Abstract: To provide a model generation method, a recording medium, and an information processing apparatus. The method includes, via a computer: acquiring a plurality of variable groups for constructing a process recipe, state data indicating a state of a processing object before executing a specific step of the process recipe, and target data indicating a target state of the processing object; evaluating the state of the processing object obtained by selecting one variable group from the plurality of variable groups and executing one step characterized by the selected one variable group; and generating a model for constructing the process recipe by reinforcement learning using the acquired state data and target data and a reward determined according to the evaluated state of the processing object.

Abstract: Provided is a technology for improving the resolution and the angle of view of an image projection device. The image projection device includes an optical waveguide element including at least one incident port on which a laser beam is incident and a plurality of emission ports from which the laser beam is emitted, and a scanning mirror that performs scanning with the laser beam emitted from the optical waveguide element, in which the laser beam with which the scanning mirror performs the scanning reaches a projection target. The image projection device further includes a hologram element that condenses the laser beam with which the scanning mirror performs the scanning on a vicinity of a pupil to allow the laser beam to reach a retina.

Abstract: A speed maintenance instruction is output when a vehicle enters a next intersection and a predetermined condition is satisfied. It is determined whether a forward obstacle is disposed between the vehicle and the next intersection. A possibility of collision with the forward obstacle is determined if the forward obstacle is disposed between the vehicle and the next intersection and the vehicle maintains a current vehicle speed. When the possibility of collision is determined, the speed maintenance instruction is not output even if the predetermined condition is satisfied.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a generation unit that generates simulation data including a plurality of combinations of unprocessed data of a workpiece and processed data of the workpiece after a process is performed on the workpiece under a predetermined process condition. Each of the plurality of combinations includes the unprocessed data and the processed data when the process is performed with a plurality of pattern densities for each of a plurality of mask shapes. The information processing apparatus further includes a derivation unit that derives simulation parameters of a shape simulator based on a closeness between predicted data that is predicted by inputting the unprocessed data included in the simulation data to the shape simulator, and the processed data combined with the unprocessed data.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a technology for dealing with coarseness and minuteness of an interval of scanning lines that occur in a case where the Foveated rendering technology is applied. The present disclosure provides a display device including: a laser light source unit that emits laser light used for video formation by scanning; and a laser light source drive unit, in which the laser light source unit can emit two or more pieces of laser light having different beam sizes, or can emit two or more pieces of laser light and can switch the number of pieces of emitted laser light, and the laser light source drive unit changes the laser light emitted from the laser light source unit according to an interval of scanning lines where two or more non-resonant axial direction scanning speeds are used in a drawing region of one frame of a video.

Abstract: An energy storage device is provided with a case including a lid body in which a gas release valve is formed. The gas release valve includes a thin wall with a thickness smaller than a thickness of a portion adjacent to the gas release valve. The thin wall includes an intermediate portion and two lateral portions that are arranged at positions sandwiching the intermediate portion in a first direction. As viewed from a normal direction to the lid body, the intermediate portion is disposed at the middle position in the first direction of the lid body and is formed with a width, in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, smaller than those of the two lateral portions.

Abstract: The purpose of the present technology is to provide a video projection device capable of obtaining a satisfactory video (image) while achieving reduction in power consumption and reduction in size of the device. Provided is a video projection device including at least: a monolithic semiconductor laser array including multiple light emitting units, each of which emits a laser light beam; an optical waveguide that guides the laser light beam in a predetermined direction; a mirror that scans the laser light beam in two axes; and a diffractive element that diffracts the laser light beam in a specific direction in front of an eye and projects the laser light beam on a retina. The multiple light emitting units are respectively optically coupled to different input ports among multiple input ports included in the optical waveguide.

Abstract: An evaluation apparatus includes a processor that performs operations including reading a simulation parameter of a topography simulator and first range information or second range information that are associated with each other, the simulation parameter being calculated to cause the topography simulator output topography information of a processed target object that is to be obtained by processing the unprocessed target object under a predetermined processing condition, providing topography information of a new unprocessed target object and the simulation parameter to the topography simulator to cause the topography simulator to predict topography information of a new processed target object that is processed under the predetermined processing condition, and outputting a result of comparing the topography information of the new unprocessed target object with the first range information or a result of comparing the topography information of the new processed target object with the second range information.

Abstract: A speed maintenance instruction is output when a vehicle enters a next intersection and a predetermined condition is satisfied. It is determined whether a forward obstacle is disposed between the vehicle and the next intersection. A possibility of collision with the forward obstacle is determined if the forward obstacle is disposed between the vehicle and the next intersection and the vehicle maintains a current vehicle speed. When the possibility of collision is determined, the speed maintenance instruction is not output even if the predetermined condition is satisfied.

Abstract: An energy storage device is equipped with a container having a container body and a lid body, which closes an opening of the container body. An elongated welded part which is a welded portion between the container body and the lid body, is formed on the container. The welded part has a first welded part and a second welded part arranged in a row in a lengthwise direction of the welded part, wherein a width of the second welded part in a widthwise direction of the welded part is set larger than a width of the first welded part in the widthwise direction. A gas release vent is disposed on the lid body, wherein the second welded part is disposed on a lateral side of the gas release vent, and a length of the second welded part in the lengthwise direction is set larger than a length of the gas release vent in the lengthwise direction.

