Shiseido Company, Limited

Fujitsu Corporation

Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Nof Corporation

Meijo University

Toyohashi University of Technology

Honda Electronics Co., Ltd.

International Business Machines Corporation

Hitachi, Ltd.

University Public Corporation Osaka

J-oil Mills, Inc.

Yusuke Hara

Souichi Saeki

Toyonobu Yamashita

Cherie Wong

Masato Ninomiya

Kenichirou Shimogawa

Ichiro Iwai

Naohiro Hozumi

Toru Kitayama

Daiki Yoshikawa

Kazuaki Wakita

Kazuto Kobayashi

Christopher David Rotella

Yuki Ogura

Sachiko Yoshida

Hiroshi Ito

Takashi Yamaguchi

Makoto Yoshida

Yukiko Takeda

Hidenori Inouchi

Hiroshi Muramatsu

Takehiro Morishige

Yoshimasa Miura

Hideki Kawamoto

Masato Hatao

Shunsuke Monjiyama

Mayuko Morita

Eiichi Tazoe

Hiroyuki Ohnishi

Joseph M Alyea

Yuta Kawamura

Aiko Yamanaka

Futoshi Watanabe

Tadayoshi Sadakane

Natalie T Nguyen

Arlen R Dean

Kazuhiro Miyashita

Kazuki Sunada

Koji Sekiguchi

Shoko Ichikawa

Motoki Ooguri

Hiroko Mizuno

Mitsushi Kusumoto

Megumi Nagayama

Masatoshi Nogo

Yushiro Furukawa

Cherie G Wong

A recording medium stores a program causing a computer to execute a process including: classifying, based on a processing content of each job in a job group which has an execution order defined in a job flow, the job group into a groups; and restarting, when an abnormality of a first job classified into a first group of the groups is detected, by referring to a memory that stores information which indicates a job in a head execution order in a group as a starting point from which the job flow is to be restarted, based on information which indicates a job in a head execution order in a second group as a starting point from which the job flow is to be restarted, and is associated with the first group, the job flow from the job in the head execution order in the second group as the starting point.

Computer-readable recording medium storing information processing program, information processing method, and information processing apparatus

A recording medium stores a program causing a computer to execute a process including: detecting an abnormality of a first job in a job group, which has an execution order defined in a job flow; determining, by referring to a memory that stores a condition for restarting the job flow and information which indicates a job as a starting point from which the job flow is to be restarted in the job group, whether the detected abnormality of the first job satisfies a condition for restarting the job flow; and restarting, when determining that the detected abnormality of the first job satisfies the condition for restarting the job flow, based on information which indicates a second job as a starting point from which the job flow is to be restarted, and is associated with the first job, the job flow from the second job as the starting point.

An alkylene oxide derivative represented by formula (1), wherein a ratio Mz/Mw of a weight average molecular weight (Mw) and z average molecular weight (Mz) calculated from a chromatogram obtained by gel permeation chromatography measurement of the alkylene oxide derivative satisfies formula (2) below: where Z, n, PO, EO, a, b and c are as defined herein; a+b+c≥10, and b/c=1/5˜5/1; (PO)/(EO)indicates that PO and EO are randomly added; and a random ratio x of PO and EO satisfies 0.1≤x≤1.

Alkylene oxide derivative, defoaming agent, lubricant, cosmetic base material and cosmetics containing same, hair cleaning agent composition, and body cleaning agent composition

A device of an embodiment includes: an optical mechanism; a control computation unit that controls driving of the optical mechanism, acquires a tomographic image of the skin by processing an optical interference signal from the optical system, and calculates a network of blood vessels on the basis of the tomographic image; and a display device that displays the network of blood vessels. The control computation unit expresses thicknesses of the network of blood vessels by defining, as a blood vessel radius, a radius from a set of blood vessel corresponding coordinates determined to be a blood vessel in the calculation of the network of blood vessels and within which other sets of blood vessel corresponding coordinates are present and, superimposing distinctions based on magnitudes of blood vessel radii from the respective sets of blood vessel corresponding coordinates onto the image of the network of blood vessels.

Device, method, and program for visualizing network of blood vessels of skin

A skin diagnosing device includes an optical unit including: an optical system that uses OCT; an optical mechanism to guide light from the optical unit to skin to scan the skin; a loading device to apply predetermined deformation energy to the skin; a control computation unit to compute tomographic distribution of predetermined status values relating to the skin by controlling driving of the loading device and the optical mechanism and processing optical interference signals output from the optical unit in response to the driving, to compute an evaluation value of the skin based on the tomographic distribution; and a display device to display the evaluation value of the skin. The control computation unit computes the evaluation value by computing mechanical characteristics and a blood flow condition of the skin as the status values and associating the mechanical characteristics and the blood flow condition at a cross-sectional position of the skin.

Skin diagnosing device, skin condition outputting method, program, and recording medium

A device of an embodiment includes: an optical mechanism; a control computation unit that controls driving of the optical mechanism, acquires a tomographic image of skin by processing an optical interference signal from an optical system, and calculates a network of blood vessels on the basis of the tomographic image; and a display device that displays an image of the network of blood vessels. The control computation unit sets a reference profile obtained by function approximation of an intensity profile in a depth direction of the acquired tomographic image, calculates a difference between an intensity value on the reference profile and an actual intensity value as an outlier V, the intensity values being those in the depth direction in the tomographic image, determines, as blood vessels or blood vessel candidates, coordinates with the outliers V within a predetermined blood vessel determination range, and calculates the network of blood vessels.

