Sony Corporation

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Yuichi Kojima

Hiroyuki Fujita

Norikazu Ito

Yoichiro Sako

Yoshinaga Kato

Junichi Takami

Eisaburo Itakura

Tetsuya Sakayori

Yoshifumi Sakuramata

Hiroo Kitagawa

Tetsuya Muroi

Takashi Ariyoshi

Jun-Ichiroh Fujimoto

Lu Bin

Shinichi Fukuda

Naohisa Kitazato

Masahiro Kato

Masato Tanaka

Takeshi Koyama

Atsushi Itoh

Kentaro Odaka

Kenji Nakano

Junichi Ogikubo

Hisayoshi Moriwaki

Yoshinori Suzuki

Syuji Kubota

Atsumu Soda

Tetsuya Iwamoto

Atsuo Matsuyama

Yasuhiro Hideshima

Etsumi Fujita

Hiroshi Inamura

Masako Hirose

Soichiro Niho

Yoshiyuki Chiba

Eiichi Osawa

Tatsuji Yamazaki

Jun Nakai

Mamoru Yoshizawa

Nirokazu Ito

An information processing apparatus for performing a competition game based on a game result determined from fighting information for each of a plurality of users in accordance with a predetermined rule. The fighting information is generated based on images input by the plural users. The information processing apparatus includes: an input unit inputting a picture drawn by the user as the image; a generation unit generating the fighting information used in the game based on an amount of features of the image input from the input unit; and a performing unit performing the game based on the fighting information for the plural users generated from the generation unit.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing program, and storage medium storing information processing program

Disclosed are a document group analyzing apparatus, a document group analyzing method, a document group analyzing system, a program, and a recording medium that identify where business success and failure are branched by separating documents having causal relation between success cases and failure cases, and displaying information for analyzing factors for success and failure. Therein, a document is searched for in a document database by a searching condition, documents, the document database holding a document group having causal relation based on kinds of documents. The document searched for, and documents having causal relation to the document that is searched for are extracted from the document database. The extracted documents having causal relation are divided into groups. Documents belonging to each group are classified by the kinds of the documents.

Document group analyzing apparatus, a document group analyzing method, a document group analyzing system, a program, and a recording medium

An office information system having a device which provides a user with an operational message of the system is disclosed. In an embodiment of the office information system, a path record storage device stores a plurality of path records related to components of the system, each path record indicating a locating path needed to reach a location of a specific one of the components in the system when a failure related to the specific one of the components occurs. A failure location detecting device detects a location of a component in the system when a failure related to the component occurs. A reached location determining device reads a path record from the path record storage device when the location of the failure is detected, and determines a currently reached location in the system based on the path indicated by the path record. A message device generates, when the reached location is determined, an operational message needed for recovering the failure at a subsequent location in the path following the reached location.

Office information system having a device which provides an operational message of the system when a specific event occurs

An AV data input/output controlling circuit is connected through a data bus to a synchronous-asynchronous conversion circuit and through a control bus to a recording and reproduction controlling circuit. The AV data input/output controlling circuit inputs and outputs audio and/or video data of a normal data rate. The AV data input/output controlling circuit also inputs and outputs audio and/or video data of a higher data rate than usual. In the data recording and reproducing apparatus, audio and/or video data is transferred through a data bus synchronized with a reference synchronization signal S etc., the audio and/or video data input from an external unit is recorded in a storage device, and the audio and/or video data recorded in the storage device is reproduced and supplied to the outside.

Video data recording/reproducing system, audio/video data recording/reproducing device, its system, and data reproducing device

A video data recording and reproduction apparatus in which a plurality of input/output control circuits input and output video data between the recording and reproducing apparatus and external apparatus based on a control signal received from an external apparatus, predetermined special effect processing is performed on the video data reproduced from the storage medium by the recording and reproduction apparatus, and the recording and reproduction apparatus store this processed video data on the storage medium.

