Abstract: The power storage cell includes a case, an electrolyte solution, and an electrode assembly. The electrode assembly includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a separator, and an interposition film. The first electrodes and the second electrodes are alternately stacked. The separator separates the first electrode from the second electrode. The interposition film is interposed between the first electrode and the separator. The interposition film includes a first region and a second region in a plane orthogonal to the stacking direction of the first electrode and the second electrode. The first region includes the center of the interposition film in a plane. The second region surrounds the periphery of the first region. The interposition film satisfies the relationship of the formula (1) “T2<T1”. T1 represents the thickness of the interposition film in the first region. T2 represents the thickness of the interposition film in the second region.

Abstract: A fluorine-containing ether compound represented by the following formula: R1-[B]-[A]-O—CH2—R2—CH2—O-[C]-[D]-R3 (R1 is an organic group having 7 to 18 carbon atoms, including a group in which a carbonyl carbon atom or nitrogen atom in an amide bond and an aromatic hydrocarbon are directly bonded; R2 is a perfluoropolyether chain; R3 is Formula (2); X1 is a hydrogen atom or an organic group having 7 to 18 carbon atoms, including a group in which a carbonyl carbon atom or nitrogen atom in an amide bond and an aromatic hydrocarbon are directly bonded; [A] is Formula (3-1); [B] is Formula (3-2); [C] is Formula (4-1); [D] is Formula (4-2); and the number of hydroxyl groups in Formula (1) is 3 or more).

Abstract: There is provided an information processing device, an image processing device, an encoding device, a decoding device, an electronic apparatus, an information processing method, or a program for processing attribute information of each point of a point cloud representing an object in a three-dimensional shape as a set of points, a first level is hierarchized using a first hierarchization method and a second level different from the first level is hierarchized using a second hierarchization method different from the first hierarchization method at the time of performing hierarchization of attribute information by recursively repeating processing of, among points classified as a predictive point or a reference point, deriving a difference value between a predictive value of attribute information of the predictive point derived using attribute information of the reference point and the attribute information of the predictive point for the reference point to perform hierarchization of the attribute information.

Abstract: 3D data representing a three-dimensional structure is divided into a plurality of pieces and encoded, an obtained plurality of divided bitstreams is multiplexed, and one bitstream including a separator indicating a position of a joint between the divided bitstreams is generated. Furthermore, a separator indicating a position of a joint between divided bitstreams obtained by dividing 3D data representing a three-dimensional structure into a plurality of pieces and encoding the plurality of divided pieces of the 3D data, which is included in a bitstream obtained by multiplexing a plurality of the divided bitstreams, is analyzed, and the bitstream is divided into every divided bitstream on the basis of information included in the analyzed separator, and decoded. Applications of the technology include being implemented in, for example, an information processing apparatus, an image processing apparatus, electronic equipment, an information processing method, a program, or the like.

Abstract: A power storage cell includes: an electrode assembly. The electrode assembly includes a plurality of positive electrodes and a plurality of negative electrodes disposed side by side in a thickness direction, and a separator. The electrode assembly has a shape longer in a width direction. The electrode assembly includes an upper portion, a bottom portion, a first end portion, and a second end portion. A first welding portion is formed in the first end portion. A second welding portion is formed in the second end portion. A third welding portion in contact with the first welding portion and a fourth welding portion in contact with the second welding portion are formed in the bottom portion. The third welding portion and the fourth welding portion are disposed at an interval with a central portion of the bottom portion being interposed between the third welding portion and the fourth welding portion.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing device and method that can mitigate a reduction in the quality of 3D data due to encoding and decoding. A bitstream is decoded, the bitstream having been obtained by dividing a mesh that represents an object with a three-dimensional structure into at least a first patch and a second patch, placing the first patch and the second patch within a single image, and encoding the single image. A boundary correction process is executed to correct a geometry for a boundary vertex located at a boundary of the patches decoded. The boundary vertex subjected to the boundary correction process is set as a reference point, and a smoothing process is executed to smooth a geometry for a vertex within a partial area based on the reference point. The present disclosure may be applied to, for example, an information processing device, an electronic device, an information processing method, a program, or the like.

