Abstract: An image interpretation training apparatus comprises: an image presenting unit configured to present a target image to be interpreted to a doctor; an image interpretation obtaining unit configured to obtain a first image interpretation of the target image by the doctor and image interpretation time required by the doctor for the interpretation of the target image; an image interpretation determining unit configured to determine whether the first image interpretation is correct or incorrect by comparing a definitive diagnosis on the target image and the first image interpretation obtained by the image interpretation obtaining unit; and a learning content attribute selecting unit configured to select an attribute of the learning content to be presented to the doctor based on the image interpretation time when the first image interpretation result is determined to be incorrect.

Abstract: An information retrieval apparatus, which can present to a user only a related word matching a user search intent, includes: an associative dictionary storage unit for storing words included in plural pieces of text to be searched and relevance degrees between the words; an appearance frequency storage unit for storing an appearance frequency that is the number of pieces of text in which the words stored in the associative dictionary storage unit appear, among the plural pieces of text to be searched; and a related word obtaining unit that obtains a related word to be presented to the user, from the relevance degree between the search word entered by the user and another word among the words, the appearance frequency, and the user search intent.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for, when the user makes an input manipulation, estimating a manipulation for which the user is likely to make an error, in accordance with the knowledge of the user, and providing a manipulation support such as, for example, automatically displaying a confirmation request for the manipulation for which the probability of the input being an error is high.

Abstract: To provide a content searching device which can efficiently present to the user a topical related keyword.

Abstract: A behavior recognition apparatus includes: a hand movement observation unit (101) which outputs hand movement data indicating a hand movement made by a user; a velocity variation detection unit (102) which detects a time at which the hand movement matches a predetermined movement pattern; a feature selection unit (103) which selects the hand movement data outputted at the time detected by the velocity variation detection unit (102); a standard behavior pattern storage unit (104) which stores a movement pattern data sequence represented by a hand movement data sequence, in association with a user behavior; and a behavior recognition unit (105) which calculates a degree of similarity between the movement pattern data sequence stored in the standard behavior pattern storage unit (104) and the hand movement data selected by the feature selection unit (103), and recognizes, as the user behavior, a behavior represented by the movement pattern data sequence when the degree of similarity is the highest.

Abstract: A content searching apparatus facilitating a search of a content, which a user desires, even where relativity between a content and a keyword change, wherein the content searching apparatus includes: a content table storing unit storing content tables; an input unit obtaining a keyword, which has been selected as a selected keyword; a relevant keyword creating unit (i) calculating a relevance degree, for each of keywords, to the selected keyword, based on a target content table, (ii) selecting a keyword having a predetermined relevance degree out of each of the keywords, and (iii) creating a relevant keyword out of the corresponding keywords; and a variance calculating unit calculating a variance value of selected keywords including the keyword, when the user is confused. Further, the content searching apparatus includes a content table selecting unit changing the above mentioned target content table to another content table, when the variance value is larger than a threshold value.

Abstract: An image search device is provided which relatively easily outputs images that a user wishes to use for interpolation from among a large volume of stored image content data.

Abstract: Provided is an image search device which relatively easily searches a large amount of stored images for images that a user wishes to use for interpolation, and which includes: an interpolation range computing unit (103) which computes, as an interpolation range, a range of an area including a first photographing location where a first interpolation target image was taken and a second photographing location where a second interpolation target image was taken; an interpolation image candidate obtaining unit (104) which obtains, as candidate images, images whose photographing location are included in the interpolation range from the plurality of images; and an interpolation image selecting unit (106) which selects, from the candidate images, an image having a greater subject distance, which is a distance between a subject and an imaging device when the image was taken, as a traveling speed between the first photographing location and the second photographing location increases.

Abstract: To provide a content searching device which can efficiently present to the user a topical related keyword.

Abstract: A contents retrieval device (100) presenting an appropriate related keyword to a user even when an object user wishes to retrieve dynamically changes. The contents retrieval device (100) includes a contents estimation unit (107) retrieving contents according to a search keyword, a document space database (103) storing document spaces according to an occurrence frequency of the keyword, a document space selection unit (104) selecting a the narrowing-down document space and an expansion document space from the document space database (103) according to the search keyword and the occurrence frequency of the document space indicating a degree of relevance with the contents according to the search keyword, a related keyword estimation unit (108) selecting keywords corresponding to the narrowing-down document space and the expansion document space as a narrowing-down keyword and an expansion keyword, respectively, and an output unit displaying the selected narrowing-down and expansion keywords.

Abstract: An image search device is provided which relatively easily outputs images that a user wishes to use for interpolation from among a large volume of stored image content data.

