Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Noboru Sonehara

Tadasu Uchiyama

Akira Hiraiwa

Masaaki Fukumoto

Yasuhiko Watanabe

Ken Tsutsuguchi

Kazuhito Higuchi

Tadayuki Imai

Masahiro Sasaura

Shogo Yagi

Fumihiro Ogasawara

Tsutomu Horikoshi

Akiyuki Tate

Takaaki Akimoto

Haruhiko Kojima

Keihiro Ochiai

Masakatsu Aoki

Tsutomu Sasaki

Shigeru Oikawa

Ken Kajii

Teruo Hamano

Yasuhito Suenaga

Kazuhiko Shinozawa

Yukio Tokunaga

Hideto Suzuki

A digital contents editing method performs an editing operation of digital contents with a plurality of computers connected via a network. A digital contents editing apparatus or server accumulates the initial data of the digital contents and the editing operation information which is digitized, and transfers the editing operation information to clients which are involved in the editing operation. Each client then performs an editing operation of the digital contents by creating the editing operation information, in which the editing operation of the digital contents is digitized, and communicates only the editing operation information to other clients via the server and the network.

Digital contents editing method and apparatus thereof

A full-time wearable input device, method for the same is provided, wherein the immediate accessibility is improved without sacrificing the operational integrity, and information can be inputted anytime, anywhere, and immediately. The full-time wearable input device comprises a detector for detecting the shock generated at the time of striking the fingertips against a physical surface, and an analyzer for analyzing the timing at which the fingertips strike the aforementioned physical surface and determining the input information based on the detection signal detected by the aforementioned detector. As the above-mentioned detector, a shock sensor, acceleration sensor, sound sensor and myoelectric sensor can be used. The input information is then determined based on the change in the shock, acceleration, sound and/or myoelectric potential as detected by the sensors which are worn on each finger, wrist, or arm.

Full-time wearable information managing device and method for the same

An image information retrieving device comprises: a primary service control information storing section in which primary service control information is stored in advance; a response section which performs between a facsimile terminal which is connected to a line, output of guidance information in accordance with a service control procedure indicated by primary service control information stored in the primary service control information storing section, input of an assignment signal from a user based on the guidance information, and output of image information as a retrieval result based on the assignment signal; a retrieval processing section which retrieves image information from an image information storing device in response to the operation of the response section, reads the image information as the retrieval result, and outputs the image information to the response section; a secondary service control information storing section for storing temporarily secondary service control information showing a service control procedure which is stored together with the image information in the image information storing device and following on from the service control procedure shown by the primary service control information stored in the primary service control information storing section; and a control section in the response section, which directs the retrieval processing section to read the secondary service control information from the image information storing device and store this in the secondary service control information storing section at the time of input of the assignment signal, and performs control for outputting the guidance information to the facsimile terminal in accordance with the service control procedure indicated by the stored secondary service control information.

Image information retrieving device, image database device, image information storing device and recording medium on which a program performed by the image information retrieving device is recorded

A method and an apparatus for three-dimensional holographic display suitable for moving object display are disclosed. At least one hologram of a display target object is displayed on a display device, and a non-scattered light is irradiated onto the display device to produce a scattered light. Then the scattered light from the display device as an object light of the display target object and the non-scattered light as a reference light are irradiated simultaneously at different incident angles onto a photorefractive medium having a photorefractive effect, and interference fringes generated by the object light and the reference light are recorded in the photorefractive medium. Then, the three-dimensional image is displayed by irradiating only the non-scattered light onto the photorefractive medium so as to reproduce a holographic image corresponding to the interference fringes recorded in the photorefractive medium.

Method and apparatus for three-dimensional holographic display suitable for video image display

The present invention offers a method for generating animations of a multi-articulated structure, a recording medium with the method recorded therein and an animation generating apparatus using the method. Motions of rigid sticks which approximate the upper arm connected to the shoulder joint and the lower arm connected by the elbow joint to the upper arm are modeled, by an interpolation scheme and/or equations of motion based on laws of physics, as temporal changes in angular positions in their respective constraint planes and the generated results are combined and output.

