Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Kabushiki Kaishi Toshiba

Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Miwako Doi

Shunichi Numazaki

Akira Morishita

Naoko Umeki

Mika Fukui

Isamu Iwai

Yasunobu Yamauchi

Isao Mihara

Kazushige Ouchi

Hiroshi Sugiyama

Kenichi Mori

Takahiro Harashima

Koji Yamaguchi

Yoshiyuki Matsunaga

Toshio Okamoto

Takuji Suzuki

Yoichi Takebayashi

Nobuko Kato

Daisuke Yamamoto

Hideki Hirakawa

Minoru Ishikawa

Seiji Miike

Tsutomu Kawada

Ikiko Nishida

Osamu Hori

Kazuo Sumita

Yoshiyuki Kokojima

Mitsuo Saito

Akio Okazaki

Akira Kumano

Tamotsu Hasegawa

Takahiro Murata

Hiroyasu Nogami

Kimihito Takeda

Shin-ya Amano

Toshiyuki Koga

Noriko Yamanaka

Hisahiro Adachi

Yoichi Sadamoto

Katsuyuki Murata

Keigo Matsuda

Takashi Sasaki

Haruhiko Okumura

Yuzo Hirayama

Koichi Yamamoto

Rieko Fukushima

Kaoru Suzuki

Hirofumi Muratani

Aira Hotta

Masaaki Kikuchi

Yuka Kobayashi

Kazunori Imoto

Akihisa Moriya

Hiroyuki Tsuboi

Tetsuro Muranaga

Hideki Tsutsui

Yasukazu Okamoto

Ryohei Orihara

Noriyasu Kato

Kenichi Kameyama

Hiroki Miura

Yuuichi Kurosawa

Rika Hosaka

Yutaka Sata

Tetsuya Gotou

Noriaki Koyama

Shun Egusa

Hideo Numagami

Iwamu Iwai

Jota Suzuki

A screen display processing apparatus used for a portable terminal apparatus includes a moving unit configured to relatively move a plurality of cases of the portable terminal apparatus, a detection unit configured to detect a parameter value representing a degree of relative movement of the cases, a determination unit configured to determine based on the parameter value whether a shape of the portable terminal apparatus changes, and a first control unit configured to control a function about the screen display provided in the portable terminal apparatus in accordance with the parameter value and the change or no change in the shape.

Screen display processing apparatus and method

A device for speech input includes a speech input unit configured to convert a speech of a user to a speech signal; an angle detection unit configured to detect an angle of the speech input unit; a distance detection unit configured to detect a distance between the speech input unit and the user; and an input switch unit configured to control on and off of the speech input unit based on the angle and the distance.

Speech input device, speech recognition system and speech recognition method

A dialog generation apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive a first text from a dialog partner, an information storage unit configured to store profile information specific to a person who can be the dialog partner and a fixed-pattern text associated with the person, a presentation unit configured to present the first text to a user, a speech recognition unit configured to perform speech recognition on speech the user has uttered about the first text presented to the user, and generate a speech recognition result showing the content of the speech, a generation unit configured to generate a second text from the profile information about the dialog partner, fixed-pattern text about the dialog partner, and the speech recognition result, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the second text to the dialog partner.

Apparatus and method for dialogue generation in response to received text

According to one embodiment, a voice recognition apparatus includes a determination unit, an estimating unit, and a voice recognition unit. The determination unit determines whether a component with a frequency of not less than 1000 Hz and with a level not lower than a predetermined level is included in a sound input from a plurality of microphones. The estimating unit estimates a sound source direction of the sound when the determination unit determines that the component is included in the sound. The voice recognition unit recognizes whether the sound obtained in the sound source direction coincides with a voice model registered beforehand.

Voice recognition apparatus

An image processing system includes an illumination unit and an illumination control unit configured to adjust light emitted from the illumination unit so as to illuminate a limited area in a space, the system generates a timing signal for controlling emission/non-emission of light from the illumination unit, captures a first image of an imaging area including the limited area or part of the limited area based on the timing signal, the first image being taken from a position different from the illumination unit when the illumination unit emits light, captures a second image of the imaging area based on the timing signal, the second image being taken from the position when the illumination unit emits no light, and acquires a third image which is a difference image between the first image and the second image.

Image processing system and image acquisition method

According to one embodiment, a display device includes an image projection unit. The image projection unit is configured to project a light flux toward one eye of a human viewer by using a projection plate to reflect the light flux. The light flux includes an image including a display object having a vanishing point. The projection plate is reflective and transmissive. The image projection unit is configured to dispose the vanishing point of the display object at a position different from a position of a vanishing point of a background image viewed by the human viewer through the projection plate.

