Nec Corporation

Shin Ishiguro

Keiichi Chono

Satoshi Nakazawa

Junichi Funada

Hitoshi Imaoka

Motoaki Shimizu

Fumihiro Adachi

Jun-ichi Funada

Masayuki Yuguchi

A robot () includes a face unit (), a temperature distribution detection unit (), a head direction calculation unit (), and a first face direction change unit (). The temperature distribution detection unit () includes a plurality of photo-detectors disposed in a grid form. The temperature distribution detection unit () detects a temperature distribution of a detection region by using the plurality of photo-detectors. The head direction calculation unit () calculates a direction in which a person's head is located, on the basis of the temperature distribution detected by the temperature distribution detection unit (). The first face direction change unit () directs the face unit () in the direction calculated by the head direction calculation unit ().

Robot, control method, and program

A communication draw-in system that enables robot-human communication to start smoothly is provided. The communication draw-in system is a communication draw-in system provided in a robot that communicates with a target human, and includes: a human specifying unitfor specifying a position of the target human; a light source control unitfor moving light toward the specified position of the target human; a draw-in control unitfor instructing the robot to perform a draw-in operation for making the target human recognize a direction of the robot; and a human recognition specifying unitfor determining whether or not the target human has recognized the robot, wherein the robot is instructed to start communicating with the target human, in the case where the target human is determined to have recognized the robot.

Communication draw-in system, communication draw-in method, and communication draw-in program

A terminal has a visual axis by using which a user points to a target object. An information generating server acquires an internal image or an external image of the target object pointed by a user, and generates a display image which is displayed on the terminal.

Image providing system and image providing method

An object of the present invention is to infer a user's preference or profile with a good precision. A user preference inferring apparatusincludes a receiving meanswhich receives information related to an article from a tag attached to the article, an article name determining meansobtaining an article name of the article on the basis of the information related to the article received by the receiving means, and a preference determining meanswhich infers a user's preference on the basis of the information related to the article received by the receiving means. On the basis of the article name obtained by the article name determining means, the preference determining meansobtains preference information corresponding to the article name from a database that stores the article name and the preference information corresponding to the article name, and determines the user's preference.

User preference inferring apparatus, user profile inferring apparatus, and robot

An IC tag administration device includes an information reader which reads original information from an IC tag added to a product, a transformation unit which transforms the original information read by the information reader to information, to which a predetermined local rule is applied, under the local rule, and an information writing unit which rewrites the original information of the IC tag by using the local rule applied information.

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Tokyo, Japan

Shin Ishiguro