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20080319746 | KEYWORD OUTPUTTING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A keyword analysis device obtains word vectors represented by the documents by analyzing keywords contained in each of documents input in a designated period. A topic cluster extraction device extracts topic clusters belonging to the same topic from a plurality of documents. A keyword extraction device extracts, as a characteristic keyword group, a predetermined number of keywords from the topic cluster in descending order of appearance frequency. A topic structurization determination device determines whether the topic can be structurized, by segmenting the topic cluster into subtopic clusters with reference to the number of documents, the variance of dates contained in the documents, or the C-value of keyword contained in the documents, as a determination criterion. And a keyword presentation device presents the characteristic keyword group in the subtopic cluster upon arranging the keyword group on the basis of the date information. | 12-25-2008 |
20090248678 | INFORMATION RECOMMENDATION DEVICE AND INFORMATION RECOMMENDATION METHOD - A document set, and history documents including documents, etc., browsed by a user are input. The document set and the history documents are each analyzed to obtain characteristic vectors. A plurality of topic clusters and a plurality of sub-topic clusters are obtained by clustering the document set. A transition structure showing transitions of topics among the sub-topic clusters is generated, and a characteristic attribute is extracted from each topic cluster and each sub-topic cluster. An cluster-of-interest is extracted in comparison among characteristic vectors of the history documents and a characteristic vector of each document included in the document set, a sub-topic cluster having transition relations with the cluster-of-interest is obtained on the basis of a transition structure owned by the cluster-of-interest, and a document included in the sub-topic cluster is extracted as a recommended document to be presented together with the characteristic attribute. | 10-01-2009 |
20100250553 | Data display apparatus, method ,and program - A display apparatus includes: a first memory to store a plurality of contents and pieces of content information including a plurality of elements; an element selector to select at least part of the plural elements correspond to a first content; a determine unit to determine whether or not the selected element matches the plural elements correspond to the contents; a generator to generate corresponding information for each of the contents based on a result of the determination; a second memory to store pieces of the corresponding information; a content selector to select a second content; a calculator to calculate degrees of association to the second content; a deciding unit to decide a arrangement positions of the plural contents except the second content according to the degrees of association calculated by the calculator; and a display unit to display the contents at the arrangement positions decided by the deciding unit. | 09-30-2010 |
20110246464 | KEYWORD PRESENTING DEVICE - In one embodiment, there is provided a keyword presenting device including: an extraction unit configured to extract a plurality of keywords from a browsing document; a determination unit configured to arrange keywords with spellings similar to each other among the plurality of keywords to obtain a plurality of groups of similar keyword; an integration unit configured to classify the keywords into main keywords that are titles and the other sub-keywords for each group of similar keywords, and to integrate the sub-keywords into the main keywords; and a presentation unit configured to present the main keywords to a user. | 10-06-2011 |
20120036144 | INFORMATION AND RECOMMENDATION DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - According to one embodiment, an information recommendation device includes following units. The input unit is configured to input a first document and a second document which has been browsed before the first document. The subject-keyword extraction unit is configured to extract first and second subject keywords from the first and second documents, respectively. The interest-keyword extraction unit is configured to extract first interest keywords from the first and second subject keywords, and to extract second interest keywords based on information specifying the first and second documents, the first interest keywords, and the first and second subject keywords. The second interest keywords are estimated to be keywords in which the user is next interested. The acquiring unit is configured to acquire, based on the second interest keywords, recommendation information on third documents which are candidates to be browsed after the first document. The presentation unit presents the recommendation information. | 02-09-2012 |
20120210213 | KEYWORD EXTRACTION APPARATUS AND PROGRAM - According to one embodiment, a keyword extraction apparatus includes a display, a first calculation unit, a scroll unit, a first generation unit, an extraction unit, a scoring unit and a second generation unit. The first calculation unit calculates a partial region indicating a part of the document displayed. The scroll unit scrolls the document to display other than the partial region in a document. The scoring unit calculates scores of the keywords in accordance with positions that the keywords occur within the document. The second generation unit generates a window for selecting the keywords in descending order of the scores from first keywords. | 08-16-2012 |
20120219225 | REGION-OF-INTEREST EXTRACTION APPARATUS AND METHOD - According to one embodiment, a region-of-interest extraction apparatus includes following units. The acquisition unit acquires a structured document including elements. The first extraction unit extracts block regions including specific elements, from the structured document. The second extraction unit extracts, as a display region, parts of the elements being displayed on a display screen, from the structured document. The third extraction unit extracts a region of interest, in which a user is interested, from the structured document, based on relations between the block regions and the display region. | 08-30-2012 |
20120266195 | Similar Content Search Device And Computer-Readable Storage Medium - According to one embodiment, a phrase similarity is reduced when a common genre characteristic word Is included in a program of interest interested by a user and a similar phrase program including the same phrase. A genre similarity is increased when a common genre characteristic word is included in the program of interest and a similar genre program including the same genre as the program of interest. The similar phrase program is presented based on the phrase similarity, and the similar genre program is presented based on the genre similarity. | 10-18-2012 |
