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A light sensor 19 is provided for detecting a position of a lever 14 (an intermediate position between an initial position and a terminal position of the lever 14) between an ON state and an OFF state of the lever 14, and a musical sound in accordance with the position of the lever 14 detected by the light sensor 19 is generated. That is, in each of the ON state of the lever 14, the OFF state of the lever 14, and the state where the lever 14 is therebetween, different musical sounds are generated when the head 6 is percussed. Therefore, compared with the conventional technique where musical sounds can only be generated based on the ON or OFF state of the lever 14, musical sounds of a greater variety can be generated.

The disclosure relates generally to methods and systems for real time video driven human 3-dimensional (3-D) posture estimation during physical activities. Conventional techniques do not exploit temporal information, they do not give smooth transition of postures over time. Furthermore, the techniques that exploit the temporal information suffer from higher time requirements due to two state computations. The present disclosure solves the technical problems in the art with the methods and systems for real time video driven human 3-D posture estimation during physical activities. The present invention discloses a smart-phone camera based automatic posture monitoring system designed with an auto-encoder based architecture. The disclosed auto-encoder based cross-modal method uses monocular video (2-D image sequences) from a single low-end mobile device (for example, smart-phone camera) for estimating human 3-D posture in real time (˜5 fps) with high accuracy (less than 1 cm error per joint location).

To provide an aseismatic performance evaluation support device, an aseismatic performance evaluation support method and an aseismatic performance evaluation support program for more rationally evaluating the aseismatic performance of a building compared with a conventional technology.SOLUTION: The seismic performance evaluation support device 10 includes an acquiring unit 11A that acquires seismic motion group information indicating a plurality of types of seismic motion groups predetermined as seismic motion that may damage a building, and position information indicating a construction position of the building to be evaluated, a creating unit 11B that creates a fragility curve for each of the seismic motion groups by performing incremental dynamic analysis on the building using each of the plurality of types of seismic motion groups, a deriving unit 11C that derives a comprehensive fragility curve of the building by calculating a weighted average of the plurality of created fragility curves using a weighting factor indicating a ratio of a degree of influence at the construction position of each of the plurality of types of seismic motion groups, and a presenting unit 11D that presents information corresponding to the derived fragility curve.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 4

To provide a technology that enables machining simulation to be performed at higher speed than conventional techniques. [Solution] The information processing device includes a control unit. The control unit executes a process to acquire a voxel model used in a simulation. The voxel model is defined by a plurality of lattice points that constitute a collection of voxels. Each of the plurality of lattice points is associated with a label that indicates an attribute of the object at the position of the lattice point. The control unit executes a process to acquire processing information that defines the irradiation coordinates of a laser beam and the irradiation direction of the laser beam for each time step, and a process to sequentially update the labels associated with the lattice points within an area specified by the irradiation coordinates and irradiation direction to a state where additional processing has been performed, according to the time step.

To provide a useful or commercially beneficial option capable of at least partially coping with problems or defects of a conventional technique in an ophthalmic surgical instrument to be used during ophthalmic surgery.SOLUTION: In one embodiment, the present invention relates to a multipurpose ophthalmic blade for making a primary incision and a side port incision for entry into the anterior chamber of an eye. In another embodiment, the invention relates to an ophthalmic surgical instrument for delivering a fluid into and / or removing a fluid from an eye. The instrument includes a hollow shaft connectable to a blade portion adapted for making the side port incision in an eye for delivering or removing the fluid.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

A fixing mechanism for file threading binding relates to the technical field of binding tools and comprises a base, a back plate sliding in the vertical direction is arranged on the base, an upper clamping plate and a bottom support sliding in the vertical direction are arranged on the front face of the back plate side by side from top to bottom, and the lower surface of the bottom support abuts against the upper surface of the base. A first side clamping plate and a second side clamping plate which are oppositely arranged are arranged on the front face of the back plate in a sliding mode in the transverse direction, and the first side clamping plate and the second side clamping plate move oppositely or oppositely through a linkage assembly. The file binding device solves the problem that in the prior art, when a technician conducts threading and knotting on files, it cannot be guaranteed that a plurality of pieces of paper are aligned, and the file binding efficiency of the technician is affected.

