Sony Corporation

Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Seiren Company, Ltd

International Business Machines Corporation

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Tsinghua University

Teijin Limited

Yoshikazu Takahashi

Shuji Shimizu

Yasutaka Ito

Osamu Kuroda

Kazuo Ishii

Nobuo Sasaki

Yasuhiko Kato

Nozomu Ikeda

Masaaki Isozaki

Makoto Akabane

Shinichi Honda

Katsu Saito

Kaoru Yamanoue

Wataru Onogi

Sobei Wakabayashi

Teruhisa Yamazaki

Nobuyuki Kihara

Ruxin Chen

Toru Yamamoto

Kouichiro Takashima

Yoshio Inoue

Kenichiro Kobayashi

Yu Tsuda

Minoru Nakano

Masashi Ohkubo

Masanori Omote

Takashi Toyoda

Koh Uchida

Eiji Yamamoto

Takashi Fuchiwaki

Hiroshi Ban

Toshiaki Isogawa

Yoshikazu Okamoto

Masakiyo Nobuyoshi

Kenichi Kumoyama

Kazuyoshi Tani

Tomoyoshi Chihara

Yutaka Satoh

Kimitaka Kawase

Kengo Tanaka

Ai Kato

Katsuhiro Suda

Xi Xiao

Aya Saito

Fang Zheng

Takayuki Bitou

Kumiko Tsuda

Taisuke Ueda

Toru Inoue

Mie Kamiyama

Hideyuki Kita

Yohei Koike

Nariaki Tazawa

Jun Uchida

Katsuya Nakagawa

Satoko Ikezawa

Linquan Liu

Shigeyuki Mineo

Zhan You

Wenxiao Cao

Satoshi Hirota

The present invention provides a body lumen graft base that is a thin film, has adequate flexibility and low permeability, and can be inserted in a catheter with a small diameter. The body lumen graft base of the present invention is obtained by subjecting at least one surface of a woven fabric comprising a fiber having a total fineness of 1 to 80 decitex and a single fiber fineness of less than 0.1 decitex to press treatment using a calender machine.

Body lumen graft base, production method of body lumen graft base, and body lumen graft using the same

The content recommendation system that acquires attribute information of a given user, acquires at least one list from among lists of content sequentially generated over time on the basis of the attribute information of the given user, acquires user preference information, which is feature information of content preferred by the given user, extracts some content from content included in the list acquired on the basis of the user preference information, and presents the content to the given user.

Recommendation for diverse content

The content recommendation system includes a user attribute information acquisition means for acquiring attribute information of a given user, a list acquisition means for acquiring at least one list from among lists of content sequentially generated over time on the basis of the attribute information of the given user acquired by the user attribute information acquisition means, a user preference information acquisition means for acquiring user preference information, which is feature information of content preferred by the given user, a content extraction means for extracting some content from content included in the list acquired by the list acquisition means on the basis of the user preference information acquired by the user preference information acquisition means, and a content presentation means for presenting the content extracted by the content extraction means to the given user.

Content recommendation system, content recommendation method, content recommendation device, and information storage medium

The present invention relates to a method for modeling a common-language speech recognition, by a computer, under the influence of multiple dialects and concerns a technical field of speech recognition by a computer. In this method, a triphone standard common-language model is first generated based on training data of standard common language, and first and second monophone dialectal-accented common-language models are based on development data of dialectal-accented common languages of first kind and second kind, respectively. Then a temporary merged model is obtained in a manner that the first dialectal-accented common-language model is merged into the standard common-language model according to a first confusion matrix obtained by recognizing the development data of first dialectal-accented common language using the standard common-language model. Finally, a recognition model is obtained in a manner that the second dialectal-accented common-language model is merged into the temporary merged model according to a second confusion matrix generated by recognizing the development data of second dialectal-accented common language by the temporary merged model. This method effectively enhances the operating efficiency and admittedly raises the recognition rate for the dialectal-accented common language. The recognition rate for the standard common language is also raised.

Method and system for modeling a common-language speech recognition, by a computer, under the influence of a plurality of dialects

A working fluid medium temperature control system comprises an actuator operable on a working fluid medium, a pump for the working fluid medium, a fluid passage structure for the working fluid medium, an electric motor drivingly connected to the pump, and a control unit for the electric motor, the control unit including an inverter and an inverter controller. The inverter and the electric motor are integrated in such a way that the inverter is in heat transfer communication with the electric motor. The fluid passage structure is in heat transfer communication with the inverter.

