Abstract: The present invention provides a translation memory system including: a memory which stores plural pairs of a natural language sentence written in a first language and an interlingua representation of the natural language sentence; an analysis unit which performs a syntactic and semantic analysis on a natural language sentence written in a second language and translates the natural language sentence into an interlingua representation on the basis of the analysis result; a search unit which searches the memory to identify an interlingua representation which corresponds to or has a predetermined level of similarity to the interlingua representation obtained by the analysis unit, and which extracts a natural language sentence written in the first language paired with the identified interlingua representation; and an output unit which outputs the natural language sentence extracted by the search unit as a translation result.

Abstract: A translation device comprises a character recognition unit that recognizes text data in a text region of an input image; a translator that translates the text data in the text region; and a layout configuration processor that generates data containing the translated text data in the text region and graphics in the input image, wherein a layout of the input image is maintained in a layout of the image of the data generated by the layout configuration processor.

Abstract: The invention provides a document processing device including: a memory that stores syntax data expressing syntax of character strings whose probability of being a title of a document is high or-character strings whose probability of being a title of a document is low; an input unit that inputs document data obtained by digitizing a document; an extraction unit that analyzes the input document data and extracts character string data expressing character strings; a syntax analyzing unit that analyzes the extracted character string data and specifies the syntax of each character string contained in the document corresponding to the document data; and a specifying unit that specifies, from among the extracted character string data, character string data expressing a title of the document corresponding to the document data, based on results of specification by the syntax analyzing unit and content stored in the memory.

Abstract: The present invention provides a document processing device including: an inputting unit that inputs page image data corresponding to images of pages of a document; an extracting unit that analyzes the page image data input by the inputting unit, specifies the content of each item contained in the document corresponding to that page image data, and extracts item data, the item data being character strings expressing that content; a generating unit that links the item data extracted by the extracting unit and generates name data, the name data being a character string expressing a name to be attached to the document; and a writing unit that associates the name data generated by the generating unit with the page image data input by the inputting unit and writes the name data and the page image data to a memory.

Abstract: The present invention provides a document processing device including: a specifying unit that specifies character strings which have a common property across documents, from among character strings included in plural documents which are represented by plural corresponding document data; and a rewriting unit that rewrites, among the character strings specified by the specifying unit, character strings expressed in formats different from a defined format to character strings expressed in the defined format.

Abstract: The present invention provides a document processing device including: a general feature vector memory that stores feature vectors of a shape for each of plural characters; an input unit that optically reads in a document; a extracting unit that extracts feature vectors from the shapes of characters in a document read in by the input unit; a general shape recognition unit that estimates a character for which the feature vectors of its shape extracted by the extracting unit, based on the feature vectors extracted by the extracting unit and the content stored in the general feature vector memory; and a specific feature vector memory that stores the feature vectors extracted by the extracting unit in association with an estimation result of the general shape recognition unit.

Abstract: In the learning apparatus, a memory stores a dictionary in an updatable manner, and an inputting means inputs data when an instruction is input by a user. An outputting part processes the data inputted through the inputting part by using the dictionary stored in the memory, and outputs the result of the processing. An identifier receiver obtains an identifier of the user or a group to which the user belongs. An updating means updates the dictionary only when the identifier obtained by the identifier receiver is pre-registered in the memory.

Abstract: A image processing device has a reading unit, a graphics area extraction unit, a writing area extraction unit, a character string extraction unit and an association unit. The reading unit reads a document. The graphics area extraction unit extracts a graphics area from the document read by the reading unit. The writing area extraction unit extracts a writing area from the document read by the reading unit. The character string extraction unit extracts a character string presented in the graphics area. The association unit associates information of the writing area with the graphics area based on the character string extracted by the character string extraction unit.

Abstract: An electronic still camera is provided with a photographic image capturing device that outputs image data by capturing a subject image passing through a taking lens, an analytic image capturing device provided at a position adjacent to the position that is conjugate with the photographic image capturing device relative to the taking lens that receives light forming the subject image and outputs image data for scene analysis, an analyzing circuit that performs scene analysis of the subject image based upon the image data for scene analysis output by the analytic image capturing device and an image processing circuit that performs image processing based upon the results of the scene analysis output by the analyzing circuit.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus comprises an image pickup element, a displacement member for displacing an image incident upon the image pickup element relative to the image pickup element, and a control circuit for controlling the operation of the displacement member in response to the output of the image pickup element.