Abstract: An electromagnetic resonance coupler includes: a transmitting resonator provided on a transmission substrate and having an open loop shape having an opening, first wiring provided on the transmission substrate and connected to a first connection point on the transmitting resonator, a receiving resonator provided on a reception substrate, second wiring provided on the reception substrate and connected to a second connection point on the receiving resonator, and third wiring provided on the reception substrate and connected to a third connection point on the receiving resonator. When viewed in a direction perpendicular to a main surface of the transmission substrate, the transmission substrate and the reception substrate face each other so that the transmitting resonator and the receiving resonator are symmetric about a point and have matching contours.

Abstract: An electromagnetic resonance coupler including: a transmitting resonator provided on a transmission substrate and having an open loop shape having an opening, first wiring provided on the transmission substrate and connected to a first connection point on the transmitting resonator, a receiving resonator provided on the reception substrate, second wiring provided on the reception substrate and connected to a second connection point on the receiving resonator, and third wiring provided on the reception substrate and connected to a third connection point on the receiving resonator. When viewed in a direction perpendicular to a main surface of the transmission substrate, the transmission substrate and the reception substrate are provided facing each other so that the transmitting resonator and the receiving resonator are symmetric about a point and have matching contours.

Abstract: An electromagnetic resonance coupler including: a transmitting resonator provided on a transmission substrate and having an open loop shape having an opening, first wiring provided on the transmission substrate and connected to a first connection point on the transmitting resonator, a receiving resonator provided on the reception substrate, second wiring provided on the reception substrate and connected to a second connection point on the receiving resonator, and third wiring provided on the reception substrate and connected to a third connection point on the receiving resonator. When viewed in a direction perpendicular to a main surface of the transmission substrate, the transmission substrate and the reception substrate are provided facing each other so that the transmitting resonator and the receiving resonator are symmetric about a point and have matching contours.

Abstract: An electromagnetic resonance coupler including: a transmitting resonator provided on a transmission substrate and having an open loop shape having an opening, first wiring provided on the transmission substrate and connected to a first connection point on the transmitting resonator, a receiving resonator provided on the reception substrate, second wiring provided on the reception substrate and connected to a second connection point on the receiving resonator, and third wiring provided on the reception substrate and connected to a third connection point on the receiving resonator. When viewed in a direction perpendicular to a main surface of the transmission substrate, the transmission substrate and the reception substrate are provided facing each other so that the transmitting resonator and the receiving resonator are symmetric about a point and have matching contours.

Abstract: Questions and answers associated with each other are stored in a document storage section. A clustering section classifies the answers in the document storage section into clusters based on feature vectors of the answers. When a natural language question is input by the user, a database retrieval/updating section retrieves a question similar to the input question, and presents answers associated with the retrieved question together for each cluster to the user or an expert. In addition, the database retrieval/updating section automatically updates the document storage section based on an answer selected as most appropriate by the user or the expert if selected, or based on an answer newly input by the expert if no appropriate answer is available. The natural language answer input by the expert is presented to the user as it is.

Abstract: Questions and answers associated with each other are stored in a document storage section. A clustering section classifies the answers in the document storage section into clusters based on feature vectors of the answers. When a natural language question is input by the user, a database retrieval/updating section retrieves a question similar to the input question, and presents answers associated with the retrieved question together for each cluster to the user or an expert. In addition, the database retrieval/updating section automatically updates the document storage section based on an answer selected as most appropriate by the user or the expert if selected, or based on an answer newly input by the expert if no appropriate answer is available. The natural language answer input by the expert is presented to the user as it is.

Abstract: A digital camera used for taking photographs is connected to a terminal to print one or more selected among the photographs on the spot. An advertisement supplied from an advertising server is added to the bottom of the printed photograph, to reduce the proportion of cost born by the user with the advertisement charge. After the photograph is printed, the digital camera is collected by the terminal for recycling. The photograph can also be temporarily uploaded to the Web, so that the user can download the photograph to the user's personal computer afterwards.

