Abstract: An effective scenario is generated for a target person of a scenario. A scenario generation system receives designation of a target person class. The system changes an order of two or more scenario element instances according to the designated target person class in a base scenario in which a plurality of scenario element instances are arranged to an order according to the designated target person class, and generates a proposed scenario including the two or more scenario element instances whose order is changed. The system provides the generated proposed scenario.

Abstract: Provided is a transportation service planning system including an operation unit and a storage unit. The storage unit stores an evaluation index designated for each of transportation systems, a creation condition of a service plan for each of the transportation systems, and a service simulation condition for each of the transportation systems. The operation unit creates a service plan for each of the transportation systems on the basis of the creation condition of the service plan, simulates a service of each of the transportation systems on the basis of the service plan and the simulation condition, calculates the evaluation index designated for each of the transportation systems on the basis of the simulation results, outputs the service plan if all of the evaluation indices satisfy a prescribed standard, and revises the service plan if at least one of the evaluation indices does not satisfy the prescribed standard.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing system, including a processor, a storage device and a display device. The storage device stores images captured by imaging devices. If an image of a moving object is selected as a search query, then the processor executes a similarity search on the images stored in the storage device, with the selected image as the search query. The display device displays images attained as results of the similarity search. If an image of a moving object is added as a search query, then the processor executes a similarity search with all selected images as search queries. The display device updates images to be displayed such that images attained as results of the similarity search performed with all the selected images as the search queries are displayed.

Abstract: Provided is a transportation service planning system including an operation unit and a storage unit. The storage unit stores an evaluation index designated for each of transportation systems, a creation condition of a service plan for each of the transportation systems, and a service simulation condition for each of the transportation systems. The operation unit creates a service plan for each of the transportation systems on the basis of the creation condition of the service plan, simulates a service of each of the transportation systems on the basis of the service plan and the simulation condition, calculates the evaluation index designated for each of the transportation systems on the basis of the simulation results, outputs the service plan if all of the evaluation indices satisfy a prescribed standard, and revises the service plan if at least one of the evaluation indices does not satisfy the prescribed standard.

Abstract: An image search device searching an image from an image database storing a recorded image, one or more types of feature values, and propagation information that indicates a link between a same type of the feature values of the recorded image, the device acquires a first image and the one or more types of feature values of the first image, records the first image and the feature values in the image database, calculates a propagation intensity indicating similarity or sameness between the types of feature values of the recorded image and the types of feature values of the first image, and includes in the propagation information a link between the types of feature values of the first image and the types of feature values of the recorded image for which the propagation intensity between the types of feature values of the recorded image and the types of feature values of the first image is at a maximum value.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing system, including a processor, a storage device and a display device. The storage device stores images captured by imaging devices. If an image of a moving object is selected as a search query, then the processor executes a similarity search on the images stored in the storage device, with the selected image as the search query. The display device displays images attained as results of the similarity search. If an image of a moving object is added as a search query, then the processor executes a similarity search with all selected images as search queries. The display device updates images to be displayed such that images attained as results of the similarity search performed with all the selected images as the search queries are displayed.

Abstract: An image search system comprising an video taking unit that takes a video, a search unit that contains a processor and a storage unit and searches for an image contained in the video, an input unit that receives information that is input to the search unit, and a display unit that displays information that is output from the search unit. The storage unit holds information indicating the shapes of trajectories that represent the travel paths of a plurality of moving objects extracted from the video. When information indicating the shape of a trajectory is input from the input unit, the search unit searches the plurality of moving-object trajectories held in the storage unit for trajectories that are similar to the input trajectory shape, and if such a trajectory is found, the search unit displays, on the display unit, images of the moving objects that have traveled along the found trajectories.

Abstract: An image search device searching an image from an image database storing a recorded image, one or more types of feature values, and propagation information that indicates a link between a same type of the feature values of the recorded image, the device acquires a first image and the one or more types of feature values of the first image, records the first image and the feature values in the image database, calculates a propagation intensity indicating similarity or sameness between the types of feature values of the recorded image and the types of feature values of the first image, and includes in the propagation information a link between the types of feature values of the first image and the types of feature values of the recorded image for which the propagation intensity between the types of feature values of the recorded image and the types of feature values of the first image is at a maximum value.

