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20090254341 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR JUDGING SPEECH/NON-SPEECH - A spectrum calculating unit calculates, for each of the frames, a spectrum by performing a frequency analysis on an acoustic signal. An estimating unit estimates a noise spectrum. An energy calculating unit calculates an energy characteristic amount. An entropy calculating unit calculates a normalized spectral entropy value. A generating unit generates a characteristic vector based on the energy characteristic amounts and the normalized spectral entropy values that have been calculated for a plurality of frames. A likelihood calculating unit calculates a speech likelihood value of a target frame that corresponds to the characteristic vector. In a case where the speech likelihood value is larger than a threshold value, a judging unit judges that the target frame is a speech frame. | 10-08-2009 |
20110238417 | SPEECH DETECTION APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a speech detection apparatus includes a first acoustic signal analyzing unit configured to analyze a frequency spectrum of a first acoustic signal, and a feature extracting unit configured to remove a frequency spectrum of the first acoustic signal from a third acoustic signal, which is obtained by suppressing an echo component of the first acoustic signal contained in a second acoustic signal, so as to extract a feature of a frequency spectrum of the third acoustic signal. | 09-29-2011 |
20110246190 | SPEECH DIALOG APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a speech dialog apparatus includes a speech detection unit that detects a start and an end of echo removed speech obtained by removing an echo of response speech contained in input speech; a response interruption control unit that outputs a response interruption command if the end is not yet detected when a predetermined period from the detection of the start passes; and a dialog control unit that causes a response speech output unit to interrupt output of the response speech upon receipt of the response interruption command from the response interruption control unit. | 10-06-2011 |
20150279624 | PLASMA PROCESSING APPARATUS - The plasma processing apparatus includes: a processing chamber disposed inside a vacuum vessel; a first high-frequency power supply outputting a first high-frequency power for supplying an electric field to generate a plasma for use in processing a sample to be processed inside the processing chamber; a sample stage disposed inside the processing chamber with the sample placed on an upper surface thereof; a second high-frequency power supply intermittently outputting a second high-frequency power for generating a bias potential to an electrode disposed inside the sample stage and capable of variably adjusting the output time; and a function to adjust operation of the plasma processing apparatus using a result of detection of a temporal change in waveform of current or voltage in a transient state of the second high-frequency power in synchronism with start of the intermittent output of the second high-frequency power. | 10-01-2015 |
20150357210 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PLASMA PROCESSING APPARATUS - There is provided a method for controlling a plasma processing apparatus that eliminates a preliminary study on a resonance point while maintaining a low contamination and a high uniformity even in multi-step etching. In a method for controlling a plasma processing apparatus including the step of adjusting a radio frequency bias current carried to a counter antenna electrode, the method includes the steps of: setting a reactance of a variable element to an initial value; detecting a bias current carried to the counter antenna electrode; searching for a maximum value of the detected electric current; and adjusting a value of the reactance of the variable element from the maximum value to the set value and then fixing the value. | 12-10-2015 |
20150371876 | PLASMA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PLASMA PROCESSING METHOD - A plasma processing apparatus is provided including a processing chamber disposed within a vacuum vessel to form plasma therein, a processing stage disposed in the processing chamber to mount a wafer thereon, a first power supply for outputting an electric field supplied to form the plasma and forming an electric field of a first frequency supplied with repetition of a high output and a low output during processing of the wafer, a second power supply for supplying power of a second frequency to an electrode disposed within the processing stage, and a control device for causing a first value between load impedance at time of the high output of the electric field and load impedance at time of the low output of the electric field to match with impedance of the first power supply. | 12-24-2015 |
