Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Matsushita Electrical Co. Ltd.

Kazuhiro Kayashima

Hidetsugu Maekawa

Hiroshi Yamamoto

Yasuharu Shimeki

Yoshihiro Kojima

Hisao Niwa

Susumu Maruno

Makoto Fujimoto

Fumikazu Tateishi

Takeo Azuma

Kunio Nobori

Atsushi Morimura

Tatsumi Watanabe

Yoshihiko Matsukawa

Yasuo Fukui

Kenji Iwano

Kenji Matsui

Masaru Ikedo

Kazuaki Obara

Hiroshi Akahori

Toshiyuki Kouda

Satoru Ito

Kiyoko Ohshima

Koji Ikeda

Hiroshi Onishi

Kenya Uomori

Toshihiko Kurosaki

Kouji Ikeda

Yo Egusa

Takenori Akamine

Yasuhito Kawamata

Koyoko Ohshima

Seiichi Shin

Hiroshi Atuta

A game apparatus of the invention includes: a voice input section for inputting at least one voice set including voice uttered by an operator, for converting the voice set into a first electric signal, and for outputting the first electric signal; a voice recognition section for recognizing the voice set on the basis of the first electric signal output from the voice input means; an image input section for optically detecting a movement of the lips of the operator, for converting the detected movement of lips into a second electric signal, and for outputting the second electric signal; a speech period detection section for receiving the second electric signal, and for obtaining a period in which the voice is uttered by the operator on the basis of the received second electric signal; an overall judgment section for extracting the voice uttered by the operator from the input voice set, on the basis of the voice set recognized by the voice recognition means and the period obtained by the speech period detection means; and a control means for controlling an object on the basis of the voice extracted by the overall judgment means.

Voice selection apparatus voice response apparatus, and game apparatus using word tables from which selected words are output as voice selections

An image printer for printing images with less cross-talk between images and less image flickering is provided. A plurality of images are interleft in one or a plurality of line units and a lenticular lens is used to make it possible for each individual pixel to be distinguished. The difference in brightness between an attentional pixel and the surrounding pixels that surround this attentional pixel is taken, and a correlation value is produced, the correlation value being reduced if the difference is large and increased if the difference is small. The image printer is equipped with a pixel shape controller that makes the printed pixels smaller in a region where the correlation value is low, and makes the printed pixels larger in a region where the correlation value is high.

Image printer for controlling the shape of pixels based upon correlation values

Image recording apparatus, image data generating apparatus, and

The terminal device with built-in image sensor allows to use a conventional writing tool as the handwritten input means, and facilitates reading of printed document, and incorporates a scanning image sensor composed of a lens member having the optical path disposed parallel to a transparent panel, a prism member for bending the optical path at right angle to match one focal position of the lens member with the surface of the transparent panel, a light source for illuminating the surface of the transparent panel, and a light sensor disposed at other focal position of the lens member, and reads a document placed on the transparent panel, and conventional writing device is provided in the lid unit, and by closing the lid unit after writing character or picture by the writing device, the character or picture is read by the image sensor.

Terminal device with built-in image sensor

There is disclosed a character recognition machine adapted to recognize Japanese characters such as kanjis and kanas. The machine comprises a character string storage portion, a character extraction portion, a character recognition portion, and a language processing portion. A character string to be recognized is stored as an image in the storage portion. The character extraction portion comprises a network consisting a plurality of interconnected operators each of which has numerous inputs and outputs. An evaluation function which assumes its minimum value when a character extraction produces the best results is calculated by the operators simultaneously so as to minimize the value of the function. The character recognition portion calculates degrees of similarity of a character pattern to various character categories, the character pattern being applied from the character extraction portion. The language processing portion receives these degrees of similarity and selects a character category which seems to provide the must correct combination of characters in terms of vocabulary and grammar.

Character recognition machine utilizing language processing

An input/display integrated information processing device has: image display circuit for displaying document and image information; image input circuit through which information of an image such as a picture, a photograph, documents drawn or written on a sheet presented by the user can be an input; a visual coincidence structure for integrally combining a display screen of the image display circuit with an input screen of image input circuit so as to establish visual coincidence of screens as viewed from the user; contact information detection circuit for, when a finger of the user, the sheet presented by the user, or the like makes contact with the contact information detection circuit, detecting information of a contact position, the contact information detection circuit being disposed on the whole of the input screen of the image input circuit or the display screen of the image display circuit; image extraction circuit for automatically extracting only a required portion from image information input through the image input circuit; image information storage circuit for storing the image information; image synthesize circuit for combining the image with an image which is already displayed and stored; and image information control circuit for controlling input/output operations of the image information.

Input/display integrated information processing device

There is disclosed a character recognition machine adapted to recognize Japanese characters such as kanjis and kanas. The machine comprises a character string storage portion, a character extraction portion, a character recognition portion, and a language processing portion. A character string to be recognized is stored as an image in the storage portion. The character extraction portion comprises a network consisting a plurality of interconnected operators each of which has numerous inputs and outputs. An evaluation function which assumes its minimum value when a character extraction produces the best results is calculated by the operators simultaneously so as to minimize the value of the function. The character recognition portion calculates degrees of similarity of a character pattern to various character categories, the character pattern being applied from the character extraction portion. The language processing portion receives these degrees of similarity and selects a character category which seems to provide the most correct combination of characters in terms of vocabulary and grammar.