20130268736 | SENSOR DATA RECORDING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - According to one embodiment, a sensor data recording apparatus includes following elements. The temporary storage unit temporarily stores the sensor data acquired from sensors. The data selector selects sensor data stored in the temporary storage unit for each sensor. The sensor data storage unit stores the sensor data selected for each sensor. The recording method controller controls at least one of a recording method of storing the sensor data in the temporary storage unit, and a recording method of storing the sensor data in the sensor data storage unit, based on the recording status which is statistical information about storing of the sensor data in the sensor data storage unit. | 10-10-2013 |
20140156277 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND CONTENT RETRIEVAL METHOD - According to one embodiment, an information processing device includes: an input module configured to receive voice input therein; a display controller configured to identify from the input voice a keyword and a single piece of attribute information associated with the keyword to be used for content retrieval and to cause to display on a display the identified keyword and the identified attribute information, and attribute candidate information that is associated with the identified keyword and selectable as an alternative to the identified attribute information; and a retrieval instructing module configured to give an instruction for the content retrieval using the identified keyword and the selected attribute candidate information. | 06-05-2014 |
20140289238 | DOCUMENT CREATION SUPPORT APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - According to one embodiment, a document creation support apparatus includes a determination unit, a search unit and a presentation unit. The determination unit determines a document type that is a type of a document containing a target character string, based on feature values including a first character recognition result and a first position information item. The search unit searches, if a search condition for searching for relevant character strings is satisfied, one or more databases for the relevant character strings to obtain the relevant character strings in order of decreasing score based on priorities, each of the priorities being set to each of the one or more databases according to the document type. The presentation unit presents the relevant character strings in order of decreasing the score. | 09-25-2014 |
20140289247 | ANNOTATION SEARCH APPARATUS AND METHOD - According to an embodiment, an annotation search apparatus includes a feature extractor and an annotation search unit. The feature extractor is configured to extract an annotation feature from an input document and an annotation appended by a user to the input document. The annotation search unit is configured to search annotation information items to retrieve at least one of the annotation information items according to an intended purpose of the user, one of the annotation information items corresponding to the input document and including the annotation feature. | 09-25-2014 |
20140289632 | PICTURE DRAWING SUPPORT APPARATUS AND METHOD - According to an embodiment, a picture drawing support apparatus includes following components. The feature extractor extracts a feature amount from a picture drawn by a user. The speech recognition unit performs speech recognition on speech input by the user. The keyword extractor extracts at least one keyword from a result of the speech recognition. The image search unit retrieves one or more images corresponding to the at least one keyword from a plurality of images prepared in advance. The image selector selects an image which matches the picture, from the one or more images based on the feature amount. The image deformation unit deforms the image based on the feature amount to generate an output image. The presentation unit presents the output image. | 09-25-2014 |
20140304118 | PRODUCT COMPARISON APPARATUS AND METHOD - According to an embodiment, a product comparison apparatus for comparing a plurality of products includes an operation acceptance unit, a comparison table generator, and a display unit. The operation acceptance unit is configured to accept a user operation for selecting a plurality of annotated documents which include specification information items related to the products and annotations appended by a user. The comparison table generator is configured to generate a comparison table comprising the specification information items related to the products, in accordance with the user operation. The display unit is configured to display the comparison table. | 10-09-2014 |
20140321751 | CHARACTER INPUT APPARATUS AND METHOD - According to an embodiment, a character input apparatus includes a handwriting input unit, an input target determination unit, a character recognition unit, and a character input unit. The handwriting input unit is configured to receive an input of handwriting onto a display screen on which an image including one or more input forms is displayed. The input target determination unit is configured to determine an input form of the one or more input forms as a target of the handwriting. The character recognition unit is configured to apply character recognition to the handwriting to obtain a character corresponding to the handwriting. The character input unit is configured to input the character to the input form. | 10-30-2014 |
20140325350 | TARGET AREA ESTIMATION APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - According to one embodiment, a target area estimation apparatus includes a first acquisition unit, a second acquisition unit, a conversion unit and an estimation unit. The first acquisition unit is configured to acquire a document formed of a plurality of elements. The second acquisition unit is configured to acquire sampling points of a stroke represented by coordinate values on a screen by obtaining an input of the stroke to the document displayed on the screen. The conversion unit is configured to convert the sampling points into corresponding points each indicating a position in the document or at least one of the elements of the document including the position. The estimation unit is configured to estimate a target area that a user is interested in, based on the corresponding points and the elements. | 10-30-2014 |