Abstract: The invention relates to an interface apparatus for making input and output of appliances having display such as computer, word processor, information appliance and television, comprising recognizing means for recognizing the shape or move of the hand of an operator, display means for displaying the features of the shape or move of the hand recognized by the recognizing means as special shape in the screen, and control means for controlling the information displayed in the screen by the special shape displayed in the screen by the display means, wherein the two-dimensional or three-dimensional information displayed in the screen can be selected, indicated or moved only by changing the shape or moving the hand, so that the interface apparatus of very excellent controllability and high diversity may be presented.

Abstract: At the start of a process, an information presenting section presents information expressed by a solution vector, while an auxiliary information presenting section presents information for facilitating comparative evaluation of multiple pieces of information being presented simultaneously. Based on these pieces of information, the user evaluates each solution vector. A model estimation executing section generates an evaluation model for an adjustment process from a user evaluation history, and thereafter, a model evaluation calculating section performs evaluation using the evaluation model. A fitness calculating section calculates fitness from the evaluation made by the user or by the model, and in accordance with the thus calculated fitness, a recombination operation section performs an arithmetical recombination operation. The above process is iteratively performed to carry out optimum adjustment of solution vectors.

Abstract: There is disclosed a character recognition machine adapted to recognize Japanese characters such as kanjis and kanas. The machine comprises a character string storage portion, a character extraction portion, a character recognition portion, and a language processing portion. A character string to be recognized is stored as an image in the storage portion. The character extraction portion comprises a network consisting a plurality of interconnected operators each of which has numerous inputs and outputs. An evaluation function which assumes its minimum value when a character extraction produces the best results is calculated by the operators simultaneously so as to minimize the value of the function. The character recognition portion calculates degrees of similarity of a character pattern to various character categories, the character pattern being applied from the character extraction portion.

Abstract: An input/display integrated information processing device has: image display circuit for displaying document and image information; image input circuit through which information of an image such as a picture, a photograph, documents drawn or written on a sheet presented by the user can be an input; a visual coincidence structure for integrally combining a display screen of the image display circuit with an input screen of image input circuit so as to establish visual coincidence of screens as viewed from the user; contact information detection circuit for, when a finger of the user, the sheet presented by the user, or the like makes contact with the contact information detection circuit, detecting information of a contact position, the contact information detection circuit being disposed on the whole of the input screen of the image input circuit or the display screen of the image display circuit; image extraction circuit for automatically extracting only a required portion from image information input throug

Abstract: At the start of a process, an information presenting section presents information expressed by a solution vector, while an auxiliary information presenting section presents information for facilitating comparative evaluation of multiple pieces of information being presented simultaneously. Based on these pieces of information, the user evaluates each solution vector. A model estimation executing section generates an evaluation model for an adjustment process from a user evaluation history, and thereafter, a model evaluation calculating section performs evaluation using the evaluation model. A fitness calculating section calculates fitness from the evaluation made by the user or by the model, and in accordance with the thus calculated fitness, a recombination operation section performs an arithmetical recombination operation. The above process is iteratively performed to carry out optimum adjustment of solution vectors.

Abstract: There is disclosed a character recognition machine adapted to recognize Japanese characters such as kanjis and kanas. The machine comprises a character string storage portion, a character extraction portion, a character recognition portion, and a language processing portion. A character string to be recognized is stored as an image in the storage portion. The character extraction portion comprises a network consisting a plurality of interconnected operators each of which has numerous inputs and outputs. An evaluation function which assumes its minimum value when a character extraction produces the best results is calculated by the operators simultaneously so as to minimize the value of the function. The character recognition portion calculates degrees of similarity of a character pattern to various character categories, the character pattern being applied from the character extraction portion.

