Abstract: An autonomous vehicle capable of executing a task corresponding to a conveyance instruction by sound is provided. The autonomous vehicle docks with a conveyance target and conveys the conveyance target. The autonomous vehicle includes a docking mechanism configured to dock with the conveyance target, an audio input device, and a controller. The controller is configured to control the docking mechanism to dock with the conveyance target that is identified based on a conveyance instruction acquired via the audio input device, and to control conveyance of the docked conveyance target to a conveyance destination position that is identified based on the conveyance instruction.

Abstract: An autonomous vehicle with a reduced risk of collision during conveyance is provided. The autonomous vehicle docks with a conveyance target and conveys the conveyance target. The autonomous vehicle includes a docking mechanism configured to dock with the conveyance target, a sensor configured to acquire object position data related to a position of an object within a measurement range, and a controller configured to control, based on the object position data acquired from the sensor, the conveyance performed by the autonomous vehicle docked with the conveyance target. The measurement range of the sensor includes at least an area above the autonomous vehicle.

Abstract: A moving picture coding method includes: making a determination as to whether or not to code all blocks in a current picture in the skip mode; setting, based on a result of the determination, a first flag indicating whether or not a temporally neighboring block is to be referenced, a value of a parameter for determining a total number of merging candidates, and a second flag for each block included in the current picture, the second flag indicating whether or not the block is to be coded in the skip mode; calculating, as a merging candidate, a neighboring block usable for merging; and coding an index which indicates a merging candidate to be used for coding of the current block and attaching the coded index to a bitstream.

Abstract: An image decoding method includes: dividing a current block into sub-blocks; deriving, for each sub-block, one or more prediction information candidates; obtaining an index; and decoding the current block using the prediction information candidate selected by the index.

Abstract: A picture coding method includes: performing a first derivation process for deriving a first merging candidate which includes a candidate set of a prediction direction, a motion vector, and a reference picture index for use in coding of a current block; performing a second derivation process for deriving a second merging candidate; selecting a merging candidate to be used in the coding of the current block from among the first and second merging candidates; and attaching an index for identifying the selected merging candidate to the bitstream; wherein the first derivation process is performed so that a total number of the first merging candidates does not exceed a predetermined number, and the second derivation process is performed when the total number of the first merging candidates is less than a predetermined maximum number of merging candidates.

Abstract: An image coding method includes: deriving a candidate for a motion vector of a current block from a co-located motion vector; adding the candidate to a list; selecting the motion vector of the current block from the list; and coding the current block, wherein the deriving includes: deriving the candidate by a first derivation scheme in the case of determining that each of a current reference picture and a co-located reference picture is a long-term reference picture; and deriving the candidate by a second derivation scheme in the case of determining that each of the current reference picture and the co-located reference picture is a short-term reference picture.

Abstract: System includes: an operation terminal that (i) receives an operation instruction that is given by the operator to a movable section of a machine and (ii) senses an operation standby state that allows the operation instruction to be received; an image sensor estimating section configured to estimate a positional relationship between the operator and the machine; a model generating section configured to, in response to sensing of the operation standby state by the operation terminal, generate an operating direction indicating image; and in accordance with the positional relationship, in a direction that is in accordance with a direction in which the operator views the machine, the operating direction indicating image indicating an operating direction of the movable section; an combining section configured to generate a combined image obtained by combining the operating direction indicating image with a captured image of the movable section that has been photographed.

Abstract: A control section includes: an identifying section configured to, by referring to one or more search keywords set for one or more control targets, identify at least one search keyword from among the one or more search keywords, the at least one search keyword matching any of one or more main words contained in input data acquired through voice input; and a selecting section configured to select at least one control target from among the one or more control targets based on one or more numeric values obtained through calculation of one or more expressions each of which batch-converts, into numerical form, one or more of the one or more search keywords set for the one or more control targets.

Abstract: System includes: an operation terminal that (i) receives an operation instruction that is given by the operator to a movable section of a machine and (ii) senses an operation standby state that allows the operation instruction to be received; an image sensor estimating section configured to estimate a positional relationship between the operator and the machine; a model generating section configured to, in response to sensing of the operation standby state by the operation terminal, generate an operating direction indicating image; and in accordance with the positional relationship, in a direction that is in accordance with a direction in which the operator views the machine, the operating direction indicating image indicating an operating direction of the movable section; an combining section configured to generate a combined image obtained by combining the operating direction indicating image with a captured image of the movable section that has been photographed.

Abstract: In a surveillance system, a server and a plurality of cameras provided in a surveillance area are communicably connected to each other. The server includes a table memory that retains information on free resources of each of cameras. The server determines for each camera, a process to be executed by the camera, based on the information on the free resources of the camera, and transmits an instruction to execute the determined process to each camera. Each of the cameras executes a process corresponding to the instruction to execute, based on an instruction to execute the process transmitted from the server.

Abstract: In a surveillance system, a server and a plurality of cameras provided in a surveillance area are communicably connected to each other. The server includes a table memory that retains information on free resources of each of cameras. The server determines for each camera, a process to be executed by the camera, based on the information on the free resources of the camera, and transmits an instruction to execute the determined process to each camera. Each of the cameras executes a process corresponding to the instruction to execute, based on an instruction to execute the process transmitted from the server.

