International Business Machines Corporation

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Other

Kansai Paint Company, Ltd.

Nippon Paint Compnay, Ltd.

Tatsuya Ishihara

Masahiko Yamanaka

Tetsuji Mizuno

Hironobu Takagi

Naoki Higo

Toshimitsu Tsubaki

Yoshiko Sueda

Kojun Koshiji

Masanao Nakano

Tatsuya Suzuki

Hisaki Tanabe

Masayuki Murata

Jayakorn Vongkulbhisal

Takashi Moriwake

Goro Saito

Goro Nagao

Hiroshi Yokoyama

Daisuke Sato

Shin Saito

Yoshiyuki Yukawa

Takashi Itoh

Hisashi Miyashita

Chieko Asakawa

Yoshizumi Matsuno

Yasufumi Honda

Toshiyuki Hanaoka

Tomoyoshi Saito

Shoichi Yoshinobu

Eitaro Shimotsuma

Hiroaki Kobayashi

Tomoyoshi Saitoh

Takehito Itoh

A data transmission apparatus causes a computer to receive first data and second data, each of which has a different transmission destination, evaluate relevance between the first data and the second data, and transmit the first data and the second data to the respective transmission destinations, and the transmitting of the data further includes transmitting the first data to the transmission destination of the second data in accordance with evaluation results obtained in the evaluating of the relation, so that a diversity of the data that can be collected by the transmission destination of the data is increased.

Data transmission method, data transmission apparatus and program

An information delivery technique for, at the time of delivery of area information via a network, delivering area information about a destination before a device arrives at the destination is disclosed. One aspect of the present disclosure is an information delivery apparatus including a delivery information management function unit configured to manage area information to be delivered, a destination management function unit configured to manage a destination of a device, and a communication function unit configured to deliver the area information to the device, wherein the destination management function unit determines the destination of the device using movement information about the device, and the communication function unit delivers area information about the destination to the device before the device moves to the destination.

Information delivery apparatus, information delivery method and program

A time providing method includes: by a computer, upon receiving data from a device, estimating a generation time of the data using a reception time of the data and a first delay time of the device previously estimated; providing information indicating the generation time to the data; and transmitting the data provided with the information indicating the generation time to a destination of the data.

Time stamping method, time stamping apparatus and program

A semi-supervised computer-implemented method for group and group activity detection is provided. The method includes detecting, by a hardware processor, entity areas in an image. The method further includes extracting relative position features from pairs of the entity areas. The method also includes extracting pixel features from the pairs of the entity areas. The method additionally includes combining the relative position features and the pixel features to generate edge features. The method further includes identifying, using a display device, groups formed from the entity areas by processing the edge features using an Edge-Labeling Graph Neural Network. The method also includes identifying, using the display device, for each of the groups of the entity areas, a group activity performed by the persons therein based on a result of a voting scheme.

Semi-supervised grouping and classifying groups from images

A method for generating route network data for movement includes calculating a movable area in a place for a target type of movement using a space model of the place and an object model for the target type. The method also includes building network structure for route network data of the place using the movable area for the target type, in which the network structure includes a plurality of nodes and a plurality of links representing routes within the place. The method further includes updating the network structure by shifting a node to orient a link connected to the node toward any one of predetermined directions under a condition relating to an initial position of the node.

Generation of route network data for movement

A computer-implemented method for building a 3D map, includes: obtaining plural videos and plural video-related data units, each of the plural video-related data units indicating a feature of radio wave signals received at a place where a corresponding video has been taken; reconstructing plural 3D models, respectively, based on the plural videos; selecting a pair of 3D models from the plural 3D models based on similarity between a corresponding pair of video-related data units; and merging the pair of 3D models to obtain the 3D map.

Building 3D map

A contribution value necessary for achieving a target accuracy from a correct answer probability of each participant is calculated, a contribution value of the participant is added for an answer in accordance with the calculation, and it is set at a condition for determining completion of a task, that is, determining that a correct answer is obtained and no additional participant is necessary. The contribution value is calculated as the inverse of the number of participants at which the target accuracy is reached with a predetermined correct answer probability. The contribution value of the participant is added to the contribution value for the task in which that participant participates. At the time when the sum of the contribution values for a task exceeds one or when one option is certain to be a correct answer, the result having the largest sum of the contribution values is output.

