Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Sony Corporation

Nec Corporation

Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co., Ltd.

Jelmax Company, Ltd.

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Mitsubishi Kasei Corporation

Senoh Kabushiki Kaisha

Jelmex Co., Ltd.

Kazuo Ishii

Eiichi Kato

Hiroaki Ogawa

Yasuharu Asano

Sadao Osawa

Yusuke Nakazawa

Katsuki Minamino

Masanori Omote

Hidefumi Sera

Yasuhiko Kato

Hiroshi Kakuda

Miyuki Tanaka

Masao Watari

Seishi Kasai

Makoto Akabane

Hiroshi Ishibashi

Kazuo Watanabe

Shigeyuki Dan

Ryosuke Itakura

Tetsuya Kagami

Eiji Yamamoto

Nozomu Ikeda

Hideyuki Hattori

Sadao Ohsawa

Wataru Onogi

Kohtaro Sabe

Fumiaki Shinozaki

Tomoaki Ikeda

Takao Nakayama

Hiromichi Tachikawa

Masaaki Isozaki

Yoshikazu Takahashi

Katsu Saito

Hitoshi Honda

Kenichi Ikeda

Shu Watarai

Hiroyuki Ohishi

Jun Hiroi

Takeshi Takayama

Yohonosuke Takahashi

Yusuke Iwahashi

Junichi Rekimoto

Shigeru Ohno

Noriyuki Fukushima

Hiroaki Kitano

Keiichi Yamada

Shinpei Ikenoue

Satoshi Fujimura

Seiichi Takamura

Tetsuya Kohno

Hiroshi Tashiro

Satoshi Yamashita

Seiichi Suzuki

Kazuya Umeyama

Akio Oda

Masato Shimakawa

Atsuo Hiroe

Kazuyuki Iijima

Takashi Toyoda

Hideyuki Koguchi

Yuko Iijima

Susumu Oikawa

Hisao Watanabe

Hiroyuki Ishige

Satoru Kamoto

Akira Kashiwabara

Susumu Matsumoto

Hiroki Ohta

Kazuhisa Shirakabe

Yumiko Miura

Katsutoshi Sato

Hiroshi Hanabe

Yoichiro Umeki

Hirohisa Yamasaki

Mikiya Nishimura

Hiroyuki Oishi

Masatoshi Iriono

Hidefuji Sera

Bao Hongchang

Kazunori Sasano

The content recommendation system that acquires attribute information of a given user, acquires at least one list from among lists of content sequentially generated over time on the basis of the attribute information of the given user, acquires user preference information, which is feature information of content preferred by the given user, extracts some content from content included in the list acquired on the basis of the user preference information, and presents the content to the given user.

Recommendation for diverse content

The content recommendation system includes a user attribute information acquisition means for acquiring attribute information of a given user, a list acquisition means for acquiring at least one list from among lists of content sequentially generated over time on the basis of the attribute information of the given user acquired by the user attribute information acquisition means, a user preference information acquisition means for acquiring user preference information, which is feature information of content preferred by the given user, a content extraction means for extracting some content from content included in the list acquired by the list acquisition means on the basis of the user preference information acquired by the user preference information acquisition means, and a content presentation means for presenting the content extracted by the content extraction means to the given user.

Content recommendation system, content recommendation method, content recommendation device, and information storage medium

A content presentation device including a presentation screen production unit for producing display data related to a presentation screen on which images representative of a subset of contents among a plurality of contents together with a mutual relationship among the subset are shown, based on presentation data stored in a presentation data storage memory, the presentation storage memory storing plural kinds of presentation data based on any of which display data about the presentation screen is produced; and an instruction determination unit for determining whether a switching instruction for switching the presentation screen is input while the presentation screen is displayed, the switching instruction designating one of the contents represented by one of the images shown on the presentation screen, where the presentation screen production unit displaying an image representative of the one of the contents designated by the switching instruction at a predetermined position of the presentation screen.

Content presentation device, content presentation method, and information storage medium

The present invention relates to robot control apparatuses which make a user recognize that speech is accepted. A user's speech input to a microphoneis subjected to speech recognition by a speech recognizerA. Based on the speech recognition result, an action determining unitdetermines subsequent actions to be taken by a robot. At the same time, an echo back unitanalyzes prosodic information of the user's speech input to the microphoneand, based on the prosodic information, generates echo back speech which is prosody-controlled speech. The echo back speech is supplied to a loudspeakerthrough an output controllerand is output from the loudspeaker

Robot control apparatus and method with echo back prosody

The present invention aims to provide an improved entertainment property. In a robot system where a plurality of robot apparatus act autonomously, each robot apparatus has wireless communication means, and when the robot apparatus make conversation between themselves, the contents of the conversation are transmitted to and received by the robot apparatus as a command and/or a semantics through the wireless communication means of both.