Abstract: A PC includes: an image data setting section for (i) setting, to background image data indicative of a background image, apparatus image data obtained by capturing an image of an apparatus and serving as referential image data to be referred to for identifying the apparatus, and (ii) setting, to the apparatus image data, dynamic part image data indicative of a dynamic part image positioned on the apparatus image; and an address setting section for (i) associating, with the dynamic part image data, (a) an address for specifying a storage area of a memory in which storage area data to be accessed by a portable terminal device is stored and (b) address substitutive information to be substituted for the address, and (ii) generating address display data to be used to display the address substitutive information instead of the address.

Abstract: A PC includes: an image data setting section for (i) setting, to background image data indicative of a background image, apparatus image data obtained by capturing an image of an apparatus and serving as referential image data to be referred to for identifying the apparatus, and (ii) setting, to the apparatus image data, dynamic part image data indicative of a dynamic part image positioned on the apparatus image; and an address setting section for (i) associating, with the dynamic part image data, (a) an address for specifying a storage area of a memory in which storage area data to be accessed by a portable terminal device is stored and (b) address substitutive information to be substituted for the address, and (ii) generating address display data to be used to display the address substitutive information instead of the address.

Abstract: An optical fiber cable processing device includes a transport mechanism which transports a case that accommodates an optical fiber cable and in which plural work stations are set along a transport path, and a processing mechanism that performs each of desired operations on the optical fiber cable, in which any one of the plural work stations is a mounting station in which a work mounting mechanism mounts a work on a tip of the optical fiber cable, a drawing mechanism that draws out the optical fiber cable and a correction mechanism that corrects a bending tendency of the optical fiber cable are disposed in the work stations on an upstream side of the mounting station, and the transport mechanism transports the case to the mounting station and mounts the work on the tip of the optical fiber cable in a state where the optical fiber cable is drawn out.

Abstract: An optical fiber cable processing device includes a transport mechanism which transports a case that accommodates an optical fiber cable and in which plural work stations are set along a transport path, and a processing mechanism that performs each of desired operations on the optical fiber cable, in which any one of the plural work stations is a mounting station in which a work mounting mechanism mounts a work on a tip of the optical fiber cable, a drawing mechanism that draws out the optical fiber cable and a correction mechanism that corrects a bending tendency of the optical fiber cable are disposed in the work stations on an upstream side of the mounting station, and the transport mechanism transports the case to the mounting station and mounts the work on the tip of the optical fiber cable in a state where the optical fiber cable is drawn out.

Abstract: There is disclosed a stream data reception/reproduction device capable of suppressing deterioration of quality of stream data reproduced even when the stream data is received via an IP network or the like in which the packet arrival timing and the order are not guaranteed. In this device, a reproduction speed control unit (107) sets various conditions in accordance with the value of the synchronization difference reported from a synchronization difference calculation unit (102). Only when the set conditions are satisfied, the speed of reproduction of a frame decompressed and inputted from a decoding unit (105) is adjusted. The reproduction speed control unit (107) interpolates a predetermined amount of sample data into the frame or decimates it from the frame when adjusting the reproduction speed.

Abstract: An apparatus includes an input unit to which replay information including a broadcasting section of a replay video and a reference section representing an actual filming time zone, and information for designating a length of a digest are input; a replay importance degree computing unit that obtains the number of replays, an interval between predetermined positions of the replay broadcasting section and the replay reference section, a time length of replay broadcasting, speed of replay broadcasting, the number of cut switches of the replay from the replay information, and computes the importance degree of the replay video on the basis of these items; and a digest creating unit that sets the replay video as a digest candidate, and selects a combination of the digest candidates based on a length condition of the digest and a composite importance degree of the combination of digest candidates.

Abstract: A thermoplastic resin composition of the present invention has high impact resistance, not lowering the weather resistance thereof, even though the amount of an impact resistance improver added thereto is small. The thermoplastic resin composition contains 100 parts by weight of (A) a thermoplastic resin and from 0.5 to 20 parts by weight of (B) a graft copolymer, wherein the graft copolymer (B) contains from 70% to 99% by weight of a crosslinked core (b2) prepared through polymerization of a monomer for the core (b2), containing 70% by weight or more of an acrylate, in the presence of from 0.5% to 20% by weight of a non-crosslinked seed (b1) having a weight-average molecular weight of 40,000 or less, and from 0.5% to 10% by weight of a shell (b3) prepared through polymerization of a monomer for the shell (b3) containing 50% by weight or more of a methacrylate, and the thermoplastic composition further contains from 0.01 to 3.

Abstract: A bonding device includes a bonding head including a bonding tool for sucking and holding an electronic component, and a laser heater for heating the electronic component by irradiating laser light on the electronic component held by the bonding tool from an inside of the bonding head, the laser heater including a collective unit for condensing laser light emitted from a light source. A focusing point of the laser light condensed by the collective unit is formed inside the bonding head.

Abstract: A thermoplastic resin composition of the present invention has high impact resistance, not lowering the weather resistance thereof, even though the amount of an impact resistance improver added thereto is small. The thermoplastic resin composition contains 100 parts by weight of (A) a thermoplastic resin and from 0.5 to 20 parts by weight of (B) a graft copolymer, wherein the graft copolymer (B) contains from 70% to 99% by weight of a crosslinked core (b2) prepared through polymerization of a monomer for the core (b2), containing 70% by weight or more of an acrylate, in the presence of from 0.5% to 20% by weight of a non-crosslinked seed (b1) having a weight-average molecular weight of 40,000 or less, and from 0.5% to 10% by weight of a shell (b3) prepared through polymerization of a monomer for the shell (b3) containing 50% by weight or more of a methacrylate, and the thermoplastic composition further contains from 0.01 to 3.