Abstract: A learning type signal recording and reproducing apparatus has a signal detector for detecting signals recorded on recording media, a teaching signal generator for generating reference teaching signals having predetermined waveform signal patterns, and a learning type waveform converter for generating converting rules from signals recorded on the recording medium to original signals corresponding to the recorded signals, by learning the relationship between the detection results by the signal detector of teaching signals recorded on the recording media and reference teaching signals outputted by the teaching signal generator. With this apparatus, signals can be stably reproduced even if the signals contain distortion caused by noise or difference in the recording media.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus in which gradation correction on each partial region is performed between an image input means and an edge extracting means so that an edge of a region within an image is accurately extracted. An image dividing means 2, which had already learned a relationship between the condition of an image and the necessity of image division so as to judge the condition of the image based on learning results and divide the image appropriately, divides an input image from an image input means 1 into a plurality of image blocks. An image correction information extracting means 3 calculates correction information on each image block.

Abstract: An input/display integrated information processing device has: image display circuit for displaying document and image information; image input circuit through which information of an image such as a picture, a photograph, documents drawn or written on a sheet presented by the user can be an input; a visual coincidence structure for integrally combining a display screen of the image display circuit with an input screen of the image input circuit so as to establish visual coincidence of screens as viewed from the user; contact information detection circuit for, when a finger of the user, the sheet presented by the user, or the like makes contact with the contact information detection circuit, detecting information of a contact position, the contact information detection circuit being disposed on the whole of the input screen of the image input circuit or the display screen of the image display circuit; image extraction circuit for automatically extracting only a required portion from image information input th

Abstract: A character recognition apparatus is provided which, even when there occurs a local positional deviation of a character to be recognized, can stably recognize the character with high accuracy. For each contour point of a character image, a contouring direction code imparting unit 15 obtains a contouring direction code in which a contouring line direction of the character is quantized in four directions. A contouring direction code frequency calculation unit 16 calculates the frequency of each contouring direction code for each subregion of the character image. A contouring direction code density calculation unit 17 calculates the density of the contouring direction codes of each subregion, by using the frequency of the direction codes and the size of the respective subregion.

Abstract: An inspection method for judging whether an object is defective or not uses a neural network comprising an input neuron which quantizes input feature quantities based on present quantization ranges, a plurality of intermediate neuron coupled to the input neuron with coupling coefficients determined from quantized feature quantities and a pair of output neurons coupled to respective intermediate neurons with intermediate coupling coefficients obtained by learning in which the intermediate coupling coefficients are initially set so that any object is judged to be defective and are fitted so that if an object is nondefective then it is judged to be nondefective by performing learning with use of nondefective objects.

Abstract: In a multilayered neural network for recognizing and processing characteristic data of images and the like by carrying out network arithmetical operations, characteristic data memories store the characteristic data of the layers. Coefficient memories store respective coupling coefficients of the layers other than the last layer. A weight memory stores weights of neurons of the last layer. Address converters carry out arithmetical operations to find out addresses of nets of the network whose coupling coefficients are significant. A table memory outputs a total coupling coefficient obtained by inter-multiplying the significant coupling coefficients read out from the coefficient memories of the layers. A cumulative operation unit performs cumulative additions of the product of the total coupling coefficient times the weight of the weight memory. Arithmetical operations are carried out only on particular nets with a significant coupling coefficient value. The speed of operation and recognition can be improved.

Abstract: In an information processing apparatus for implementing a neural network, if an input vector is inputted to a calculating unit, a neuron which responds to the input vector is retrieved in accordance with network interconnection information stored in a first storage unit and the neuron number indicating the retrieved neuron is written in a first register. The calculating unit reads out the internal information of the neuron stored in a second storage unit by using the neuron number, writes it in a second register, and calculates the sum of products of the outputs of the neurons and the connection loads of synapses connected to the neurons. By repeating the sequence of operations by the number of times corresponding to the total number of input vectors, a recognition process is executed. The neural network can easily be expanded by rewriting the contents of the first and second storage units.