A surface property measurement technology by which a surface property of a substance can be evaluated with high accuracy, is provided. A surface property measurement method includes radiating an ultrasonic wave to a measurement target and acquiring a reflected signal from the measurement target; calculating, by a measurement apparatus, a maximum value of a cross-correlation function between the reflected signal from the measurement target and a reference reflected signal from a reference substance acquired in advance; calculating a reflection component at an interface, by using the maximum value of the cross-correlation function; and outputting, as a measurement value, one of an acoustic impedance of the measurement target or an acoustic impedance of the reference substance, according to a result of comparing the reflection component with the reference reflected signal.

Surface property measurement method, surface property measurement apparatus, and recording medium

A device of an embodiment includes: an optical mechanism that guides light from a light source to skin tissue to scan the skin tissue; a control computation unit that controls driving of the optical mechanism, acquires tomographic images of the skin by processing optical interference signals from the optical system, and calculates a network of blood vessels on the basis of the tomographic images; and a display device that displays the network of blood vessels. The control computation unit computes autocorrelation values at coordinates in epidermis corresponding regions of the tomographic images, excludes combinations of tomographic images with the computed autocorrelation values corresponding to predetermined low autocorrelation, computes autocorrelation values at coordinates in dermis corresponding regions, determines coordinates at which the autocorrelation values in the dermis corresponding regions are within a predetermined low correlation range to be blood vessels or blood vessel candidates, and calculates a network of blood vessels.

An ultrasonic measurement method includes irradiating an object to be measured with an ultrasonic wave, acquiring a reflection wave from the object, calculating at a processor an acoustic impedance in a depth direction of the object from the reflection wave, and estimating and outputting a thickness of the object based upon an inflection point determined by second-order differentiation of the acoustic impedance.

Ultrasonic measurement method, ultrasonic measurement apparatus, and program storage device readable by machine

An alkyloxirane derivative represented by formula (1), wherein Mand Mcalculated from a gel permeation chromatogram satisfy formula (2):Z&#x2014;[O-(AO)-H]&#x2003;&#x2003;(1)where Z represents a residual group of a compound having 1 to 22 carbon atoms and one to six hydroxyl groups and wherein all of the hydroxyl groups are excluded from said compound; x is 1 to 6; and AO represents an oxyalkylene group having 3 carbon atoms; and n is 25 or more;0.35&#x2264;M/M&#x2264;0.75&#x2003;&#x2003;(2)where Mrepresents a distance between point O and intersecting point P, and Mrepresents a distance between point Q and intersecting point P determined from the chromatogram.

Alkyloxirane derivative, cosmetic material for hair, hydraulic oil composition, resin composition curable by actinic rays, and oil cleansing agent

A nanoemulsion emulsification composition including the following components (A) to (D), in which the mass ratios of the components satisfy the following condition,[()+()]:():()=1:4 to 8:0.4 to 0.8;  

Composition for nanoemulsion emulsification, bicontinuous microemulsion, cosmetic, and method for producing same

An information processing system includes a storage unit that stores association information that is obtained by associating identifying information of a plurality of second communication networks that are interconnected via a first communication network with identifying information of a virtual device that exists in the second communication network; a first specifying unit that specifies according to the association information a second communication network in which a target virtual device exists, in a case in which the first specifying unit acquires a request for a setting change to the target virtual device; a second specifying unit that specifies a physical server on which the target virtual device runs from among physical servers that exist in the specified second communication network; and a setting unit that performs the setting change to the target virtual device that runs on the specified physical server.

Information processing system and information processing method

A document processor for associating mentioned items with each other in two documents. A conversion unit converts at least a portion of mentioned items expressed in table format among the mentioned items included in the two documents. An association processing unit associates mentioned items with each other in the two documents including at least some mentioned items converted to text format. The conversion unit converts each of a plurality of cells included in the mentioned items expressed in table format to separate mentioned items in text format.

Associating mentioned items between documents

An image analysis apparatus that analyzes a skin condition from a video of the face of a subject captured with an imaging part includes a tracking part configured to track the amount of changes of multiple tracking points arranged in advance in an analysis region of the face based on a change in the expression of the face included in the video, and obtain the compression ratio of the skin in the analysis region based on the amount of changes, and a skin condition analysis part configured to analyze the skin condition of the subject based on the compression ratio obtained by the tracking part.

Analyzing a skin condition from a video

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a rapid and widely practicable cosmetic-evaluating method for evaluating the performance of candidate cosmetics in improving wrinkles in the horny cell layer. Provided is a method for evaluating the effectiveness in wrinkle improvement of a candidate cosmetic by immersing a horny-cell-layer sheet having creases and wrinkles in the candidate cosmetic, and verifying the disappearance of the creases and wrinkles after drying, whereby the purpose is achieved.

Method for evaluating cosmetic for effectiveness in improving wrinkles

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Yusuke Hara