Abstract: According to an embodiment, a medical information processing device includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires text data of a processing target and outputs specific information for identifying one item of medical information satisfying a specific condition regarding a diagnosis target based on a medical term included in the text data and a medical ontology in which a relationship between two or more items of the medical information is defined.

Abstract: A medical learning apparatus acquires a data set consisting of a plurality of events, the data set including first data that includes first action data relating to an expert. The medical learning apparatus trains, based on the first data, a causal structure model for inferring a causal relationship relating to the plurality of events.

Abstract: A medical information processing apparatus is a medical information processing apparatus that stores medical information of a patient and includes a processing circuitry and a memory. The processing circuitry performs voice recognition processing on a voice of a user, inputs the medical information based on a result of the voice recognition processing, acquires a mental state of the user by analyzing the voice of the user, and stores an analysis result of a mental state analysis section in the memory.

Abstract: An automatic analyzing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a reagent storage, a reaction vessel, a placement part, and a wiring fixing part. On the placement part, at least one of the reagent storage and the reaction vessel is placed. The wiring fixing part is attached to the bottom face side of the placement part, while a wiring connected to at least one of the reagent storage and the reaction vessel is fixed to the bottom face side of the wiring fixing part. It is possible to pull out the wiring fixing part.

Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus according to the present embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry inputs a first magnetic resonance image reconstructed with super-resolution processing on magnetic resonance data and a second magnetic resonance image obtained by imaging the same object as that of the first magnetic resonance image and with artifacts suppressed compared with the first magnetic resonance image, to a leaned model, the learned model being configured to output a third magnetic resonance image having the same resolution as that of the first magnetic resonance image and with the artifacts suppressed, generates the third magnetic resonance image based on the first magnetic resonance image and the second magnetic resonance image, using the learned model.

Abstract: A medical information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a processing circuitry. Based on files pertaining to medical information that users intend to browse or operate and folders that store the files therein, which are managed by each user, the processing circuitry assigns a label representing an attribute to each of the folders. Based on the files stored in the folders with the same or similar label, the processing circuitry sets a condition pertaining to presentation of the file.

Abstract: A medical imaging system comprising: a data storage resource configured to store probability data representing probability information for a location of a feature of interest in an anatomical region; processing circuitry configured to: receive medical image data representing a medical image of at least an anatomical region; retrieve the probability data from the data storage resource; process the medical image data to perform at least one image augmentation operation on the received medical image for at least one feature of interest based on the probability information for the location of the at least one feature of interest in the anatomical region.

Abstract: A cassette comprises a sheet housing portion that has an opening in an upper face and houses sheets, a cassette cover that can be attached and detached and covers at least a portion of the opening, a first protruding portion that is provided in one edge portion of the cassette cover and protrudes toward a bottom face of the sheet housing portion, and a second protruding portion that is provided in the other edge portion of the cassette cover and opposes the first protruding portion, wherein the sheet housing portion includes a projection-shaped portion that protrudes toward the first protruding portion and a position regulating portion that has a gap into which the second protruding portion enters, and the first protruding portion is provided with a receiving portion into which the projection-shaped portion enters.

Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to an embodiment includes a processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to display, as a live image, an image that data output from an ultrasonic probe represents; recognize an image type of the live image; extract, out of past data collected before the live image, data at least a part of which is in common to the image type of the live image; and display an image that the extracted data represents on the same screen as that of the live image.

Abstract: A transport system includes a transport path having at least two transporting modules, a carriage configured to move on the transport path, a controller provided on each of the two transporting modules and configured to drive the carriage in response to a drive command, and a sensor provided on each of the two transporting modules. The drive command is corrected with a distance between the sensors provided on the two transporting modules.

Abstract: The object is to provide a liquid container that can prevent foreign substances from flowing into a liquid ejection apparatus with a simple configuration. The liquid container for containing liquid to be ejected by a liquid ejection apparatus includes: a bag body configured to contain the liquid inside; and a flow path for supplying the liquid contained inside the bag body to the liquid ejection apparatus, wherein, inside a peripheral wall of the flow path, a first capturing unit extending in an anti-gravitational direction and a second capturing unit extending in a gravitational direction are arranged at different positions with respect to a direction in which the liquid flows.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid ejection apparatus, liquid ejection method, dispensing apparatus, and compound introduction apparatus capable of inhibiting contamination of a liquid after being ejected. The liquid ejection apparatus has an ejection unit having an ejection part and an ejection energy generation element that ejects a liquid from the ejection part by using a principle of inkjet ejection into an internal space in a storage part capable of storing the ejected liquid. When ejecting the liquid, the ejection unit covers an opening portion of the storage part to thereby screen the internal space in the storage part from an external space.

