Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Ikuo Keshi

Kenichi Kuromusha

Kenichi Inui

Tsuguhiro Aoki

Junko Nakagawa

Hiroshi Ikeuchi

Hiroaki Niwamoto

Yasuo Ozawa

Yumi Shiraishi

A gateway device includes a third block communicating information, and a control unit controlling the third block so as to generate second information representing an operation of an air conditioner and to transmit the second information to the air conditioner based on first information representing control contents of the air conditioner received by the third block. Accordingly, an apparatus connected to a network and absent of a high-level circuit can be controlled at high level.

Control device, communication device for control, relay device, control system, control method, control program to realize control method thereof, and computer-readable recording medium having program thereof recorded

An agent interface device provides information suited for user preferences on the basis of a usage history. In an example implementation, the agent interface device controls the display and action of the agent. A user preference database stores user preferences. An information providing engine provides information to the user according to information in the preference database, and a timer sets a time for the information providing engine to provide information to the user.

Agent interface device

An example window display device on a window-system type computer system displays a main window and a sub-window. The window display device includes a sub-window moving mechanism for moving the sub-window in accordance with movement of the main window so that the sub-window may always keep a specified relative position with respect to the main window on a display screen.

Window display system and method for a computer system

A retrieval apparatus is capable of simultaneously executing keyword retrieval and semantic retrieval of information. The retrieval apparatus includes an input for inputting a request-text for retrieval, a word dictionary for storing words together with corresponding word vectors in n-vector space, a database containing a plurality of data including at least a word, word extracting structure for extracting a word in the request-text by using the word dictionary, vector generating structure for generating a request-text vector from the request-text by using the word dictionary and the word extracting structure, vector retrieving structure for determining semantic similarity of each data vector to the request-text vector, keyword retrieving structure for searching data containing a word corresponding to that in the request-text by using the word extracting structure and extended retrieving structure for retrieving data adapted to the request-text on the basis of the semantic similarity of the data vector to the request-text vector and the number of the words commonly included in the data and the request-text.

Retrieval apparatus

The present invention is intended to provide an on-demand interface device which is capable of retrieving a function corresponding in meaning to an inputted request sentence and easily executing the retrieved function. The on-demand interface device comprises a function-description database containing function-descriptive sentences for respective functional items and action scripts for realizing respective functions, retrieving means for retrieving a functional item corresponding to a requesting sentence inputted through an input means, script executing means for realizing the retrieved function by executing a corresponding script. The retrieving means can conduct the retrieval of keywords as well as the retrieval of a requesting function by determining an inner product of two sentence vectors, i.e., of a request and each of function-descriptions for respective functional items.

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Nara, Japan

Ikuo Keshi