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20090073724 | INPUT DEVICE WITH ILLUMINATION FUNCTION - An input device having an illumination function includes a wiring board having a predetermined wiring pattern thereon containing a fixed contact point, a light-emitting diode, a planar light-guide plate for guiding emission light from the light-emitting diode in a direction along a surface, a metal dome serving as a movable contact, and a cover sheet having an actuator thereon to be used to press the metal dome. The wiring board is manufactured of a white translucent material. The planar light-guide plate includes a plurality of prism grooves arranged in stripes on the surface thereof, and on a predetermined portion thereof a through-hole for housing the metal dome. An air layer is arranged between the prism bearing surface of the planar light-guide plate and the cover sheet. The metal dome | 03-19-2009 |
20090244905 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND INPUT DEVICE WITH ILLUMINATION FUNCTION HAVING THE SAME - In an input device with an illumination function including an illumination device having light-emitting diodes, strip-like light-guide plates that distribute light emitted from the light-emitting diodes to the side surfaces other than a light-incident surface, and a planar light-guide plate that is provided with a plurality of through-holes and laterally propagates light incident from the strip-like light-guide plates and emits the light from through-holes, the planar light-guide plate is provided with strip-like light-guide-plate providing grooves at portions where the through-holes are not provided, and the strip-like light-guide plates are provided in the strip-like light-guide-plate providing grooves such that the side surfaces of the strip-like light-guide-plate providing grooves and the side surfaces of the strip-like light-guide plates face each other. | 10-01-2009 |
20130069619 | INPUT DETECTION DEVICE - When a first driving signal is applied from a waveform output unit, detection current with a high frequency than a natural frequency of a vibrator is applied to a coil of a vibration generation unit. When the current fluctuates, induction power due to a counter-electromotive force is inducted to a external casing of the vibration generation unit. The induction power is changed in an input unit, and when a level of an output due to the change thereof greatly fluctuates, a second driving signal is output from the waveform output unit, and logical sum of the first driving signal and the second driving signal is applied to a driving circuit. At this time, a vibration current flows to the coil, and the vibrator vibrates by the natural frequency. | 03-21-2013 |
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20080235729 | USER INTERFACE APPARATUS, DISPLAY METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A content material of a first content which is reproducible constantly and content information describing information relating to a reproduction of a second content which is reproducible on a predetermined time and date are stored in a storage unit. A timewise characteristic or a characteristic relating to a reproducing state of the content material and/or the content information corresponding to operation candidate contents are determined. The operation candidate contents are list-displayed for each type of the characteristic, and an execution process corresponding to the characteristic of an operation candidate content is displayed as a processing candidate. | 09-25-2008 |
20090083029 | RETRIEVING APPARATUS, RETRIEVING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A word coinciding with a key word input by speech and a word related to the word are set as retrieval candidate words based on a word dictionary in which words representing formal names and aliases of the formal names are registered in association with a family attribute indicating a familiar relation among the words. Content related to any one of retrieval words selected out of the retrieval candidate words and a word related to the retrieval word is retrieved. | 03-26-2009 |
20090083227 | RETRIEVING APPARATUS, RETRIEVING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A word coinciding with a retrieval object keyword and a word tied to the word are read out from a word dictionary in which words representing formal names and aliases of the normal names are registered in association with a family attribute indicating a family relation among the words. The keyword is expanded by reading out the words and content related to any one of the read words is retrieved. | 03-26-2009 |
20090178127 | Authentication system, authentication server, authenticating method, authenticating program, terminal, authentication requesting method, authentication requesting program, and storage medium - Disclosed herein is an authentication system offering high degrees of security and convenience by use of two storage media. An automatic log-in system ( | 07-09-2009 |
20110172003 | FOLD MOBILE PHONE APPARATUS - The present invention has operating section | 07-14-2011 |
20120243255 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - An illumination device including: a support member accommodating therein a light guiding plate, and having a board placement space in a region where being along a longitudinal direction of an end surface of the light guiding plate, and extending from the end surface side of the light guiding plate to a back surface side thereof; and a light source circuit unit including a bendable circuit board including first and second regions, the first region including light emitting chips, and the second region being formed with a densely-packed portion of a wiring pattern of the light emitting chips. The light source circuit unit is placed in the board placement space after being bent to allow the light emitting chips to face the end surface of the light guiding plate, and to allow the densely-packed portion of the wiring pattern to come on the back surface side of the light guiding plate. | 09-27-2012 |