To allow processing a sample while checking a portion to be analyzed, easier compared with conventional techniques.SOLUTION: A sample processing member (1) comprises: a processing section (12) whose tip (12a) comes into contact with a processing target portion (S1) of a sample (S) to process the sample (S); a processing holding section (2) that holds the processing section (12); an observation port (6) that is formed in the processing holding section (2) and is provided corresponding to a position of the tip (12a) of the processing section (12); and an optical member (7) that is installed in the observation port (6) and magnifies an image at the position of the tip (12a).SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

To provide a sliding unit having a smaller number of components or a lower cost as compared with a conventional technique, and to provide a training device including the sliding unit.SOLUTION: A sliding unit 13 (8) according to an aspect of the present invention includes a housing 1300 that is attached to a rail so as to be slidable on the rail and slides on the rail in accordance with training of a user, a rotation unit that is rotatably attached to the housing 1300 and receives a force from a body of the user during the training, a cam 1311 that rotates in accordance with rotation of the rotation unit, and a follower member 1312 that is in contact with the cam 1311 and moves in accordance with the rotation of the cam 1311. The follower member 1312 moves the biased load transmission member 14 in a direction against the bias as the cam 1311 rotates clockwise and counterclockwise from the reference position.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 23

To provide a technique capable of increasing the strength of a pallet having a fork insertion hole whose entire underside is open compared to conventional techniques.SOLUTION: A pallet 10A is equipped with a square groove-shaped first-direction continuous beam 11 that penetrates a central girder portion 70 to connect between a pair of first intermediate girder portions 71, and a band-shaped second-direction continuous beam 12 that penetrates the central girder portion 70 to connect between a pair of second intermediate girder portions 72, so that the transmission of the load caused by the cargo on the pallet 10A is less likely to be interrupted by the central girder portion 70. In other words, the square groove-shaped first-direction continuous beam 11, the band-shaped second-direction continuous beam 12, and the wall portions connected to them distribute the load caused by the cargo on a deck surface 90 over a wide area of the pallet 10A, making it possible to increase the strength of the pallet 10A that has a first fork insertion hole 91 whose entire underside is open compared to conventional pallets.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

A light sensor (19) is provided for detecting a position of a lever (14) (an intermediate position between an initial position and a terminal position of the lever (14)) between an ON state and an OFF state of the lever (14), and a musical sound in accordance with the position of the lever (14) detected by the light sensor (19) is generated. That is, in each of the ON state of the lever (14), the OFF state of the lever (14), and the state where the lever (14) is therebetween, different musical sounds are generated when the head (6) is percussed. Therefore, compared with the conventional technique where musical sounds can only be generated based on the ON or OFF state of the lever (14), musical sounds of a greater variety can be generated.

This application belongs to the field of computer technology and provides a method for executing test tasks of artificial intelligence models, a task compilation method, a chip, a device, and a computer device. This application pre-compiles the task to be processed of the artificial intelligence model, so that it has multiple sub-tasks that achieve performance balance. Each sub-test task in the self-test task set is assigned to the corresponding sub-task of the task to be processed. During the execution of each sub-task by the NPU of the computer device running the target application related to artificial intelligence technology, the sub-test tasks assigned to that sub-task can be executed synchronously. This realizes the efficient utilization of NPU resources and the parallel execution of self-test function safety checks. Unlike conventional technologies, it is not necessary to execute all the sub-test tasks in the self-test task set after completing a complete inference task, thereby improving the effective computing power and resource utilization of the NPU.