Abstract: There is provided an image processing device and a method that enable partial decoding of 3D data to be performed more easily. Management information of a block as a partial region in a predetermined three-dimensional spatial region including 3D data representing a three-dimensional structure is generated. In addition, a block satisfying a condition specified by a user is selected on the basis of management information of the block as a partial region in a predetermined three-dimensional spatial region including 3D data representing a three-dimensional structure, and coded data of the 3D data within the selected block is decoded. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing device, an electronic apparatus, an image processing method, a program, or the like.

Abstract: To provide a method capable of producing a fluorinated polyether with a number-average molecular weight as theoretically calculated from a number-average molecular weight of a raw material polyether compound in high yield. The method for producing a fluorinated polyether, characterized in including a step (1) of introducing the raw material compound represented by Formula (X) having a Mw/Mn representing a molecular weight distribution of 1.30 or smaller, an inert gas, a fluorine gas, and a solvent into a reactor to fluorinate the raw material compound. R4—O—(R1—O)x—R5??(X) wherein R1 represents a divalent hydrocarbon group having 2 to 5 carbon atoms; R4 and R5 each independently represent a protecting group for a hydroxyl group; x represents an average degree of polymerization and is a real number of 2.7 to 15.

Abstract: To provide a method capable of producing a fluorinated polyether with a number-average molecular weight as theoretically calculated from a number-average molecular weight of a raw material polyether compound in high yield. A method for producing a fluorinated polyether, characterized by including: a step (1) of performing an operation of adjusting a molecular weight distribution of a polymeric compound having a structural unit (R1—O) to obtain the raw material compound represented by a formula (X); and after the step (1), a step (2) of introducing the raw material compound represented by the formula (X), an inert gas, a fluorine gas, and a solvent into a reactor to fluorinate the raw material compound, R4—O—(R1—O)x—R5 (X) wherein R1 represents a divalent hydrocarbon group having 2 to 5 carbon atoms; R4 and R5 each independently represent a protecting group for a hydroxyl group; x represents an average degree of polymerization and is a real number of 2.7 to 15.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electrode assembly includes: a stacking step of stacking a plurality of positive electrode units and a plurality of negative electrodes such that the positive electrode units alternate respectively with the negative electrodes, each positive electrode unit including a first resin portion, a second resin portion, a positive electrode, and a bag separator; a first cutting step of cutting a plurality of the first resin portions together with the bag separator along a stacking direction; a second cutting step of cutting a plurality of the second resin portions together with the bag separator along the stacking direction; a first welding step of welding together a pair of the first resin portions adjacent to each other in the stacking direction; and a second welding step of welding together a pair of the second resin portions adjacent to each other in the stacking direction.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus and method which enable an increase in a load of decoding processing of coded data of a point cloud to be suppressed. Positional information of a point cloud expressing an object with a three-dimensional shape as a set of points is encoded in an order which causes a decoding result of coded data of the positional information to be output in a processing order of attribute information of the point cloud, and coded data thereof is generated. In addition, coded data of positional information of a point cloud expressing an object with a three-dimensional shape as a set of points is decoded and a decoding result thereof is to be output in a processing order of attribute information of the point cloud. For example, the present disclosure can be applied to an information processing apparatus, an image processing apparatus, a coding apparatus, a decoding apparatus, an electronic device, an information processing method, a program, or the like.

Abstract: There is provided a fluorine-containing ether compound represented by following formula: R1—R2—CH2—R3[—CH2—R4—CH2R3?]n—CH2—R5—R6 (n is 1 or 2; R3 and R3? are a perfluoropolyether chain; R4 is a divalent linking group having one polar group; R2 and R5 are a divalent linking group having one or more polar groups; R2 has an oxygen atom at an end that is bonded to R1; R5 has an oxygen atom at an end that is bonded to R6; R1 and R6 in end group bonded to an oxygen atom at an end of R2 or R5; and R1 and R6 are an organic group having 1 to 50 carbon atoms, and at least one of them is a group in which a carbonyl carbon atom or nitrogen atom constituting an amide bond is bonded to a carbon atom of an organic group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms).

