Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Japan Science and Technology Agency

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Tokyo Electron Limited

Japan Tobacco Inc.

Kyoto University

Universidate Do Porto

Inesc Porto

Hiroshi Okuno

Kazuhiro Nakadai

Hiroshi Tsujino

Hiroaki Kitano

Ryu Takeda

Yuji Hasegawa

Masataka Goto

Mikio Nakano

Takuma Otsuka

Tatsuya Yamaguchi

Reiji Niino

Toru Takahashi

Koichi Yatsuda

Kotaro Funakoshi

Hiroyuki Hashimoto

Takeshi Mizumoto

Takashi Hayakawa

Kazunori Komatani

Katsutoshi Itoyama

Kazumasa Murata

Hajime Fujita

Takeshi Akao

Takashi Oda

Keisuke Nakamura

Hirofumi Nakajima

Shunji Yoshida

Shunichi Yamamoto

Hiromasa Fujihara

Kazuyoshi Yoshii

Gökhan Ince

Yohane Takeuchi

Masaki Katsumaru

Ikkyu Aihara

Yuichiro Fukubayashi

Kiyofumi Mori

Yukiko Nakagawa

Ken-ichi Hidai

João Lobato Oliveira

Luis Paulo Reis

Fabien Gouyon

Takehiro Abe

Naoki Yasuraoka

Katsutoshi Itoyma

There is provided a method of fabricating a semiconductor device by performing a process on a substrate, which includes: forming a masking film made of a polymer having a urea bond by supplying polymerizing raw materials to a surface of the substrate on which an etching target film formed; forming an etching pattern on the masking film; subsequently, etching the etching target film with a processing gas using the etching pattern; and subsequently, removing the masking film by heating the substrate to depolymerize the polymer.

Method of fabricating semiconductor device, vacuum processing apparatus and substrate processing apparatus

A control unit for an aerosol generating device includes: a sensor that outputs a value related to a temperature of a power source capable of being charged and discharged to a load for atomizing an aerosol source; and a controller configured to execute one or more functions of operating the power source when an output value of the sensor is within a first range having at least one of a first upper limit and a first lower limit. The first upper limit or the first lower limit is smaller or larger than a second upper limit or a second lower limit of a second range that is a range of a value related to a temperature at which the one or more functions can be executed, a range of a value related to a temperature at which deterioration of the power source is suppressed, a range of a value related to a temperature at which the power source deteriorates due only to a factor that is the same as normal temperature, or a range corresponding to an operating temperature of the power source.

Aerosol generating device, control unit for aerosol generating device, method, and program

A sound processing device includes a separation unit configured to separate at least a music signal and a speech signal from a recorded audio signal, a noise suppression unit, a music feature value estimation unit, a speech recognition unit, a noise-processing confidence calculation unit, a music feature value estimation confidence calculation unit, a speech recognition confidence calculation unit, and a control unit configured to calculate at least one behavioral decision function of a speech behavioral decision function associated with speech and a music behavioral decision function associated with music based on a noise-processing confidence value, a music feature value estimation confidence value, and a speech recognition confidence value and to determine behavior corresponding to the calculated behavioral decision function.

Sound processing device, sound processing method, and sound processing program

A reverberation suppressing apparatus, includes: a sound acquiring unit which acquires a sound signal; a reverberation data computing unit which computes reverberation data from the acquired sound signal; a reverberation characteristics estimating unit which estimates reverberation characteristics based on the computed reverberation data; a filter length estimating unit which estimates a filter length of a filter which is used to suppress a reverberation based on the estimated reverberation characteristics; and a reverberation suppressing unit which suppresses the reverberation based on the estimated filter length.

Reverberation suppressing apparatus and reverberation suppressing method

A first domain satisfying a first condition concerning a current utterance understanding result and a second domain satisfying a second condition concerning a selection history are specified. For each of the first and second domains, indices representing reliability in consideration of the utterance understanding history, selection history, and utterance generation history are evaluated. Based on the evaluation results, one of the first, second, and third domains is selected as a current domain according to a selection rule.

Conversation system and conversation software

A musical score position estimating device includes an audio signal acquiring unit, a musical score information acquiring unit acquiring musical score information corresponding to an audio signal acquired by the audio signal acquiring unit, an audio signal feature extracting unit extracting a feature amount of the audio signal, a musical score feature extracting unit extracting a feature amount of the musical score information, a beat position estimating unit estimating a beat position of the audio signal, and a matching unit matching the feature amount of the audio signal with the feature amount of the musical score information using the estimated beat position to estimate a position of a portion in the musical score information corresponding to the audio signal.

