Abstract: A method of outputting a recommended item implemented by a computer, the method includes: obtaining information on a search item selected by a user when the user searches for an item on an item search screen; storing the information on the search item obtained in the obtaining in a storage unit that stores information on a search item that a plurality of users have selected in the past with respect to each user; identifying a similar user to the user by referring to the storage unit; and outputting information on an item that the similar user has referred to in the past to the user as information on a recommended item.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes at least one processor causing the information processing apparatus to act as a first obtainment unit configured to execute processing for obtaining a first feature amount for each of a plurality of frames, a specification unit configured to specify a priority order of frames for obtaining a second feature amount different from the first feature amount based on the first feature amount obtained by the first obtainment unit, a second obtainment unit configured to execute processing for obtaining the second feature amount from a frame in accordance with the priority order, and a selection unit configured to select, based on the second feature amount obtained by the second obtainment unit, an image processing target frame. The number of frames from which the second feature amount is obtained is fewer than the number of the plurality of frames from which the first feature amount is obtained.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium has stored therein a program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process including: generating, based on search history information indicating history of search in a component search device with respect to feature values of a component, appearance frequency information indicating frequencies at which the feature values appear in the search history information; generating, based on the appearance frequency information, weighting information in which weights are associated with the feature values; executing learning on accumulated failure record information to build a failure estimation model for estimating a failure rate of the component; and estimating the failure rate of the component by using the built failure estimation model.

Abstract: An apparatus stores status information and workload information for each task executed by a user. The apparatus detects, based on the status information, completion of a first task, and withholds notification of first help information related to software selected based on a usage state of the software in the first task. The apparatus detects, based on the status information, completion of a second task after completion of the first task, and calculates, based on the workload information, an index value indicating a total workload of completed tasks including the first and second tasks. When the index value is greater than a threshold, the apparatus allows providing the user with notification of the first help information and second help information related to the software selected based on a usage state of the software in the second task; otherwise the apparatus withholds notification of the first and second help information.

Abstract: An apparatus that connects frames included in one video to make a highlight video shorter than the video evaluates whether each of the frames included in the video is appropriate as a component of the highlight video, identifies one or more candidate sections including continuous frames that are evaluated higher than a reference, and makes the highlight video by preferentially using the frames included in a longer candidate section, among the one or more candidate sections.

Abstract: An information processing device, includes: a memory; and a processor that executes a process including: determining, with respect to a plurality of previous sets of parts selection data of a designer, based on degree of concordance of specifications of parts and reference record of price information of each part, whether selection of concerned part is meant to deal with electronics manufacturing service (EMS) or with end of life (EOL) issue, and recording determination result in the parts selection data; performing, when the designer performs selection of a part and the EMS represents condition for the selection, similarity search with respect to parts selection data for which the determination result indicates the EMS; and performing, when the designer performs selection of a part and the EOL issue represents condition for the selection, similarity search with respect to parts selection data for which the determination result indicates the EOL issue.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus operable to decide an item related to an image or image capturing for a recommendation to a user, the apparatus obtains image attribute information, derives image group attribute information for an image group including a plurality of images based on the image attribute information, compares image group attribute information derived for a first image group including images captured in a first time range and image group attribute information derived for a second image group including images captured in a second time range different to the first time range, and decides the item for the recommendation to the user in accordance with a result of the comparison.

Abstract: A threaded joint is constructed of a pin and a box. The pin includes, in order from a tubular body having the pin toward the free end thereof: a male threaded portion and a lip portion including a sealing surface. The box includes: a female threaded portion corresponding to the male threaded portion of the pin; and a recessed portion corresponding to the lip portion, the recessed portion including a sealing surface. The lip portion includes, in order from a male threaded portion toward the free end of the pin: a neck portion; and a sealing head portion including the sealing surface. The maximum outside diameter of the region of the sealing surface in the sealing head portion is larger than an outside diameter of the neck portion at a boundary between the neck portion and the male threaded portion.

Abstract: An identity determination apparatus includes a first storage unit that stores registration apparatus information used in a case where reference data obtained by imaging a portion of a surface of an object to be determined is registered, material information regarding the object which is a target for identity determination, collation apparatus information used in a case where collation data is acquired, and collation reference information used in collation in association with each other, a second storage unit that stores the registration apparatus information and the material information in association with reference data acquired in advance, a reception unit that receives collation data acquired from the object to be determined in a case where a determination process is performed, the material information, and the collation apparatus information, and a determination unit that reads out the collation reference information corresponding to the material information and the collation apparatus information which a

Abstract: A laser machining beam method is a method that is carried out by a laser beam machine including a laser oscillator that is a first laser oscillator which emits a pulse of a laser beam that is a first laser beam, and a laser oscillator that is a second laser oscillator which emits a pulse of a laser beam that is a second laser beam differing in wavelength or pulse width from the first laser beam. In the laser beam machining method, the first laser beam and the second laser beam are caused to alternate in irradiating a workpiece.

