Abstract: According to one embodiment, a control device in a power electronics device includes a controller, a configuration determiner and a manager. The controller performs control associated with power conversion, in accordance with a first logical configuration of control between the power electronics device and other power electronics device. The configuration determiner performs determination processing of a second logical configuration when a change condition of the first logical configuration is satisfied. The manager instructs the controller to perform the control in accordance with the second logical configuration, the manager performing management such that the controller performs the control in accordance with previously given control information for a period after the change condition of the first logical configuration is satisfied and until the manager instructs the controller to perform the control associated with the power conversion in accordance with the second logical configuration.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a transmission cancellation method includes setting, when a broadcast message is received, a waiting time randomized within a predetermined interval; reserving, in a case where a message which is deemed to be the same as the received message is not received for a predetermined number of times until the waiting time passes, transmission of the message by broadcasting, but not reserving, in a case where the message is received for the predetermined number of times, the transmission of the message by broadcasting; and cancelling the transmission of the message of which transmission is received, in a case where the message of which transmission is reserved is broadcast with timing of a broadcast time slot and a message which is deemed to be the same as the message of which transmission is reserved is received for the predetermined number of times.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a signal detection apparatus includes an allocator, a generator and a limiter. The allocator allocates priority levels to signal characteristics of the signal block. The generator generates feature information representing a feature of a time domain of the signal block for each of signal characteristics. The limiter, if a total information volume of the pieces of feature information exceeds an upper limit information volume corresponding to the bandwidth, selects some of the pieces of feature information based on the priority levels allocated to the pieces of feature information to limit an information volume of the selected pieces of feature information not to exceed the upper limit information volume.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a management apparatus includes a receiver, a first calculator, and a second calculator. The receiver is configured to receive existence information from communication apparatuses, the information probabilistically indicating characteristics of identification information of other communication apparatuses detected by a corresponding communication apparatus. The first calculator is configured to calculate, for each communication apparatus, some of the identification information, as a first set indicating a set of other communication apparatuses detectable by the communication apparatuse. The second calculator is configured to calculate, for each communication apparatus, a second set with a smaller number of false positives than the corresponding first set, as existence probability information, based on the existence information and the first set.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an estimation system includes a first node, a second node, and an estimator. The estimator estimates, based on a propagation time of a wave, (i) a distance from a first transmission source having transmitted the wave to the first node or (ii) a location of the first transmission source or the first node. The first node includes a wave receiver and a first wireless communicator. The wave receiver receives the wave. The first wireless communicator incorporates a first timer, synchronizes the first timer with a second timer built in the second node via wireless communication with the second node, acquires reception time information indicative of a point in time of reception of the wave from the first timer, and outputs the reception time information to the estimator.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a position estimation device is for estimating a position of a second terminal in a wireless network. The wireless network included a plurality of terminals including three or more first terminals whose positions are known and the second terminal whose position is unknown. The device includes a first probability calculator and a position estimator. The first probability calculator calculates a first connection probability on the basis of a distance and a smallest hop count between two of the plurality of terminals over which and with which the two terminals are connected. The position estimator obtains a likelihood on the basis of the first connection probability and estimates a position of the second terminal by using the likelihood.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a communication apparatus includes a timer, a synchronization processor and a signal generator. The timer updates a first timer value by counting up in synchronization with a clock signal. The synchronization processor executes a time synchronization process in order to synchronize the first timer value with a second timer value inside each of other communication apparatuses belonging to a common network. A signal generator generates a timing signal reporting arrival of a timing when content is to be controlled, based on the first timer value and content control information indicative of the timing when the content is to be controlled.

Abstract: An energy management device includes a measurement manager and a communicator. The measurement manager manages energy information based on a physical quantity measured from at least one measurement object belonging to each of a plurality of energy types in a customer. The communicator communicates the energy information of each of the energy types to another device over a network.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an oxaliplatin-encapsulating liposome aqueous dispersion that has excellent long-term storage stability. The present invention provides an aqueous dispersion of liposomes encapsulating oxaliplatin, the oxaliplatin-encapsulating liposome aqueous dispersion containing 2-morpholinoethanesulfonic acid in an external aqueous phase.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a verification device includes an encoding rule generating unit, a test data generating unit, an error rule generating unit, a determined value generating unit, and a verifying unit. The encoding rule generating unit is configured to generate an encoding rule based on a definition document for a structured document. The test data generating unit is configured to generate test data in which all combinations of state transitions are expressed in bits in accordance with an encoding rule. The error rule generating unit is configured to add an error rule to the encoding rule. The determined value generating unit is configured to generate a determined value indicating whether a transition is normal. The verifying unit is configured to determine that a decoding device is not normal when the determined value and an output determined value resulting from inputting the test data to the decoding device are different.

Abstract: A transmitting apparatus includes a first communicator, a designator, and a second communicator. The first communicator sends out a message by wireless broadcast communication to plural first communication apparatus, being located within a wireless communication range of the first communicator, of plural communication apparatus that have a wireless broadcast communication function and that constitute a wireless multi-hop network. The designator designates a second communication apparatus that is located outside the wireless communication range of the first communicator and that can establish a first communication channel, from among the plural communication apparatus having a the wireless broadcast communication function. The second communicator is wider in a communication range than the first communicator. The second communicator establishes the first communication channel with the second communication apparatus designated by the designator.

