Abstract: There are provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, an endoscope system, and a report creation support device which can efficiently input information on a site. The information processing apparatus includes a first processor. The first processor acquires an image captured using an endoscope, displays the acquired image in a first region on a screen of a first display unit, detects a specific region in a hollow organ from the acquired image, displays a plurality of sites constituting the hollow organ to which the detected specific region belongs, in a second region on the screen of the first display unit, and accepts selection of one site from among the plurality of sites.

Abstract: There are provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, an endoscope system, and a report creation support device which can efficiently input information on a treatment name. The information processing apparatus includes a first processor. The first processor acquires an image captured using an endoscope, displays the acquired image in a first region on a screen of a first display unit, detects a treatment tool from the acquired image, chooses a plurality of treatment names corresponding to the detected treatment tool, displays the plurality of chosen treatment names in a second region on the screen of the first display unit, and accepts selection of one treatment name from among the plurality of displayed treatment names.

Abstract: An objective lens unit includes an objective lens, a first rotary member, a second rotary member, and a drive section. The objective lens is provided with a correction ring. The first rotary member is mounted on the objective lens. The second rotary member engages with the first rotary member. The first rotary member has a first engagement portion. The second rotary member has a second engagement portion that is to engage with the first engagement portion. The second engagement portion is disposed at a part in the circumferential direction of the second rotary member. The second rotary member rotates to be positioned at an engagement position or a retraction position. The engagement position is a position where the second engagement portion engages with the first engagement portion. The retraction position is a position where the second engagement portion retracts from the first engagement portion.

Abstract: A first multi-plate brake device and a second multi-plate brake device are arranged side by side in a direction of a rotating axis X along an inner peripheral surface of a transmission case. In the second multi-plate brake device, the snap ring is supported by a supporting portion which is formed on the first multi-plate brake device side of the snap ring and protrudes from the inner peripheral surface of the transmission case radially inward to the rotating axis X. The piston retainer of the first multi-plate brake device includes an abutting portion that protrudes to the second multi-plate brake device side and abuts the supporting portion from the opposite side of the snap ring of the second multi-plate brake device. The abutting portion includes a thick portion whose radial thickness on a lower side in a vertical direction is increased as compared to on an upper side in the vertical direction based on a state of mounting the automatic transmission on a vehicle.

Abstract: The information processing device includes: a storage; and a controller that: stores, in the storage, participation status information indicating a user participation status in an event occurrence area, wherein the participation status information is associated with the event occurrence area that is set up at a location in a virtual game space corresponding to a location in a real space, determines whether the event occurrence area is in a crowded state based on the participation status information, after determining that the event occurrence area is in the crowded state, restricts participation to the event occurrence area in the virtual game space, and after determining that the event occurrence area is in the crowded state, sets up another event occurrence area in the virtual game space.

Abstract: A circuit system is disclosed. In one example, the circuit system includes a clock tree circuit with multiple lanes to which a clock signal is distributed. A duty correction circuit is provided for each of the multiple lanes, and corrects a duty ratio of the clock signal. A clock gating circuit group has a clock gating circuit for each of the multiple lanes and receives, as input, the clock signal from the duty correction circuit. The clock gating circuit group starts output of the clock signal from each of a plurality of the clock gating circuits in a predetermined period. A variable delay circuit is provided in association with each of a plurality of the duty correction circuits and is capable of changing a delay time of a control signal that controls a timing of starting output of the clock signal from the clock gating circuit.

Abstract: An image selection support device supports the selection of a still image based on captured image data obtained by an endoscope. By using a first still image acquired based on the captured image data at a time when an operator of the endoscope performs an acquisition operation of the still image, and one or more second still images acquired from the captured image data at a time different from the time when the acquisition operation is performed, the image selection support device extracts a third still image having an imaging time point that satisfies a predetermined condition with an imaging time point of the first still image from among the second still images, and associates the first still image with the third still image.

Abstract: An endoscopic examination support device stores, in a memory, a plurality of pieces of captured image data obtained by a plurality of imagings by an endoscope in a state in which the endoscope is inserted into a subject, and treatment information indicating treatment performed by using the endoscope in the state. Moreover, the endoscopic examination support device generates, based on the stored plurality of pieces of captured image data and treatment information, a large intestine developed image of an inside of the subject obtained by synthesizing the plurality of pieces of captured image data, the large intestine developed image being added with biopsy position mark indicating a position in the subject at which the treatment is performed, and displays the generated large intestine developed image on a display device.

