Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Ryutaro Watanabe

Toru Nakagawa

Tetsunori Itabashi

Shigetoshi Hayashi

Toru Chinen

Go Igarashi

Tsutomu Toyoguchi

Takuma Domae

Asaya Hondo

Satoko Kitagawa

Provided is a sound collecting device in which sound is favorably input to a sound collecting unit. The sound collecting device includes an attachment portion that has a sound collecting unit attached and is adapted to be inserted into an external ear canal, a holding portion adapted to be inserted into the external ear canal and hold the attachment portion at a predetermined position in the external ear canal, and a wearing portion that is positioned on an opposite side of the attachment portion while interposing the holding portion and adapted to be at least partly engaged with an auricle, in which the attachment portion and the holding portion do not block the external ear canal and have acoustic transparency. Further, the attachment portion and the holding portion are positioned in the ear in a state of not blocking the external ear canal.

Sound collecting device

An acoustic processing apparatus includes an acquisition section that acquires operation position information of a seat apparatus that operates following a movement of a user; and a sound image localization processor that performs sound image localization processing on an audio signal according to the operation position information acquired by the acquisition section, the audio signal being reproduced by a speaker unit provided to the seat apparatus.

Acoustic processing apparatus, acoustic processing method, and program

The present invention is directed to reducing influence of crosstalk components by appropriately blocking a propagation path of the crosstalk components output from speakers that reproduce signals for right and left ears respectively. Provided is a contact member used in contact with a back and/or a back of a head of a listener. The contact member is installed with: a first speaker that reproduces a signal for the left ear and a second speaker that reproduces a signal for the right ear; and a propagation obstruction adapted to block a propagation path of crosstalk components output from the respective speakers.

Acoustic device

To favorably reduce crosstalk components output from respective speakers that reproduce left and right ear signals. Directivity is given to a left ear signal and a right ear signal and the left ear signal and the right ear signal are reproduced by using at least two respective speakers arranged back-to-back to reduce crosstalk components. For example, the speaker may be a speaker installed in a headrest or a seat provided with the headrest. For example, the directivity given to the left ear signal and the directivity given to the right ear signal may be bidirectional directivity or unidirectional directivity.

A client generates a list associating a document, an operation for the document, and a user and transmits the list to a server. When an operation for the document is received from a user, the client acquires information including a document, an operation for the document, and a user and transmits the information to the server. The server receives and stores the list from the client, receives the information from the client, searches storage unit for a list including information matching the information, and transmits the list to the client. The client receives and displays the searched list.

Client apparatus, server apparatus, document management system, document management method, and medium storing program thereof

A data migration apparatus, which migrates data from a first document management system capable of setting an access right in document units to a second document management system incapable of setting an access right in document units and capable of setting an access right in folder units, includes a determination unit configured to determine whether an access right to document data of a document to be migrated inherits an access right to a higher-level folder or is unique to the document, a sub-folder creation unit configured to create a sub-folder to which a same access right as that unique to the document is set at a migration destination, if the determination unit determines that the access right to the document data is unique to the document, and a document storage unit configured to store the document data to be migrated in the sub-folder created by the sub-folder creation unit.

Data migration apparatus for mitigating data between document management systems

A document management system and method of efficiently controlling a document print operation that entails storing specifying information pertaining to identification information of document data for a printing apparatus, determining whether or not the document data corresponding to the identification information has been updated after a prior printing of the document, and transmitting to the printing apparatus either the document data or the specifying information depending on the results of the determination.

Document management system and method for controlling a document print operation

The present invention can realize easy transition from a task managed by a To-Do list to a workflow. When an unprocessed task stored in the To-Do list database is converted by an instruction into the workflow in the client software, a document management system of the present invention extracts a workflow definition including an activity corresponding to an unprocessed task to be converted by the instruction and notifies a client software of the workflow definition. When the client software selects the workflow definition, server software creates an instance of the workflow corresponding to the selected workflow definition, and applies information about the task to be converted, to the activity corresponding to the task to be converted in the instance of the workflow.

Document management system

An image forming apparatus is equipped with a scanner for scanning a paper document to thereby convert it to document data; a document memory for storing the document data; and a history memory for holding a history of user operations on the document data in association with whether or not the user operations are being managed as an object of control processing. A user operation upon document data is accepted from a operating unit. If this user operation is being managed as an operation that is not an object of control processing in the history memory, then the document data is processed based upon this user operation.

Restricting print control until document data update

If the signatures of all documents in a binder document are verified when the binder document is verified, some types of documents stored in the binder document may affect the result of the verification of the binder document. When verification of a binder is performed, it is determined, for each document in the binder document, whether the document is a verification target document or not. On the basis of the result of verification of a document determined as a verification target, the result of verification of the binder document is outputted.

Document verification method, document verification apparatus and storage medium

An image forming apparatus () is equipped with a scanner () for scanning a paper document to thereby convert it to document data; a document memory () for storing the document data; and a history memory () for holding a history of user operations on the document data in association with whether or not the user operations are being managed as an object of control processing. A user operation upon document data is accepted from a operating unit (). If this user operation is being managed as an operation that is not an object of control processing in the history memory (), then the document data is processed based upon this user operation.

Preventing double input of scanned documents

A document management apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive a notification indicating that an icon for a first document has been drag-and-dropped onto an icon for a second document via a display screen, and an application unit configured to apply a print setting stored in the first document to the second document in response to the receiving unit receiving the notification indicating that the icon for the first document has been drag-and-dropped onto the icon for the second document.

Document management apparatus and method applying print settings responsive to dragging and dropping document icon

Even if a document file within a document management system has been transmitted outside the system by E-mail, a document management system maintains a document-file access rights equivalent to that within the document management system. The document distribution system distributes document files the access rights of which are managed by the document management system. The recipient of the document file is assumed to have access rights to the document file within the document management system. The document distribution system acquires policy information, which corresponds to these access rights, from a policy server. The document distribution system then transmits the acquired policy information and the document file to the recipient.

Document distribution system and method

There is provided a document management system for retrieving document information from storage unit which correlates and stores user information, keyword information set for every user, and document information, the document management system including a first retrieval unit configured to retrieve document information from the storage unit using a first retrieval condition, a specifying unit configured to specify the user information, and a second retrieval unit configured to determine a second retrieval condition in accordance with a retrieval result of the first retrieval unit and the user information specified by the specifying unit and to retrieve document information from the storage unit using the second retrieval condition.

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Ryutaro Watanabe