Abstract: A three-dimensional data processing device according to the present invention detects each of a first area at a first time and a second area at a second time as an area including a subject in three-dimensional data, and calculates a difference of the three-dimensional data between the first time and the second time using coordinate transformation between the first area and the second area.

Abstract: Provided is a method for producing an optical material by hydrogenating an aromatic ring (aromatic hydrogenation) of an aromatic vinyl compound polymer in order to obtain an optical material having sufficient heat resistance at a high rate of aromatic hydrogenation. More specifically, provided is a method for producing an optical material by hydrogenating an aromatic ring (aromatic hydrogenation) of an aromatic vinyl compound polymer, the method using a mixed solvent including at least one first solvent and at least one second solvent.

Abstract: Provided is a method for hydrogenating an aromatic ring (aromatic hydrogenation) of an aromatic vinyl compound polymer in order to obtain a hydrogenated polymer having sufficient heat resistance at a high rate of aromatic hydrogenation. More specifically, provided is a method for producing a hydrogenated polymer by hydrogenating an aromatic ring (aromatic hydrogenation) of an aromatic vinyl compound polymer, the method including reducing a hydrogenation catalyst before use.

Abstract: The problem to be solved by the invention is to accurately detect a distant object while preventing an increase in cost. An object recognition device includes: an imaging unit configured to acquire a plurality of thermal images having an object captured therein; a stereo matching unit configured to perform stereo matching using the plurality of thermal images and calculate a distance to the object; a specific temperature region extracting unit configured to extract a specific temperature region from the thermal images; and an area ratio estimating unit configured to estimate, based on the distance to the object calculated by the stereo matching unit, a ratio of an area of the object included in a pixel for the specific temperature region.

Abstract: Provided is a metal plate to be used for manufacturing a metal mask. In a graph in which an arbitrary position n in a width direction of the metal plate is plotted on a horizontal axis and in which a differential expansion rate En in a unit length L0 in a longitudinal direction is plotted on a vertical axis, a maximum inclination of the differential expansion rate E in a central portion in the width direction is 1.8×10?3/m or less, and the central portion is a portion that occupies 80% in the width direction excluding both side portions that each occupy 10% in the width direction.

Abstract: A disclosed electrochemical device includes a wound body that is constituted of a belt-shaped positive electrode containing active carbon as a positive electrode active material, a belt-shaped negative electrode, and a belt-shaped separator. The wound body includes a winding shaft part that is formed by being sandwiched between winding shafts and a winding part that is connected to the winding shaft part. The winding shaft part includes a portion of one end side of the negative electrode and a portion of one end side of the separator. The positive electrode, the negative electrode, and the separator are wound in the wound body such that both surfaces of the positive electrode face the negative electrode.

Abstract: An object is to predict the number of boarding passengers or the number of alighting passengers that is more accurate. A boarding and alighting number prediction device (1) includes a prediction unit (12) predicting a boarding and alighting number prediction value that is a predicted value of a boarding and alighting number that is the number of boarding passengers or the number of alighting passengers at a stop on the basis of a real-time prediction value that is a predicted value of the boarding and alighting number based on position information relating to current positions of at least some of the passengers and past result values that are values based on result values of past boarding and alighting numbers. The prediction unit (12) may predict the boarding and alighting number prediction value by respectively weighting the real-time prediction value and the past result values.

Abstract: An object is to estimate interest of a user in a content on the basis of a cognitive bias of the user. An interest estimation device (1) includes a storage unit (11) that stores cognitive bias tendency information relating to a cognitive bias present in tendency of a user expressing interest in a predetermined content, an acquisition unit (10) that acquires user cognitive bias information relating to a cognitive bias of a target user who is a user to be targeted, and an estimation unit (13) that estimates interest of the target user in the content on the basis of the cognitive bias tendency information stored by the storage unit (11) and the user cognitive bias information acquired by the acquisition unit (10).

Abstract: A photodetection apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a photoelectric conversion region, a floating diffusion region, a ground region, a vertical gate, and an insulating layer. The photoelectric conversion region is provided in a semiconductor layer, and converts incident light into signal charges. The floating diffusion region is provided in the semiconductor layer, and holds signal charges transferred from the photoelectric conversion region. The ground region is provided in the semiconductor layer, and connected to the ground. The vertical gate is provided between the floating diffusion region and the ground region, and extends in the depth direction of the semiconductor layer from a main surface of the semiconductor layer toward the photoelectric conversion region. The insulating layer is buried on a side facing at least the ground region in the vertical gate.

Abstract: An appropriate graphical display during a series of operations of a work machine is made possible. This display control device acquires three-dimensional terrain information indicating a shape of a terrain of the area for work. Information regarding an attitude of the work machine is acquired to calculate a position of the bucket in the area for work. An AR image is generated on the basis of the terrain information and the position of the bucket, and the AR image to be overlaid over the video of the area for work is displayed on the display. The generated AR image includes a first figure highlighting the position of the bucket, and a second figure highlighting a part of a second region adjacent to a first region, the first region including a portion in which the first figure is projected in a vertical direction or a front-rear direction of the work area.

