Abstract: An optical vortex control apparatus is an apparatus for controlling a motion of a micro object in a medium in a sample, and includes a light source, an optical vortex generation unit, lenses, an aperture, a dichroic mirror, an illumination unit, an imaging unit, and a control unit. The objective lens focuses an optical vortex generated by the optical vortex generation unit on the micro object in the medium in the sample and irradiates the micro object with the optical vortex to optically trap the micro object. The imaging unit images the micro object optically trapped and driven, and outputs image data. The control unit analyzes the motion of the micro object based on the image data, adjusts a phase distribution of the optical vortex generated by the optical vortex generation unit based on an analysis result, and controls the motion of the micro object.

Abstract: A tire includes a tread portion including a first tread edge, a second tread edge, a crown land portion arranged between the first tread edge and the second tread edge, and a first crown circumferential groove extending continuously in a tire circumferential direction adjacent to the crown land portion on a first tread edge side. The first crown circumferential groove includes a groove bottom having a plurality of protrusions projecting in a tire radial direction. The crown land portion is not provided with drainage grooves that have an opening width exceeding 2.0 mm at a ground contact surface of the crown land portion and a depth exceeding 2.0 mm of an area where a distance between two opposite groove walls thereof exceeds 2.0 mm. The crown land portion is provided with a plurality of sipes.

Abstract: The high strength steel sheet of the present invention has a specific chemical composition, and contains, in terms of area fraction relative to an entire steel microstructure, 30% or more and 100% or less ferrite, 0% or more and 70% or less martensite, and less than 20% in total of pearlite, bainite and retained austenite, a total content of Nb and Ti contained in a precipitate having a particle size of smaller than 20 nm is 25 mass ppm or more and 220 mass ppm or less, and the difference between the maximum value and the minimum value of the total content of Nb and Ti contained in the precipitate having a particle size of smaller than 20 nm, in the longitudinal direction of the steel sheet, is smaller than 20 mass ppm.

Abstract: A tire has a tread portion including a middle land portion defined between a crown circumferential groove and a shoulder circumferential groove. The middle land portion is provided with communicating sipes, axially inner sipes and axially outer sipes. The communicating sipes include a first communicating sipe comprising a first linear portion extending from the crown circumferential groove, and a first curved portion extending from an end of the first linear portion to the shoulder circumferential groove in a curved manner.

Abstract: The high strength steel sheet of the present invention has a specific chemical composition, and contains, in terms of area fraction relative to an entire steel microstructure, 30% or more and 100% or less ferrite, 0% or more and 70% or less martensite, and less than 20% in total of pearlite, bainite and retained austenite, and the ferrite contains, in terms of area fraction relative to an entire microstructure, 0% or more and 10% or less non-recrystallized ferrite, with a difference of the area fraction of the non-recrystallized ferrite in the longitudinal direction of the steel sheet of 5% or smaller.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus is disclosed that includes at least one memory configured to store instructions, and at least one processor that, upon execution of the stored instructions, causes the at least one processor to receive input of person information representing a person and location information representing a location, generate a prompt based on the inputted person information and the inputted location information, acquire an image representing the person and the location by causing an image-generation model to generate the image based on selection of the generated prompt, wherein the image-generation model may be hosted on an image generation server, and output the image.

Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a transparent member including a document placing surface on which a document is placed, a document pressing portion that presses the document placed on the transparent member against the transparent member, a pivot supporting portion that pivotably supports the document pressing portion so as to be pivotable about a pivot shaft with respect to a casing of the image reading apparatus, an image reading unit, an abutment portion against which an edge portion of the document placed on the document placing surface is abutted in order to position the document at a reference position, and an inclined surface. The abutment portion is provided at one portion of a front end on a side far from the pivot supporting portion. The inclined surface is provided at another portion of the front end and inclined upward toward the side far from the pivot supporting portion.

Abstract: A document supporting portion includes a first supporting portion and a second supporting portion. The first supporting portion has a first supporting surface that supports a document. The second supporting portion has a second supporting surface that supports the document together with the first supporting surface and provided so as to be slidable between a first position at which the second supporting portion located above the first supporting portion and a second position at which the second supporting surface supports the document together with the first supporting surface. In a state where the second supporting portion is located at the first position, the second supporting surface constitutes a portion of an upper surface of the document feeding apparatus.

Abstract: An operation unit is provided on a front side of the image forming apparatus. A document feeding portion feeds a document supported by a document supporting portion in a document feeding direction from a front side of the image forming apparatus toward the rear side of the image forming apparatus. A document discharge portion discharges the document in a document discharge direction from the rear side toward the front side. The operation unit is disposed on one side with respect to an apparatus center of the image forming apparatus in a left-right direction orthogonal to a direction from the front side to the rear side. A conveyance center of the document feeding portion in the left-right direction is disposed on the other side with respect to the apparatus center in the left-right direction.

Abstract: A metabolism measurement apparatus includes, a photodetector that detects measurement light propagating through the living body and generates a detection signal according to an intensity of the measurement light, and a calculator. The calculator calculates a first parameter and a second parameter based on the detection signal. Each of the first parameter and the second parameter is a temporal relative change amount depending on a concentration of each of O2Hb and HHb in blood and a volume of a blood vessel in an optical path. The calculator obtains, based on the first parameter and the second parameter, a numerical value regarding a concentration of HHb in blood from which an influence of the volume of the blood vessel in the optical path is excluded. The calculator obtains data regarding a degree of metabolism based on the numerical value.

Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a transparent member including a document placing surface on which a document is placed, a document pressing portion that presses the document placed on the transparent member against the transparent member, a pivot supporting portion that pivotably supports the document pressing portion so as to be pivotable about a pivot shaft with respect to a casing of the image reading apparatus, an image reading unit, an abutment portion against which an edge portion of the document placed on the document placing surface is abutted in order to position the document at a reference position, and an inclined surface. The abutment portion is provided at one portion of a front end on a side far from the pivot supporting portion. The inclined surface is provided at another portion of the front end and inclined upward toward the side far from the pivot supporting portion.

Abstract: A document supporting portion includes a first supporting portion and a second supporting portion. The first supporting portion has a first supporting surface that supports a document. The second supporting portion has a second supporting surface that supports the document together with the first supporting surface and provided so as to be slidable between a first position at which the second supporting portion located above the first supporting portion and a second position at which the second supporting surface supports the document together with the first supporting surface. In a state where the second supporting portion is located at the first position, the second supporting surface constitutes a portion of an upper surface of the document feeding apparatus.

Abstract: An operation unit is provided on a front side of the image forming apparatus. A document feeding portion feeds a document supported by a document supporting portion in a document feeding direction from a front side of the image forming apparatus toward the rear side of the image forming apparatus. A document discharge portion discharges the document in a document discharge direction from the rear side toward the front side. The operation unit is disposed on one side with respect to an apparatus center of the image forming apparatus in a left-right direction orthogonal to a direction from the front side to the rear side. A conveyance center of the document feeding portion in the left-right direction is disposed on the other side with respect to the apparatus center in the left-right direction.

Abstract: A support body includes a concentrating portion, which concentrates an object, between a first end portion and a second end portion. When an area of a cut section of a flow path when cut at a predetermined position in a first direction along a plane orthogonal to the first direction is a flow path cross-sectional area, a flow path cross-sectional area of the concentrating portion is smaller than a flow path cross-sectional area in a first region closer to a first end portion side than the concentrating portion, and a flow path cross-sectional area of a second region closer to the second end portion side than the concentrating portion is larger than the flow path cross-sectional area of the concentrating portion.

Abstract: A control method executed by a computer, the control method includes: generating, when specification of a first data table constituting data to be retrieved is received, a data table copy that is a copy of the first data table, and switching the data to be retrieved, from the first data table to the data table copy; and performing a data retrieval process with respect to the data table copy, by controlling any one of a number of the data to be retrieved from the data table copy and a data retrieval interval, based on a load state estimated from a result of the data retrieval process.

Abstract: A control device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires an intensity distribution along a predetermined direction for an intensity image obtained by observing an action caused by light corrected using a spatial light modulator based on a Zernike coefficient; a generation unit that calculates a comparison result between the intensity distribution and a target distribution to generate comparison data; and a prediction unit that predicts a Zernike coefficient, which is for performing aberration correction related to the light so that the intensity distribution approaches the target distribution, by inputting the comparison data and the Zernike coefficient, which is a basis of the intensity distribution, to a learning model.

Abstract: A control device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires, for an intensity image obtained by observing an action caused by light corrected using a spatial light modulator based on a Zernike coefficient, an intensity distribution that is a distribution of intensities in a plurality of regions of interest within a predetermined range on the intensity image; a generation unit that calculates a comparison result between the intensity distribution and a target distribution to generate comparison data; and a prediction unit that predicts a Zernike coefficient, which is for performing aberration correction related to the light so that the intensity distribution approaches the target distribution, by inputting the comparison data and the Zernike coefficient, which is a basis of the intensity distribution, to a learning model.

Abstract: An operation unit is provided on a front side of the image forming apparatus. A document feeding portion feeds a document supported by a document supporting portion in a document feeding direction from a front side of the image forming apparatus toward the rear side of the image forming apparatus. A document discharge portion discharges the document in a document discharge direction from the rear side toward the front side. The operation unit is disposed on one side with respect to an apparatus center of the image forming apparatus in a left-right direction orthogonal to a direction from the front side to the rear side. A conveyance center of the document feeding portion in the left-right direction is disposed on the other side with respect to the apparatus center in the left-right direction.

Abstract: A document supporting portion includes a first supporting portion and a second supporting portion. The first supporting portion has a first supporting surface that supports a document. The second supporting portion has a second supporting surface that supports the document together with the first supporting surface and provided so as to be slidable between a first position at which the second supporting portion located above the first supporting portion and a second position at which the second supporting surface supports the document together with the first supporting surface. In a state where the second supporting portion is located at the first position, the second supporting surface constitutes a portion of an upper surface of the document feeding apparatus.

Abstract: A document supporting portion includes a first supporting portion and a second supporting portion. The first supporting portion has a first supporting surface that supports a document. The second supporting portion has a second supporting surface that supports the document together with the first supporting surface and provided so as to be slidable between a first position at which the second supporting portion located above the first supporting portion and a second position at which the second supporting surface supports the document together with the first supporting surface. In a state where the second supporting portion is located at the first position, the second supporting surface constitutes a portion of an upper surface of the document feeding apparatus.