Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor that stores speaker information and voice information in association with each of objects described on a board in a discussion, the speaker information being information that identifies a speaker in each of time periods of before, during, and after a description of each of the objects, the voice information being information that identifies a voice of the discussion in each of the time periods related to each of the objects; identifies a speaker in each of the time periods related to a designated object based on the speaker information; outputs information that indicates the identified speaker in each of the time periods related to the designated object in association with each of the time periods; identifies a voice in a designated time period related to the designated object based on the voice information; and outputs data of the identified voice.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a determination unit to determine a shape of a ridge line that is provided in a plane surface included in a three-dimensional model of a verification target and forms an entrance of a hole or a base of a projection in the plane surface, an extraction unit to extract a graphic that includes a ridge line coinciding with at least a portion of the shape of the ridge line determined by the shape determination unit, a creation unit to create a comparison-use vector to be compared with the direction of a normal vector of the plane surface, in response to the type of the extracted graphic, and a determination unit to determine whether the graphic extracted by the extraction unit is a graphic forming a hole or a graphic forming a projection, in response to an angle between the normal vector and the comparison-use vector.

Abstract: An interference check apparatus that includes: a memory configured to store a latest edit time stamp related to at least one of a profile or a position for each of the plurality of components, and to store an edit time stamp for each of the plurality of components at an interference check execution time and to store an interference check data representing an execution result of an interference check between components out of the plurality of components; and a processor configured to execute a procedure, the procedure comprising: determining a validity of the interference check data stored based on the latest edit time stamp of each of the plurality of components and the edit time stamp of components when the interference check is executed contained in the interference check data.

Abstract: A computer functioning as three-dimensional (3D) computer aided design (3D-CAD) system executes the process for selecting a 3D model of a component from a library. The process includes a step for designating a category of a component; a step for displaying a menu for designating values of category-dependent items representing a specification of the component; a step for narrowing down, on the basis of the designated value, records of a database, in which each record for each component includes the items representing the specification; a step for extracting a possible value of an item with its value being undetermined and accordingly updating a choice(s) selectable via the menu; and a step for determining, to be a 3D model to be loaded from the library, the 3D model of the component uniquely determined after repeating the above-mentioned steps for narrowing-down, extracting and updating for one time or more.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a determination unit to determine a shape of a ridge line that is provided in a plane surface included in a three-dimensional model of a verification target and forms an entrance of a hole or a base of a projection in the plane surface, an extraction unit to extract a graphic that includes a ridge line coinciding with at least a portion of the shape of the ridge line determined by the shape determination unit, a creation unit to create a comparison-use vector to be compared with the direction of a normal vector of the plane surface, in response to the type of the extracted graphic, and a determination unit to determine whether the graphic extracted by the extraction unit is a graphic forming a hole or a graphic forming a projection, in response to an angle between the normal vector and the comparison-use vector.

Abstract: An interference-check-result sorting unit sorts the result of the interference check on an entire 3D model in a 3D-model storage/display unit that is implemented by an overall interference check unit of a model-design verification system into the interference information related to male-screw models and the interference information related to other models. A tapped-hole-diameter changing unit considers that models that interfere with the male-screw models are tapped-hole models, and changes the tapped-hole diameter of the tapped-hole models. A male-screw model/tapped-hole model interference check unit implements checks on the interferences between the respective male-screw models and the corresponding tapped-hole models whose tapped-hole diameter has been changed. And a verification result output unit outputs the result of the verification on the fits between the male-screw models and the tapped-hole models, based on the interference-check results.

Abstract: A drawing correction assisting method executed by a computer, the method includes: dividing a drawing area of two-dimensional drawing data into unit areas and storing positional information for every unit area in a storage unit; allocating at least one of the unit areas to each of the plurality of drawing elements included in the drawing area on the basis of arrangement information about each the drawing element and the positional information for every unit area and storing association information associating each drawing element with the allocated at least one unit area in the storage unit; and determining whether interference occurs between the plurality of drawing elements on the basis of the presence of duplication of the allocated unit areas in the stored association information.

Abstract: A computer functioning as three-dimensional (3D) computer aided design (3D-CAD) system executes the process for selecting a 3D model of a component from a library. The process includes a step for designating a category of a component; a step for displaying a menu for designating values of category-dependent items representing a specification of the component; a step for narrowing down, on the basis of the designated value, records of a database, in which each record for each component includes the items representing the specification; a step for extracting a possible value of an item with its value being undetermined and accordingly updating a choice(s) selectable via the menu; and a step for determining, to be a 3D model to be loaded from the library, the 3D model of the component uniquely determined after repeating the above-mentioned steps for narrowing-down, extracting and updating for one time or more.

Abstract: From a component model library 16 having stored therein a three-dimensional component model created for each type of component, a component model to be implemented is created. The component model is incorporated in a three-dimensional printed-board model created based on printed-board information, thereby creating an implemented-printed-board model. A low-component-shape deleting unit 30 deletes a low-component shape having a height up to a specified height from the component models stored in the component model library 16 to reflect the deletion results onto the implemented-printed-board model. A low-component-replacement model creating unit 32 creates and incorporates, based on a component implementation area of a printed board and the specified height, a single low-component-replacement model that replaces a deleted portion of the low-component shape, thereby creating a printed-board simplified model.

Abstract: An interference-check-result sorting unit sorts the result of the interference check on an entire 3D model in a 3D-model storage display unit that is implemented by an overall interference check unit of a model-design verification system into the interference information related to male-screw models and the interference information related to other models. A tapped-hole-diameter changing unit considers that models that interfere with the male-screw models are tapped-hole models, and changes the tapped-hole diameter of the tapped-hole models. A male-screw model/tapped-hole model interference check unit implements checks on the interferences between the respective male-screw models and the corresponding tapped-hole models whose tapped-hole diameter has been changed. And a verification result output unit outputs the result of the verification on the fits between the male-screw models and the tapped-hole models, based on the interference-check results.

Abstract: A method of forming solder bumps on pads provided on a board, wherein a plurality of solder bump layer forming cycles are repeatedly implemented. Each of the solder bump layer forming cycles includes the steps of printing solder paste on the board using a mask having mask openings and heating the solder paste so as to fuse the solder paste for forming solder bumps.