Abstract: There is provided with a remote control method using a terminal device connected to a first network and an information processing server connected to a second network, including: setting a tunnel between the terminal device and the information processing server; transmitting a broadcast or multicast packet output from service providing servers on the first network to the information processing server via the tunnel to cause the server to find the service providing servers and services provided by the service providing servers; notifying the terminal device of the services found, from the information processing server via the tunnel or the second network; and if execution request of the service is received by the information processing server from the terminal device via the tunnel or the second network, conducting data communication concerning the service between a service providing server providing the service and the information processing server, via the second network.

Abstract: There is provided a bridge device in which a reception unit receives first transfer information specifying a read address from an external device; a transfer information storage stores the first transfer information; a first processing unit generates a first command to instruct reading data from the read address of a data storage based on the first transfer information read from the transfer information storage and outputs the first command to the first controller; a data buffer retains the data read by the first controller from the read address; and a second processing unit generates a second command to instruct the second controller to read the data retained in the data buffer, and outputs the second command to the second controller.

Abstract: A communication device includes a receiving unit that receives, from a computer running a virtual machine that can be switched between an active state and a stopped state, screen information provided by the virtual machine; a display unit that displays the screen information; a judging unit that, from the screen information displayed by the display unit, based on a number of operation procedures required for a process to be performed, judges whether the virtual machine performing the process by the operation procedures is to be stopped; and a transmitting unit that transmits a signal to the computer running the virtual machine judged to be stopped for stopping the virtual machine.

Abstract: A screen display device specific display areas controlled by operation of a layout control terminal and is connected to the layout control terminal via a network. The screen display device is equipped with a window composition information generation section that generates screen composition information of the specific display areas in accordance with the operation of the layout control terminal, a layout management section that manages the screen composition information of the specified area, and a communications section that sends the screen composition information of the specific display areas to the layout control terminal.

Abstract: A screen image transfer device includes a screen image data storage module that stores screen image data of a screen image displayed on a display device, a connection allotment module that allots/assigns a different connection to each of multiple screen regions of the display device, and a communications module that transmits the stored screen image data to the screen regions of the display device over the different connections assigned by the connection allotment module.

Abstract: There is provided a server in which a screen update generating unit generates screen update information representing an image of an update area in a screen; a distributing unit distributes the screen update information to a transmitting unit selected from first to N-th transmitting units; a storage stores a generation history of the screen update information; and a precedence possibility determining unit specifies, based on the generation history of the screen update information, screen update information X and Y such that the screen update information X is more previously generated than the screen update information Y and that the image of the screen update information Y is permitted to be displayed prior to the screen update information X, wherein the distributing unit distributes the screen update information Y to the transmitting unit different from that of distributing the screen update information X.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a pitch estimation apparatus and associated methods for estimating a fundamental frequency of an audio signal from a fundamental frequency probability density function by modeling the audio signal as a weighted mixture of a plurality of tone models corresponding respectively to harmonic structures of individual fundamental frequencies, so that the fundamental frequency probability density function of the audio signal is given as a distribution of respective weights of the plurality of the tone models.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a data transmission device includes a processor, a memory controller, an information memory, a generation unit, and an instruction unit. The memory controller controls read and write operations during data transfer between memory devices. The information memory stores transfer instruction information generated by the processor. The transfer instruction information includes positional information of a position where data is stored in the memory device as read source or a write destination of the data and size information of the data. The generation unit includes divides the transfer instruction information into predetermined data size pieces to generate plural pieces of partial transfer instruction information. The instruction unit instructs the memory controller to acquire a piece of the partial transfer instruction information.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a communication management apparatus mediates data between an information processing terminal having a temporary memory and an external memory device that is installed outside the information processing terminal. The apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive a write request issued by a device other than the information processing terminal for writing the data in the external memory device; a reading-writing unit configured to control reading of the data from the external memory device and control writing of the data in the external memory device; and a delete command issuing unit configured to, when the write request with respect to the external memory device is received, issue a delete command to the information processing terminal for deleting temporary data that is stored in the temporary memory.

Abstract: There is provided with a management device including: a communication unit configured to receive input function information indicating input functions provided by input devices through a wireless network and receive reception level information indicating reception levels of signals which an output device connected to the wireless network has received from the input devices from the output device; and a determiner configured to determine an input device to be combined with the output device based on the input function information and the reception level information.

Abstract: Herein provided is a system for singing synthesis capable of reflecting not only pitch and dynamics changes but also timbre changes of a user's singing. A spectral transform surface generating section 119 temporally concatenates all the spectral transform curves estimated by a second spectral transform curve estimating section 117 to define a spectral transform surface. A synthesized audio signal generating section 121 generates a transform spectral envelope at each instant of time by scaling a reference spectral envelope based on the spectral transform surface. Then, the synthesized audio signal generating section 121 generates an audio signal of a synthesized singing voice reflecting timbre changes of an input singing voice, based on the transform spectral envelope and a fundamental frequency contained in a reference singing voice source data.

