Sony Corporation

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Renesas Electronics Corporation

Opnext Japan, Inc.

Nec Corporation

Renesas Technology Corp.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Binsted-mckay Yugen-kaisha

Keiichi Yamada

Makoto Akabane

Keiichi Higashitani

Yasuharu Asano

Masato Shimakawa

Akira Tange

Hiroshi Kawashima

Kazuo Tomita

Kenichiro Kobayashi

Kazumi Kawamoto

Atsuo Hiroe

Hajime Yano

Nobuhide Yamazaki

Junichi Kudo

Tomoaki Nitta

Erika Kobayashi

Goro Shiraishi

Ugo Di Profio

Kenji Yoshiyama

Motoshige Igarashi

Hiroaki Furuichi

Shohei Hata

Hideki Shimomura

Kazumi Aoyama

Hitoshi Honda

Katsumi Kuroguchi

Katsuya Okada

Junichi Rekimoto

Kazuo Ishii

Akira Inoue

Kouichi Matsuda

Masahiro Fujita

Kazuhiko Nakamura

Hiroaki Ogawa

Hiroaki Kitano

Atsushi Okubo

Akane Sano

Atsushi Hachisuka

Tsutomu Sawada

Tatsuki Kashitani

Naoki Matsushima

Satoshi Fujimura

Hiroshi Kakuda

Atsushi Maeda

Naoto Iwahashi

Tsutomu Tajima

Hideyuki Kuwano

Masakazu Okada

Hideo Sotokawa

Helmut Lucke

Toshiaki Takai

Daiki Ata

Yoshinori Maeda

Yoshiaki Niwa

Seiichi Aoyagi

Masahiro Hirai

Hiroshi Mitsuyama

Atsuhiro Yamamoto

Tsutomu Okumura

Kazuo Takai

Bao Hongchang

Kazunori Sasano

Yasuhisa Fujii

Justin McKay

Kimberly Binsted

Shintarou Sakamoto

Provided is an information processing apparatus that includes an acquisition unit that acquires group content information regarding a content of a conversation in at least one or more groups among a plurality of groups in which a plurality of users participating in a remote meeting are divided and can have a conversation in each group, and an output unit that outputs plural group list information that displays the group content information in association with a corresponding group together with the plurality of groups.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, terminal device, and display method

Provided is a device, a method that allow a remote terminal to perform a process on the basis of a local-terminal-side user utterance. There are a local terminal and a remote terminal. The local terminal performs a process of a semantic analysis of a user utterance input into the local terminal. On the basis of a result of the semantic analysis, the local terminal determines whether or not the user utterance is a request to the remote terminal for a process. Moreover, in a case where the user utterance is a request to the remote terminal for a process, the local terminal transmits the result of the semantic analysis by a semantic-analysis part to the remote terminal. The remote terminal receives the result of the semantic analysis of the local-terminal-side user utterance, and performs a process based on the received result of the semantic analysis of the local-terminal-side user utterance.

Information processing device, information processing system, and information processing method, and program

A signal processing device for performing processing for reducing noise in a displacement amount measured on a basis of light reflected from a detection object includes a moving-average calculating unit that performs moving average calculation for an input signal to reduce a noise component included in the input signal and an infinite impulse response filter that reduces a noise component included in an input signal by digital signal processing. A filter coefficient of the infinite impulse response filter is determined on a basis of a difference between a first calculation result output by the moving-average calculating unit and a second calculation result output by the infinite impulse response filter when a same signal is input to the moving-average calculating unit and the infinite impulse response filter.

Signal processing device, sensor device, and signal processing method

In a semiconductor device (SD), plate-shaped upper electrodes (UEL) are formed on a lower electrode (LEL) with a dielectric film (DEC) interposed therebetween. The lower electrode (LEL), the dielectric film (DEC), and the upper electrodes (UEL) constitute MIM capacitors (MCA). One of the upper electrodes (UEL) and another upper electrode (UEL) that are adjacent to each other are arranged at an equal distance (D), without the guard ring being interposed therebetween. The upper electrodes (UEL) positioned on the outermost periphery and the guard ring (GR) positioned outside those upper electrodes UEL are arranged at a distance equal to the distance (D) from each other.

Semiconductor device

In a semiconductor device, plate-shaped upper electrodes are formed on a lower electrode with a dielectric film interposed therebetween. The lower electrode, the dielectric film, and the upper electrodes constitute MIM capacitors. One of the upper electrodes and another upper electrode that are adjacent to each other are arranged at an equal distance, without the guard ring being interposed therebetween. The upper electrodes positioned on the outermost periphery and the guard ring positioned outside those upper electrodes are arranged at a distance equal to the distance from each other.

An information processing apparatus includes: a plurality of information input units; an event detection unit that generates event information including estimated position information and estimated identification information of users present in the real space based on analysis of the information from the information input unit; and an information integration processing unit that inputs the event information, and generates target information including a position of each user and user identification information based on the input event information, and signal information representing a probability value of the event generation source, wherein the information integration processing unit includes an utterance source probability calculation unit, and wherein the utterance source probability calculation unit performs a process of calculating an utterance source score as an index value representing an utterance source probability of each target by multiplying weights based on utterance situations by a plurality of different information items from the event detection unit.

