Abstract: An input device includes: a touch sensor that detects a touch position touched by an operating body on an operation screen; a vibrator that is activated in an ultrasonic band to provide haptic feedback on the operation screen; and a controller that is electrically connected to the touch sensor and the vibrator. The controller receives, as a first input, an input made to the touch sensor through a first gesture in a predetermined direction, activates the vibrator when the touch sensor receives a second gesture having a second length shorter than a first length of the first gesture in the predetermined direction from an initial position of the first gesture, and deactivates the vibrator when the touch sensor receives a third gesture having a third length longer than the second length and shorter than the first length in the predetermined direction from the initial position.

Abstract: A magnifying glass captures an image of a tooth by a plurality of cameras for observation. The plurality of cameras includes a narrow range camera capturing an image of the tooth in a narrow image capturing range and a wide range camera capturing an image of the tooth in a wide image capturing range. The magnifying glass includes a three-dimensional position calculator detecting a three-dimensional position of at least the tooth based on the wide range image captured by the wide range camera; a blur correction processor correcting a blur of the narrow range image captured by the narrow range camera, based on a change in a three-dimensional positional relationship between the tooth, the three-dimensional position of which has been detected by the three-dimensional position detector, and the narrow range camera; and an image display portion displaying at least the narrow range image having the blur corrected.

Abstract: A distribution information acquisition unit is configured to acquire distribution information including identification information of a user as a distribution destination of setting information which is used for access to a work vehicle. An access information acquisition unit is configured to acquire access information including identification information of the user who accesses the work vehicle. A fraudulence determination unit is configured to compare the identification information related to the access information with the identification information related to the distribution information to determine whether or not fraudulent access has occurred.

Abstract: Heat-blocking filter is a heat-blocking filter to be installed in a window glass of a vehicle. The heat-blocking filter substantially transmits visible light and infrared light in a first wavelength range, and substantially blocks infrared light outside the first wavelength range.

Abstract: A vehicle seat includes: a pressure sensor capable of measuring a pressure distribution on a surface of the vehicle seat; a plurality of actuators provided in the vehicle seat; and a controller that controls vibrations generated by the plurality of actuators based on the pressure distribution output by the pressure sensor.

Abstract: An input device for a vehicle that performs input for operating a user interface (UI) displayed by a display disposed in a vehicle includes: a touch sensor that receives a touch input by a user; and a controller that selects, when the touch input into the touch sensor is a touch with a plurality of fingers or a plurality of taps, a region corresponding to the count of touches with the fingers or the count of taps, from among a plurality of regions displayed by the display.

Abstract: A garment includes a garment body, a wear detection device configured to detect whether the garment body is worn by a worker, and a control device configured to output an alert signal for controlling an alert device based on detection data of the wear detection device.

Abstract: An electronic prepared slide includes: an image sensor that has a light receiving surface and receives, on the light receiving surface, light that has passed through a specimen disposed above the light receiving surface; and a removable nonvolatile transparent film that is disposed on the light receiving surface and seals the light receiving surface.

Abstract: Provided is a data management system capable of properly managing data to undergo masking processing in the secondary use of data. This data storage management system is equipped with a storage unit which stores masked data of real data at a first point in time, and a data control unit which extracts data of a storage area that has not been masked from update data based on first information representing a masked storage area in the masked data and second information representing a masked storage area in the masked data of update data, which is data obtained by updating the real data from the first point in time to a second point in time, extracts data of the masked storage area, from which the same masked data has been removed, from the masked data of the update data, and generates the extracted data as difference data.

Abstract: A concentration measuring instrument includes a piezoelectric vibrator transmitting an ultrasonic wave into a solution contained in a cavity and detecting the ultrasonic wave reflected, a temperature sensor measuring a temperature of the solution, a drive circuit generating a drive signal driving the piezoelectric vibrator, a phase comparator performing a phase comparison between the drive signal and a detection signal, a frequency setting circuit making the drive circuit generate drive signals having sequentially different frequencies and monitoring a phase comparison result to detect a resonant frequency, and a Phase Locked Loop (PLL) circuit making a frequency of the drive signal follow the detected resonant frequency. A microcomputer determines a concentration of a solute in the solution on a basis of the frequency of the drive signal while the PLL circuit is being operated and a result of a temperature measurement by the temperature sensor.

Abstract: A distribution information acquisition unit is configured to acquire distribution information including identification information of a user as a distribution destination of setting information which is used for access to a work vehicle. An access information acquisition unit is configured to acquire access information including identification information of the user who accesses the work vehicle. A fraudulence determination unit is configured to compare the identification information related to the access information with the identification information related to the distribution information to determine whether or not fraudulent access has occurred.

