Abstract: There are provided an electric energy meter with a transmission device that generates a pulse signal for measuring electric energy supplied to an outdoor unit, an input circuit for an external signal that receives the pulse signal, and a control unit that measures electric energy on the basis of the pulse signal, wherein the control unit includes a determination unit that determines, as an input port for the pulse signal, one of input ports that are not in use from among a plurality of input ports forming the input circuit for an external signal, and a calculation unit that calculates electric power, electric energy consumption, and energy consumption efficiency on the basis of the pulse signal.

Abstract: An information transfer system for a refrigeration air-conditioning apparatus in which one or more heat-source units for the refrigerating/air conditioning apparatus, one first relay unit, and one or more second relay units are connected by refrigerant piping, and the second relay units and one or more indoor units are connected by water piping, wherein communications are performed discretely between a pair of the heat-source unit and the first relay unit, a pair of the first relay unit and the second relay units, and a pair of the second relay units and the indoor units through transmission lines respectively.

Abstract: Compounds represented by the following general formula: wherein Ag is an optionally substituted 5- to 14-membered heterocyclic group, etc.; Xg is —O—, —S—, etc.; Yg is an optionally substituted C6-14 aryl group, an optionally substituted 5- to 14-membered heterocyclic group, etc.; and Tg1 is a group represented by the following general formula: (wherein Eg is a single bond or —N(Rg2)—), Rg1 and Rg2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an optionally substituted C1-6 alkyl group, etc. and Zg represents a C1-8 alkyl group, a C3-8 alicyclic hydrocarbon group, a C6-14 aryl group, etc.), salts thereof or hydrates of the foregoing.

Abstract: Compounds represented by the following general formula: [wherein Ag is an optionally substituted 5- to 14-membered heterocyclic group, etc.; Xg is —O—, —S—, etc.; Yg is an optionally substituted C6-14 aryl group, an optionally substituted 5- to 14-membered heterocyclic group, etc.; and Tg1 is a group represented by the following general formula: (wherein Eg is a single bond or —N(Rg2)—, Rg1 and Rg2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an optionally substituted C1-6 alkyl group, etc. and Zg represents a C1-8 alkyl group, a C3-8 alicyclic hydrocarbon group, a C6-14 aryl group, etc.)], salts thereof or hydrates of the foregoing.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus (1) is provided with a mass storage (10d) that stores a file (5) of an image read with a scanner in association with a file name for distinguishing the file 5 from other files (5), a file search portion (104) that carries out a search for files 5 of images containing a keyword specified by a user, and a file name updating portion (106) that updates a file name of a file (5) selected, by the user, from among files (5) found out by the search to the keyword.

Abstract: The image processing apparatus is provided with a scanner unit that reads a document and generates image data; an edge vicinity pixel detection unit that detects pixels in the vicinity of the edge of the document based on luminance values of the image data generated by the scanner unit; a histogram creation unit that creates a histogram using the luminance values of pixels in a region of the document within a predetermined distance from the pixels in the vicinity of the edge; and a judgment unit that judges whether or not it is possible to separate a document region from a document-external region based on the created histogram.

Abstract: An air conditioner for a vehicle includes a housing for defining an air passage, and the air passage has a main passage and first and second separate passages branched from the main passage. The first separate passage is provided for leading air from the main passage to a front area of a passenger compartment, and the second separate passage is provided for leading air from the main passage to a rear area of the passenger compartment. Furthermore, an evaporator is disposed in the main passage of the housing, and a heat exchanger is disposed in the main passage at a downstream air side of the evaporator in a part area of the main passage. In the air conditioner, a control member is provided to adjust an air flow from the evaporator into the first separate passage and an air flow from the heating heat exchanger into the first separate passage.

