Kyocera Corporation

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Renault S.a.s.

Takashi Ikegami

Seiji Horii

Atsuo Chiba

Haruo Matsuo

Kuniaki Noda

Tomoko Kurotobi

Satoshi Fukami

Akinori Wada

Daisuke Tsuiki

Hiroshi Taimura

Kazuya Sono

Hideaki Fujimoto

Yuta Sakamoto

Masanobu Nagase

An information processing method and an information processing device assign attribute information to each ranging point based on an image obtained by capturing an image of surroundings of a vehicle using an imaging unit, or based on point cloud data related to ranging points around the vehicle generated by a sensor, calculate a distance from the imaging unit to the ranging point and a direction of the ranging point as viewed from the imaging unit based on the point cloud data, calculate a pixel value for each ranging point based on the distance to the ranging point and the attribute information, and generate a two-dimensional image in which pixel corresponding to the direction of the ranging point has the pixel value.

Information processing method, and information processing device

An object detection method includes irradiating a position in front of a host-vehicle with an electromagnetic wave, and detecting an object in front of the host-vehicle based on a reflected wave of the electromagnetic wave. The object detection method further includes capturing an image of the position in front of the host-vehicle to acquire an image, and determining whether the object is floating matters based on the acquired image if a state where the object is not detected changes to a state where the object is detected.

Object detection method and object detecting device

A sound generator includes at least one piezoelectric vibrator including a piezoelectric element, a vibration unit in one of a non-contact state not contacting the at least one piezoelectric vibrator and a contact state contacting the at least one piezoelectric vibrator. While in the contact state, the at least one piezoelectric vibrator generates vibration in response to a signal, and causes a contact surface contacted by the vibration unit to vibrate and generate a sound to be emitted from the contact surface. The sound generator can detect driving allowed and driving denied states, and control application of a sound signal in accordance with the two states to the piezoelectric element.

Sound generator and sound generation system

An electronic device includes a display unit, a detection unit, and a control unit. The display unit displays a character string or an image. The detection unit detects contact with the display unit. In a state where a character string or a image is displayed on the display unit, in a case in which the detection unit detects contact with the character string or the image, the control unit causes at least a part of the character string or the image to be selected in accordance with such detection. The control unit activates a different function in accordance with a condition of contact with the character string or the image when the character string or the image is selected. Furthermore, the control unit causes the character string or the image thus selected to be utilized in the function thus activated.

Electronic device, control method, and control program

A sound generator includes a piezoelectric vibrator () including a piezoelectric element (), an anchor applying a load to the piezoelectric vibrator (), and a control unit () configured to control an input voltage based on a frequency characteristic, the input voltage being applied to the piezoelectric element () as a sound signal. While the load from the anchor is being applied to the piezoelectric vibrator (), the piezoelectric vibrator () deforms in accordance with the input voltage applied to the piezoelectric element () from the control unit (), and deformation of the piezoelectric vibrator () vibrates a contact surface () contacted by the sound generator, causing sound to be emitted from the contact surface ().

A mobile terminal able to achieve smooth text-to-speech conversion, that is, a mobile terminal able to display on a display unit information acquired from a server connected to a network by a communication unit, comprising a storage unit; a speech synthesizer for converting text to speech; and a controller for extracting from the acquired information display objects and display rules defined by the server providing the display objects, storing the display objects and the display rules in the storage unit linked with each other, and displaying the same on the display unit according to the display rules, wherein when start-up of the speech synthesizer is requested in the state displaying the acquired information, the controller controls so that the speech synthesizer converts the text extracted from the display objects to speech with reference to the display rules stored in the storage unit; and a text-to-speech method of the same.

Mobile terminal and text-to-speech method of same

A text information display apparatus equipped with a speech synthesis function able to clearly display a linked portion by speech and enabling easy recognition of a change from a link, provided with a controller for referring to the display rules of text to be converted to speech when converting text included in text information being displayed on a display unit to speech, controlling a speech synthesizing processing unit so as to convert the text to speech with a first voice in a case of predetermined display rules (presence of link destination, cursor position display, etc.) and convert the text to speech with a second voice having a speech quality different from that of the first voice in the case of not the predetermined display rules, and controlling the speech synthesizing processing unit so as to convert the text included in a display object to speech with a third voice when the display object linked with the link destination is selected or determined by a key operation unit.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Takashi Ikegami