Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Hidetsugu Maekawa

Kazuhiro Kayashima

Yasuharu Shimeki

Hisao Niwa

Yoshifumi Hirose

Kenji Mizutani

Shinichi Yoshizawa

Yumi Wakita

Hiroshi Yamamoto

Kunio Nobori

Tatsumi Watanabe

Yoshihiko Matsukawa

Mikiya Nakata

Susumu Maruno

Ayako Maruyama

Yoshihiro Kojima

Kenji Matsui

Kazuaki Obara

Toshiyuki Kouda

Koichi Hotta

Satoru Ito

Kazunori Yamada

Tetsuji Fuchikami

Kenta Murakami

Toru Tanigawa

Mototaka Yoshioka

Yukie Shoda

Mayu Yokoya

Takashi Koizumi

Yusuke Tsukamoto

Seiya Imomoto

Junichi Imoto

Yoji Yamada

Pei Di

Seiichi Shin

A system is disclosed which includes a walking assistance robot for assisting a smooth start of a user's action after standing up from a chair. A system according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a walking assistance robot and an automatic elevation chair that moves a seating surface where a user sits. The automatic elevation chair detects a consciousness level of the user and transmits consciousness level information on the detected consciousness level of the user to the walking assistance robot via the network. The walking assistance robot, including a body and a rotor that moves the walking assistance robot, receives the consciousness level information via the network and controls resistance force to rotation of the rotor based on the received consciousness level information.

Walking assistance robot for assisting smooth start of user's action after standing up from chair

In an information collection method of the present disclosure, a processor of an information collection system acquires event sensor data and identification information from an on-vehicle terminal or a passenger terminal, the event sensor data being output, in response to an event trigger, from an on-vehicle sensor mounted on the on-vehicle terminal or a passenger sensor mounted on the passenger terminal, the identification information identifying an output source of the event sensor data, identifies the passenger terminal associated with the identification information when the identification information indicates the on-vehicle terminal, identifies the on-vehicle terminal associated with the identification information when the identification information indicates the passenger terminal, requests sensor data from the identified passenger terminal or on-vehicle terminal, acquires the sensor data from a request destination, and stores the event sensor data and the sensor data in association with each other in a second memory as dangerous driving information.

Information collection method, information collection system, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing information collection program

An information processing method used in an information processing device, the information processing method includes acquiring, using a processor of the information processing device, biological information of a user, accepting, using the processor, input by the user of message information indicating a message to be transmitted to another information processing device that is different from the information processing device used by the user, determining, using the processor, based on the biological information whether the user is in a bad mood, and when it is determined that the user is in a bad mood, stopping, using the processor, transmission of the accepted message information, and storing, using the processor, the message information, in a memory, that has not been transmitted.

Information processing method, information processing device, and recording medium storing information processing program

A pulse wave measuring apparatus includes a light emitter that illuminates with light having an amount an area containing a part of skin of a user staying in a vehicle, an imager that captures an image of the area, a controller that obtains a driving route from a departure point of the vehicle to a destination point of the vehicle, obtains an estimated time at which the vehicle passes through a location along the driving route, predicts an incident amount of sun light that enters the vehicle at the location at the estimated time, and calculates the amount under a condition that a sum of the predicted incident amount and the amount is a constant value, and a pulse wave calculator that calculates a pulse wave of the user using the image, and outputs pulse wave information of the user.

Pulse wave measuring apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium

A first information communication device is provided with: a biological information acquisition unit that acquires biological information of a first user holding the first information processing device; a mood determination unit that detects a state in which the mood of the first user is estimated as being good on the basis of the biological information; a reason estimation unit that, in a case where a state in which the mood of the first user is estimated as being good is detected, estimates a reason for the mood of the first user being good on the basis of behavior history information indicating a behavior history of the first user; and a transmission control unit that causes a communication unit to transmit reason information indicating the estimated reason, to a second information processing device held by a second user who wishes to be notified of a timing for contacting the first user.

Information processing method, information processing device, and recording medium recording information processing program

A life assistance system includes an automatic liftable chair and an autonomous mobile robot connected to the automatic liftable chair via a network. The life assistance system assists a user in the action of standing up from the automatic liftable chair. The life assistance system is configured such that upon reception of a stand-up assist instruction by the autonomous mobile robot, the automatic liftable chair executes a first assisting action and that upon detection of a load applied to a handle of the autonomous mobile robot, the automatic liftable chair executes a second assisting action.

Life assistance system for assisting user in act of standing up

A comment-provided video generating apparatus includes: a display priority calculating unit which calculates a display priority for each of the comments and subject regions to which the comments are provided, based on comment information indicating comments to be superimposed and displayed on a video and display positions of the comments, and user information, by calculating a higher display priority for one of the comments and the subject regions specified by user information; a comment superimposing method determining unit which determines, as a method for superimposing the comments onto a video, an order of displaying the comments and the subject regions such that a comment or a subject region having a higher display priority is displayed at a position frontward than the others, according to the display priority; and an image composing unit which superimposes the comments on the video, according to the comment superimposing method.

