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20080316537 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes at least one input device for inputting a plurality of pieces of content data; a recognition unit configured to recognize a mark included in the pieces of content data, and an association processing unit configured to perform association processing by mutually establishing a link between at least two pieces of content data based on the mark recognized by the recognition unit. | 12-25-2008 |
20090284784 | Image Processing Apparatus And Method For Controlling Image Processing System - The present invention can provide an image processing system in which a job setting screen is displayed on a local apparatus in consideration of the capabilities of the local apparatus and a remote apparatus when a plurality of image processing apparatuses cooperatively execute a job. To accomplish this, in the present image processing system, the local apparatus acquires function information on the remote apparatus when the plurality of image processing apparatuses executes one job in cooperation. Furthermore, the local apparatus controls the display contents of a setting screen used when an operator sets a job setting in order to restrict a job function based on the acquired function information and function information on the local apparatus itself. | 11-19-2009 |
20100031261 | VIRTUAL SPACE PROVIDING SYSTEM, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM THEREOF - It is determined whether a print command to a virtual image forming apparatus defined in the virtual space is a command to create a virtual output product by the virtual image forming apparatus, or a command to print an output product by the image forming apparatus that is linked to the virtual image forming apparatus. A virtual space providing system simulates printing of an output product by the image forming apparatus by creating virtual printed matter in the virtual space, when it is determined that the command is to create a virtual output product by the virtual image forming apparatus as a result of the determination. The virtual space providing system outputs the print command to the image forming apparatus, when it is determined that the command is to print an output product by the image forming apparatus that is linked to the virtual image forming apparatus. | 02-04-2010 |
20100238476 | FACSIMILE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME - Disclosed is a facsimile system having first and second devices interconnected via a network. The first device allows a user to issue a facsimile transmission request, and the second device receives this facsimile transmission request and executes a facsimile transmission to a transmission destination. The first device has a determination unit for determining a caller telephone number based upon the user who issued the facsimile transmission request. The second device has a notification unit for notifying the transmission destination of the caller telephone number, which has been determined by the determination unit, when the facsimile transmission to the transmission destination is executed by the second device based upon the facsimile transmission request from the first device. | 09-23-2010 |
20120127544 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS, IMAGE READING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - In an image reading apparatus, when a document is divided into a plurality of files and transmitted in conjunction with document reading, in order to store its transmission history, a division position of the obtained files is reflected and stored in the division position for inputting a page position divided in advance by a user. Consequently, a setting operation burden on the user can be reduced. | 05-24-2012 |
20130132716 | DATA COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM THEREFOR - A data communication apparatus that is capable of improving operability when inputting authentication information. An authentication unit accepts authentication information inputted when a user logs in to the data communication apparatus and authenticates the user based on the accepted authentication information. A designation unit designates a file transmission destination that is inputted by the authenticated user. A transmission unit transmits a file to the transmission destination inputted. A registration unit registers the transmission destination of the file. A control unit prohibits registration of the authentication information at the time of registration of the transmission destination of the file when the accepted authentication information is used for file transmission, and permits registration of the authentication information at the time of registration of the transmission destination of the file when the inputted authentication information is not used for file transmission. | 05-23-2013 |
20130201529 | DATA TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A data transmission apparatus configured to determine an operation screen to be shifted to from a history screen, with reference to a protocol type read from a transmission history selected on the history screen, an application ID when the transmission is performed, a setting value relating to the operation screen, information about the operation screen that has been displayed before shifting to the history screen, and information about an address that has been already set on the operation screen that has been displayed before the history screen is displayed. | 08-08-2013 |
20130308158 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD OF IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus and method includes inputting user information, setting folder information about a specified user based on the user information as a destination of image data, registering the set folder information, and performing control so as not to register folder information corresponding to a transmission protocol set to be disable from among a plurality of transmission protocols. | 11-21-2013 |
