Sony Corporation

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Hitachi, Ltd.

Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Sony Group Corporation

Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.

So-net Entertainment Corporation

Hiroaki Ogawa

Yasuharu Asano

Katsuki Minamino

Kazuo Ishii

Masanori Omote

Yasuhiko Kato

Hiroshi Kakuda

Miyuki Tanaka

Masao Watari

Hitoshi Honda

Makoto Akabane

Takeru Sasaki

Helmut Lucke

Yoichiro Sako

Akitoshi Yamada

Akira Tange

Yasushi Miyajima

Seiji Wada

Hiroshi Mukawa

Motoyuki Takai

Takao Tanikame

Tatsuya Narahara

Tohru Watanabe

Kazuo Watanabe

Masashi Takeda

Masato Utsumi

Tetsuya Kagami

Ikuo Shigemori

Hiroshi Iimura

Kazuhide Kemmochi

Ichigo Hayakawa

Akira Takahashi

Okinori Tsuchiya

Akihiko Nakamura

Eiji Yamamoto

Kana Nishikawa

Noriko Totsuka

Takashi Fujita

Hideaki Watanabe

Shinobu Kuriya

Kenta Shingu

Akira Fukui

Kazuya Tateishi

Yuichiro Koyama

Keisuke Touyama

Yasushi Tsuruta

Masaru Agatsuma

Junki Ohmura

Yuki Takeda

Yoshinori Maeda

Hongchang Pao

Kan Kuroda

Kazuyuki Sakoda

Ikuo Tsukagoshi

Kohei Asada

Hiroyuki Sakai

Fumitaka Goto

Hiromitsu Yamaguchi

Tsutomu Sawada

Tsukasa Doi

Yoshinori Mizoguchi

Osamu Hanagata

Emiru Tsunoo

Yoshihisa Okamoto

Junichi Yamashita

Junichi Rekimoto

Masato Ito

Hiroaki Kitano

Takeshi Ohashi

Masahiro Yamamoto

Keiichi Yamada

Masanobu Nakamura

Satoshi Fujimura

Hirotaka Suzuki

Jun Yamazaki

Hideki Shimomura

Takashi Sasai

Masashi Fukaya

Daisuke Haruyama

Hiroshi Tamemasa

Masato Shimakawa

Atsuo Hiroe

Yuki Omagari

Tomoaki Nitta

Shinya Ohtani

Hideshi Tamaru

Yasuki Tanaka

Motoki Nakade

Erika Kobayashi

Shohei Yamamoto

Yoshinori Kurata

Toshiyuki Sawa

Kazuhiko Tajima

Seiichi Aoyagi

Hiroyasu Torazawa

Yu Ikemoto

Yaeko Fujita

Isao Hagiya

Provided is an information processing apparatus that includes a region estimating unit estimate candidate regions of object detection from an image, a topic estimating unit that estimates a topic of the image on the basis of text information accompanying the image, a region evaluating unit that evaluates the candidate regions estimated by the region estimating unit on the basis of relationships with the topic estimated by the topic estimating unit, and an image generating unit that generates an image on the basis of evaluation results acquired by the region evaluating unit. The topic estimating unit described above estimates the topic on the basis of words to which tags are added.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

An estimation system generates, from a value of a time series of an estimation object in a past period, a plurality of patterns of a transition of a value of the estimation object. Based on the plurality of generated patterns and a value of a time series of a factor in the past period, the estimation system specifies a dependency relationship between a transition pattern and a value of the factor and a transition pattern at a past (or future) time point and identifies a model in accordance with the specified dependency relationship. By inputting a value of a time series of the factor in a future period to the estimation model, the estimation system specifies a time series of a value in the future period of the estimation object using at least one transition pattern.

Estimation system and estimation method

Provided is a device that includes a user spoken voice extraction unit that extracts a user spoken voice from a microphone input sound. The user spoken voice extraction unit analyzes a sound source direction of an input sound, determines whether the input sound includes an external apparatus output sound on the basis of sound source directions of external apparatus output sounds recorded in a database, and removes a sound signal corresponding to a feature amount, for example, a frequency characteristic of the external apparatus output sound recorded in the database, from the input sound to extract a user spoken voice from which the external apparatus output sound has been removed upon determining that the input sound includes the external apparatus output sound.

Information processing device, information processing system and information processing method

An information processing apparatus and an information processing method, and a robot apparatus that process information to be used for user identification and the like are provided. An information processing apparatus for performing processing related to a first device configured to autonomously behave to a user identified by an identification device, includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a state of the identification device, and a decision unit configured to decide a behavior of the first device on the basis of the state. The decision unit decides a behavior of the first device for collecting voice data from a user whose voice data is insufficient, and decides a behavior of the first device for collecting face image data from a user whose face image data is insufficient, from the user.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method, and robot apparatus

An information processing device presents first information indicating that voice input for the voice operation is possible and second information representing a domain of utterance in which voice operation is possible in response to an occurrence of a predetermined state transition, and performs voice recognition for voice input by a user.