Abstract: Compounds represented by the following general formula: [wherein Ag is an optionally substituted 5- to 14-membered heterocyclic group, etc.; Xg is —O—, —S—, etc.; Yg is an optionally substituted C6-14 aryl group, an optionally substituted 5- to 14-membered heterocyclic group, etc.; and Tg1 is a group represented by the following general formula: (wherein Eg is a single bond or —N(Rg2)—, Rg1 and Rg2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an optionally substituted C1-6 alkyl group, etc. and Zg represents a C1-8 alkyl group, a C3-8 alicyclic hydrocarbon group, a C6-14 aryl group, etc.)], salts thereof or hydrates of the foregoing.

Abstract: A detection unit 1 for detecting an electric field or a magnetic field is placed above a circuit board 4 to be detected. A control device 3 allows the detection unit 4 to carry out detection processes while moving the detection unit 1 in a predetermined direction with an electric current being applied to the circuit board 4 so that an electric field distribution or a magnetic field distribution on the circuit board 4 is detected. Moreover, the control device 3 compares the results of the detection with reference data that has been preliminarily registered, and if there is any portion between the two pieces of data that is not coincident with each other, it is determined that the corresponding circuit board 4 is a defective circuit board. Thus, it is possible to detect any defective portion on the printed circuit board with high precision in a non-contact state to the circuit board.

Abstract: Compounds represented by the following general formula: [wherein Ag is an optionally substituted 5- to 14-membered heterocyclic group, etc.; Xg is —O—, —S—, etc.; Yg is an optionally substituted C6-14 aryl group, an optionally substituted 5- to 14-membered heterocyclic group, etc.; and Tg1 is a group represented by the following general formula: (wherein Eg is a single bond or —N(Rg2)—, Rg1 and Rg2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an optionally substituted C1-6 alkyl group, etc. and Zg represents a C1-8 alkyl group, a C3-8 alicyclic hydrocarbon group, a C6-14 aryl group, etc.)], salts thereof or hydrates of the foregoing.

Abstract: Compounds represented by the following general formula: [wherein Ag is an optionally substituted 5- to 14-membered heterocyclic group, etc.; Xg is —O—, —S—, etc.; Yg is an optionally substituted C6-14 aryl group, an optionally substituted 5- to 14-membered heterocyclic group, etc.; and Tg1 is a group represented by the following general formula: (wherein Eg is a single bond or —N(Rg2)—, Rg1 and Rg2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an optionally substituted C1-6 alkyl group, etc. and Zg represents a C1-8 alkyl group, a C3-8 alicyclic hydrocarbon group, a C6-14 aryl group, etc.)], salts thereof or hydrates of the foregoing.

Abstract: An air conditioner for a vehicle includes a housing for defining an air passage, and the air passage has a main passage and first and second separate passages branched from the main passage. The first separate passage is provided for leading air from the main passage to a front area of a passenger compartment, and the second separate passage is provided for leading air from the main passage to a rear area of the passenger compartment. Furthermore, an evaporator is disposed in the main passage of the housing, and a heat exchanger is disposed in the main passage at a downstream air side of the evaporator in a part area of the main passage. In the air conditioner, a control member is provided to adjust an air flow from the evaporator into the first separate passage and an air flow from the heating heat exchanger into the first separate passage.

Abstract: A detection unit 1 for detecting an electric field or a magnetic field is placed above a circuit board 4 to be detected. A control device 3 allows the detection unit 4 to carry out detection processes while moving the detection unit 1 in a predetermined direction with an electric current being applied to the circuit board 4 so that an electric field distribution or a magnetic field distribution on the circuit board 4 is detected. Moreover, the control device 3 compares the results of the detection with reference data that has been preliminarily registered, and if there is any portion between the two pieces of data that is not coincident with each other, it is determined that the corresponding circuit board 4 is a defective circuit board. Thus, it is possible to detect any defective portion on the printed circuit board with high precision in a non-contact state to the circuit board.