20150022867 | FACSIMILE APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - The present facsimile apparatus accepts inputs of a destination of facsimile transmission and a communication network to be used for the facsimile transmission, and further accepts re-entry of the destination and the communication network. The facsimile apparatus is controlled so as to execute the facsimile transmission if both the first input destination and communication network match the re-entered destination and communication network, and so as not to execute the facsimile transmission if at least one of the first input and accepted destination and communication network does not match the re-entered and accepted destination and communication network. | 01-22-2015 |
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20130058608 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE AND ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATING - A technique that does not increase the circuit size, does not make the circuit design and manufacturing difficult, and can reduce insertion loss when light enters from a slab waveguide toward an arrayed waveguide or when the light enters from the arrayed waveguide toward the slab waveguide. An optical waveguide provided with a slab waveguide in which a grating is formed therein at a distance from an end, and an arrayed waveguide whose end is connected to an end of the slab waveguide at a position where a constructive interference portion of a self-image of the grating is formed. An arrayed waveguide grating provided with a first input/output waveguide, the above-mentioned optical waveguide where an end of the slab waveguide on the opposite side of the arrayed waveguide is connected to an end of the first input/output waveguide, a second slab waveguide connected to an end of the arrayed waveguide on the opposite side of the slab waveguide, and a second input/output waveguide connected to an end of the second slab waveguide on the opposite side of the arrayed waveguide. | 03-07-2013 |
20130108217 | MICROLENS ARRAY AND OPTICAL TRANSMISSION COMPONENT | 05-02-2013 |
20130209036 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE AND ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATING - An optical waveguide provided with a slab waveguide, which has a plurality of phase gratings arranged at a distance from each other in a direction substantially parallel to a light propagation direction and diffracting propagated light and a plurality of interference regions arranged alternately to the plurality of phase gratings in the direction substantially parallel to the light propagation direction and interfering the light diffracted by the plurality of phase gratings, and an arrayed waveguide whose end is connected to an end of the slab waveguide at a position of a constructive interference portion of a self-image formed by the plurality of phase gratings as an integrated phase grating. | 08-15-2013 |
20130279854 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE AND ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATING - This optical waveguide is provided with a slab waveguide in which a grating is formed, an arrayed waveguide connected to a position where a constructive interference portion of a self-image of the grating is formed, and a refractive index change region which is formed between the slab waveguide and the arrayed waveguide, in which an average value of a refractive index in a refractive index distribution in a direction substantially vertical to a light propagation direction is averagely increased from the slab waveguide toward the arrayed waveguide, and in which an average value of the refractive index in a refractive index distribution in a direction substantially parallel to the light propagation direction is increased at a central axis of the arrayed waveguide. | 10-24-2013 |
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20090018836 | SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM AND SPEECH SYNTHESIS METHOD - In a speech synthesis, a selecting unit selects one string from first speech unit strings corresponding to a first segment sequence obtained by dividing a phoneme string corresponding to target speech into segments. The selecting unit performs repeatedly generating, based on maximum W second speech unit strings corresponding to a second segment sequence as a partial sequence of the first sequence, third speech unit strings corresponding to a third segment sequence obtained by adding a segment to the second sequence, and selecting maximum W strings from the third strings based on a evaluation value of each of the third strings. The value is obtained by correcting a total cost of each of the third string candidate with a penalty coefficient for each of the third strings. The coefficient is based on a restriction concerning quickness of speech unit data acquisition, and depends on extent in which the restriction is approached. | 01-15-2009 |
20100049522 | VOICE CONVERSION APPARATUS AND METHOD AND SPEECH SYNTHESIS APPARATUS AND METHOD - A voice conversion apparatus stores, in a parameter memory, target speech spectral parameters of target speech, stores, in a voice conversion rule memory, a voice conversion rule for converting voice quality of source speech into voice quality of the target speech, extracts, from an input source speech, a source speech spectral parameter of the input source speech, converts extracted source speech spectral parameter into a first conversion spectral parameter by using the voice conversion rule, selects target speech spectral parameter similar to the first conversion spectral parameter from the parameter memory, generates an aperiodic component spectral parameter representing from selected target speech spectral parameter, mixes a periodic component spectral parameter included in the first conversion spectral parameter with the aperiodic component spectral parameter, to obtain a second conversion spectral parameter, and generates a speech waveform from the second conversion spectral parameter. | 02-25-2010 |
