Sony Corporation

Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Ciao Inc.

Sony France S.a.

Tomoaki Nitta

Erika Kobayashi

Makoto Akabane

Kenichiro Kobayashi

Nobuhide Yamazaki

Keiichi Yamada

Masato Shimakawa

Ryuichi Watahiki

Hiroaki Ogawa

Masashi Takeda

Takashi Sasai

Toshiyuki Kumakura

Rika Horinaka

Pierre Yves Oudeyer

Shuji Yonekura

Yoshitaka Jinbo

Hideki Kishi

Provided is a camera system that includes: a weather information-acquiring unit acquiring weather information provided with respect to weather, the weather information including information relating to an area of interest; a plurality of cameras installed within a plurality of bases, respectively; a camera installation information-storing unit storing information with respect to positions of the bases wherein the plurality of cameras are installed; an image data-storing unit storing images photographed by the plurality of cameras respectively as moving images; a camera-specifying unit using the weather information acquired by the weather information-acquiring unit to specify a camera installed within the area of interest based on the information with respect to the positions of the bases, the information with respect to the positions of the bases being stored in the camera installation information-storing unit; and a moving image-providing unit acquiring from the image data-storing unit moving images of the camera specified by the camera-specifying unit to provide the acquired moving images.

Camera system

A camera system includes: a camera base position-providing unit providing an image that bases are displayed on a map based on the information with respect to the positions of the bases wherein cameras are installed, the information being stored by the camera installation information-storing unit; a thumbnail image-providing unit providing an image wherein a list of thumbnail images are displayed, the thumbnail images corresponding to the cameras installed within one or more bases selected from among the bases displayed on the map, the thumbnail images being obtained from an image data-storing unit; and a moving image-providing unit providing moving images corresponding to one or more cameras selected from among the cameras whose thumbnail images are displayed in the list by the thumbnail image-providing unit, the moving images being obtained from the image data-storing unit.

An apparatus for transmitting images includes a base server and an aggregation server. The base server includes: a reference image transmitter; an extracted area computer; and an extracted image transmitter. The aggregation server includes an image synthesizer for synthesizing a moving image based on the reference image data transmitted from the base server, and the image data of the third area extracted out of the each of frames.

Image transmission device, image transmission method, and image transmission program

The text format of input data is checked, and is converted into a system-manipulated format. It is further determined if the input data is in an HTML or e-mail format using tags, heading information, and the like. The converted data is divided into blocks in a simple manner such that elements in the blocks can be checked based on repetition of predetermined character patterns. Each block section is tagged with a tag indicating a block. The data divided into blocks is parsed based on tags, character patterns, etc., and is structured. A table in text is also parsed, and is segmented into cells. Finally, tree-structured data having a hierarchical structure is generated based on the sentence-structured data. A sentence-extraction template paired with the tree-structured data is used to extract sentences.

Document processing apparatus, document processing method, document processing program and recording medium

The emotion is to be added to the synthesized speech as the prosodic feature of the language is maintained. In a speech synthesis device, a language processorgenerates a string of pronunciation marks from the text, and a prosodic data generating unitcreates prosodic data, expressing the time duration, pitch, sound volume or the like parameters of phonemes, based on the string of pronunciation marks. A constraint information generating unitis fed with the prosodic data and with the string of pronunciation marks to generate the constraint information which limits the changes in the parameters to add the so generated constraint information to the prosodic data. A emotion filter, fed with the prosodic data, to which has been added the constraint information, changes the parameters of the prosodic data, within the constraint, responsive to the feeling state information, imparted to it. A waveform generating unitsynthesizes the speech waveform based on the prosodic data the parameters of which have been changed.

Method and apparatus for speech synthesis, program, recording medium, method and apparatus for generating constraint information and robot apparatus

Various sensors detect conditions outside a robot and an operation applied to the robot, and output the results of detection to a robot-motion-system control section. The robot-motion-system control section determines a behavior state according to a behavior model. A robot-thinking-system control section determines an emotion state according to an emotion model. A speech-synthesizing-control-information selection section determines a field on a speech-synthesizing-control-information table according to the behavior state and the emotion state. A language processing section analyzes in grammar a text for speech synthesizing sent from the robot-thinking-system control section, converts a predetermined portion according to a speech-synthesizing control information, and outputs to a rule-based speech synthesizing section. The rule-based speech synthesizing section synthesizes a speech signal corresponding to the text for speech synthesizing.

