Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Kyocera Corporation

Hochiki Corporation

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Seer Insight Security K.k.

Seer Insight Security Inc.

Akira Ishida

Takashi Yoshida

Atsushi Iisaka

Nobuhiko Yasui

Masuo Takigawa

Masahiro Takada

Yutaka Watanabe

Tomohiro Konuma

Kazushige Narazaki

Shigeru Kaneko

Tatsuya Nakamura

Osamu Ito

Takashi Baba

Takashi Fukunaga

Yoshihiro Matsuda

Akiyoshi Segawa

Norihiro Fujioka

Toru Mukai

Takehiro Ono

Eiji Tameda

Kunio Nobori

Tsuyoshi Inoue

Atsushi Morimura

Masamichi Nakagawa

Tsutomu Uenoyama

Kenji Sugihara

Shusaku Okamoto

Mitsuru Endo

Kiyomi Sakamoto

Tomohiro Terada

Yoshiki Ueyama

Ryouichi Kawanishi

Masahiro Adachi

Eiji Nakayama

Tatsuya Kimura

Natsuki Saito

Hideki Koike

Toru Ichikawa

Nobuo Kuchiki

Norihiko Kimura

Tomoya Nakanishi

Tetsuji Takada

Hiroshi Watanabe

Nubuo Kuchiki

A fire detector is connected to a loop transmission line connected to a receiver. When the loop transmission line is normal, a transmission unit is connected to the fire detector. When a disconnection failure occurs, a disconnection monitoring unit turns on switching circuits to connect the end of the loop transmission line to the transmission unit, and the receiver connects to the fire detector from both ends of the loop transmission line. An input/output switching booster is inserted and connected in the middle of the loop transmission line, and when the start side transmission line is disconnected and the switching circuits are turned on, the input/output is switched. Accordingly, the input/output switching booster amplifies the down signal input from the terminal side transmission line and outputs it to the start side transmission line and at the same time amplifies the up signal input from the start side transmission line.

Fire alarm system and booster

A fire detector is connected to a loop transmission path connected to a receiver. When the loop transmission path is normal, a communication connection is made from a transmitting unit to the fire detector to monitor fire. When a break fault occurs in the loop transmission path, a break monitoring control unit turns switching circuit units ON to connect a termination of the loop transmission path to the transmitting unit. To the loop transmission path, a relay detects a current normal direction at normal and a current reverse direction at the time of occurrence of a break for transmission to the receiver. When a break occurs in the loop transmission path, a break section determining unit of the receiver determines, as a break section, a section in which the current normal direction detected by a plurality of the relays is changed to the current reverse direction.

Fire notification facility

Provided is an in-vehicle charger capable of reliably obtaining charging control parameters prior to charging and capable of safe charging. In this charger, a charging unit () charges a battery () in accordance with the charging control parameters. A storage unit () stores a table in which a plurality of areas on a map and the charging control parameters are made to correspond to each other. A position information receiving unit () obtains position indicating the current position of a vehicle (). A control unit () refers to the table on the basis of the position information and sets the charging control parameters made to correspond to an area including the current position when a charging cable () is not connected.

In-vehicle charger

To classify moving images using audio signals. An audio signal is acquired, a section feature relating to an audio frequency distribution is extracted with respect to each of a plurality of sections each having a predetermined length contained in the acquired audio signal, each extracted section feature is compared with each of reference section features to calculate a section similarity indicating a degree of correlation between each section feature and each reference section feature. An integrated feature relating to the plurality of sections and being calculated based on the section similarity calculated with respect to each of the plurality of sections is extracted from the acquired audio signal. The extracted integrated feature is compared with each of one or more reference integrated features, and the audio signal is classified based on comparison result. Then, classification result is used for moving image classification.

Audio classification by comparison of feature sections and integrated features to known references

Provided is a radio relay station which relays data transmitted and received by a radio base station a radio terminal in a radio communication system which employs the TDD scheme. The radio relay station receives data from the radio base station during a downlink subframe period and transmits data to the radio base station during an uplink subframe period. The radio relay station sets a remote side transmission period for transmitting data to the radio terminal in the uplink subframe period and sets a remote side reception period for receiving data from the radio terminal in the downlink subframe period.

Radio relay station, radio relay method, radio communication system, location management device, radio terminal, and radio communication method

Provided is a repeater for relaying communication by achieving synchronization with a base station and a mobile station without using GPS. The repeater includes a donor unit communicating with the base station and a remote unit communicating with the mobile station. Upon receipt of a signal from the base station, the donor unit specifies a preamble of the received signal to achieve synchronization with the base station. This determines start of each frame in the communication between the base station and the repeater. After the synchronization achievement, the remote unit starts performing procedures for achieving synchronization with the mobile station. Upon notification of the start timing of each frame from the donor unit, the remote unit determines the notified timing as start timing of each frame in the communication between the repeater and the mobile station, and transmits a preamble referred to by the mobile station when it achieves synchronization.

Repeater, communication system, base station, radio terminal, and management server

A data processing device provides a result of categorization that is satisfactory to a user. The data processing device: stores model data pieces indicating detection counts of feature amounts; judges, for each target data piece, whether the target data piece is a non-categorization data piece including an uncategorizable object, using the model data pieces and the detection count of each of at least two feature amounts detected in the target data piece; when two or more of the target data pieces are judged to be non-categorization data pieces, specifies at least two feature amounts that are included and detected the same number of times, in a predetermined number or more of the non-categorization data pieces; and newly creates a model data piece based on the at least two specified feature amounts, using a class creation method, and stores the model data piece into the storage unit.