Task processing method, program, and system

A method, apparatus and program for proofreading a document. The information processor includes a first storage unit for storing output information which includes information text and positional information obtained by performing Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on a source manuscript image. A second storage unit for storing a document file that is proofread by a user, wherein the document file is generated by reading the OCR-processed text according to the order of reading the output information A line movement detection unit for detected movement of a line which includes text in the document file based on the proofreading performed by the user on the document file. A merge unit for reflecting result of the proofreading of the document file in the output information.

Information processor, method, and program for document proofreading

A program product and a method with which a server computer enables an object in content data to be edited collaboratively. The server computer is connectable through a network to a first client computer associated with a first user and a second client computer associated with a second user. In addition, the present invention provides a method that enables an object in content data to be edited collaboratively by a first client computer associated with a first user and a second client computer associated with a second user. The present invention provides a system and a program product as well.

Method enabling collaborative editing of object in content data, computer system, and computer program product

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for providing an interface for using a web service on an external server device. A first tree structure used for using the web service is stored. A request message calling up a web service is generated in response to having received access to a request node in the first tree structure. The request node is used for accessing the web service corresponding to the request node. The request message is sent to the server device providing the web service. A response message, including a result of having executed the web service from the server device, is received. The result of the web service execution is reflected in a response node in the first tree structure for storing the result of the web service.

Apparatus, method, and program product for information processing

A user interface through which multiple application programs can be operated in common. An information processing apparatus provides a common input/output interface to multiple application programs. The apparatus includes a section which converts an application-specific document generated by each of the plurality of application programs and represented in a data structure specific to the application program to a common document represented in a common data structure; a section which presents the common document to a user; a section which inputs an operation performed by the user on the common document; an interface adapter which converts an object contained in the common document to an object used in the output section; a section which modifies the common document in accordance with an operation by the user; and a section which reflects modifications to the common document in the application-specific document.

Common input/output interface for application programs

An object of the present invention is to provide a coating composition for forming a coating film having extremely high scratch resistance which could not be achieved up to now, concretely, such a degree of scratch resistance that even if the surface of a coating film is rubbed under strong external force by a cloud of sand flying and others while car washing and running, the surface can endure it. As a means of achieving this object, the coating composition according to the present invention comprises acrylic resin (A) having a short side chain hydroxyl group (a1) and a long side chain hydroxyl group (a2) and polyisocyanate prepolymer (C) as essential components and, as the need arises, further comprises polylactonepolyol (B), wherein the content ratio of the short side chain hydroxyl group (a1) to the long side chain hydroxyl group (a2), the total hydroxyl value of the short side chain hydroxyl group (a1) and the long side chain hydroxyl group (a2), the solid content ratio of the acrylic resin (A) to the polylactonepolyol (B), and the amount of the polyisocyanate prepolymer (C) being combined are in their respective specific ranges.

Coating composition and multilayered coating film forming method and coated article using this coating

A two package type clear coating composition which can form cured coating film excelling in all aspects of scratch resistance, acid resistance, stain resistance and finished appearance such as coated surface smoothness, comprising a hydroxyl-containing acrylic resin (A) having a hydroxyl value of 100-200 mgKOH/g and a number-average molecular weight of 5,000-10,000, which is obtained by copolymerization of a monomeric mixture comprising an aromatic vinyl monomer and a monomer having cyclohexyl ring; a trifunctional HMDI isocyanurate compound (B); and a polyester polyol (C) having a hydroxyl value of 250-350 mgKOH/g and a number-average molecular weight of 350-550, which is obtained by esterification reaction of Cdiol with dicarboxylic acid having cyclohexyl ring.

Two package type clear coating composition and method for making multilayer coating film

It is an object of the invention to provide a clear coating composition, which can give coating films showing good water repellency, in other words a factor giving a care-free and deluxe feeling to car owners, and which are excellent in non-sanding recoating dirtied coatings after due repair, as well as a method of forming a coating film and a multilayered coating film. The invention provides a clear coating composition which comprises (A) 100 parts by mass of the sum of a crosslinkable coating film-forming resin and a crosslinking agent on a solid basis and (B) 0.01 to 2 parts by mass of a ladder silicone copolymer obtainable by copolymerizing (b-1) a (meth)acryloxyalkyl-containing ladder silicone oligomer, (b-2) a crosslinkable functional group-containing ethylenically unsaturated monomer and optionally (b-3) another ethylenically unsaturated monomer.

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Tokyo, Japan

Tatsuya Ishihara