Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a communication interface, a transparent panel configured to display an image and accept a drawing, a display superimposed on the transparent panel, an imager disposed near the display and configured to capture an image of a user, and a controller configured to communicate using the communication interface. The controller is configured to receive, from another terminal apparatus, information for displaying a model image representing another user who uses the other terminal apparatus based on a captured image of the other user, and information on a drawn image drawn by the other user using a drawing tool on a transparent panel of the other terminal apparatus, and to display the model image on the display of the terminal apparatus and a hand image of a hand of the other user holding the drawing tool and the drawn image on the transparent panel of the terminal apparatus.

Abstract: A virtual space control system including: a plurality of user terminals; and a management apparatus configured to manage a virtual space in which virtual persons who operate in accordance with motions of users who are using the respective user terminals are located, in which each of the user terminals acquires information regarding a motion of the user who is using this user terminal and a surrounding environment of the user, determines, based on the acquired information, a mode of expressing a virtual person corresponding to a user who is using this user terminal in the virtual space, and displays the virtual space managed by the management apparatus on a monitor, and the management apparatus locates virtual persons who correspond to users who are using the respective user terminals expressed using the expression modes determined by the respective user terminals in the virtual space.

Abstract: A bonded body includes a supporting substrate, a silicon oxide layer provided on the supporting substrate, and a piezoelectric material substrate provided on the silicon oxide layer and composed of a material selected from the group consisting of lithium niobate, lithium tantalate and lithium niobate-lithium tantalate. The surface resistivity of the piezoelectric material substrate on the side of the silicon oxide layer is 1.7×1015 ?/? or higher.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an interface configured to acquire an image of a first user, information regarding posture or motion of the first user, and information regarding posture or motion of a second user, and a controller configured to generate difference information regarding a difference between the posture or motion of the first user and the posture or motion of the second user. The controller is configured to notify the second user of the difference information while controlling a display device to display the image of the first user or an image of the second user.

Abstract: An information processing method includes, for each of multiple images having an overlapping area, the multiple images being obtained by capturing a subject with respective multiple imagers whose shooting ranges overlap each other in part, detecting a position of a feature point of the subject in the overlapping area, trimming, at a position of a virtual line, an image of each of the multiple images in which the virtual line based on the position of the feature point is included in the overlapping area, and merging the multiple images to generate a single composite image.

Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes an input/output screen including a rectangular input/output area configured to accept touch input and display an image, a communication interface configured to communicate with another terminal apparatus including the input/output area having a different longitudinal direction, and a controller configured, upon input of an image to the input/output area of the terminal apparatus, to transmit to the another terminal apparatus an output image that contains the image and corresponds to a first square area having one short side of the input/output area as one side and to cause the another terminal apparatus to display the output image in a second square area having one short side of an input/output area of the another terminal apparatus as one side. The controller is configured to set an area other than the first square area in the input/output area of the terminal apparatus as a new input/output area.

Abstract: A transmission apparatus includes a communication interface configured to communicate with a reception apparatus, and a controller configured to acquire a depth image obtained by at least one depth camera measuring distances to a subject within a measurement range, identify, with reference to the acquired depth image, a window corresponding to a position of the subject from among a plurality of windows set within the measurement range and aligned in a depth direction, transmit a window identifier identifying the identified window to the reception apparatus via the communication interface, and for each pixel of the depth image, convert a measured distance into a relative distance within the window and transmit a resulting converted value as pixel data to the reception apparatus via the communication interface.

Abstract: A system according to the present disclosure includes a first terminal apparatus that repeatedly transmits an image captured using an imager and a second terminal apparatus that displays the received captured image. The first terminal apparatus acquires a position of a display object capable of displaying information, determines, when existence of a blocking object between the display object and the imager is detected, whether a blocked portion, which is a portion where the display object is at least partially blocked by the blocking object, exists within the captured image, and processes, when the blocked portion exists within the captured image, the captured image for the blocked portion within the captured image to be identifiable and transmits a captured image in which the blocked portion is identifiable as the captured image. The second terminal apparatus displays the captured image without displaying the blocked portion based on the received captured image.

Abstract: A program is configured to cause a computer to execute operations, the computer being configured to remove a background from a first image captured in a first space in which a first user is located to generate a second image to be displayed to a second user in a second space that is separate from the first space, the operations including scanning an object in the first space upon detecting a cue from the first user, and transmitting an image of the scanned object together with the second image via a network.

Abstract: A call system includes a terminal apparatus capable of inputting and outputting call audio and a server apparatus configured to relay transmission and reception of audio information including the call audio between the terminal apparatus and another terminal apparatus. The server apparatus or the terminal apparatus performs an adjustment process to adjust the audio information so as to increase a volume of the call audio that is inputted to and outputted from the terminal apparatus according to a volume of call audio inputted at the terminal apparatus or a distance from the terminal apparatus to a user.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to generate an avatar of a user as a 3D object based on a user image of the user. The controller is configured to acquire a new image of the user, generate an excluded image by excluding a portion from the new image, and update the avatar of the user by rendering the excluded image in overlap with at least a portion of the user image.

Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller configured to communicate using the communication interface. The controller receives, from another terminal apparatus, information for generating a 3D model that represents a participant who participates in an event in a virtual space using the other terminal apparatus, generates the 3D model in a form corresponding to a role of the participant in the event, and outputs information for displaying an image obtained by rendering the virtual space in which the 3D model is arranged.

Abstract: A virtual space control system including: a plurality of user terminals; and a management apparatus configured to manage a virtual space in which virtual persons who operate in accordance with motions of users who are using the respective user terminals are located, in which each of the user terminals acquires information regarding a motion of the user who is using this user terminal and a surrounding environment of the user, determines, based on the acquired information, a mode of expressing a virtual person corresponding to a user who is using this user terminal in the virtual space, and displays the virtual space managed by the management apparatus on a monitor, and the management apparatus locates virtual persons who correspond to users who are using the respective user terminals expressed using the expression modes determined by the respective user terminals in the virtual space.

Abstract: There are provided a bonding material, which can prevent voids from being generated in a silver bonding layer by preventing the entrainment of bubbles during the formation of a coating film even if the coating film is thickened, and a bonding method using the same. The bonding material of a silver paste includes fine silver particles, a solvent and an addition agent, wherein the solvent contains a first solvent of a diol, such as octanediol, and a second solvent which is a polar solvent (preferably one or more selected from the group consisting of dibutyl diglycol, hexyl diglycol, decanol and dodecanol) having a lower surface tension than that of the first solvent and wherein the addition agent is a triol.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a virtual space sharing system capable of outputting a virtual image in which a plurality of users share a virtual space between the plurality of users in a two-way direction. A first exemplary aspect is a virtual space sharing system includes: a motion acquisition unit configured to acquire a motion of a user present in each of a plurality of spaces; an image generation unit configured to generate a virtual image in which avatars corresponding to the respective users operate in a virtual space shared in the plurality of spaces based on the motions of the respective users; and an output unit configured to output a virtual image in which avatars of other users operate in the virtual space to a display unit disposed in each of the plurality of spaces.

Abstract: An encouraging speech system performs an encouraging speech for encouraging an action of each user for each of a plurality of users. The encouraging speech system includes: state detection means for detecting states of the respective users; information acquisition means for acquiring information that relates to nursing care or medical care of the respective users; and encouraging speech means for associating the states of the respective users detected by the state detection means with the information that relates to the nursing care or the medical care of the respective users acquired by the information acquisition means and making the encouraging speech for each of the users so as to encourage interaction between the users.

Abstract: An encouraging speech system includes: at least one of reaction detection means for detecting a user's reaction in response to an encouraging speech and evaluation acquisition means for acquiring an evaluation by an evaluator on a timing and a content of the encouraging speech; good/bad determination means for determining whether the timing and the content of the encouraging speech are good or not based on at least one of the detected reaction and the acquired evaluation; learning means for learning learning data in which the timing and the content of the encouraging speech determined to be good by the good/bad determination means are associated with trigger information which serves as a trigger when this encouraging speech is made; and encouraging speech means for making the encouraging speech based on the trigger information by the user and the results of the learning by the learning means.

Abstract: A substituted ?-iron oxide magnetic particle powder having a reduced content of an ?-type iron-based oxide and Fe sites of ?-Fe2O3 partially substituted by another metal element is obtained by neutralizing an acidic aqueous solution containing a trivalent iron ion and an ion of a metal that partially substitutes Fe sites to a pH of between 2.0 and 7.0. Thereafter, a silicon compound having a hydrolyzable group is added to a dispersion liquid containing an iron oxyhydroxide having a substituent metal element or a mixture of an iron oxyhydroxide and a hydroxide of a substituent metal element. The dispersion liquid is neutralized to a pH of 8.0 or higher and the iron oxyhydroxide having a substituent metal element or the mixture of the iron oxyhydroxide and the hydroxide of a substituent metal element is coated with a chemical reaction product of the silicon compound. The dispersion is then heated.

Abstract: A substitution-type ?-iron oxide magnetic particle powder having a reduced content of a non-magnetic ?-type iron-based oxide and Fe sites of ?-Fe2O3 partially substituted by another metal element is obtained by neutralizing an acidic aqueous solution containing a trivalent iron ion and an ion of a metal that partially substitutes Fe sites to a pH of 2.0 or higher and 7.0 or lower. A silicon compound having a hydrolyzable group is added to a dispersion liquid containing an iron oxyhydroxide having a substituent metal element or a mixture of an iron oxyhydroxide and a hydroxide of a substituent metal element. The dispersion liquid is neutralized to a pH of 8.0 or higher and the iron oxyhydroxide having a substituent metal element or the mixture of the iron oxyhydroxide and the hydroxide of a substituent metal element is coated with a chemical reaction product of the silicon compound and then heated.

Abstract: A voice interaction system performs a voice interaction with a user. The voice interaction system includes: topic detection means for estimating a topic of the voice interaction and detecting a change in the topic that has been estimated; and ask-again detection means for detecting, when the change in the topic has been detected by the topic detection means, the user's voice as ask-again by the user based on prosodic information on the user's voice.