Abstract: A battery unit may include a main accommodation casing that includes a power output terminal, at least one sub-module that is accommodated in the main accommodation casing and a control unit that is accommodated in the main accommodation casing and controls at least one of charging and discharging of a unit battery, wherein in the sub-module, two or more battery blocks are accommodated inside a sub-accommodation casing so that the terminals of the battery blocks each including a plurality of unit batteries are not exposed and the battery blocks are connected to each other through an electric connection member.

Abstract: A DB registration-updating unit registers, in a patron management DB, the behavior history of each player in association with camera IDs that identify the cameras that have captured images of the player. On the basis of information in the patron management DB, a potential player-determining unit considers a player, whose length of stay in a specific corner is longer than a prescribed period and who is not playing, to be a potential player who wants to play but is unable to play. An attention level DB management unit registers, in an attention level DB, the points proportional to the lengths of stay of potential players in said corner as the attention level by cumulatively storing the points for each game console. An attention level display control unit displays the information on the players' attention level that is registered in the attention level DB.

Abstract: There is provided a power storage device including a plurality of modules each including secondary batteries, a charging switch that controls charging to the secondary batteries, a discharging switch that controls discharging of the secondary batteries, and a voltage measuring unit that measures a voltage of the module, and a switch control unit that controls one or both of the charging switch and the discharging switch. The modules are connected in parallel. The switch control unit maintains an on state of the discharging switch for at least one of the modules for a predetermined period, and controls the charging switch of the module in which a maximum module charging current estimated based on the voltage of the module is a predetermined value or less, to be in an on state.

Abstract: A battery unit may include a main accommodation casing that includes a power output terminal, at least one sub-module that is accommodated in the main accommodation casing and a control unit that is accommodated in the main accommodation casing and controls at least one of charging and discharging of a unit battery, wherein in the sub-module, two or more battery blocks are accommodated inside a sub-accommodation casing so that the terminals of the battery blocks each including a plurality of unit batteries are not exposed and the battery blocks are connected to each other through an electric connection member.

Abstract: A mass analyzer includes two rotating electric field (REF) units, sinusoidal signal generators and a means for separation of dispersed ions. The REF units include a plurality of elongated electrodes surrounding a central axis, and are lined in tandem at elongated direction. Sinusoidal signals are applied to the electrodes to rotate electric fields within each REF unit. The means for separation is placed adjacent the downstream end of the 2nd REF unit. Ions enter the 1st REF unit, diverge outwards and leave the 1st REF unit on off-axis positions. The ions successively enter the 2nd REF unit and converge inwards because of 180 degrees phase difference from the 1st REF unit. Specified mass ions return to and travel along the central axis. However, unspecified mass ions deviate from the central axis and travel apart from the central axis. The means for separation separates specified ions from unspecified ions.

Abstract: A battery unit may include a main accommodation casing that includes a power output terminal, at least one sub-module that is accommodated in the main accommodation casing and a control unit that is accommodated in the main accommodation casing and controls at least one of charging and discharging of a unit battery, wherein in the sub-module, two or more battery blocks are accommodated inside a sub-accommodation casing so that the terminals of the battery blocks each including a plurality of unit batteries are not exposed and the battery blocks are connected to each other through an electric connection member.

Abstract: A battery unit includes: a main accommodation casing that includes a power output terminal; at least one sub-module that is accommodated in the main accommodation casing; and a control unit that is accommodated in the main accommodation casing and controls at least one of charging and discharging of a unit battery, wherein in the sub-module, two or more battery blocks are accommodated inside a sub-accommodation casing so that the terminals of the battery blocks each including a plurality of unit batteries are not exposed and the battery blocks are connected to each other through an electric connection member.

Abstract: An object-motion detection method includes extracting, from each of a first image representing a detection-target object and generated by an imaging unit and a second image representing the detection-target object and generated after the first image by the imaging unit, an object area including the detection-target object, obtaining, for each of the first image and the second image, a reference point indicating a boundary between a moving part of the detection-target object and a fixed part of the detection-target object, the moving part moving when the detection-target object performs a certain motion, the fixed part not moving compared to the moving part when the detection-target object performs the certain motion, and obtaining, for each of the first image and the second image, a position of the moving part of the object area in a first area locating on a side including the moving part with respect to the reference point.

Abstract: A power storage apparatus having a battery unit housed in a case includes external terminals of positive and negative poles for providing, from outside the case, electrical connection to corresponding positive and negative poles of the battery unit; and electronic parts, wherein only when a connection with the battery unit is cut from at least one of the external terminals of both the poles, the electronic parts can be accessed.

Abstract: An information recording device comprises a memory component configured to hold data, a first file system controller configured to manage data held in the memory component on the basis of a first file name formed by a first code, and a wireless component configured to send and receive wireless signals. The first file system controller receives, from an access device connected to the information recording device, the first file name and a second file name that corresponds to the first file name and is formed by a second code that is different from the first code, identifies specific data having the first file name out of the data held in the memory component, and sends the second file name and the specific data to another information recording device connected via the wireless component.

Abstract: A mobile ratio of a customer is obtained to support a marketing strategy related to attracting customers. A population extraction unit extracts the number of persons, in which a game of one of the models of amusement machines installed in past times is recorded, as the number of persons of a population from pieces of information included in a biological information database. A mobile ratio calculation result output unit calculates a ratio of the number of persons, who use a model except the models of the amusement machines in which the population is obtained in the currently-installed amusement machines in the pieces of information included in the biological information database, to the population as the mobile ratio. The present invention can be applied to an apparatus that analyzes a trend of customers.

