Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Hiromi Ikeda

Makoto Hirota

Toshiaki Fukada

Tsuyoshi Yagisawa

Yasuhiro Komori

Kenichiro Nakagawa

Hiroki Yamamoto

When positional information in an operation window is input (designated), an interpretation result for an input position and a confidence score of the interpretation result are calculated on the basis of the input position information. Assume that a plurality of candidates are present as interpretation results. In presenting the candidates as the interpretation results in this case, the display contents are so changed as to have an enlarged image of a range within which the candidates as the interpretation results fall or the candidates are output using a changed output modality.

Information processing apparatus, control method therefor, and program

There are provided an information processing method and apparatus, which can composite an image at a link destination into document data upon printing document data that describes address information as a link to an image file, can obviate the need for additional access by the user, and can improve user's convenience. This information processing apparatus prints document data that describes address information of an image on a server which can be accessed via the Internet. An operation unit () issues a print instruction of an image, and makes its setups. Address information is detected from document data, and that image is accessed via the Internet. It is checked if the accessed image can be embedded in the document data. If the accessed image can be embedded, that image is downloaded. The downloaded image is embedded at a predetermined position in the document upon printing the document data.

Information processing method and apparatus

Disclosed is a method that makes it easier to configure an image processing apparatus capable of reading an image and processing the image in accordance with settings information, the method including an identification step of identifying whether the read image is a document that carries settings information; and a setting step of setting the settings information, which is carried on the read image, if the read image has been identified as being a document carrying the settings information.

Image processing apparatus, method and program

In a system implementing image retrieval by performing speech recognition on voice information added to an image, the speech recognition is triggered by an event, such as an image upload event, that is not an explicit speech-recognition order event. The system obtains voice information added to an image, detects an event, and performs speech recognition on the obtained voice information in response to a specific event, even if the detected event is not an explicit speech-recognition order event.

Information processing device and information processing method

M_IDs corresponding to 'not available' and 'recommended 1' in respective setup items are read, and images corresponding to &#x201c;recommended 1&#x201d; and &#x201c;not available&#x201d; are read (S). An image indicating &#x201c;not available&#x201d; and that indicating &#x201c;recommended 1&#x201d; corresponding to respective setup items are displayed at neighboring positions of GUI components of the respective setup items displayed on the display screen (S).

Presenting information indicating input modalities

In an information processing apparatus or method for presenting multimedia data, a storage unit holds an object in an image, such as an image, characters, or symbols, and sound data associated with the object. Metadata of the object is referred to, and an output parameter of the sound data associated with the object is determined based on the metadata. Then, a sound output unit outputs the sound data at a sound volume or the like based on the output parameter.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Hiromi Ikeda