Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Hitoshi Hirose

Fumio Togawa

Toshiaki Morita

Toru Ueda

Hideaki Tanaka

Yoshihiro Kitamura

Keisuke Iwasaki

Kazuyuki Nako

Hisashi Saiga

Mitsuhiro Hakaridani

Yasuhisa Nakamura

Masahiro Horii

Akira Fujiwara

Makoto Shinkai

Shigeru Tasaka

Satoshi Suzuki

A home-appliance system is provided that may alleviate user's stress or fatigue. The interactive home-appliance system includes an utterance unit, a voice input unit for accepting input of a reply to voice, a storage unit for storing an assessment criterion for assessing stress or fatigue based on conversation with an utterer and data for outputting voice alleviating stress or fatigue, a determination unit for determining the utterer's stress or fatigue based on the assessment criterion and the reply, and a drive mechanism for performing an operation for assisting in the utterer's life. The utterance unit is configured to output an utterance based on the determination result and the data.

Interactive home-appliance system, server device, interactive home appliance, method for allowing home-appliance system to interact, and nonvolatile computer-readable data recording medium encoded with program for allowing computer to implement the method

Provided herein is a sound output devicethat includes a microphone, a speaker, and a processor. The sound output devicecontinues a conversation either autonomously or in accordance with an instruction from a server when the message accepted via the microphonedoes not correspond to a first emotion, and ends a conversation either autonomously or in accordance with an instruction from a server when the message accepted via the microphonecorresponds to the first emotion.

Sound output device, network system, and sound output method

Provided is an information processing device that is capable of recognizing characters in an image quickly. The portable phone according to the present invention is a device that recognizes words and phrases from an image. The portable phone includes: an image capturing section that captures a moving image; a character string obtaining section, a character string collation section, and a word and phrase ID obtaining section, which successively obtains consecutive images that constitute the captured moving image and obtains an ID indicative of a word or a phrase at a predetermined position of the image; a FIFO buffer for storing the obtained ID; and a recognition determination section that determines, as a recognition result, an ID that is stored in the FIFO buffer by the most number.

Information processing device and method for controlling an information processing device

A figure input system includes an input device such as a digitizer through which coordinate data of points on a figure to be inputted are time-wise continuously received. These data are sampled sequentially at set time intervals and are analyzed in view of the kind of basic figure intended by the user such that geometrical characteristics and position data are extracted from the sampled data and a regular basic figure can be displayed on a display device.

Figure input system

A character recognition apparatus includes an inputting function of ruled lines. The apparatus is equipped with a tablet type input device integrating a tablet type input device with a display panel. The apparatus includes a control unit that recognizes information inputted in an input panel by a stylus pen. There is a memory unit for storing the recognized information. The control unit sets a grating-like virtual frame in the input panel. The frame set in the input panel is a virtual boarder obtained by calculation and does not appear on a display panel.

Character recognition apparatus with inputting function of ruled lines

A method determines coordinates of a circumscribed rectangular frame for enclosing each character based on image data of character images in a recognition area. First of all, specified image data of a predetermined data unit in a transverse direction including at least one bit of black pixel are determined by scanning the image data. Thereafter, top and bottom coordinates of a circumscribed rectangular frame are determined respectively by searching respective image data located at the top and bottom positions among plural image data including at least one bit of black pixel located on the upper and lower sides of the specified image data, wherein respective bits of black pixel of plural image data are substantially continuously connected in a longitudinal direction, and then, leftmost and rightmost coordinates of the circumscribed rectangular frame are determined based on histogram data composed of either logical products or logical sums of respective bits in the transverse direction.

Method for determining coordinates of circumscribed rectangular frame of

An information recognition system includes a recognition unit for recognizing inputted information as groups of candidate characters, a memory for storing the groups of candidate characters, a display-integrated tablet for displaying top characters in the groups of candidate characters, also a coordinate input device for indicating one of the displayed characters, and a character correcting device which replaces the top character indicated by the coordinate indicating device with another character in the group to which the indicated top character belongs are provided.

Information recognition system

A handwritten character-recognizing apparatus having a discriminating device which discriminates whether or not an input device, namely, the pen of a writing/displaying tablet has moved from one character frame to the following character frame. When it is discriminated that the input device has moved to the following character frame, a character frame generating device automatically generates a character frame adjacent to the last character frame of the character frames arranged in a line. Thereby, the reading of handwritten characters and the recognizing of standard characters which are displayed instead of the handwritten characters are facilitated.

Handwritten character-recognizing apparatus for automatically generating

A handwritten character recognition device comprises a feature point circuit for recognizing a character with using three feature points for a continuous stroke connecting a first stroke and second strokes. For recognition, both stroke information and stroke connection information between adjacent strokes are read-in per stroke. Therefore, the character can be recognized with a relative position correlation between the stroke number and the stroke shape. Even if the stroke number may be irregularly changed, the inputted character can be recognized without a necessity of storing information for the irregularly changed strokes.

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Osaka, Japan

Hitoshi Hirose