Nec Corporation

Jun-ichi Funada

Shin Ishiguro

An object of the present invention is to infer a user's preference or profile with a good precision. A user preference inferring apparatusincludes a receiving meanswhich receives information related to an article from a tag attached to the article, an article name determining meansobtaining an article name of the article on the basis of the information related to the article received by the receiving means, and a preference determining meanswhich infers a user's preference on the basis of the information related to the article received by the receiving means. On the basis of the article name obtained by the article name determining means, the preference determining meansobtains preference information corresponding to the article name from a database that stores the article name and the preference information corresponding to the article name, and determines the user's preference.

User preference inferring apparatus, user profile inferring apparatus, and robot

In a fingerprint/palmprint image processing system and method, for local regions other than a highly reliable region, a ridge line image which can be estimated to represent a ridge line is selected from ridge line candidate images, and whether or not each of the selected ridge line images is valid as an image representing a ridge line is discriminated. Thus, a whole image is generated on the basis of the ridge line image in the highly reliable region and the ridge line images which were discriminated to be valid in the other regions.

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Tokyo, Japan

Jun-ichi Funada