Abstract: This audio signal output device includes an audio signal output portion, a volume setting information acquisition portion, and a control portion acquiring maximum volume information of volume information of an audio signal of content. The control portion is configured to calculate the maximum output volume of an external device on the basis of the maximum volume information of the content and volume setting information of the external device and perform control of lowering the output volume of the external device when the maximum output volume is higher than a prescribed volume threshold.

Abstract: A subject tracking device includes: an input unit that sequentially inputs input images; an arithmetic operation unit that calculates a first similarity level between an initial template image and a target image and a second similarity level between an update template image and the target image; a position determining unit that determines a subject position based upon at least one of the first and the second similarity level; a decision-making unit that decides whether or not to update the update template image based upon the first and the second similarity level; and an update unit that generates a new update template image based upon the initial template image multiplied by a first weighting coefficient and the target image multiplied by a second weighting coefficient, and updates the update template image with the newly generated update template image, if the update template image is decided to be updated.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided a compound represented by a formula (1) below: wherein X represents a residue derived from an aryl ring or a heteroaryl ring, or a single bond, Ar1 and Ar2 respectively represent a phenyl group or heteroaryl group, Ar3 represents a group having 60 or less carbon atoms, the group represents a structure in which six or less aryl or heteroaryl groups which may have one or more substituents are conjugatedly linked, or the same group as a substituent at the ninth or tenth position on the anthracene ring, and n represents an integer of 0 or 1.

Abstract: The invention aims to provide latent curing agents which exert high low-temperature curing properties when used together with ionically polymerizable compounds and which exhibit high storage stability at room temperature. Latent curing agents for ionically polymerizable compounds which agents each contain a hydroxyl-free amine imide compound having an N—N bond energy of 100 to 210 kJ/mol as determined by B3LYP functional theory method.

Abstract: A printing apparatus, which prints a composite image formed of an enlargement portion and a non-enlargement portion of an original image on a printing medium, includes: an enlargement portion determining section which determines the enlargement portion, of the original image, which is to be enlarged in the composite image; an enlargement rate determining section which determines an enlargement rate of the enlargement portion with respect to the original image; a print data generating section which generates print data for printing the composite image based on image data of the original image, the enlargement portion determined by the enlargement portion determining section, and the enlargement rate determined by the enlargement rate determining section; and a printing mechanism which prints the composite image on the printing medium based on the print data generated by the print data generating section.

Abstract: A two-dimensional code having a rectangular region is provided. In the rectangular region, there are code blocks composed of a plurality of cells, a first specific pattern specifying the positions of the cells, and a second specific pattern separating the code blocks from a background of the code. The first specific pattern is located at a specified corner of the rectangular region. The second specific pattern is located along one or more of first borders along which the first specific pattern is located, the first borders being part of the borders of the rectangular region. The code blocks include error-correction code blocks, which are located along second borders which are different from a border of the borders along which the second specific pattern is located. The second borders are part of the borders. Compressed data code blocks are also arranged in the same way as the error-correction code blocks.

Abstract: A two-dimensional code having a rectangular region is provided. In the rectangular region, there are code blocks composed of a plurality of cells, a first specific pattern specifying the positions of the cells, and a second specific pattern separating the code blocks from a background of the code. The first specific pattern is located at a specified corner of the rectangular region. The second specific pattern is located along one or more of first borders along which the first specific pattern is located, the first borders being part of the borders of the rectangular region. The code blocks include error-correction code blocks, which are located along second borders which are different from a border of the borders along which the second specific pattern is located. The second borders are part of the borders. Compressed data code blocks are also arranged in the same way as the error-correction code blocks.

Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes a liquid ejection head, a conveyor, a recording controller, and a flashing controller. The conveyor conveys a recording medium along a conveyance path. The recording controller causes the conveyor to convey a recording medium, and controls liquid ejection from the liquid ejection head to form an image on the recording medium based on image data. The flashing controller causes the conveyor to temporarily stop conveyance of the recording medium, and causes liquid injection from the liquid ejection head based on drive data which is unrelated to image formation. The flashing controller determines timing for executing a subsequent flashing control on that, within a print enforceable period between one flashing control and the subsequent flashing control, the number of pages subjected to image formation based on image data increases with a decrease in time interval between image formation on one page and on another page.

Abstract: A two-dimensional code having a rectangular region is provided. In the rectangular region, there are code blocks composed of a plurality of cells, a first specific pattern specifying the positions of the cells, and a second specific pattern separating the code blocks from a background of the code. The first specific pattern is located at a specified corner of the rectangular region. The second specific pattern is located along one or more of first borders along which the first specific pattern is located, the first borders being part of the borders of the rectangular region. The code blocks include error-correction code blocks, which are located along second borders which are different from a border of the borders along which the second specific pattern is located. The second borders are part of the borders. Compressed data code blocks are also arranged in the same way as the error-correction code blocks.

Abstract: A liquid ejection head including: a channel unit having pressure chambers, ejection openings, and liquid channels; and an actuator unit including a piezoelectric layer and individual electrodes formed on a face of the piezoelectric layer, the actuator unit being configured to apply a drive voltage to the individual electrodes, wherein each of the individual electrodes includes: a land to which the drive voltage is applied; a main portion disposed such that an entire area thereof is opposite to a corresponding one of the pressure chambers in a direction perpendicular to the face of the piezoelectric layer; an extended portion extending, in an extending direction in which the extended portion extends, from the main portion toward the land along the face so as to connect the main portion and the land; and a dummy extended portion extending from the main portion along the face in an opposite direction opposite to the extending direction.

