Abstract: A toilet device includes an electric opening/closing unit including a motor and a transmission mechanism. The transmission mechanism includes an internal gear, a first transmission part and a second transmission part. The first transmission part transmits a rotational force of the motor. The second transmission part transmits a rotational force of the first transmission part. The first transmission part includes a first planetary gear and a first planetary carrier. The second transmission part includes a second planetary gear, a second planetary carrier, and a shaft part. The shaft part revolves around a rotation axis. The first planetary carrier includes a protrusion extends along a trajectory of the revolution of the shaft part. The shaft part contacts the protrusion. A gap is formed between the shaft part and a part of the first planetary carrier other than the protrusion.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum, a charging member, a developing member, a transfer member, a brush, a drive unit, a control unit, and a memory. The charging member charges a surface of the photosensitive drum at a charging portion. The transfer member comes into contact with the photosensitive drum to form a transfer portion. The drive unit rotatably drive the photosensitive drum. The control unit controls the drive unit to perform an image forming operation. The memory stores information about the image forming operation. In a case where the image forming operation is performed and a non-image forming operation is performed after the image forming operation, the control unit performs control such that a switching operation for stopping the photosensitive drum after the photosensitive drum is driven and re-driving the photosensitive drum is performed a plurality of times based on the information about the image forming operation.

Abstract: An information processing system includes at least one processor configured to: acquire a captured image including an image of a thumb of a user; and switch an operation mode for a virtual object disposed within a virtual space to a specific mode for positionally changing the virtual object if the captured image includes an image of a nail of the thumb or an image that enables estimation of presence of the nail of the thumb.

Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device capable of reducing switching loss at turn-off while suppressing conduction loss. An emitter p? layer 11, a collector p layer 23, a drift layer 10, an emitter electrode 18, a collector electrode 28, an emitter-side gate electrode 17, an emitter n layer 12, a collector p? layer 23a, a collector-side gate electrode 27, and a collector n layer 22 configure a semiconductor device 1, and a total length of a first facing region of the emitter-side gate electrode 17 in a gate width direction facing an emitter layer p? 11 via a gate insulating film 15 is longer than the total length in the gate width direction of a second facing region of a collector-side gate electrode 27 facing an impurity layer 23a via a collector-side gate insulating film 25.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: generate a virtual reality space, an augmented reality space, or a mixed reality space; place multiple drawing surfaces in the generated space; and display a surface indicator to make a drawing surface recognizable without obscuring information recorded on another drawing surface, the drawing surface being selected as a target for drawing from the multiple drawing surfaces.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: place in a virtual three-dimensional (3D) space multiple virtual objects respectively related to pieces of predetermined information; set a virtual viewpoint and a line-of-sight direction in the virtual 3D space; generate a two-dimensional (2D) image including multiple virtual object images corresponding to the virtual objects by projecting the virtual objects onto a virtual screen in accordance with the virtual viewpoint and the line-of-sight direction; and if a first virtual object image is hidden by a second virtual object image in the 2D image, cause a display to display the 2D image where at least one of the first virtual object image or the second virtual object image is in a highlight display mode or display the 2D image where the second virtual object image is in a transmissive display mode.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to: based on an attitude of equipment being worn or held by a user, set a sight direction of the user in a virtual three-dimensional space; based on a virtual viewpoint and the sight direction set in the virtual three-dimensional space, generate a two-dimensional image by projecting the virtual three-dimensional space; cause the two-dimensional image to be displayed on a display; based on an attitude of a pointer being held by the user, set an emission angle of a ray emitted virtually to the virtual three-dimensional space; and in a case where sensitivity reduction conditions that an amount of angular change of the sight direction of the user within a predetermined time is less than or equal to a threshold viewing angle and that an amount of angular change of an emission angle of the ray within a predetermined time is less than or equal to a threshold emission angle are satisfied, reduce the amount of angular change of the emission angle of the

Abstract: A remote support system includes: a terminal device; and a remote device, the terminal device including a first processor configured to: transmit, to the remote device, image information obtained by imaging a space including a target object; receive display information that is derived by the remote device in accordance with the image information and three-dimensional position information of an item included in the space, the display information indicating a display position and an orientation of a guidance image to be virtually displayed in a three-dimensional space in an imaging area for the target object; and display the guidance image by using the display information that is received, the remote device including a second processor configured to: receive the image information from the terminal device; derive the display information in accordance with the image information that is received and the three-dimensional position information; and transmit, to the terminal device, the display information that is de

Abstract: An information processing device according to the present technology includes a transmission processing unit that performs processing for transmitting device state information relating to a selected item to an external device of a request source, in response to a request for the device state information relating to the selected item that has been made by the external device, by using code information indicating the selected item, the selected item being an item that has been selected by a user for the device state information indicating a state of a device.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: transmit, as a first circuit for which Route of Trust (RoT) authentication is completed, a random value for use as a generator polynomial to a second circuit for which RoT authentication is performed; receive, from the second circuit, a second cyclic redundancy check (CRC) value which is generated from read-only data held by the second circuit and the random value by the second circuit; and preform the RoT authentication for the second circuit by comparing a first CRC value generated from read-only data held for the second circuit by the first circuit with the second CRC value transferred from the second circuit.

