Abstract: In a board that includes a plurality of contact portions that are arranged to contact corresponding apparatus-side terminals when the board is mounted in a printing apparatus, some contact portions are disposed in a first region, and the remaining contact portions are disposed in a second region. The some contact portions include a first contact portion, a second contact portion, a third contact portion, and a fourth contact portion. The remaining contact portions include a fifth contact portion. The some contact portions are arranged in a first pattern in the first region and the remaining contact portions are arranged in a second pattern in the second region, and the first pattern is asymmetrical to the second pattern with respect to a first virtual line.

Abstract: A travel status recording apparatus records an image captured by a camera mounted on a vehicle, identifies personal information included in the captured image, and masks the personal information in the captured image. A server acquires a masked image corresponding to the captured image in which the personal information is masked from the travel status recording apparatus. The server determines, in response to a request from a third party, whether to restore the personal information included in the acquired masked image based on a preset restoration level. In a case where the server determines to restore the personal information, the server restores the personal information. In a case where the server determines not to restore the personal information, the server conceals the personal information.

Abstract: An information processing device includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: detect an environment around a vehicle which is driven by a driver; generate a hazard list of an object to be a hazard based on the detected environment; detect a gaze of the driver; evaluate a risk regarding driving of the driver for each object included in the hazard list based on a frequency at which the object included in the hazard list is included in a field of view of the driver based on the detected gaze; and output drive assist information corresponding to the object with the evaluated risk that is equal to or larger than a threshold.

Abstract: A travel status recording apparatus records an image captured by a camera mounted on a vehicle, identifies personal information included in the captured image, and masks the personal information in the captured image. A server acquires a masked image corresponding to the captured image in which the personal information is masked from the travel status recording apparatus. The server determines, in response to a request from a third party, whether to restore the personal information included in the acquired masked image based on a preset restoration level. In a case where the server determines to restore the personal information, the server restores the personal information. In a case where the server determines not to restore the personal information, the server conceals the personal information.

Abstract: An information processing device includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: detect an environment around a vehicle which is driven by a driver; generate a hazard list of an object to be a hazard based on the detected environment; detect a gaze of the driver; evaluate a risk regarding driving of the driver for each object included in the hazard list based on a frequency at which the object included in the hazard list is included in a field of view of the driver based on the detected gaze; and output drive assist information corresponding to the object with the evaluated risk that is equal to or larger than a threshold.

Abstract: A drowsiness detection device includes a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to calculate a respiration variation period based on heartbeat interval data which is generated based on data that is obtained from a heartbeat sensor; predict a subsequent period structure of the respiration variation based on the calculated respiration variation period; determine whether or not an abnormal signal is mixed in the heartbeat interval data by comparing the heartbeat interval data during sequential update and the predicted subsequent period structure; and replace the respiration variation period which corresponds to the heartbeat interval data that includes the abnormal signal with the predicted subsequent period structure in a case where it is determined that the abnormal signal is mixed.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores a program that causes a computer to execute a process including: first setting an arousal section including from a time point when a subject has got on a vehicle to a time point when a predetermined time has elapsed thereafter; determining whether an arousal level of the subject has moved toward arousal in a section which is temporally later than the arousal section, based on a biosignal detected from the subject; when the arousal level has moved toward arousal in the section which is temporally later than the arousal section, updating the arousal section with a section in which the arousal level has moved toward arousal; and second setting a threshold value for determining whether the subject is in an arousal state, based on a statistical value of the subject's arousal levels corresponding to the updated arousal section.

Abstract: A drowsiness detection method that causes a computer to execute a process, the process includes: performing frequency analysis on heartbeat data obtained from a subject; and determining a state of the subject by calculating entropy in a predetermined frequency bandwidth with a peak as a reference, where the peak is within a predetermined frequency range of frequency distribution obtained from the frequency analysis result, determining that the subject is in a relaxation state in a case where the calculated entropy is less than a predetermined threshold value, and determining that the subject is in a drowsiness state in a case where the entropy is equal to or greater than the threshold value.

Abstract: A driving support apparatus includes a line-of-data judgment unit configured to judge a type of line-of-sight data indicating a direction of the line of sight of a driver; an estimation unit configured to estimate an attentive watching state of the driver on a target area to be attentively watched by performing based on the target area being set depending on a driving situation based on vehicle state information and a direction of the line of sight indicated by a plurality of pieces of line-of-sight data acquired in a judgment time; and a confidence-level-calculation unit configured to calculate a confidence level of an estimation result of the attentive watching state by performing based on one of setting accuracy of the target area, and a configuration state of line-of-sight data associated with each type of the plurality of pieces of line-of-sight data acquired in the judgment time.

Abstract: A photoelectric sphygmograph measurement device includes a light emitting part emitting light pulses, a light receiving part having a light receiving element that receives the light pulses and producing a corresponding output signal, and a control part driving the light emitting part to emit the light pulses and performing a pulse wave measurement by using the output signal. The control part drives the light emitting part so that a charge accumulated in the light emitting element converges on a predetermined amount in a case where the charge accumulated in the light receiving element decreases to the predetermined amount or less during a time when driving of the light emitting part is stopped and/or in a case where the light receiving element changes to a first state in which the light receiving element is capable of receiving the light pulses from a second state in which the light receiving element is not capable of receiving the light pulses.

