Sony Corporation

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation

Tdk Corporation

Agc Inc.

Denso Corporation

Renesas Technology Corp.

Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp.

Other

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Nec Corporation

Renesas Electronics Corporation

Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Yusuke Sato

Yoshihiro Ogawa

Toshiaki Iwa

Fumihiko Koga

Suzushi Nishimura

Taiichiro Watanabe

Hisaaki Terashima

Nobufumi Sato

Kazuyuki Kanno

Keiko Aita

Hiroshi Yamaki

Yasushi Fujiwara

Yasuyuki Kawazu

Takuji Namatame

Tetsuji Yamaguchi

Makoto Endo

Ryosuke Nakamura

Tomoaki Kudaishi

Yukihiro Tao

Hirobumi Tanaka

Ryota Sato

Taisuke Masuko

Shinji Moriyama

Masashi Okano

Naoko Kobayashi

Naruki Yamada

Nobuyoshi Maejima

Yusuke Nakashima

Tsuneo Ichimatsu

Naoki Kuroda

Takahito Nakase

Shin Sakurada

Shigeru Watanabe

Koji Sato

Toshihiko Kaneko

Yasunori Kamada

Yasuo Watanabe

Takayuki Kondo

Osamu Takahashi

Hiroshi Funakubo

Yukihiro Ichiki

Yu Nagata

Yoshiro Konishi

Keisuke Takayama

Hiromitsu Fujii

Satoshi Komamine

Kenichiro Nakamura

Taichi Ogawa

Hideaki Majima

Masakazu Hosono

Motoyuki Yagi

Toshiki Sayama

Norihide Enomoto

Toru Amano

Kiichirou Arikawa

Osamu Hishinuma

Teruhide Hayashida

Hiroyuki Shigei

Takao Shimizu

Yasushi Matsuyama

Yoshinori Iguchi

Saori Takeda

Tatsumi Oguri

Maki Fukuda

Futoshi Takeuchi

Hiroatsu Yamada

Kazuhiko Shibata

Soon Moon Jeong

Takeshi Motegi

Wakiko Sato

Tetsuya Oda

Takeyuki Yabuuchi

Yoko Mitsui

Masahisa Ishibashi

Lawrence Siau Tian Lim

Seek Ping Lee

Eng Long Ong

Masashi Inoue

Hiroshi Kakehi

Hirotsugu Mano

Toshio Enokido

Keigo Ohata

Osamu Kido

Shinichi Iiyama

Kenji Koyama

Ryota Okuda

Akira Kamitani

Yusuke Kondo

Yasuyuki Fujiwara

Toru Koide

Yoshihito Okumura

Yugo Takemoto

Akiteru Takae

Miyuki Ito

Yiyao Liu

Toshihiko Kyogoku

Naotsugu Kako

Osamu Iwata

Toshihiro Miura

Mirai Ishida

A functional unit for a toilet system includes: a discharge section discharging, into a toilet bowl, a test agent that allows for determination of a health condition of a human body through a reaction with urine; an input device configured to allow a user to perform an operation for discharging the test agent from the discharge section; and a control section controlling the discharge section based on the operation of the input device by the user. A functional unit for a toilet system includes: a discharge section discharging, into a toilet bowl, a test agent that allows for determination of a health condition of a human body through a reaction with urine; a control section controlling the discharge section; and a sensor, in which the control section performs control to discharge at least one of foam or the test agent based on a detection by the sensor.

Functional unit for toilet system and toilet system

Provided is a means for imparting hydrophilicity to a surface of a sanitary facility by means other than hydrophilic particles. A sanitary facility having a hydrophilized organic surface, wherein the hydrophilized organic surface has at least an organic cationic group, and a zeta potential at pH=7 of the hydrophilized organic surface is more than −40 mV.

Sanitary facility and method for manufacturing sanitary facility

Provided is a dielectric thin film including a metal oxide. The metal oxide includes bismuth, sodium, barium, and titanium, at least a part of the metal oxide is a tetragonal crystal having a perovskite structure, and a (100) plane of at least a part of the tetragonal crystal is oriented in a normal direction of a surface of the dielectric thin film.

Dielectric thin film, dielectric thin film element, piezoelectric actuator, piezoelectric sensor, head assembly, head stack assembly, hard disk drive, printer head and inkjet printer device

An information transaction device is connected to an information holding device including a storage unit storing personal information and includes a sharing approval reception unit configured to receive approval of sharing of the personal information by an information sharing destination device from a user associated with the personal information, a provision approval reception unit configured to receive approval of provision which is transmission of the personal information to an information provision destination device, from the user associated with the personal information, a sharing instruction unit configured to, in a case where the sharing approval reception unit receives the approval of the sharing, instruct the information holding device to perform the sharing, and a provision instruction unit configured to, in a case where the provision approval reception unit receives the approval of the provision, instruct the information holding device to perform the provision.

Information transaction device, information transaction method, and program

To provide a piezoelectric body film that can suppress decrease in the piezoelectric constant d, a method of producing a piezoelectric body film, and a piezoelectric body device. A piezoelectric body film comprising a fluororesin as a piezoelectric material, the fluororesin containing, as a main constituent unit, a repeating unit derived from vinylidene fluoride, a piezoelectric constant dof the piezoelectric body film being 20 pC/N or greater, and an extrapolated onset temperature at start of shrinkage determined by TMA measurement being not lower than 90° C. and not higher than 115° C. The difference between piezoelectric constants dmeasured before and after heating the piezoelectric body film at 100° C. for 24 hours relative to the piezoelectric constant dbefore the heating for 24 hours is 20% or less.