20120243261 | LIGHT-SOURCE CIRCUIT UNIT, ILLUMINATION DEVICE, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - There are provided a light-source circuit unit, an illumination device, and a display device which are capable of extracting light emitted from the back surface of a light-emitting element chip to the front surface, suppressing a reduction in reflectance, and reducing cost, with a simple configuration. The light-source circuit unit includes a circuit substrate that has a light-reflective wiring pattern on a surface thereof and includes a chip mounting layer as a part of the wiring pattern, and one or more light-emitting element chips that are directly placed on the chip mounting layer, and are driven by a current flowing through the wiring pattern. | 09-27-2012 |
20140104850 | LIGHT SOURCE CIRCUIT UNIT, ILLUMINATOR, AND DISPLAY - Provided are a light source circuit unit that improves light extraction efficiency, as well as an illuminator and a display that include such a light source circuit unit. The light source circuit unit includes: a circuit substrate having a wiring pattern on a surface thereof, the wiring pattern having light reflectivity, a circular pedestal provided on the circuit substrate, a water-repelling region provided at least from a peripheral edge portion of the pedestal to a part of a side face of the pedestal, and one or two or more light-emitting device chips mounted on the pedestal, and driven by a current that flows through the wiring pattern. | 04-17-2014 |
20150036317 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE AND DISPLAY UNIT - A light source device includes: a substrate; a plurality of light sources disposed on the substrate; a wavelength conversion member disposed to face the plurality of light sources; and a diffusion member disposed between the wavelength conversion member and the plurality of light sources, and configured to uniformize distribution of traveling direction angle of incident light. | 02-05-2015 |
20150249194 | LIGHT SOURCE CIRCUIT UNIT, ILLUMINATOR, AND DISPLAY - Provided are a light source circuit unit that improves light extraction efficiency, as well as an illuminator and a display that include such a light source circuit unit. The light source circuit unit includes: a circuit substrate having a wiring pattern on a surface thereof, the wiring pattern having light reflectivity, a circular pedestal provided on the circuit substrate, a water-repelling region provided at least from a peripheral edge portion of the pedestal to a part of a side face of the pedestal, and one or two or more light-emitting device chips mounted on the pedestal, and driven by a current that flows through the wiring pattern. | 09-03-2015 |
20150326055 | MOBILE TERMINAL - Provided is a mobile terminal comprising a connecting hole for connecting the inside and the outside of a housing, a camera unit that is mounted to a circuit substrate, and a secondary-side non-contact charging module that is accommodated in the housing. The camera unit comprises a camera module that is capable of capturing images through the connecting hole. The secondary-side non-contact charging module is arranged at a position so as to not overlap with the camera unit in a plan view that follows the thickness direction of the housing, and is arranged within a length that follows the thickness direction (direction indicated by the arrow) of the housing at the camera unit. | 11-12-2015 |
20150326056 | MOBILE TERMINAL - A mobile terminal is provided with a housing, a circuit substrate, a secondary-side non-contact charging module, and a heat dissipating sheet. The circuit substrate comprises a substrate, an electronic component that is mounted to the substrate, and a shield case that covers the electronic component. The heat dissipation sheet is in contact with the shield case. | 11-12-2015 |
20150326057 | MOBILE TERMINAL - A mobile terminal is provided with a housing, a battery pack, and a secondary-side non-contact charging module. In a plan view along the thickness direction of the housing, the battery pack is arranged in a first area, and the secondary-side non-contact charging module is arranged in a second area that is adjacent to the first area. The secondary-side non-contact charging module overlaps with the intersection of a center line for the second area, said center line following the direction in which the first area and the second area are adjacent to each other, and a center line for the width direction of the housing, said center line being orthogonal to the direction in which the first area and the second area are adjacent to each other in the second area. | 11-12-2015 |
