Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co., Ltd.

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Nippon Electric Co., Ltd.

Honeywell Information Systems Inc.

Mitsubishi Electric Company

Fumitaka Sato

Masayoshi Murayama

Shimpei Kunii

Shizuo Kamio

Hiroyuki Sakamoto

Koichi Kobayashi

Ryoichi Ishiura

Shigenori Miyagawa

Nobutaka Nakamura

Naoki Fujiwara

Masaki Murayama

Kyoji Hayashi

Masahiko Iwane

Tadashi Suzuki

Yasuhiro Ishibashi

Seigo Ito

Tsuneo Kinoshita

Isamu Yamazaki

Masayo Yamaki

Koichi Dewa

Shigekazu Sumita

Minoru Yoshida

Mitsuo Shimotani

Masato Hirai

Tsutomu Matsubara

Yuki Furumoto

Atsushi Kohno

Reiko Okada

Kiyoshi Matsutani

Akio Uekawa

Takayoshi Chikuri

Yuzuru Inoue

Wataru Yamazaki

Yuta Kawana

Yosuke Asai

Shinji Nishibe

Emiko Kido

Kensuke Adachi

Shogo Maeshima

Shinichiro Araki

Kunihito Takeuchi

Ken Kishida

Shigehiro Kajihara

Akira Koda

Tsunetaka Umeno

Edward A Mohrman

Tadanobu Furukatsu

Tetsuya Mizoguchi

Hiromichi Tome

A vehicle operating device includes: a voice operation unit () for recognizing an uttered voice and outputting a voice recognition result; a spatial operation unit () for recognizing a movement performed within a predetermined space and outputting a spatial recognition result; a main processing unit () for executing a processing corresponding to the voice recognition result and the spatial recognition result; and a display unit () for displaying an image generated in accordance with an instruction from the main processing unit, the image being superimposed on an actual scene that can be viewed through a windshield.

Multi-modal vehicle operating device

A speech recognizing apparatus includes a speech start instructing sectionfor instructing to start speech recognition; a speech input sectionfor receiving uttered speech and converting to a speech signal; a speech recognizing sectionfor recognizing the speech on the basis of the speech signal; an utterance start time detecting sectionfor detecting duration from the time when the speech start instructing section instructs to the time when the speech input section delivers the speech signal; an utterance timing deciding sectionfor deciding utterance timing indicating whether the utterance start is quick or slow by comparing the duration detected by the utterance start time detecting section with a prescribed threshold; an interaction control sectionfor determining a content, which is to be shown when exhibiting a recognition result of the speech recognizing section, in accordance with the utterance timing decided; a system response generating sectionfor generating a system response on the basis of the determined content to be shown; and an output sectionandfor outputting the system response generated.

Speech recognizing apparatus

An on-vehicle guidance apparatus is characterized in including an output sound control means for acquiring a sound volume setting of onboard equipment, a sound volume determining means for determining whether or not the sound volume setting is smaller than a predetermined threshold, and a guidance output control means for issuing a command for carrying out voice guidance in response to a determination signal from the sound volume determining means at a time when the sound volume setting becomes smaller than the above-mentioned threshold.

On-vehicle guidance apparatus

In a vehicle-mounted control apparatus, a control unitdisplays guidance on an operation of the vehicle-mounted control apparatus by voice input on a display device, and makes the user get training so that the user can master the techniques for operating the vehicle-mounted control apparatus (in step ST). At this time, by using a voice which the user tries to input in order to master the techniques for operating the vehicle-mounted control apparatus, the voice recognition unitlearns the features of the user's voice in the background, and computes recognition parameters. Thereby, the user can know how to operate the vehicle-mounted control apparatus and can also register the features of the voice in the vehicle-mounted control apparatus.

Vehicle-mounted control apparatus and program that causes computer to execute method of providing guidance on the operation of the vehicle-mounted control apparatus

According to one embodiment, an EC/KBC reads data of an acceleration sensor. The EC/KBC determines whether a computer is in a top heat state. If the EC/KBC determines that the computer is in the top heat state, it notifies a BIOS stored in a BIOS-ROM of a message to this effect. The BIOS which is notified from the EC/KBC that the computer is in the top heat state notifies an OS (Operating System) of the message to this effect. The OS sets a CPU to a power saving mode by an existing means such as the power saving utility of the OS, and sets the computer to the power saving mode.

Electronic device and power saving control method

An on-vehicle multimedia device to be operated by softwareincluding an application module grouphaving a plurality of application modulesthat realizes their respective different functions and an application control modulefor controlling each of the application modulescharacterized by the device comprising external hardware which inputs and outputs data to be processed by the software.

