Abstract: A stable evaluation result is obtained from a voice of speech for any sentence. A speech evaluation device (1) outputs a score for evaluating speech of an input voice signal spoken by a speaker in a first group. A feature extraction unit (11) extracts an acoustic feature from the input voice signal. A conversion unit (12) converts the acoustic feature of the input voice signal to an acoustic feature when a speaker in a second group speaks the same text as text of the input voice signal. An evaluation unit (13) calculates a score indicating a higher evaluation as a distance between the acoustic feature before the conversion and the acoustic feature after the conversion becomes shorter.

Abstract: Upon receiving a usage request that includes a file identifier and a version identifier from a user terminal 20, a control server 10 transmits a file request that is based on the usage request to a file management system, and transmits a permission information request that is based on the usage request to a distributed ledger system. Upon receiving the file request, the file management system acquires the file that corresponds to the combination of the file identifier and the version identifier and transmits the file to the control server 10. Upon receiving the permission information request, the distributed ledger system acquires permission information that corresponds to the combination of the file identifier and the version identifier from a distributed ledger, and transmits the permission information to the control server 10. The control server 10 transmits the file to the user terminal 20 if the user of the user terminal has viewing permission based on the permission information.

Abstract: A sound system, for a user using a seat of an aircraft, an automobile, or the like, that reproduces sound inaudible to users around, without using earphones or headphones, is provided. A sound system for a user using a seat of an aircraft includes: a reproduction apparatus including an n-th reproduction unit (n=1, . . . , N) that outputs a (2n?1)-th sound signal that is a sound signal obtained based on a subject to be reproduced, and a 2n-th sound signal that is a sound signal with opposite phase to phase of the (2n?1)-th sound signal, N being an integer equal to or larger than one; and a speaker system including an n-th speaker unit pair (n=1, . . . , N) including a speaker unit that emits sound based on the (2n?1)-th sound signal (hereinafter, referred to as the positive speaker unit) and a speaker unit that emits sound based on the 2n-th sound signal (hereinafter, referred to as the negative speaker unit), the speaker system being installed at a place close to a head of the user using the seat.

Abstract: A signal receiving equipment includes a receiver configured to receive signals from a GNSS satellite, a memory, and a processor configured to select a plurality of signals from among the signals received by the receiver using a preset first parameter; perform at least positioning of a location by code-based positioning using the plurality of signals selected using the first parameter; select a plurality of signals from among the signals received by the receiver using a preset second parameter; and perform positioning of a location and time synchronization by carrier-phase-based positioning using the plurality of signals selected using the second parameter, with coordinates indicated by the location positioned by the code-based positioning as initial coordinates.

Abstract: An optical module is provided with a columnar protrusion over the entire pickup area (EP) for automatic suction by a mounting device at the center of the upper surface of a fiber holding carrier. The protrusion secures a dedicated pickup area (EP1) on a top surface. When an extra length of an optical fiber extending from an optical device is routed and held between a pair of wall portions, the extra length including a tip portion is held in a storage area of the fiber holding carrier by a restoring force caused by being pressed against the wall portions.

Abstract: The present disclosure is a photonic crystal fiber in which a plurality of holes are formed in a cladding, having a uniform light refractive index, capable of propagating three modes of a fundamental mode, a first higher-order mode, and a second higher-order mode, wherein the plurality of holes are disposed in a triangular lattice pattern so as to surround a center of the photonic crystal fiber with no hole disposed at the center of the photonic crystal fiber, and the photonic crystal fiber has a ratio d/A of a diameter d of each of the holes to a pitch A between the holes such that a confinement loss of a third higher-order mode at a minimum wavelength within a used wavelength range is 1.0 dB/m or more and a confinement loss at a maximum wavelength is 0.001 dB/km or less.

Abstract: An optical switch includes a plurality of fifth ports and a plurality of sixth ports. A plurality of fifth ports of the optical switch are connected to a second ports of a first multiplexer-demultiplexer and a fourth ports of a second multiplexer-demultiplexer. A direction in which a wavelength component of a first wavelength out of an optical signal passing through the first port of the first multiplexer-demultiplexer travels and a direction in which the wavelength component of the first wavelength out of an optical signal passing through the third port of the second multiplexer-demultiplexer travels are opposite to each other.

Abstract: An optical receiving apparatus includes: a first branching unit that branches an input optical signal into a first optical signal and a second optical signal; a reception amplification unit that amplifies power of the first optical signal; a compensation unit that compensates for wavelength distortion of the first optical signal whose power has been amplified; a first detection unit that detects power of the second optical signal; a first control unit that controls an amount of compensation for the wavelength distortion on the basis of the power of the second optical signal; a second branching unit that branches the first optical signal compensated for the wavelength distortion into a third optical signal and a fourth optical signal; a second detection unit that detects power of the third optical signal; and a second control unit that controls an amplification factor of the power of the first optical signal before the compensation for the wavelength distortion on the basis of the power of the third optical si

Abstract: Provided is a noise control apparatus and the like capable of enhancing suppression performance as compared with a conventional noise control apparatus without enlarging or complicating each device in a case where noise control apparatuses are installed in respective areas such as seats in the same moving body such as a train or an airplane. The noise control apparatus performs active noise control. The noise control apparatus has suppression information that is related to noise suppression and is common to another noise control apparatus, which is disposed in the same moving body, corresponding to a reference microphone different from a reference microphone of the noise control apparatus, and suppresses noise using the common suppression information.