Information processing device to stop the turn off of power based on voice input for voice operation

The present technology relates to an information processing device and an information processing method that enable output of information using a more optimal output modal. Provided is an information processing device including a processing unit configured to perform processes of: acquiring apparatus information regarding an output modal for each electronic apparatus; selecting an electronic apparatus having an output modal that outputs information from among a plurality of electronic apparatuses on the basis of the acquired apparatus information; and outputting the information from an output modal of the selected electronic apparatus. The present technology can be applied to, for example, electronic apparatuses such as information apparatuses, video apparatuses, audio apparatuses, or household electrical appliances.

Information processing device and information processing method

An apparatus includes a generation unit and a multiplexing unit. The generation unit generates image data for recording by a forming apparatus that forms an image on a forming member using a print head that applies energy to the member. The multiplexing unit performs multiplexing processing to generate recording data in which predetermined information to be recognized by a reading apparatus as information different from an image to be recorded on the member is embedded in the image data.

Apparatus and method

An image forming apparatus includes a printhead configured to add energy to an image material; and a control unit configured to output, based on image data, a signal pattern for controlling energy to be added by the printhead to the image material including a plurality of color development layers that have different color development characteristic and develop colors in accordance with the added energy. When causing at least two of the plurality of color development layers to develop colors, the control unit generates, based on at least two signal patterns generated to cause the at least two color development layers to develop colors, a signal pattern of an OR of the at least two signal patterns and outputs the signal pattern.

Image forming apparatus in which colors are developed with multiple color development layers, control method thereof, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

Provided is a data prediction system for predicting a future prediction value. The data prediction system has a data management device which manages data and a prediction operation device which models tendency of an error amount of a prediction operation result calculated on the basis of a correlation with a major explanatory variable and corrects a future prediction value. The data management device includes a storage unit which stores prediction target past measurement data observed with a time transition and explanatory factor data explaining the prediction target past measurement data. The prediction operation device includes a first prediction operation unit which performs prediction on the basis of a correlation between the prediction target past measurement data and the explanatory factor data, a second prediction operation unit which models tendency of an error of an operation result of the first prediction operation unit and performs future error amount prediction of the operation result of the first prediction operation unit, and a correction unit which corrects the operation result of the first prediction operation unit by an operation result of the second prediction operation unit.

Data prediction system and data prediction method

Reduce image quality deterioration of an object area that is gazed viewed by a user in a case where information is embedded in an image. An image processing apparatus including a recognition unit configured to recognize an object within an image and a layout unit configured to lay out information relating to an object recognized by the recognition unit in an area except for an object area for the recognized object within the image.

Image processing apparatus for generating multiplexed information in which information is embedded in an image

The present technology relates to an information processor and an information processing method that enable presentation of a response to a user with an appropriate amount of information in a voice interaction system. Provision of an information processor including a processing unit that adjusts an amount of information in a response with respect to desired information of a user, in accordance with a certainty factor of the user himself/herself that is estimated for the desired information makes it is possible to present the response to the user with the appropriate amount of information in the voice interaction system. The present technology is applicable to a voice interaction system, for example.

Information processor and information processing method

A data processing system calculates prediction or planning data of an object from observation data of a calculation object of the prediction or planning data and observation data of various factors, including a first processing section which identifies a model used for calculation of the prediction or planning data of each of the factors, a second processing section which calculates data which indices the kind of a time transition of the factor from the observation data of the factor and classifies the observation data of the factor by using the calculated data which indicates the kind of the time transition, and a third processing section which changes the model for calculation of the prediction or planning data on the basis of the classified observation data and the prediction data of the factor in a prediction or planning data calculation object time period and calculates the prediction or planning data.

Data processing system and data processing method

The present technology relates to an information processor, an information processing method, and a program that are able to convey information with a higher reliability. An information processor according to an aspect of the present technology generates a conveyance route as a route to a node of a conveyance destination, the conveyance route including, as transit nodes, a node of a device and a node of a person, and outputs information that indicates a conveyance content along the conveyance route. The present technology is applicable to an agent apparatus that assists an action of a user.

Information processing system and information processing method

An object of the present disclosure is to reduce the load of a user in a case where multiplexed information is embedded in an image. One embodiment of the present invention is an image processing apparatus having: a recognition unit configured to recognize an object within an image; a selection unit configured to select additional information corresponding to an object recognized by the recognition unit from among additional information stored in a storage unit; and a layout unit configured to lay out the additional information so that at least a part of an area in which additional information selected by the selection unit is embedded overlaps an area of an object recognized by the recognition unit.

Image processing apparatus, method, and program product for embedding corresponding information in an area overlapping a recognized object

[Problem] More effective information is gathered efficiently for the correction of device behavior. [Solution] Provided is an information processing device that includes an output control unit that controls, on the basis of a gathered operation history of a device, an output of a reproduced scene pertaining to a behavior which the device has executed on the basis of context information; and a communication unit that receives feedback input by a judge regarding the reproduced scene thus output. Further provided is an information processing device that comprises a communication unit that receives information on a reproduced scene pertaining to a behavior which the device has executed on the basis of context information; and a playback unit that plays back the reproduced scene, wherein the communication unit transmits feedback input by a judge regarding the reproduced scene.

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Chiba, Japan

Hiroaki Ogawa