Abstract: A congestion degree search system is a system that searches for, for a target of a degree of congestion that is a location or a transportation means, a degree of congestion of the target when people change their behavior in response to information according to the degree of congestion being presented, and includes: an estimation unit that estimates the degree of congestion of the target under conditions in which information according to the degree of congestion set in advance for the target is presented to people who act; and a search unit that sets a degree of congestion used in estimation, causes the estimation unit to repeatedly estimate the degree of congestion, and searches for the degree of congestion of the target so that the difference between the degree of congestion used in the estimation and the estimated degree of congestion decreases.

Abstract: A change rate search system is a system that searches for a change rate, which is a rate at which people change their behavior in response to predetermined measures, to make the degree of congestion in the people's behavior area desirable under predetermined criteria, and includes: a simulation unit that sets a change rate for predetermined measures and simulates people's behavior when the predetermined measures are taken in a behavior area by using the set change rate; and a search unit that searches for a desirable change rate based on the degree of congestion obtained from simulation results by the simulation unit.

Abstract: An arrival time determining device that can accurately estimate a timing of arrival at a predetermined position. A mobile terminal 100 includes at least a user motion determining unit 102, an estimated arrival time calculating unit 104, and an arrival time determining unit 105. The user motion determining unit 102 determines a user motion (a stopped state or a boarding state) based on motion sensor information of the mobile terminal 100. The estimated arrival time calculating unit 104 calculates a time (time A) at which the mobile terminal 100 has arrived at a destination as an estimated arrival time test based on a position of the mobile terminal 100 and the user motion (when the user is in the stopped state). The arrival time determining unit 105 determines the estimated arrival time test as a result arrival time tres based on the user motion (when the user is in the boarding state). The result arrival time tres is used to next calculate the estimated arrival time test.

Abstract: A recommendation apparatus includes an arrival time prediction unit configured to predict a platform arrival time at which a user will arrive at a boarding bus platform, an extraction unit configured to extract a boarding-scheduled bus arriving at the boarding bus platform after the platform arrival time, a crowdedness degree acquisition unit configured to acquire a crowdedness degree of passengers of the boarding-scheduled bus, and a search unit configured to search for, when the crowdedness degree of the boarding-scheduled bus is equal to or greater than a predetermined degree, as a recommended bus, a bus operating in a boarding section where the user is boardable from any platform among platforms included in a boarding bus stop, arriving at each platform after a possible arrival time as a time at which the user is able to arrive at each platform, and having a crowdedness degree less than the predetermined degree.

Abstract: A reduction in image quality and a reduction in transfer efficiency are suppressed. An imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes a plurality of pixels arrayed in a two-dimensional lattice pattern, in which each of the pixels includes a photoelectric conversion unit on a first surface side of a semiconductor substrate, a vertical gate electrode on the semiconductor substrate so as to be close to the photoelectric conversion unit from a second surface side opposite to the first surface, a gate insulating film between the vertical gate electrode and the semiconductor substrate, a transfer gate electrode connected to the vertical gate electrode on the second surface of the semiconductor substrate, and a first diffusion region on a second surface side of the semiconductor substrate. A diameter of the vertical gate electrode is greater on the photoelectric conversion unit side than on the transfer gate electrode side.

Abstract: A traffic demand prediction device (10) includes: a depot headcount prediction unit (10A) that predicts a number of people per depot in an area from a predicted number of people obtained in advance for each of areas including at least one of a departure area and a return area of visitors to a target event based on at least a numerical value regarding a scale of use of each depot in each area obtained in advance; a route headcount prediction unit (13) that predicts a number of people per route between each depot in an area obtained by a route search algorithm and an event nearest depot from the obtained number of people per depot in the area; and a use headcount prediction unit (14) that predicts a number of users per event nearest depot or per nearest rout based on the obtained number of people per route.

Abstract: A return area prediction device (10) includes a prediction unit (12) that acquires a regression result of prediction of a number of visitors in each return area for a target event from event information of the target event using a regularized regression method, specifies, based on the acquired regression result, a nearest-neighbor cluster closest to the regression result among event group clusters previously clustered, and predicts the number of visitors in each return area for the target event based on at least a position of a center of gravity of the nearest-neighbor cluster.

Abstract: To provide a metal plate which is elongated and has a high homogeneity in a wider range, a method for manufacturing the metal plate, a metal mask obtained from the metal plate, and a method for manufacturing the metal mask. Provided is a metal plate which is elongated and is to be used for manufacturing a metal mask, in which when a differential expansion rate En in a unit length L0 in a longitudinal direction for an arbitrary position n in a width direction of the metal plate is measured at each of an arbitrary plurality of positions in the longitudinal direction, a difference in the differential expansion rate En in a central portion in the width direction is 9.0×10?6 or less at a plurality of the positions, and the central portion is a portion that occupies 80% in the width direction of the metal plate excluding both side portions that occupy 10% in the width direction.

Abstract: An object detection device includes first and second detectors each configured to detect an object by transmitting an ultrasonic wave in a moving direction of the moving object and receiving a reflected wave of the ultrasonic wave, a second detector, a memory, and a hardware processor coupled to the memory, and configured to: determine that an obstacle is present in the moving direction of the moving object, based on object detection results by the first and second detectors; determine crossing of the obstacle based on object detection results by the first and second detectors in a state in which it is being determined that the obstacle is present; and cause a driving controller mounted on the moving object, to release driving restriction control of restricting movement of the moving object when determining the crossing, or prohibit the driving controller from releasing the driving restriction control under a predetermined condition.