Fujitsu Corporation

Akinori Momii

Hiroshi Watanabe

Makoto Hasegawa

Takafumi Edanami

Masakatsu Fujita

Seiichi Kakinuma

Nobuhiro Tsunashima

A character recognition method is provided, in which the method includes the steps of: picking up images in a motion picture by changing brightness for each image; extracting a character area from each image; recognizing at least one character in the character area by performing a matching process between the character area and dictionary images for each image, and determining a character recognition result for each image; and selecting a final character recognition result of which the matching degree is the highest from the character recognition results of the images. Accordingly, even when a character is too dark to recognize due to shadows in the daytime or a character is too bright to recognize due to irradiation in the nighttime, the character can be recognized by using images having differing brightness.

Character recognition method and apparatus

Transmission level control is provided to eliminate a sense of disorder during a television conference connecting a multiplicity of locations. In a speech input terminal included in connection between multiple locations, there is provided a speech input means for inputting speech, a communication control means for controlling communication between the speech input means and a communication line, a transmission volume adjusting means capable of stepless adjustment of transmission volume, and a reception volume adjusting means. Thus, the volume adjusting means which has conventionally been provided only at a receiving end is now provided also at a transmitting end to allow stepless volume control, which enables speech output in conformity with the speech level of another entity's terminal.

Speech input terminal and speech synthesizing terminal for television

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Kawasaki, Japan

Akinori Momii