Abstract: A voice processing apparatus includes: a sound input unit configured to acquire an audio signal; a voice recognition unit configured to perform voice recognition on the audio signal acquired by the sound input unit; an intention understanding unit configured to understand a user's intention on the basis of a recognition result recognized by the voice recognition unit; and a question unit configured to question the user on the basis of an understood result understood by the intention understanding unit. The question unit changes question content for the user according to the understood result and a predetermined priority.

Abstract: An auxiliary heat exchanger separated from a main heat exchanger is disposed at the position facing a heat exhausting passage. The auxiliary heat exchanger switches among an inside air heat exchanging state in which a condenser performs heat exchange with the air inside the vehicle interior, an outside air heat exchanging state in which the condenser performs heat exchange with the air outside the vehicle interior, and a ventilation heat exchanging state in which the condenser performs heat exchange with the ventilation air. The auxiliary heat exchanger switches among an inside air heat exchanging state in which the evaporator performs heat exchange with the air inside the vehicle interior, an outside air heat exchanging state in which the evaporator performs heat exchange with the air outside the vehicle interior, and a ventilation heat exchanging state in which the evaporator performs heat exchange with the ventilation air.

Abstract: In mobile robot that runs from first flat surface which is a magnetic body to second flat surface which is a magnetic body and intersects the first flat surface, the mobile robot includes a pair of driving wheels which is rotatably supported to robot body and includes permanent magnets on outer circumferential surfaces thereof; driving mechanism which drives the pair of driving wheels to be independently rotated; rear wheel which is rotatably supported to the robot body and includes permanent magnets on an outer circumferential surface thereof; distance sensor which acquires a distance to the second flat surface; and pressing out mechanisms which include pressing out members which are movable between contact position at which the pressing out member can be in contact with the first flat surface and retracted position at which the pressing out member is retracted from the first flat surface.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image analysis device (24) includes a parameter value acquisition unit (24b), a color allocation unit (24c) and a time phase image generation unit (24d). The parameter value acquisition unit acquires a parameter value per pixel, on the basis of time variation of pixel values per pixel corresponding to the same region of an object in image data of a plurality of sequential DSA images. The color allocation unit generates a color map in which a (chromatic) color in accordance with the parameter value is allocated per pixel corresponding to the same region of the object. The time phase image generation unit generates color image data of time phase images respectively corresponding to a plurality of time phases, by reflecting information in accordance with pixel values of the DSA images to each pixel of the color map.

Abstract: A voice processing apparatus includes: a feature amount acquisition unit configured to acquire a spectrum of an audio signal for each frame; an utterance state determination unit configured to determine an utterance state for each frame on the basis of the audio signal; and a spectrum normalization unit configured to calculate a normalized spectrum in a current utterance by normalizing a spectrum for each frame in the current utterance using at least an average spectrum acquired until the present time.

Abstract: A transfer function calculation unit is configured to calculate a transfer function from a sound source installed in a predetermined target direction to each microphone of a microphone array, and a determination unit is configured to determine whether or not the microphone array is normal on the basis of a difference amount between a transfer function to each microphone and a predetermined ideal transfer function to each microphone.

Abstract: A reception system includes: an imaging unit that captures an image; a reception information storage unit that stores an image of a visitor who visited in the past and information of a receiving person whom the visitor visited in the past in an associated manner; and an action performing unit that generates a question to the visitor based on a scenario regarding a response to the visitor and acquires information via a response to the question from the visitor, wherein the action performing unit changes a response presented to the visitor based on the scenario depending on whether or not the reception information storage unit stores an image that corresponds to the image captured by the imaging unit.

Abstract: A reception system includes: a visitor recognition unit that recognizes a visitor; a receiving person recognition unit that recognizes a receiving person that corresponds to the visitor; a receiving person contact information storage unit that stores contact information of the receiving person; a notification unit that notifies the receiving person of a visit of the visitor at the contact information of the receiving person stored by the receiving person contact information storage unit; and a receiving person selection unit that selects a substitute receiving person associated with the receiving person in a case where the receiving person is absent when the notification unit notifies the receiving person at the contact information of the receiving person, wherein the notification unit notifies the substitute receiving person selected by the receiving person selection unit when the receiving person is absent.

Abstract: A slide connector has a garment-side connector portion and a module-side connector portion to be fitted with the garment-side connector portion in a fitting plane, the garment-side connector portion including first contact portions each having a contact surface parallel to the fitting plane and at least one locking portion having a locking surface parallel to the fitting plane, the module-side connector portion including second contact portions each elastically movable and at least one portion to be locked extending in parallel to the fitting plane, as the module-side connector portion is superimposed on the garment-side connector portion and slid along the fitting plane, each second contact portion comes into contact with the contact surface of a corresponding first contact portion to establish electrical connection, and the at least one portion to be locked domes into contact with the locking surface of the at least one locking portion.

