Abstract: One aspect of the present disclosure relates to a method for manufacturing a spun yarn made of carbon nanotubes. The method includes: a spun yarn precursor ? production step of producing a spun yarn precursor ? by pulling a plurality of carbon nanotubes from a carbon nanotube forest and spinning the carbon nanotubes while applying a tension of 6 mN or less per centimeter of a width of the carbon nanotube forest to the carbon nanotubes; a spun yarn precursor ? production step of producing a spun yarn precursor ? by applying a higher tension than in the spun yarn precursor ? production step to the spun yarn precursor ? to densify the spun yarn precursor ?; and a spun yarn production step of producing the spun yarn by electrically heating the spun yarn precursor ? while applying a tension to the spun yarn precursor ?.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a control portion configured to acquire difference information before and after a change of a flowchart when the flowchart has been changed and to output the flowchart into which the difference information is being applied.

Abstract: A production apparatus includes a workbench, a movement apparatus, a conveyance apparatus, a motion detector, and a control unit. The movement apparatus configured to move the workpiece on the workbench to a predetermined delivery position. The conveyance apparatus configured to convey the workpiece moved to the predetermined delivery position to an adjacent production apparatus. The motion detector configured to detect conveyance motion of the conveyance apparatus of the adjacent production apparatus. The control unit configured to operate the movement apparatus to move the workpiece on the workbench to the predetermined delivery position. If conveyance motion of the conveyance apparatus of the adjacent production apparatus is detected by the motion detector, the control unit operates the conveyance apparatus to convey the workpiece to a delivery position of the adjacent production apparatus.

Abstract: An automated assembly apparatus includes an assembly robot, which has a plurality of hands of different heights and an XY-axis moving unit movable in a horizontal direction, and a plurality of operation base units which have operation bases and Z-axis moving unit capable of moving the operation bases in a vertical direction. The automated assembly apparatus further includes a control unit which raises in advance, before the assembly robot reaches above the operation bases, the operation bases by the Z-axis moving unit to positions where the operation bases do not interfere with the plurality of hands.

Abstract: An automated assembly apparatus includes an assembly robot, which has a plurality of hands of different heights and an XY-axis moving unit movable in a horizontal direction, and a plurality of operation base units which have operation bases and Z-axis moving unit capable of moving the operation bases in a vertical direction. The automated assembly apparatus further includes a control unit which raises in advance, before the assembly robot reaches above the operation bases, the operation bases by the Z-axis moving unit to positions where the operation bases do not interfere with the plurality of hands.

Abstract: A production apparatus includes a workbench, a movement apparatus, a conveyance apparatus, a motion detector, and a control unit. The movement apparatus configured to move the workpiece on the workbench to a predetermined delivery position. The conveyance apparatus configured to convey the workpiece moved to the predetermined delivery position to an adjacent production apparatus. The motion detector configured to detect conveyance motion of the conveyance apparatus of the adjacent production apparatus. The control unit configured to operate the movement apparatus to move the workpiece on the workbench to the predetermined delivery position. If conveyance motion of the conveyance apparatus of the adjacent production apparatus is detected by the motion detector, the control unit operates the conveyance apparatus to convey the workpiece to a delivery position of the adjacent production apparatus.

Abstract: An automated assembly apparatus includes an assembly robot, which has a plurality of hands of different heights and an XY-axis moving unit movable in a horizontal direction, and a plurality of operation base units which have operation bases and Z-axis moving unit capable of moving the operation bases in a vertical direction. The automated assembly apparatus further includes a control unit which raises in advance, before the assembly robot reaches above the operation bases, the operation bases by the Z-axis moving unit to positions where the operation bases do not interfere with the plurality of hands.

Abstract: An automated assembly apparatus includes an assembly robot, which has a plurality of hands of different heights and an XY-axis moving unit movable in a horizontal direction, and a plurality of operation base units which have operation bases and Z-axis moving unit capable of moving the operation bases in a vertical direction. The automated assembly apparatus further includes a control unit which raises in advance, before the assembly robot reaches above the operation bases, the operation bases by the Z-axis moving unit to positions where the operation bases do not interfere with the plurality of hands.

Abstract: Electronic equipment includes two or more operating modes including a normal mode and a security mode and/or power saving mode. The electronic equipment comprises input devices which input information into the electronic equipment by a person performing an operation which is external to the electronic equipment, a sensor which is disposed in a rest portion of the input devices and which generates a predetermined signal in response to a detection that a part of the body of the person performing the operation rests on the rest portion, and a signal generator which generates a signal to instruct the electronic equipment not to shift to the security mode and/or power savings mode based on the predetermined signal generated by the sensor.

Abstract: A control unit transmits address area designation information designating an arbitrary bit position in ID data. At least a response unit transmits a response signal with an error detection code attached to predetermined information in the unique information held in itself by means of a time slot determined by the address area designation information and the ID data of the particular response unit. The control unit checks for the presence or absence of an error of the information in each time that has arrived, fetches only the response signal free of error, and transmits the error presence-absence information indicating the inspection result. Further, in the case where there exists a time slot having an error, the control unit transmits new address area designation information.

Abstract: A voice-controlled device of this invention includes a receiving/discriminating mechanism for receiving a DTMF signal externally input through a telephone line and discriminating the DTMF signal, a level detecting mechanism for detecting a signal level of the DTMF signal input to the receiving/discriminating mechanism, a speech recognizer for recognizing the content of a voice signal externally input through the telephone line, an input level adjustor for adjusting a signal level of the voice signal input to the speech recognizer on the basis of the signal level detection result by the level detecting mechanism, and a function executor for executing a function according to the content of the voice signal recognized by the speech recognizer.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for inputting a voice through a microphone mounted at a position facing a speaking person. An image of a speaking person is generated and used to detect the position of a mouth of the speaker. The microphone is then moved in accordance with position of the mouth.

Abstract: Phoneme feature parameters are extracted from input digital speech signals by means of LPC analysis. Phonetic segments having phonetical meanings are obtained together with similarities to prescribed basic phonetic segments from the feature parameters to be passed through nodes of transition networks provided for each word. In passing the nodes, scores for similarity Sj of predetermined segments of the corresponding phonetic segments are made in selective scoring and the accumulation of the scores is used for recognition of continuous word speech.

Abstract: In a speech recognition system for recognizing speeches uttered by non-specific speakers, start and end points of a word or speech interval are determined by a novel preprocessor for searching a sound power level to obtain speech boundary candidates and for determining likelihoods of speech or word intervals on the basis of the boundary candidates. Since likelihoods (probabilities) are determined for speech interval candidates, the similarity rate between feature parameters and reference pattern set of a speech signal are calculated for only the higher likelihood candidates, thus improving the accuracy and the speed of speech recognition. A percentage of erroneous boundary decision is about 0.5% when two speech interval candidates of the first and second likelihoods are adopted.

Abstract: An acoustic signal processing circuit extracts input speech pattern data and subsidiary feature data from an input speech signal. The input speech pattern data comprise frequency spectra, whereas the subsidiary feature data comprise phoneme and acoustic features. These data are then stored in a data buffer memory. The similarity measures between the input speech pattern data stored in the data buffer memory and reference speech pattern data stored in a dictionary memory are computed by a similarity computation circuit. When the largest similarity measure exceeds a first threshold value and when the difference between the largest similarity measure and the second largest measure exceeds a second threshold value, category data of the reference pattern which gives the largest similarity measure is produced by a control circuit to correspond to an input speech.