Robot system and robot apparatus control method

A main robot apparatus generates a sound scale command at a command generating state (ST) to enter into a state of waiting for a reaction of a slave robot apparatus (ST). When the slave robot apparatus outputs a emotion expressing sound responsive to a sound scale command issued by the main robot apparatus, the main robot apparatus recognizes this emotion expressing sound to output the same emotion expressing sound. In a state of the reaction action (ST), the main robot apparatus selects an action (NumResponse), depending on the value of the variable NumResponse which has counted the number of times of the reactions to output the action.

Robot apparatus and method and system for controlling the action of the robot apparatus

A method of lithographic printing is disclosed, which includes forming an image based on signals of image data directly on a printing plate precursor mounted on a plate cylinder of a printing press, thereby preparing a printing plate, and conducting lithographic printing, wherein the formation of the image on the printing plate precursor is carried out by an ink jet recording method in which oil-based ink is ejected utilizing an electrostatic field.

Method of lithographic printing

Electrolytic capacitor for of a high voltage and a high capacity is provided, which is suited for an auxiliary power supply of a fuel cell vehicle. A cathode and an anode foil are arranged to face each other. A dielectric film may be provided on the surface of the anode foil. The anode foil and the cathode foilare wound into a roll, with a compound separator including the first and second separators and arranged there between. In the compound separator, electrolyte is impregnated and conductive fine particles are dispersed in the second separator.

Electrolytic capacitor and a fuel cell drive car using the capacitor

An ink jet printing method which comprises: directly forming an image on a printing medium on the basis of signals of image data; and fixing the image to produce a printed matter, wherein said image formation is carried out by an ink jet system of ejecting an oily ink by an electrostatic field. The method preferably further comprises cleaning an ink jet head, said cleaning step comprising: immersing said ink jet head in a cleaning solution; and applying voltage to said ink jet head. Alternatively, the method preferably further comprises, when a malfunction happens, either or both of stopping the image formation and eliminating a cause of the malfunction. Also disclosed are printing apparatuses suitably used for these methods.

Ink jet printing method and printing apparatus

An on-press recording type lithographic printing method comprising mounting a plate material on a plate cylinder of a press, ejecting an oil-based ink onto the plate material from a recording head having a plurality of ejection channels utilizing an electrostatic field according to signals of image data to directly form an image on the surface of the plate material and prepare a printing plate, and then effecting the lithographic printing using the printing plate as it is, wherein the distance of the ejection channels is 170 &mgr;m, or more (150 dpi (150 dots per inch) or less as calculated in terms of resolution of recorded image).

Lithographic method and lithographic device, plate making method and plate making device, and ink jet printing method and printing device

For receiving clear image data of symbols applied to the front surface or back surface of an article that is moved by, for example, a conveyor and for which the reading distance is constantly changing, a symbol reading device is provided with an image data input focus point control section that outputs position data of the article from a front surface/back surface position detector to an image data input focus point modifier such that the focus point of a camera or waist position of a laser beam for image data input can be constantly matched to the front surface or back surface of the article.

Optical symbol reading device

Process for preparing ink jet system printing plate

A process for preparing an ink-jet system printing plate, wherein an image is formed according to a hot melt type ink-jet system by heat-melting an ink composition that is solid at ordinary temperature, spraying droplets of the ink composition in a hot melt state from nozzles onto an intermediate transferrer to form an image, and contact-transferring the image on the intermediate transferrer to an image receiving layer of a planographic printing plate precursor, the image receiving layer being provided on a water-resistive support and containing zinc oxide and a binder resin, and thereafter, a nonimage area of the image receiving layer is desensitized by chemical reaction treatment to prepare a planographic printing plate.

Process for preparing ink-jet system printing plate

An on-press recording type lithographic printing method involving an ink jet process which comprises ejecting an oil-based ink onto a printing plate material mounted on the plate cylinder of a press utilizing an electrostatic field according to signals of image data, whereby an image is directly formed on the surface of said printing plate precursor, thereby preparing a printing plate which is then used as it is to effect lithographic printing, characterized in that when any abnormality occurs, the formation of image is suspended and/or the cause of abnormality is removed.

On-press recording type lithographic printing method and apparatus

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Shizuoka, Japan

Kazuo Ishii