Abstract: A voice recognizing portion recognizes a voice and generates a phoneme string, and a storage portion stores a first name list indicating phoneme strings of first names and a second name list obtained by associating a phoneme string of a predetermined first name among the first names with a phoneme string of a second name similar to the phoneme string of the first name. A name specifying portion specifies a name indicated by the voice on the basis of the first name list. A checking portion selects a phoneme string of a second name corresponding to a phoneme string of the name specified by the name specifying portion by referring to the second name list when a user answers that the name specified by the name specifying portion is not the correct name.

Abstract: An electric generator 1 includes a shaft 3a (metal rotating body), a ball bearing 4 (metal holding body) configured to hold the shaft 3a, and a resin spacer 5 (resin member) used together with these components. A resin part included in the spacer 5 includes reinforcement fibers F pointing in random directions in a plane orthogonal to the axial direction of the shaft 3a. The linear expansion coefficient of the resin part in a direction orthogonal to the axial direction is the same as the linear expansion coefficient of a metal part included in the shaft 3a or the ball bearing 4. Accordingly, the resin member that achieves a dimensional stability can be provided.

Abstract: When a connection object is connected to a connector, an upper jaw portion of a first terminal presses an upper contact point against an upper signal line. Hence a lower signal line is pressed against a lower contact point so that a contact point support portion is pressed against a stop portion of a housing. At least a part of force applied to the stop portion acts as force to deform downward an upper wall of a receiving portion for receiving a lower jaw portion of the first terminal. A reinforcing portion of the lower jaw portion of the first terminal reinforces the upper wall from beneath. Since strength necessary for the upper wall can be reduced, the housing can be downsized and thus the connector can be downsized.

Abstract: A magnetic connector has a connector body including a magnet, a plurality of connection terminals that are arranged and fixed on the connector body so as to correspond to a plurality of contact patterns of a connection object, and a plurality of attracted members that are formed of magnetic substance, are arranged and fixed on a support member having a sheet-like shape and flexibility so as to correspond to the plurality of contact patterns of the connection object and are, via the connection object on which the plurality of contact patterns are arranged to face the plurality of connection terminals, attracted toward the connector body due to magnetic force whereby the plurality of contact patterns are pressed against the plurality of connection terminals and thereby connected to the plurality of connection terminals.

Abstract: A connector is mountable on a circuit board and connectable with a mating connector. The connector comprises a housing and a plurality of contacts which are held by the housing. The contacts form two or more contact rows. The contacts of each of the contact rows are arranged in a pitch direction. Each of the contacts has a fixed portion which is fixed to the circuit board when the connector is mounted on the circuit board. The housing has one or more openings each of which is positioned between neighboring two of the contact rows in a predetermined direction perpendicular to the pitch direction. Two or more of the fixed portions extend into one of the openings.

Abstract: A connector is attachable to a first connection object in an up-down direction and is connectable with a second connection object which is to be inserted rearward into the connector along a front-rear direction perpendicular to the up-down direction. The connector comprises a plurality of terminals and a holding member. The holding member has a holding portion and a sandwiched portion. Each of the terminals has a connecting portion and a contact portion. The sandwiched portion and the connecting portion at least overlap with each other when the connector is viewed along the up-down direction. One of the sandwiched portion and the connecting portion is visible when the connector is viewed along an upward direction of the up-down direction. A remaining one of the sandwiched portion and the connecting portion is visible when the connector is viewed along a downward direction of the up-down direction.

Abstract: An acoustic processing device includes: a sound pickup unit configured to record an acoustic signal; a motion detection unit configured to detect the motion of the device; a self-localization unit configured to estimate the position of the device based on the acoustic signal and the motion; and a use determination unit configured to determine whether or not to use the acoustic signal in a sound source localization unit detecting the position of a target sound source to be detected based on the intensity of a reference signal incoming from a reference sound source determined in advance.

Abstract: To use a computer to automatically process knowledge in the same manner as Prolog, the knowledge being expressed in a format wherein variables are embedded in natural language, and to achieve comprehensive deduction and solution searching at the predicate logic level. As in the input of Prolog “facts,” “rules,” and “goals,” in the present invention a person uses character types, delimiters, or escape characters to distinguish the constant portions and the variable portions of content that is equivalent to “literal” in Prolog and inputs the content into a computer. The computer performs automatic unification and/or automatic derivation on text included in the input while treating variables as material that could span the boundaries of the subject, predicate, etc. of the text.

Abstract: A via adding method comprising: identifying a target area where a via is to be added in a printed circuit board; determining a starting point for starting a search for a location of the via in the target area; and moving a search point along a path in an intersecting direction that intersects a radial direction around the starting point while moving the search point in the radial direction and determining whether the via is to be added at a moved search point.