Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Microcomputer Engineering, Ltd.

Takashi Sumiyoshi

Shoji Yamamoto

Masahito Togami

Kazuo Masai

Masaaki Iwasaki

Hideki Okita

Satoshi Wakayama

Yoji Ozawa

Takeshi Homma

Naoyuki Kanda

Yoshitaka Hiramatsu

Masao Makino

Yoshifumi Takamoto

Toshiyuki Ono

Toshiaki Suzuki

Yohei Kawaguchi

Hiroyuki Kitajima

Kazuaki Tanaka

Tatsuya Tokunaga

Toshiyuki Kinoshita

Yasunari Obuchi

Tetsuhiko Fujii

Toshiaki Tsuboi

Masao Ishiguro

Tetsuo Saito

Kenji Nagamatsu

Kazuyoshi Negishi

Kiyoshi Kumagai

Sadasaburo Kanai

Chisa Nagai

Toshiharu Shinozaki

Sadasaburoh Kanai

Yo Takeuchi

Ryu Takeda

Shigekatsu Takahashi

Shuhei Furuya

Kenji Ohya

Qinghua Sun

Ryoichi Takashima

Amalia Istiqlali Adiba

An emotion recognition system includes an input unit configured to input first speech data and second speech data, and a processing unit configured to input the first speech data and the second speech data to a differential-emotion recognition model that infers a differential emotion between two pieces of speech data, and acquire, from the differential-emotion recognition model, differential-emotion information indicating a differential emotion between the first speech data and the second speech data.

Emotion recognition system and emotion recognition method

In order to assist participants in thinking of an idea by acquiring audio data, it is provided a workshop assistance system, which includes a computer having an arithmetic apparatus configured to execute predetermined processing, a storage device coupled to the arithmetic apparatus, and a communication interface coupled to the arithmetic apparatus, the computer being configured to access solved problem case data including information of solved cases that correspond to problem data, the workshop assistance system comprising: a problem processing module configured to search, by the arithmetic apparatus, solved cases based on problem data that is generated from a discussion among participants; and an idea generation module configured to present, by the arithmetic apparatus, idea data including the generated problem data and information of the solved case found in the search to the participants.

Workshop assistance system and workshop assistance method

The dialog device according to the present invention includes a prediction unitconfigured to predict an utterance length attribute of a user utterance in response to a the machine utterance, a selection unitconfigured to use the utterance length attribute to select, as a feature model for usage in an end determination of the user utterance, at least one of an acoustic feature model or a lexical feature model, and an estimation unitconfigured to estimate an end point in the user utterance using the selected model. By using this dialog device, it is possible to shorten the waiting time until a response is output to a user utterance by a machine, and to realize a more natural conversation between a user and a machine.

Dialog device, dialog method, and dialog computer program

A control system includes: a moving object; and a control apparatus. The moving object is configured to: determine a face direction based on whether or not a face image of the human exists; and control the movement apparatus so that the moving object moves in accordance with path information. The control apparatus is configured to: detect a position of the human and the moving object in the area; calculate, based on the position of the human and the moving object, and the face direction, the path information for allowing the moving object to arrive at any one of a position within a predetermined range from the human and in a field of view of the human and a position within the predetermined range from the human and outside the field of view of the human; and transmit the path information to the moving object.

Control system, moving object, and control apparatus

Disclosed is a method for synchronizing visual information and auditory information characterized by extracting visual information included in video, recognizing auditory information in a first language that is included in a speech in the first language, associating the visual information with the auditory information in the first language, translating the auditory information in the first language to auditory information in a second language, and editing at least one of the visual information with the auditory information in the second language so as to associate the visual information and the auditory information in the second language with each other.

Synchronization method for visual information and auditory information and information processing device

A sound signal processing method and device are provided for separating sounds of the respective sound sources even when sounds are recorded asynchronously by a plurality of devices. Specifically, the present invention comprises the steps of instructing each of the plurality of devices to output a reference signal of a different frequency, receiving each of the reference signals output from the speaker of the plurality of devices according to the instruction, receiving sound signals in which each of the reference signals output from the speaker of the plurality of devices is input into the microphone of the plurality of devices, calculating a time shift amount of each of the devices based on each of the received reference signals output from the speaker and the received sound signals, and separating the plurality of signal signals input into the microphone of the plurality of devices based on the calculated time shift amount.