Abstract: An image synthesizing apparatus which generates, from plural images with differing resolutions and lighting conditions, a synthesized image in which the resolution of the original image is improved and the lighting conditions match those of the original image. The image synthesizing apparatus includes: a camera which acquires an original image and plural reference images; a reference image conversion unit; a coefficient calculation unit which calculates a conversion coefficient used in performing linear combination on the plural converted reference images and generating an original image; and an image synthesizing unit.

Abstract: A small region panorama image group (I1P, I2P, I3P) is generated in advance. The small region panorama image group (I1P, I2P, I3P) includes images including a common shooting range, being composed of a plurality of common partially overlapped regions (A, B, C, D), and having independency from each other in each partially overlapped region (A, B, C, D). With the use of the small region panorama image group (I1P, I2P, I3P), a predicted background image is generated in which light source environment is the same as that of a shot target image.

Abstract: An information retrieval apparatus, which can present to a user only a related word matching a user search intent, includes: an associative dictionary storage unit (102A) for storing words included in plural pieces of text to be searched and relevance degrees between the words; an appearance frequency storage unit (102B) for storing an appearance frequency that is the number of pieces of text in which the words stored in the associative dictionary storage unit (102A) appear, among the plural pieces of text to be searched; and a related word obtaining unit (104) that obtains a related word to be presented to the user, from the relevance degree between the search word entered by the user and another word among the words, the appearance frequency, and the user search intent.

Abstract: A related word presentation device (100) for appropriately performing omission prevention search includes: a program information storage unit (101) which stores program information (101a) of each program; an information dividing unit (103a) which generates, for each of the attributes of the words included in the program information (101a), at least one group which includes, as a unit, a reference word which is a word belonging to the attribute and a set of words which co-occur with the reference word in a program; a degree-of-relevance calculating unit (103b) which stores, in an association dictionary storage unit (102), attribute-based association dictionaries (102a, 102b, 102c) each of which indicates, for the corresponding attribute of words, (i) the words and (ii) the degrees of relevance between the words calculated based on the frequency of co-occurrence in each of groups; a search condition obtaining unit (104) which obtains the search word and the attribute; a substitute word obtaining unit (105) whic

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for, when the user makes an input manipulation, estimating a manipulation for which the user is likely to make an error, in accordance with the knowledge of the user, and providing a manipulation support such as, for example, automatically displaying a confirmation request for the manipulation for which the probability of the input being an error is high.

Abstract: A content searching apparatus facilitating a search of a content which a user desires even where relativity between a content and a keyword change includes: a content table storing unit (108) storing content tables (108a); an input unit (112) obtaining a keyword which has been selected as a selected keyword; a relevant keyword creating unit (109) calculating a relevance degree, for each of keywords, to the selected keyword, based on a target content table (108a), selecting a keyword having a predetermined relevance degree out of each of the keywords, and creating a relevant keyword out of the corresponding keywords; a variance calculating unit (106) calculating a variance value of selected keywords including the keyword when the user is confused; and a content table selecting unit (114) changing the above mentioned target content table (108a) to another content table (108a) in the case where the variance value is larger than a threshold value.

Abstract: The contents retrieval device (100) which can present an appropriate related keyword to a user even when the object user wishes to retrieve dynamically changes includes a contents estimation unit (107) which retrieves the contents according to the search keyword, the document space database (103) where the plurality of document spaces according to the occurrence frequency of the keyword is stored, the document space selection unit (104) which selects the narrowing-down document space and the expansion document space from the document space database (103) according to the search keyword and the occurrence frequency of the document space indicating a degree of relevance with the contents according to the search keyword, the related keyword estimation unit (108) which selects the keywords corresponding to the narrowing-down document space and the expansion document space as the narrowing-down keyword and the expansion keyword respectively, and the output unit which displays the selected narrowing-down keyword an

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus which provides manipulation assistance, even in the case where a user trying to executing a certain function has performed a wrong manipulation, by inferring the function which the user originally wanted to execute. The apparatus according to the present invention is to be used in an electronic device having an input section to receive a manipulation by a user and operating based on the user's manipulation, and infers a manipulation intent of the user.

Abstract: An overlap image group each having a first overlap region is selected (S11). The overlap image group is composed of N images including a second overlap region other than the first overlap region and a to-be-expanded image not including the second overlap region. A linearization coefficient of the to-be-expanded image is calculated using the images of the overlap image group in the first overlap region (S12), and the to-be-expanded image is expanded in size up to the second overlap region, using the thus calculated linearization coefficient and the N images in the second overlap region (S14). This processing is repeated to generate a panorama image.