Determining the position of the source of an utterance

Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a voice analysis unit which performs an analysis process for a user speech; and a data processing unit which is input with analysis results of the voice analysis unit to determine a process which is to be performed by the information processing apparatus, wherein in the case where a factor of inhibiting process continuation occurs in a process based on the user speech, the data processing unit performs a process of generating and outputting feedback information corresponding to a process stage in which the factor of inhibiting occurs.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program for providing feedback on a user request

To provide a more reliable semiconductor device including a lower-cost and more reliable capacitor and a method of manufacturing the same. This manufacturing method comprises the steps of: preparing a semiconductor substrate; and forming, over one of the major surfaces of the semiconductor substrate, a first metal electrode including an aluminum layer, a dielectric layer over the first metal electrode, and a second metal electrode over the dielectric layer. In the step of forming the first metal electrode, the aluminum layer is formed so that the surface thereof satisfies a relationship of Rmax&#x3c;80 nm, Rms&#x3c;10 nm, and Ra&#x3c;9 nm. The step of forming the first metal electrode comprises the steps of: forming at least one first barrier layer; forming the aluminum layer over the first barrier layer; and recrystallizing a crystal constituting the aluminum layer.

Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same

A semiconductor device includes a first insulated gate field effect transistor, a second insulated gate field effect transistor, a bipolar transistor, a first element isolation structure formed on a main surface above a pn junction formed between an emitter region and a base region, a second element isolation structure formed on the main surface above a pn junction formed between the base region and a collector region, and a third element isolation structure formed on the main surface opposite to the second element isolation structure relative to the collector region, in which the semiconductor device further includes a bipolar dummy electrode formed on at least one of the first element isolation structure, the second element isolation structure and the third element isolation structure and having a floating potential.

Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing semiconductor device

A search apparatus includes a sound recognition unit which recognizes input sound, a user information estimation unit which estimates at least one of a physical condition and emotional demeanor of a speaker of the input sound based on the input sound and outputs user information representing the estimation result, a matching unit which performs matching between a search result target pronunciation symbol string and a recognition result pronunciation symbol string for each of plural search result target word strings, and a generation unit which generates a search result word string as a search result for a word string corresponding to the input sound from the plural search result target word strings based on the matching result. At least one of the matching unit and the generation unit changes processing in accordance with the user information.

Search apparatus, search method, and program

An information processing apparatus for performing dialogue processing. The apparatus acquires text data described in a natural language and stores a plurality of examples each including an example statement and frame information described using a frame format and corresponding to the example statement. A similarity between the text data and the example statement is calculated. An example is selected corresponding to an example statement whose similarity to the text data is the highest from among the plurality of examples in accordance with the calculated similarity. Text data is converted into the frame format in accordance with the frame information corresponding to the example selected by the example selection. Dialogue processing is performed in accordance with the text data converted into the frame format.

Information processing apparatus and method and program for controlling the same

An optical signal division transmission system in which an input optical signal is divided into N parts (termed as 'N-part optical signals') and transmitted at a transmission rate of 1/N, wherein an additional optical wave path is provided separately from an optical wave paths for transmitting said N-part optical signals, and even if a malfunction occurs in any one of said optical wave paths for transmitting said N-part optical signals, transmission of said N-part optical signals is continued, using said additional optical wave path.

Optical signal division transmission system, optical transmitter, optical receiver, and optical signal division transmission method

A speech analysis apparatus analyzing prosodic characteristics of speech information and outputting a prosodic discrimination result includes an input unit inputting speech information, an acoustic analysis unit calculating relative pitch variation and a discrimination unit performing speech discrimination processing, in which the acoustic analysis unit calculates a current template relative pitch difference, determining whether a difference absolute value between the current template relative pitch difference and a previous template relative pitch difference is equal to or less than a predetermined threshold or not, when the value is not less than the threshold, calculating an adjacent relative pitch difference, and when the adjacent relative pitch difference is equal to or less than a previously set margin value, executing correction processing of adding or subtracting an octave of the current template relative pitch difference to calculate the relative pitch variation by applying the relative pitch difference as the relative pitch difference of the current analysis frame.

Speech analysis apparatus, speech analysis method and computer program

An audio signal separation apparatus for separating observation signals in the time domain of a mixture of a plurality of signals including audio signals into individual signals by means of independent component analysis to produce isolated signals adapted to produce isolated signals in the time-frequency domain from the observation signals in the time-frequency domain and a separation matrix substituted by initial values, compute the modified value of the separation matrix by using a score function using the isolated signals in the time-frequency domain and a multidimensional probability density function and the separation matrix, modify the separation matrix until the separation matrix substantially converges by using the modified value and produce isolated signals in the time-frequency domain by using the substantially converging separation matrix.

Apparatus and method for separating audio signals

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