Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Hideki Hirakawa

Kazuo Sumita

Shuichi Tsujimoto

Miwako Doi

Toru Kambayashi

Toshihiro Sugaya

Koichiro Akiyama

Seiji Miike

Shin-ya Amano

Osamu Hori

Kazuhiro Kimura

Akira Kumano

Hiroyasu Nogami

Kimihito Takeda

Kenji Ono

Shinya Amano

Etsuo Ito

Yoshimi Asahioka

Yumiko Yoshimura

Toshio Okamoto

Tetsuro Chino

Mika Fukui

Akio Okazaki

Hiroyuki Tsuboi

Yasukazu Okamoto

Noriko Yamanaka

Yuuichi Kurosawa

Hisahiro Adachi

Yoshimi Saito

Mariko Kimura

Hideo Numagami

Yumi Mizutani

Katumi Tanaka

A speech recognition apparatus includes a generation unit generating a recognition candidate associated with a speech utterance and a likelihood; a storing unit storing the one recognition; a selecting unit selecting the recognition candidate as a recognition result of a first speech utterance; an utterance relation determining unit determining whether a second speech utterance which is input after the input of the first speech utterance is a speech re-utterance of a whole of the first speech utterance or a speech re-utterance of a part of the first speech utterance; a whole correcting unit correcting the recognition candidate of the whole of the first speech utterance when the second speech utterance is the whole of the first speech utterance; and a part correcting unit correcting the recognition candidate for the part of the first speech utterance when the second speech utterance is the part of the first speech utterance.

Apparatus, method, and computer program product for correcting a misrecognized utterance using a whole or a partial re-utterance

An information recording apparatus comprises an encryption section encrypting contents information and also a license condition referred to to limit use of the contents information and a decoding key for decoding the encrypted contents information to generate license information, and a recording section recording the encrypted contents information and the generated license information on a recording medium. An information reproducing apparatus comprises a decoder unit decoding the license information recorded on the recording medium using a second decoding key for decoding the license information and deciding on the basis of the license condition contained in the decoded license information whether the contents information can be used. If it is decided that the contents information can be used, the encrypted contents information recorded on the recording medium is decoded using the first decoding key contained in the decoded license information.

Information recording apparatus, information reproducing apparatus, and information distribution system

By moving image analysis, acoustic/speech analysis, or text analysis for multimedia information in a database, feature data representing the type of information is acquired, and the feature data is stored into the database added to the multimedia information. A search engine extracts partial images of user's interest from the multimedia information on the basis of the feature data and a user profile data. A link section associates the representative images (still images) of the partial images with multimedia images and displays the list of representative images and feature data. Thus, only a portion of the user's concern is extracted from an enormous amount of multimedia information, and individual information is selectively provided in units of users.

Information providing method and apparatus, and information reception apparatus

A computerized document processing apparatus for creating an abstract includes document storage for storing a computerized document, keyword storage for storing keywords, an abstract creation section for creating an abstract by extracting at least a character string containing a keyword stored in the keyword storage section from the computerized document stored in the document storage section, a document modification section for modifying the computerized document to link the keyword in the computerized document with the same keyword in the abstract, and a display section for displaying the abstract and the modified document that is linked with the abstract. The modified document is displayed when the linked keyword in the abstract is selected.

Displaying multiple ranked document abstracts in a single hyperlinked abstract, and their modified source documents

Displaying multiple document abstracts in a single hyperlinked abstract, and their modified source documents

In an information filtering unit connected with user's video equipment by a communications line, a program content analyzing section analyzes the contents of broadcast programs from a broadcasting station in terms of substantial information such as video and sound. A collation evaluation section evaluates the similarity between the analyses and a user's profile stored in a profile storage section. A program selecting selection transmits the result of program selection to the video equipment in the form of time information. The video equipment receives and records a program from the broadcasting station in accordance with the time information sent from the information filtering unit.

Information filtering system and method

An information recording apparatus comprises an encryption section encrypting contents information and also a license condition referred to limit use of the contents information and a decoding key for decoding the encrypted contents information to generate license information, and a recording section recording the encrypted contents information and the generated license information on a recording medium. An information reproducing apparatus comprises a decoder unit decoding the license information recorded on the recording medium using a second decoding key for decoding the license information and deciding on the basis of the license condition contained in the decoded license information whether the contents information can be used. If it is decided that the contents information can be used, the encrypted contents information recorded on the recording medium is decoded using the first decoding key contained in the decoded license information.

The dictionary management apparatus of the present invention updates each dictionary included in a plurality of language processing system. A request section requests download of dictionary data for a dictionary server according to a user's request or a predetermined condition. The dictionary server stores the dictionary data to be supplied to the language processing system. An update section updates the dictionary of the plurality of language processing system according to the dictionary data downloaded from the dictionary server. A collection section collects a user dictionary data updated in the dictionary of at least one language processing system. An upload section sends the user dictionary data collected by the collection section to the dictionary server as upload data.

Dictionary management apparatus and a dictionary server

An expression pattern in a document and the data describing related information associated with the output information to obtain the output information corresponding to the expression pattern are inputted. An expression pattern in a document on a computer network is sensed by reference to the expression pattern in the data. The output information corresponding to the sensed expression pattern is created from a document on the computer network on the basis of the related information in the inputted data.

Document browse support system and document processing system

An information collection system comprises a user interface unit for executing input/output information with respect to a user, an external interface unit for exchanging various types of information with an external unit, a user model determination unit for preparing at least one of user information for discriminating information required by the user, user information for defining an information proposition method, and user information for defining an information modification method in accordance with information input from the user interface unit, an information drawing-out unit for drawing out and modifying information input from the external interface unit in accordance with the user information acquired from the user model determination unit, an information proposition processing unit for converting information acquired by the information drawing-out unit into a proposition form for the user in accordance with the information acquired from the user model determination unit, and a control unit for receiving information from the individual units mentioned above, and executing control of the individual units and information exchange therewith in accordance with the received information.

Information collection system connected to a communication network for

A translation word learning scheme for a machine translation capable of learning translation words for each lexical rule separately and easily. In this scheme, a translation word for each original word is obtained by a machine translation using a translation dictionary storing headwords in the first language, a plurality of lexical rules for each headword, and at least one candidate translation word in the second language corresponding to each lexical rule. Then, a change of a translation word from that obtained by the machine translation to another translation word specified by a user is learned by registering a learning data indicating a headword, a top candidate translation word corresponding to a lexical rule applied in translating this headword, and the specified translation word. This specified translation word is used in subsequent translations only when an original word and a top candidate translation word for this original word obtained by the machine translation coincide with the headword and the top candidate translation word indicated in the learning data.

Translation word learning scheme for machine translation

Information collection system for a communication network with language

Information collection system connected to a communication network

A human interface system constructed by connecting systems containing a plurality of computers via a network includes site building means for building a plurality of sites that either retain or manage a plurality pieces of data and a plurality of programs, and access managing means for managing users' access to each site. The access managing means has a communication channel between the users established by accessing the sites via the data and programs.

Human interface system for communicating networked users

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Yokohama, Japan

Hideki Hirakawa