20130080160 | DOCUMENT READING-OUT SUPPORT APPARATUS AND METHOD - According to one embodiment, a document reading-out support apparatus is provided with first to third acquisition units, an extraction unit, a decision unit and a user verification unit. The first acquisition unit acquires a document having texts. The second acquisition unit acquires metadata having definitions each of which includes an applicable condition and a reading-out style. The extraction unit extracts features of the document. The third acquisition unit acquires execution environment information. The decision unit decides candidates of parameters of reading-out based on the features and the information. The user verification unit presents the candidates and accepts a verification instruction. | 03-28-2013 |
20130080175 | MARKUP ASSISTANCE APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - According to one embodiment, a markup assistance apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a first calculation unit, a detection unit and a presentation unit. The acquisition unit acquires feature amount for respective tags, each of the tags being used to control text-to-speech processing of a markup text. The first calculation unit calculates, for respective character strings, a variance of feature amounts of the tags which are assigned to the character string in a markup text. The detection unit detects first character string assigned first tag having the variance not less than a first threshold value as a first candidate including the tag to be corrected. The presentation unit presents the first candidate. | 03-28-2013 |
20130262087 | SPEECH SYNTHESIS APPARATUS, SPEECH SYNTHESIS METHOD, SPEECH SYNTHESIS PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND LEARNING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a speech synthesis apparatus includes a language analyzer, statistical model storage, model selector, parameter generator, basis model storage, and filter processor. The language analyzer analyzes text data and outputs language information data that represents linguistic information of the text data. The statistical model storage stores statistical models prepared by statistically modeling acoustic information included in speech. The model selector selects a statistical model from the models based on the language information data. The parameter generator generates speech parameter sequences using the statistical model selected by the model selector. The basis model storage stores a basis model including basis vectors, each of which expresses speech information for each limited frequency range. The filter processor outputs synthetic speech by executing filter processing of the speech parameter sequences and the basis model. | 10-03-2013 |
20140051042 | SPEECH LEARNING APPARATUS AND METHOD - According to one embodiment, a speech learning apparatus includes a detection unit, a first calculation unit, a generation unit, an addition unit and a speech synthesis unit. The first calculation unit calculates a score indicating a degree of emphasis of a keyword based on a type of the marker and a manner of selecting the keyword. The generation unit generates a synthesis parameter to determine a degree of reading of the keyword in accordance with the score and the type of the marker. The addition unit adds to the keyword a tag for reading the keyword in accordance with the synthesis parameter. The speech synthesis unit generates synthesized speech obtained by synthesizing speech of the keyword in accordance with the tag. | 02-20-2014 |
20140052446 | PROSODY EDITING APPARATUS AND METHOD - According to one embodiment, a prosody editing apparatus includes a storage, a first selection unit, a search unit, a normalization unit, a mapping unit, a display, a second selection unit, a restoring unit and a replacing unit. The search unit searches the storage for one or more second prosodic patterns corresponding to attribute information that matches attribute information of the selected phrase. The mapping maps each of the normalized second prosodic patterns on a low-dimensional space. The restoring unit restores a restored prosodic pattern according to the selected coordinates. The replacing unit replaces prosody of synthetic speech generated based on the selected phrase by the restored prosodic pattern. | 02-20-2014 |
20140052447 | SPEECH SYNTHESIS APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, a speech synthesis apparatus is provided with generation, normalization, interpolation and synthesis units. The generation unit generates a first parameter using a prosodic control dictionary of a target speaker and one or more second parameters using a prosodic control dictionary of one or more standard speakers based on language information for an input text. The normalization unit normalizes the one or more second parameters based a normalization parameter. The interpolation unit interpolates the first parameter and the one or more normalized second parameters based on weight information to generate a third parameter and the synthesis unit generates synthesized speech using the third parameter. | 02-20-2014 |
