Abstract: When a waveform monitor apparatus 1 of an injection molding machine M for monitoring an operation waveform at least during molding is configured by mounting the waveform monitor apparatus 1 on the injection molding machine M for performing molding according to a specific molding system, a parting opening detecting means Fp for detecting change data of a parting opening Lm to a time during molding, and an operation waveform displaying means Fd for displaying at least change data from a resin filling start is into a mold 2 to a cooling time termination to of the mold 2, detected by the parting opening detecting means Fp, on a waveform displaying portion 5 of a screen 4v on a display 4 attached to a molding machine controller 3 are provided.

Abstract: A speech feature extraction apparatus, speech feature extraction method, and speech feature extraction program. A speech feature extraction apparatus includes: first difference calculation module to: (i) receive, as an input, a spectrum of a speech signal segmented into frames for each frequency bin; and (ii) calculate a delta spectrum for each of the frame, where the delta spectrum is a difference of the spectrum within continuous frames for the frequency bin; and first normalization module to normalize the delta spectrum of the frame for the frequency bin by dividing the delta spectrum by a function of an average spectrum; where the average spectrum is an average of spectra through all frames that are overall speech for the frequency bin; and where an output of the first normalization module is defined as a first delta feature.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a measuring method and a sensor unit of measuring temperature distribution of an object by using an optical fiber sensing technology of BOCDA system. In the measuring method, an optical fiber that functions as a BOCDA-type optical fiber sensor is disposed two-dimensionally or three-dimensionally with respect to a predetermined measurement region of the object, and thereby the temperature distribution of the object can be measured at a high speed and a high accuracy, in the predetermined measurement region configuring a surface or space where the optical fiber is disposed.

Abstract: A mirror surface angle adjusting device includes: a pivot plate (10) which supports a mirror (6) and is attached to a holder (9) pivotably three-dimensionally on a pivot shaft (76); a bracket (8) disposed on a vehicle body; a mirror tilting drive section (11) contained between the bracket (8) and the holder (9) attached to the bracket (8); an operation shaft (44A, 44B) of the mirror tilting drive section (11), the operation shaft penetrating through the holder (9) and being connected to the pivot plate (10); a detection rod (101A, 101B) which moves following the pivot plate (10); an angle detection section (100) which detects a tilt angle of the pivot plate (10); a pivot depressed portion (80) into which the pivot shaft can be press-fitted; and a gear positioning rib (69) provided on an inner wall of the holder (9) to position the mirror tilting drive section (42).

Abstract: In a virtual space including a plurality of islands, location of the islands is mapped in two dimensions, preferably using multidimensional scaling such as Kruskal method, to keep the order of the distances between the feature vector including the information of profile and preference of the user and the feature vectors including the profiles and event information of the respective islands. The map server uses the mapping information to provide the user with the islands arranged in a manner more conforming to the user's feature vector, which allows the user to conveniently visit the islands suited to the user's preference, and hence, increases utilization of the virtual space.

Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell, a fluid passage for warming, a gas-liquid separator, a supply passage and a recirculating module. The fuel cell generates power with supply of a reaction gas. The gas-liquid separator separates moisture contained in an anode exhaust gas which is discharged from the fuel cell. The supply passage returns the anode exhaust gas, from which the moisture has been separated by the gas-liquid separator, to an inlet side of the reaction gas. The recirculating module mixes the anode exhaust gas, which is returned via the supply passage, with the reaction gas. The gas-liquid separator lies adjacent to the recirculating module, and the fluid passage for warming is disposed between the gas-liquid separator and the recirculating module.

Abstract: A speech feature extraction apparatus, speech feature extraction method, and speech feature extraction program. A speech feature extraction apparatus includes: first difference calculation module to: (i) receive, as an input, a spectrum of a speech signal segmented into frames for each frequency bin; and (ii) calculate a delta spectrum for each of the frame, where the delta spectrum is a difference of the spectrum within continuous frames for the frequency bin; and first normalization module to normalize the delta spectrum of the frame for the frequency bin by dividing the delta spectrum by a function of an average spectrum; where the average spectrum is an average of spectra through all frames that are overall speech for the frequency bin; and where an output of the first normalization module is defined as a first delta feature.