Vehicle-mounted multimedia device

A computer system of this invention includes a power input terminal which is provided outside a personal computer, and an external fuel cell assembly connected to the power input terminal. Hence, a computer system in which water produced from the fuel cell assembly is prevented from entering the computer can be provided. A personal computer for which an operation mode for deriving the personal computer by a fuel cell assembly is prepared to prevent any trouble due to user's misunderstanding can be provided.

System including a computer and a fuel cell that communicates with the computer and supplies power to the computer

A direction indicating device in which a current display direction is determined in consideration of the historical information of a direction of vehicle specified by a direction specifying unitand a previous display direction, to be specific, in a case where the current direction of vehicle specified by the direction specifying unitagrees with a previous direction of vehicle, the current display direction is changed to agree with the current direction of vehicle, and in a case where the current direction of vehicle specified by the direction specifying unitis different from the previous direction of vehicle, the current display direction is made to agree with the previous display direction.

Direction indicating device

System comprising a determining unit that determines whether a power supply is from a fuel cell assembly and a setting unit for setting operation mode as a fuel cell assembly

In this invention, a fuel cell assembly and an air channel for supplying air to the fuel cell assembly are arranged in a display unit of an electronic apparatus. A drain hole for draining water produced by the fuel cell assembly is formed in a side surface of the display unit. When a drain tool is connected to the drain hole and the electronic apparatus is in the OFF state, the operation mode switches to a fuel cell assembly mode for using the fuel cell assembly.

Electronic apparatus using fuel cell assembly

In a data recording and reproducing apparatus which records and reproduces a record medium in which at least two kinds of data having different data types can be recorded, data is read out from the record medium, and a digital watermark is detected from the data read out. The kind of data is determined depending upon whether the digital watermark is detected, and it is determined whether retry processing at the time of reading-out the data and verifying processing at the time of writing should be executed. The retry processing or the verifying processing is executed only for the data which is determined that the retry processing or the verifying processing should be executed. Therefore, in the case of data whose reading-out continuity is more important than reliability, the retry processing is omitted, so that time required for reading-out processing can be shortened. In the case of data whose recording continuity is more important than reliability, the verifying processing is omitted, so that time required for writing processing can be shortened.

Data recording/reproducing apparatus, data recording/reproducing method applied to the apparatus, and computer program product used in data processing apparatus

In a data recording and reproducing apparatus which records and reproduces a record medium in which at least two kinds of data having different data types can be recorded, data are read out from the record medium, and a digital watermark is detected from the data read out. The kind of data is determined depending upon whether the digital watermark is detected, and it is determined whether retry processing at the time of reading-out the data and verifying processing at the time of writing should be executed. The retry processing or the verifying processing are executed only for the data which is determined that the retry processing or the verifying processing should be executed. Therefore, in the case of data whose reading-out continuity is more important than reliability, the retry processing is omitted, so that time required for reading-out processing can be shortened. In the case of data whose recording continuity is more important than reliability, the verifying processing is omitted, so that time required for writing processing can be shortened.

When a user instructs acceleration or deceleration of the CPU processing speed with an &ldquo;accelerator&rdquo; button or a &ldquo;brake&rdquo; button, a speed control MMI informs power management system software of the corresponding information to change the CPU processing speed. The change is recorded on a speed management database in correspondence with the name of the application program which is currently being executed. Every time acceleration or deceleration of the CPU processing speed is instructed by the user, speed management data is formed on the speed management database. By using the speed management data, the CPU processing speed can be dynamically controlled for each piece of software when it is executed. Further disclosed is a novel power dissipation control system for a microprocessor, adapted to be used in conjunction with the above described MMI.

System and method for dynamically controlling processing speed of a computer in response to user commands

When a user instructs acceleration or deceleration of the CPU processing speed with an 'accelerator' button or a 'brake' button, a speed control MMI informs power management system software of the corresponding information to change the CPU processing speed. The change is recorded on a speed management database in correspondence with the name of the application program which is currently being executed. Every time acceleration or deceleration of the CPU processing speed is instructed by the user, speed management data is formed on the speed management database. By using the speed management data, the CPU processing speed can be dynamically controlled for each piece of software when it is executed. Further disclosed is a novel power dissipation control system for a microprocessor, adapted to be used in conjunction with the above described MMI.

System and method for dynamically controlling processing speed of a

For each of multiple segments acquired by dividing a binary image by a predetermined under of lines, image data of a reference line corresponding to a start line of that segment is stored in an intermediate start table in association with data indicating a head coding position of the start line in code data acquired when the binary image is compressed. Based on the stored data, partial image extraction is executed.

System and method of extracting binary image data

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Fumitaka Sato