Abstract: A flare determination apparatus includes an image input unit inputting an image, an image correction unit correcting the image using a correction coefficient to be set based on a gain value for white balance processing depending on a light source type, a region detection unit detecting a region included in a predetermined color component range from the image being corrected by the image correction unit, and a determination unit determining whether or not a flare is generated in the region being detected by the region detection unit.

Abstract: The liquid ejection apparatus includes a liquid ejection head, a drive unit, a non-ejection drive controller, and an environment measurement unit. The drive unit selectively supplies an ejection drive signal and a non-ejection drive signal to the actuator. The non-ejection drive controller causes the drive unit to supply the non-ejection drive signal to the actuator within a non-ejection drive period which is at the trailing end portion of the non-ejection period, when the non-ejection period satisfies the predetermined condition. The non-ejection drive controller controls the drive unit so that the length of a blank period is varied based on at least one of the temperature and the humidity measured by the environment measurement unit, the blank period being a period between a point of supplying a final non-ejection drive signal within the non-ejection drive period and the trailing end of the non-ejection period.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide a thermoplastic elastomer composition for foaming, which has sufficient foamability and provides a molded article having good appearance. [Solution to Problem] A thermoplastic elastomer composition for foaming, which comprises 10 to 40% by weight of a partially or completely crosslinked ethylene/?-olefin/non-conjugated polyene copolymer rubber (A) comprising ethylene, an ?-olefin of 3 to 20 carbon atoms and a non-conjugated polyene, 3 to 33% by weight of an ethylene/?-olefin copolymer (B) comprising ethylene and an ?-olefin of 3 to 20 carbon atoms, 10 to 40% by weight of polypropylene (C) having a melting point, as determined by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), of 40 to 170° C.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an olefin-based thermoplastic elastomer composition that has both weatherability and flexibility at low temperatures, is excellent in fluidity, and causes no stickiness even in the use at high temperatures; a process oil composition for elastomers that serves as the raw material of the thermoplastic elastomer composition and contributes to the above characteristics; and an oil-extended elastomer containing the process oil composition. The process oil composition for elastomers of the present invention has a property that, when 20 parts by weight of the process oil composition for elastomers are blended with respect to 100 parts by weight of a propylene homopolymer, the melting point of the propylene homopolymer is lowered by 2 to 4.5° C. compared to that of the propylene homopolymer without blending.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided a compound represented by a formula (1) below: wherein X represents a residue derived from an aryl ring or a heteroaryl ring, or a single bond, Ar1 and Ar2 respectively represent a phenyl group or heteroaryl group, Ar3 represents a group having 60 or less carbon atoms, the group represents a structure in which six or less aryl or heteroaryl groups which may have one or more substituents are conjugatedly linked, or the same group as a substituent at the ninth or tenth position on the anthracene ring, and n represents an integer of 0 or 1.

Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus comprises a head, a conveyor, an image dot controller, a determiner and a non-image dot controller. The determiner determines whether an image dot non-forming period is equal to or longer than a predetermined time period. The non-image dot controller controls the head so that each ejection opening, whose image dot non-forming period is equal to or longer than the predetermined time period, ejects liquid once within a non-image dot forming period in the image dot non-forming period, to form on a recording medium a non-image dot, the non-image dot forming period being a period from a third time point which is after the first time point to a second time point which is the predetermined time period after the first time point, and that a plurality of the non-image dots structured by the liquid ejected from the ejection openings are scattered in a conveyance direction.

Abstract: A print data conversion area can be created to reflect that all printed slips are not the same size. A printer includes a conveyance unit that conveys checks with one edge following a guide extending in the conveyance direction, a length detection unit that detects the length of the conveyed check in the conveyance direction, and a conversion area formation unit that creates a print data conversion area to which print data for the entire image to be recorded on the check is written. The conversion area formation unit determines the range of the conversion area with reference to a position corresponding to a particular position on the check using the detected length of the check in the conveyance direction.

Abstract: A wire-equipped crimp terminal includes a wire, a crimp terminal and a coating agent. The wire has a conductor exposed from an insulative sheath. The crimp terminal has a crimping piece which is press-deformed to embrace the conductor. The coating agent is coated to a first part of the crimp terminal. A recess is formed at a non-coating part of the crimp terminal where the coating agent is not coated. The coating agent is cured by irradiating light or an electron beam to the first part in a state where a part of the coating agent flowing out from the first part is received in the recess.

Abstract: A two-dimensional code having a rectangular region is provided. In the rectangular region, there are code blocks composed of a plurality of cells, a first specific pattern specifying the positions of the cells, and a second specific pattern separating the code blocks from a background of the code. The first specific pattern is located at a specified corner of the rectangular region. The second specific pattern is located along one or more of first borders along which the first specific pattern is located, the first borders being part of the borders of the rectangular region. The code blocks include error-correction code blocks, which are located along second borders which are different from a border of the borders along which the second specific pattern is located. The second borders are part of the borders. Compressed data code blocks are also arranged in the same way as the error-correction code blocks.

Abstract: The bonding method of the present invention is a method of bonding a member (a) having a layer (a1) comprising an organic polymer (A), and a member (b) containing a compound (B) having specific functional groups, wherein the bonding method comprises bonding the member (a) and the member (b) via a layer comprising an inorganic compound (C) having a nitrogen atom and a hydrogen atom, which is at least partly provided on the outermost surface of the member (a).