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20120121962 | BATTERY COOLING STRUCTURE - A battery cooling structure includes a first battery group, a second battery group, a third battery group, a first duct, a second duct, a third duct, a fourth duct, a fifth duct, a first connecting duct, a second connecting duct, a third connecting duct, and a bypass duct. The first duct is configured to allow a cooling medium after heat exchange to flow through the first duct. The second duct is configured to allow a cooling medium after heat exchange to flow through the second duct. The fifth duct is configured to allow a cooling medium after heat exchange to flow through the fifth duct. The bypass duct connects the fifth duct to the second duct or to the first duct. | 05-17-2012 |
20130122337 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE BATTERY PACK - An electric vehicle battery pack includes a battery case, a cooling air intake member, a first cooling air exhaust member, a second cooling air exhaust member, and a first cooling fan. The battery case is disposed under a passenger compartment of an electric vehicle to contain a plurality of batteries. The first cooling air exhaust member is disposed to overlap at least a part of the cooling air intake member when viewed from a width direction of the electric vehicle. The second cooling air exhaust member is disposed to overlap at least a part of the cooling air intake member when viewed from the width direction. The first and second cooling air exhaust members are respectively disposed on both sides of the cooling air intake member in the width direction. | 05-16-2013 |
20130122338 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE BATTERY PACK - An electric vehicle battery pack includes a battery case, a cooling air intake member, a cooling air exhaust member, and a first cooling fan. The cooling air is to be drawn through the cooling air intake member into a cooling passage. The cooling air intake member is disposed between the battery case and a passenger compartment. The cooling air is to be exhausted through the first cooling air exhaust member from the cooling passage. The first cooling air exhaust member includes a first cooling air exhaust passage through which the cooling air from the cooling passage is to flow. The first cooling air exhaust member is disposed between the battery case and the passenger compartment. At least a part of the first cooling air exhaust passage is disposed between the first cooling fan and the passenger compartment. | 05-16-2013 |
20130146249 | BATTERY COOLING STRUCTURE - A battery cooling structure includes a cooling plate and a heat transfer sheet. The cooling plate is to cool a battery module including a plurality of battery cells arranged side by side. The heat transfer sheet is provided between the cooling plate and a cooling surface of the battery module to transfer heat from the cooling surface to the cooling plate. The heat transfer sheet is deformable by a pressure applied to the heat transfer sheet. The heat transfer sheet includes a positioning hole through which the cooling surface of the battery module is visible when the heat transfer sheet is assembled to the battery module. | 06-13-2013 |
20130149582 | BATTERY COOLING STRUCTURE - A battery cooling structure includes a cooling plate and an electrically insulative sheet. The cooling plate is to support a cooling surface of a battery module to cool the battery module including a plurality of battery cells arranged side by side. The electrically insulative sheet has an electrical non-conductivity and is disposed between the cooling surface of the battery module and the cooling plate to transfer heat from the cooling surface to the cooling plate. | 06-13-2013 |
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20130266840 | BATTERY COOLING STRUCTURE - A battery cooling structure is provided in which since a battery support member ( | 10-10-2013 |
20140262573 | BATTERY PACK FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE - In a battery pack for an electric vehicle, since a cooling air suction port of a suction duct that sucks cooling air into a cooling passage formed in an interior of a battery case is disposed between a vehicle compartment and the battery case beneath the vehicle compartment, the cooling air suction port can be disposed at a relatively high position, and due to it being covered by the battery case and the vehicle compartment , it can be made difficult for dirt or water splashed up from below by a wheel or dirt or water falling from above to be sucked from the cooling air suction port into the battery case. | 09-18-2014 |
20140284125 | VEHICLE MOUNTING STRUCTURE FOR BATTERIES - When a battery case ( | 09-25-2014 |
20140315064 | VEHICLE BATTERY UNIT - A battery unit includes a battery and a battery case which accommodates the battery and which is disposed underneath a floor panel FP, and cooling air is introduced from an air intake port to cool the battery. In the battery case, a cooling space C which communicates with the air intake port is formed separately from a battery accommodation space M which accommodates the battery. | 10-23-2014 |