Display device and display method

Moving information of an object is input, and first sound information around the object is input. A motion status of the object is recognized based on the moving information. Second sound information is selectively extracted from the first sound information, based on the motion status. A first feature quantity is extracted from the second sound information. A plurality of models is stored in a memory. Each model has a second feature quantity and a corresponding specified context. The second feature quantity is previously extracted by the second extraction unit before the first feature quantity is extracted. A present context of the object is decided based on the specified context corresponding to the second feature quantity most similar to the first feature quantity. The present context of the object is output.

Apparatus and method for recognizing a context of an object

An embodiment of an apparatus for speech recognition includes a speech input unit configured to acquire acoustic signal, a first recognition unit configured to recognize the acoustic signal, a communication unit configured to communicate with an external server, a second recognition unit configured to recognize the acoustic signal by utilizing the external server via the communication unit, and a remote signal input unit configured to acquire a control signal from a remote controller. The switching unit is configured to switch between the first recognition unit and the second recognition unit for recognizing the acoustic signal in response to a start trigger. The switching unit selects the second recognition unit when the start trigger is detected from the control signal, and the switching unit selects the first recognition unit when the start trigger is detected from the acoustic signal.

Apparatus and method for speech recognition, and television equipped with apparatus for speech recognition

A word coinciding with a key word input by speech and a word related to the word are set as retrieval candidate words based on a word dictionary in which words representing formal names and aliases of the formal names are registered in association with a family attribute indicating a familiar relation among the words. Content related to any one of retrieval words selected out of the retrieval candidate words and a word related to the retrieval word is retrieved.

Retrieving apparatus, retrieving method, and computer program product

A data distribution apparatus includes a data file configured to store video data and advertisement data to be provided to a receiving terminal of a Video on Demand service; a video distributing unit configured to distribute video data in accordance with a distribution request from the receiving terminal; a video presentation confirming unit configured to confirm a presentation state of the video data at the receiving terminal; an advertisement distribution determining unit configured to determine distribution of advertisement data to the receiving terminal when it is confirmed that the video data to be distributed by the video distributing unit is being called; and an advertisement distributing unit configured to distribute the advertisement data.

Apparatus, computer program product, and method for data distribution

A method of displaying 3D image on a 3D image displaying apparatus that produces a parallax at least in one direction, the method includes displaying by a displaying unit 2D information that is viewed as a 2D content by a viewer in such a manner that a 2D information angle (&#x3b8;_2D) formed with a virtual display surface of the 2D information and a real horizontal plane satisfies &#x3b8;_D&#x3c;&#x3b8;_2D&#x2266;90&#xb0;, wherein a display surface is arranged at an angle (&#x3b8;_D) formed with the real horizontal plane in a real space, where 0&#xb0;&#x2266;&#x3b8;_D&#x3c;90&#xb0;.

3D image displaying method and apparatus

An image sensor repeatedly receives a light from an object through a lens and generates images of the object. A differential image generating unit generates a differential image from at least two images. A detector detects a change cycle or an intensity of an external light. An evaluation unit evaluates an influence of the external light and derives an optimal timing in which a minimum influence of the external light is attained. A controller controls a timing of receiving the light of the image sensor, depending upon the optimal timing derived by the evaluation unit, and repeatedly synchronizes a term of two timings with the change cycle of the external light by shifting the term into the change cycle by a unit of predetermined phase difference.

Apparatus to synchronize change cycle of external light and associated methodology

An information sharing apparatus comprises extracting unit extracting personal information item from acquired information item which includes personal information item, generating unit generating anonymous information item by deleting personal information item from acquired information item, storing unit storing personal information item and anonymous information item, storing unit storing first access level assigned to group of users who can access only anonymous information item, and to store second access level assigned to group of users who can access both of anonymous information item and personal information item, receiving unit receiving request message for accessing acquired information item, transmitting unit transmitting only anonymous information item when access level predetermined to user is equal to first access level, synthesizing unit synthesizing personal information item with anonymous information item, transmitting unit transmitting regenerated second information item, when access level of user is equal to second access level.

Information sharing system and information sharing method

An area image sensor outputs the difference between charges received by light-receiving cells arranged in an array pattern. A system controller generates a timing signal for generating a pulse or modulation signal. A control signal generator generates a control signal for separately controlling the light-receiving timings of the light-receiving cells of the area image sensor on the basis of the timing signal from the system controller. A light emitting controller controls a light source to generate light, the intensity of which changes on the basis of the timing signal from the system controller. A reflected light image processor extracts a reflected image of an object from the difference outputted from the area image sensor.

Apparatus and method for inputting reflected light image of a target object

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Miwako Doi