Abstract: A controller for an inhalation apparatus operates by electric power supplied from a chargeable power supply. The controller includes a holding portion configured to hold an atomizer including a heater configured to heat an aerosol source, a nonvolatile display configured to display an indicator concerning a remaining amount of the power supply, and a processor configured to change the indicator in a case where the remaining amount becomes smaller than a first threshold in discharging of the power supply, and to change the indicator in a case where the remaining amount becomes larger than a second threshold different from the first threshold in charging of the power supply.

Abstract: A controller for an inhalation apparatus, which operates by electric power supplied from a power supply, includes a holding portion configured to hold an atomizer including a heater configured to generate flavored aerosol from a generation source of an aerosol source, a nonvolatile display; and a processor configured to control update of display of the nonvolatile display, wherein the processor determines whether to perform the update in response to occurrence of a factor for changing a remaining amount of the generation source.

Abstract: An operator recognition device is provided that eliminates the registration of data such as HMM data having a characteristic amount for which error in recognition occurs easily when recognizing an operator, and thus reduces the possibility of errors in recognition, and has stable recognition performance. When registering HMM data that is used when performing recognition processing, a speaker recognition device 100 eliminates the registration of HMM data of a password having a characteristic amount of the spoken voice component that is similar to a characteristic amount that is indicated by HMM data that is already registered, and does not allow the registration of HMM data for which it is estimated that error in recognition will occur easily during the recognition process.

Abstract: An acoustic model registration apparatus, an talker recognition apparatus, an acoustic model registration method and an acoustic model registration processing program, each of which prevents certainly an acoustic model having a low recognition capability for talker from being registered certainly, are provided.

Abstract: An operator recognition device is provided that eliminates the registration of data such as HMM data having a characteristic amount for which error in recognition occurs easily when recognizing an operator, and thus reduces the possibility of errors in recognition, and has stable recognition performance. When registering HMM data that is used when performing recognition processing, a speaker recognition device 100 eliminates the registration of HMM data of a password having a characteristic amount of the spoken voice component that is similar to a characteristic amount that is indicated by HMM data that is already registered, and does not allow the registration of HMM data for which it is estimated that error in recognition will occur easily during the recognition process.

Abstract: A voice recognition apparatus comprises a voice input device, a recognition processing device, a judging device and a setting device. The voice input device receives a voice input from a user. The recognition processing device performs a recognition processing to determine a plurality of word candidates corresponding to the voice input, through a matching processing with respective standby words in preset standby word groups. The judging device judges as whether or not the word candidates include a correct answer. The setting device determines a combination of most recognizable candidates in the word candidates and convertible word candidates thereof and sets same for the standby word groups to be used in a next recognition processing, in case where the judging device judges that the word candidate does not include the correct answer.

Abstract: A method of modifying feature parameters for a speech recognition is provided. This method is provided with: a process of extracting the feature parameter from an input speech in a real environment; a process of reading a first speech transfer characteristic corresponding to an environment in which a reference pattern for the speech recognition is generated, from a first memory device; a process of reading a second speech transfer characteristic corresponding to the real environment from a second memory device; a process of modifying the extracted feature parameter according to the first speech transfer characteristic and the second speech transfer characteristic to convert the extracted feature parameter corresponding to the real environment into a modified feature parameter corresponding to the environment in which the reference pattern is generated.

Abstract: A speech model preparing method capable of easily preparing a new Hidden Markov Model (HMM) of an input speech with a very few number of utterances like one or two times, and a speech recognition apparatus using this method. A speech recognition apparatus uses, as a speech model, a continuous distribution type HMM defined by three parameters of a state transition probability, an average vector and a variance. The apparatus computes an average vector of an input speech to be learned, selects an HMM approximate to the input to-be-learned speech as an initial model from a registration dictionary, replaces at least an average vector of the selected HMM with the computed average vector of the to-be-learned speech and adds an obtained HMM as an HMM for the input to-be-learned speech in the dictionary.

Abstract: A condenser-evaporator is constituted in such a way that first fluid chambers and second fluid chambers are alternately formed by multiple vertical partitions and a liquid in the first fluid chambers exchange heat with a fluid in the second fluid chambers, characterized in that a plurality of heat exchanger plates are arranged in multiple stages in the first fluid chambers to form a liquid passage having one end open, a plurality of liquid reservoirs communicating with the liquid passage and having a top open are provided in multiple stages on a side of the other end of the liquid passage, and a liquid is introduced in the liquid passage for heat exchange while being supplied to the liquid reservoir in each stage. Accordingly, the depth of the liquid is shallow so as to prevent a boiling point elevation due to the liquid head pressure, thus improving the efficiency of the condenser-evaporator.

Abstract: A condenser-evaporator for use in a large air separation plant in which the condenser-evaporator is provided between an upper column and a lower column, the condenser-evaporator condensing nitrogen gas, ascending from the lower column through first conduit, by heat exchange with liquid oxygen flowing down from an upper column through second conduit. The condenser-evaporator includes a plurality of condenser blocks wherein the oxygen chambers of each condenser block are divided in a vertically multistage manner by partition members and wherein the nitrogen chambers of each condenser block form common passages through all the stages.