Abstract: According to one embodiments, a wearing detection apparatus includes a restraint device, an imaging device, a control unit, and an output device. The restraint device is to restrain a passenger seated in a seat, and includes a strap an exposed area of which changes when the strap is being worn and not worn. The imaging device captures an image of the restraint device including the strap. The control unit detects from the image captured by the imaging device, a recognition image corresponding to a recognition member provided in an area that is exposed when the strap is worn. The output device outputs a result of detection of the recognition image.

Abstract: A network monitoring device according to an embodiment monitors a message that is periodically transmitted in a network in which a message identified by an identifier is transmitted and received, and includes a reception time recording unit and an unauthorized-transmission determination unit. The reception time recording unit records a reception time in association with the identifier, every time a message to be monitored is received. The unauthorized-transmission determination unit determines presence of an unauthorized transmission on the received message to be to be monitored, based on a latest reception time Ti, an m previous reception time Ti-m, a message transmission period F, and a constant ? determined in advance, in a period from the reception time Ti-m to the reception time Ti, every time the message to be monitored is received.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a moving block signaling headway calculation system recursively executes a process until an interval reaches a limit value. The process includes calculating headway values for a plurality of points on the running section for each interval, extracting a section between adjacent two points, in which an amount of variation in the headway values between the adjacent two points exceeds a threshold value, a section between two points before and after a front point and an end point of a point or a section where a headway value changes from rise to fall, or a section between two points before and after a front point and an end point of a point or a section where a headway value changes from fall to rise, and subdividing the interval in the extracted sections.

Abstract: A model maintenance device according to an embodiment performs maintenance of a model for pattern recognition used in label estimation of target data for recognition. The model maintenance device includes a generating unit, an evaluating unit, and an updating determining unit. The generating unit generates a new model using learning data. The evaluating unit evaluates the performance of the new model using evaluation data classified into a first group, from among evaluation data classified into a plurality of groups, and calculates a first performance evaluation value; and evaluates performance of the new model using evaluation data classified into a second group, from among the evaluation data classified into a plurality of groups, and calculates a second performance evaluation value. Based on the first performance evaluation value and the second performance evaluation value, the updating determining unit determines whether or not the existing model should be updated with the new model.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image-processing apparatus includes an output unit, a tracker, a storage controller, a setter, and an output controller. The tracker tracks a target object in one or more time-series images. The storage controller stores tracking information including a movement trajectory of the object in a predetermined storage. The setter sets a detection region for detecting passing through of the object based on the movement trajectory of the object, on the image, in accordance with a user's operation. An evaluator evaluates a setting mode for the detection region based on the tracking information stored in the predetermined storage and the detection region set by the setter. The output controller outputs the tracking information stored in predetermined storage, from the output unit, in an output mode based on an evaluation result of the evaluator.

Abstract: A report creation system according to one embodiment creates a report indicative of a condition of a cooperative service in which a plurality of services are made to cooperate, the plurality of services being provided by a plurality of service providing apparatuses including at least one service providing apparatus in another company. The report creation creates the report, based on the first log information and the error occurrence information collected by each of the information collection apparatuses, and second log information of each of the services collected from each of the service providing apparatuses.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a service providing system accumulates, as first context information linked to identification information of a first user, at least a part of first data detected by a first sensor worn on a body of the first user or provided in a held object of the first user. The service providing system provides a first service based on a first aggregate of the accumulated first context information to the first user.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a behavior estimating method for estimating behavior of a person being measured equipped with an activity meter including an acceleration sensor, includes presetting a first angle between a gravitation direction and a direction of action of a standard person being measured, calculating different acceleration waveforms from the activity meter, extracting a second angle between the gravitation direction and the direction of action of the person from the acceleration waveforms, performing a coordinate transformation process among the acceleration waveforms based upon the present first angle and the extracted second angle, and performing behavior estimation of the person using a result of the coordinate transformation.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a tiered storage system includes a first storage device, a second storage device and a storage controller. The storage controller determines, when a range of an access request to a logical unit extends over some of logical extents in the logical unit, that these logical extents are correlated with each other. The storage controller transfers data of a set of the correlated logical extents as one extent group collectively in units of physical extents between the first storage device and the second storage device.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a learning device includes an acquirer, a generator, a first identifier, an extractor, a second identifier, and a learning-processor. The acquirer acquires real data. The generator generates pseudo data of the real data using a first neural network. The first identifier identifies whether input data is the real data or the pseudo data. The extractor extracts features of data from the input data. The second identifier identifies whether the features extracted by the extractor are features of the real data or features of the pseudo data. The learning-processor learns the first neural network such that the pseudo data and the real data are not discriminated on the basis of an identification result of each identifier.

