Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Munehiko Sasajima

Kohei Momosaki

Kazuhiko Abe

Yasuyuki Masai

Koichi Yamamoto

Makoto Yajima

Kazunori Imoto

Manabu Nagao

Tatsuya Uehara

Takehide Yano

Yasuyuki Kono

An information display apparatus includes a display device configured to display a video, a speech detection unit configured to detect a playback state of a playback speech, a closed caption display unit configured to generate character information associated with the playback speech and display it on the display device together with the video, and a closed caption display unit configured to carry out a changing control for changing according to the detected playback state a display state of the character information that is displayed on the display device by the closed caption display unit.

Information display apparatus, information display method and program therefor

An information processing apparatus is provided in which with respect to video/audio data to be recorded and stored, the determination of division and a control point suitable for viewing and listening and the giving of relevant information can be performed without requiring a manual operation each time. The information processing apparatus includes a recording mediuma video data acquisition unita video data specification unitan audio data separation unita key creation unita key relevant data acquisition unitand a key data management unit. When a key is created while specifying a section in first audio data, a name and attribute information based on a near division point and control point are stored, and when an audio section similar to an audio pattern of the key is detected from second audio data, in accordance with the stored attribute information, a division point and a control point are determined on the basis of starting and terminal ends of the detected section, and the stored name or a name given in accordance with a naming method is set for the divided section, the control point or the whole audio data.

Information processing apparatus and method

A closed caption display controller to control a display mode of a closed caption corresponding to a speech of an audio signal, the controller comprises an analysis unit to analyze the speech on a speech quality, an examination unit configured to examine a speech listening level according to a given rule based on an analysis result of the analysis unit, and a determination unit to determine a display mode according to an examination result of the examination unit.

Closed caption control apparatus and method therefor

A closed caption signal processing apparatus comprises a speech recognition unit to recognize speech contents from the speech signal, a speech timing detecting unit to detect a speech timing of the speech contents, a closed caption contents acquisition unit to acquire closed caption contents from the closed caption signal associated with the speech signal, a presentation timing detecting unit to detect a presentation timing of the closed caption contents, an agreement detecting unit to detect an agreement between the speech contents and the closed caption contents, and a time difference calculating unit to calculate a time difference between the speech timing and the presentation timing that are detected on the speech contents and the closed caption contents that agree with each other, respectively.

Closed caption signal processing apparatus and method

A natural language dialogue apparatus. A blank data memory stores blank data to blank a question element being a decision object for a value of truth or falsehood in a question to ask the value of truth or falsehood. If the input sentence is the question, a question data conversion section estimates the question element in the input sentence, and converts the input sentence to question data in which the question element is blanked by referring to the blank data memory. A problem solution section retrieves a solution for the question element blanked in the question data and generates a response in which an answer for the value of truth or falsehood is not included according to the solution.

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Yokohama, Japan

Munehiko Sasajima