Sound signal procession method and device

A control apparatus is configured to execute: acquisition processing of acquiring, from at least one data acquisition apparatus, as data on a second object, time series data on a series of pieces of information on the second object that has been collected since the at least one data acquisition apparatus detected the second object; determination processing of determining whether or not the first and the second object are identical to each other based on information on the first and the second object; and storage processing of storing, when the determination processing results that the first and the second object are/aren't identical to each other, the data on the second object and the data on the first object in association with/without each other, and when the determination processing results in a determination that the first object and the second object are not identical to each other.

Control apparatus, control system, and control method

The present invention pertains to a method for estimating a sound source position in a space with high accuracy using a microphone installed on a robot moving in the space. A mobile robot includes a self-position estimation unit configure to estimate the self-position of the mobile robot, a sound source information obtaining unit configured to obtain direction information of an observed sound source, and a sound source position estimation unit configured to estimate the position of the sound source based on the estimated self-position and the direction information of the sound source.

Mobile robot and sound source position estimation system

A packet communication device, which provides a modular node capable of setting up the operation of the node at a time without updating a program in the node body when a new functional module is installed, sends a process setting content, requested by a configuration file specified by a manager, to functional modules as an offering message and determines whether or not the functional modules can process the content of the offering message. Based on the answers of offering, a configuration processing program of a node determines a functional module, to which processing it to be assigned, according to a predetermined method.

Packet communication device

Provided is a computer system capable of cutting the cost of running and managing a company network and improving the security of the network by reducing wrong settings and skipped settings due to human factor. The computer system has switches which constitute a network, a management computer which is connected to the network and manages the network, and clients which are connected to the switches. The management computer sets each switch such that client authentication is executed at port provided in the switch that can be connected to the client. The client authentication is processing of verifying whether the client has the right to connect to the network.

Management computer and computer system for setting port configuration information

A network management apparatus and a network management system are provided which are capable of reducing setting workloads required when an initial setting operation of a network communication apparatus is performed, and a network structure is changed. The network management apparatus acquires information as to respective network communication apparatus which belong to the same network when an operation of the network is commenced, or when a structure of the network is changed. Then, the network management apparatus determines a concrete operating content of said network communication apparatus based upon the acquired information and an operation policy so as to set the determined operating content. Also, the network management apparatus is equipped with a GUI (Graphical User Interface) used to set a role of the network communication apparatus by a manner.

Network management apparatus and network system

A routing/switching processing unit rewrites the inbound multicast address or the source address and the destination multicast address of the inbound flow identifier of a received packet and forwards the received packet to only output ports corresponding to a resulting outbound multicast address or flow identifier. A conversion table stores first multicast addresses or flow identifiers designated by transmission sources, second multicast addresses or flow identifiers to be used for forwarding to users data transmitted from the transmission sources, and signal port IDs of signal ports to which the users are connected. A multicast packet processing unit converts the first multicast address or flow identifier of a received multicast packet to a second multicast packet or flow identifier by referring to the conversion table, and forwards the address-converted packet to network interfaces having signal ports corresponding to the second multicast packet or flow identifier.

Multicast delivery control apparatus and method

A data processing system for processing transactions, wherein a log record to be used for recovery of the system is written into a log file for system recovery in synchronism with the end of a transaction, and log records other than resident information are is written for a plurality of transactions into a log file for archives.

Method and a system for processing a log record

A computer system including a plurality of shared resources to be used exclusively by a plurality of tasks. Upon occurrence of an interrupt, execution of the task running at that time is suspended to allow the interrupt task to be executed. After execution of the interrupt task, one of the tasks remaining in the execution waiting state is selected for execution. A method of scheduling tasks with priority to the task locking a shared resource includes the steps of registering a task identifier of a task being executed upon locking of the task to a resource, invalidating the registered identifier of the task when that task releases the shared resource from the locked state, deciding whether or not a valid task identifier representing the task which was running by locking the shared resource is registered when a task to be executed next is to be selected after execution of the interrupt task, and selecting the task designated by the task identifier, if registered, to thereby select the task as the one to be executed with priority.

Method of scheduling tasks with priority to interrupted task locking

In a composite subsystem having a plurality of data base systems and data communication on a plurality of processors, a composite subsystem controller unifies other data base systems of the composite subsystem and distributed data base systems, and, at the occurrence of a fault in some subsystem, allows other subsystems to operate continuously, thereby facilitating the recovery after the faulty subsystem has started up, and makes management as to which data base system a transaction in execution has accessed so that the range of failure is confined, thereby facilitating the fault recovery. The check points of two processings including updating of information in the memory and accumulation of the updated information in the journal are detected so that the need of journals earlier than the check point is eliminated, and a check point dump is acquired without waiting for the end of transaction which has been active at the check point.

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Tokyo, Japan

Takashi Sumiyoshi