Abstract: A first multi-plate brake device and a second multi-plate brake device are arranged side by side in a direction of a rotating axis X along an inner peripheral surface of a transmission case. In the second multi-plate brake device, the snap ring is supported by a supporting portion which is formed on the first multi-plate brake device side of the snap ring and protrudes from the inner peripheral surface of the transmission case radially inward to the rotating axis X. The piston retainer of the first multi-plate brake device includes an abutting portion that protrudes to the second multi-plate brake device side and abuts the supporting portion from the opposite side of the snap ring of the second multi-plate brake device. The abutting portion includes a thick portion whose radial thickness on a lower side in a vertical direction is increased as compared to on an upper side in the vertical direction based on a state of mounting the automatic transmission on a vehicle.

Abstract: A circuit system is disclosed. In one example, the circuit system includes a clock tree circuit with multiple lanes to which a clock signal is distributed. A duty correction circuit is provided for each of the multiple lanes, and corrects a duty ratio of the clock signal. A clock gating circuit group has a clock gating circuit for each of the multiple lanes and receives, as input, the clock signal from the duty correction circuit. The clock gating circuit group starts output of the clock signal from each of a plurality of the clock gating circuits in a predetermined period. A variable delay circuit is provided in association with each of a plurality of the duty correction circuits and is capable of changing a delay time of a control signal that controls a timing of starting output of the clock signal from the clock gating circuit.

Abstract: An electronic component handler includes a region where an electronic component placement unit on which an electronic component is placed is capable of being disposed. A laser light source emits light toward the electronic component placement unit placed in the region. A capturing unit is capable of capturing an image of the electronic component and irradiated with the light. A processor determines the presence or absence of the electronic component in the electronic component placement unit based on the image. In the image, the processor sets a first candidate region and a second candidate region from an electronic component placement region which is a region where the electronic component is placed, determines a selected region by comparing the first candidate region and the second candidate region to each other, and performs the determination based on the selected region.

Abstract: Provided are an immobilization carrier, a polyether compound used for production thereof and a method for producing the carrier. The immobilization carrier have both excellent strength and toughness while a content of a polymer forming hydrous gel is suppressed, The immobilization carrier includes a polymer having a repeated unit provided with a bisphenol group and a polyoxyalkylene group bonded to the bisphenol group. The polyoxyalkylene group is formed via copolymerization between an oxyethylene group and an oxyalkylene group with 3 or more carbon atoms and optionally having a substituent. A method for producing the immobilization carrier includes the step of preparing hydrous gel via polymerizing a polyether compound in an aqueous solution. The polyether compound includes a bisphenol group, a polyoxyalkylene group and a polymerizable group. The immobilization carrier may be applied to a microorganism immobilization carrier used for treating wastewater.

Abstract: Provided is a method for treating ammoniacal nitrogen in wastewater performed via biologically oxidizing ammoniacal nitrogen, and producing nitrite nitrogen and nitrate nitrogen at a desired rate. In the method, ammoniacal nitrogen is oxidized by bacterial sludges to produce at least either of nitrite nitrogen and nitrate nitrogen. Specifically, the method includes an inactivating treatment step of treating the bacterial sludges with an inactivating operation via sterilizing bacteria or causing bacteriostasis, and a nitrifying treatment step of oxidizing the ammoniacal nitrogen by the bacterial sludges thus treated in the inactivating operation. Production amounts of the nitrite nitrogen and the nitrate nitrogen are controlled by adjusting biomass of the bacterial sludges to be treated in the inactivating operation, and/or a time interval between the inactivating operations each repeatedly performed in combination with the nitrifying treatment step.

Abstract: An electronic component handler includes: a region where an electronic component placement unit on which an electronic component is placed is capable of being disposed; a laser light source which emits light toward the electronic component placement unit placed in the region; a capturing unit which is capable of capturing an image of the electronic component and irradiated with the light; and a processor which determines the presence or absence of the electronic component in the electronic component placement unit based on the image, in which, in the image, the processor sets a first candidate region and a second candidate region from an electronic component placement region which is a region where the electronic component is placed, determines a selected region by comparing the first candidate region and the second candidate region to each other, and performs the determination based on the selected region.

