Abstract: A vehicular system includes a first in-vehicle sensor having a first cleaning target surface which is provided on a design part forming an appearance of a vehicle and arranged so as to face an exterior of the vehicle. The first cleaning target surface is arranged at an inner side of the vehicle than an immediate upper portion of the first cleaning target surface. The immediate upper portion is constituted by a protrusion provided in a rear bumper.

Abstract: A vehicle cleaner nozzle injects a cleaning medium on an object to be cleaned which is mounted on a vehicle. The vehicle cleaner nozzle includes a housing, a nozzle tip accommodated in an interior of the housing, and a holder configured to support the housing in a state where the housing accommodates the nozzle tip. A feedback flow path for swinging and injecting the cleaning medium is formed by accommodating the nozzle tip in the housing.

Abstract: The shaft sealing structure includes a seal ring that has abutment portions formed by dividing the seal ring along the axial direction and that is provided around a main shaft in a ring-like manner; a support member that is provided in the seal ring along the circumferential direction of the main shaft; and a thermoswitch that is connected to the support member between the abutment portions and that presses the support member toward the center of the main shaft when the temperature rises to a temperature higher than that during normal operation, in which the seal ring is fixed at a position separated from the main shaft during the normal operation and is moved by the support member toward the center of the main shaft when the temperature rises to a temperature higher than that during the normal operation.

Abstract: A vehicle cleaning apparatus includes a nozzle configured to jet fluid toward an object to be cleaned; a cover configured to cover at least a part of the nozzle; a valve configured to open and close a channel of the fluid; and a holder including a valve disposition portion in which at least a part of the valve is disposed, and a cover attachment portion to which the cover is attached. The cover attachment portion is formed integrally with the valve disposition portion.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information notification supporting device includes an analyzer configured to analyze an input voice so as to identify voice information indicating information related to speech; a storage unit configured to store therein a history of the voice information; an output controller configured to determine, using the history of the voice information, whether a user is able to listen to a message of which the user should be notified; and an output unit configured to output the message when it is determined that the user is in a state in which the user is able to listen to the message.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an apparatus for discriminating speech/non-speech of a first acoustic signal includes a weight assignment unit, a feature extraction unit, and a speech/non-speech discrimination unit. The weight assignment unit is configured to assign a weight to each frequency band, based on a frequency spectrum of the first acoustic signal including a user's speech and a frequency spectrum of a second acoustic signal including a disturbance sound. The feature extraction unit is configured to extract a feature from the frequency spectrum of the first acoustic signal, based on the weight of each frequency band. The speech/non-speech discrimination unit is configured to discriminate speech/non-speech of the first acoustic signal, based on the feature.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an apparatus for discriminating speech/non-speech of a first acoustic signal includes a weight assignment unit, a feature extraction unit, and a speech/non-speech discrimination unit. The first acoustic signal includes a user's speech and a reproduced sound. The reproduced sound is a system sound having a plurality of channels reproduced from a plurality of speakers. The weight assignment unit is configured to assign a weight to each frequency band based on the system sound. The feature extraction unit is configured to extract a feature from a second acoustic signal based on the weight of each frequency band. The second acoustic signal is the first acoustic signal in which the reproduced sound is suppressed. The speech/non-speech discrimination unit is configured to discriminate speech/non-speech of the first acoustic signal based on the feature.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a television apparatus includes a speech input unit, an indication input unit, a speech recognition unit, and a control unit. The speech input unit is configured to input a speech. The indication input unit is configured to input an indication to start speech recognition from a user. The speech recognition unit is configured to recognize the user's speech inputted after the indication is inputted. The control unit is configured to execute an operation command corresponding to a recognition result of the user's speech. The control unit, if a volume of the television apparatus at a timing when the indication is inputted is larger than or equal to a threshold, temporarily sets the volume to a value smaller than the threshold while the speech recognition unit is recognizing.

