Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Mika Fukui

Miwako Doi

Yoichi Takebayashi

Isamu Iwai

Kouichi Sasaki

Koji Yamaguchi

Hideo Umeki

Yasuko Nakayama

Kazuyuki Gotoh

Akira Morishita

Akio Okazaki

Nobuko Kato

Toshihiko Manabe

Masayuki Horikawa

Yoshihisa Ohtake

Kenichi Mori

Satoshi Ito

Toshinari Takahashi

Toru Imai

Hideki Hirakawa

Hisako Tanaka

Seiji Miike

Hiroyuki Tsuboi

Yasukazu Okamoto

Nobuhiro Shimogori

Hideki Tsutsui

Yoshiaki Kurosawa

Yasushi Kawakura

Hiroshi Mizoguchi

Yoshikuni Matsumura

Yuuichi Kurosawa

Shigenobu Seto

Koji Urata

Hideaki Shinchi

Katsuyuki Murata

Hideo Numagami

Ikiko Nishida

Hiroko Hayama

Iwamu Iwai

Yasuyo Shibazaki

Takehiko Yokota

Sougo Tsuboi

Toshihiro Kayama

An information retrieval system, includes speech recognition means for making speech recognition for a spoken question to generate first text information, generation means for modifying the first text information to generate second text information as a interrogative to make a search for an answer to the question, and search means for searching the answer from a document database by using the second text information.

Information retrieval system, method, and program

A message exchange unit receives and distributes a message in a community in which a plurality of users participates. A message memory stores the message received by the message exchange unit. An extraction rule memory stores an extraction rule applicable for the message. The extraction rule includes an extraction pattern, an extraction target and a display format. An information extraction unit extracts information from the message stored in the message memory by referring to the extraction rule. An extraction result memory stores extraction result information by the information extraction unit. An extraction result editing unit edits the extraction result information stored in the extraction result memory. A message generation unit generates another message representing editing of the extraction result information.

Apparatus and method for extracting and sharing information

Editing contents for the editing-object document selected from the plural documents that are inputted from the terminal devices connected to the network and that can be owned jointly via the network and corresponding message sentences for the editing contents are received, and a new renewed document is prepared by renewing the editing-object document on the basis of the editing contents, while extracting the renewed contents of the editing-object document by comparing the editing-object documents before and after the renewal with each other, storing at least the renewed contents as the history concerning the renewal of the editing-object document after preparing the contents correspondence with the message sentences, and displaying the renewed contents with the message sentences at a request by the user on the terminal device that sent the request.

Document management method and document management device

To members of a user group, messages and documents registered in the user group are presented, while, to other users than the members of the user group, documents preset as available also to other users than the members of the user group are presented, and as a registration destination of the messages, a user group where the contents of the message, or the message and messages and documents that are most similar to the contents of the documents corresponded thereto is searched and presented at request from users.

Information management method and information management device

There is disclosed a method of extracting a user related to a field corresponding to an inquiry content based on shared documents of a plurality of users and profile information including at least specialized fields of the plurality of users. A degree of communication of the extracted respective users with the user who has made the inquiry is calculated based on a history of communication using a network. The user who can answer the inquiry is selected from the extracted users based on the degree of communication.

Search apparatus, search method and storage medium for storing search program

An information sharing system using a computer so as to allow a plurality of users to share disclosed information, the system comprising, input section for receiving responses to the disclosed information from references of the disclosed information, evaluation information generation section for totalizing and processing the responses to generate evaluation information and storing the evaluation information after correlating it with the disclosed information, and evaluation information notifying section for presenting the evaluation information generated by the evaluation information generation section.

Information sharing system and computer program product for causing computer to support the information sharing system

A virtual reality data presentation system capable of improving naturalness of the system operation and data presentation. In the system, 3D model is presented according to 3D model data; input data for manipulating objects in the presented 3D model is entered; and a presentation of the 3D model is controlled according to the 3D model data, the entered input data, and control data specifying reactions of the objects in the presented 3D model with respect to the entered input data. In addition, in the system, real object data are obtained from actual objects represented by the objects in the 3D model; and a presentation of the presented 3D model is controlled to selectively present selected ones of the objects in the 3D model in terms of the obtained real object data.