To provide a medical facility design support device and a medical facility design support program capable of supporting layout design capable of responding to more requests compared with a conventional technology.SOLUTION: A medical facility design support device 10 includes an acquirer 11A that acquires floor area information indicating a floor area of each of a plurality of departments installed in a target medical facility and excluding a hospital ward, building area information indicating a building area in a site where the medical facility is built, and actual state information indicating an actual state of a layout of at least a part of the plurality of departments in another medical facility, a deriver 11B that derives layout information indicating a layout of the plurality of departments for the medical facility in a case where the medical facility is built to have a plurality of floors in the site using the floor area information, the building area information, and the actual state information, and a presenter 11C that presents the layout indicated by the layout information.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

To obtain an estimation apparatus and an estimation program capable of estimating a degree of deterioration of a polysulfide-based sealant with higher accuracy than conventional techniques.SOLUTION: An estimation apparatus 10 includes: an acquisition unit 11A that acquires values of two types of items being leading items that are items for which changes are confirmed during a course of deterioration, and lagging items that are items for which changes are confirmed at a time point after deterioration, through prior experiments, for a polysulfide-based sealant to be estimated; and an estimation unit 11B that estimates a degree of deterioration of the sealant by using the acquired values of the two types of items.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

The present invention discloses a method -MICROREC- for installing recoverable piles or micropiles, devised to provide temporary containment, stabilisation of unstable ground or provisional structural support during the construction of walls or other retaining-and-support systems executed by sequential excavation in alternate pits ("batache" technique), or to allow the continuation of further excavation works. Unlike conventional techniques, the mwethod permits the recovery of the structural elements employed as piles or micropiles and, where applicable, of the casings, thereby markedly reducing execution costs and time while minimising environmental impact. The invention likewise affords the flexibility to use different materials, dimensions and spacings in accordance with the specific requirements of each project.

To solve such a problem that a conventional technique requires time and effort since it repeatedly pushes in a workpiece to ultimately correct bending.SOLUTION: A bending correction apparatus approximates a relationship between a deflection amount and a push-in amount using a cubic equation of a square root for each workpiece to be corrected. Constants for the equation are determined in a workpiece unit and stored in a storage part of a control unit. When correcting a specific workpiece, the cubic equation used for the workpiece is read out from the storage part by inputting information on the workpiece, and the deflection amount measured by a sensor is substituted into variables of the read-out cubic equation. Therefore the required push-in amount is calculated by a push-in amount calculation unit. A punch is controlled to push in the workpiece W by the push-in amount.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 5

The systems and methods described herein are configured to use finite element (FE) stress calculations to estimate nominal stress without manual calculations, particular grid density requirements, or identification of particular geometric parameters, such as sheet thickness. The systems and methods described herein can be used to identify nominal stresses in welded structures and components, and also non-welded components having stress concentration due to other reasons. The systems and methods described herein also allow for utilization of readily available FE stress results in a consistent manner, as well as providing user feedback regarding the accuracy of nominal stress approximations. In addition, the systems and methods described herein are generally faster and less error-prone than conventional techniques, and are relatively insensitive to the grid density of FE stress calculations.

Robotic systems and methods for tank seal inspection. A tank inspection robot includes a housing containing a drive assembly, and wheels disposed outside of the housing and operably coupled to the drive assembly. The tank inspection robot also includes at least one sensor coupled to, or disposed in or on a portion of the robot, for collecting data sufficient to evaluate a health, mechanical integrity or effectiveness of one or more circumferential seals between a floating roof, and an interior wall, of a storage tank. The disclosed robot and associated method enable safer and more efficient seal inspection routines as compared to conventional techniques.

To shorten a traffic regulation period necessary for fixing a guard fence.SOLUTION: A guard fence 1A for partitioning a road 50 formed by floor slabs 21, 22, 23, 24 includes: the floor slabs 22, 23; a guard fence part 10A for partitioning the road 50; a floor slab through-hole part 20h vertically penetrating the floor slabs 22, 23; and a fixing member 30 inserted into the floor slab through-hole part 20h and fixing the guard fence part 10A to the floor slabs 22, 23. Since the guard fence part 10A is fixed to the floor slabs 22, 23 by the fixing member 30 that is inserted into the floor slab through-hole part 20h vertically penetrating the floor slabs 22, 23 and fixes the guard fence part 10A to the floor slabs 22, 23, more of work required to fix the guard fence part to the floor slabs can be done from lower surfaces of the floor slabs than in the conventional technique in which a temporary guard fence is fixed to the floor slabs by anchors driven into upper surfaces of the floor slabs. Therefore, a traffic restriction period required to install the guard fence can be shortened.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3

