Abstract: An optical fiber includes a fiber, a primary resin layer and a second resin layer. The fiber includes at least one core and a cladding covering the core, and extends in a longitudinal direction. The primary resin layer covers an outer circumference of the fiber. The secondary resin layer covers an outer circumference of the primary resin layer. The fiber has an orientation with respect to a rotation direction about the longitudinal direction. The primary resin layer includes, in the longitudinal direction, a plurality of first regions each having a first Young's modulus and a plurality of second regions each having a second Young's modulus higher than the first Young's modulus.

Abstract: A display program controls display of an activity in a virtual space, the activity being performed using a character operable by a user. The display program causes a computer to execute: displaying a first screen including the character and content, the content being based on details of the activity; and causing the display to transition to a second screen in response to an operation related to an action of the character, the second screen being different from the first screen and including a character corresponding to the character on the first screen, wherein the character on the first screen and the character on the second screen are different in at least one of form, state, and function, and for at least one of the character on the first screen and the character on the second screen, an animation imitating ears acts in response to an operation of the user.

Abstract: An electrical-connector-equipped cable includes a ferrule including a front end surface and an insertion hole opened in the front end surface, and a flat cable including a plurality of conductors arranged side by side and an insulating covering collectively covering the plurality of conductors. Each of the plurality of conductors includes a front end region, the front end region being inserted into the insertion hole in such a manner as to be exposed from the covering so that the front end surface of the conductor is exposed from the front end surface of the ferrule. The ferrule includes a dielectric constant adjusting hole formed at a position in the vicinity of the insertion hole in the front end surface and configured to adjust a dielectric constant of the vicinity of the insertion hole.

Abstract: An animation operation method includes: correlating a predetermined motion of an animation with a predetermined motion of at least one of a hand and a finger of a user which is detected by a detection device; and performing the predetermined motion of the animation corresponding to the predetermined motion when the predetermined motion is detected by the detection device.

Abstract: An animation operation method includes: correlating a predetermined motion of an animation with a predetermined motion of at least one of a hand and a finger of a user which is detected by a detection device; and performing the predetermined motion of the animation corresponding to the predetermined motion when the predetermined motion is detected by the detection device.

Abstract: A communication assistance program is a communication assistance program assisting communication of a user, the communication assistance program causing a computer to perform a step of integrally displaying identification information that can be used for identifying a communication target and a state animation representing a state of the communication target.

Abstract: A communication assistance program is a communication assistance program assisting communication of a user, the communication assistance program causing a computer to perform a step of integrally displaying identification information that can be used for identifying a communication target and a state animation representing a state of the communication target.

Abstract: A communication assistance program is a communication assistance program assisting communication of a user, the communication assistance program causing a computer to perform a step of integrally displaying identification information that can be used for identifying a communication target and a state animation representing a state of the communication target.

Abstract: A communication assistance system according to one embodiment is a communication assistance system assisting communication performed by a user using a terminal, the communication assistance system includes a control data configured to generate unit generating control data for controlling a movement of an avatar of the user that is displayed on the terminal and participates in the communication, based on video data including voice data of the user and image data of the user, when there is a deficiency of image information in the image data of the user, the control data generating unit supplements a deficient image information by using the voice data of the user and a learned model, and the learned model is a learned model generated by using training data such that the control data of the avatar is output when the voice data of the user is input.

Abstract: A communication assistance system according to one aspect of the present disclosure assists communication between a first user corresponding to a first terminal and a second user corresponding to a second terminal. The communication assistance system includes at least one processor. The at least one processor receives video data representing the first user from the first terminal, analyzes the video data and selects a movement pattern corresponding to a non-verbal behavior of the first user from a movement pattern group of an avatar, and transmits control data indicating the selected movement pattern to the second terminal such that an avatar corresponding to the first user in a virtual space displayed on the second terminal is moved based on the selected movement pattern.

Abstract: A communication assistance system according to one aspect of the present disclosure assists communication between a first user corresponding to a first terminal and a second user corresponding to a second terminal. At least one processor of the system analyzes first video data representing the first user and selects a movement pattern corresponding to a first non-verbal behavior that is a non-verbal behavior of the first user from a movement pattern group of an avatar, and transmits control data indicating the selected movement pattern to the second terminal. The second terminal displays a virtual space including a first avatar corresponding to the first user and a second avatar corresponding to the second user on the second terminal, receives the control data, moves the first avatar based on the selected movement pattern, and moves the second avatar based on second video data representing the second user.