Abstract: Provided is a plating solution for a threaded connection used for forming a plating film excellent in galling resistance, crevice corrosion resistance, and exposure corrosion resistance. The plating solution contains no cyanide, but contains copper pyrophosphate, tin pyrophosphate, zinc pyrophosphate, pyrophosphate as a metal complexing agent, and a sulfur-containing compound of 40 g/L or less (excluding 0). The sulfur-containing compound includes: a mercapto compound and a sulfide compound defined by Chemical Formula (1); a dimer formed through a disulfide bond of the mercapto compounds; and one or more types of salts thereof: RS—(CHX1)m—(CHX2)n—CHX3X4??(1), where each of m and n is an integer of 1 or 0; each of X1, X2, X3 and X4 is any one of hydrogen, OH, NH2, SO3H, and CO2H, but excluding that X1, X2, X3, and X4 are all hydrogen; and R is any one of hydrogen, a methyl group, and an ethyl group.

Abstract: A laser module includes: a photonic crystal surface-emitting laser element; a collimating lens array for producing a parallel optical beam; a condenser lens for condensing the optical beam; and an optical fiber which receives the optical beam on one end and transmits the optical beam to the outside. In the collimating lens array, an aperture portion corresponding to a collimating lens allows passage of the optical beam with an energy of not less than 94.0% and not more than 99.5% with respect to 100% of the energy of the optical beam incident on the collimating lens array.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a pair of bead cores; a pair of bead fillers that are connected to the pair of bead cores; a carcass ply that is suspended between the pair of bead cores; a side wall rubber that is arranged on a tire-outer-surface-side of the carcass ply and constitutes a tire outer surface; a chafer layer that is turned from a tire-inner-surface-side to the tire-outer-surface-side around the bead cores and the bead fillers and rolled up on an outer surface of the carcass ply; and a pair of support rubbers that are located between the side wall rubber and the carcass ply and arranged so as to hold a rolled-up end of the chafer layer from both sides in a tire width direction. A modulus values of the pair of support rubbers are higher than a modulus value of the side wall rubber.

Abstract: A laser machining apparatus includes: a laser oscillator to emit a laser beam; a focusing lens to irradiate a workpiece with the laser beam; a focus position control mechanism disposed between the laser oscillator and the focusing lens and disposed on the optical path of the laser beam and that controls the divergence angle of the laser beam and the incident diameter of the laser beam incident on the focusing lens; a laser beam deflector to deflect the laser beam before the laser beam is incident on the focusing lens; and an emitting angle control mechanism to control the emitting angle of the laser beam that exits from the focusing lens after being deflected by the laser beam deflector.

Abstract: In an information processing method, the importance degree of each person who appears in a first image group and the importance degree of each person who appears in a second image group, containing the first image group, are determined, and, when selecting the image of the output target from the first image group, in a case in which the importance degree of a candidate image of the output target included in the first image group, which is determined from the appearance count in the first image group, exceeds a first threshold, and, in a case in which the importance degree of the candidate image of the output target, which is determined from the appearance count in the second image group, exceeds a second threshold, the candidate image is selected as the output target.

Abstract: An organic compound represented by general formula (1) is a novel organic compound having an absorption band in the near infrared region, and is useful for infrared absorbing dyes, optical films, and organic electronic devices such as photoelectric conversion elements, wherein R1 to R18 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an aryl group, a heteroaryl group, an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, a halogen atom, a hydroxy group, an alkoxy group, a mercapto group, an alkylthio group, a nitro group, a substituted amino group, an amide group, an acyl group, a carboxyl group, an acyloxy group, a cyano group, a sulfo group, a sulfamoyl group, an alkylsulfamoyl group, a carbamoyl group, or an alkylcarbamoyl group; and X represents a substituted or unsubstituted methine group, a silylidyne group, a germylidyne group, a stannylidyne group, a nitrogen atom, a phosphorus atom, an arsenic atom, or an antimony atom.

Abstract: An apparatus sets, for a user, a time-width indicating a period of time which precedes a current time and for which a usage history of the user is to be acquired, and extracts an interesting matter of the user from the usage history acquired within the set time-width. The apparatus provides help information obtained based on the extracted interesting matter to the user to acquire a result of an operation that is performed by the user in response to provision of the help information, where the time-width for the user is set based on the acquired result of the operation by the user.

Abstract: The present invention provides a material for photoelectric conversion elements for use in imaging elements which comprises a compound represented by the following formula (1). The material for photoelectric conversion elements for use in imaging elements, which comprises a compound represented by the following formula (1), is used to produce a photoelectric conversion element which is excellent in terms of hole- or electron-leakage prevention, thermal resistance to processing temperatures, transparency to visible light, etc. In formula (1), R1 and R2 each independently represent a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic group.

Abstract: A laser module includes: a photonic crystal surface-emitting laser element; a collimating lens array for producing a parallel optical beam; a condenser lens for condensing the optical beam; and an optical fiber which receives the optical beam on one end and transmits the optical beam to the outside. In the collimating lens array, an aperture portion corresponding to a collimating lens allows passage of the optical beam with an energy of not less than 94.0% and not more than 99.5% with respect to 100% of the energy of the optical beam incident on the collimating lens array.

Abstract: In a screw joint for a steel pipe, a taper angle of a tapered surface of a pin is substantially the same as a taper angle of a tapered surface of a box. In addition, the pin and the box interfere with each other in a radial direction while a seal surface of the pin and a seal surface of the box contact each other in a process of make-up between a male screw portion and a female screw portion, and at least apart of the seal surface of the pin comes into close contact with at least a part of the seal surface of the box over the entire circumference. Moreover, a contact pressure amplification mechanism, which increases a contact pressure between the seal surface of the pin and the seal surface of the box at the completion of the make-up, is further provided.