Abstract: A joint portion (11) is provided to an upper case (3) of a mirror unit tilting mechanism (1) so as to protrude therefrom. A fitting portion (21) is formed on a pivot plate (5) side so as to correspond to the joint portion (11). The joint portion (11) is formed into a hollow hemisphere shape. A support shaft (13) is provided upright at a center portion of an outer wall (12), and a spherical portion (12b) is formed in the outer wall (12). The fitting portion (21) has a hollow hemisphere dome shape and includes a spherical side wall portion (22) and a ceiling portion (23) which has a wave shape in cross section. The fitting portion (21) is lightly press-fitted to the joint portion (11) through one-touch insertion operation. The fitting portion (21) and the joint portion (11) are swingably connected to each other under a state in which curved surfaces of the spherical portion (12b) and the side wall portion (22) are held in contact with each other.

Abstract: A semiconductor wafer includes a first semiconductor, and a second semiconductor formed directly or indirectly on the first semiconductor. The second semiconductor contains a first impurity atom exhibiting p-type or n-type conductivity, and a second impurity atom selected such that the Fermi level of the second semiconductor containing both the first and second impurity atoms is closer to the Fermi level of the second semiconductor containing neither the first impurity atom nor the second impurity atom, than the Fermi level of the second semiconductor containing the first impurity atom is. For example, the majority carrier of the second semiconductor is an electron, and the Fermi level of the second semiconductor containing the first and second impurity atoms is lower than the Fermi level of the second semiconductor containing the first impurity atom.

Abstract: A position detection method, system, and computer readable article of manufacture tangibly embodying computer readable instructions for executing the method for detecting the position of a sound source using at least two microphones. The method includes the steps of: emitting a reproduced sound from the sound source; observing the reproduced sound and an observed sound at the microphones; converting the reproduced sound and the observed sound into electrical signals; transforming the signals of the reproduced sound and of the observed sound into frequency spectra by a frequency spectrum transformer apparatus; calculating Crosspower Spectrum Phase (CSP) coefficients of the frequency spectra of the signals by a CSP coefficient calculator apparatus; and calculating distances between the position of the sound source and the positions of the microphones based on the calculated CSP coefficients by a distance calculating apparatus, thereby detecting the position of the sound source.

Abstract: There is provided a compound semiconductor wafer that is suitably used as a semiconductor wafer to form a plurality of different types of devices such as an HBT and an FET thereon. The semiconductor wafer includes a first semiconductor, a carrier-trapping layer that is formed on the first semiconductor and has an electron-trapping center or a hole-trapping center, a second semiconductor that is epitaxially grown on the carrier-trapping layer and serves as a channel in which a free electron or a free hole moves, and a third semiconductor including a stack represented by n-type semiconductor/p-type semiconductor/n-type semiconductor or represented by p-type semiconductor/n-type semiconductor/p-type semiconductor, where the stack epitaxially grown on the second semiconductor.

Abstract: A speech signal processing system which outputs a speech feature, divides an input speech signal into frames so that each pair of consecutive frames have a frame shift length equal to at least one period of the speech signal and have an overlap equal to at least a predetermined length, applies discrete Fourier transform to each of the frames, calculates a CSP coefficient for the pair, searches a predetermined search range in which a speech wave lags a period equal to at least one period to obtain the maximum value of the CSP coefficient for the pair, and generates time-series data of the maximum CSP coefficient values arranged in the order in which the frames appear. A method and a computer readable article of manufacture for the implementing the same are also provided.

Abstract: An apparatus, program product and method is provided for separating a target voice from a plurality of other voices having different directions of arrival. The method comprises the steps of disposing a first and a second voice input device at a predetermined distance from one another and upon receipt of voice signals at said devices calculating discrete Fourier transforms for the signals and calculating a CSP (cross-power spectrum phase) coefficient by superpositioning multiple frequency-bin components based on correlation of the two spectra signals received and then calculating a weighted CSP coefficient from said two discrete Fourier-transformed speech signals. A target voice is separated when received by said devices from other voice signals in a spectrum by using the calculated weighted CSP coefficient.