Abstract: A speech synthesis dictionary delivery device that delivers a dictionary for performing speech synthesis to terminals, comprises a storage device for speech synthesis dictionary database that stores a first dictionary which includes an acoustic model of a speaker and is associated with identification information of the speaker, that stores a second dictionary which includes an acoustic model generated using voice data of a plurality of speakers, and that stores parameter sets of the speakers to be used with the second dictionary and which are associated with identification information of the speakers, a processor that determines one of the first dictionary and the second dictionary, which should be used in the terminal for a specified speaker, and an input output interface (I/F) that receives the identification information of a speaker transmitted from the terminal and then delivers at least one of a first dictionary, the second dictionary, and a parameter set of the second dictionary, on the basis of the rec

Abstract: A device cooperation support system includes a user apparatus configured to receive an operation result output from an external device, to output a control signal for operating the external device, and to perform device cooperation control based on a device cooperation rule, and a device cooperation support apparatus configured to support device cooperation between the user apparatus and the external device. The device cooperation support apparatus receives registration of an external device from a device registrant, creates the device cooperation rule by combining condition clause information with execution clause information created on the basis of device operation definition information of the registered external device, and delivers the device cooperation rule to the selected user apparatus based on association between the selected user apparatus and the device cooperation rule.

Abstract: A job execution control device according to an embodiment controls the execution of jobs defined according to job definitions; and includes a display control unit that controls the display of a UI screen for receiving user operations, and a job executing unit that executes jobs according to user operations performed using the UI screen and records a job execution history. The display control unit displays a job definition list in the UI screen and, when any one job definition is selected from the job definition list, displays, as input candidates, one or more already-executed jobs usable as the input for the job to be executed according to the selected job definition. When an already-executed job is selected from the input candidates, the job executing unit performs job execution according to the job definition selected from the job definition list, with the output of selected already-executed job serving as the input.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, data stored in past can be effectively used without being influenced by the characteristics and capacity of a memory storing storable data. Maintenance data are generated by managing a state in a memory area, alert notification data are transferred on the basis of the generated maintenance data, and/or at least a part of the data which are already stored in the memory area is transferred.

Abstract: An environmental activity supporting system includes a point giving controller, a point processor, and a notification unit. The point giving controller determines whether a predetermined environmental activity satisfying a condition registered in advance is performed based on determination target information used for determining whether or not the predetermined environmental activity is performed and gives points used for employing new performance of a public benefit environmental activity to a user relating to the determination target information when the predetermined environmental activity is determined to be performed. The point processor assigns points of the user to the public benefit environmental activity desired by the user when a request indicating use of the points is made from the user.

Abstract: A causal analysis device according to an embodiment includes an extractor, a counter, a calculator, and a generator. The extractor performs extraction from combination data in which an incident and one or a plurality of factors causing the incident are associated with each other in accordance with occurrence of combination data. The counter counts the number of occurrences of the incident or the number of occurrences of a combination of the plurality of factors on the basis of a combination of the incident and the factors included in the extracted combination data. The calculator calculates an index value that corresponds to the combination of the incident and the factors and changes in accordance with the number of occurrences of the combination of the incident and the factors on the basis of a result of the counting of the counter.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a creation device creates a code table including a plurality of code words. A recognition device identifies a code word represented by a code image based on a result of character recognition of the code image formed on an object, the code table, and a confusion matrix preliminarily created. The confusion matrix represents probabilities that characters are recognized when the recognition device performs character recognition on an image. The creation device includes a change unit, an evaluation value calculation unit, and a control unit. The change unit changes the code table. The evaluation value calculation unit calculates an evaluation value of the changed code table using the confusion matrix. The control unit causes the change of the code table and the calculation of the evaluation value to be repeated such that the evaluation value becomes small.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information processing device includes a classification unit, a calculation unit, a selection unit, and an allocation unit. The classification unit classifies unlabeled data into groups. The calculation unit calculates an evaluation value of each of the groups depending on label recognition accuracy of a group classifier for recognizing a label for unknown data, the group classifier being generated for each of the groups by using the unlabeled data belonging to the group. The selection unit selects the group based on the evaluation value. The allocation unit allocates a label corresponding to a correct label to the unlabeled data belonging to the selected group.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an item recommendation system includes a first recommendation engine that selects, from a group of items, first recommended items predicted to match with preference of a user; a second recommendation engine that selects second recommended items which do not match with the preference of the user but are expected to be of interest to the user; a mixer that mixes the first recommended and second recommended items and forms a group of recommended items; a user interface that presents the group of recommended items in an operable manner to the user; a calculator that calculates the level of interest indicating the degree of user satisfaction with respect to the group of recommended items; and a ratio control unit that, based on the calculated level of interest, varies the mixing ratio of the first recommended items and the second recommend items in the group of recommended items.