Piezoelectric body film, piezoelectric body film production method, and piezoelectric body device

A planar antenna includes a dielectric layer including a first surface and a second surface on a side opposite from the first surface, an antenna conductor provided on the first surface, a ground conductor provided on the first surface or the second surface, or provided on both of the first surface and the second surface, and a transmission line including a signal line that is connected to the antenna conductor or provided in proximity to the antenna conductor, wherein a dielectric portion of the dielectric layer that is in contact with the signal line has a loss tangent of 0.007 or less at 28 GHz.

Planar antenna, layered antenna structure, and window glass for vehicle

A system for providing a messaging service includes a talk storage for storing talk information in association with first user identification information, the talk information including a message from a second user to a first user, the first user identification information identifying the first user, and processing circuitry for outputting specification information specifying the one or more registered messages based on an acquisition of one or more registered messages, adding a first registered message specified by the first specification information, to the talk storage, based on each of one or more first requests accompanied by the first user identification information and first specification information included in the specification information, and adding a second registered message specified by the second specification information, to the talk storage, based on each of one or more second requests accompanied by the first user identification information and second specification information included in the specification information.

System, information processing method, information processing device, terminal, and medium

To provide a piezoelectric body film that can suppress decrease in the piezoelectric constant d31, a method of producing a piezoelectric body film, and a piezoelectric body device. A piezoelectric body film comprising a fluororesin as a piezoelectric material, the fluororesin containing, as a main constituent unit, a repeating unit derived from vinylidene fluoride, a piezoelectric constant d31 of the piezoelectric body film being 20 pC/N or greater, and an extrapolated onset temperature at start of shrinkage determined by TMA measurement being not lower than 90° C. and not higher than 115° C. The difference between piezoelectric constants d31 measured before and after heating the piezoelectric body film at 100° C. for 24 hours relative to the piezoelectric constant d31 before the heating for 24 hours is 20% or less.

A solid-state imaging device according to an embodiment of the disclosure includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer, and a voltage applier. The first electrode includes a plurality of electrodes independent from each other. The second electrode is disposed opposite to the first electrode. The photoelectric conversion layer is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The voltage applier applies different voltages to at least one of the first electrode or the second electrode during a charge accumulation period and a charge non-accumulation period.

Solid-state imaging device and method of controlling solid-state imaging device

There are provided a video projecting structure, which is capable of having not only transparency but also high visibility of a video, a process for producing the same, and a video display system including the video projection structure. A video projecting structure includes a first transparent layer having irregularities disposed on a surface thereof, a reflective layer disposed on the surface of the first transparent layer, and a second transparent layer disposed on the reflective layer; wherein when a surface of the first transparent layer opposite to the reflective layer is defined as a reference surface, the irregularities include a plurality of slant surfaces slant to the reference surface and reflecting light from a video; wherein when a first direction, a second direction and a third direction are defined such that the first direction is perpendicular to a normal direction of the reference surface, the slant surfaces extend in the first direction, the second direction is orthogonal to the first direction, the slant surfaces are arrayed in the second direction, and the third direction is a direction in which the slant surfaces have an average slant angle &#x3b8; to the reference surface in section in the second direction; the irregularities include a portion which is configured such that when an average spacing Smof the irregularities in the first direction, an average spacing Smof the irregularities in the second direction and an average spacing Smof the irregularities in the third direction are such that Sm&#x3e;Smand Sm&#x3e;Smare met, and Smis maximum; and wherein the irregularities include a portion which is configured such that when a frequency distribution of inclinations of the irregularities in the second direction to the reference surface is measured in 0.25&#xb0; divisions in every distance of 1 mm in order that the frequencies are represented as distances, the absolute value of a median value in the frequency distribution is a value other than 0&#xb0;.

Image projection structure, method for manufacturing same, and image display system

There is provided an imaging element includes a photoelectric conversion unit that includes a first electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer, and a second electrode, in which the photoelectric conversion unit further includes a charge storage electrode that has an opposite region opposite to the first electrode via an insulating layer, and a transfer control electrode that is opposite to the first electrode and the charge storage electrode via the insulating layer, and the photoelectric conversion layer is disposed above at least the charge storage electrode via the insulating layer.

Imaging element, stacked-type imaging element, and solid-state imaging apparatus

A solid-state image sensor includes a plurality of imaging element blocks each configured from a plurality of imaging elements. Each of the imaging elements includes a first electrode, a charge accumulating electrode arranged in a spaced relation from the first electrode, a photoelectric conversion portion contacting with the first electrode and formed above the charge accumulating electrode with an insulating layer interposed therebetween, and a second electrode formed on the photoelectric conversion portion. The first electrode and the charge accumulating electrode are provided on an interlayer insulating layer, and the first electrode is connected to a connection portion provided in the interlayer insulating layer.

Solid-state image sensor

An information processing apparatus disclosed has a controller. The controller forecasts whether an intended user will go to a restroom area in a facility. The intended user being a user who is eligible for using a multipurpose restroom stall. When it is forecast that the intended user will go to the restroom area, the controller reserves a multipurpose restroom stall provided in the restroom area by locking the door of the multipurpose restroom stall.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory storage medium

A vehicle control device that verifies integrity of a program within a higher-importance region containing a start-up program; and that verifies integrity of a program within a lower-importance region in a state in which the program within the higher-importance region has been started up by the start-up program.

Vehicle control device, vehicle control device start-up method, and recording medium

There is provided an imaging element including: a photoelectric conversion unit formed by stacking a first electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer, and a second electrode, in which the photoelectric conversion unit further includes a charge storage electrodethat has an opposite regionopposite to the first electrodevia an insulating layer, and a transfer control electrodethat is opposite to the first electrodeand the charge storage electrodevia the insulating layer, and the photoelectric conversion layer is disposed above at least the charge storage electrodevia the insulating layer

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Tokyo, Japan

Yusuke Sato