Abstract: This video monitoring support apparatus is provided with a processor and a storage device coupled to the processor. The storage device holds multiple images. The video monitoring support apparatus performs a similar image search, in which multiple images held in the storage device are searched for images similar to an image extracted from inputted video, outputs multiple recognition results, which include information relating to each of the images obtained by the similar image search, and controls the amount of the outputted recognition results to a predetermined value or less.

Abstract: An image search system comprising an video taking unit that takes a video, a search unit that contains a processor and a storage unit and searches for an image contained in the video, an input unit that receives information that is input to the search unit, and a display unit that displays information that is output from the search unit. The storage unit holds information indicating the shapes of trajectories that represent the travel paths of a plurality of moving objects extracted from the video. When information indicating the shape of a trajectory is input from the input unit, the search unit searches the plurality of moving-object trajectories held in the storage unit for trajectories that are similar to the input trajectory shape, and if such a trajectory is found, the search unit displays, on the display unit, images of the moving objects that have traveled along the found trajectories.

Abstract: A data processing system holds metadata extraction dictionary information defining a condition for extracting metadata from a plurality of kinds of data and relevance dictionary information defining a condition for associating the metadata extracted from the plurality of kinds of data, extracts the metadata from the plurality of kinds of data on the basis of the metadata extraction dictionary information, extracts metadata from inputted data, associates the metadata extracted from the inputted data with the metadata extracted from the plurality of kinds of data on the basis of the relevance dictionary information, and outputs information indicating a relation of any combination of the plurality of kinds of data, the inputted data, and the metadata extracted from the plurality of kinds of data and the inputted data on the basis of a result of the association.

Abstract: A stereotypical sentence is synthesized into a voice of an arbitrary speech style. A third party is able to prepare prosody data and a user of a terminal device having a voice synthesizing part can acquire the prosody data. The voice synthesizing method determines a voice-contents identifier to point to a type of voice contents of a stereotypical sentence, prepares a speech style dictionary including speech style and prosody data which correspond to the voice-contents identifier, selects prosody data of the synthesized voice to be generated from the speech style dictionary, and adds the selected prosody data to a voice synthesizer 13 as voice-synthesizer driving data to thereby perform voice synthesis with a specific speech style. Thus, a voice of a stereotypical sentence can be synthesized with an arbitrary speech style.

Abstract: In the text-to-speech synthesis technique for synthesizing speech from text, this invention enables a terminal device with relatively small computing power to perform speech synthesis based on optimal unit selection. The text-to-speech synthesis procedure of the present invention involves content generation and output; that is, a secondary content including the results of the optimal unit selection process is output. By virtue of the secondary content, a high load process of selecting optimal units and a light load process of synthesizing speech waveforms can be performed separately. The optimal unit selection process is performed at a server and information for the units to be retrieved from a corpus is sent to the terminal as data for speech synthesis.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method which synthesizes a stereotyped sentence into a voice of an arbitrary speech style and which permits a third party to prepare prosody data and permits a user of a terminal device having a voice synthesizing part to acquire the prosody data. The voice synthesizing method determines a voice-contents identifier to point a type of voice contents of a stereotyped sentence, prepares a speech style dictionary 14 including speech style and prosody data which correspond to the voice-contents identifier, selects prosody data of the synthesized voice to be generated from the speech style dictionary 14 by pointing (12) a contents identifier and a speech style for a synthesized voice to be generated (15), and adds the selected prosody data to a voice synthesizer 13 as voice-synthesizer driving data to thereby perform voice synthesis with a specific speech style. A voice of a stereotyped sentence can be synthesized with an arbitrary speech style.

Abstract: A prosodic parameter for an input text is computed by storing a sentence of vocalized speech in a speech corpus memory, searching for a stored text having a similar prosody to an input text as a key to the speech corpus and modifying the prosodic parameter based upon the search results. Because a plurality of prosodic parameters are handled as a linking data, a synthesized sound similar to natural speech having a natural intonation and prosody is produced.