Abstract: A collision prediction method for predicting a collision between a multi-joint robot and a nearby object includes a first acquisition step of acquiring configuration information of the robot and posture information of the robot; a second acquisition step of acquiring point cloud data including the robot and the nearby object; a classification step of classifying the point cloud data acquired in the second acquisition step into point cloud data corresponding to the robot and point cloud data corresponding to the nearby object, based on the configuration information of the robot and the posture information of the robot; and a prediction step of predicting a collision between the robot and the nearby object, based on a classification result obtained in the classification step.

Abstract: A highly reliable memory device is provided. On a side surface of a first conductor extending in a first direction, a first insulator, a first semiconductor, a second insulator, a second semiconductor, and a third insulator are provided in this order when seen from the first conductor side. A first region overlapping with a second conductor with the first insulator, the first semiconductor, the second insulator, the second semiconductor, and the third insulator therebetween, and a second region overlapping with a third conductor with the first insulator, the first semiconductor, the second insulator, the second semiconductor, and the third insulator therebetween are provided in the first conductor. In the second region, a fourth conductor is provided between the first insulator and the first semiconductor.

Abstract: The invention of the application is the invention regarding a semiconductor device and a method for driving the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes first and second transistors, first to fifth switches, first to third capacitors, and a display element.

Abstract: A novel electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display apparatus, an arithmetic portion, and a gaze detection portion, and the display apparatus includes a functional circuit and a display portion divided into a plurality of sub-display portions. The gaze detection portion has a function of detecting a gaze of a user. The arithmetic portion has a function of distributing each of the plurality of sub-display portions into a first section or a second section on the basis of a detection result by the gaze detection portion. The first section includes a region overlapping with a gaze point. The functional circuit has a function of making the driving frequency of the second section lower than the driving frequency of the first section. The functional circuit also has a function of making a resolution of an image displayed on the sub-display portions included in the second section lower than a resolution of an image displayed on the sub-display portions included in the first section.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a display apparatus that reduces the amount of image data transmitted and maintains high-level display quality, which is a display apparatus (Dp) including a display portion (DIS), a light-emitting portion (SHB), and a light-receiving portion (SJB). The display portion includes a first display region (ALP) and a first circuit region that overlap with each other. The first display region includes a plurality of first display pixels and the first circuit region includes a first driver circuit (DRV). The first driver circuit is electrically connected to the plurality of first display pixels through a plurality of first wirings extended in the first display region. The light-emitting portion has a function of emitting first light, and the light-receiving portion has a function of receiving second light that is reflected by irradiation of an object with the first light and a function of generating information based on the second light.

Abstract: A semiconductor device with a novel structure is provided. The semiconductor device includes a plurality of arithmetic blocks each including an arithmetic circuit portion and a memory circuit portion. The arithmetic circuit portion and the memory circuit portion are electrically connected to each other. The arithmetic circuit portion and the memory circuit portion have an overlap region. The arithmetic circuit portion includes, for example, a Si transistor, and the memory circuit portion includes, for example, an OS transistor. The arithmetic circuit portion has a function of performing product-sum operation. The memory circuit portion has a function of retaining weight data. A first driver circuit has a function of writing the weight data to the memory circuit portion. The weight data is written to all the memory circuit portions included in the same column with the use of the first driver circuit.

Abstract: A power cutoff device includes a relay unit including a switch having a connecting state and a cutoff state, a cutoff unit connected in series to the switch, a current detector to detect an object current flowing through the cutoff unit, and a controller to control the relay unit and the cutoff unit. The cutoff unit has a connecting state and an irreversible cutoff state. The controller obtains a changing rate of the object current with respect to time. The controller causes the switch to be in the connecting state and causes the cutoff unit to be in the connecting state if determining that the changing rate is not greater than a changing-rate threshold. The controller causes the relay unit to be in the cutoff state and cause the cutoff unit to be in the irreversible cutoff state if determining that the changing rate is greater than the changing-rate threshold.

Abstract: A signal processing method executed by a signal processing device, includes performing a phase connection process on a position in a space and a phase value at each of a plurality of times, performing outlier correction of a phase value for each position in the space in a predetermined direction of the space at a predetermined time among the plurality of times based on a result of the phase connection process, and correcting a phase value at a time other than the predetermined time for each of correction target positions among positions in the space.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a sensing system, a sensing method, and an analyzing device using OFDR in which a sensing range of strain/temperature is less likely to be limited by a frequency sweep width. In the sensing method using OFDR, the sensing system according to the present invention employs sequential update, per measurement by one frequency sweep of the probe light, for setting the reference spectrum to the spectrum of an immediately preceding measurement, by which a spectral shift between an n-th measurement and an (n?1)th measurement is obtained, and the spectral shifts individually obtained between the measurements are integrated.

