Abstract: A station placement design method includes: extracting candidates for an installation location of a wireless base station from point group data in accordance with designated conditions for an installation location of a wireless base station; determining presence/absence of visibility between a plurality of designated wireless terminal stations and the candidates for an installation location of a wireless base station based on the point group data and generating a first list including information in which the candidates for an installation location of a wireless base station and wireless terminal stations determined to have presence of visibility for the candidates for an installation location of a wireless base station are associated with each other; generating a second list including information representing combinations of the candidates for an installation location of a wireless base station that enable all of the plurality of designated wireless terminal stations to be accommodated based on the first list

Abstract: To improve prediction accuracy of utterance types in a dialog. A learning data generation device (10) according to the present invention comprises: a sort unit (11) configured to perform, based on information appended to utterances in a dialog amongst more than one speaker and that is indicative of a dialogue scene that is a scene in which the utterances in the dialog were made, sorting regarding whether the utterances are to be targets for generation of the learning data, wherein the sorter (11) is configured to exclude utterances of a dialogue scene that includes utterances similar to utterance of the particular type from the targets for generation of learning data.

Abstract: A technique that automatically adjusts a motion given to a projection target using a perceptual model is provided. A motion vector generation apparatus includes a first parameter generation unit that generates a first parameter that is a parameter for scaling a motion vector based on a perceptual difference between a projection result reproduction image which is an image that is obtained when a projection target onto which a projection image obtained based on the motion vector has been projected is photographed and a warped image which is an image generated by distorting an image obtained when the projection target is photographed by a perceptual amount of motion perceived when the projection result reproduction image is viewed, and a motion vector reduction unit that scales the motion vector using the first parameter.

Abstract: An emergency report can be made to a plurality of emergency services. Provided is a communication control device 2 housing a subscriber terminal 1, and the communication control device 2 includes: a call control unit 21 that connects an emergency call made from the subscriber terminal 1 to an emergency-call reception switchboard 5; and an outgoing/incoming call inhibition unit 22 that inhibits outgoing/incoming calls from/to the subscriber terminal 1 in a prescribed period, when the emergency call is disconnected by the subscriber terminal 1. The outgoing/incoming call inhibition unit 22: when a call is made from the subscriber terminal 1 in the prescribed period, determines whether the call is an emergency call or a general call; in a case of an emergency call, cancels inhibition for outgoing/incoming calls from/to the subscriber terminal 1 and connects the call by using the call control unit 21; and in a case of a general call, does not connect the call.

Abstract: A control system (10) includes, for each type of Virtual Network Function (VNF), a VNF compatibility condition indicating a condition of allocation of resources by which the VNF corresponding to the type is allowed to coexist with other VNFs in an identical computer, and resource usage information indicating resources in use by the VNF in the computer and unused resources. The control system (10) includes a VNF deploy control unit (14) referencing, in a case of receiving an instruction to additionally install a VNF, the type of the VNF to be additionally installed, the VNF compatibility condition, and the resource usage information to determine, from among the unused resources, resources allocated to the VNF to be additionally installed, and a resource allocation processing unit allocating the determined resources to the VNF to be additionally installed.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a method of generating a symbol string based on an input sentence represented by a sequence of symbols. In particular, the method involves receiving an input symbol string representing a sentence, generating, using a neural network based on a sequence of dependency structure of elements in the input symbol string, an output symbol string corresponding to the input sentence. The neural network includes an encoder that converts elements of the input symbol string to a first hidden state in a form of a multi-dimensional vector, an attention mechanism that applies a weight to the first hidden state and generates the weighted first hidden state as a second hidden state, a decoder that generates a third hidden state based on at least one element of the input symbol string, an element of the output symbol string, and the second hidden state, and an output generator that generates an element of the output symbol string based on the second hidden state and the third hidden state.

Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to enable an ONU to acquire ID information of terminal devices even when a network device is connected between the ONU and the terminal devices, and to thereby enable generation of a logical path between the ONU and the OLT. The present disclosure relates to an optical communication network system configured to connect terminal devices and a passive optical network (PON) system via a network device. The PON system includes an optical line terminal and an optical network unit connected using an optical transmission line. The optical network unit is configured to construct a tunnel to the network device, acquire ID information of the terminal devices connected to the network device from the terminal devices via the tunnel, and generates a logical path to the optical line terminal on the optical transmission line using the acquired ID information.

Abstract: Provided is a technique for more accurately calculating a direction to be presented to a guided person using a force sensation presentation device held by the guided person. In particular, the device uses geomagnetic distortion. A direction calculation apparatus includes a circuitry configured to calculate a direction to guide the guided person. The calculating uses a geomagnetic map that includes a geomagnetic vector and a gravitational acceleration vector of a reference posture of the device in a reference coordinate system at a position included in a predetermined range. The calculating includes calculating a first matrix and a second matrix to calculate an instructed force sensation vector, which indicates a direction to guide the person. The first matrix includes vectors of the reference posture of the force sensation presentation device. The second vector includes vectors at a current posture of the force sensation presentation device in the reference coordinate system.