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20090291301 | PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVE COMPOSITION AND USE THEREOF - The present invention relates to a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition used for a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet to be directly attached to a metal surface, the composition including, a monomer mixture or an acrylic copolymer material obtained by at least partially polymerizing the monomer mixture, the monomer mixture including: at least one monomer (monomer m1) selected from alkyl(meth)acrylates represented by the following formula (I): CH | 11-26-2009 |
20110124833 | MEDICAL PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVE COMPOSITION - There is provided a medical pressure-sensitive adhesive composition including an acrylic copolymer obtained by copolymerizing monomer components containing (a) at least one kind of a monomer of a (meth)acrylic acid alkyl ester and (b) at least one kind of a monomer of an N-hydroxyalkyl(meth)acrylamide, wherein: a content of the (meth)acrylic acid alkyl ester monomer (a) with respect to a total amount of the monomer components is 50 weight % to 99.9 weight % and a content of the N-hydroxyalkyl(meth)acrylamide monomer (b) with respect to the total amount is 0.1 weight % to 20 weight %; and the monomer components are substantially free of a monomer having a carboxyl group. The medical pressure-sensitive adhesive composition of the present invention is particularly suitable for applications such as medical patches and patch preparations. | 05-26-2011 |
20120258247 | PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVE COMPOSITION AND PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVE SHEET - Provided are a PSA composition capable of forming a PSA having an excellent high-temperature cohesive strength and low-temperature adhesive strength with low corrosiveness to metal; and a PSA sheet formed of the composition. The PSA composition comprises a copolymerization product of a monomer mixture having a composition containing at least an alkyl(meth)acrylate having an alkyl group with 1 to 20 carbon atoms and an oxazoline-group-containing unsaturated monomer (monomer m | 10-11-2012 |
20120276378 | DOUBLE-COATED PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVE SHEET FOR OPTICAL USE - An object of the present invention is to provide a double-coated pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet for optical use satisfying both high corrosion resistance and adhesion reliability. The double-coated pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet for optical use according to the present invention has a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer having a resistance ratio determined by a specific corrosion resistance test of from 90 to 120 and an average air bubble diameter of air bubbles determined by a specific bubbling delamination resistance test of 1.0 mm or less. Further, the double-coated pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet for optical use according to the present invention preferably has a total light transmittance of 90% or more and a haze of 1.5% or less. | 11-01-2012 |
20120328873 | OPTICAL PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVE SHEET - Provided is an optical pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet having satisfactory colorlessness/transparency, excels in whitening resistance, high-temperature bonding reliability, bump absorptivity, and in workability. The sheet includes a plastic film substrate and, on at least one side thereof, an acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive layer and has a moisture content of 0.65 percent by weight or more after storage in an environment of 60° C. and 95% RH for 120 hours. The plastic film substrate has a total light transmittance of 88% or more, an internal haze of 1.5% or less, a b* value of −0.5 to 0.5, and a thickness of 12 to 75 μm, the acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive layer contains an acrylic polymer and has a storage shear modulus at 23° C. of 0.8×10 | 12-27-2012 |
20120329970 | OPTICAL PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVE SHEET - Provided is an optical pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet which excels in whitening resistance and high-temperature bonding reliability and exhibits superior bump absorptivity. The optical pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet according to the present invention includes an acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive layer and has a moisture content of 0.65 percent by weight or more after storage in an environment of 60° C. and 95 percent relative humidity for 120 hours, in which the acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive layer contains an acrylic polymer and has a storage shear modulus at 23° C. of from 0.8×10 | 12-27-2012 |
20130005911 | ACRYLIC PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVE COMPOSITION AND ACRYLIC PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVE TAPE - An acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive composition contains: an acrylic polymer (A); and a (meth)acrylic polymer (B) that includes, as a monomer unit, a (meth)acrylic monomer having a tricyclic or higher alicyclic structure and that has a weight average molecular weight of 1000 or more and less than 30000. | 01-03-2013 |
20130011672 | ACRYLIC PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVE TAPE - An acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive tape includes a core layer and a surface layer provided on one or both sides of the core layer. The core layer contains an acrylic polymer (A), and the surface layer contains an acrylic polymer (D) and a (meth)acrylic polymer (E) that includes, as a monomer unit, a (meth)acrylic monomer having a tricyclic or higher alicyclic structure and that has a weight average molecular weight of 1000 or more and less than 30000. | 01-10-2013 |
20130274419 | ACRYLIC PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVE COMPOSITION AND ACRYLIC PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVE TAPE - An acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive composition contains: an acrylic polymer (A); and a (meth)acrylic polymer (B) that includes, as a monomer unit, a (meth)acrylic monomer having a tricyclic or higher alicyclic structure and that has a weight average molecular weight of 1000 or more and less than 30000. | 10-17-2013 |
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20080243494 | DIALOG DETECTING APPARATUS, DIALOG DETECTING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A speech receiving unit receives a user ID, a speech obtained at a terminal, and an utterance duration, from the terminal. A proximity determining unit calculates a correlation value expressing a correlation between speeches received from plural terminals, compares the correlation value with a first threshold value, and determines that the plural terminals that receive the speeches whose correlation value is calculated are close to each other, when the correlation value is larger than the first threshold value. A dialog detecting unit determines whether a relationship between the utterance durations received from the plural terminals that are determined to be close to each other within an arbitrarily target period during which a dialog is to be detected fits a rule. When the relationship is determined to fit the rule, the dialog detecting unit detects dialog information containing the target period and the user ID. | 10-02-2008 |