Virtual reality control using image, model and control data to

A data storage means stores data in a predetermined information form. An information retrieval means retrieves the data stored in the data storage means. A reception means receives an information disclosure demand from a demander, a response rule storage means for storing general knowledge for generating a response responding to the demander and a personal relationship information associated with a unique personal relationship between a user having the data on an information provider side and a user on an information demander side. A response plan formation means, responsive to the demand received by the reception means, plans a response for exhibiting, to the information demander, data obtained by causing the retrieval means to retrieve the data stored in the data storage means on the basis of the knowledge and the personal relationship information stored in the response rule storage means. A response generation means generates the response to the information demander in accordance with the plan formed by the response plan formation means.

Information disclosing apparatus and multi-modal information

A data retrieval system capable of carrying out the retrieval using the secondary information of the primary data to be retrieved such as environmental information or structural information as the retrieval key. In the system, the primary data which are filing target to be stored and retrieved are stored in a first memory while secondary information associated with the primary data, which are not directly related with data content of the primary data, are stored in a second memory in correspondence to the primary data stored in the first memory. Then, when a retrieval key specifying a desired retrieval of the primary data from the first memory is entered, the secondary information is selected from the second memory in accordance with the retrieval key, and the primary data corresponding to the secondary information selected in accordance with the retrieval key is retrieved and outputted as a retrieval result.

Data retrieval system using secondary information of primary data to be

A method and an apparatus for document formatting, capable of reflecting the preference of the operator and overall balance, such that the desired formatting can be obtained efficiently without tedious post-processing operations. In the apparatus, document data representing the document, including figure data representing figure elements of the document, and region data indicating layout regions to which the document is to be laid out, are inputted, candidate layouts for each figure element to be laid out are generated, one of the generated candidate layouts is selected, and the document is formatted in the layout region, according to the selected one of the candidate layouts.

Method and apparatus for document formatting with efficient figure

An evaluation system which can quantitatively evaluate a virtually produced workspace by adequately providing conditions of an operator and the workspace. The system calculates a motion of the operator on the basis of the input conditions of the operator and the workspace, and a task sequence in the workspace, and displays data for evaluation of the calculated motion of the operator.

System and method for evaluating a workspace represented by a

A 3D dynamic image production system capable of automatically producing the appropriate viewpoint data for observing the target object. In this system, object data indicating objects and viewpoint data indicating a viewpoint are inputted, and an imaging target object to be imaged is specified. Then, whether a blocking of a viewing axis with respect to the imaging target object by another object is judged, where the viewing axis is determined according to the viewpoint data, and the viewpoint data is changed when it is judged that the viewing axis is blocked. The 3D dynamic image of the imaging target object is then produced according to a new viewing axis determined from the changed viewpoint data.

3D dynamic image production system with automatic viewpoint setting

A method and an apparatus for document formatting, capable of reflecting the preference of the operator and overall balance, such that the desired formatting can be obtained efficiently without tedious post-processing operations. In the apparatus, document data representing the document, including figure data representing figure elements of the document, and region data indicating layout region to which the document is to be laid out, are inputted, candidate layouts for each figure element to be laid out are generated, one of the generated candidate layouts is selected, and the document is formatted in the layout region, according to the selected one of the candidate layouts.

A drawing information presentation apparatus has a memory for storing data representing a plurality of drawings, including text labels, and a concept dictionary memory for storing synonyms and connection relation for terms used in the text labels. A correspondence analysis section analyzes correspondence relation of elements of two drawings by referring to data of the concept dictionary memory. Then, a display section displays elements of a first drawing in a manner which demonstrates those elements of the first drawing which correspond to elements of the second drawing, from those elements of the first drawing which do not so correspond, in accordance with the analysis performed by the correspondence analysis section. The apparatus also comprises a drawing description analysis section for extracting drawing titles from document information, and for analyzing the correspondence relationship of the drawing titles between two drawings, by referring to date of the concept dictionary memory. In this case, the correspondence analysis section analyzes the correspondence relationships of elements between two drawings, whose titles are analyzed to correspond to each other by the drawing description analysis section.

Database retrieval system for effectively displaying differences between

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Mika Fukui