Video and/or audio data recording and/or reproduction apparatus

A transmission system which quantizes a data signal into quantized data and alternatively either transmits the quantized data while controlling a quantity of distortion to a constant value or transmits the quantized data while controlling a quantity of data generated to a constant value as a function of the quantized data which are alternatively stored in and read out from a first memory and a second memory.

Data transmission system

Video data recording and reproduction apparatus having a plurality of

Apparatus and corresponding method for recording and reproducing video data to and from a record medium operate to communicate with plural external devices. The recording/reproducing apparatus includes plural audio/video data input/output devices each of which is programmable and coupled to a respective external device for receiving video data therefrom and transmitting reproduced video data thereto. Each input/output device is operable to receive a recording or reproducing external request signal from the respectively coupled external device, generate a respective recording/reproducing request signal in response thereto, output the request signal, receive data reproduced from a record medium during a reproducing operation and supply the reproduced data to the external device, and receive video data from the external device during a recording operation and supply the video data for recording on the record medium. A storage control device receives the reproduction and recording request signals and supplies appropriate reproduction and recording control signals in response thereto to the respective input/output device which output the original request signal. The respective input/output device supplies to a storage device appropriate recording/reproduction initiate signals and the storage device either records or reproduces video data to or from the record medium in accordance with the supplied initiate signal, and outputs, during the reproducing operation, the reproduced video data to the respective input/output device which output the reproduction initiate signal.

Apparatus and method for recording and reproducing video data to and

The text to speech conversion system distinguishes geographical names based upon the present position and includes a text input unit for inputting text data, a position coordinator input unit for inputting present location information of the text to speech conversion system, and a text normalizer connected to the text input unit and the position coordinator input unit for capable of generating a plurality of pronunciation signals indicative of a plurality of pronunciations for a common portion of the text data, the text normalizer selecting one of the pronunciation signals based upon the present location information.

Text to speech conversion system and method that distinguishes

A video data transmitting and receiving system which compresses an amount of information of a video signal at a compression rate in accordance with a transmission mode, directly modulates the video signal after compression in accordance with the transmission mode or once records the video signal by a recording and reproducing apparatus and then reproduces the same with a different rate from that at the recording, detects the transmission mode at a reception side, directly decodes this in accordance with the detected transmission mode or once records the same, reproduces this at a different rate from that at the recording and then decodes the resultant data.

Video transmitting apparatus, video data receiving apparatus, and video

A video signal recording and reproduction apparatus, provided with at least one encoding apparatus for encoding an input video signal, at least one data storage apparatus for recording and reproducing a video signal encoded by the encoding apparatus, a line switching apparatus for selectively connecting the encoding apparatus and data storage apparatus or selectively connecting the data storage apparatus and an output line of the video signal; and a control apparatus for controlling the line switching apparatus and the data storage apparatus in accordance with a recording command or reproduction command.

Video signal recording and reproduction apparatus

Video signal output apparatus having near video-on-demand function

A technique for processing a decoded image signal having a distortion obtained by decoding coded data by utilizing a two-dimensional inverse orthogonal transformation in which the coded data is obtained by coding an image signal by utilizing a two-dimensional orthogonal transformation. At least one correction block is constructed each including a plurality of pixels from a plurality of coded blocks from the decoded image signal and having a distortion on at least one boundary therebetween. The coded blocks of each correction block are adjacent to one another. A two-dimensional orthogonal transformation of each the correction block is performed by utilizing a Haar function so as to form a plurality of coefficients including higher-order side coefficients, lower-order side coefficients and a dc coefficient. A correction value is added to the higher-order side coefficients in accordance with a predetermined number of the lower-order side coefficients when the predetermined number of the lower-order side coefficients have values other than zero so as to form a correction coefficient signal for each correction block. A two-dimensional inverse orthogonal transformation is performed on the correction coefficient signal of each correction block by utilizing the Haar function so as to obtain a smoothed image signal in which each distortion on each boundary of the coded blocks has been smoothed.

Image signal processing apparatus utilizing a 2D Haar transform and

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