Abstract: A presentation control device includes a processor. The processor is configured to perform first control for presenting a first respiratory cycle longer than a natural respiratory cycle for a respiratory cycle presentation device in a case of preferentially increasing a degree of relaxation, the respiratory cycle presentation device being a device that presents a respiratory cycle, and perform second control for presenting a second respiratory cycle for the respiratory cycle presentation device in a case of preferentially decreasing a degree of physical-mental activity, the second respiratory cycle being a cycle for which a difference between the second respiratory cycle and the natural respiratory cycle is smaller than a difference between the first respiratory cycle and the natural respiratory cycle.

Abstract: A data transmission apparatus that transmits transmission data from a first memory to a second memory through a communication channel, the first memory storing data in units of a first data block of a first data size, and the communication channel having a width of a second data size, includes: a storage that stores the transmission data read from the first memory; and a transmission controller that transmits the transmission data stored in the storage from the first memory to the second memory in units of an integral multiple of the second data size, such that data transmission from the first memory to the second memory is efficiently performed.

Abstract: A storage system includes a first storage control device including a first memory being a volatile memory and a first processor, and a second storage control device including a second memory being a non-volatile memory and a second processor, wherein the second processor is configured to receive a first write request to write first data into a first storage device, store the first data into the second memory, and transmit the first data to the first storage control device, the first processor is configured to store the first data into the first memory, and transmit a first notification to the second storage control device, and the second processor is configured to receive the first notification, transmit a first completion notification in response to the first write request, and execute processing to write the first data, stored in the second memory, into the first storage device.

Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a novel use of pluripotent stem cells (Muse cells) for medical purposes in regenerative medicine. The present invention provides a cell preparation and a pharmaceutical composition both for ameliorating and treating perinatal brain damage including learning disability and motor disability, each of the cell preparation and the pharmaceutical composition containing SSEA-3-positive pluripotent stem cells isolated from a mesenchymal tissue collected from a living body or cultured mesenchymal cells. The cell preparation according to the present invention relies on a mechanism that Muse cells are administered to a subject having the above-mentioned damage to cause the engraftment of the Muse cells in a damaged brain tissue, thereby ameliorating and treating the damage.

Abstract: A scattering absorber measurement device includes a light source for outputting a plurality of light pulses having different wavelengths input to a scattering absorber, a photodetector for detecting each light pulse propagating inside the scattering absorber and output a detection signal, and a computation unit for calculating a reduced scattering coefficient and an absorption coefficient according to a time-resolved spectroscopic measurement method on the basis of the detection signal. The computation unit determines data related to a ratio of reduced scattering coefficients among wavelengths of the plurality of light pulses and calculates the reduced scattering coefficient and the absorption coefficient on the basis of a time-resolved measurement profile of each wavelength based on the detection signal and the data related to the ratio.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a novel medical use of pluripotent stem cells (Muse cells) in the regenerative medicine area. Provided are a cell preparation and a medicinal composition for ameliorating and treating chronic lung disease in newborns, said cell preparation and medicinal composition comprising SSEA-3-positive pluripotent stem cells isolated from a mesenchymal tissue in a living body or cultured mesenchymal cells. The cell preparation according to the present invention is based on a mechanism whereby the aforesaid disease is ameliorated and treated by administering Muse cells to a subject suffering from the disease and engrafting the cells in lung tissues.

Abstract: A data transmission apparatus that transmits transmission data from a first memory to a second memory through a communication channel, the first memory storing data in units of a first data block of a first data size, and the communication channel having a width of a second data size, includes: a storage that stores the transmission data read from the first memory; and a transmission controller that transmits the transmission data stored in the storage from the first memory to the second memory in units of an integral multiple of the second data size, such that data transmission from the first memory to the second memory is efficiently performed.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a voltage applying unit that applies a bias voltage for enabling a transfer unit to transfer a developer layer to a transfer medium, the developer layer being retained by an image carrier in accordance with image information; a measuring unit that measures a surface potential of the developer layer; and a setting unit that sets a value of the bias voltage to be applied by the voltage applying unit in accordance with the surface potential measured by the measuring unit, a combined electrostatic capacitance of a surface layer of the image carrier and the developer layer, and an electrostatic capacitance specific to the transfer medium.