20140257816 | SPEECH SYNTHESIS DICTIONARY MODIFICATION DEVICE, SPEECH SYNTHESIS DICTIONARY MODIFICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a speech synthesis dictionary modification device includes an extracting unit, a display unit, an acquiring unit, an modification unit, and an updating unit. The extracting unit extracts a synthesis information containing a feature sequence of a synthetic speech from the synthetic speech generated by using a speech synthesis dictionary containing probability distributions of speech features. The display unit displays an image prompting to modify a probability distribution contained in the speech synthesis dictionary on a basis of the synthesis information extracted by the extracting unit. The acquiring unit acquires an instruction to modify the probability distribution contained in the speech synthesis dictionary. The modification unit modifies the probability distribution contained in the speech synthesis dictionary according to the instruction. The updating unit updates the speech synthesis dictionary on a basis of a result of modifying by the modification unit to generate a new speech synthesis dictionary. | 09-11-2014 |
20140350922 | SPEECH PROCESSING DEVICE, SPEECH PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a speech processing device includes an extractor, a detector, a generator, a converter, and a compensator. The extractor is configured to extract a speech parameter from a spectral envelope of input speech. The detector is configured to detect a missing band in which a component is missed in the spectral envelope. The generator is configured to generate a parameter for the missing band on the basis of a position of the missing band, statistical information created by using a parameter extracted from a spectral envelope of speech with no missing component, and the extracted speech parameter. The converter is configured to convert the generated parameter to a spectral envelope of the missing band. The compensator is configured to generate a spectral envelope supplemented with the missing band by combining the spectral envelopes of the missing band and of the input speech. | 11-27-2014 |
20140365217 | CONTENT CREATION SUPPORT APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - According to one embodiment, a content creation support apparatus includes a speech synthesis unit, a speech recognition unit, an extraction unit, a detection unit, a presentation unit and a selection unit. The speech synthesis unit performs a speech synthesis on a first text. The speech recognition unit performs a speech recognition on the synthesized speech to obtain a second text. The extraction unit extracts feature values by performing a morphological analysis on each of the first and second texts. The detection unit compares a first feature value of a first difference string and a second feature value of a second difference string. The presentation unit presents correction candidate(s) according to the second feature value. The selection unit selects one of the correction candidates in accordance with an instruction from a user. | 12-11-2014 |
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20140042247 | SPRAY GUN - Disclosed is a spray gun including: a body having a gun barrel; a coating material nozzle disposed on a tip end side of the gun barrel, and an air cap disposed on the tip end side of the gun barrel to surround a tip end portion of the coating material nozzle, wherein the tip end portion of the coating material nozzle has on the tip end surface thereof a guide wall spreading, and also has on the outer peripheral surface thereof a plurality of air grooves channeled in a longitudinal direction, and wherein each of the air grooves has a bottom portion gradually increasing in depth in the longitudinal direction, the bottom portion being located within a range of the guide wall on the tip end surface of the coating material nozzle. | 02-13-2014 |
20140042248 | SPRAY GUN - A spray gun including: a body having a gun barrel, a coating material nozzle disposed on a tip end side of the gun barrel; and an air cap disposed on the tip end side of the gun barrel to surround a tip end portion of the coating material nozzle, wherein the tip end portion of the coating material nozzle has on the tip end surface thereof a guide wall spreading and also has on the outer peripheral surface thereof a plurality of air grooves in a V shape channeled in a longitudinal direction, and wherein each of the air grooves has a bottom portion gradually increasing in depth in the longitudinal direction, the bottom portion having a curvature radius of 0.15 mm or less. | 02-13-2014 |
20140061336 | SPRAY GUN - A spray gun including: a body having a gun barrel; a coating material nozzle disposed on a tip end side of the gun barrel, and an air cap disposed on the tip end side of the gun barrel to surround a tip end portion of the coating material nozzle, wherein the tip end portion of the coating material nozzle has on the tip end surface thereof a guide wall spreading, and also has on the outer peripheral surface thereof a plurality of V-shaped grooves channeled in a longitudinal direction, and wherein the V-shaped groove has, in a triangle shaped cross section defined by contours crossing the guide wall, a height in the range of 0.5 mm to 2.5 mm and an opening angle of a bottom vertex in the range of 20 degrees to 100 degrees. | 03-06-2014 |
20140061337 | SPRAY GUN - Disclosed is a spray gun including: a body having a gun barrel; a coating material nozzle disposed on a tip end side of the gun barrel; and an air cap disposed on the tip end side of the gun barrel to surround a tip end portion of the coating material nozzle, wherein the tip end portion of the coating material nozzle has on the tip end surface thereof a guide wall spreading, and also has on an outer peripheral surface thereof a plurality of air grooves channeled gradually increasing in depth in a longitudinal direction, and wherein the inner peripheral surface of the air cap has a parallel surface parallel to the outer peripheral surface of the tip end portion of the coating material nozzle and successively a tapered surface spreading in a conical shape. | 03-06-2014 |