Abstract: The present invention is a window picture system that includes a retractable window shade pulled down from a top portion of a window, one or more images that include a selected one of one or more pictures, one or more photographs and one or more drawings, a window frame with a bottom and a window sill with a top surfacing. The system also includes a three dimensional projector that displays a selected one of the one or more images and one or more slide shows onto the window, an image change button disposed on the top surfacing of the window sill, a camera SD card inserted into the three dimension projector, a battery and a scanner utilized to scan the selected one of the one or more images and one or more slide shows.

Abstract: An image processing device reduces an image in a sub-scanning direction at a reduction factor of ½N (N>1) and includes one or more ASICs each of which performs image reduction at a reduction factor of 50%. When the one or more ASICs perform the image reduction processing in N stages each at the reduction factor of 50%, one of the ASICs performs an i-th stage of the image reduction processing at 50% (N?1?i?1) and stores resulting image data into a buffer memory that is equal in size to ½i of one band. Then, one of the ASICs performs an (i+1)-th stage of the image reduction processing at 50% on the image data acquired through the i-th stage of the image reduction processing and stores resulting image data into a buffer memory that is equal in size to ½i+1 of one band.

Abstract: An acronym-management program causes a computer to extracts an acronym from a list-updating reference for updating an acronym list; extracts, from the list-updating reference, a candidate for an expanded form corresponding to the extracted acronym; and, when the likelihood of the extracted acronym being used in the list-updating reference to refer to the extracted expanded-form candidate reaches or exceeds a specific level, increase, in the acronym list, the frequency corresponding to the acronym and the expanded form.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a base station in a cellular communication network and methods of operation thereof. In one embodiment, a base station determines that the base station is transitioning to an unavailable state. The base station then notifies one or more radio network nodes with which the base station conducts base-station-to-node communication that the base station is unavailable. Thereafter, in one embodiment, the one or more radio network nodes cease communication attempts with the base station. In this manner, the radio network nodes can avoid spending additional resources on attempts to re-establish communication connections to base stations that tend to be offline more often (e.g., low-power base stations (LP-BSs)).

Abstract: Method and apparatus for segmenting speech by detecting the pauses between the words and/or phrases, and to determine whether a particular time interval contains speech or non-speech, such as a pause.

Abstract: Embodiments relate to supporting creation of a manual of a program product. An aspect includes recording into a recording medium that can be accessed by the computer a screen character string, a translated character string where the screen character string has been translated to another language, or an identifier associated with the screen character string or the translated character string, displayed on a display device by the program product. Another aspect includes recording into the recording medium attribute information of the screen character string or the translated character string. Yet another aspect includes maintaining consistency between the screen character string or the translated character string and a character string that is displayed on a display device by an application for creating the manual, using the screen character string, the translated character string or identifier recorded on the recording medium and the attribute information.

Abstract: A computer-implemented technique can include receiving, at a server from a mobile computing device, the server having one or more processors, an image including a text. The technique can include obtaining, at the server, optical character recognition (OCR) text corresponding to the text, the OCR text having been obtained by performing OCR on the image. The technique can include identifying, at the server, non-textual context information from the image, the non-textual context information (i) representing context information other than the text itself and (ii) being indicative of a context of the image. The technique can include based on the non-textual context information, obtaining, at the server, a translation of the OCR text to a target language to obtain a translated OCR text. The technique can include outputting, from the server to the mobile computing device, the translated OCR text.

Abstract: Method, apparatus, and computer program product example embodiments provide secure distance estimation based on direction measurement. According to an example embodiment of the invention, a method comprises receiving, by an apparatus (102) from a remote device (100), one or more wireless packets including information packets containing angle of departure information (160) of the remote device (100); determining in the apparatus (102), a first angle of departure and a second angle of departure from the received angle of departure information; and generating distance estimation data in the apparatus relative to the remote device (100), based on the determined first angle of departure and second angle of departure.

Abstract: A method to detect audio frame losses over a link to a device under test (DUT), such as a User Equipment (UE), includes preparing an input sequence, combining the input sequence into an input audio signal, submitting the input audio signal to an encoder, transporting the encoded signal over the link, obtaining a continuous output audio signal from decoding the transported signal, decomposing the continuous output audio signal into an output sequence, and determining one or more lost frames based on a comparison of one or more characteristics of the input sequence and the output sequence. Preparing the input sequence can include preparing a sequence of a plurality of input snippets, each input snippet having one or more audio characteristics, the preparing such that consecutive input snippets have one or more audio characteristics that differ by a predetermined measure.

Abstract: In a state in which an authentication screen in any one display language of a plurality of display languages is displayed, every time a predetermined number of characters are input to an ID input field, an ID including the characters input to the ID input field in order from a first-input is retrieved from user data. Ids, obtained as a result of the retrieval, are set as candidate IDs. When all display languages selected by users having the candidate IDs are the same, the display language selected by the users having the candidate IDs is set as a first display language. When a display language of an authentication screen, which is being displayed, does not coincide with the first display language, an authentication screen in the first display language is displayed in place of the authentication screen, which is being displayed.

