Abstract: A biometric registration system receives personal information on a user, and control a first acquisition device to acquire first biometric data on the user; extracts a first feature amount from the first biometric data; registers pre-registration data in which the personal information and the first feature amount are associated with each other; controls, in a case where a registration procedure using a registration device is started, a second acquisition device to acquire second biometric data and third biometric data; extracts a second feature amount and a third feature amount from the second biometric data and the third biometric data; compares the first feature amount and the second feature amount to each other; and registers registration data in which the personal information included in the pre-registration data corresponding to the first feature amount that matches the second feature amount and the third feature amount are associated with each other.

Abstract: A cutting insert includes: a rake face; a flank face; and a cutting edge constituted of a ridgeline between the rake face and the flank face. The cutting edge has a first cutting edge portion for corner processing, a second cutting edge portion for pulling processing, a third cutting edge portion for finished-surface processing, a first connection cutting edge portion, and a second connection cutting edge portion. The third cutting edge portion is disposed between the first cutting edge portion and the second cutting edge portion. The first cutting edge portion has a curved shape. A curvature radius of the first cutting edge portion is 0.1 mm or more and 2.4 mm or less. The second cutting edge portion has a straight line shape or a curved shape having a curvature radius of 3 mm or more.

Abstract: A multi-lumen catheter includes a body 101 that is formed into a cylindrical shape and extends from a proximal end to a distal end and surrounded by an outer wall 113; an inner space of the body 101 being divided with a partition 114 extending in a longitudinal direction, into a plurality of lumens including a first lumen 111 and a second lumen 112. The second lumen 112 has a second opening plane 122 at its distal end, and the first lumen 111 has a first opening plane 121 at its distal end, the second opening plane 122 being positioned more distally than the first opening plane 121. The outer wall 113 includes a first outer wall portion 115 defining the first lumen 111 and a second outer wall portion 116 defining the second lumen 112, the first outer wall portion 115 having a first lumen slit 123 notching a portion of a distal end of the first outer wall portion 115.

Abstract: cBN sintered material, including cBN particles; a binder phase; and a first phase, wherein the content of the cBN particles in the cBN sintered material is 25% to 80% by volume, the binder phase contains either or both of one or more first compounds, and a solid solution derived from the first compound, the first phase contains cobalt, tungsten, and at least one first element selected from the group consisting of the elements contained in the binder phase, the total content of cobalt and tungsten in the cBN sintered material is 1.0% to 6.0% by mass, the binder phase consists of multiple binder phase particles containing 50% or more of first binder phase particles on a number basis, surfaces of the first binder phase particles include 50% by area or more of a first region which is in contact with the first phase.

Abstract: A cubic boron nitride sintered material includes: 40 to 80 volume % of cubic boron nitride grains; and 20 to 60 volume % of a binder phase, wherein an average grain size d of the cubic boron nitride grains is 0.1 to 3 ?m, the binder phase includes at least one selected from a second group consisting of a simple substance of one element selected from a first group, an alloy consisting of two or more elements selected from the first group, and an intermetallic compound consisting of two or more elements selected from the first group, or at least one selected from a fourth group consisting of a first compound and a solid solution originated from the first compound, and in a cross section of the cubic boron nitride sintered material, a variation coefficient Z of an area ratio of the cubic boron nitride grains is 0.25 or less.

Abstract: A boring tool has a cutting insert, a holder, and a pressing member. The cutting insert includes a base member and a cutting member. The base member includes a first side surface, a second side surface, a third side surface, and a fourth side surface. The holder includes a front end surface, a rear end surface, and an outer peripheral surface. The holder is provided with a first hole and a second hole. The first hole is opened in the front end surface. The second hole is opened in the outer peripheral surface. The holder includes a stopper. A surface defining the second hole includes a first inner side surface and a second inner side surface. The pressing member is in contact with the fourth side surface in a state in which the pressing member is disposed in the first hole.

Abstract: A cutting tool comprising a rake face and a flank face, the cutting tool being composed of a substrate and a coating provided on the substrate, the coating including a MAlN layer, the MAlN layer including crystal grains of MxAl1-xN in the cubic crystal system, in the MxAl1-xN, a metal element M having an atomic ratio x of 0.2 or more and 0.8 or less, in the MAlN layer, M representing a metal element including titanium, chromium, or both, nR being 3 or less, where nR represents a number of voids at the rake face in the MAlN layer per 50 ?m in length in a cross section of the MAlN layer obtained when the MAlN layer is cut along a plane including a normal to the rake face, the void having an area in cross section of 1.0×10?4 ?m2 or more and 0.5 ?m2 or less.

Abstract: High-accuracy multimodal biometric authentication of a plurality of body organisms is achieved while suppressing postural fluctuation when the plurality of body organisms are captured. An authentication system stores feature quantities for body organisms in association with users and performs biometric authentication on the basis of images from a capture device. The capture device photographs a first body organism of a first user during a first period and captures a second body organism and a third body organism of the first user during a second period. The authentication processing device calculates a first feature quantity from the first body part photographed during the first period, respectively calculates a second feature quantity and a third feature quantity from the second body organism and the third body organism captured during the second period, and compares with the feature quantities for the body organisms of each user stored at the storage device.

Abstract: A cutting insert includes a rake face, a flank face, and a cutting edge constituted of a ridgeline between the rake face and the flank face. The cutting edge has a first cutting edge portion for corner processing, a second cutting edge portion for low cut-in pulling processing, a third cutting edge portion for high cut-in pulling processing, a fourth cutting edge portion for finished-surface processing, a first connection cutting edge portion, a second connection cutting edge portion, and a third connection cutting edge portion. The fourth cutting edge portion is disposed between the first cutting edge portion and the second cutting edge portion. The second cutting edge portion is disposed between the fourth cutting edge portion and the third cutting edge portion. Each of the first cutting edge portion, the second cutting edge portion, and the fourth cutting edge portion has a curved shape.