Data processing device for automatically classifying a plurality of images into predetermined categories

According to the present invention, improved techniques for monitoring and managing access and activity at individual devices in a networked environment. Specific embodiments can provide individual and workplace productivity enhancement through self-regulation enforced by peer-group monitoring of network and application usage. In accordance with the specific embodiments of the present invention, techniques that reveal activity of individual users at any device, such as a computer telephone, or other device, within the network environment can be used to analyze flows of information within an enterprise, workplace productivity, network security and other applications in enterprises, including business entities, technical entities, and governmental entities. Specific embodiments provide systems, methods, computer programs and apparatus for monitoring activity at networked entities, such as individual devices, computers, other devices, or other networked computing entities. The information obtained from such monitoring can be used to populate databases, for example. Further, or in the alternative, specific embodiments include analyzing the information, and sharing the information with one or more networked computers and/or with other computational entities locally or remotely connectable with the network. Specific embodiments can have a broad range of functionality in a variety of business, technical and governmental applications.

Method and system for monitoring individual devices in networked environments

A device displays images such that a driver can easily recognize an obstacle. The device includes a measurement for measuring a distance and direction to an obstacle, a comparison section for comparing the measured distance with a threshold value, a viewpoint determination section for determining a first viewpoint when the measured distance is larger than the threshold value and a second viewpoint based on the measured direction when the measured distance is not larger than the threshold value, an image generating section for generating an image representing an environment as seen from the first viewpoint when the first viewpoint is set and an image of a particular spot representing a view of the vehicle and the obstacle as seen from an area of the second viewpoint when the second viewpoint is set, and a display section for displaying the bird's eye image or the image of the particular spot.

Vehicle surrounding display device

In a rendering device Urnd, a processorreceives a front-left image Sfl and a front-right image Sfr at regular intervals, and therefrom, cuts out a partial front-left image and a partial front-right image for overlay onto a mask image. The processorthen overlays, with a predetermined timing, any one of vehicle model images varying in size onto the mask image. Here, the vehicle model image is overlaid in such manner as to create a moving picture as if the vehicle model image is moving forward. With such vehicle model image, a driver of a vehicle can instantaneously recognize that a drive assistant device is now showing the front side of the vehicle.

Rendering device for generating a display image for drive assistance

For supporting a complicated driving operation, a synthesized image is presented to the driver. The driver can view this image and thus drive with a sense of security. The synthesized image may include an image of at least one tire and may have an enlargement/reduction ratio that is relatively higher in a nearby area of the vehicle, including a grounding portion of at least one tire of the vehicle, as compared with a peripheral area of the vehicle.

Monitoring system

An obstacle detection device includes: an obstacle detection section () for emitting beams having a predetermined divergence angle consecutively in a plurality of different directions, receiving a reflected wave from an obstacle for each direction, and detecting the obstacle existing within an emission angle range of the beam for the direction; a distance calculation section () for calculating a distance representative of an interspace between the obstacle and the vehicle for each direction based on a received signal of the reflected wave for the direction outputted from the obstacle detection section; an obstacle image creation section () for creating, as an obstacle image, a figure two-dimensionally developed in the emission angle range of the beam emitted in each direction while treating, as a basis for image creation, the distance calculated by the distance calculation section for the direction, and for creating and outputting image data for displaying the obstacle image; and a display section () for receiving the image data created by the obstacle image creation section and displaying an image showing a positional relationship between the obstacle and the vehicle.

Obstacle detection device

A security administration server providing various security services in the LAN and a host server operating in connection thereto are provided. There is installed a security administration server (S) having a function for collecting various log information managed in various devices to be monitored (C) operating in the LAN, a function for generating an image by extracting information useful for security management of the LAN from collected log information and visualizing such information to a form easy for a person to use, and a function for sending the image to another monitoring device (C). Further, the security administration server (S) provides various security services in connection with a host server (H) operating in an external network.

Security administration server and its host server

A method and apparatus for speech recognition of the present application has a process to collate, with an input utterance, an acoustic model corresponding to a hypothesis to be expressed by the connection of utterance segments, such as phonemes or syllables, and developed according to a length of an input utterance by an inter-word connection rule thereby obtaining a recognition score. Within a word of the hypothesis, the similar hypotheses high in utterance score within a predetermined threshold from the maximum value of the score are all held to a word end irrespectively of the number of hypotheses. Meanwhile, at a word end of the hypotheses, the hypotheses are narrowed to a predetermined number of upper ranking in the order of higher score.

Method and apparatus for speech recognition

In a rendering device Urnda CPUreceives a captured image each from two image capture devicesandThe CPUthen receives a steering angle of a steering wheel of a vehicle from a steering angle sensorBased on the steering angle, the CPUderives an estimated trajectory for the vehicle to take in the course of time. Then, with reference to the estimated trajectory, the CPUselects several pixels each from the captured images, and then generates a drive assistant image based on those pixels. In this manner, the drive assistant image generated by the rendering device Urndhardly causes the driver to feel strange.

Image generation for assistance of drivers of vehicles

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Akira Ishida