Abstract: An optical system with a fixed focal length includes a front lens unit closest to an object, a rear lens unit having a negative refractive power closest to an image plane, and a middle unit having a positive refractive power as a whole, including one or more lens units, and disposed between the front lens unit and the rear lens unit. A distance between adjacent lens units changes during focusing. The rear lens unit includes two or more positive lenses. A predetermined condition is satisfied.

Abstract: There is provided a compound having a structure represented by the following Formula (1), in Formula (1), R1 and R2 each independently represent a phenyl group having a substituent or an unsubstituted phenyl group, R3 and R4 each independently represent a C2-C12 alkyl group having a substituent or an unsubstituted C2-C12 alkyl group, a cyano group, a trifluoromethyl group, or a halogen atom, R5 and R6 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, R7 represents a phenyl group having a substituent, an unsubstituted phenyl group, or a heteroaromatic group having a specific structure, and X? represents an anion, and in a case where at least one anionic substituent is included in a molecule, X? may not be present.

Abstract: A radiographic imaging apparatus includes a state transition mode selection unit configured to select a state transition mode from among a first state transition mode of changing from a stand-by state to a ready-for-imaging state based on irradiation preparation start information about a radiation generation apparatus and a second state transition mode of changing from the stand-by state to the ready-for-imaging state based on other information excluding the irradiation preparation start information.

Abstract: A sheet conveying apparatus may comprise a first conveying roller configured to convey a sheet and a second conveying roller disposed on a downstream side of the first conveying roller in a conveyance direction of the sheet. In a case where the second conveying roller rotates at a first speed by a driving force being transmitted to the second conveying roller, the first conveying roller rotates by being driven with respect to the second conveying roller. In a case where the second conveying roller rotates at a second speed faster than the first speed by the driving force being transmitted to the second conveying roller, the first conveying roller rotates at the second speed.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for producing a microchannel device, which can form a channel that has high hydrophobicity, high solvent resistance as well, and also resistance to heat and damage, on demand with high accuracy, and produces the microchannel device at a low cost, while having high productivity. The method for producing a microchannel device includes: forming a channel pattern from a hydrophobic resin on a porous substrate by an electrophotographic method; melting the channel pattern by heat to allow the channel pattern to permeate into the porous substrate, thereby forming a channel in the inside of the porous substrate.

Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to perform both heater drive control and fuse drive control without increasing the number of signal lines. One embodiment of the present invention is a printing apparatus including: a print head having a plurality of heaters for heating and ejecting ink and a fuse for retaining information; and a print head control unit configured to control the print head, and the print head control unit has a heater drive control unit configured to control drive of the plurality of heaters and a write pulse generation unit configured to generate a write pulse for performing write for the fuse and data that is generated by the heater drive control unit and the write pulse are transmitted from the print head control unit to the print head via an identical terminal and an identical signal line.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an automatic analyzing apparatus includes: a holder including a plurality of placement portions for a reaction tube to be placed thereon; a photometry unit for performing photometry on a solution inside the reaction tube, the photometry unit including a plurality of light emitters and a plurality of first light receivers respectively disposed in the plurality of placement portions; and processing circuitry configured to adjust quantities of light of the plurality of light emitters based on a light quantity signal from a second light receiver that receives light generated by the light emitters and guided by jig inserted into the placement portions.

Abstract: An inspection apparatus for inspecting an inspection target object, includes an X-ray generation tube having a target including an X ray generation portion that generates X-rays by irradiation with an electron beam, and configured to emit X-rays to an inspection target surface of the inspection target object, an X-ray detector configured to detect X-rays emitted from a foreign substance existing on the inspection target surface irradiated with the X-rays from the X ray generation portion and totally reflected by the inspection target surface, and an adjustment mechanism configured to adjust a relative position between the inspection target surface and the X-ray detector.

Abstract: A metal frame of an image forming apparatus includes a first support which includes a first metal plate and a second metal plate; a second support configured to support the image forming unit together with the first support; and a third support configured to connect the first support and the second support. The first metal plate includes a corner portion provided between a first portion and a second portion. The second metal plate includes a third portion, a fourth portion, and a fifth portion, wherein the fifth portion includes another corner portion located between a first stretched portion and a second stretched portion facing the corner portion of the first metal plate. A tip of the second stretched portion faces the fourth portion.

Abstract: A device management application acquires device information at a predetermined frequency from a printing device on a network and generates a device list by adding a newly detected printing device. In the device list, for a printing device on which device information is acquired, the device information is accumulated in association with the acquisition date and time, and for a printing device on which device information is not acquired, information indicating no connection is accumulated as device usage information in association with the acquisition date and time. A report is created based on the information accumulated for printing devices included in the device list.