Abstract: A vehicle malfunction prediction system includes: one or more monitoring devices, each monitoring device obtaining from a functional unit in a vehicle in which the monitoring device is mounted, functional-unit information indicating a result of measurement related to the vehicle; and a management device. The monitoring device transmits the obtained functional-unit information to the management device via an external network. The management device creates a learning model based on machine learning on the basis of a plurality of pieces of functional-unit information received from the one or more monitoring devices and transmits the created learning model to the one or more monitoring devices. Each monitoring device predicts a malfunction in the vehicle in which the monitoring device is mounted on the basis of new functional-unit information from the functional unit in the vehicle in which the monitoring device is mounted and based on the learning model from the management device.

Abstract: A control system configured to reduce the number of terminals of a connector in an electronic control unit and reduce the insertion/extraction force of the connector includes an ECU having a first connector unit, and a wire harness unit having a second connector unit to be connected to the first connector unit. The ECU includes a multiplexing control circuit and a first signal line serving as a transmission path for a multiplexed signal. The second connector unit is provided with a second signal line serving as a transmission path for the multiplexed signal transmitted via the first signal line, and a multiplexing control circuit. The multiplexing control circuit performs at least one of a process of separating signals from the multiplexed signal transmitted via the second signal line and a process of multiplexing a plurality of signals and transmitting a multiplexed signal to the second signal line.

Abstract: A control system configured to reduce the number of terminals of a connector in an electronic control unit and reduce the insertion/extraction force of the connector includes an ECU having a first connector unit, and a wire harness unit having a second connector unit to be connected to the first connector unit. The ECU includes a multiplexing control circuit and a first signal line serving as a transmission path for a multiplexed signal. The second connector unit is provided with a second signal line serving as a transmission path for the multiplexed signal transmitted via the first signal line, and a multiplexing control circuit. The multiplexing control circuit performs at least one of a process of separating signals from the multiplexed signal transmitted via the second signal line and a process of multiplexing a plurality of signals and transmitting a multiplexed signal to the second signal line.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a displaying method for video image coded data which prevents deterioration of image quality of a video image as much as possible, and conceals, from an observer, deteriorated video quality caused due to a transmission error. The displaying method selects target image frames to be decoded and target image frames to be discarded, by performing error determination (32) in parallel with an error recovery process and other image restoration processes, and decodes (33) only the selected target image frames. A predetermined display device sequentially displays (34) only the decoded target image frames while adjusting a frame rate.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a hydrogen separation material resistant to thermal shock, excellent in hydrogen separation characteristic and applicable to a hydrogen separation membrane, etc. and a manufacturing method thereof, as well as a hydrogen separation module and a hydrogen production apparatus comprising the same. In the hydrogen separation material, a silica glass membrane is formed on a porous support having a linear expansion coefficient of 2×10?6/K or less. The manufacturing method for the hydrogen separation material includes a porous support forming step of forming a porous support comprising porous silica glass and a silica glass membrane forming step of forming a silica glass membrane on the surface of the porous silica glass. The hydrogen separation module comprises the hydrogen separation material and a steam reforming catalyst. The hydrogen production apparatus comprises the hydrogen separation module.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a moving-picture image data-distribution method that suppresses increases in processing loads at respective information terminals without being affected by an uneven distribution status of processing loads that changes over time or by a bandwidth status of a connected network.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a traffic control apparatus and the like for optimizing a communication performance of each of local networks to be monitored. The traffic control apparatus (100) temporarily stores in the memory (120) communication band information items of relay nodes (211B, 212B, 213B) through the I/O (140). The controller (110) specifies a bottleneck relay node based on the obtained communication band information items, calculates transmittable/receivable bands to be allocated to the PCs (220B), and notifies the PCs (220B) of the calculated transmittable/receivable bands. In response to this notification, the PCs (220B) divide data to be transmitted, with the divided data corresponding to the allocated bands, and transmit the divided data to the Internet (10), in a manner that the divided data are arranged temporally evenly.

Abstract: A master key (K2,2) inputted by an input unit is stored in a storage unit. A matrix generating unit generates key element matrices (M1-M3) with respect to each of split keys (eR2, eR1, eR3) obtained by a key dividing unit dividing the master key (K2,2). To each coordinate entry of the key element matrices (M1-M3), operation data that successively obtained by repeating a hash operation with a one-way hash function is assigned, so as to maintain hierarchical nature of scalability (L). A key generating unit generates partial keys (K1,1-K2,2) corresponding to respective hierarchies of the scalabilities (R, L), on the basis of the key element matrices (M1-M3). These partial keys (K1,1-K2,2) are outputted to a coding unit or a decoding unit by an output unit.