Abstract: In one embodiment, path data is received. The path data is indicative of a plurality of connectivity paths to electronically connect a computer and a printer. A graphic user interface is provided for display to a user, the interface to enable sending of print jobs to a print queue. The queue is to hold the print jobs to be sent to the printer, and is without limitation to a specific path among the plurality of paths. A command for the computer to send a first print job to the printer is received via the interface. The plurality of paths is monitored to identify an available path among the plurality of paths. The first print job is caused to be sent from the queue to the printer via the available path.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive a pattern indicating positions of non-transparent pixels of a semi-transparent object; a multivaluing processing unit configured to perform multivaluing processing on the received pattern; a scaling processing unit configured to perform scaling processing on the multivalued pattern, and an applying unit configured to apply a screen to the scaled pattern.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of processing image signals from a first and a second image sensor, both of a document scanner unit, where the first image sensor provides a first image, and the second image sensor provides a second image. The first and the second image are two-dimensional images wherein said first and second image are recorded at respective areas of a scanned medium, where a portion of the respective areas is recorded also by the other of the respective image sensors. Thereby image data from overlapping and non-overlapping areas are present in the first and the second image. The method comprises: correlating the first image with the second image, creating a correlation image and processing the correlation image to determine a displacement between the first and the second image. Consequently, a versatile calibration method is provided that can determine a displacement between the first and the second image in two dimensions.

Abstract: A storage medium storing an image processing program executed by a computer of an information processing device, wherein the program permits the computer to function as: a read-data receiving section to receive read data formed by a reading device on the basis of a reading condition; a read-data storage control section to store the received read data in a storage section; a change-command sending section to send, to the reading device, a change command of the reading condition on the basis of a change direction where the change direction is received after the reading has started; and a converting section to convert, on the basis of the reading condition corresponding to the change command, read data stored after reading has started, wherein the receiving section receives read data formed on the basis of the reading condition after the change command has been sent, where the change command is sent.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus without bothering a user, even when it is necessary to disconnect and restart the image forming apparatus which has been connected to the information processing apparatus so as to transmit and receive maintenance work data for performing the maintenance work on the image forming apparatus. When the image forming apparatus is required to be disconnected and reconnected after restarting the image forming apparatus during connection with the information processing apparatus, identification information for identifying an information processing apparatus to be reconnected is stored in a storage section. The image forming apparatus is reconnected to the information processing apparatus identified by the identification information stored in the storage section after the image forming apparatus is restarted.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and device for quantizing voice signals in a band-selective manner. A voice decoding method may include inversely quantizing voice parameter information produced from a selectively quantized voice band and performing inverse transform on the basis of the inversely quantized voice parameter information. Thus, according to the present invention, coding/decoding efficiency in voice coding/decoding may be increased by selectively coding/decoding important information.

Abstract: A reading accuracy-improving system includes: a reading conversion unit for retrieving a plurality of candidate word strings from speech recognition results to determine the reading of each candidate word string; a reading score calculating unit for determining the speech recognition score for each of one or more candidate word strings with the same reading to determine a reading score; and a candidate word string selection unit for selecting a candidate to output from the plurality of candidate word strings on the basis of the reading score and speech recognition score corresponding to each candidate word string.

Abstract: By copying to a high-frequency band portion (extension band) a low-frequency band portion in which peaking has been set to a sufficiently low state, this encoding device is capable of preventing generation of a spectrum with overly high peaking in the high-frequency band portion, and of generating a high-quality extension band spectrum. This device comprises: a maximum value search unit which searches, in each of multiple sub-bands obtained by dividing the low-frequency band portion of an audio signal and/or music signal below a prescribed frequency, for the maximum value of the amplitude of a first spectrum obtained by decoding first encoded data, which is encoded data in the low-frequency band portion; and an amplitude normalization unit which obtains a normalized spectrum by normalizing, at the maximum values of the amplitude of each sub-band, the first spectrum contained in each sub-band.

Abstract: Method of detecting voice activity starts with by generating probabilistic models that respectively model features of speech dynamically over time. Probabilistic models may model each feature dependent on a past feature and a current state. Features of speech may include a nonstationary signal presence feature, a periodicity feature, and a sparsity feature. Noise suppressor may then perform noise suppression on an acoustic signal to generate a nonstationary signal presence signal and a noise suppressed acoustic signal. An LPC module may then perform residual analysis on the noise suppressed data signal to generate a periodicity signal and a sparsity signal. Inference generator receives the probabilistic models and receives, in real-time, nonstationary signal presence signal, periodicity signal, and sparsity signal. Inference generator may then generate in real time an estimate of voice activity based on the probabilistic models, nonstationary signal presence signal, periodicity signal, and sparsity signal.

Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying conflicts between the requirements of an incoming print job and the configuration of a printer that has been requested to print the job. The system receives a request to move a print job to a queue for a printer and identifies a requirement of the print job. The system analyzes a current and a scheduled configuration of the printer to determine whether the current configuration or the scheduled configuration of the printer can handle the print setting. Responsive to determining that the current and scheduled configuration of the printer cannot handle the print setting, the system analyzes configurations of at least one other printer to identify another printer having a current configuration or a scheduled configuration that can handle the print setting. Further, the system provides information identifying the other printer.