A voice recognition apparatus is provided which includes a first detection circuit for receiving an electric signal corresponding to voice. The first detection circuit detects a voice termination point representing a time at which the input of the electric signal corresponding to the voice is terminated based on the electric signal. The apparatus further includes a second detection circuit for determining a speech period, the speech period being a period in which the voice is uttered within a whole period in which the voice is input, based on the electric signal. In addition, the apparatus includes a feature amount extracting circuit for producing a feature amount vector, on the basis of a part of the electric signal corresponding to the speech period. A memory is provided for storing feature amount vectors for a plurality of voice candidates which are previously generated. The apparatus further includes a circuit for recognizing the input voice, by comparing the feature amount vector from the feature amount extracting circuit with each of the feature amount vectors of the plurality of voice candidates stored in the memory. The speech period is determined by a detection of a speech period start point representing a time at which an utterance is started and a detection of a speech period termination point representing a time at which the utterance is terminated.

Voice recognition and voice response apparatus using speech period start

An apparatus for printing image data prints image data on a lens array having a plurality of lenses arranged along a first direction. The apparatus includes: an image data generating section for generating image data; a head having a plurality of printing elements arranged along a second direction, the head driving each of the plurality of printing elements in accordance with the image data; a conveying section for conveying the lens array relative to the head; and a first pinion and a second pinion which are arranged along the second direction. The first pinion and the second pinion each have a rotation axis parallel to the second direction. The lens array has a first rack extending along the first direction and a second rack extending along the first direction. The first pinion engaging with the first rack of the lens array and the second pinion engaging with the second rack of the lens array.

Apparatus for printing image data

An input/display integrated information processing device has: image display circuit for displaying document and image information; image input circuit through which information of an image such as a picture, a photograph, documents drawn or written on a sheet presented by the user can be an input; a visual coincidence structure for integrally combining a display screen of the image display circuit with an input screen of the image input circuit so as to establish visual coincidence of screens as viewed from the user; contact information detection circuit for, when a finger of the user, the sheet presented by the user, or the like makes contact with the contact information detection circuit, detecting information of a contact position, the contact information detection circuit being disposed on the whole of the input screen of the image input circuit or the display screen of the image display circuit; image extraction circuit for automatically extracting only a required portion from image information input through the image input circuit; image information storage circuit for storing the image information; image synthesize circuit for combining the image with an image which is already displayed and stored; and image information control circuit for controlling input/output operations of the image information.

A character recognition unit recognizes a document image to output character candidates; a character correction unit selects a corrected character string which is correct with respect to grammar and vocabulary, from a set of character candidates from the character recognition unit; a keyword extraction unit extracts keywords of a document to be recognized, from the corrected character string; and wherein the character correction unit selects the corrected character string by a use of BUNSETSU evaluation representing correctness with respect to grammar and vocabulary, and an evaluation of the BUNSETSU is increased when the BUNSETSU has the keyword outputted from the keyword extraction unit.

Character recognition apparatus using a keyword

A method of manufacturing an unclad infrared optical fiber hot extrudes silver halide crystals through a die while simultaneously applying a pressure of 5 to 15 tons/cm.sup.2 to the crystals and a tensile load to the forming fiber, the tensile load being greater than the yield stress but smaller than the rupture stress of the infrared optical fiber. The method provides an infrared fiber having minimal variation in linearity.

Method of manufacturing an infrared optical fiber

The griddle of this invention includes a temperature adjustment element for adjusting a cooking temperature for a material such as meat and vegetable, a thin plate having a small heat capacity for heating the material, an adiabatic frame for supporting the thin plate with an adiabatic structure, a plurality of heating elements for heating the thin plate, a plurality of temperature sensors for measuring temperatures of a plurality of positions on the thin plate, and a power distribution element for determining power to be distributed to each of the heating elements based on the outputs from the temperature sensors and the cooking temperature.

Griddle

A television system which includes a television set with cathode-ray tube, a VCR deck, a disc player, a tape deck and a radio tuner in one unit operated and controlled by a single remote control device. The cathode-ray tube displays a menu including a guide to help one use the remote control device. The television system also includes automatically selecting a preset or use determined favorite device, e.g. television set, and/or a channel when the system is turned on.

Television system including television set, and accessory devices

A test pattern generating apparatus for generating test patterns to test a sequential circuit having at least one memory element. The apparatus calculates, in response to a primary input applied to the sequential circuit, analog logic values for signal lines in the sequential circuit using a nonlinear function, then stores history data for the analog logic values with an inverse covariance matrix of the analog logic values. The apparatus then calculates an evaluation value according to the degree of variance between the analog logic values and the history data. A primary input setting unit is used for producing a next primary input which provides a maximum evaluation value from the evaluation value obtained from the present primary input. inputs produced by the primary input setting unit.

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Hirakata, Japan

Kazuhiro Kayashima