Abstract: A coupling structure is provided in an image forming apparatus that forms an image on a recording material and constituted to couple a first sheet metal and a second sheet metal having an insulative layer on a surface of a metal layer, respectively. The coupling structure includes a first conductive portion, a second conductive portion and a coupling portion. The metal layer of the first conductive portion is exposed by the insulative layer being exfoliated by laser working in the first sheet metal. The metal layer of the second conductive portion is exposed by the insulative layer being exfoliated by laser working in the second sheet metal. The coupling portion couples the first sheet metal and the second sheet metal in a state in which at least a part of the first conductive portion and at least a part of the second conductive portion are contacted with each other.

Abstract: Convenience and security of an information processing apparatus including a USB host interface in a case where network connection is established via a USB-LAN adapter are improved. The information processing apparatus includes a plurality of external USB ports to which USB compatible network adapters are connected. The information processing apparatus performs a predetermined notification in response to a number of the network adapters connected to the information processing apparatus via the external USB ports having reached a predetermined upper limit.

Abstract: Provided an electrophotographic electro-conductive member that can stably suppress an occurrence of fogging in an electrophotographic image. The member comprises a support having an electro-conductive outer surface, and an electro-conductive layer on the outer surface of the support, the electro-conductive layer having a matrix including a cross-linked product of a first rubber, and domains dispersed in the matrix, the domains each includes a cross-linked product of a second rubber and an electro-conductive particle, at least some of the domains is exposed to the outer surface of the electro-conductive member to constitute protrusions on an outer surface of the member, the outer surface of the electro-conductive member is constituted by the matrix and the domains exposed to the outer surface of the electrophotographic electro-conductive member, the electrophotographic electro-conductive member has an impedance of 1.0×103? or more and 1.0×108? or less, and some of the domains satisfy two specific requirements.

Abstract: To control an image forming apparatus using a service on a network, an information terminal performs two-factor authentication and acquires authentication information through the two-factor authentication so that the image forming apparatus accesses the service.

Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes a liquid discharge substrate that has a discharge-orifice row, pressure generating elements, and pressure chambers. The liquid discharge head discharges a liquid in a block-by-block manner using sequential driving. The discharge-orifice row is disposed so as to incline at an angle ?=Arctan (d1/d2) relative to a direction extending orthogonal to the conveyance direction of the medium, in which d1 (?m) is a disposition spacing of the discharge orifices in the discharge-orifice row in the conveyance direction and d2 (?m) is a disposition spacing of the discharge orifices in the discharge-orifice row in the direction orthogonal to the conveyance direction. A partition wall is formed between adjacent pressure chambers so as to separate the adjacent pressure chambers from each other. The partition wall has a communicating portion that communicates the adjacent pressure chambers with each other.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for profiling a print medium for use in a printing system. The print medium is received in an input holder and a plurality of test jobs is received in a test job receiver. For each test job a uniquely determined combination of at least a first printing system parameter of print speed of the printing system and a second printing system parameter of coverage of the marking material is intended to be prepared by a print controller. The printing system registers a test result of each test job. The print controller creates a two-dimensional media print mode table of media print modes for the print medium to be profiled based on the test results of the test jobs for the print medium. When a print job arrives intended to be printed on the profiled medium, a media print mode is selected from the two-dimensional media print mode table.

Abstract: An image forming operation forms an image on a transfer target in a state in which a developing member is located at a first position where a developer is supplied to an image bearing member and a first charging voltage is applied to a charging unit. The image forming operation is followed by: a first rotating operation of rotating the image bearing member in a state in which the developing member is located at the first position and a second charging voltage smaller in absolute value than the first charging voltage is applied; and a second rotating operation of rotating the image bearing member in a state in which the developing member is located at a second position where the developer is not supplied to the image bearing member and a third charging voltage smaller in absolute value than the second charging voltage is applied.

Abstract: A cartridge includes a first unit including a photosensitive member, and a second unit including a developer bearing member and a force receiving portion, the second unit being configured to be rotatable about a first axis to move with respect to the first unit between a first position and a second position. In a state where the first unit is in a same posture as when an image forming operation is performed, the second unit is disposed at the second position by its own weight. The developer bearing member is configured to be rotatable about a second axis. When seen in the direction of the first axis, a first distance between the force receiving portion and the second axis is smaller than a second distance between the first axis and the second axis and a third distance between the first axis and the force receiving portion.