Abstract: A signal filtering device includes: an information generation unit that generates feature information on related information on a target signal; an extraction unit that extracts mask information from a mixed signal including the target signal on the basis of the feature information; and a mask processing unit that estimates the target signal from the mixed signal using the mask information. The information generation unit may encode the related information into a multidimensional vector and generate a linear transformation result of the multidimensional vector as the feature information. The information generation unit may encode the related information into a first multidimensional vector, encode the mixed signal into a second multidimensional vector, derive a similarity in time series between the first multidimensional vector and the second multidimensional vector, and generate a result of a weighted sum of the similarity in time series and the mixed signal as the feature information.

Abstract: A monitoring device (10) sets a first node (20A) that is a node on a transmission side that switches a route of a packet in user communication to copy the packet in the user communication, enable an INT setting, and transmit the copied packet to each of routes that are switching destination candidates based on an instruction input from a maintenance person. In addition, the monitoring device (10) sets a second node (20B) that is a node on a reception side that accommodates the routes that are switching destination candidates to collect INT information of the copied packet and discard the copied packet. Thereafter, the monitoring device (10) acquires the INT information of the copied packet from the second node (20B) and visualizes communication quality of each of the routes that are the switching destination candidates in the user communication based on the acquired INT information.

Abstract: A masking technology is provided for curbing discomfort at the time of a change in a masking sound by presenting a video corresponding to the masking sound at the time of the change in the masking sound.

Abstract: Provided is a technique for providing feedback on the degree of utterance volume to an utterer. The utterance feedback device includes: an utterance volume evaluation unit that generates an evaluation value for a volume of an utterance voice (referred to as utterance volume evaluation value, hereinafter) from a first sound collection signal that is output by a first microphone installed near an utterer to collect an utterance voice, which is a voice of the utterer, and a second sound collection signal that is output by a second microphone installed at a position farther away from the utterer than the first microphone to collect the utterance voice; and a feedback sound signal generation unit that generates a signal for emitting, from a speaker, a feedback sound indicating the degree of the volume of the utterance voice to the utterer (hereinafter referred to as a feedback sound signal), from the first sound collection signal, by using a feedback gain corresponding to the utterance volume evaluation value.

Abstract: A switching control apparatus calculates a traffic amount in a predetermined period of each first transmission apparatus that is a transmission apparatus of a predetermined layer on the basis of allocation of radio resources to a terminal that wirelessly transmits a signal to a lowermost transmission apparatus among a plurality of transfer apparatuses that constitute a communication network hierarchized into a plurality of layers and transfer a received signal to a layer next above. The switching control apparatus calculates a processing capability predicted to be required for each second transmission apparatus which is a transmission apparatus of a layer next above the first transmission apparatus on the basis of the traffic amount of the first transmission apparatus.

Abstract: A wireless communication system includes: a plurality of wireless communication apparatuses that constitutes a wireless communication network; and one or a plurality of control apparatuses that controls the plurality of wireless communication apparatuses. Each of the plurality of wireless communication apparatuses includes a plurality of network interface controllers (NICs) that performs wireless communication through different channels that do not overlap each other. The one or plurality of control apparatuses executes channel switching processing of switching a use state of the plurality of NICs in each of the plurality of wireless communication apparatuses. The one or plurality of control apparatuses controls the plurality of wireless communication apparatuses to use NICs of the same channel in the same period.

Abstract: A radio station selection method includes an acquisition step of acquiring image information indicating an image obtained by capturing a space through which a radio wave is able to propagate in communication between a first radio station and a second radio station, an estimation step of estimating a propagation loss of a radio wave in the communication on the basis of the image information acquired in the acquisition step, and a determination step of determining whether or not to switch a radio station to which the first radio station is connected for communication from the second radio station to a third radio station on the basis of the propagation loss estimated in the estimation step.

Abstract: A traffic transfer system includes a switch (10) and a switch (20) and distributes and transfers traffic of communication on a network to a plurality of devices. The switch (10) determines a device of a transfer destination of input traffic among a plurality of devices by a hash function. The switch (10) transfers traffic to a first device when the first device determined to be a transfer destination is available and transfers traffic to the switch (20) when the first device is not available. The switch (20) determines a device to which the traffic transferred by the switch (10) is transferred, from available devices by a hash function. The switch (20) transfers the traffic to a second device determined to be a transfer destination.

Abstract: In an optical receiver circuit which suppresses an unnecessary increase in impedance and occurrences of resonance and radiation noise and which produces preferable high-frequency transmission characteristics, a PD submount mounted with a PD chip and a chip capacitor and a TIA carrier mounted with a TIA chip are electrically connected to each other by a bonding wire. The chip includes an anode electrode pad and a cathode electrode pad, anode electrode-side ground pads are formed at positions that sandwich the pad, and cathode electrode-side ground pads are formed at positions that sandwich the pad. A wire electrically connects the pad and a signal pad for input of the chip to each other, a wire electrically connects the pad and the capacitor to each other, and a wire electrically connects the pads and the pads to each other.

Abstract: A method or a first earth station in a satellite communication system including a plurality of earth stations connected by a single-hop connection accommodating corresponding terminals is provided. The method includes encapsulating a first control message received from a first terminal in a first control signal to transfer the first control signal including the encapsulated first control message through a first controlling line to a second earth station accommodating a second terminal on an incoming side among the plurality of earth stations; and performing circuit-switching of the first communicating line between the first earth station and the second earth station in accordance with the first control message.

Abstract: An anomaly detection device is provided with a learning unit that generates a detection model using a communication log during normal operation of a communication apparatus as learning data and an anomaly detection unit that detects anomaly of the communication apparatus using the generated detection model. The anomaly detection device is further provided with a data acquisition unit that acquires a communication log (second communication log) generated during a predetermined period later than a first communication log and a determination unit that instructs relearning using the second communication log when there is difference information between the learning data (first communication log) of the current detection model and the second communication log and when the number of pieces of additional information (information on the additional flow) or the number of pieces of deletion information (information on the delete flow) included in the difference information satisfies predetermined evaluation criteria.