Abstract: A game control method, game server, and program can increase variations on methods for acquiring items, increase the predictability of acquisition of an item with a high rarity value or the like, and heighten interest in the game. Included are the steps of presenting a communication terminal, connected over a communication line, with acquirable item information that, for each item type, includes a total count and an acquisition count or a non-acquisition count of items when receiving, from the communication terminal, a request to present information related to items acquirable by the communication terminal, determining an item to provide to the communication terminal when receiving an item acquisition request from the communication terminal, and changing the acquirable item information when receiving a reset request from the communication terminal.

Abstract: A site management system is provided with a server that acquires information about a construction machine and a construction machine operator at a construction site through a communication channel, and manages work conditions at the construction site. The server includes an information registration unit that acquires and registers position information, acceleration data, and gyro data of the construction machine and the construction machine operator, and a riding determination unit that determines a proximity state between the construction machine and the construction machine operator from the position information of the construction machine and the construction machine operator, and determines whether or not the construction machine operator is riding the construction machine from the acceleration data and gyro data of the construction machine operator in addition to the proximity state.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, an electronic device, an information processing method, and a program capable of suppressing a reduction in quality of attribute information of 3D data. A geometry image and an occupancy image are generated by arranging a plurality of vertices on a two-dimensional plane so as to correspond to a UV map on the basis of position information of the plurality of vertices of a polygon and the UV map indicating a correspondence relationship between the plurality of vertices and a texture of the polygon, and the UV map, connection information indicating a connection relationship between the plurality of vertices, the geometry image, the occupancy image, and the texture of the polygon are encoded.

Abstract: A distributed deep learning system that can achieve speeding-up by processing learning in parallel at a large number of learning nodes connected with a communication network and perform faster cooperative processing among the learning nodes connected through the communication network is provided. The distributed deep learning system includes: a plurality of computing interconnect devices 1 connected with each other through a ring communication network 3 through which communication is possible in one direction; and a plurality of learning nodes 2 connected with the respective computing interconnect devices 1 in a one-to-one relation, and each computing interconnect device 1 executes communication packet transmission-reception processing between the learning nodes 2 and All-reduce processing simultaneously in parallel.

Abstract: A fluorine-containing ether compound represented by the following formula (1) is provided. R2—CH2—R1—CH2OCH2CH(OH)—(CH2)n—CH(OH)CH2OCH2—R1—CH2—R2??(1) (in the formula (1), n is an integer of 2 to 6, R1 is a perfluoropolyether chain, R2 is —OCH2CH(OH)CH2O(CH2)mOH (m in the formula is an integer of 2 to 4)).

Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, an electronic device, an information processing method, and a program capable of suppressing reduction in encoding efficiency. At least some of internal vertices which are vertices of a mesh representing an object having a three-dimensional structure and positioned other than the boundary of a patch of a geometry are deleted, vertex connection information indicating the vertices of the mesh and connections between the vertices is generated, and the vertex connection information is encoded.

Abstract: The present invention provides a fluorine-containing ether compound that can form a lubricating layer which can increase chemical substance resistance of a magnetic recording medium even if the thickness is thin, and can be suitably used as a material for a lubricant for a magnetic recording medium. The fluorine-containing ether compound is represented by the following formula. R1—CH2—R2—CH2—OCH2—CHR3—CH2O—CH2—R4—CH2—R5 (in the formula, R2 and R4 are a perfluoropolyether chain; R1 and R5 are terminal groups which contain two or three hydroxyl groups, and in which respective hydroxyl groups are bonded to different carbon atoms, and carbon atoms to which the hydroxyl groups are bonded are bonded to each other via a linking group containing a carbon atom to which no hydroxyl group is bonded; R3 is represented by the following formula; and —(CH2)a—OH (a is an integer of 2 to 8)).

Abstract: There is provided an image processing device and a method that enable partial decoding of 3D data to be performed more easily. Management information of a block as a partial region in a predetermined three-dimensional spatial region including 3D data representing a three-dimensional structure is generated. In addition, a block satisfying a condition specified by a user is selected on the basis of management information of the block as a partial region in a predetermined three-dimensional spatial region including 3D data representing a three-dimensional structure, and coded data of the 3D data within the selected block is decoded. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing device, an electronic apparatus, an image processing method, a program, or the like.