Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a detachable unit that is attachable to and detachable from an apparatus main body; and a cleaning unit that is provided in the apparatus main body, and at the time of attachment or detachment of the detachable unit, comes into contact with a grip portion of the detachable unit to clean a floating substance adhered to the grip portion, the floating substance being in the apparatus main body.

Abstract: Provided are an ultraviolet absorbing agent including a compound represented by Formula (1), in which the ultraviolet absorbing agent has a maximum absorption wavelength in a wavelength range of 350 to 390 nm in an ethyl acetate solution, and a value obtained by dividing an absorbance at a wavelength of 430 nm by an absorbance at the maximum absorption wavelength is 0.01 or less, a resin composition, a cured substance, and an optical member which include the ultraviolet absorbing agent, a method of producing an ultraviolet absorbing agent, and a compound. In Formula (1), X1 and X2 each independently represent a cyano group or the like, R1 and R2 each independently represent an alkyl group or the like, and R3 and R4 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkoxy group, or an aryloxy group.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing system, method, and program capable of displaying an image corresponding to an operation body in a certain place adaptively generated for an operation of the operation body in another place, the system including an information acquisition unit configured to acquire first transmission information according to an operation of an operation body related to a first user located in a first place, the first transmission information being for communication with a second user located in a second place, and an output control unit configured to display, on a display surface in the second place, an image corresponding to the operation body generated based on a pointing position of the operation body in the second place and a first virtual position of the first user in the second place, the pointing position and the first virtual position being specified based on the first transmission information.

Abstract: Provided is an ink jet recording ink containing a near-infrared absorbing colorant represented by Formula 1, a polymerizable monomer, a polymerization initiator, and a dispersant, in which a content of the polymerizable monomer is 50% by mass or more with respect to a total amount of the ink jet recording ink, and a difference between an SP value of the polymerizable monomer and an SP value of the dispersant is 3.8 MPa1/2 to 16.0 MPa1/2. Also provided is an ink jet recording method. The description of a ring A, a ring B, XA, XB, GA, GB, kA, and kB in Formula 1 will not be repeated.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus and an information processing method capable of reducing a sense of delay given to a user. The information processing apparatus includes an acquisition section; an encoding section; a context recognition section; a priority data extraction section; and a communication section. The acquisition section acquires data relating to a transmission point. The encoding section encodes the data relating to the transmission point. The context recognition section sets data to be preferentially transmitted from the data relating to the transmission point on the basis of a situation of the transmission point recognized using the data relating to the transmission point. The priority data extraction section extracts the preferentially transmitted data as priority data on the basis of a setting in the context recognition section.

Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device and an information processing method, which are capable of allowing users at remote locations to each grasp more deeply the condition of the space where the partner is present. Provided is an information processing device including a control unit, wherein, between a first space where a first imaging device and a first display device are installed and a second space where a second imaging device and a second display device are installed, when a captured image captured by the imaging device in one of the spaces is displayed by the display device in the other space in real time, the control unit performs a control for presenting a state of the second space in an ineffective region excluding an effective region in which a captured image captured by the second imaging device is displayed, in a display region of the first display device. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a video communication system.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a telepresence system capable of providing telepresence in a better acoustic environment. The telepresence system includes: a network that connects a plurality of bases; and a plurality of telepresence facilities that transmit and receive video images and sound via the network, and share the video images and the audio between the respective bases. Each telepresence facility is then entirely covered with a sound shielding portion that acoustically shields the external environment and the internal environment of the telepresence facility from each other. Further, in each of the telepresence facilities, the same sound field as that of another telepresence facility is reproduced in a closed space shielded by the sound shielding portion. The present technology can be applied to a telepresence system capable of making a user feel as if places were connected and the other party were present in the same place, for example.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a telepresence system that enables better communication. The telepresence system includes: a network that connects a plurality of bases; and a plurality of telepresence apparatuses that transmit and receive video images and sound via the network, and share the video images and the audio between the respective bases. Further, in each of the telepresence apparatuses, a presentation device that performs presentation for prompting communication by users at different bases is disposed at the center of a shared communication space in which the users communicate with each other. The present technology can be applied to a telepresence system, for example.

Abstract: Provided are an ink jet recording ink containing a squarylium dye represented by Formula 1, polymerizable compounds, a dispersant, and a synergist having at least one group selected from the group consisting of a carboxy group and a sulfo group and at least one ring selected from the group consisting of an aromatic ring and a heteroaromatic ring, and an image recording method: in Formula 1, a ring A and a ring B each independently represent an aromatic ring or a heteroaromatic ring, XA and XB each independently represent a monovalent substituent, GA and GB each independently represent a monovalent substituent, kA represents an integer of 0 to nA, and kB represents an integer of 0 to nB. nA represents the maximum number of GAs capable of being bonded to the ring A, and nB represents the maximum number of GBs capable of being bonded to the ring B.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that can present more realistic feeling of real existence of an object to be perceived in another space using sound and vibration as main information channels. An information processing apparatus including a control unit that exercises control for acquiring vibration information and sound information sensed in another space, and outputting, from a perceptual presentation area in a space different from the another space, the vibration information and the sound information for causing presence of an object to be perceived in the another space to be perceived by a tactile sense and an auditory sense.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing device and a method capable of implementing more various communications. In a space of a user, an input of information by the user is accepted, and tag information for associating control information for controlling occurrence of an event for a communication partner of the user with a space of the communication partner is generated using the accepted information. Furthermore, it is determined whether or not an occurrence condition of the event designated by the tag information for associating the control information for controlling the occurrence of the event for the communication partner with the space of the communication partner, the tag information associated with the space of the user is satisfied, and in a case where it is determined that the occurrence condition is satisfied, the event designated by the tag information is allowed to occur.

