Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Hideo Kuboyama

Makoto Hirota

Hiroki Yamamoto

Masayuki Yamada

Toshiaki Fukada

Yasuhiro Komori

Kenichiro Nakagawa

Kazue Kaneko

Shinji Hisamoto

An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire data with a first schema and data with a second schema, the data with the first schema including case-insensitive first identification information in identification information for management of data, the data with the second schema including the first identification information corresponding to the identification information and case-sensitive second identification information in the identification information, and a management unit configured to manage the data with the first schema and the data with the second schema in a retrievable manner.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium

Provided is an apparatus, including: an image input unit configured to receive input of an image on which a target object placed on an operation plane imaged as a subject; an operation detecting unit configured to detect movement of a predetermined operation object in a state of being in contact with the target object using the image; a partial-image acquiring unit configured to acquire a partial image corresponding to a portion of the target object from the image in accordance with a position of the predetermined operation object being moved in a case where the movement of the predetermined operation object is detected by the operation detecting unit; and a generating unit configured to generate an image representing the target object using a plurality of the partial images acquired by the partial-image acquiring unit.

Apparatus, image reading method, and storage medium for reading an image of a target object

An information processing apparatus includes an image obtaining unit configured to obtain an input image, an extraction unit configured to extract from the input image one or more regions corresponding to one or more objects included in a foreground of the operation surface in accordance with the reflected positional information and positional information of the operation surface in the space, a region specifying unit configured to specify an isolation region, which is not in contact with a boundary line which defines a predetermined closed region in the input image, from among the one or more regions extracted by the extraction unit, and a recognition unit configured to recognize an adjacency state of a predetermined instruction object relative to the operation surface in accordance with the positional information reflected from the portion corresponding to the isolation region as specified by the region specifying unit.

Information processing apparatus recognizing certain object in captured image, and method for controlling the same

A designation position by an operation object is specified based on a captured image that is captured by a capturing unit and reflects distance information between the capturing unit and the operation object. The direction of the operation object is specified based on the captured image. It is determined, based on the image information of a portion corresponding to the designation position out of the captured image and the direction of the operation object, that the distance between the operation object and the target surface is smaller than a predetermined value.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method for obtaining three-dimensional coordinate position of an object

An information processing apparatus detects a moving member that moves in a background area and that includes an object other than a recognition target. The apparatus sets a partial area as a background undetermined area if the moving member is present in the background area and sets a partial area as a background determined area if it is regarded that the recognition target is not present in the background area in each of the partial areas set as the background undetermined area. The apparatus recognizes an operation caused by the recognition target that moves in the background determined area.

Information processing apparatus and method for controlling the same

An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a first sound recorded from a first recording apparatus and a second sound recorded from a second recording apparatus that is different from the first recording apparatus, a determination unit configured to determine a frequency band representing a voice by analyzing a frequency of the first sound, and a change unit configured to, from among frequency components representing the second sound, change a frequency component in the frequency band.

Information processing apparatus and operation method thereof

A speech recognition method in which, upon speech recognition with use of a model composed of subwords such as triphones depending on a plurality of context, inhibiting hypotheses from extending according to the plurality of contexts so that a processing rate of the speech recognition is increased. In computing a likelihood of an acoustic model referred to upon computation of an accumulated likelihood of a hypothesis through the speech recognition, with respect to each hypothesis, at least one subword model determined depending on its context subwords is referred to, likelihoods of a speech to be recognized and acoustic models of the respective subword models are computed, and the maximum value of the computed likelihoods is set as a likelihood of an acoustic model corresponding to the hypothesis.

Speech recognition method and speech recognition apparatus

Candidates for channels of television programs to be displayed are determined in accordance with a result of voice recognition of a voice input by a user. The channel candidates are assigned to a limited number of tuners and television programs received by the tuners are displayed to allow the user to make a selection.

Display of channel candidates from voice recognition results for a plurality of receiving units

An information processing apparatus performs a process in accordance with a command. The information processing apparatus includes a first selection unit configured to refer to a storage unit that stores a plurality of recognition commands for inputting the command by speech, recognize input speech and select a command based on the recognized input speech, and a second selection unit configured to sequentially select a plurality of commands that correspond to a plurality of recognition commands stored in the storage unit. The information processing apparatus further includes a process determination unit configured to select either the first selection unit or the second selection unit based on an operation performed on a predetermined operation unit, and an execution unit configured to execute a command which is selected by one of the selection units that is selected by the process determination unit.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

An information-processing device and method that attains speech-recognition to recognize data input via speech. The information-processing device and method includes analyzing speech-recognition-grammar data, generating data on a template used to input data by speech based on the analysis results, and displaying the generated speech-input-template data.

Information-processing device and method that attains speech-recognition to recognize data input via speech

A remote controller includes a microphone, a data transmitter which transmits data corresponding to a button, and a voice transmitter which transmits voice input acquired from the microphone. The voice transmitter transmits voice based on the press of a predetermined button, and the data transmitter transmits data. An electronic device includes a voice receiver, data receiver, and processor. The processor acquires data from the data receiver. The processor determines based on data whether the voice receiver has received voice, and acquires the voice.

Remote control system

Information including a first item and a second item is obtained and the first item of the obtained information is compared with registered words. A determination is made as to whether or not text information of the second item is to be subjected to speech synthesis. If the second item is determined not to be subjected to the speech synthesis, an item other than the second item is synthesized into speech, whereas if the second item is determined to be subjected to the speech synthesis, at least the second item is synthesized into speech.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method for determining whether text information of an obtained item should be subject to speech synthesis by comparing words in another obtained item to registered words

A speech recognition apparatus that requires a reduced amount of computation for likelihood calculation is provided. A language lookahead score for a node of interest is generated based on the language scores for each recognition word shared by the node of interest. To this is added the node's acoustic score, which is calculated based on the likelihood of the connected hypotheses expressed by a path from the root node to the parent node of the node of interest. From this added result, the language lookahead score resulting when the parent node is the node of interest is deleted, and the language lookahead score is updated by adding the language lookahead score of the node of interest. The updating of the language lookahead score is terminated at a specific position in the tree structure.

Speech recognition apparatus and method

A speech output apparatus is disclosed, which can allow the user to easily catch synthetic speech when the synthetic speech is output upon being superposed on a music output. The apparatus output can output a music and synthetic speech that indicates contents of information such as an e-mail and is superposed on the music. When the synthetic speech is output to be superposed on the music during output, the apparatus gradually decreases a tone volume of the music.

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Yokohama, Japan

Hideo Kuboyama