Abstract: Provided is a sheet conveying device including: a conveying portion; and a first conveying guide, the first conveying guide forming a conveying path above a heating portion and having a curved portion for forming a curved path in the conveying path and a plurality of ribs provided on a surface of the curved portion, the plurality of ribs extending along a conveying direction and including a first rib and a second rib adjacent to the first rib, wherein the second rib is arranged to be deviated from the first rib in a width direction and the conveying direction, and wherein in the conveying direction, a second upstream end of the second rib being positioned between a first upstream end and a first downstream end of the first rib, the first downstream end being positioned between the second upstream end and a second downstream end of the second rib.

Abstract: An abutting portion that abuts on an operation lever for moving a pressure roller is provided on an inner side of an exterior cover provided so as to be openable and closable with respect to a housing that accommodates a fixing unit. The pressure roller is movable to a first pressing position where the pressure roller presses a heating roller with a first pressing force and to a second pressing position where the pressure roller presses the heating roller with a second pressing force smaller than the first pressing force. In addition, the operation lever is moved to a first position for positioning the pressure roller at the first pressing position and to a second position for positioning the pressure roller at the second pressing position. When the exterior cover is closed while the operation lever is located at the second position, the abutting portion abuts on the operation lever.

Abstract: Provided is an electrophotographic belt having a cylindrical film as a base layer. The cylindrical film contains crystalline polyester and carbon black, and a content of the carbon black in the cylindrical film is 2.0% by mass or more. Fc1 is 0.30 or more, and ?c1 being ?10° to +10°, where Fc1 denotes an average degree of arrangement of the carbon black in the circumferential direction observed in a cross section in a direction along a circumferential direction of the cylindrical film, and ?c1 denotes an average arrangement angle of the carbon black in the circumferential direction observed in a cross section in a direction along a circumferential direction of the cylindrical film.

Abstract: An optical device includes, in sequence, a surface formed of a metal oxide, a samarium oxide-containing layer in contact with the surface formed of a metal oxide, and a magnesium fluoride-containing layer in contact with the samarium oxide-containing layer so as to suppress optical absorption resulting from high-rate sputter deposition of a magnesium fluoride-containing layer on a surface formed of a metal oxide.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus reserves a plurality of regions including a region of log information; converts image data from a first region into data in a predetermined format; controls execution of conversion if a conversion condition is satisfied and storage of the converted data in a second region; externally transmits log information that includes job attribute information corresponding to converted data based on the converted data that are stored in the second region; executes conversion of unprocessed image data and transmission of log information based on the converted data even if the conversion condition is not satisfied if an amount of job-related information that is stored in the first region or the second region satisfies a predetermined condition.

Abstract: A unit includes a wiring board having a first face having a mounting portion on which an electronic device is mounted, a second face opposite to the first face, and end faces continuous with the first face and the second face, a resin member provided to cover the end faces and to have protrusions protruding upward from the end faces to face each other across a space above the mounting portion, and an insulating film covering the second face, wherein at least a part of an edge of the insulating film is provided away from an end of the second face on the end face side.

Abstract: A printing system comprises a printing apparatus, a printing service, and an information processing apparatus. The printing service registers the printing apparatus and stores a print job received from the information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus transmits, to the printing service, a print job of a logged-in user in which a printing apparatus is designated. The printing apparatus stores a user of the printing service in association with a user of the printing apparatus, fetches a print job of a user associated with a logged-in user stored in the printing service, and executes printing. A guest user of the printing service is associated with a guest user of the printing apparatus, and the printing apparatus does not execute printing for a print job of the guest user for which a password has not been set.

Abstract: The present disclosure determines whether or not a character string of a result obtained by a character recognition process matches a word of a word dictionary; and when a pattern that is similar to a predefined arrangement pattern of a character type is present in the character string of the result obtained by the character recognition process that is determined not to match a word of the word dictionary, changes the character recognition process for the character string based on the pattern.

Abstract: A method of encoding a motion vector predictor index, in particular a Merge index, comprises generating a list of motion vector predictor candidates, in particular merge candidates. The list includes an ATMVP candidate. One of the motion vector predictor candidates in the list is selected. A motion vector predictor index for the selected motion vector predictor candidate is generated using CABAC coding. One or more bits of the motion vector predictor index are bypass CABAC coded. For example, only the first bit of the motion vector predictor index is CABAC coded using a single context.

Abstract: An electronic device comprises a display configured to display an image, an ocular optical system for viewing the display, and a control unit configured to control the display unit so as to change a display area of the display based on a distance from the ocular optical system to an eye of a user looking into the ocular optical system.

