Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation

Hideki Tsutsui

Masaru Suzuki

Tomohiro Yamasaki

Koji Urata

Toshihiko Manabe

Wataru Nakano

Rumiko Hashiba

Miwako Doi

Takashi Sudo

Koichiro Akiyama

Mika Fukui

Yoshihiro Ohmori

Tetsuro Muranaga

Chikashi Sugiura

Toshiyuki Kito

Takehiko Isaka

Sachie Yokoyama

Sogo Tsuboi

Noriaki Koyama

Tetsuya Gotou

Toshihiro Fujibayashi

Junichi Nagata

Qi Zhang

Chikao Tsuchiya

Hiroko Hayama

Ryuji Fukui

Takashi Shibuya

Naoki Hirayama

A viewing assistance system includes a display unit, a captured image generation unit, a voice recognition unit, and an association storage unit. The display unit includes a display screen on which a content having multiple pages are displayable. The captured image generation unit that generates a captured image of the content that is displayed on the display screen. The voice recognition unit that recognizes a voice included in the content. The association storage unit that associates a voice recognition result that is a result of recognizing the voice included in the content by the voice recognition unit with the captured image generated by the captured image generation unit to store.

Viewing assistance system, viewing assistance method, and nonvolatile recording medium storing program

According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a hardware processor. The hardware processor converts a first character in a first image of images in which characters of languages are rendered, into a first character code by using dictionary data for a first language environment, converts the first character into a second character code by using dictionary data for a second language environment, causes a memory to store a pair of the first character code and a first area in the first image corresponding to the first character code, and causes the memory to store a pair of the second character code and a second area in the first image corresponding to the second character code.

Electronic apparatus and method

According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes circuitry configured to execute a process for outputting a chart object corresponding to a handwritten chart. When a first stroke group extending over first and second areas in the handwritten chart does not substantially overlap any ruled lines, a character recognition result of a stroke in the first area is included in a first cell, and a character recognition result of a stroke in the second area is included in a second cell. When the first stroke group extending over the first and second areas substantially overlaps a ruled line, an object of a text box including a character recognition result of the first stroke group is added to the chart object.

Electronic apparatus, method and storage medium for generating chart object

A web browsing purpose classification apparatus, including a display unit which displays a webpage and a document retrieval unit which retrieves document data from the displayed webpage. A keyword extraction knowledge unit stores knowledge necessary for keyword extraction. This knowledge is used by a keyword extraction unit to extract keywords from the document data. A webpage format determination knowledge unit stores knowledge necessary for the determination of webpage formats which is used by a webpage format determination unit to determine webpage formats. A web browsing history storage unit stores the keywords and webpage formats as web browsing history. A browsing purpose classification knowledge unit stores knowledge necessary for the classification of browsing purposes which is used by a browsing purpose classification unit to classify browsing purposes.

Apparatus, method and program product for classifying web browsing purposes

According to one embodiment, a data processing system includes a touchscreen display, a recorder, and a processor. The recorder is configured to record a plurality of stroke data indicating loci handwritten on the touchscreen display and times respectively. The processor is configured to execute data processing using a first time indicated by first stroke data associated with first data and a second time indicated by second stroke data associated with second data.

Data processing system, data processing method, and storage medium

According to one embodiment, a device includes a search module configured to search handwriting information stored in a storage medium for a first handwriting information part whose degree of a similarity with a specific handwriting information part specified as a search key is greater than or equal to a reference value, the handwriting information includes a plurality of stroke data corresponding to a plurality of strokes, and a display processing module configured to display, on a touchscreen display, one or more thumbnail corresponding to handwriting information includes the first handwriting information part and a first user interface for changing the reference value.

Electronic device and handwritten document search method

When a scene group including plural scenes, for example a group of scenes bookmarked during viewing of video contents is inputted, a combination of a scene and metadata in a group of metadata that represents characteristics of the scene, corresponding to the respective scenes in the scene group, which combination has a largest distance between the metadata, is selected as explanatory descriptions that are explanations for distinguishing among the scenes, and the selected explanatory descriptions for each scene included in the scene group is added to each scene.

