program utilizing a specified peripheral device included in a specified peripheral device set to which the designated peripheral device type corresponds, detecting at least one peripheral device that is configured to cooperate with the information processing device, determining the specified peripheral device of the designated peripheral device type, from among the detected at least one peripheral device, and obtaining a specified driver program for utilizing the determined specified peripheral device, wherein the application program utilizes the determined specified peripheral device based on the obtained specified driver program.