Abstract: An AD converter includes: an integration unit that uses an input voltage as an initial value and repeats an operation of integrating one or both of two types of unit voltages with the input voltage, thereby generating an integrated voltage; a switching threshold voltage unit that includes two types of threshold voltages causing the operation of integrating to be terminated; a comparator that compares the integrated voltage with the threshold voltages; an integration determination unit that, before the operation of integrating is started, causes the comparator to compare the input voltage with a rough adjustment threshold voltage corresponding to a larger one of the unit voltages; a unit voltage switching control unit that, when the rough adjustment threshold voltage is larger than the input voltage, controls the integration unit to generate the integrated voltage by using the two types of unit voltages; and a single unit voltage control unit that, when the rough adjustment threshold voltage is smaller than th

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an optical transmission system capable of controlling a transmission capacity and a signal processing load of a MIMO equalizer, without depending on the number of propagation modes of the optical fiber.

Abstract: A selection device includes a storage unit and a selection unit. The storage unit stores the write time and the read time of each of a plurality of nodes. The selection unit selects a first response condition in response to a data write request on the basis of the write time of each of the plurality of nodes such that the response time for the data write request becomes shorter than a requirement value of the write time and the number of nodes in which writing has been completed increases. The selection unit selects a second response condition in response to a data read request on the basis of the first response condition and the read time of each of the plurality of nodes such that the response time for the data read request becomes shorter than a requirement value of the read time.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a terminal anonymizing data composed of records including one or more items through statistical processing, and a server storing the anonymized data set. The terminal includes a memory, and a processor configured to transmit an acquisition request which designates an acquisition condition to the server and acquire data which satisfies the acquisition condition from the server, create merged data, and transmit anonymized data obtained by anonymizing the merged data through the statistical processing to the server. The server includes a server memory, and a server processor configured to, in a case where the acquisition request is received, search for data which satisfies the acquisition condition from the data set and transmit data obtained as a result of the search to the terminal, receive the anonymized data, and subtract statistics included in the data transmitted to the terminal from statistics included in the received anonymized data.

Abstract: A GUI component in a screen is recognized without analyzing a program code of application software. A screen recognition device includes a GUI component form/position determination unit 11 that extracts a GUI component included in a display screen of application software, from the display screen, and that determines the form and position of the GUI component, and a GUI component kind identification unit 12 and a GUI component operation identification unit 13 that determine the kind of the GUI component and an operation that can be performed to the GUI component, based on a change in a mouse cursor and a change in the GUI component when the mouse cursor is superimposed on the GUI component.

Abstract: In a case where an active system virtual server detects stopping of a heartbeat received from a standby system virtual server, the active system virtual server notifies a coordination apparatus of the detection of the stopping of a heartbeat. In addition, the active system virtual server reports whether or not a service is operating to the coordination apparatus. The coordination apparatus instructs the standby system virtual server to restart the system in a case where the stopping of a heartbeat and the operation of a service are received. The standby system virtual server restarts the service, restarts an operating system, or restarts the operating system in a case where the restart of the service is not successful, in response to an instruction for restarting the system.

Abstract: A preprocessing device includes processing circuitry configured to acquire coordinate information of respective vertexes of a polygon for inside/outside determination and the coordinate information of the respective vertexes of the polygon for inside/outside determination and rotate a coordinate to be determined and the polygon for inside/outside determination as preprocessing of determination processing of determining whether the coordinate to be determined exists inside or outside the polygon for inside/outside determination, and output coordinate information of respective vertexes of the rotated polygon for inside/outside determination and the rotated coordinate to be determined as rotated coordinate information.

Abstract: An information processing device includes an extraction unit, an inverse sampling unit, a mapping unit, a generation unit, and a correction unit. The extraction unit is to extract a first feature value of a first image. The inverse sampling unit is to generate a second image having a resolution lower than that of the first image based on the first image and first information indicating a lighting environment different from that of the first image. The mapping unit generates a vector representing a latent space based on the second image. The generation unit is configured to generate a second feature value of a third image having a resolution higher than that of the second image based on the vector. The correction unit is configured to generate a fourth image obtained by correcting the third image based on the first feature value and the second feature value.

Abstract: A base station allocation support apparatus includes a first calculation unit that calculates radio wave propagation attenuation values between a plurality of wireless terminals in a certain area based on position information of each of the plurality of wireless terminals and information indicating a layout of the area, a clustering unit that performs clustering on the plurality of wireless terminals based on the radio wave propagation attenuation values; and a determination unit that determines an arrangement position of a wireless base station with respect to the wireless terminals based on a result of the clustering.

Abstract: A video coding method is a video coding method for coding an image in units of blocks obtained by dividing an image, and in the method a computer performs processing for dividing the image into blocks, acquiring an intra-image prediction mode predicted for each block, and generating, by using a combination pattern based on the intra-image prediction mode of a plurality of blocks adjacent to at least any one block, determining whether or not the plurality of blocks are to be combined, and performing prediction for each combined block when it is determined that the plurality of blocks are to be combined.

Abstract: A rotation state of an object obtained from an input video of a plurality of frames in time series is estimated by using an object image obtained by excluding at least a part of a region common to the plurality of frames from an image corresponding to the object.

Abstract: Provided is an invention for efficiently searching for books used in training to reduce metathesis. A book search database storage unit 110 stores a book search database in which information identifying a book, information regarding a frequency of a proximity number for a mora character notation pair appearing in forward order in the book, and information regarding a frequency of a proximity number for the mora character notation pair appearing in reverse order are associated with each other. A display unit 300 displays a book search screen including a correctly pronounced phrase input region and an incorrectly pronounced phrase input region. A subject pronunciation designation unit 120 determines two mora character notations and a proximity number to use as search conditions based on an input of the correctly pronounced phrase input region and an input of the incorrectly pronounced phrase input region.