Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Tomoyuki Isonuma

Hiroyuki Kimura

Hironori Goto

There are provided a voice outputting apparatus, a voice outputting system, a voice outputting method and a storage medium which, when the synthetic voices of a plurality of text data are to be uttered in overlapping relationship with each other, voice-synthesize the plurality of text data with different kinds of voices and to be outputted, thereby enabling the voices of the plurality of text data to be heard easily. The voice outputting apparatus is provided with a voice waveform generating portion for generating the voice waveform of text data, and a voice output portion for causing, when the overlapping of the voice outputs of a plurality of text data is detected, the respective text data to be outputted in different voices, or from discrete speakers, or in voices of different heights.

Voice synthesizing apparatus, voice synthesizing system, voice synthesizing method and storage medium

Method of efficiently inputting three-dimensional shape information, that is, distance data and depth data, which are prerequisite for presenting a panoramic image or a stereo image to a viewer. The first and second images obtained from an object are presented to a viewer as a stereo image, the left and right lines of sight of the viewer are detected at a predetermined timing, and three-dimensional coordinates of the point of interest where the viewer is gazing at are calculated based on the detected left and right line-of-sight data. The operation of detecting the line of sight and calculating three-dimensional coordinates are repeated with respect to other points of interest, and the group of obtained three-dimensional coordinates of the points of interest are inputted in a memory as the three-dimensional shape information of the object.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Tomoyuki Isonuma