Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Hideyuki Tsutsumitake

Masaru Suzuki

Tetsuro Muranaga

Takero Kobayashi

Takashi Moriyasu

Tetsuro Muragana

An image synthesis device for an electronic mirror includes a rear camera which obtains a first image from a first position, and a side camera which obtains a second image of the same direction with a view of the rear camera from a second position. The second image includes a view obstruction. When a part of the first image is connected as a complementary image to the view obstruction of the second image, an image processing device converts an image of the view obstruction into a translucent image, superimposes the complementary image on the translucent image, and obtains a third image which remains an outline of the complementary image.

Image synthesis device for electronic mirror and method thereof

According to one embodiment, an image synthesis device for an electronic mirror includes a rear camera which obtains a first image from a first position, and a side camera which obtains a second image of the same direction with a view of the rear camera from a second position. The second image includes a view obstruction. When a part of the first image is connected as a complementary image to the view obstruction of the second image, an image processing device converts an image of the view obstruction into a translucent image, superimposes the complementary image on the translucent image, and obtains a third image which remains an outline of the complementary image.

A video data recording/reproducing apparatus includes an input device, a data storage unit that stores the video data item input by the input device, a communication unit that executes communicates with an external unit via a network, a unit that moves one of a plurality of video data items stored in the data storage unit to the external unit, a unit that reproduces to-be-reproduced video data item from the data storage unit if the to-be-reproduced video data item is stored in the data storage unit, and a unit that executes a streaming process to reproduce a stream of the to-be-reproduced video data item that is transferred from the external unit while the stream of the to-be-reproduced video data item is being received by the communication unit, if the to-be-reproduced video data item is stored in the external unit.

Video data recording/reproducing apparatus and video data management method for use in the same

A real-time information transmission system can immediately transmit information updated on a server to a client, even if directly communication between the server and the client is not established. If the server receives a page request from the client, the server returns a requested page to the client. The same connection ID is added to the request from the client and to an associated response from the server. The client analyzes the page. If an event request is included in the analyzed page, the client adds another connection ID to the request and sends it to the server. Using the connection ID, the server sends an event to the client each time the event has occurred. The client processes the event and reflects the processed result on a screen of a display.

Real-time information transmission system

If an information item tried to be accessed during traveling is stored in a memory unit, an identifier indicating the information item is registered in an unaccessed-information management unit. If, on the other hand, the information item is stored in the memory unit, the information item is displayed and the identifier is registered in an old information access management unit. When a portable information processing apparatus has come to be able to be connected to a network, an information item indicated by the identifier registered in the unaccessed-information management unit is taken in from a server. Further, whether or not the information item indicated by the identifier registered in the old information access management unit is of an updated version is determined on the basis of the storage date of the information item and the creation date of the information item stored in the server and indicated by the identifier. If the information item is not of the updated version, the information item stored in the server is taken in. As a result, the updated version of an information item tried to be accessed when the information processing apparatus could not be connected to the network can be effectively taken in when the processing apparatus has been connected to the network.

Information processing apparatus with network communication function and

A list type data storing and retrieving system includes an analyzing circuit for analyzing a structure of list type data and outputting symbols constituting the data and appearance position data of each symbol in each list type data, a storage circuit for storing the position data output from the analyzing circuit, symbols respectively assigned to the position data, and at least one identifier set for the symbols assigned to the position data to specify the input list type data, and a retrieval circuit for reading out sets of identifiers including the same symbols and position data as symbols constituting list type data to be input and retrieved and corresponding position data or identifiers including variable symbols in position data having a higher order than that of the position data from the storage means with respect to all symbols constituting the input list type data, and outputting list type data specified by identifiers common to all the symbols as unifiable candidates.

List type data storing and retrieving system

A method of inference using frame-based knowledge representation which enable the simultaneous realization of high accuracy and high speed in the process of inference is disclosed. The method includes the steps of accompanying each slot with procedure information which indicates procedure for deriving the slot value of the slot from the other slot values, providing pointer information indicating the slots related to each other by the procedure indicated by the procedure information, accompanying each slot with sign information which indicates the validity of the slot value currently given, deriving the slot value in accordance with the procedure indicated by the procedure information when the slot value is missing and when the slot value is indicated by the accompanying sign information as invalid, changing the indication of the sign information accompanying the slots which are indicated by the pointer information as being related to the slot whose slot value is derived, and caching in the derived slot value. An apparatus for performing this method is also disclosed.

Method and apparatus for inference

A method and an apparatus for constraint-oriented inference provides improved knowledge base formation efficiency and an ability to maintain consistency among slots. Constraints indicating relationships among slot values of frames are stored collectively, pointers which make the constraints accessible by relevant slots are attached automatically, and the constraints are simplified by inserting slot values determined by processes of inference.

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Yokohama, Japan

Hideyuki Tsutsumitake