Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Yamaha Corporation

Katsuji Yoshimura

Koji Takahashi

Susumu Kozuki

Kenichi Nagasawa

Tadayoshi Nakayama

Tomohiko Sasatani

Masamichi Toyama

Chikara Sato

Toshiyuki Masui

Hisashi Ishikawa

Masahide Hirasawa

Akihiro Fujiwara

Hirofumi Suda

Kunihiko Yamada

Hiroto Yasumura

Minoru Noji

Teruo Hieda

Motokazu Kashida

Masayoshi Sekine

Kitahiro Kaneda

Takashi Kai

Toshiyuki Nakajima

Chikara Satoh

Takashi Kobayashi

Shinichi Yamashita

Hiroyuki Kimura

Yasutomo Suzuki

Yoshitake Nagashima

Akio Fujii

Hiroo Edakubo

Makoto Shimokoriyama

Hideo Homma

Yoshiki Ishii

Akio Aoki

Akihiro Shikakura

Tetsuya Shimizu

Yoshihiro Nakatani

Mitsuhiro Otokawa

Takehiko Kawahara

Yuji Hisaminato

Hiroaki Matsubara

Junya Ura

Masahiko Enari

Nobutoshi Takayama

Masahide Hasegawa

Mitsuru Owada

Tetsuya Wakui

Youji Semba

Yuji Imamura

Hironao Nagasima

Naohiro Kosugi

The present invention is provided with: a voice input section that receives a remark (a question) via a voice signal; a reply creation section that creates a voice sequence of a reply (response) to the remark; a pitch analysis section that analyzes the pitch of a first segment (e.g., word ending) of the remark; and a voice generation section (a voice synthesis section, etc.) that generates a reply, in the form of voice, represented by the voice sequence. The voice generation section controls the pitch of the entire reply in such a manner that the pitch of a second segment (e.g., word ending) of the reply assumes a predetermined pitch (e.g., five degrees down) with respect to the pitch of the first segment of the remark. Such arrangements can realize synthesis of replying voice capable of giving a natural feel to the user.

Technology for responding to remarks using speech synthesis

A telephone terminal device such as a portable telephone performs music playback processes with respect to use-specified music data in which tempos, tone colors, and pitches are specifically processed to suit different uses while tone color assignment and musical score are commonly shared among different uses, or common-use music data that are partially modified to suit a specific use in reproduction such as production of incoming call melody sound, hold sound, background music (BGM) during conversation in progress, karaoke accompaniment sound, and music for appreciation.

Telephone terminal

An exposure control device having a light measuring area setting circuit which sets a light measuring area on an image sensing plane, a discriminating circuit which discriminates from each other varied states of the image sensing plane through video signal parts corresponding to the inside and the outside of the light measuring area and an exposure compensating circuit which compensates the state of exposure to light is arranged to shift the set position of the light measuring area to trace an object's image at least when the exposure compensating circuit is in operation. The operating modes of the device includes a first light measuring mode in which a quantity of light is measured on the basis of the average video signal level of the whole image sensing plane, a second light measuring mode in which the light quantity is measured with weight attached to a video signal part obtained from the inside of the light measuring area, and a third light measuring mode in which the light quantity is measured with weight attached to the video signal of the light measuring area by shifting the light measuring area to trace the object. The three light measuring modes are adaptively switched from one over to another.

Exposure control device

The image sensing device adapted to compose an appropriate single picture from a plurality of pictures of different exposures obtained from the same subject, wherein the camera operation is controlled using as a reference the signal of one of said plurality of pictures of different exposures.

Image sensing device

An image shake detecting device for detecting a shake of an image on an image sensing plane on the basis of a video signal output from an image sensor includes detection circuits arranged to detect image displacement in a plurality of areas set on the image sensing plane, and a control microcomputer which makes a discrimination, on the basis of information output from these detection circuits, between a movement of a camera and a solo movement of a photographed object. The device thus accurately makes compensation for an image shake by judging the state of the image on the basis of information output from these detection circuits. The image shake detecting device further includes a computing circuit arranged to compute a quantity of an image shake on the basis of a difference in detecting timing of a feature point of the image and a sensitivity control circuit arranged to change the detection sensitivity of the shake detection circuits. Further disclosed is an object tracing device to which the invented image shake detecting device is applied.

Image shake detecting device

A wood board 1, wherein irregularities 6 of the surface of an oriented strand board 2 in a laminated wood board 5, in which an oriented strand board 2 is laminated on a strand board 3, are filled with a putty 7, and smoothed. A surface-decorated wood board 10, in which a surface-decorative material 12 is applied to a smoothed surface of this wood board 1. Despite the fact that an oriented strand board 2 having large surface irregularities is employed as the surface layer, it is possible to obtain a wood board 1 which has a smooth surface, in which the wooden strand pattern is reduced, and which has superior water and moisture resistance.

Wood board, surface-decorated wood board, and manufacturing method

A video signal reproducing apparatus having a video camera part which produces a video signal by picking up an image of an object and is arranged in one unified body at least with a reproducing part which reproduces a video signal from a recording medium is arranged to selectively supply the video signal obtained by picking up the object's image or the reproduced video signal obtained from the recording medium to one and the same signal processing means. The disclosed arrangement not only permits simplification of the apparatus but also enables the apparatus to reproduce a high quality video signal.

Video signal reproducing apparatus

A video signal reproducing apparatus is arranged to use a first video signal which corresponds to an image sensed state of an object and is obtained by sensing the object's image and a second video signal which is reproduced from a record bearing medium; and to form and produce at least one picture plane portion of a third video signal which includes and has the first and second video signals mixed therein in a time sharing manner.

Image signal outputting apparatus having special effects producing

A video system is arranged to record, on a second recording medium of a relatively small capacity, a given period portion of a video signal relating to an image plane representing each of varied programs included in the video signal and information on a recorded position of each of the programs on a first recording medium which has a relatively large capacity.

Video system using two different kinds of recording media

Image signal recording/reproducing apparatus having

Exposure control device having a plurality of light detecting areas

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Kanagawa, Japan

Katsuji Yoshimura