There are provided a thickness measurement method, an X-ray analysis apparatus, an information processing apparatus, and a computer program that can measure the thickness of each layer of a multi-layer sample, which has been difficult to measure using conventional techniques. In the thickness measurement method, a sample including a plurality of layers is irradiated with X-rays so that the X-rays pass through the plurality of layers, fluorescent X-rays generated from the sample are detected, transmitted X-rays that have passed through the sample are detected, a first relational equation that expresses a relationship between the intensity of the detected transmitted X-rays and the thickness of each layer and a second relational equation that expresses a relationship between the theoretical intensity ratio of the fluorescent X-rays and the transmitted X-rays corresponding to the thickness of each layer and the intensity ratio of the detected fluorescent X-rays and the detected transmitted X-rays are created, and the thickness of each layer that simultaneously satisfies the first relational equation and the second relational equation is calculated.

The utility model discloses a portable tea leaf picker, which relates to the technical field of pickers and comprises a thumb sleeve and an index finger sleeve. A pinching-off piece is arranged at the side end of the thumb sleeve, a stress piece is arranged on the side face of the index finger sleeve, the pinching-off piece makes contact with the stress piece to complete tea leaf picking, the index finger sleeve is worn on the index finger, the thumb sleeve is worn on the thumb, and then tea leaves are picked through a conventional technique. The pinching-off piece can serve as a thumb nail and is matched with the stress piece to complete tea leaf picking, through the structural design, the situation that the nail is injured in the long-time picking process can be avoided, the problem that tea leaf pulp permeates into the nail or skin and is difficult to clean can be solved, meanwhile, the design can be attached to fingers, and the tea leaf picking efficiency is improved. Interference on tea leaf picking techniques can be reduced, and picking efficiency is not affected.

To solve a problem in conventional techniques where processing the back surface side of a three-dimensional modeled object has not been considered.SOLUTION: A system of manufacturing a three-dimensional modeled object comprises: a processing unit having either one of a modeling unit of discharging a modeling material from a nozzle to deposit it, and a cutting / grinding unit having a cutting / grinding tool; a holding unit for holding an intermediate body, which is to become a three-dimensional modeled object, in a state in which a back surface, the back surface being a surface opposite to a front surface formed on the intermediate body, faces the processing unit; and a control unit. The holding unit has a sensor for detecting a force received from the intermediate body. The control unit executes a process for controlling the processing unit in accordance with processing conditions to process the back surface side of the intermediate body in a state in which the intermediate body is held by the holding unit, to manufacture the three-dimensional modeled object. The control unit changes the processing conditions in accordance with a value of the force detected by the sensor.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

To provide a massage machine capable of performing a massage operation by a technique using a wide surface in addition to a conventional technique.SOLUTION: A massage machine 1 includes a treatment part 3 that moves while performing treatment to a human body, a power source 4, and a power transmission part 5 for transmitting power for the treatment and the movement from the power source 4 to the treatment part 3. The treatment part 3 includes a treatment element 31 as a unit for performing treatment to the human body. The treatment part 3 includes a first part 3a whose area for performing treatment to the human body is relatively small, and a second part 3b whose area for performing treatment is relatively large.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3

To further develop the conventional technique.SOLUTION: A cartridge comprises: a holding part which is movable between the first position and the second position for stably holding a second unit by a first unit at the separation position and the development position; and a contact force reception part which can receive the contact force for moving the holding part from the first position toward the second position for moving the second unit to the development position while the second unit is at the separation position. In a case where the tangential line to the surface of a photoreceptor at an intersection further from the rotation center of a charging member of the intersection between the straight line connecting the rotation center of the charging member and the rotation center of the photoreceptor and the surface of the photoreceptor when viewed along the direction of the rotation axial direction of the development member is defined as a prescribed tangential line, and a region in which the rotation center of the charging member is not arranged when dividing the region with the prescribed tangential line as the boundary is defined as a prescribed region, the contact force reception part is arranged in the prescribed region when viewed along the direction of the rotation axial line of the development member while the second unit is at the separation position.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