Abstract: A recovery container includes: a container body that is attachable to and detachable from an attachment target and capable of accommodating a powder; a first insertion portion that is provided at the container body, is capable of protruding from one of two wall portions of the container body at opposite sides in a direction intersecting an attachment direction of the container body, and is to be inserted into a first opening provided in a portion of the attachment target facing the one of the two wall portions by movement in a protruding direction of the first insertion portion; a second insertion portion that is provided at the container body, is capable of protruding from other of the two wall portions to a side opposite to the first insertion portion, and is to be inserted into a second opening provided in a portion of the attachment target facing the other of the two wall portions by movement in a protruding direction of the second insertion portion; and a third insertion portion that is provided at the c

Abstract: A recovery container includes: a container body that is attachable to and detachable from an attachment target and capable of accommodating a powder, a first insertion portion that is provided at the container body, is capable of protruding from one of two wall portions of the container body at opposite sides in a direction intersecting an attachment direction of the container body, and is to be inserted into a first opening provided in a portion of the attachment target facing the one of the two wall portions by movement in a protruding direction of the first insertion portion; a second insertion portion that is provided at the container body, is capable of protruding from other of the two wall portions to a side opposite to the first insertion portion, and is to be inserted into a second opening provided in a portion of the attachment target facing the other of the two wall portions by movement in a protruding direction of the second insertion portion; and a third insertion portion that is provided at the c

Abstract: An encryption processing system includes: a first device; second devices; and a third device, wherein the first device generates synthesis keys by selecting public keys of the second devices; generates an intermediate text from confidential texts generated by encrypting secret information by using public keys of the second devices having decryption authority; generates ciphertexts by further encrypting the intermediate text using the synthesis keys; and makes public the ciphertexts, each of the second devices verifies validity of the ciphertexts; generates decryption key fragments by using an own private key; and makes public the decryption key fragments, the third device verifies validity of the decryption key fragments; generates a decryption key by combining decryption key fragments; generates the Intermediate text by decrypting one of the ciphertexts; and makes public the intermediate text, and the second device decrypts the intermediate text using the own private key; and restores the secret information.

Abstract: There is provided a space information sharing apparatus, a space information sharing method, and a program adapted to let users feel as if their spaces are interconnected in a multidirectional communication system while saving bandwidth. A control section is provided to control communication of space information indicative of appearances of a space of a first user to an apparatus of a second user on the basis of first sensing information representative of the state of the first user and second sensing information representative of the state of the second user. This technology is applied advantageously to multidirectional communication systems.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a supplementary processing unit configured to perform supplementary processing of supplementing communication between users at a plurality of points in accordance with a context of interaction between the users at the respective points in a telepresence system configured to perform bidirectional image and sound communication for the communication.

Abstract: A recovery container includes a container body, a discharge port, an opening/closing part, a guide part, and an inclination suppressing part. The container body with a recovery path is removably attached to an attachment target. The powder transported through the recovery path is discharged to outside through the discharge port. The opening/closing part closes the discharge port. In an attached state in which the container body is attached to the attachment target, the opening/closing part is push-opened by a periphery of a recovery port provided in the attachment target. The guide part extends in the attachment direction of the container body to guide movement of the opening/closing part. The inclination suppressing part comes into contact with a portion of the attachment target before the periphery of the recovery port comes into contact with the opening/closing part to suppress inclination of the container body.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing device provided with an obtaining unit (211) that obtains first physical information of a first user present in a first space, and second physical information of a second user present in a second space, a virtual space generation unit (213) that generates a virtual space on the basis of the first physical information or the second physical information, as operation mode control unit (211) that switches an operation mode in a case where a trigger caused by at least any one of the first user or the second user occurs, and a control unit (210) that interlocks switch of the operation mode with at least one device present is the first space or at least one device present in the second space.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a reception unit that receives data from a communication destination, an output unit that outputs the received data, a sensor that senses a first space in which the output unit is arranged, a transmission unit that transmits sensing data obtained by the sensing to the communication destination, and a control unit that performs control to present an event that is a cause of cognitive dissonance to the output unit, based on at least the sensing data of a user in the first space, when the user has the cognitive dissonance.

Abstract: A sound collection system includes a sound collection unit, a variable shelter configured to cover the sound collection unit, an optimum form determination unit configured to determine a form of the variable shelter on a basis of an ambient environmental state, and a shelter optimization control unit configured to change the form of the variable shelter on a basis of a determination result by the optimum form determination unit.