Abstract: The shaft sealing structure includes a seal ring that has abutment portions formed by dividing the seal ring along the axial direction and that is provided around a main shaft in a ring-like manner; a support member that is provided in the seal ring along the circumferential direction of the main shaft; and a thermoswitch that is connected to the support member between the abutment portions and that presses the support member toward the center of the main shaft when the temperature rises to a temperature higher than that during normal operation, in which the seal ring is fixed at a position separated from the main shaft during the normal operation and is moved by the support member toward the center of the main shaft when the temperature rises to a temperature higher than that during the normal operation.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information processing device includes an obtainer, a display controller, a detector, a plurality of correctors, and a selector. The obtainer obtains a keyword. The display controller performs control to display the keyword on a display. The detector detects a gesture operation performed on the display. The plurality of correctors are capable of correcting a correction target keyword to be corrected among one or more keywords displayed on the display and implement mutually different correction methods one of which includes correction in form of deleting the correction target keyword. The selector selects, according to a gesture operation detected by the detector, one of the plurality of correctors as the corrector for correcting the correction target keyword.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information management device includes a generator, a storage module, a structuring module, a retrieval module, and a result notification module. The generator generates a characteristic quantity of a reproduction content. The storage module stores the generated characteristic quantity. The structuring module generates structure information by dividing a single reproduction content into a plurality of reproduction intervals based on the generated characteristic quantity and by structuring the reproduction content by taking into account a time sequence of the reproduction intervals of the reproduction content that is being reproduced. The reproduction content is structured by the reproduction intervals. The retrieval module retrieves a related content based on the structure information. The result notification module notifies the retrieval result of the related content.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a content searching apparatus includes: a search condition generator configured to perform voice recognition in parallel with an input of a natural language voice giving an instruction for a search for a piece of content, and to generate search conditions sequentially; a searching module configured to perform a content search while updating the search condition used in the search as the search condition is generated; and a search result display configured to update the search condition used in the content search and a result of the content search based on the search condition to be displayed as the search condition is generated.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes an image capturing module, an estimation module, a content obtaining module, and a display module. The image capturing module is configured to capture a subject to be captured. The estimation module is configured to estimate a state of the subject to be captured based on a capturing method for the subject to be captured by the image capturing module. The content obtaining module is configured to obtain the content based on the state of the subject to be captured and relating to the subject to be captured. The display module is configured to display the obtained content.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a remote controller managing device is configured to output an operation instruction signal for controlling a target control device in accordance with operation instructions from a plurality of remote controllers, respectively, for controlling the target control device. The remote controller managing device includes a conflict determining module and a controller. The conflict determining module is configured to determine whether the operation instructions of the remote controllers conflict with each other when the operation instructions are issued by the remote controllers. The controller is configured to control the target control device so as to correspond to one of the operation instructions of one of the remote controllers with a higher priority order based on predetermined priority orders when the conflict determining module determines that the operation instructions conflict with each other.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing device includes: an input module configured to receive voice input therein; a display controller configured to identify from the input voice a keyword and a single piece of attribute information associated with the keyword to be used for content retrieval and to cause to display on a display the identified keyword and the identified attribute information, and attribute candidate information that is associated with the identified keyword and selectable as an alternative to the identified attribute information; and a retrieval instructing module configured to give an instruction for the content retrieval using the identified keyword and the selected attribute candidate information.

Abstract: Apparatus for speech recognition includes a recognition unit configured to recognize a speech signal and to generate a first recognition result, a transmitting unit that transmits at least one of the speech signal and a recognition feature to a server, a receiving unit that receives a second recognition result from the server, a result generating unit configured to generate a third recognition result, a result storage unit that stores the third recognition result and a dictionary update unit configured to update the client recognition dictionary.

Abstract: For the prevention and/or treatment of chymase-mediated diseases such as skin diseases, circulatory diseases, digestive system diseases, respiratory diseases, liver diseases, ocular diseases or the like, a drug is provided having as an active ingredient a compound having extremely strong chymase inhibitory activity, high safety, and high metabolic stability. The compound represented by the formula (I): wherein all symbols have the same meanings as in the description, a salt thereof, an N-oxide thereof or a solvate thereof, or a prodrug thereof, is useful as a pharmaceutical ingredient having chymase inhibitory activity for preventing and/or treating of chymase-mediated disease, such as skin diseases, circulatory diseases, digestive system diseases, respiratory diseases, liver diseases, ocular diseases or the like.

Abstract: An output monitoring comparator outputs an ON signal when an output voltage becomes lower than a reference voltage. A pulse modulator generates a pulse signal at a predetermined level, an ON time-period from when the ON signal is outputted. A driver circuit alternately turns ON, after a dead time, a switching transistor and a synchronous rectification transistor, based on the pulse signal. A light load mode detector compares a switching voltage at a connection point of the switching transistor and the synchronous rectification transistor, and ground potential, and at timing at which the ON signal is outputted from the output monitoring comparator, when the switching voltage is higher than the ground potential, nullifies the ON signal.

Abstract: A speech recognition apparatus includes a generating unit generating a speech-feature vector expressing a feature for each of frames obtained by dividing an input speech, a storage unit storing a first acoustic model obtained by modeling a feature of each word by using a state transition model, a storage unit configured to store at least one second acoustic model, a calculation unit calculating, for each state, a first probability of transition to an at-end-frame state to obtain first probabilities, and select a maximum probability of the first probabilities, a selection unit selecting a maximum-probability-transition path, a conversion unit converting the maximum-probability-transition path into a corresponding-transition-path corresponding to the second acoustic model, a calculation unit calculating a second probability of transition to the at-end-frame state on the corresponding-transition-path, and a finding unit finding to which word the input speech corresponds based on the maximum probability and the s

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an apparatus for discriminating speech/non-speech of a first acoustic signal includes a weight assignment unit, a feature extraction unit, and a speech/non-speech discrimination unit. The first acoustic signal includes a user's speech and a reproduced sound. The reproduced sound is a system sound having a plurality of channels reproduced from a plurality of speakers. The weight assignment unit is configured to assign a weight to each frequency band based on the system sound. The feature extraction unit is configured to extract a feature from a second acoustic signal based on the weight of each frequency band. The second acoustic signal is the first acoustic signal in which the reproduced sound is suppressed. The speech/non-speech discrimination unit is configured to discriminate speech/non-speech of the first acoustic signal based on the feature.