To provide a percussion instrument that can generate a variety of musical sounds, and a method for generating musical sound.SOLUTION: The percussion instrument includes an optical sensor 19 that detects a position (a position between an initial position and a terminal position of a lever 14) of the lever 14 between an ON state and an OFF state of the lever 14, wherein a musical sound is generated in accordance with the position of the lever 14 detected by the optical sensor 19. In other words, different musical sounds are generated when a head 6 is struck in each of the ON state and the OFF state and a state between them of the lever 14, so it is possible to generate a wider variety of musical sounds than with a conventional technique which can only generate musical sounds based on the ON state or the OFF state of the lever 14.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3

[Problem] To address the problem that intended information cannot be extracted from a large amount of file data groups including various kinds of information and various formats in a conventional technique. [Solution] In order to solve this problem, provided is an information processing device comprising: a first reception unit that receives, from a user, a setting of a main prompt for indicating one or more extraction targets from a plurality of pieces of file data including a plurality of pieces of information, the main prompt being input to a large-scale language model; a second reception unit that receives, from the user, a setting of a detailed prompt having one or a plurality of items, the detailed prompt being for setting in detail the indication for the extraction targets by the main prompt; and an extraction unit that inputs, to the large-scale language model, the main prompt according to the setting received by the first reception unit and the detailed prompt according to the setting received by the second reception unit, and extracts the extraction targets from the file data.

This disclosure relates generally to methods and systems for automated image segmentation of an anatomical structure such as heart. Most of the techniques in literature are using 2-D or slice by-slice data due to lightweight and need of less data for training. These networks lack 3-D contextual information. Further, the conventional techniques are inaccurate and inefficient in the 3-D image segmentation till the last slice of the image. The present disclosure solves automated 3-D image segmentation of the anatomical structure such as heart, by proposing a new Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) based architecture for the 3-D segmentation, with a patch-based extraction technique and a class-weighted generalized dice loss. The proposed 3-D GAN based architecture is capable of storing the 3-D contextual information for the image segmentation of the anatomical structure, with high accuracy.

To provide a system that eliminates conventionally required time- and effort-consuming tasks by instantly providing a result upon data entry and quickly generating a material.SOLUTION: A system is provided, comprising means of instantly providing a result upon data entry and quickly generating a material, means of performing data processing, and means of displaying a result.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Systems and methods for non-continuous or intermittent entrapment or intermittent anchoring of elastic strands between non-woven materials using ultrasonic energy. A cutting element, e.g., on the anvil, is positioned so that when the non-woven materials with the elastic strands reach the ultrasonic horn, the strand(s) are cut or severed at that point, allowing the elastic to "snap back" toward the roller, which still pinches the elastic strands and holds them between the non-woven materials. This allows discontinuous or intermittent placement of tensioned elastic between non-woven materials, allowing strategic use of elastic while reducing overall elastic material used in a product compared to conventional techniques. Instead of cutting, other techniques allow intermittent bonding or entrapment of elastic strand portions along a product being made, such as by using ultrasonic energy amplitude cycling, ultrasonic stack force cycling, or a combination of both. Products made according to these techniques are also disclosed.

A machining center is provided, which can complete replacement of processed works on stock shelves in a work storage section with unprocessed works within a time period significantly shorter than those in conventional techniques and improve the efficiency of an entire processing process. In the machining center, a cover surrounding the work storage section includes an opening portion where rear surface regions of the stock shelves are exposed, a stock shelf access door that closes the opening portion and is driven to be opened and closed, a locking device for the stock shelf access door, a unlocking mechanism that is operable from the outer side of the cover to unlock the locking device, and a door opening / closing detection device that detects an opened or closed state of the stock shelf access door. A control unit of a CNC device includes an interlocking function of disabling the unlocking mechanism while an automatic pallet changer is driven, and a safety control function of prohibiting, based on a detection signal from the door opening / closing detection device, a drive unit of the automatic pallet changer from being driven while the stock shelf access door is in the opened state.