Method for generating animations of a multi-articulated structure,

The present invention provides a weather forecast apparatus and a method for the same, to systematically classify a measured radar image based on results of pattern classification of past radar images so as to use the classified radar image. In the present invention, rapid forecasting is possible by making the FNN model previously learn based on data of each class (and indexes for forecast times) obtained by classification of past weather data for every resembling pattern. In addition, a calculation procedure for improving the classifying ability of patterns can be established by varying the procedure for calculating feature quantities with regard to the radar image by using the learning of the TNN model. Furthermore, systematic classification of a pre-learned image can be realized by performing self organization with regard to compound feature quantities extracted from a radar image in the PNN model, a typical example of which is a competitive learning model.

Weather forecast apparatus and method based on recognition of echo

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a handwriting information detecting method and apparatus for the same, in which a user can choose any handwriting tool such as a pen or a pencil, and when the user writes with the tool, the handwriting information can be detected. The handwriting information detecting method of the present invention comprises steps of detecting a motion of a writing tool, held by a writing tool holder comprising at least one acceleration sensor, based on at least one acceleration signal output from the at least one acceleration sensor when the writing tool is grasped by fingers; and recognizing handwriting information of a character or a figure written by the writing tool according to the detected motion thereof, and outputting the information. Preferably, the step of detecting a motion of a writing tool further comprises steps of detecting pressure acting on the tip of a finger which grasps the writing tool; and judging the motion of the writing tool according to the detected pressure. The handwriting information detecting apparatus of the present invention comprises a writing tool holder for detachably holding a writing tool; at least one acceleration sensor, provided at the writing tool holder, for detecting acceleration of the writing tool which is grasped by fingers; and a handwriting information recognition circuit for recognizing information of handwriting performed by the writing tool based on the output of the at least one acceleration sensor.

Handwritting information detecting method and apparatus detachably

The present invention provides a handwritten character recognition method in which neighboring points are connected by straight lines and the segments in-between points are then interpolated using broken lines. Each broken line is equally divided into k segments, and a number is assigned to each division point therein according to the time sequence of the respective point. A (k+1)N.times.N (N is the number of strokes) matrix P consisting of the elements of row (k+1)(n-1)+1 and column k(m-1)+j comprising angle .OMEGA. formed by the straight line connecting division point i of stroke n and division point j of stroke m and the straight line connecting division point i of stroke n and division point j+1 of stroke m, is then calculated. The distance di between handwritten character Cx and matrix Qi (i=1-M) formed in the same manner from M templates corresponding to characters possessing the same number of strokes as character Cx, is calculated as the sum of the squares of each element of matrix P-Qi. The character Cz corresponding to the template Qz with the smallest distance dz is then selected as the recognition result.

Character recognition method

An apparatus is presented for providing a short time range forecast with relative high accuracy from weather radar images of cloud reflection data by incorporating physical properties of cloud in the forecasting method. The method consists of defining a plurality of lattice points on a radar image, and multiplying the reflection data from a group of neighboring lattice points obtained at a specific past point in time with selected coefficients. The products of multiplication are summed, and transformed into image data by specific function based on the properties relating to cloud. Squared errors of the difference between the computational reflection data and the observed reflection data are iterated to a value below a predetermined threshold value to select the coefficients, and these coefficients are used to provide forecasting of reflection data at a specific future point in time.

Rainfall, snowfall forecast apparatus and method

A neural network system for identifying forecasting, and controlling a non-linear flow on a physical system network, in which each branch between nodes in the physical system network is divided by a plurality of division points; a flow at each of the division points and a terminal point of each branch is calculated according to neural network model parameters specifying connections among the division points and the terminal point in a neural network model; an actual flow is measured at the terminal point of said each branch; an error of the calculated flow at the terminal point with respect to the measured actual flow at the terminal point is calculated; the neural network model parameters are adjusted to minimize the calculated error; and system dynamics parameters specifying dynamics of the physical system are determined according to the adjusted neural network model parameters. In addition, a target function to be optimized is calculated in terms of flows at terminal points of branches as a function of a control parameter specifying connecting and disconnecting of connections among branches at each node; and connections among branches at each node are connected/disconnected to optimize the calculated target function.

Method and apparatus for indetification, forecast, and control of a

In a telematic system, a plurality of response timings for a page boundary command, a page end command and the like from a sending system are prepared. A proper timing is selected in accordance with the type of sending system or an instruction from the sending system.

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Noboru Sonehara