Abstract: Provided are a seafood/livestock meat product improvement agent that can impart meaty firmness when used in a seafood/livestock meat product, and a seafood/livestock meat product. This seafood/livestock meat product improvement agent contains an oil/fat-processed starch having a heat solubility of 3% to 25% and a heat swelling degree of 8 times to 17 times, and is characterized in that the pH of the oil/fat-processed starch is 3.3 or higher and less than 6.5. The oil/fat-processed starch is preferably an oil/fat-processed distarch phosphate. The seafood/livestock meat product is characterized by containing the seafood/livestock meat product improvement agent described above.

Abstract: The present invention provides a meat analogue processed food product that is inexpensive and has little pastiness derived from starch, a method for producing the meat analogue processed food product, and an additive for the meat analogue processed food product. The meat analogue processed food product, which contains a plant-protein-containing material and has a meat material content of 30 mass % or less, also contains a fat-processed starch as a raw material. The fat-processed starch content is preferably 0.5-10 mass %.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a projection optical system and an image projection device capable of projecting a more uniform and brighter image. The image projection device includes a laser light source for outputting a laser beam, a scanning unit for performing scanning with the laser beam two-dimensionally, and an optical component for enlarging a projection angle of view of an image projected by performing the scanning at a predetermined magnification relative to a scanning angle of view of the scanning performed by the scanning unit. The optical component is designed so that a ratio of the magnification for enlargement to change the scanning angle of view into the projection angle of view at an edge part of an image to the magnification for enlargement of view at a central part of the image is greater than 1. The present technique is applicable to laser scanning type image projection devices, for example.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a lens module for a projector of laser scanning type which is focus-free and has a short throw distance. In one example, a lens module includes a first optical member including a free-curved lens that passes a beam light reflected by a minute vibrating mirror; and a second optical member including a free-curved mirror to reflect the beam light which has passed through the first optical member, or a free-curved lens to pass the beam light which has passed through the first optical member. The beam light, which has been reflected by or has passed through the second optical member, has at the same position beam waists in horizontal and vertical directions perpendicular to a propagating direction of the beam light and also has beam radii coinciding in the horizontal and vertical directions.

Abstract: An energy storage device includes an electrode assembly, a case body containing the electrode assembly, a lid structure having a lid body closing the case body, and an insulating member disposed around the electrode assembly in the case body. In this energy storage device, one of the lid structure and a side spacer includes a space along an insertion direction with respect to the case body, and the other of the lid structure and the insulating member has a fitting portion which is abutted against the one of the lid structure and the insulating member in each of the insertion direction and an opposite direction of the insertion direction in the space and fitted in the space.

Abstract: An energy storage device includes a stacked electrode assembly, a case body containing the electrode assembly, a lid structure having a lid body closing the case body, and a side spacer (insulating member) disposed around the electrode assembly in the case body. In the energy storage device, the side spacer has a plate-shaped main body portion facing a second side surface of the electrode assembly, and a fitting portion (thick portion) which is one end on a side of a lid structure in the main body portion and is thicker than other portions in the main body portion.

Abstract: An energy storage device is provided with a case including a lid body in which a gas release valve is formed. The gas release valve includes a thin wall with a thickness smaller than a thickness of a portion adjacent to the gas release valve. The thin wall includes an intermediate portion and two lateral portions that are arranged at positions sandwiching the intermediate portion in a first direction. As viewed from a normal direction to the lid body, the intermediate portion is disposed at the middle position in the first direction of the lid body and is formed with a width, in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, smaller than those of the two lateral portions.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a projection optical system and an image projection device capable of projecting a more uniform and brighter image. The image projection device includes a laser light source for outputting a laser beam, a scanning unit for performing scanning with the laser beam two-dimensionally, and an optical component for enlarging a projection angle of view of an image projected by performing the scanning at a predetermined magnification relative to a scanning angle of view of the scanning performed by the scanning unit. The optical component is designed so that a ratio of the magnification for enlargement to change the scanning angle of view into the projection angle of view at an edge part of an image to the magnification for enlargement of view at a central part of the image is greater than 1. The present technique is applicable to laser scanning type image projection devices, for example.

Abstract: An energy storage device is equipped with a container having a container body and a lid body, which closes an opening of the container body. An elongated welded part which is a welded portion between the container body and the lid body, is formed on the container. The welded part has a first welded part and a second welded part arranged in a row in a lengthwise direction of the welded part, wherein a width of the second welded part in a widthwise direction of the welded part is set larger than a width of the first welded part in the widthwise direction. A gas release vent is disposed on the lid body, wherein the second welded part is disposed on a lateral side of the gas release vent, and a length of the second welded part in the lengthwise direction is set larger than a length of the gas release vent in the lengthwise direction.