Abstract: A drowsiness detection device includes a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to calculate a respiration variation period based on heartbeat interval data which is generated based on data that is obtained from a heartbeat sensor; predict a subsequent period structure of the respiration variation based on the calculated respiration variation period; determine whether or not an abnormal signal is mixed in the heartbeat interval data by comparing the heartbeat interval data during sequential update and the predicted subsequent period structure; and replace the respiration variation period which corresponds to the heartbeat interval data that includes the abnormal signal with the predicted subsequent period structure in a case where it is determined that the abnormal signal is mixed.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores a program that causes a computer to execute a process including: first setting an arousal section including from a time point when a subject has got on a vehicle to a time point when a predetermined time has elapsed thereafter; determining whether an arousal level of the subject has moved toward arousal in a section which is temporally later than the arousal section, based on a biosignal detected from the subject; when the arousal level of the subject has moved toward arousal in the section which is temporally later than the arousal section, updating the arousal section with a section in which the arousal level of the subject has moved toward arousal; and second setting a threshold value for determining whether the subject is in an arousal state, based on a statistical value of the subject's arousal levels corresponding to the updated arousal section.

Abstract: A data compression apparatus includes a memory and a processor. The processor extracts a second character string as a matching string from a character string after a first character string in a character string of data before compression that is stored in the memory, the second character string being identical with the first character string, and identifies a length of the matching string, and a relative position indicating how many addresses the first character string precedes the second character string by. The processor extracts a third character string having a length that is less than the relative position from the extracted second character string. The processor encodes a length of the third character string. The processor encodes the relative position.

Abstract: A data compression apparatus includes a memory and a processor. The processor extracts a second character string as a matching string from a character string after a first character string in a character string of data before compression that is stored in the memory, the second character string being identical with the first character string, and identifies a length of the matching string, and a relative position indicating how many addresses the first character string precedes the second character string by. The processor extracts a third character string having a length that is less than the relative position from the extracted second character string. The processor encodes a length of the third character string. The processor encodes the relative position.

Abstract: An arousal-level determining apparatus according to a present embodiment determines a subject's arousal level on the basis of a biological signal detected from a subject. The arousal-level determining apparatus measures a pulsation rate for each time interval on the basis of biological signals detected from the subject, and determines whether the subject is trying to be awake from a change in the pulsation rate, and corrects the subject's arousal level when the subject is trying to be awake.

Abstract: One embodiment provides a tungsten wire containing 1 to 10% by mass of rhenium, the wire having a point indicating a 2% elongation within a quadrangle formed by joining points with straight lines, where the values of x and y are point (20, 75), point (20, 87), point (90, 75), and point (90, 58), in this order; wherein the wire diameter of the tungsten wire is represented by x ?m, and the elongation of the tungsten wire is 2% after electrically heating with an electrical current which is a ratio of y % to the fusion current (FC) at the wire diameter x ?m, and wherein a semi-logarithmic system of coordinates is expressed by a horizontal axis using a logarithmic scale of the wire diameter x and a vertical axis using a normal scale of ratio y to the fusion current.

Abstract: A driving support apparatus includes a line-of-data judgment unit configured to judge a type of line-of-sight data indicating a direction of the line of sight of a driver; an estimation unit configured to estimate an attentive watching state of the driver on a target area to be attentively watched by performing based on the target area being set depending on a driving situation based on vehicle state information and a direction of the line of sight indicated by a plurality of pieces of line-of-sight data acquired in a judgment time; and a confidence-level-calculation unit configured to calculate a confidence level of an estimation result of the attentive watching state by performing based on one of setting accuracy of the target area, and a configuration state of line-of-sight data associated with each type of the plurality of pieces of line-of-sight data acquired in the judgment time.

Abstract: A noise processing apparatus measures a first potential difference signal, between a first electrode and a second electrode that is used as a reference electrode, and measures a second potential difference signal, between the second electrode and a third electrode that is arranged on the steering unit in the apparatus. The apparatus calculates the difference between the intensities of the first potential difference signal and the second potential difference signal calculated at the predetermined intervals. The apparatus corrects the first potential difference signal or the second potential difference signal by using the calculated difference such that the intensities of the first potential difference signal and the second potential difference signal are canceled out.

Abstract: In a data compression apparatus, a search unit examines the sequence of symbols in compression target data, and searches for a second symbol string having the same sequence of symbols as a first symbol string that occurred previously, and a code generation unit encodes the second symbol string into a code containing information that specifies a block to which the beginning of the first symbol string belongs. In a data decompression apparatus, a code acquisition unit sequentially acquires codes from the beginning of the compressed data, and when the code of the second symbol string is acquired, a decompression unit acquires, from a storage device, one or more blocks starting with a block to which the beginning of the decompressed first symbol string belongs, on the basis of the information contained in the acquired code, and decompresses the second symbol string.

Abstract: A wakeful-state data generating apparatus includes at least one processor and at least one storage device, the at least one storage device configured to; store a first correlation between value of variation in heartbeat interval and maximum spectral density, and store a second correlation between heartbeat rate and wakeful-state maximum frequency, the at least one processor configured to; calculate a value of variation in heartbeat interval from a heartbeat signal of a subject, estimate a wakeful-state maximum spectral density of the subject, on the basis of the first correlation and the calculated value of variation, calculate a heartbeat rate from the heartbeat signal, estimate a wakeful-state maximum frequency of the subject, on the basis of the second correlation and the calculated heartbeat rate, and generate wakeful-state data including the estimated wakeful-state maximum spectral density and the estimated wakeful-state maximum frequency.