Abstract: A terminal includes a sensor for detecting a physical quantity and a data transmitting unit for transmitting data representing the physical quantity to a processing device. An input/output device includes an input unit for receiving an input of data representing a productivity relating to the person wearing the terminal and a data transmitting unit for transmitting the data representing the productivity to the processing device. The processing device includes a feature value extracting unit for extracting a feature value from the data representing the physical quantity, a conflict calculating unit for determining items of data bringing about conflict from the data representing the productivity, and a coefficient-of-influence calculating unit for calculating a degree of the correlation between the feature value and the items of the data bringing about conflict.

Abstract: The invention provides a conversational speech analyzer which analyzes whether utterances in a meeting are of interest or concern. Frames are calculated using sound signals obtained from a microphone and a sensor, sensor signals are cut out for each frame, and by calculating the correlation between sensor signals for each frame, an interest level which represents the concern of an audience regarding utterances is calculated, and the meeting is analyzed.

Abstract: By individuals in an organization possessing a portable node and acquiring sound information, an electronic device and a system that analyze human behavior, group formation, and an activity level of the organization and a system is provided. In an electronic device that has a radio communication unit and a microcomputer, sound is converted into an electrical signal by a microphone, and sound waveform information and characteristic information of sound are obtained using an amplifier, a filter, and an envelope generating circuit. An envelope signal being characteristic information of sound is compared with a reference value by a comparator. Characteristic information of sound when the signal does not reach the reference value, and sound waveform information when greater than the reference value are transmitted from the radio communication unit. The server learns human behavior, group formation; and an activity level of an organization by receiving and analyzing these pieces of information.

Abstract: The present invention provides elimination of atmosphere that is not suitable to a space concerned by controlling atmosphere. The present invention is characterized that atmosphere in space is analyzed based on voice, and if atmosphere that is not suitable to the space is detected, the atmosphere in the space is controlled by choosing and irradiating illumination that enables to create atmosphere suitable to the space, atmosphere in the space is controlled for creating atmosphere that is suitable to the space.

Abstract: Face-to-face detection by infrared-ray communication is effective in grasping interaction between persons. However the problem here is that infrared rays have a high directivity and detection fails unless the persons face each other right in front. Sensor signals having a high directivity and sensor signals having a low directivity are obtained from a sensor terminal (TR) carried by a person. Firstly, information on relative position is obtained with a sensor (TRIR) of infrared rays or the like having a high directivity and an initial group is formed at an application server (AS). A feature amount such as sound that has a low directivity and can sense surrounding environmental information is extracted from among the terminals (TRs) belonging to the initial group by personal feature extraction (ASIF), correlation with terminals (TRs) not belonging to a group is obtained, and thereby whether or not those terminals (TRs) belong to an identical group is judged.

Abstract: In an organization dynamics analysis service using a sensor, organization dynamics information is understandably provided to a lot of members on a customer side without receiving private information such as an individual name from the customer. Therefore, a sensor data associated with an ID is received from the customer site, and organization analysis is performed on a service provider side, and then, an organization analysis data based on the ID is fed back to the customer site. When the customer browses the organization analysis data, the ID is converted into the private information in a service gateway installed on the customer site in accordance with a conversion table for correspondence of the ID previously specified on the customer side and the private information (individual name), and is shown to the customer as the understandable information.

Abstract: A process for producing a poly(arylene sulfide) including a charging step 1 of preparing a charging mixture containing an organic amide solvent, a sulfur source, an alkali metal hydroxide, water and a dihalo-aromatic compound and having a pH of at least 12.5; a first-stage polymerization step 2 of heating the mixture to initiate a polymerization reaction, thereby forming a prepolymer that a conversion of the dihalo-aromatic compound is at least 50%; and a second-stage polymerization step 3 of adding a phase separation agent into the reaction system and adding an alkali metal hydroxide in an amount corresponding to 1 to 10 mol % per mol of the charged sulfur source at a time or in portions, thereby continuing the polymerization reaction.

Abstract: Provided is an organization evaluation device, including: a reception unit for receiving data indicating a physical quantity detected by a sensor of a terminal worn by each of a plurality of persons; a personal index calculation module for calculating, from at least one of the data indicating the physical quantity and a business index of each of the plurality of persons, a personal index of each of the plurality of persons; a weight coefficient calculation module for calculating a weight coefficient indicating a degree of involvement of each of the plurality of persons in the first organization from the data indicating the physical quantity; and an organization index calculation module for calculating, by obtaining a weighted average of a plurality of the personal indices using the weight coefficient, an organization index of the first organization.

Abstract: The present invention provides elimination of atmosphere that is not suitable to a space concerned by controlling atmosphere. The present invention is characterized that atmosphere in space is analyzed based on voice, and if atmosphere that is not suitable to the space is detected, the atmosphere in the space is controlled by choosing and irradiating illumination that enables to create atmosphere suitable to the space, atmosphere in the space is controlled for creating atmosphere that is suitable to the space.

Abstract: The present invention provides elimination of atmosphere that is not suitable to a space concerned by controlling atmosphere. The present invention is characterized that atmosphere in space is analyzed based on voice, and if atmosphere that is not suitable to the space is detected, the atmosphere in the space is controlled by choosing and irradiating illumination that enables to create atmosphere suitable to the space, atmosphere in the space is controlled for creating atmosphere that is suitable to the space.