Abstract: Authentication is performed by confirming that the true operator presents his/her own biometric authentication information at a common portable information terminal. The biometric authentication system has an image capture unit that acquires first and second image data of different biometric areas of an operator during a predetermined period, a display that displays a guide to guide the operator to the location of the biometric area in order to capture different biometric areas of the operator, and a memory that stores biometric authentication information of the operator in advance. Furthermore, the first vital information and the second vital information are extracted from the image data of the different biometric areas, respectively, the identity of the operator is determined based on the first vital information and the second vital information, and if the identity of the operator is confirmed, the biometric authentication is performed.

Abstract: A sintered body includes diamond particles and a binder. Each of the diamond particles has a boron concentration is 0.001 mass % to 0.1 mass %. The binder has a boron concentration of 0.01 mass % to 0.5 mass %.

Abstract: A cutting tool comprising a rake face and a flank face, the cutting tool being composed of a substrate and a coating provided on the substrate, the coating including a MAlN layer, the MAlN layer including crystal grains of MxAl1-xN in the cubic crystal system, in the MxAl1-xN, a metal element M having an atomic ratio x of 0.2 or more and 0.8 or less, in the MAlN layer, M representing a metal element including titanium, chromium, or both, nR being 3 or less, where nR represents a number of voids at the rake face in the MAlN layer per 50 ?m in length in a cross section of the MAlN layer obtained when the MAlN layer is cut along a plane including a normal to the rake face, the void having an area in cross section of 1.0×10?4 ?m2 or more and 0.5 ?m2 or less.

Abstract: A cutting insert includes a rake face, a flank face, and a cutting edge constituted of a ridgeline between the rake face and the flank face. The cutting edge has a first cutting edge portion for corner processing, a second cutting edge portion for low cut-in pulling processing, a third cutting edge portion for high cut-in pulling processing, a fourth cutting edge portion for finished-surface processing, a first connection cutting edge portion, a second connection cutting edge portion, and a third connection cutting edge portion. The fourth cutting edge portion is disposed between the first cutting edge portion and the second cutting edge portion. The second cutting edge portion is disposed between the fourth cutting edge portion and the third cutting edge portion. Each of the first cutting edge portion, the second cutting edge portion, and the fourth cutting edge portion has a curved shape.

Abstract: An authentication system comprises a storage device for storing biometric features, an imaging device for capturing a biometric feature, an image correction unit for converting the image quality of the image captured by the imaging device, and an authentication processing unit. The image correction unit generates an image before color correction of one or more images in which biometrics is captured and transforms the pre-color correction image by a plurality of values within a predetermined search range for color information to generate a plurality of color information transformed images. The image correction unit searches the color information conversion image that best represents the biometric feature for each biometric feature as the optimal color information for each biometric feature from the plurality of color information conversion images.

Abstract: cBN sintered material, including cBN particles; a binder phase; and a first phase, wherein the content of the cBN particles in the cBN sintered material is 25% to 80% by volume, the binder phase contains either or both of one or more first compounds, and a solid solution derived from the first compound, the first phase contains cobalt, tungsten, and at least one first element selected from the group consisting of the elements contained in the binder phase, the total content of cobalt and tungsten in the cBN sintered material is 1.0% to 6.0% by mass, the binder phase consists of multiple binder phase particles containing 50% or more of first binder phase particles on a number basis, surfaces of the first binder phase particles include 50% by area or more of a first region which is in contact with the first phase.

Abstract: A photographing apparatus includes an irradiation unit configured to irradiate a living body with beams of light having a plurality of wavelengths different from one another, a photographing unit configured to photograph the living body irradiated by the irradiation unit to generate image data of the living body, an image processing module configured to generate, based on the image data generated by the photographing unit, a plurality of pieces of wavelength separation image data, by separation into the plurality of wavelengths, and a control module configured to control, based on the image data and on the plurality of pieces of wavelength separation image data generated by the image processing module, irradiation light amounts of the beams of light having the plurality of wavelengths.

Abstract: In order to solve such a problem, the invention provides a blood collection system used for collecting blood of a subject and a blood collection method executed in the blood collection system. The blood collection system punctures a finger of the subject with a puncture needle; and then supplies pressurized air to a cuff attached to the finger of the subject in a rolling manner so as to inflate the cuff and apply a predetermined pressure to the finger of the subject.

Abstract: A biometric authentication system, including an image input unit configured to obtain an image by imaging a living body, a storage unit configured to store registration information relating to a plurality of biological features obtained from a biological region of an image of each person, and an authentication processing unit configured to process the biological region of the image obtained by the image input unit to execute biometric authentication based on the registration information, wherein the plurality of biological features obtained from the biological region of the each person are a plurality of biological features having a low pattern correlation with one another, and wherein the authentication processing unit is configured to combine the plurality of biological features having a low pattern correlation with one another, which are obtained by processing the image, to execute the biometric authentication.

Abstract: An endoscope includes: an endoscope operation unit; an insertion observation unit that extends forward from the endoscope operation unit in a longitudinal direction; and a protective cap that covers the insertion observation unit and is detachably attached to the endoscope operation unit. The protective cap includes a color index portion that adjusts white balance. The color index portion is disposed inside the protective cap at a position facing a tip of the insertion observation unit, and the color index portion includes a curved surface in a sectional view in the longitudinal direction of the insertion observation unit.