Abstract: An equipment set generation support apparatus (a) acquires, from a plurality of equipments connected to a network, state change event information notifying a state change of each equipment and an occurrence time and date of the state change, (b) sets a detection condition including a start time and an end time of a detection period, (c) selects state change event information whose occurrence time and date of the state change falling within the detection period from the state change event information acquired, and (d) detects, from the plurality of equipments, a set of equipments whose states change in the detection period and a set of state values after the state change of each equipment based on the state change event information selected.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a control device communicates with a power measurement device. The control device includes a communication unit, a threshold storage, a calculation unit, and a control unit. The communication unit is configured to receive a usable electric power from the power measurement device. The threshold storage stores a first threshold. The calculation unit is configured to calculate a usable electric energy by integrating the usable electric power. The control unit is configured to change an operation status of the control device based on a comparison result between the usable electric energy and the first threshold.

Abstract: A communication node device according to embodiments is capable of transmitting and receiving a multicast message with an adjacent node connected to the same multicast link. The device may comprise a first transmitting and receiving unit, a storage unit, a detection unit, and a second transmitting and receiving unit. The first transmitting and receiving unit may be configured to transmit and receive a multicast message with the adjacent node. The storage unit may be configured to store a message transmitted or received by the first transmitting and receiving unit. The detection unit may be configured to detect interruption of reception continuity of multicast message with the adjacent node. The second transmitting and receiving unit may be configured to, when the detection unit detects interruption of reception continuity of multicast message with the adjacent node, transmit a request for sending multicast message to the adjacent node.

Abstract: There is a server apparatus in which: an issuing unit issues data to devices; a distribution manager distributes the data to devices; a data manager manages data set as issued; a revocation manager detects, from the data set, data that satisfies a condition, and invalidates the detected data; and a filter manager updates and distribute to devices a filter having a predetermined bit length each time data is invalidated, by setting one of a first value and a second value to each of bits in the filter when a revoked data set is projected onto the filter; the data manager identifies data other than the invalidated data, having projection onto at least one of bits whose value has changed between before and after the update, and having the first value for all of bits projected onto the updated filter and reissues data to the device having the identified data.

Abstract: The reading unit reads mapping information that maps a particular point in a document structure defined by XML schema to the name of a variable and a training XML document that includes a substitute character string positioned at a particular point and tags. A parser converts the training XML document into a sequence of events each specifying one of substitute character string and the tag names. The reading unit reads in an EXI grammar form. A code composer processes the sequence of events and generates an EXI event code based on the EXI grammar form, generates a function to retrieve the value of a variable mapped to the particular point at which the substitute character string is positioned when the event is an event specifying substitute character string, and produces an EXI encoder including output instruction codes to output EXI event codes and the retrieved value of the function.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an emission factor calculating apparatus includes a receiving unit, a received electricity (i.e., electric power) measuring unit, a generated electricity measuring unit, and an emission factor calculating unit. The receiving unit receives an emission factor of a higher-level system at first regular intervals. The received electricity measuring unit measures, as a received electricity, electricity received from the higher-level system and accumulated. The generated electricity measuring unit measures electricity generated with zero emission in a target system. The emission factor calculating unit calculates a substantial emission factor of the target system at regular intervals (i.e., at a fixed interval), based on a ratio between the received electricity and the measured electricity generated, and the emission factor of the higher-level system. The emission factor calculating unit informs a load or a lower-level system of the substantial emission factor.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an encoder includes: a coding module configured to encode an XML document from a start position toward an end position of the XML document, and detect an expended element located between the start position and the end position of the XML document; and a combining module configured to generate a third EXI grammar by combining a first EXI grammar and a second EXI grammar, the first EXI grammar being generated according to a basic schema, and the second EXI grammar being generated according to an extended schema that prescribes a structure of the extended element, wherein the coding module encodes the XML document according to the first EXI grammar from the start position until detection of the extended element, and encodes the XML document according to the third EXI grammar after the detection of the extended element.

Abstract: According to some embodiments, there is provided a power electronics device including: a controlling unit, a determining unit, a confirming unit and a determining unit. The controlling unit performs surveillance/control concerning an input/output of power to a power line with other power electronics devices connected via the power line. The determining unit determines a master device which is a subject of the surveillance/control and a slave device which is controlled by the master device, based on power characteristic information of the other power electronics devices from among the other power electronics devices and the power electronics device. The confirming unit confirms whether the master device and the slave device determined by the determining unit are matched with the master device and the slave device determined by the other power electronics devices. The determining unit permits a start of the surveillance/control when matching is determined by the confirming unit.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a decoding device includes: a holding unit including a first level cache to hold a result of decoding binary data into a structured document by a decoder with the binary data, and a second level cache to hold partial data pieces into which the binary data is divided in predetermined units of events of the structured document and the result of decoding corresponding to the partial data pieces; and a retention determiner to divide the binary data in the predetermined units of events, and store the partial data pieces and the result of decoding corresponding to the partial data pieces into the second level cache. When the binary data that is input includes a part matching a partial data piece held by the second level cache in the predetermined units of events, the decoding unit outputs the decoding result corresponding to the matching partial data piece.