Abstract: A noise reduction device is configured by use of: means for calculating a predetermined constant, and a predetermined reference signal R?(T) in the frequency domain, respectively by use of adaptive coefficients W?(m), and for thereby obtaining estimated values N? and Q?(T) respectively of stationary noise components, and non-stationary noise components corresponding to the reference signal, which are included in a predetermined observed signal X?(T) in the frequency domain; means and for applying a noise reduction process to the observed signal on the basis of each of the estimated values, and for updating each of the adaptive coefficients on the basis of a result of the process; and an adaptive learning means and for repeating the obtaining of the estimated values and the updating of the adaptive coefficients, and for thereby learning each of the adaptive coefficients.

Abstract: It is an objective of the present invention to form a favorable interface between an oxide layer and a group 3-5 compound semiconductor using a practical and simple method. Provided is a semiconductor wafer comprising a first semiconductor layer that is a group 3-5 compound not containing arsenic and that lattice matches or pseudo-lattice matches with InP; and a second semiconductor layer that is formed to contact the first semiconductor layer, is a group 3-5 compound semiconductor layer that lattice matches or pseudo-lattice matches with InP, and can be selectively oxidized relative to the first semiconductor layer.

Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor wafer having decreased interface state density at the semiconductor-insulator interface, a method of manufacturing this semiconductor wafer, and a semiconductor device. Provided is a semiconductor wafer comprising a group 3-5 compound semiconductor layer containing arsenic; and an insulating layer that is an oxide, a nitride, or an oxynitride, wherein arsenic oxides are not detected between the semiconductor layer and the insulating layer. This semiconductor wafer may be such that, when using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy to observe photoelectron intensity of an element existing between the semiconductor layer and the insulating layer, an oxide peak caused by oxidized arsenic is not detected on a higher bonding energy side of an element peak caused by the arsenic.

Abstract: Method for processing speech signal data. A speech signal is divided into frames. Each frame is characterized by a frame number T representing a unique interval of time. Each speech signal is characterized by a power spectrum with respect to frame T and frequency band ?. A speech segment and a reverberation segment of the speech signal is determined. L filter coefficients W(k) (k=1, 2, . . . , L) respectively corresponding to L frames immediately preceding frame T are computed such that the L filter coefficients minimize a function ? that is a linear combination of sum of squares of a residual speech power in the reverberation segment and a sum of squares of a subtracted speech power in the speech segment. The computed L filter coefficients are stored within storage media of the computing apparatus.

Abstract: Provision to reduce production of musical noise. A noise reduction device includes: means for calculating a rank for each element included in a first region having predetermined sizes in the time axis direction and in the frequency axis direction, depending on a value of the element, in a noise section of an observed signal indicating variation of a frequency spectrum with time; means for calculating a rank for each element included in a second region, depending on a value of the element, the second region having predetermined sizes in the time axis direction and in the frequency axis direction in the observed signal; and means for subtracting, from the values of the respective elements in the second region, values based on the values of the respective elements in the first region whose ranks correspond to ranks of respective elements in the second region.

Abstract: For design of a speech interface accepting speech control options, speech samples are stored on a computer-readable medium. A similarity calculating unit calculates a certain indication of similarity of first and second sets of ones of the speech samples, the first set of speech samples being associated with a first speech control option and the second set of speech samples being associated with a second speech control option. A display unit displays the similarity indication. In another aspect, word vectors are generated for the respective speech sample sets, indicating frequencies of occurrence of respective words in the respective speech sample sets. The similarity calculating unit calculates the similarity indication responsive to the word vectors of the respective speech sample sets. In another aspect, a perplexity indication is calculated for respective speech sample sets responsive to language models for the respective speech sample sets.

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit is configured to test a high-speed memory at the actual operation speed of the memory, even when the operation speed of the built-in self-test circuit of the integrated circuit is restricted. In order to test a memory operating on a first clock, the integrated circuit is provided with a first test pattern generation section, operating on a second clock, for generating test data, and a second test pattern generation section, operating on a third clock, the inverted clock of the second clock, for generating test data. Furthermore, the integrated circuit is provided with a test data selection section for selectively outputting either the test data output from the first test pattern generation section or the test data output from the second test pattern generation section depending on the signal value of the second clock, thereby inputting the test data to the memory as test data.