Abstract: A print setting extension application is provided to a client terminal as an application used for extending a function of a printer driver that issues a print job used for performing printing at a printer registered in a cloud print server via the cloud print server that registers a printer in accordance with an instruction transmitted when a user performs an operation on the printer side. The print setting extension application issues, as a print job for a cloud print, a print job that requires entry of a password on the printer side when printing is performed.

Abstract: When swinging of a camera does not follow a motion of a subject in following-photographing, the position of the subject deviates among a plurality of images, and thus there is a problem that the subject that is moving is blurred. An image processing apparatus includes: a standard region designation unit configured to designate a partial region in an image as a standard region; a standard region motion blur setting unit configured to set a motion blur in the standard region designated by the standard region designation unit as a predetermined motion blur; and a motion blur adjustment unit configured to adjust a motion blur in the standard region so that the motion blur becomes the predetermined motion blur and adjust a motion blur on a screen of a region different from the standard region in accordance with the adjusting of the motion blur in the standard region.

Abstract: An image forming device in the present application includes a reception unit configured to receive from an information processing device connected to the image forming device information representing a predetermined operating system operating in the information processing device, a setting unit configured to, in response to the reception unit receiving the information, set a structure of a USB device interface to be notified to the information processing device, and a notification unit configured to notify the information processing device of the structure of the USB device interface set by the setting unit.

Abstract: An electrophotographic roller comprising a substrate and a foam layer on an outer peripheral surface of the substrate, the foam layer constituting an outer surface of the electrophotographic roller, the foam layer comprising cells each of which opens on the outer surface, and the foam layer having a zero-point charge measured using a standard carrier of 40 ?C/g or more.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine whether a user has authority to set setting data, a reception unit configured to, in a case where it is determined that the user has the authority to set the setting data, receive a setting of the setting data, a generation unit configured to generate verification data on the received setting data, and a verification unit configured to, in a case where the information processing apparatus starts, verify the setting data using the verification data.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an intermediate transfer belt, an outer roller, a power source, and a regulation member. The outer roller transfers a toner image onto a recording material. The power source applies a voltage to the outer roller. The regulation member regulates orientation of the recording material. Information is acquired regarding a timing at which orientation of a recording material first portion, passing through the transfer portion that is located between the outer roller and the regulation member, can change to move closer to the intermediate transfer belt. Based on the acquired information, a transfer voltage target value for transfer onto the recording material is changed between a first target value of a period anterior to the timing and a second target value of a period posterior to the timing that is larger in absolute value than the first target value.

Abstract: One or more devices, systems, methods, and storage mediums for optical imaging medical devices, such as, but not limited to, Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), single mode OCT, and/or multi-modal OCT apparatuses and systems, and methods and storage mediums for use with same, for triggering auto-pullback, including for devices or systems using blood clearing, are provided herein. Examples of applications include imaging, evaluating and diagnosing biological objects, such as, but not limited to, for Gastro-intestinal, cardio and/or ophthalmic applications, and being obtained via one or more optical instruments, such as, but not limited to, optical probes, catheters, capsules and needles (e.g., a biopsy needle). Techniques provided herein also improve processing and imaging efficiency while achieving images that are more precise.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus, which communicates with an image forming apparatus and a reader, including: a display; and a controller configured to: obtain read image data output from the reader; determine an error of the read image data based on the read image data and reference data; cancel image forming operation of the image forming apparatus in a case where the error is determined in succession a predetermined number of times; cancel reading operation of the reader in the case where the error is determined in succession the predetermined number of times; notify, on the display, the cancellation of the image forming operation and the reading operation in the case where the error is determined in succession the predetermined number of times; and receive a user's instruction information about the predetermined number of times.

Abstract: A communication device includes a first communication interface for a first transmission path, a second communication interface for a second transmission path, a control unit that controls a communication path internal to the communication device of a signal received by the first communication interface, and a processing unit that performs predetermined processing on the received signal, wherein the control unit performs control to output, in a case where the communication device is in a first state, the received signal to the second communication interface via the processing unit, and output, in a case where the communication device is in a second state, the received signal to the second communication interface by bypassing the processing unit.

Abstract: A display device displays an image in which each frame is formed by at least two subframes. The display device includes a drive unit configured to drive a plurality of pixels in a pixel array so as to drive pixels in at least two rows based on pixel data of each row of each supplied subframe data. The drive unit drives the plurality of pixels so as to cause pixels in a row not matching a row in the supplied current subframe data to emit light with a first condition, and cause pixels in a row matching the row in the current subframe data to emit light with a second condition. The second condition is a condition in which a light emission amount is larger than in the first condition when causing the pixels to emit light in accordance with identical pixel values.