20080244056 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT FOR MANAGING COMMUNICATION SITUATION - An action acquiring unit acquires action information corresponding to operation information from a first storage unit for a first user, and stores acquired action information in a third storage unit. A receiving unit receives, via a network, action information of a second user from an external device. A situation acquiring unit acquires, from a second storage, a communication situation corresponding to received action information. A writing unit writes the action information of the first user indicated by the communication situation to the third storage unit, additionally. | 10-02-2008 |
20120036139 | CONTENT RECOMMENDATION DEVICE, METHOD OF RECOMMENDING CONTENT, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to one embodiment, a content recommendation device includes a storage to store metadata; a display unit to display a plurality of pieces of content information corresponding to the contents; a selection unit to select first content information displayed on the display unit and second content information to be displayed after the first content information; an extraction unit to extract a keyword based on a co-occurrence relation between the metadata of the first and second content information; a generation unit to generate a search query based on the keyword; an acquisition unit to acquire third content information from an external database using the search query; a calculation unit configured to calculate similarity between the second and third content information by using the metadata of the second and third content information; and an arrangement control unit to arrange the third content information on the display unit based on the similarity. | 02-09-2012 |
20130262674 | SERVER DEVICE, ANNOTATION SYSTEM, ANNOTATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a server device includes a first registering unit, a second registering unit, and a providing unit. The first registering unit is configured to acquire first action information regarding an action performed by a first user from a client device, and register the first action information in an action information storage unit in which pieces of action information of users are stored in association with labels of the respective pieces of action information. The second registering unit is configured to specify at least one piece of action information similar to the first action information among the pieces of action information, and register the label associated with the specified piece of action information in the action information storage unit in association with the first action information. The providing unit is configured to provide the label associated with the first action information to the client device. | 10-03-2013 |
20140152851 | Information Processing Apparatus, Server Device, and Computer Program Product - According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes an image capturing module, an estimation module, a content obtaining module, and a display module. The image capturing module is configured to capture a subject to be captured. The estimation module is configured to estimate a state of the subject to be captured based on a capturing method for the subject to be captured by the image capturing module. The content obtaining module is configured to obtain the content based on the state of the subject to be captured and relating to the subject to be captured. The display module is configured to display the obtained content. | 06-05-2014 |
20140156030 | REMOTE CONTROLLER MANAGING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to one embodiment, a remote controller managing device is configured to output an operation instruction signal for controlling a target control device in accordance with operation instructions from a plurality of remote controllers, respectively, for controlling the target control device. The remote controller managing device includes a conflict determining module and a controller. The conflict determining module is configured to determine whether the operation instructions of the remote controllers conflict with each other when the operation instructions are issued by the remote controllers. The controller is configured to control the target control device so as to correspond to one of the operation instructions of one of the remote controllers with a higher priority order based on predetermined priority orders when the conflict determining module determines that the operation instructions conflict with each other. | 06-05-2014 |
20140156279 | CONTENT SEARCHING APPARATUS, CONTENT SEARCH METHOD, AND CONTROL PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to one embodiment, a content searching apparatus includes: a search condition generator configured to perform voice recognition in parallel with an input of a natural language voice giving an instruction for a search for a piece of content, and to generate search conditions sequentially; a searching module configured to perform a content search while updating the search condition used in the search as the search condition is generated; and a search result display configured to update the search condition used in the content search and a result of the content search based on the search condition to be displayed as the search condition is generated. | 06-05-2014 |
20140189769 | INFORMATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE, SERVER, AND CONTROL METHOD - According to one embodiment, an information management device includes a generator, a storage module, a structuring module, a retrieval module, and a result notification module. The generator generates a characteristic quantity of a reproduction content. The storage module stores the generated characteristic quantity. The structuring module generates structure information by dividing a single reproduction content into a plurality of reproduction intervals based on the generated characteristic quantity and by structuring the reproduction content by taking into account a time sequence of the reproduction intervals of the reproduction content that is being reproduced. The reproduction content is structured by the reproduction intervals. The retrieval module retrieves a related content based on the structure information. The result notification module notifies the retrieval result of the related content. | 07-03-2014 |