Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Furhat Robotics Ab

Dowa Electronics Materials Co., Ltd.

Kyoto University

Tatsuro Hori

Tatsuya Kawahara

Narimasa Watanabe

Jorge Pelaez

Martin Johansson

Gabriel Skantze

Keiichi Endoh

Hiromasa Miyoshi

Satoru Kurita

Mina Funazukuri

Sawa Higuchi

Joakim Gustafson

A transmission apparatus includes a communication interface configured to communicate with a reception apparatus, and a controller configured to acquire a depth image obtained by at least one depth camera measuring distances to a subject within a measurement range, identify, with reference to the acquired depth image, a window corresponding to a position of the subject from among a plurality of windows set within the measurement range and aligned in a depth direction, transmit a window identifier identifying the identified window to the reception apparatus via the communication interface, and for each pixel of the depth image, convert a measured distance into a relative distance within the window and transmit a resulting converted value as pixel data to the reception apparatus via the communication interface.

Transmission apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium, and reception apparatus that reduce the pixel data size of the depth image

An information processing apparatus includes an interface configured to acquire an image of a first user, information regarding posture or motion of the first user, and information regarding posture or motion of a second user, and a controller configured to generate difference information regarding a difference between the posture or motion of the first user and the posture or motion of the second user. The controller is configured to notify the second user of the difference information while controlling a display device to display the image of the first user or an image of the second user.

Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information processing method, and non-transitory computer readable medium

A terminal apparatus includes a display configured to be capable of displaying an image to a user in front, a first imager provided around the display, a plurality of second imagers provided behind the display, a communication interface, and a controller configured to communicate by the communication interface, wherein the controller is configured to transmit, to another terminal apparatus, information for generating a model image representing the user, based on a captured image by a second imager that corresponds to the position of the user included in a captured image by the first imager, so that the other terminal apparatus displays the model image.

Terminal apparatus

An information processing method includes, for each of multiple images having an overlapping area, the multiple images being obtained by capturing a subject with respective multiple imagers whose shooting ranges overlap each other in part, detecting a position of a feature point of the subject in the overlapping area, trimming, at a position of a virtual line, an image of each of the multiple images in which the virtual line based on the position of the feature point is included in the overlapping area, and merging the multiple images to generate a single composite image.

Information processing method and information processing apparatus

A terminal apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller configured to communicate using the communication interface. The controller receives, from another terminal apparatus, information for generating a 3D model that represents a participant who participates in an event in a virtual space using the other terminal apparatus, generates the 3D model in a form corresponding to a role of the participant in the event, and outputs information for displaying an image obtained by rendering the virtual space in which the 3D model is arranged.

Terminal apparatus, method of operating terminal apparatus, and system

A terminal apparatus includes an input/output screen including a rectangular input/output area configured to accept touch input and display an image, a communication interface configured to communicate with another terminal apparatus including the input/output area having a different longitudinal direction, and a controller configured, upon input of an image to the input/output area of the terminal apparatus, to transmit to the another terminal apparatus an output image that contains the image and corresponds to a first square area having one short side of the input/output area as one side and to cause the another terminal apparatus to display the output image in a second square area having one short side of an input/output area of the another terminal apparatus as one side. The controller is configured to set an area other than the first square area in the input/output area of the terminal apparatus as a new input/output area.

Terminal apparatus, method of operating terminal apparatus, and system for adjusting shared images on screen

An information processing method includes acquiring a first model that moves in conjunction with an action of a first user, acquiring a second model that moves in conjunction with an action of a second user, and displaying the first model and the second model on different reference positions from each other while the first user or the second user is continuing a predetermined action.

A system according to the present disclosure includes a first terminal apparatus that repeatedly transmits an image captured using an imager and a second terminal apparatus that displays the received captured image. The first terminal apparatus acquires a position of a display object capable of displaying information, determines, when existence of a blocking object between the display object and the imager is detected, whether a blocked portion, which is a portion where the display object is at least partially blocked by the blocking object, exists within the captured image, and processes, when the blocked portion exists within the captured image, the captured image for the blocked portion within the captured image to be identifiable and transmits a captured image in which the blocked portion is identifiable as the captured image. The second terminal apparatus displays the captured image without displaying the blocked portion based on the received captured image.

