Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Toshiba Solutions Corporation

Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation

Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation

Shinichiro Hamada

Hideyuki Aisu

Kunio Osada

Satoshi Ito

Koichiro Akiyama

Tooru Kamibayashi

Toshibumi Seki

Kenichi Niwa

Kaoru Suzuki

Isao Mihara

Takeichiro Nishikawa

Yojiro Tonouchi

Mayumi Yuasa

Mitsuru Kakimoto

Takashi Masuzawa

Soichiro Ono

Masakazu Osada

A retrieval device includes a searching unit, an obtaining unit and a selecting unit. The searching unit searches a memory unit, which is stored object data that includes specific information identifying an object and attribute information indicating at least one of timing and position, for first object data containing specific information identical or similar to specified specific information. The obtaining unit obtains, from the memory unit, one or more sets of second object data which contains attribute information identical or similar to the attribute information included in the first object data and which contains specific information different than the specific information included in the first object data. The selecting unit selects one of the sets of second object data. The searching unit further searches for the first object data with the specific information included in the selected second object data serving as specified specific information.

Performing a chained search function

According to an embodiment, a data management system includes an index building unit and a searching unit. The index building unit generates a peripheral vector similar to a case example vector representing a feature vector of data to be stored, and builds index information of enabling identification of the case example vector corresponding to the generated peripheral vector. The searching unit refers to the index information in response to a search request in which a query vector representing an arbitrary feature vector is specified, identifies the case example vector corresponding to the peripheral vector that exactly matches with the query vector, and outputs a search result based on the identified case example vector.

Data management system, data management method, and computer program product

A display control device includes an assigning unit and a display control unit. The assigning unit assigns, with respect to S number of units of display (where S is an integer equal to or greater than two) included in a display area in which units of display having the width equal to L number of pixels (where L is an integer equal to or greater than one) are placed in the width direction, M number of sets of data (where M is an integer greater than S) in a divided manner. The display control unit controls display of the units of display in different display formats according to the number of sets of data of a particular type included in the assigned data.

Display control device, display control method, and computer program product

According to an embodiment, an image display apparatus includes a detection unit, a generation unit, and a display control unit. The detection unit detects areas to be focused in an input image. The generation unit generates a sub image by performing correction for improving visibility on an image of the detected area. The correction includes at least one of size correction for adjusting size of the image of the area, color correction for adjusting color of the image of the area, and distortion correction for transforming the image of the area so as to be an image acquired by viewing the image of the area from the front side. The display control unit displays the generated sub image on a display device together with the input image in a form that accompanies a screen representation representing a correspondence relation with the area.

Image display apparatus, image display method, and computer program product

An item recommendation device includes a context information generator and a ranker. The context information generator generates and outputs context information including user intention by performing semantic analysis on a natural language request which is input. The ranker ranks candidates of items to be presented to a user based on the context information, user information representing an attribute of the user, and history information representing item usage history of the user.

Item recommendation device, item recommendation method, and computer program product

According to an embodiment, a data processing device includes an extractor, a generator, and a constructor. The extractor is configured to extract, from a document having been subjected to predicate argument structure analysis and anaphora resolution, an element sequence including elements each being a combination of predicate having a shared argument and case type information of the shared argument, together with the shared argument. The generator is configured to produce case example data expressed by a feature vector for each attention element which is one of the elements. The feature vector includes feature value(s) about a sub-sequence having the attention element and feature value(s) about a sequence of the shared argument corresponding to the sub-sequence. The constructor is configured to construct a script model for estimating the elements each following antecedent context by performing machine learning based on a discriminative model using the case example data.

Data processing device for contextual analysis and method for constructing script model

According to an embodiment, a device includes a detector, first and second recognizers, an estimator, a second recognizer, and an output unit. The detector is configured to detect a visible text area including a visible character from an image. The first recognizer is configured to perform character pattern recognition on the visible text area, and calculate a recognition cost according to a likelihood of a character pattern. The estimator is configured to estimate a partially-hidden text area into which a hidden text area estimated to have a hidden character and the visible text area are integrated. The second recognizer is configured to calculate an integrated cost into which the calculated cost and a linguistic cost corresponding to a linguistic likelihood of a text that fits in the entire partially-hidden text area are integrated. The output unit is configured to output a text selected or ranked based on the integrated cost.

Character recognition device, image display device, image retrieval device, character recognition method, and computer program product

According to one embodiment, a learning device includes an input receiving unit, an inferring unit, and a learning unit. The input receiving unit receives an input of first data representing a sentence, rear boundaries of elements having an anaphoric relation within the sentence, and a correspondence relation between a first element that is an antecedent and a second element that is an anaphor. The inferring unit infers a range of the first element and a range of the second element that are determined by front boundaries and the rear boundaries by inferring the front boundaries of the first element and the second element based on the first data and a predetermined rule. The learning unit learns criteria used for determining whether or not there is the anaphoric relation in an arbitrary sentence based on the range of the first element and the range of the second element.

Learning device, determination device, learning method, determination method, and computer program product

A medical image retrieval system includes an image database which stores medical images. An interpretation unit acquires a currently diagnosed image for use in performing interpretation of one of the medical images and provides the currently diagnosed image to a computer terminal. An image requesting unit issues an image request associated with the currently diagnosed image. An image retrieval unit retrieves a reference image from the image database in accordance with the image request and provides the reference image to the computer terminal in order to propose the reference image as references for diagnosis. An evaluation input unit prompts to input an evaluation indicating whether the reference image has been helpful for diagnosis based on the currently diagnosed image.

Medical image retrieval system

A digital content editing apparatus that edits a content having license information defining a grant for a reusing operation or a multiple content including a plurality of the contents includes: a reuse license processor that obtains a constraint indicative of a condition on reuse between a content or the multiple content and a content other than the content or the multiple content from the license information of the content or the multiple content; an instruction generator that generates an operation execution instruction of reusing the content or the multiple content according to the constraint obtained by the reuse license processor; a reusing unit that reuses the content or the multiple content based on the operation execution instruction generated by the instruction generator; and an editor that edits the content or the multiple content reused by the reusing unit.

Apparatus and method for digital content editing

An apparatus for rendering a digital content having license information defining specifics of permission of a rendering operation includes a license processor that acquires, from the license information of the digital content, a constraint defining conditions for rendering between the digital content and other digital content; an operation execution command generator that generates an operation execution command for rendering the digital content according to the constraint acquired by the license processor; and a content renderer that renders the digital content based on the operation execution command generated by the operation execution command generator.

Apparatus and method for rendering digital content

A contents distribution system uses a copyright rental use scheme in which the economical burden on the users at a time of utilizing contents can be reduced to a reasonable level, and appropriate fees can be collected for the copyrights of the contents created and provided at each stage by the raw material creators and the secondary product creators. In this system, the secondary product creator can create the secondary product contents by incorporating the raw material contents for free, and sell the secondary product contents. The end-user pays respective utilization fees to the secondary product creator and each raw material provider at a time of the purchasing the secondary product contents.

Contents distribution system for handling secondary products utilizing raw material contents

A partial document defined in advance as an operating unit composed of at least one element, which is coincident with or is contained in a structural document, includes at least information representing that the partial document is an operating unit. Based on this information, at least the partial document and parts data by parts data containing position information on the partial document are created. Structured documents are stored in storage means as a set of parts data. The stored structured document is edited by updating parts data corresponding to the partial document targeted for operation, according to the contents of operation for the partial document selected as an operating target.

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Shinichiro Hamada