Abstract: A power control device including a first detection device that detects that a knob provided on a room interior side of a door has turned to a first turn position when the door is locked, and a cutoff device that cuts off power supply to an electrical device provided in the room interior when the first detection device has detected that the knob has turned to the first turn position.

Abstract: In a printing apparatus of the present invention, image data divided into a plurality of pages and supplied from an application program are printed on a roll of machine glazed paper without any margins set between adjoining pages. This arrangement enables a large image to be printed on a large-sized printing medium, such as a banner. A printer driver in the printing apparatus sets feeding amounts of sub-scan according to a selected printing mode. In the case where a standard printing mode is selected, the printer driver sets the feeding amounts to execute an upper end process and a lower end process with regard to each page. In the case where a continuous printing mode is selected, on the other hand, the printer driver maintains a periodic variation of standard feeding amount, except the upper end process carried out in a first page.

Abstract: A speech recognition apparatus and method learns in advance a plurality of kinds of noises that can occur in the environment of use to determine a plurality of noise HMMs, synthesizes these noise HMMs into one noise HMM, generates a NOVO-HMM by executing NOVO (voice mixed with noise) conversion for a speech HMM of a reference pattern by using this composite noise HMM, and uses this NOVO-HMM for a speech recognition processing. Since a plurality of noises are incorporated in the NOVO-HMM generated in this manner, the speech can be recognized with high accuracy even when the noise changes.