Abstract: Face-to-face detection by infrared-ray communication is effective in grasping interaction between persons. However the problem here is that infrared rays have a high directivity and detection fails unless the persons face each other right in front. Sensor signals having a high directivity and sensor signals having a low directivity are obtained from a sensor terminal (TR) carried by a person. Firstly, information on relative position is obtained with a sensor (TRIR) of infrared rays or the like having a high directivity and an initial group is formed at an application server (AS). A feature amount such as sound that has a low directivity and can sense surrounding environmental information is extracted from among the terminals (TRs) belonging to the initial group by personal feature extraction (ASIF), correlation with terminals (TRs) not belonging to a group is obtained, and thereby whether or not those terminals (TRs) belong to an identical group is judged.

Abstract: Face-to-face detection by infrared-ray communication is effective in grasping interaction between persons. However the problem here is that infrared rays have a high directivity and detection fails unless the persons face each other right in front. Sensor signals having a high directivity and sensor signals having a low directivity are obtained from a sensor terminal (TR) carried by a person. Firstly, information on relative position is obtained with a sensor (TRIR) of infrared rays or the like having a high directivity and an initial group is formed at an application server (AS). A feature amount such as sound that has a low directivity and can sense surrounding environmental information is extracted from among the terminals (TRs) belonging to the initial group by personal feature extraction (ASIF), correlation with terminals (TRs) not belonging to a group is obtained, and thereby whether or not those terminals (TRs) belong to an identical group is judged.

Abstract: In a real environment, it is grasped in what condition the worker has conducted the activity, and in what condition the worker has created a file, and the quality of the entire activity from the activity start to the activity end is provided as an index. An action index indicative of an action state of the worker who operates a computer is calculated, and the action index is associated with a specific activity of the worker as activity quality information representative of the quality of activity.

Abstract: An analysis sever capable of performing analysis among a large amount of sensor data in order to obtain an analysis result that a reader desires and outputting the result instantaneously. The analysis server rearranges the sensor data acquired from a sensor node into time series data. The analysis is performed separately for time trigger analysis (D) and for event trigger analysis (F) depending on analysis contents. In the time trigger analysis (D), analysis processing that is basically needed when visualizing a state of an organization is performed. In the event trigger analysis (F), an analysis result obtained by the time trigger analysis (D) is processed using the reader's desired information and is outputted.

Abstract: The present invention provides elimination of atmosphere that is not suitable to a space concerned by controlling atmosphere. The present invention is characterized that atmosphere in space is analyzed based on voice, and if atmosphere that is not suitable to the space is detected, the atmosphere in the space is controlled by choosing and irradiating illumination that enables to create atmosphere suitable to the space, atmosphere in the space is controlled for creating atmosphere that is suitable to the space.

Abstract: To provide a visualization method for analyzing the condition of an organization, the condition of a sub-organization, and the condition of an individual, with the face-to-face contact communication between members belonging to an organization being used as a cross section. A sensor-net system comprises a plurality of terminals and a processing unit that processes data sent from the plurality of terminals, wherein the each terminal comprises: a sensor for detecting a physical quantity; and a data sender unit that sends data indicative of the physical quantity detected by the sensor, and wherein based on the data sent from a first terminal, the processing unit plots this data on a coordinate plane consisting of two axes, in which an intensity of a relation, which a first person equipped with the first terminal has with other person, is assigned to one axis and a diversity of the relation is assigned to the other axis.

Abstract: Voice of plural participants during a meeting is obtained and dialogue situations of the participants that change every second are displayed in real time, so that it is possible to provide a meeting visualization system for triggering more positive discussions. Voice data collected from plural voice collecting units associated with plural participants is processed by a voice processing server to extract speech information. The speech information is sequentially input to an aggregation server. A query process is performed for the speech information by a stream data processing unit of the aggregation server, so that activity data such as the accumulation value of speeches of the participants in the meeting is generated. A display processing unit visualizes and displays dialogue situations of the participants by using the sizes of circles and the thicknesses of lines on the basis of the activity data.

Abstract: Disclosed herewith is a system for keeping sensing of mass data of members of an organization with respect to states of their meeting and activities and analyzing and evaluating their interactions according to those sensor data. Interaction data includes first information denoting whether or not a terminal unit has faced a different terminal unit and second information denoting a state of the terminal unit and excluding information denoting positions of the first information and the terminal unit. An interaction data display apparatus includes a receiving unit for receiving interaction data from the terminal unit and a display unit for displaying the received interaction data. The display unit displays the first and second information items included in the interaction data received by the receiving unit so as to be related to each other according to times at which those first and second information items are obtained respectively.

Abstract: A sensor-net system for digitizing a relationship between persons in an organization includes plural terminals and a processor for processing data received from those terminals. Each of the terminals includes a sensor for sensing a physical amount and a data sender for sending data denoting the physical amount sensed by the sensor. The processor calculates a value denoting a relationship between a first terminal wearing person and a second terminal wearing person according to the data received from the first and second terminals.

Abstract: Face-to-face detection by infrared-ray communication is effective in grasping interaction between persons. However the problem here is that infrared rays have a high directivity and detection fails unless the persons face each other right in front. Sensor signals having a high directivity and sensor signals having a low directivity are obtained from a sensor terminal (TR) carried by a person. Firstly, information on relative position is obtained with a sensor (TRIR) of infrared rays or the like having a high directivity and an initial group is formed at an application server (AS). A feature amount such as sound that has a low directivity and can sense surrounding environmental information is extracted from among the terminals (TRs) belonging to the initial group by personal feature extraction (ASIF), correlation with terminals (TRs) not belonging to a group is obtained, and thereby whether or not those terminals (TRs) belong to an identical group is judged.