Abstract: Provided is a method for treating ammoniacal nitrogen in wastewater performed via biologically oxidizing ammoniacal nitrogen, and producing nitrite nitrogen and nitrate nitrogen at a desired rate. In the method, ammoniacal nitrogen is oxidized by bacterial sludges to produce at least either of nitrite nitrogen and nitrate nitrogen. Specifically, the method includes an inactivating treatment step of treating the bacterial sludges with an inactivating operation via sterilizing bacteria or causing bacteriostasis, and a nitrifying treatment step of oxidizing the ammoniacal nitrogen by the bacterial sludges thus treated in the inactivating operation. Production amounts of the nitrite nitrogen and the nitrate nitrogen are controlled by adjusting biomass of the bacterial sludges to be treated in the inactivating operation, and/or a time interval between the inactivating operations each repeatedly performed in combination with the nitrifying treatment step.

Abstract: Provided is a wastewater treatment apparatus and a wastewater treatment method, in which denitrification process by anaerobic ammonium oxidation method can be stably performed at low cost. The wastewater treatment apparatus includes an ammonium oxidation tank and a heating tank in which the microbial sludge withdrawn from the ammonium oxidation tank is subjected to heat treatment. A wastewater treatment method is to heat the microbial sludge withdrawn from the ammonium oxidation tank by using heat supplied from a digestion tank in which waste sludge is digested by anaerobic microorganisms or from a heat source for heating the waste sludge to be digested in the digestion tank, and to return the microbial sludge, in which activity of nitrite oxidizing bacteria is reduced by the heat treatment, to the ammonium oxidation tank, so that the ammonium nitrogen contained in the wastewater is oxidized to nitrite nitrogen.

Abstract: Provided are an immobilization carrier, a polyether compound used for production thereof and a method for producing the carrier. The immobilization carrier have both excellent strength and toughness while a content of a polymer forming hydrous gel is suppressed, The immobilization carrier includes a polymer having a repeated unit provided with a bisphenol group and a polyoxyalkylene group bonded to the bisphenol group. The polyoxyalkylene group is formed via copolymerization between an oxyethylene group and an oxyalkylene group with 3 or more carbon atoms and optionally having a substituent. A method for producing the immobilization carrier includes the step of preparing hydrous gel via polymerizing a polyether compound in an aqueous solution. The polyether compound includes a bisphenol group, a polyoxyalkylene group and a polymerizable group. The immobilization carrier may be applied to a microorganism immobilization carrier used for treating wastewater.

Abstract: There is provided a breather device for an engine and capable of suppressing forming of separated oil into mist again. The breather device for the engine includes an oil filter chamber at a midpoint of a blow-by gas passing route and an oil filter housed in the oil filter chamber. The oil filter chamber is partitioned with a partition wall into an upstream filter chamber and a downstream filter chamber arranged in a front-back direction, the filter is formed by an upstream filter and a downstream filter, the upstream filter is housed in the upstream filter chamber and the downstream filter is housed in the downstream filter chamber, respectively, and a side gas expansion chamber is provided beside the oil filter chamber so that blow-by gas flows from the upstream filter into the downstream filter through the side gas expansion chamber.

Abstract: There is provided a breather device for an engine and capable of suppressing forming of separated oil into mist again. The breather device for the engine includes an oil filter chamber at a midpoint of a blow-by gas passing route and an oil filter housed in the oil filter chamber. The oil filter chamber is partitioned with a partition wall into an upstream filter chamber and a downstream filter chamber arranged in a front-back direction, the filter is formed by an upstream filter and a downstream filter, the upstream filter is housed in the upstream filter chamber and the downstream filter is housed in the downstream filter chamber, respectively, and a side gas expansion chamber is provided beside the oil filter chamber so that blow-by gas flows from the upstream filter into the downstream filter through the side gas expansion chamber.

Abstract: The invention is a method for producing a polyamide having a melting point of 255° C. or higher through polycondensation of a mixed xylylenediamine containing paraxylylenediamine as a diamine component and a dicarboxylic acid component in a batch reactor, wherein when the diamine component is dropwise added to the dicarboxylic acid component kept in a melt state by heating it to a temperature not lower than a melting point thereof under a pressure of 0.1 MPaG or more with keeping the melt state of a reaction mixture, a temperature of the reaction mixture is maintained at 255° C. or lower until a molar ratio (diamine component/dicarboxylic acid component) of the reaction mixture reaches 0.8, and the temperature of the reaction mixture at the end of the dropwise addition is controlled to be not lower than the melting point of the polyamide. The method enables production of a polyamide having an improved hue and being advantageous with respect to quality.