Abstract: Provided is an image capturing device for capturing an image of a target. The image capturing device includes: a tubular portion including an optical component and configured to receive light from the target; a housing including an electronic component configured to process the light received from the tubular portion; a cap covering at least a part of the tubular portion; and a blower mounted in the housing and configured to supply air to at least one of the cap and the optical component included in the tubular portion. The cap and the part of the tubular portion covered by the cap define an air-feeding path configured to pass the air supplied from the blower.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image capturing device configured to capture an image of a target. The image capturing device includes a probe and a housing. The probe includes an optical component and is configured to receive light from the target. The housing includes electronic components each configured to process the light received from the probe. Moreover, the housing includes an air sending unit, and a controller configured to control driving of the air sending unit. The air sending unit is provided at a position above the electronic components in the housing when a user holds the housing during utilization of the image capturing device, and is configured to supply air to the optical component provided in the probe.

Abstract: A terminal modified polybutylene terephthalate resin has a weight average molecular weight Mw of 10,000 to 100,000, a melting point of 210° C. to 235° C., and a melt viscosity ? at 250° C. of not more than 10 Pa·s, and includes 90 to 300 mol/ton of a compound having a (poly)oxyalkylene structure, the compound being terminally bound in the resin, wherein the weight average molecular weight Mw represents a relative weight average molecular weight with respect to the molecular weight of a standard poly(methyl methacrylate) as determined by gel permeation chromatography using hexafluoroisopropanol (supplemented with 0.005 N sodium trifluoroacetate) as a mobile phase.

Abstract: An index tree search method, by a computer, for searching an index tree included in a database provided by the computer which includes processors executing a plurality of threads and a memory, the index tree search method comprising: a first step of allocating, by the computer, search ranges in the index tree to the plurality of threads; a second step of receiving, by the computer, a search key; a third step of selecting, by the computer, a thread corresponding to the received search key; and a fourth step of searching, by the computer, the index tree with the selected thread using the received search key.

Abstract: An input apparatus includes a touchpad, a display, and a control unit. The control unit displays a pointer on the display such that the pointer is moved in a graphical user interface (GUI). For a selectable object on which a predetermined reference point on the pointer is located among selectable objects, the control unit (i) highlights the selectable object when the predetermined reference point stays on the selectable object for a period longer than or equal to a predetermined stay period, and an amount of movement per unit time of the pointer is smaller than or equal to a predetermined amount of movement, and (ii) avoids highlighting the selectable object when the predetermined reference point stays on the selectable object for a period shorter than the predetermined stay period, or the amount of movement per unit time of the pointer is larger than the predetermined amount of movement.

Abstract: A distance measuring device that measures a distance to an object. The distance measuring device includes: a light source that emits pulsed light; a reflector that reflects and radiates, as radiation light, the pulsed light emitted from the light source, and reflects object light that is the radiation light reflected by the object and returning; and an imager that captures the object light reflected by the reflector. The pulsed light emitted from the light source is diffused light. The light source and the imager are located to face the reflector. The reflector radiates, as the radiation light, light in a shape with a long axis and a short axis. The imager performs exposure in synchronization with the pulsed light to image the object light.

Abstract: A cell isolation method includes: a cell trapping step of allowing a test liquid to pass through a cell trapping filter which has a plurality of through-holes in the thickness direction, thereby trapping isolation target cells contained in the test liquid on one surface of the cell trapping filter; a gel embedding step of introducing a stimulus-responsive hydrogel onto the one surface of the cell trapping filter on which the cells have been trapped in the cell trapping step, thereby embedding the cells in the stimulus-responsive hydrogel; a gel hardening step of applying a stimulus to the stimulus-responsive hydrogel in which the cells are embedded, thereby hardening the stimulus-responsive hydrogel; and a detachment step of detaching the stimulus-responsive hydrogel that was hardened in the gel hardening step from the cell trapping filter.

Abstract: This input device provides an input for operating a user interface (UI) including a first menu and displayed by a display disposed in a vehicle, and includes: a first touch sensor which receives a gesture made as a touch by a user; and a controller which causes the display to display, as the first menu, a plurality of first icons aligned in a first direction. The controller causes the display to display a first gauge bar extending from a first reference position as an origin in the first direction and having a length corresponding to the length of a first gesture input to the first touch sensor, and selects a first icon disposed in a first region where an end portion of the first gauge bar displayed on the display is located when an input indicating confirmation is provided among a plurality of first regions seamlessly aligned.

Abstract: An air conditioner for a vehicle has a housing. The housing defines an air passage therein, includes a suction port, and houses a blower fan. The blower fan draws an air from the suction port and discharges the air into the air passage. The housing includes a facing portion that faces an inlet defining member including an air inlet. The facing portion includes the suction port. The facing portion has a rib that protrudes from the facing portion toward the inlet defining member. The facing portion and the rib define at least a part of an air guiding passage that guides the air from the air inlet to the suction port.