Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation

Hideo Umeki

Mika Fukui

Masayuki Okamoto

Naoki Iketani

Kouichi Sasaki

Sogo Tsuboi

Masayuki Horikawa

Masaru Suzuki

Daisuke Kobayashi

Kenta Cho

Yasuko Nakayama

Yojiro Tonouchi

Keisuke Nishimura

Tomoyuki Shibata

Osamu Yamaguchi

Masaaki Kikuchi

Kazushige Ouchi

Satoshi Kinoshita

Masanori Hattori

Yuto Yamaji

Nobuhiro Shimogori

Wataru Nakano

Motokazu Iwasaki

Kazuyuki Gotoh

Yuki Kaneko

Yuzo Okamoto

Yasunari Tanaka

Masahisa Shinozaki

Ai Matsui

Toshihiro Kayama

Hisako Yoshida

Kenryo Kanaya

Keiji Kubota

Kazuho Igoshi

Takehiko Yokota

Sougo Tsuboi

According to one embodiment, an information processing device includes a processor and a memory. The processor determines whether an object included in an image belongs to a first group or not. The processor calculates at least one of first statistical information of an object determined to belong to the first group or second statistical information of an object determined not to belong to the first group. The processor stores at least one of the first statistical or the second statistical information in the memory. The processor executes display processing for at least one of the first statistical information or the second statistical information stored in the memory.

Information processing device calculating statistical information

An information processing system according to an embodiment includes a storage, a plurality of conversationers, and a selector. The storage stores a regulation rule indicating a generation rule of a speech in a conversation. Each of the plurality of conversationers makes conversation with a user on the basis of the regulation rule. The selector selects some or all of the plurality of conversationers to cause a conversation to be performed.

Information processing system, information processing apparatus, information processing method, and recording medium

According to one embodiment, an information processing device includes a storage device and a processor connected to the storage device. The processor is configured to perform a process for displaying an image and information related to a size of a recognition target, and recognize a recognition target from the image. The information related to the size of the recognition target includes visual information of the recognition target.

Target recognition device

According to one embodiment, an information processing device includes a memory and a processor. The processor is configured to acquire an image, determine a likelihood of presence of an objected within the image, display information on a position of the object within the image based on the likelihood, identify the object within the image, and generate a recognition result based on the identified object.

Information processing apparatus, method and computer program product

An information device is provided that includes a first acquisition unit, a second acquisition unit, a search unit, a first display unit, a determining unit, and a second display unit. The first acquisition unit acquires situation data indicating a situation of the information device. The second acquisition unit acquires object information in accordance with the situation data. The search unit searches a database for related words related to the object information. The first display unit displays the related words to allow any one of the related words to be selected, while the determining unit determines whether any one of the related words is selected. The second display unit displays the object information acquired by the second acquisition unit for the selected related words.

Information device and information presentation method for selected object information corresponding to device location

A keyword input supporting apparatus includes a document acquisition unit that acquires a document having a plurality of components containing text data, a main component selection unit that selects a component having many characters in the text data as a main component, a part-of-speech analysis unit that analyzes the part-of-speech of the text data contained in the main component, and adds a semantic attribute to each of words of the text data, a specific name extraction unit that extracts as a specific name a word, having a predetermined semantic attribute or part of speech, from the words, a specific name storage that stores the specific name together with the corresponding semantic attribute, a keyword candidate classification unit that performs classification of the specific name from the storage as a keyword candidate based on the semantic attribute, and a keyword candidate presentation unit that presents the keyword candidate to a user.

Apparatus and method for supporting keyword input

An action acquiring unit acquires action information corresponding to operation information from a first storage unit for a first user, and stores acquired action information in a third storage unit. A receiving unit receives, via a network, action information of a second user from an external device. A situation acquiring unit acquires, from a second storage, a communication situation corresponding to received action information. A writing unit writes the action information of the first user indicated by the communication situation to the third storage unit, additionally.

Method, device, and computer product for managing communication situation

A speech receiving unit receives a user ID, a speech obtained at a terminal, and an utterance duration, from the terminal. A proximity determining unit calculates a correlation value expressing a correlation between speeches received from plural terminals, compares the correlation value with a first threshold value, and determines that the plural terminals that receive the speeches whose correlation value is calculated are close to each other, when the correlation value is larger than the first threshold value. A dialog detecting unit determines whether a relationship between the utterance durations received from the plural terminals that are determined to be close to each other within an arbitrarily target period during which a dialog is to be detected fits a rule. When the relationship is determined to fit the rule, the dialog detecting unit detects dialog information containing the target period and the user ID.

Dialog detecting apparatus, dialog detecting method, and computer program product

External data acquired via an input device during display of presentation information on a display device is recorded, and feature amounts are calculated from the external data. An importance level is calculated by integrating the feature amounts for each section during the display period of the presentation information. First headline information of a part of the presentation information corresponding to a section having an importance level which exceeds a predetermined threshold is generated, and is presented to be aligned along the time axis. Previous display contents of the presentation information are searched for in response to a selection operation of the first headline information, and are displayed on the display device. Second headline information of a part of the presentation information corresponding to the section when the selection operation was made is generated, and is presented on the display device.

Information presentation method and information presentation apparatus

An information retrieval apparatus includes a display which displays document information, an input unit which adds additional information to the document information displayed the display, a first storage which stores mark symbol information specifying a particular symbol used for marking, a detector which detects an input from the input unit and decides whether or not the input additional information is identical to or similar to the mark symbol information stored in the first storage, a second storage which stores the mark symbol information and the additional information which is decided that it is similar to the mark symbol information by the detector, associating with the mark symbol information, and a retrieval unit which retrieves the mark symbol information and the additional information associated with the mark symbol information from the second storage, and a retrieval result by the retrieval unit is displayed on the display.

Information retrieval apparatus

A message exchange unit receives and distributes a message in a community in which a plurality of users participates. A message memory stores the message received by the message exchange unit. An extraction rule memory stores an extraction rule applicable for the message. The extraction rule includes an extraction pattern, an extraction target and a display format. An information extraction unit extracts information from the message stored in the message memory by referring to the extraction rule. An extraction result memory stores extraction result information by the information extraction unit. An extraction result editing unit edits the extraction result information stored in the extraction result memory. A message generation unit generates another message representing editing of the extraction result information.

Apparatus and method for extracting and sharing information

Editing contents for the editing-object document selected from the plural documents that are inputted from the terminal devices connected to the network and that can be owned jointly via the network and corresponding message sentences for the editing contents are received, and a new renewed document is prepared by renewing the editing-object document on the basis of the editing contents, while extracting the renewed contents of the editing-object document by comparing the editing-object documents before and after the renewal with each other, storing at least the renewed contents as the history concerning the renewal of the editing-object document after preparing the contents correspondence with the message sentences, and displaying the renewed contents with the message sentences at a request by the user on the terminal device that sent the request.

Document management method and document management device

To members of a user group, messages and documents registered in the user group are presented, while, to other users than the members of the user group, documents preset as available also to other users than the members of the user group are presented, and as a registration destination of the messages, a user group where the contents of the message, or the message and messages and documents that are most similar to the contents of the documents corresponded thereto is searched and presented at request from users.

Information management method and information management device

There is disclosed a method of extracting a user related to a field corresponding to an inquiry content based on shared documents of a plurality of users and profile information including at least specialized fields of the plurality of users. A degree of communication of the extracted respective users with the user who has made the inquiry is calculated based on a history of communication using a network. The user who can answer the inquiry is selected from the extracted users based on the degree of communication.

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Yokohama, Japan

Hideo Umeki