Abstract: An effective cancer treatment method is disclosed. According to the cancer treatment method, a CD47 inhibitory substance, an immune checkpoint inhibitory substance (for example, an anti-PD-1 antibody), and a standard therapy (for example, a combination therapy in which Bevacizumab or Cetuximab is added to FOLFOX therapy for radically unresectable advanced or recurrent colorectal cancer, or FOLFIRINOX therapy or a dose-reduced regimen thereof for pancreatic cancer having distant metastasis) are combined. The treatment method is useful for cancer treatment.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an aerial optical fiber cable inspection method, an aerial optical fiber cable inspection device, and a program which can identify a cable sagging section from vibration sensing results. In the aerial optical fiber cable inspection method according to the present invention, a vibration distribution waveform along the longitudinal direction of an aerial optical fiber cable measured using an optical fiber vibration sensing device is received as an input, a standard deviation of the amplitude of vibration at each position in the vibration distribution waveform is calculated, and a section with a standard deviation larger than that of other sections is identified as a cable sagging section.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a cable test system, an analysis apparatus, a cable test method, and a program capable of recognizing a sag section of an overhead cable without sending a worker to a site. A cable test system according to the present invention includes an optical fiber vibration distribution measurement apparatus 11 that acquires a vibration distribution waveform of an overhead optical fiber cable 50 to be tested, the vibration distribution waveform being represented in a time domain and a distance domain in a longitudinal direction, and an analysis apparatus 12 that calculates a propagation speed of vibrations propagating through the overhead optical fiber cable 50 from the vibration distribution waveform and detects, as a cable sag section, a section of the overhead optical fiber cable 50 in which the propagation speed is equal to or lower than a threshold value.

Abstract: The present disclosure generates an optical spectrogram, representing a temporal change in frequency characteristics, using a plurality of spectral data measured by an OFDR measurement instrument at different times, and filters the optical spectrogram in both a time direction and a frequency direction.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a device that accurately measures vibration at a designated position of a sensing fiber without using digital signal processing to compensate for distance fluctuation. Digital signal processing for correcting fluctuation of a measurement distance due to a frequency offset of a beat signal due to vibration, which is a measurement target, is simplified. In the present disclosure, vibration at a designated position of the sensing fiber is accurately measured without using the digital signal processing to compensate for the distance fluctuation. A spectrum analysis length of an electrical field E(?n) of backscattered light is set to be larger than a delay deviation Nd due to frequency modulation caused by dynamic strain. An index of tolerance of vibration distribution measurement to the delay deviation Nd is also clarified.

Abstract: The present disclosure is an optical line test system that detects a distribution of loss points of an optical line in a longitudinal direction, using a coherent light measurement device, applies vibration to facility disposed on a path of the optical line, detects a vibration point of the optical line in a longitudinal direction upon applying the vibration, using the coherent light measurement device, and identifies the loss point based on correspondence between the detected loss point and vibration point.

Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a method for remotely identifying a utility pole position and estimating a state of an overhead optical fiber cable. The present disclosure is a method for identifying a utility pole position including identifying a boundary region of a vibration distribution as a utility pole position, from a vibration distribution pattern obtained by measuring strain amounts with respect to distances of an optical fiber by an optical fiber vibration distribution measuring method at each time and sequentially stacking the strain amounts.

Abstract: A vibration distribution measurement system includes a frequency sweep light source that outputs frequency sweep light, an optical splitter that splits the frequency sweep light into probe light and local light, an optical mixer that mixes backscattered light from the sensing fiber as signal light with the local light, the backscattered light being obtained by causing the probe light to be incident on the sensing fiber, and an analysis unit that analyzes a beat signal obtained from output light of the optical mixer. The analysis unit estimates a distance offset from a measurement result obtained by measuring a distribution waveform of the signal light by measuring the beat signal at a measurement time sufficiently shorter than a cycle of the vibration of the sensing fiber, and measures a distribution of a vibration at any position by compensating for the distance offset.

Abstract: A sufficient sealing property of a through hole is ensured. A sealing structure includes a cylindrically-shaped body part inserted into the through hole, formed of a thin plate of a first thickness, one end of the body part being open and another end of the body part being closed, a tapered part connected to the opened one end of the body part and including a diameter gradually expanding outward as a distance from the body part increases, and a first bent part connected to the tapered part, formed of a thin plate thinner than the first thickness, and bent inward so that a protruding part protruding outward elastically abuts against an inner peripheral surface of the through hole.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a frequency modulation amount measuring device that measures an optical spectral shift of scattered light at a position in an optical transmission line, and calculates a frequency modulation amount at the position, using the measured optical spectral shift.

Abstract: An object is to provide a vibration detection apparatus and a vibration detection method which can avoid occurrence of a point where detection sensitivity deteriorates in vibration detection of a scattered light intensity monitor according to optical frequency multiplexing. The present invention conceives a multi-dimensional space having as many dimensions as the number of frequencies to be used, causes scattered light intensity change at each optical frequency to correspond to each axis, plots a scattered light signal as a vector on the space, performs linear approximation passing through an origin on the space having a plurality of plotted vector points as original data, and performs vibration detection using a direction vector of an approximate straight line obtained as a result of the approximation.