Explanatory-description adding apparatus, computer program product, and explanatory-description adding method

A data distribution apparatus includes a data file configured to store video data and advertisement data to be provided to a receiving terminal of a Video on Demand service; a video distributing unit configured to distribute video data in accordance with a distribution request from the receiving terminal; a video presentation confirming unit configured to confirm a presentation state of the video data at the receiving terminal; an advertisement distribution determining unit configured to determine distribution of advertisement data to the receiving terminal when it is confirmed that the video data to be distributed by the video distributing unit is being called; and an advertisement distributing unit configured to distribute the advertisement data.

Apparatus, computer program product, and method for data distribution

A recommended information presentation apparatus, including a display unit which displays text data, an extraction unit which extracts keyword candidates from the text data, a storage unit which stores semantic attributes of the keyword candidates, semantic attribute rules which contain scoring criteria for semantic attributes, descriptive phrases describing the keyword candidates and descriptive phrase rules which contain scoring criteria for descriptive phrases. The scores of the keyword candidates are calculated by a selection unit based on the semantic attribute rules and descriptive phrase rules and the highest scoring keyword candidates are selected as keywords. The selected keyword is used to search an information database by a search unit which also receives the search results which are displayed on the display unit by a control unit as recommended information with regards to the text information.

Apparatus and method product for presenting recommended information

A playlist acquisition unit acquires a playlist including a view segment of contents for a user. The view segment has a start position and an end position in the contents. A copyright information acquisition unit acquires copyright information of the contents from a copyright management apparatus via a network. The copyright management apparatus manages copyright information of each content. A view right information acquisition unit acquires view right information of the user to view the contents. A viewable playlist composition unit composes a viewable playlist by editing the playlist using the copyright information and the view right information. The viewable playlist includes restriction information of the view segment.

Playlist composition apparatus, copyright management apparatus and view terminal apparatus

A feature-vector generation apparatus includes an input unit configured to input content data including at least one of video data and audio data, a generation unit configured to generate a feature vector, based on information indicating a time at which a characterizing state of the content data appears, the characterizing state being characterized by a change of the at least one of the video data and the audio data, and a storage unit configured to store the content data and the feature vector.

Feature-vector generation apparatus, search apparatus, feature-vector generation method, search method and program

An apparatus includes unit acquiring comment information items related to video content, each of the comment information items including a comment, and a start time and an end time of the comment, unit dividing the comment into words by morpheme analysis for each of the comment information items, unit acquiring an estimated value of each of the words, the estimated value indicating a degree of importance used when the scenes are extracted, unit adding the acquired estimated value of each of the words for each of the words during a period of time ranging from the start time to the end time of the comment that contains a corresponding word to acquire estimated value distributions of the words, and unit extracting a start time and an end time of one scene and to be extracted from the video content, based on a shape of the estimated value distributions.

Scene information extraction method, and scene extraction method and apparatus

A program structuring device includes a play-list collecting unit that collects a play list for a content in which a time series is defined; a first storage unit that stores cutoff points that appear in the play list and are breakpoints of a program structure of the content, in correspondence with a frequency of appearance of each of the cutoff points; a calculating unit that calculates a level of relevance between scene segments defined by the cutoff points from the frequency of appearance of each of the cutoff points; an extracting unit that extracts multi-level chapter divisions based on the level of relevance; and a second storage unit that stores the extracted multi-level chapter divisions structured into a tree form.

Device, method, and computer program product for structuring digital-content program

An information retrieval system, includes speech recognition means for making speech recognition for a spoken question to generate first text information, generation means for modifying the first text information to generate second text information as a interrogative to make a search for an answer to the question, and search means for searching the answer from a document database by using the second text information.

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Hideki Tsutsui