Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080239087 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND IMAGE ACQUISITION METHOD - An image processing system includes an illumination unit and an illumination control unit configured to adjust light emitted from the illumination unit so as to illuminate a limited area in a space, the system generates a timing signal for controlling emission/non-emission of light from the illumination unit, captures a first image of an imaging area including the limited area or part of the limited area based on the timing signal, the first image being taken from a position different from the illumination unit when the illumination unit emits light, captures a second image of the imaging area based on the timing signal, the second image being taken from the position when the illumination unit emits no light, and acquires a third image which is a difference image between the first image and the second image. | 10-02-2008 |
20080298645 | PERSONAL AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS AND PERSONAL AUTHENTICATION METHOD - A personal authentication apparatus including a facial region extraction which extracts an image of a facial region of a person obtained from image sensing input unit, a guide unit which guides motion of the person of interest, a feature amount extraction unit which extracts the feature amount of a face from the image of the facial region extracted by the facial region extraction unit while the motion is guided by the guide unit, a dictionary registration unit which registers the feature amount extracted by the feature amount extraction unit as a feature amount of the person of interest, and an authentication unit which authenticates the person of interest in accordance with the similarity between the feature amount extracted by the feature amount extraction unit, and a feature amount which is registered by the dictionary registration unit. | 12-04-2008 |
20090048001 | SCREEN DISPLAY PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A screen display processing apparatus used for a portable terminal apparatus includes a moving unit configured to relatively move a plurality of cases of the portable terminal apparatus, a detection unit configured to detect a parameter value representing a degree of relative movement of the cases, a determination unit configured to determine based on the parameter value whether a shape of the portable terminal apparatus changes, and a first control unit configured to control a function about the screen display provided in the portable terminal apparatus in accordance with the parameter value and the change or no change in the shape. | 02-19-2009 |
20090112872 | Information sharing system and information sharing method - An information sharing apparatus comprises extracting unit extracting personal information item from acquired information item which includes personal information item, generating unit generating anonymous information item by deleting personal information item from acquired information item, storing unit storing personal information item and anonymous information item, storing unit storing first access level assigned to group of users who can access only anonymous information item, and to store second access level assigned to group of users who can access both of anonymous information item and personal information item, receiving unit receiving request message for accessing acquired information item, transmitting unit transmitting only anonymous information item when access level predetermined to user is equal to first access level, synthesizing unit synthesizing personal information item with anonymous information item, transmitting unit transmitting regenerated second information item, when access level of user is equal to second access level. | 04-30-2009 |
20100001857 | SITUATION RECOGNIZING APPARATUS, SITUATION RECOGNIZING METHOD, AND RADIO TERMINAL APPARATUS - A situation recognizing apparatus has a situation change detecting unit, being provided with situation information, configured to detect a situation change on the basis of the situation information, a first storage which stores the detected situation change, an input unit which is provided with a user operation, and a second storage which combines the user operation provided to the input unit with the situation change stored in the first storage and stores the combined user operation and the situation change as a unique pattern. | 01-07-2010 |
20100005045 | SITUATION RECOGNIZING APPARATUS, SITUATION RECOGNIZING METHOD, AND RADIO TERMINAL APPARATUS - A situation recognizing apparatus has a situation change detecting unit, being provided with situation information, configured to detect a situation change on the basis of the situation information, a first storage which stores a plurality of situation changes detected by the situation change detecting unit, an input unit which is provided with a user operation, and a second storage which combines the user operation provided to the input unit with the plurality of situation changes stored in the first storage and stores the combined user operation and the situation changes as a unique pattern. | 01-07-2010 |
20100049500 | DIALOGUE GENERATION APPARATUS AND DIALOGUE GENERATION METHOD - A dialogue generation apparatus includes a transmission/reception unit configured to receive incoming text and transmit return text, a presentation unit configured to present the contents of the incoming text to a user, a morphological analysis unit configured to perform a morphological analysis of the incoming text to obtain first words included in the incoming text and linguistic information on the first words, a selection unit configured to select second words that characterize the contents of the incoming text from the first words based on the linguistic information, a speech recognition unit configured to perform speech recognition of the user's speech after the presentation of the incoming text in such a manner that the second words are recognized preferentially, and produce a speech recognition result representing the contents of the user's speech, and a generation unit configured to generate the return text based on the speech recognition result. | 02-25-2010 |
20100076753 | DIALOGUE GENERATION APPARATUS AND DIALOGUE GENERATION METHOD - A dialogue generation apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive a first text from a dialogue partner, an information storage unit configured to store profile information specific to a person who can be the dialogue partner and a fixed-pattern text associated with the person, a presentation unit configured to present the first text to a user, a speech recognition unit configured to perform speech recognition on speech the user has uttered about the first text presented to the user, and generate a speech recognition result showing the content of the speech, a generation unit configured to generate a second text from the profile information about the dialogue partner, fixed-pattern text about the dialogue partner, and the speech recognition result, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the second text to the dialogue partner. | 03-25-2010 |
20100076763 | VOICE RECOGNITION SEARCH APPARATUS AND VOICE RECOGNITION SEARCH METHOD - A voice recognition search apparatus includes: a dictionary create unit creating a first voice recognition dictionary from a search subject data; a voice acquisition unit acquiring first and second voices; a voice recognition unit creating first and second text data by recognizing the first and second voices using the first and second voice recognition dictionaries; a first search unit searching the search subject data by the first text data; and a second search unit searching a search result of the first search unit by the second text data. | 03-25-2010 |
20110301950 | SPEECH INPUT DEVICE, SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND SPEECH RECOGNITION METHOD - A device for speech input includes a speech input unit configured to convert a speech of a user to a speech signal; an angle detection unit configured to detect an angle of the speech input unit; a distance detection unit configured to detect a distance between the speech input unit and the user; and an input switch unit configured to control on and off of the speech input unit based on the angle and the distance. | 12-08-2011 |
20120245932 | VOICE RECOGNITION APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a voice recognition apparatus includes a determination unit, an estimating unit, and a voice recognition unit. The determination unit determines whether a component with a frequency of not less than 1000 Hz and with a level not lower than a predetermined level is included in a sound input from a plurality of microphones. The estimating unit estimates a sound source direction of the sound when the determination unit determines that the component is included in the sound. The voice recognition unit recognizes whether the sound obtained in the sound source direction coincides with a voice model registered beforehand. | 09-27-2012 |
20120268607 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND IMAGE ACQUISITION METHOD - An image processing system includes an illumination unit and an illumination control unit configured to adjust light emitted from the illumination unit so as to illuminate a limited area in a space, the system generates a timing signal for controlling emission/non-emission of light from the illumination unit, captures a first image of an imaging area including the limited area or part of the limited area based on the timing signal, the first image being taken from a position different from the illumination unit when the illumination unit emits light, captures a second image of the imaging area based on the timing signal, the second image being taken from the position when the illumination unit emits no light, and acquires a third image which is a difference image between the first image and the second image. | 10-25-2012 |