Speech synthesizing apparatus, speech synthesizing method, and recording medium using a plurality of substitute dictionaries corresponding to pre-programmed personality information

Document processing apparatus, document processing method, document processing program, and recording medium

The present invention relates to a voice output apparatus capable of, in response to a particular stimulus, stopping outputting a voice and outputting a reaction. The voice output apparatus is capable of outputting a voice in a natural manner. A rule-based synthesizerproduces a synthesized voice and outputs it. For example, when a synthesized voice 'Where is an exit' was produced and outputting of the synthesized voice data has proceeded until 'Where is an e' has been output, if a user taps a robot, then a reaction generatordetermines, by referring to a reaction database, that a reaction voice &#x201c;Ouch!&#x201d; should be output in response to being tapped. The reaction generatorthen controls an output controllerso as to stop outputting the synthesized voice &#x201c;Where is an exit?&#x201d; and output the reaction voice &#x201c;Ouch!&#x201d;. Thereafter, the reaction generatorcontrols the read pointer of a buffercontrolled by the read controllersuch that the outputting of the synthesized voice is resumed from the point at which the outputting was stopped. Thus, the synthesized voice &#x201c;Where is an e, Ouch!, xit?&#x201d; is output.

Speech output apparatus

In a synchronization control apparatus, a voice-language-information generating section generates the voice language information of a word which a robot utters. A voice synthesizing section calculates phoneme information and a phoneme continuation duration according to the voice language information, and also generates synthesized-voice data according to an adjusted phoneme continuation duration. An articulation-operation generating section calculates an articulation-operation period according to the phoneme information. A voice-operation adjusting section adjusts the phoneme continuation duration and the articulation-operation period. An articulation-operation executing section operates an organ of articulation according to the adjusted articulation-operation period.

Synchronization control apparatus and method, and recording medium

An input shaft with plural drive gears and an output shaft with plural driven gears engaging the drive gears forms transmission gear trains. An input clutch transmitting power to the input shaft is between an engine and the input shaft, and a bypass clutch transmitting the power to the output shaft is between the input and output shafts. A changing mechanism changes any of the transmission gear trains in a power transmission state, a steering angle detecting means detects a steering angle of a wheel, and an input clutch control means engagement controls the input clutch. The input clutch control means inhibits a shifting operation in a state of disengaging the input clutch, by inhibiting output of a disengagement signal to the input clutch, in the case that the steering angle is more than an allowable value, and a shifting in a state of engaging no bypass clutch is judged.

Shift control apparatus of automatic vehicle transmission

When a seal-like recording medium with a built-in memory that stores information specifying a communicates is placed in the close proximity of a medium read/write unit of a communication terminal apparatus and a button is operated, information (operator in case of seal-like medium, and telephone number in case of seal-like medium) stored in the seal-like medium is read out.

Communication terminal apparatus and seal-like recording medium

A data field of a data frame which is sent from a HEV_ECU to a motor A controller and a motor B controller includes control data of 5 bytes and a number-of-sending-times counter of one byte, which is located following the control data. The contents of the number-of-sending-times counter is incremented (decremented) every time data is sent to the motor A controller and the motor B controller. A T/M_ECU constantly monitors the contents of the number-of-sending-times counter. When a count value of the number-of-sending-times counter is not normally incremented (decremented) consecutively two times, the T/M_ECU decides that the HEV_ECU is abnormal, and informs other ECUs that the HEV_ECU is abnormal.

Abnormality monitoring device for a vehicle control system

Fluctuations in rotating speed or in toque at the time of switching between series drive and parallel drive operations are prevented. When switching from series drive mode to parallel drive mode, the rotating speed Nb of a motor B is detected and a rotating speed command is transmitted to match the rotating speed Na of a motor A with the rotating speed Nb of the motor B. When the actual rotating speed Na of the motor A has become equal to the rotating speed Nb of the motor B, a torque command which causes torque Teg of an engine to become zero is transmitted and, then, a command for engaging a lock-up clutch is transmitted. When switching from the parallel drive mode to the series drive mode, the engine torque is gradually reduced and the motor B is controlled to output a torque corresponding to the amount of reduction in the engine torque. The rotating speed Na of the motor A is matched with the rotating speed Nb of the motor B and the lock-up clutch is disengaged when the engine torque has become zero.

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Tomoaki Nitta