Working fluid medium temperature control system and method

Embodiments of the present invention provide a probe card in which the positional shift of the tip of a probe can be compensated for in response to a change in the temperature, and a wafer test in a wide range of temperatures can be performed. More specifically, the probe card includes a substrate, a probe composed of a first metallic material having a first thermal expansion coefficient, a base of the probe being joined to the substrate, a tip of the probe coming into contact with a connection terminal of an electronic device, and a thermal compensation member composed of a second metallic material having a second thermal expansion coefficient that is higher than the first thermal expansion coefficient, a base of the thermal compensation member being fixed to the substrate, a tip of the thermal compensation member coming into contact with the probe at an intermediate portion between the base of the probe and the tip of the probe.

Probe card, method for manufacturing probe card, and prober apparatus

The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for content reproduction, a recording medium, and a program that make it possible to edit taken images easily and automatically in accordance with an intention of an editor. Each time a reproduction is performed, a reproduction start point and a reproduction end point of VOBU units of images reproduced by a disk camcorder are recorded in Play Data. The recorded reproduction start point and reproduction end point are read, and edit points representing a reproduced section of a longest, a shortest, or an average length are obtained. The obtained edit points are registered in a UD_PGCIT. Scenes are reproduced in order on the basis of the edit point data in the UD_PGCIT, and thus automatic edit reproduction is performed. The present invention is applicable to disk camcorders.

Content reproduction device and method, recording medium, and program

An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes a contact detection section for detecting contact from a user, a vibration output section for outputting an acoustic vibration that can be sensed by the user as a sound and a haptic vibration for stimulating the haptic sense of the user, a pattern generation section for generating an output vibration pattern including the acoustic vibration and the haptic vibration in response to the contact detection section detecting the contact from the user, and a drive section for driving the vibration output section in accordance with the output vibration pattern to make the vibration output section output the acoustic vibration and the haptic vibration.

Electronic apparatus

A microphone apparatus for processing and outputting an output signal of a microphone array including at least nine microphones includes a directivity function processing circuit that converts the output signal of the microphone array into a unidirectional signal and that outputs the unidirectional signal. The directivity function processing circuit expands a directivity function whose variable is an incident angle of an acoustic wave into a Fourier series up to at least third order. The variable in the expanded expression is produced from output signals of the microphones forming the microphone array.

Microphone apparatus

A DMA controller controls DMA transfer in an information processing system. Input and output devices are a transfer source or a transfer destination in DMA transfer and request DMA transfer. A DMAC activating unit is provided with an event monitoring unit and an event register. The event register registers an event subject to monitoring. The event monitoring unit detects an event generated in the input and output devices and determines whether the detected event matches an event registered in the event register. If it is determined that the events match, the event monitoring unit activates the DMA controller.

Activator, DMA transfer system, DMA transfer method

There is provided an information processing apparatus in which a CPU and an audio processing unit are coupled by a bus. The audio processing unit includes a ring buffer that temporarily retains audio data, and performs an input/output process of the audio data. An interrupt signal generator generates a buffer empty signal, when the audio data is output from a buffer in the ring buffer and the buffer is empty, decimates the buffer empty signal in accordance with a sampling frequency of audio, and then feeds the interrupt signal that survives the decimation to the CPU. The CPU, upon receiving the buffer empty signal, issues a DMA transfer instruction for writing the audio data into the empty buffer in the ring buffer.

Audio processor, input/output processing apparatus, and information processing apparatus

There is provided a display apparatus comprising: first display means including a first display section; and second display means including a second display section and a non-display section located at an outer periphery of the second display section; wherein partial area of a display surface of the first display section of the first display means faces the non-display section of the second display means; and wherein portion of the non-displaying section of the second display means, which is facing the display surface of the first display section is provided with a transmission section configured to transmit light from the first display section.

Display apparatus

A woven tubing for use in a stent type blood vascular prosthesis which contains a multifilament formed of two&#x2013;five single filaments in at least part of warps and has the single filaments disposed in single lines, and a stent type blood vascular prosthesis using the woven tubing are described. The prosthesis combines a shape retaining property that is capable of maintaining its tubular shape without being crushed by the flow of blood with a high liquid tightness that is capable of reducing the leakage of blood to the exterior when implanted at the site of a lesion and allows prevention of the inflow of blood into the site of a lesion.

Woven tubing for stent type blood vascular prosthesis and stent type blood vascular prosthesis using the tubing

A woven tubing for use in a stent type blood vascular prosthesis, using a monofilament having a flattening in the range of 1.2-5.0 and a size in the range of 11-250 dtex in at least part of the warp and a stent type blood vascular prosthesis using the tubing are disclosed. The prosthesis combines a shape retaining property that is capable of maintaining its tubular shape without being crushed by the flow of blood with a high liquid tightness that is capable of reducing the leakage of blood to the exterior and allows prevention of the inflow of blood into the lesion.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Yoshikazu Takahashi