Musical score position estimating device, musical score position estimating method, and musical score position estimating robot

A system for timbral change, capable of changing timbres included in an existing music audio signal to arbitrary timbres. Replaced harmonic peak parameters are created by replacing a plurality of harmonic peaks included in harmonic peak parameters, which are stored in a separated audio signal analyzing and storing sectionand indicate relative amplitudes of n-th order harmonic components of each tone generated by a musical instrument of a first kind, with harmonic peaks included in harmonic peak parameters, which are stored in a replacement parameter storing sectionand indicate relative amplitudes of n-th order harmonic components of each tone generated by a musical instrument of a second kind and corresponding to each tone generated by the musical instrument of the first kind. A synthesized separated audio signal generating sectiongenerates a synthesized separated audio signal for each tone using parameters other than the harmonic peak parameters and the replaced harmonic peak parameters.

Music audio signal generating system

A thereminist robot has a characteristic model of theremin and is capable of performing in response to an environment of theremin performance by calibrating the characteristic model before the performance. A robothas a first arm, a second arm, and a pitch model for indicating an arm position corresponding to a pitch of the theremin The robotplays the theremin by moving the first armto the arm position corresponding to a musical note based on the target note and the pitch model. The robot further has a parameter adjustment unit for adjusting parameters of the pitch model that change depending on environments surrounding the theremin.

Theremin-player robot

A robot may include a driving control unit configured to control a driving of a movable unit that is connected movably to a body unit, a voice generating unit configured to generate a voice, and a voice output unit configured to output the voice, which has been generated by the voice generating unit. The voice generating unit may correct the voice, which is generated, based on a bearing of the movable unit, which is controlled by the driving control unit, to the body unit.

Robot, method and program of correcting a robot voice in accordance with head movement

A beat tracking apparatus includes: a filtering unit configured to perform a filtering process on an input acoustic signal and to accentuate an onset; a beat interval reliability calculating unit configured to perform a time-frequency pattern matching process employing a mutual correlation function on the acoustic signal of which the onset is accentuated and to calculate a beat interval reliability; and a beat interval estimating unit configured to estimate a beat interval on the basis of the calculated beat interval reliability.

Beat tracking apparatus, beat tracking method, recording medium, beat tracking program, and robot

A speech recognition system according to the present invention includes a sound source separating section which separates mixed speeches from multiple sound sources from one another; a mask generating section which generates a soft mask which can take continuous values between 0 and 1 for each frequency spectral component of a separated speech signal using distributions of speech signal and noise against separation reliability of the separated speech signal; and a speech recognizing section which recognizes speeches separated by the sound source separating section using soft masks generated by the mask generating section.

Speech recognition system and speech recognizing method

A speech understanding apparatus includes a speech recognition unit which performs speech recognition of an utterance using multiple language models, and outputs multiple speech recognition results obtained by the speech recognition, a language understanding unit which uses multiple language understanding models to perform language understanding for each of the multiple speech recognition results output from the speech recognition unit, and outputs multiple speech understanding results obtained from the language understanding, and an integrating unit which calculates, based on values representing features of the speech understanding results, utterance batch confidences that numerically express accuracy of the speech understanding results for each of the multiple speech understanding results output from the language understanding unit, and selects one of the speech understanding results with a highest utterance batch confidence among the calculated utterance batch confidences.

Speech understanding apparatus using multiple language models and multiple language understanding models

A musical score position estimating apparatus includes a sound feature quantity generating unit configured to generate a feature quantity of an input sound signal, and, a score position estimating unit configured to calculate a weight coefficient based on the feature quantity of the sound signal and a feature quantity of musical score information and estimates a musical score position using a virtual musical score position and a virtual tempo corresponding to the weight coefficient.

Musical score position estimating apparatus, musical score position estimating method, and musical score position estimating program

In a sound source localization system using a light emitting device for visualizing sound information, including: a light emitting device () including a microphone for receiving sound from a sound source () and a light emitting means for emitting light based on the sound from the microphone; a generating section for generating light emitting information for the light emitting device (); and a sound source localization section () for determining a position of the sound source based on the light emitting information from the generating section.

Audio source detection system

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Kyoto, Japan

Hiroshi Okuno