Abstract: A game machine includes a subject specifying unit configured to specify a subject included in each of a plurality of images consecutively captured by an imaging unit, a movement detecting unit configured to detect movement of the subject along a first direction vertical to an imaging surface of the imaging unit based on an area and a luminance of the subject in each of the plurality of images, and a performance executing unit configured to execute a first performance corresponding to the first direction when the movement detecting unit detects movement of the subject along the first direction.

Abstract: A game machine including a request command holding unit configured to hold a request command for making a request of an image analyzer for an image parameter that is used for determination as to whether or not to execute a performance, an execution condition holding unit configured to hold an execution condition to be satisfied by the image parameter, a request command outputting unit configured to output to the image analyzer the request command that is held in the request command holding unit while mapped with an executable performance, when the executable performance is decided, an image parameter acquiring unit configured to acquire an image parameter, and a performance executing unit configured to execute the executable performance when the acquired image parameter satisfies the execution condition that is held in the execution condition holding unit while mapped with the executable performance.

Abstract: A game machine including a body, a motion sensor for detecting a predetermined motion of an object, a controller, and a display section, where the motion sensor includes first and second light sources for illuminating the object, a light source controller for alternately turning on the light sources, a photographing section for photographing the object while the light sources are on to respectively generate first and second images, a storage section for storing first and second reference images generated respectively by photographing a predetermined range where the light sources are turned on and the object is not present, a difference image generation section configured to generate first and second difference images based on, respectively, differences between the first image and the first reference image and between the second image and the second reference image, a synthesis section for synthesizing the first and second difference images to generate a synthetic image, and a motion detection section configur

Abstract: An image synthesis device and a corresponding method, including first and second illumination light sources configured to illuminate an object to be detected, a light source controller configured to alternately turn on the light sources, a photographing section configured to photograph the object while the first and second illumination light sources are turned on to generate first and second images, respectively, a storage section configured to store first and second reference images generated by photographing a range of the photographing section where the illumination light sources are turned on and where the object is not present, a difference image generation section configured to generate a first difference image based on a difference between the first image and first reference image and a second difference image based on a difference between the second image and second reference image, and a synthesis section configured to synthesize the first and second difference images to generate a synthetic image.

Abstract: A DB registration-updating unit registers, in a patron management DB, the behavior history of each player in association with camera IDs that identify the cameras that have captured images of the player. On the basis of information in the patron management DB, a potential player-determining unit considers a player, whose length of stay in a specific corner is longer than a prescribed period and who is not playing, to be a potential player who wants to play but is unable to play. An attention level DB management unit registers, in an attention level DB, the points proportional to the lengths of stay of potential players in said corner as the attention level by cumulatively storing the points for each game console. An attention level display control unit displays the information on the players' attention level that is registered in the attention level DB.

Abstract: A biological information recognizer sequentially supplies a notification of a new person detection to a DB registration update unit, and the DB registration update unit registers a behavior history of each player in a customer management DB while correlating the behavior history with a camera ID identifying a camera that has captured an image of the player. At this point, a first candidate determination unit registers an area, where a model with which the player wants to play exists, as a first candidate area. An operating rate calculator calculates the operating rate of each area using only customer management information on the player for whom the area where the operating rate is calculated is registered as the first candidate area. The present invention can be applied to a technology for properly calculating the operating rate in discussing the model of an amusement machine to be replaced.

Abstract: An access device 100 includes an access speed information part 112 for informing an access speed required for data recording by the access device 100 to a nonvolatile memory device 200. The nonvolatile memory device includes an access condition determination part 212 for determining an access condition required for meeting the informed access speed and an access area determination unit 213 for determining an access area according to the determined access condition. The access device 100 informs the required access speed to the nonvolatile memory device 200 in advance so that the access condition determination part 212 and the access area determination part 213 in the nonvolatile memory device 200 realize data recording which meets the access speed informed in advance upon the data recording. Thus, it is possible to access all the nonvolatile memory devices at a desired speed regardless of difference in characteristics of the recording speed of each of the nonvolatile memory devices.

Abstract: The present invention efficiently processes work pieces by transferring them without bringing them outside. The present invention comprises: a stage 4 for working, which is used when working a work piece D, L by irradiating a focused beam B while observing the work piece D, L in an observation region W of a previously determined range, and possessing a table 10 having plural mount bases 2, 3 on whose upper faces 2a, 3a there can be respectively mounted the work piece D, L; and a rotation slant means 11 rotating respectively the mount base 2, 3 about a Z-axis perpendicular to the upper faces 2a, 3a and slanting the upper faces 2a, 3a to an arbitrary angle, wherein the table 10 is made possible to move so as to dispose respectively the plural mount bases 2, 3 to an inside of the observation region W.

Abstract: A mobile ratio of a customer is obtained to support a marketing strategy related to attracting customers. A population extraction unit 281 extracts the number of persons, in which a game of one of the models of amusement machines installed in past times is recorded, as the number of persons of a population from pieces of information included in a biological information database 22. A mobile ratio calculation result output unit 283 calculates a ratio of the number of persons, who use a model except the models of the amusement machines in which the population is obtained in the currently-installed amusement machines in the pieces of information included in the biological information database 22, to the population as the mobile ratio. The present invention can be applied to an apparatus that analyzes a trend of customers.