Comment-provided video generating apparatus and comment-provided video generating method

When traveling to a destination reported in a television broadcast or the like, the user has had to make a memo while watching the television and, when actually traveling by car, the user has had to enter necessary information into an in-vehicle terminal by looking at the memo. A broadcast provider broadcasts a travel program together with travel destination information related to it, and a television terminal presents the received broadcast and travel destination information to the user. If the user desires to travel to the destination thus presented, the television terminal downloads the received travel destination information into a memory card. When the user goes out by car at a later date, the in-vehicle information terminal acquires the travel destination information from the memory card, a route setting section sets the route by using travel destination location information contained in the travel destination information, and a communication section acquires real-time information by using a method of connection to a real-time information having the travel destination information.

System, navigation method, medium, and information set

A speech interpreting device. Speech is input in a first language. The input speech is recognized. One or more word strings of the first language are extracted and displayed. The word strings correspond to a result of the speech recognition. A word string is selected from the displayed word strings. The selected word string is expected to become an object of conversation to a second language. When a whole or a part of the selected word string is specified, candidates of a term which corresponds to contents of the specified whole or part of the selected word string are extracted and displayed. One of the displayed candidates is selected. The selected word string is converted to a second language.

Apparatus and method for converting a spoken language to a second language

A game apparatus of the invention includes: a voice input section for inputting at least one voice set including voice uttered by an operator, for converting the voice set into a first electric signal, and for outputting the first electric signal; a voice recognition section for recognizing the voice set on the basis of the first electric signal output from the voice input means; an image input section for optically detecting a movement of the lips of the operator, for converting the detected movement of lips into a second electric signal, and for outputting the second electric signal; a speech period detection section for receiving the second electric signal, and for obtaining a period in which the voice is uttered by the operator on the basis of the received second electric signal; an overall judgment section for extracting the voice uttered by the operator from the input voice set, on the basis of the voice set recognized by the voice recognition means and the period obtained by the speech period detection means; and a control means for controlling an object on the basis of the voice extracted by the overall judgment means.

Voice selection apparatus voice response apparatus, and game apparatus using word tables from which selected words are output as voice selections

There is disclosed a character recognition machine adapted to recognize Japanese characters such as kanjis and kanas. The machine comprises a character string storage portion, a character extraction portion, a character recognition portion, and a language processing portion. A character string to be recognized is stored as an image in the storage portion. The character extraction portion comprises a network consisting a plurality of interconnected operators each of which has numerous inputs and outputs. An evaluation function which assumes its minimum value when a character extraction produces the best results is calculated by the operators simultaneously so as to minimize the value of the function. The character recognition portion calculates degrees of similarity of a character pattern to various character categories, the character pattern being applied from the character extraction portion. The language processing portion receives these degrees of similarity and selects a character category which seems to provide the must correct combination of characters in terms of vocabulary and grammar.

Character recognition machine utilizing language processing

There is disclosed a character recognition machine adapted to recognize Japanese characters such as kanjis and kanas. The machine comprises a character string storage portion, a character extraction portion, a character recognition portion, and a language processing portion. A character string to be recognized is stored as an image in the storage portion. The character extraction portion comprises a network consisting a plurality of interconnected operators each of which has numerous inputs and outputs. An evaluation function which assumes its minimum value when a character extraction produces the best results is calculated by the operators simultaneously so as to minimize the value of the function. The character recognition portion calculates degrees of similarity of a character pattern to various character categories, the character pattern being applied from the character extraction portion. The language processing portion receives these degrees of similarity and selects a character category which seems to provide the most correct combination of characters in terms of vocabulary and grammar.

A voice recognition apparatus is provided which includes a first detection circuit for receiving an electric signal corresponding to voice. The first detection circuit detects a voice termination point representing a time at which the input of the electric signal corresponding to the voice is terminated based on the electric signal. The apparatus further includes a second detection circuit for determining a speech period, the speech period being a period in which the voice is uttered within a whole period in which the voice is input, based on the electric signal. In addition, the apparatus includes a feature amount extracting circuit for producing a feature amount vector, on the basis of a part of the electric signal corresponding to the speech period. A memory is provided for storing feature amount vectors for a plurality of voice candidates which are previously generated. The apparatus further includes a circuit for recognizing the input voice, by comparing the feature amount vector from the feature amount extracting circuit with each of the feature amount vectors of the plurality of voice candidates stored in the memory. The speech period is determined by a detection of a speech period start point representing a time at which an utterance is started and a detection of a speech period termination point representing a time at which the utterance is terminated.

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Hidetsugu Maekawa