Abstract: An apparatus includes one or more processors, and a memory storing instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to function as an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a captured image, a parameter acquisition unit configured to acquire a parameter recorded when the image is captured, a determination unit configured to determine a target area in the image using the parameter corresponding to the image, an evaluation value calculation unit configured to calculate one or more evaluation values from the target area based on a number of the target areas and a size of the target area, a representative evaluation value calculation unit configured to calculate a representative evaluation value from the evaluation value, and a distance information calculation unit configured to calculate distance information about a distance to a subject in the image based on the representative evaluation value.

Abstract: An optical semiconductor package includes a first chip, a second chip, a first resin portion formed to cover a side surface of the first chip, a second resin portion formed to cover a side surface of the second chip, a first terminal provided on a first inner surface of the first chip, a second terminal provided on a second inner surface of the second chip, and a first wiring electrically connected to the first terminal, passing through an inside of the first resin portion, and extending from a first inner surface side to a first outer surface side of the first chip in a facing direction in which the first inner surface and the second inner surface face each other. The second chip is an optical element. The first resin portion and the second resin portion are integrally provided or continuously provided via another member.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of coating-peeling and a coating-peeling apparatus. The method of coating-peeling includes a gripping step and a peeling step, and peels by a pair of peeling blades peeling target portions of an insulating coating covering peeling target side surfaces of a rectangular conductor wire. In the gripping step, abutting sections of a pair of gripping members abut on gripping target portions of the insulating coating, whereby the rectangular conductor wire is gripped between the abutting sections. In the peeling step, in a state where the rectangular conductor wire has been gripped by the gripping members, the peeling blades are moved relatively following a surface direction of the peeling target side surfaces while opposing each other sandwiching the peeling target side surfaces, whereby the peeling target portions are peeled.

Abstract: A machining apparatus includes a movement direction converting mechanism that converts lowering movement of a first punch into raising movement of a second punch and converts lowering movement of the second punch into raising movement of the first punch. The first punch and the second punch are raised and lowered in an alternating manner by this movement direction converting mechanism. Accordingly, machining by the first punch and machining by the second punch are performed individually.

Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing an exceptional GLP-1 secretagogue that is a component derived from milk, a composition for promoting GLP-1 secretion, and a food/beverage or drug containing the same. Any selected from the group consisting of micellar casein, a hydrolysate thereof, a fraction thereof, a purified product thereof, and peptides including an amino acid sequence indicated by any of SEQ ID NOS.: 1-7 is configured as an active ingredient of a GLP-1 secretagogue and a composition for promoting GLP-1 secretion.

Abstract: A machining apparatus includes a movement direction converting mechanism that converts lowering movement of a first punch into raising movement of a second punch and converts lowering movement of the second punch into raising movement of the first punch. The first punch and the second punch are raised and lowered in an alternating manner by this movement direction converting mechanism. Accordingly, machining by the first punch and machining by the second punch are performed individually.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of coating-peeling and a coating-peeling apparatus. The method of coating-peeling includes a gripping step and a peeling step, and peels by a pair of peeling blades peeling target portions of an insulating coating covering peeling target side surfaces of a rectangular conductor wire. In the gripping step, abutting sections of a pair of gripping members abut on gripping target portions of the insulating coating, whereby the rectangular conductor wire is gripped between the abutting sections. In the peeling step, in a state where the rectangular conductor wire has been gripped by the gripping members, the peeling blades are moved relatively following a surface direction of the peeling target side surfaces while opposing each other sandwiching the peeling target side surfaces, whereby the peeling target portions are peeled.

Abstract: The present invention is a spray mold remover, prepared by filling a bleaching composition in a container having a spraying means, the bleaching composition containing (a) an alkali metal hypochlorite, (b) a cationic surfactant and (c) a compound represented by the formula (1): X1—O(AO)n—X2??(1) wherein, AO represents an alkyleneoxy group having 2 to 4 carbon atoms; n represents an average addition mole number of the alkyleneoxy group ranging from 5 to 150; X1 and X2 each represent a hydrogen atom, —SO3M, —CH2COOM (M represents an alkali metal atom), or an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, with the proviso that X1 and X2 do not represent hydrogen atoms or alkyl groups at the same time.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a bleaching composition containing, in a specific ratio, (a) an alkali metal hypochlorite, (b) an amphoteric polymer compound having, as constituent units, (b1) a monomer unit having at least one member selected from a quaternary ammonium group, a tertiary amine group and a secondary amine group and (b2) a monomer unit having an anionic group, (c) a quaternary ammonium-based surfactant, and (d) water.

Abstract: The present invention is a spray mold remover, prepared by filling a bleaching composition in a container having a spraying means, the bleaching composition containing (a) an alkali metal hypochlorite, (b) a cationic surfactant and (c) a compound represented by the formula (1): X1—O(AO)n—X2??(1) wherein, AO represents an alkyleneoxy group having 2 to 4 carbon atoms; n represents an average addition mole number of the alkyleneoxy group ranging from 5 to 150; X1 and X2 each represent a hydrogen atom, —SO3M, —CH2COOM (M represents an alkali metal atom), or an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, with the proviso that X1 and X2 do not represent hydrogen atoms or alkyl groups at the same time.

Abstract: This invention provides an antifouling detergent for hard surfaces, which is excellent in antifouling effect without any problem in corrosion of metallic materials. The antifouling detergent for hard surfaces comprises a polymer comprising a monomer unit A having at least one group selected from amino groups and quaternary ammonium groups and a monomer unit B represented by —SO2—, in a specific ratio in the molecule.

Abstract: An antifouling detergent for hard surfaces, which can be used in home to confer an excellent antifouling performance and an ability to prevent re-deposition on hard surfaces in a toilet, a bathroom and a kitchen; and a method of antifouling and washing hard surfaces of toilet bowls, which includes treating the surfaces with an antifouling detergent composition.

Abstract: This invention provides an antifouling detergent for hard surfaces, which is excellent in antifouling effect without any problem in corrosion of metallic materials. The antifouling detergent for hard surfaces comprises a polymer comprising a monomer unit A having at least one group selected from amino groups and quaternary ammonium groups and a monomer unit B represented by —SO2—, in a specific ratio in the molecule.

Abstract: This invention provides an antifouling detergent for hard surfaces, which can be used in home to confer an excellent antifouling performance and an ability to prevent re-deposition on hard surfaces in a toilet, a bathroom and a kitchen. The antifouling detergent for hard surfaces comprises a polymer having a weight-average molecular weight of 1,000 to 80,000 wherein a monomer unit having, in molecule (a), at least one group selected from amino groups and quaternary ammonium groups is contained in an amount of 10 to 100 mol-% relative to the whole monomer units.