Abstract: A metadata preparing device comprising a content reproducing unit (1) for reproducing and outputting content, a monitor (3) for monitoring the content reproduced by the content reproducing unit, a voice input unit (4), a voice recognition unit (5) for recognizing a voice signal input from the voice input unit, a metadata generation unit (6) for converting information recognized by the voice recognition unit into metadata, and an identification information imparting unit (7) for acquiring identification information that identifies respective parts in the content from the reproduced content supplied from the content reproducing unit, for imparting to metadata, wherein the generated metadata is so constructed as to be associated with respective parts in the content.

Abstract: A detection unit for detecting an electric field or a magnetic field is placed above a circuit to be detected. A control device allows the detection unit 4 to carry out detection processes while moving the detection unit in a predetermined direction with an electric current being applied to the circuit board so that an electric field distribution or a magnetic field distribution on the circuit board is detected. Moreover, the control device compares the results of the diction with reference data that has been preliminarily registered, and if there is any portion between the two pieces of data that is not coincident with each other, it is determined that the corresponding circuit board is a defective circuit board. Thus, it is possible to detect any defective portion on the printed circuit with high precision in a non-contact state to the circuit board.

Abstract: An expression converting method wherein for each sentence in a corpus, key words are selected from the sentence, a combination of key words that are in a co-occurrence relation is identified from among a predetermined number of combinations of key words among the selected key words, and the identified key word combination and an expression into which the sentence from which the key words are selected is converted are previously associated, and wherein predetermined key words are selected from an input sentence, the selected key words are combined, the key word combinations and the previously identified key word combination of each sentence are compared, one or more than one sentences that coincide or have a high degree of similarity as a result of the comparison are selected, and expressions into which the selected sentences are converted are output.

Abstract: An expression converting method wherein for each sentence in a corpus, key words are selected from the sentence, a combination of key words that are in a co-occurrence relation is identified from among a predetermined number of combinations of key words among the selected key words, and the identified key word combination and an expression into which the sentence from which the key words are selected is converted are previously associated, and wherein predetermined key words are selected from an input sentence, the selected key words are combined, the key word combinations and the previously identified key word combination:of each sentence are compared, one or more than one sentences that coincide or have a high degree of similarity as a result of the comparison are selected, and expressions into which the selected sentences are converted are output.

Abstract: A speech synthesis system for storing in advance a degree of modification of prosodic data in a prosodic data modifying rule apparatus, the degree of modification corresponding to an approximate cost and being stored as a modifying rule, a prosodic data retrieving section for retrieving a prosodic data stored corresponding to a key data for use in retrieval, the prosodic data retrieved according to a degree of matching between the input data and the key data, the degree of matching represented by the approximate cost, a modifying section for modifying the retrieved prosodic data based on the degree of matching and the modifying rule stored in the prosodic data modifying rule means, and an output section for outputting synthesized speech based on the input data and the modified prosodic data.

Abstract: In the prior art, it has been difficult to perform proper sentence recognition by using speech recognition or text sentence recognition. The present invention provides a sentence recognition apparatus comprising: a data base for storing a plurality of predetermined standard content word pairs each formed from a plurality of predetermined content words; a speech recognition means of recognizing an input sentence made up of a plurality of words; a content word selection means of selecting content words from among the plurality of words forming the recognized sentence; a judging means of judging whether a content word pair arbitrarily formed from the selected content words matches any one of the standard content word pairs stored in the data base; and an erroneously recognized content word determining means 105 of determining, based on the result of the judgement, an erroneously recognized content word for which the recognition failed from among the selected content words.

Abstract: Even with an apparatus structure of a relatively small size, the possibility of misrecognizing speeches of a viewer can be reduced, and a conversation is smoothly sustained, whereby the viewer can readily have an impression that the conversation is established almost naturally. Such effects can be achieved by the following features. An image output section displays images which transit in a non-interactive manner for a viewer, such as broadcast images, or the like, on a display section. A conversation processing section outputs apparatus speech data for commencing a conversation based on conversation data which is stored in a conversation database and which is determined according to the transition of the images. When a speech is emitted by a viewer, the conversation processing section outputs apparatus speech data for replying to the speech of the viewer based on viewer speech data output from a speech recognition section and the conversation data.