Abstract:
A speech dialog system includes a data center apparatus and a terminal apparatus. The data center apparatus acquires answer information for request information obtained in a speech recognition process for speech data from a terminal apparatus, creates a scenario including the answer information, creates first synthesized speech data concerning the answer information, transmits the first synthesized speech data to the terminal apparatus, and transmits the scenario to the terminal apparatus while the first synthesized speech data is being created in the creating the first synthesized speech data. The terminal apparatus creates second synthesized speech data concerning the answer information in the received scenario, receives the first synthesized speech data, selects one of the first synthesized speech data and the second synthesized speech data based on a determination result regarding whether the reception of the first synthesized speech data is completed, and reproduces speech.
Abstract:
An image processor includes an image degradation measuring unit configured to compute a degradation level of block data with respect to each of blocks within an image, a degradation determining unit configured to select, with respect to each of the blocks within the image, the block data of a target block of one of a plurality of the images based on degradation levels of respective block data of the target blocks of the plurality of the images, and an image synthesis unit configured to generate a sheet of an image by synthesizing the block data selected with respect to the blocks within the image.
Abstract:
A digital watermark embedding apparatus includes an interface unit which acquires video data and digital watermark information, and a processing unit which embeds the digital watermark information into the video data. The processing unit is adapted to: determine the position of a watermark pattern so that the watermark pattern moves with time according to the value of a symbol contained in the digital watermark information within a first moving range that contains at least a portion of a reference region on each image, and so that the average pixel value of the reference region overlapped with the watermark pattern varies in a periodic fashion as the watermark pattern moves; and correct the value of each pixel contained in a region where the reference region and the watermark pattern overlap each other by using the value of a corresponding one of the pixels contained in the watermark pattern.
Abstract:
An image encryption system includes an encrypter configured to generate an encrypted image including an encrypted area by encrypting a partial area of an input image; an identification information generator configured to generate identification information for identifying the encrypted area based on an image of the encrypted area; and a registration unit configured to register the identification information and a decryption key for decrypting the encrypted area by making an association between the identification information and the decryption key.
Abstract:
A presentation supporting device extracts a first word from a character string included in each region divided from a page of a document file, and calculates a score, for each region in a page currently-displayed, based on the first word and a second word acquired as a result of a sound recognition, and calculates, when the highest score of scores is equal to or higher than a first threshold, a distance between a first region in which the highlight display is currently executed and a second region in which the highest score is equal to or higher than the first threshold, and executes a highlight display in the second region when a frequency corresponding to the distance between the first region and the second region is equal to or higher than a second threshold, and executes a highlight display in the first region, when the second threshold is not reached.
Abstract:
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having stored therein a program that causes a computer to execute a procedure, the procedure includes detecting a plurality of voice sections from an input sound that includes voices of a plurality of speakers, calculating a feature amount of each of the plurality of voice sections, determining a plurality of emotions, corresponding to the plurality of voice sections respectively, of a speaker of the plurality of speakers for each of the plurality of voice sections, and clustering a plurality of feature amounts, based on a change vector from the feature amount of the voice section determined as a first emotion of the plurality of emotions of the speaker to the feature amount of the voice section determined as a second emotion of the plurality of emotions different from the first emotion.
Abstract:
An image processing apparatus includes: a dividing unit dividing at least one region on a digitalized image into multiple blocks; a scrambling unit producing an encrypted image by rearranging each block; a pixel value judging unit judging, for each block on the encrypted image, whether a difference between a statistically representative value of a pixel value of a first region included in the block and a statistically representative value of a pixel value of a second region is no smaller than a predetermined value, the second region being included in a block adjacent to the block and being adjacent to the first region; and a pixel value converting unit converting the pixel value of the first region in each block having the difference smaller than the predetermined value, while not converting the pixel value of the first region in each block having the difference no smaller than the predetermined value.
Abstract:
An area designation unit designates a processing area within an input image. An image processing unit performs predetermined processing on the processing area. A marker area detection unit detects a marker area in the input image, the marker area being capable of accommodating a marker that demarcates the processing area. A marking unit determines a position in the marker area for placing the marker, based on priority conditions.
Abstract:
A determination apparatus calculates, based on a first data group which includes data indicating behaviors of people, reference behavior data indicating a reference behavior among the people about each of a plurality of types of behaviors, acquires, from the first data group, first behavior data indicating a behavior of a first person about each behavior type, calculates difference between the first behavior data and the reference behavior data about each behavior type, determines, from the plurality of types, at least one first type whose difference is at least a first threshold, registers second behavior data indicating a behavior of the first person about each first type in a second data group, extracts third behavior data indicating a behavior of a second person from an input image, and determines whether the second person is identical with the first person based on comparison between the third and second behavior data.
Abstract:
An apparatus receives, via an input device, query input data including a word or a phrase, and acquires search result set data using the query input data. The apparatus acquires, for a value indicating a strength of a relationship between each impression word included in an impression word group and each word included in the query input data, and extracts the first feature word group according to the value indicating the strength of the relationship with each word, from the impression word group. The apparatus displays the search result set data using the first feature word group as an item.