System and terminal apparatus

A virtual space control system including: a plurality of user terminals; and a management apparatus configured to manage a virtual space in which virtual persons who operate in accordance with motions of users who are using the respective user terminals are located, in which each of the user terminals acquires information regarding a motion of the user who is using this user terminal and a surrounding environment of the user, determines, based on the acquired information, a mode of expressing a virtual person corresponding to a user who is using this user terminal in the virtual space, and displays the virtual space managed by the management apparatus on a monitor, and the management apparatus locates virtual persons who correspond to users who are using the respective user terminals expressed using the expression modes determined by the respective user terminals in the virtual space.

Virtual space control system, method for controlling the same, and control program

There are provided a bonding material, which can prevent voids from being generated in a silver bonding layer by preventing the entrainment of bubbles during the formation of a coating film even if the coating film is thickened, and a bonding method using the same. The bonding material of a silver paste includes fine silver particles, a solvent and an addition agent, wherein the solvent contains a first solvent of a diol, such as octanediol, and a second solvent which is a polar solvent (preferably one or more selected from the group consisting of dibutyl diglycol, hexyl diglycol, decanol and dodecanol) having a lower surface tension than that of the first solvent and wherein the addition agent is a triol.

Joining material and joining method using same

An encouraging speech system performs an encouraging speech for encouraging an action of each user for each of a plurality of users. The encouraging speech system includes: state detection means for detecting states of the respective users; information acquisition means for acquiring information that relates to nursing care or medical care of the respective users; and encouraging speech means for associating the states of the respective users detected by the state detection means with the information that relates to the nursing care or the medical care of the respective users acquired by the information acquisition means and making the encouraging speech for each of the users so as to encourage interaction between the users.

Encouraging speech system, encouraging speech method, and program

An encouraging speech system includes: at least one of reaction detection means for detecting a user's reaction in response to an encouraging speech and evaluation acquisition means for acquiring an evaluation by an evaluator on a timing and a content of the encouraging speech; good/bad determination means for determining whether the timing and the content of the encouraging speech are good or not based on at least one of the detected reaction and the acquired evaluation; learning means for learning learning data in which the timing and the content of the encouraging speech determined to be good by the good/bad determination means are associated with trigger information which serves as a trigger when this encouraging speech is made; and encouraging speech means for making the encouraging speech based on the trigger information by the user and the results of the learning by the learning means.

Encouraging speech system, encouraging speech method, and computer readable medium

A voice interaction system performs a voice interaction with a user. The voice interaction system includes: topic detection means for estimating a topic of the voice interaction and detecting a change in the topic that has been estimated; and ask-again detection means for detecting, when the change in the topic has been detected by the topic detection means, the user's voice as ask-again by the user based on prosodic information on the user's voice.

Voice interaction system, its processing method, and program therefor

A voice interaction system capable of appropriately handling a situation to effectively prevent a response error from occurring. A speech acquisition unitacquires user speech. A feature extraction unitextracts a feature of the acquired user speech. A response determination unitdetermines a response corresponding to the extracted feature using any one of a plurality of learning models. A response execution unitperforms control in order to execute the determined response. A response error determination unitdetermines whether the executed response is an error. A learning model selection unitselects the learning model from the plurality of learning models stored in a learning model databaseaccording to a result of the determination by the response error determination unit. The response determination unitdetermines the response using the selected learning model.

Voice interaction system for interaction with a user by voice, voice interaction method, and program

A syntactic analysis unitperforms a syntactic analysis for linguistic information on acquired user' speech (hereinafter simply referred to as 'user speech'). A non-linguistic information analysis unitanalyzes non-linguistic information different from the linguistic information for the acquired user speech. A topic continuation determination unitdetermines whether a topic of the current conversation should be continued or should be changed to a different topic according to the non-linguistic information analysis result. A response generation unitgenerates a response according to a result of a determination by the topic continuation determination unit

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