Abstract: The present invention is characterized in that the car navigation system for, at the time of desiring map information, traffic information, and other required information in a car, inquiring an information distribution service provider for distribution the information is composed of a moving terminal device which can be operated by inputting and outputting voice, a communication device, an audio interactive server which can input and output voice and data, is connected to an external device and the Internet on the basis of audio interactions by the voice recognition process and voice synthesis process, and executes information transfer, and one or a plurality of information distribution service providers connected to the Internet for distributing information such as map information and traffic information.

Abstract: A light-emitting device is provided, which includes a light-emitting element configured to emit light, a first fluorescent layer comprising an inorganic fluorescent substance, formed on the light-emitting element and having a first refractive index, and a second fluorescent layer comprising an organic fluorescent substance, formed above the first fluorescent layer and having a second refractive index.

Abstract: An LED lighting apparatus which comprises an LED chip, and a light-emitting layer which is disposed on a light-emitting side of the LED chip and including an organic fluorescent substance and a matrix containing, as a main component, a fluorine-based or cyanobiphenyl-based liquid crystalline compound exhibiting a nematic phase.

Abstract: An electro luminescence display device is provided, including a plurality of pixels arranged in a two dimensional direction, each pixel having a plurality of different kinds of organic electro luminescence elements differing from each other in the color of the emitted light, and each of the organic electro luminescence elements having an anode, a cathode, and a polymer light-emitting layer located between the anode and the cathode, wherein the polymer light-emitting layer emitting light of at least one color includes a nonionic surfactant having a fluorine-substituted alkyl group containing, e.g., an alkyl silyl group.

Abstract: A light emitting device includes a light emitting element and a luminescent medium.

Abstract: There is disclosed an organic electro luminescence display device, comprising a plurality of pixels arranged in a two dimensional direction, each pixel comprising a plurality of different kinds of organic electro luminescence elements differing from each other in the color of the emitted light, and each of the organic electro luminescence elements comprising an anode, a cathode, and a polymer light-emitting layer located between the anode and the cathode, wherein the polymer light-emitting layer emitting light of at least one color comprises a nonionic surfactant having a fluorine-substituted alkyl group containing e.g. an alkyl silyl group.

Abstract: The present invention is characterized in that the car navigation system for, at the time of desiring map information, traffic information, and other required information in a car, inquiring an information distribution service provider for distribution the information is composed of a moving terminal device which can be operated by inputting and outputting voice, a communication device, an audio interactive server which can input and output voice and data, is connected to an external device and the Internet on the basis of audio interactions by the voice recognition process and voice synthesis process, and executes information transfer, and one or a plurality of information distribution service providers connected to the Internet for distributing information such as map information and traffic information.

Abstract: Aqueous concentrate herbicidal compositions are provided comprising a herbicidally effective amount of ammonium salt of N-phosphonomethylglycine wherein the molar ratio of ammonia to N-phosphonomethylglycine provides a pH of about 6 to about 7, and a herbicidal efficacy enhancing amount of one or more surfactants. Compositions of the invention are storage-stable over a wide range of temperatures. Also provided is a method of killing or controlling vegetation comprising diluting a composition of the invention in water and applying the diluted composition to foliage of the vegetation.

Abstract: A telephone exchange enables subscribers to use voice dialing more easily with existing telephone systems. The voice dialing does not require special input operations or preregistration of called parties. Rather, a subscriber can make a telephone call easily without having to perform multiple operations. The telephone exchange includes structure for discriminating dial pulse information, push-button tone information, and spoken information so that one or more of these types of information can be input by a caller to achieve connection to the called party.

Abstract: A noise reduction system used for transmission and/or recognition of speech includes a speech analyzer for analyzing a noisy speech input signal thereby converting the speech signal into feature vectors such as autocorrelation coefficients, and a neural network for receiving the feature vectors of the noisy speech signal as its input. The neural network extracts from a codebook an index of prototype vectors corresponding to a noise-free equivalent to the noisy speech input signal. Feature vectors of speech are read out from the codebook on the basis of the index delivered as an output from the neural network, thereby causing the speech input to be reproduced on the basis of the feature vectors of speech read out from the codebook.

Abstract: A speech recognition apparatus has: a speech input unit for inputting a speech; a speech analysis unit for analyzing the inputted speech to output the time series of a feature vector; a candidates selection unit for inputting the time series of a feature vector from the speech analysis unit to select a plurality of candidates of recognition result from the speech categories; and a discrimination processing unit for discriminating the selected candidates to obtain a final recognition result. The discrimination processing unit includes three components in the form of a pair generation unit for generating all of the two combinations of the n-number of candidates selected by said candidate selection unit a pair discrimination unit for discriminating which of the candidates of the combinations is more certain for each of all .sub.n C.sub.

Abstract: A speech recognition apparatus has a speech input unit for inputting a speech; a speech analysis unit for analyzing the inputted speech to output the time series of a feature vector; a candidates selection unit for inputting the time series of a feature vector from the speech analysis unit to select a plurality of candidates of recognition result from the speech categories; and a discrimination processing unit for discriminating the selected candidates to obtain a final recognition result. The discrimination processing unit includes three components in the form of a pair generation unit for generating all of the two combinations of the n-number of candidates selected by said candidate selection unit, a pair discrimination unit for discriminating which of the candidates of the combinations is more certain for each of all .sub.n C.sub.

Abstract: A speech recognition apparatus including a memory for storing with respect to each feature specific to a particular phoneme a name of a process and a procedure of the process which is performed in order to search whether the presence of a feature specific to a certain type of speech is included in a feature vector series, and for storing a table in which the names of the processes in a performed for all the categories of speech to be recognized. The information stored in the memory is used to discriminate between two categories and provides ways for interpreting the results of the process. The recognition processes performed the discrimination is done in accordance with the information stored in the table.