Abstract: A signaling unit of a display terminal establishes communication with a content server, video communication terminal, and PC server through a communication unit, and transmits/receives image data compressed by MPEG2, MPEG4, and JPEG. A media control unit switches compression schemes for decoding in a media processing unit on the basis of the received image data. The media processing unit performs decoding processing including inverse orthogonal transformation processing and dequantization processing in accordance with the switched compression scheme. At this time, a single processing circuit performs inverse orthogonal transformation processing and dequantization processing.

Abstract: When a processor, which transits from a first mode that causes a guest operating system to operate to a second mode that causes a virtual machine monitor managing the guest operating system to operate, when previously set transition condition is satisfied, transits to the second mode, a determining unit determines a cause or the transition. When it is determined that an execution of a process related to a completion of writing the image information in an image storage unit on the guest operating system is the cause, a detecting unit detects an updated portion representing an unmatched portion of the image information between before and after writing.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image relay apparatus includes a reception unit, a determination unit and a transmission unit. The reception unit receives compressed image data from a relay source apparatus. The determination unit determines whether or not the compressed image data is processable through a first path not involving decompression of the compressed image data, based on data on a relay destination apparatus. The transmission unit transfers, to the relay destination apparatus, either the compressed image data processed through the first path or recompressed image data obtained by processing the compressed image data through a second path involving decompression, drawing, and recompression of the compressed image data.

Abstract: An unknown word is additionally registered in a speech recognition dictionary by utilizing a correction result, and a new pronunciation of the word that has been registered in a speech recognition dictionary is additionally registered in the speech recognition dictionary, thereby increasing the accuracy of speech recognition. The start time and finish time of each phoneme unit in speech data corresponding to each phoneme included in a phoneme sequence acquired by a phoneme sequence converting section 13 are added to the phoneme sequence. A phoneme sequence extracting section 15 extracts from the phoneme sequence a phoneme sequence portion composed of phonemes existing in a segment corresponding to the period from the start time to the finish time of the word segment of the word corrected by a word correcting section 9 and the extracted phoneme sequence portion is determined as the pronunciation of the corrected word.

Abstract: In an information processing device according to an embodiment, a generating unit generates a descriptor including information indicating an area in a storage unit and state information indicating a state of an entry in which the information indicating the area is stored, and an update unit updates the state information according to at least one of writing and reading of data to the area indicated in the entry selected according to the state information by the input/output unit. The generating unit generates the descriptor in advance before at least one of writing and reading of data to/from the storage unit is started.

Abstract: There is provided a file transfer device in which a determining unit determines, when a first file requested by a user terminal is not cached in a file buffering unit, a second file transferred to the user terminal based on a file cache status of the file buffering unit, a transfer protocol unit reads the second file from the file buffering unit while the file buffering unit reads the first file, a transmitting unit transmits the second file to the user terminal, wherein the instructing unit determines to transfer the first file, based on a progress status of reading the first file, the transfer protocol unit suspends reading the second file and reads the first file from the file buffering unit, the transmitting unit transmits the first file read by the transfer protocol unit to the user terminal.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a communication apparatus includes a data reception controller configured to receive data from an external device functioning in an active state via a network and store the data in a buffer; a remote controller configured to, when a predetermined condition is satisfied, issue a request to the external device to switch to a power saving state; and a processor configured to process the data stored in the buffer.

Abstract: A musical piece recommendation system that allows instantaneous registration of a new user and a new musical piece without retraining in a basic training section. A first incremental training section monitors a rating history storage section, and each time a change is made to a rating history or a new user is added, performs updating of or addition of the topic selection probability for the user for which the change is made to the rating history or for the new user such that the likelihood determined by a basic training section is kept maximized. A second incremental training section monitors an acoustic feature storage section, and each time a new musical piece is added to perform addition to acoustic features, adds the musical piece selection probability related to the added musical piece such that the likelihood determined by the basic training section is kept maximized.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a screen relay device includes a communication unit that receives first image information from relay source devices, and transmits second image information to a relay destination device, a determining unit that determines a storage area of the first image information in a first storage unit, a rendering unit that renders the first image information in the determined storage area, and a screen transfer unit. The screen transfer unit compares the first image information corresponding to an updated region where the image information stored in the first storage unit has been updated by the rendering of the rendering unit and the second image information corresponding to the updated region to extract a difference region, and writes the first image information of the difference region to a second storage unit as the second image information.