20140335393 | BATTERY MODULE - To connect a bus bar plate to a battery module, a plurality of recess portions provided on a plurality of holders so as to be spaced in the stacking direction are engaged with a plurality of projection portions provided on the bus bar plate to be spaced in the stacking direction. Since the lengths “a” of the plurality of projection portions are the same, and the plurality of recess portions are formed from a first recess portion having a length “a” and a second recess portion having a length “b” larger than the length “a,” the precision of positioning of the bus bar plate can be ensured by engagement between the projecting portion and the first recess portion, and even if the gap between the projecting portions or the recess portions is nonuniform, it is possible to assemble the bus bar plate onto the holder with high precision. | 11-13-2014 |
20140338998 | BATTERY PACK FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE AND BATTERY PACK MOUNTING STRUCTURE - In a battery pack for an electric vehicle, since a cooling air suction port ( | 11-20-2014 |
20140338999 | STRUCTURE FOR MOUNTING BATTERY PACK ON VEHICLE - In a structure for mounting a battery pack on a vehicle, since a recess portion, into which a cross member is fitted, is formed on an upper face of a battery case so as to extend in a vehicle width direction, it is possible to mount the battery pack on a vehicle body without interfering with the cross member, and it is unnecessary to raise the position of the cross member or form a cutout in the cross member, thereby enabling a balance to be achieved between the capacity of a vehicle compartment and the strength of the cross member while ensuring a sufficient minimum ground clearance for the battery pack and preventing a battery from becoming wet. Furthermore, since the recess portion is formed on the upper face of the battery case, a cooling passage disposed beneath the battery is not narrowed, thus ensuring the battery cooling performance. | 11-20-2014 |
20140374180 | STRUCTURE FOR MOUNTING BATTERY PACK ON VEHICLE - In a structure for mounting a battery pack on a vehicle, even if a battery case housing a plurality of batteries is disposed beneath a floor panel, due to an internal cable within the battery case being disposed above the batteries, it is possible to prevent the internal cable from becoming wet. Furthermore, if the internal cable disposed above the batteries were connected to an external cable via a high voltage connector without changing the height, the height of the floor panel would increase to thus constrain the vehicle compartment space, but since the high voltage connector is disposed at a position that is lower than the upper end of the battery, it is possible to decrease the height of the floor panel by disposing the external cable at a low position, thereby ensuring the vehicle compartment space. | 12-25-2014 |
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20150304974 | SYNCHRONIZATION ESTABLISHMENT METHOD - Provided is a synchronization establishment method capable of reducing the time required to establish synchronization in a slave station without putting an unnecessary load on a master station. In the synchronization establishment method, a one-second cycle of a message is divided into 100 time slots including slot “0” to slot “99”; ten slots including slot “90” to slot “99” as some of the slots are allocated to a fast synchronization establishment mode; and, in the fast synchronization establishment mode, messages such as Sync2, Delay_Req, and Delay_Resp are transmitted and received between the master station and the slave station so that the slave station establishes synchronization. | 10-22-2015 |
20150304975 | BASE STATION DEVICE AND METHOD OF UPDATING COUNTER OF BASE STATION DEVICE - There is provided a base station device capable of achieving synchronization in a wired manner between base station devices in IP-DECT. Thus, according to the base station device, in slave base station devices, synchronization control unit hardware that is connected to Ethernet (registered trademark), and outputs timestamp information and synchronization pulses which includes interval pulses and wide pulses, synchronization control unit software that generates frame numbers based on the timestamp information, and a wireless timing control unit that receives the synchronization pulses generated in the synchronization control unit hardware and the frame numbers generated in the synchronization control unit software, and performs timing control for performing wireless communication with IP-DECT client terminals are provided. The wireless timing control unit includes a frame counter, and the frame counter is updated using the frame numbers with the wide pulses as triggers. | 10-22-2015 |
20150305028 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication apparatus is provided that can improve synchronization precision between multiple communication apparatuses. For this reason, the communication apparatus that communicates with a different communication apparatus over a network includes a slot control unit that generates multiple slots for communicating a synchronization message, and allocates each slot to the communication apparatus and the different communication apparatus; and a communication unit that communicates the synchronization message between the communication apparatus and the different apparatus, using the each slot that is allocated. | 10-22-2015 |