Abstract: An information providing device, an information providing method, and a program capable of assisting in creating user's inspiration and improving efficiency in creating inspiration are provided. The information providing device is an information providing device displaying first data extracted from a first data group and second data extracted from a second data group in combination, and includes: a first memory unit storing a data group classified under a genre as the first data group; and a second memory unit storing a data group related to the genre of the first data group as the second data group.

Abstract: A vehicle control device includes an information acquisition unit that acquires road surface condition information indicative of a road surface condition determined on the basis of sound data obtained by performing sound source separation with respect to a sound acquired by a microphone array, a storage unit in which there is stored control content in accordance with the road surface condition, and a control unit which controls a drive unit provided on a vehicle, on the basis of the control content in accordance with the road surface condition indicated by the road surface condition information.

Abstract: An object authentication device includes a speech recognition unit configured to obtain candidates for a speech recognition result for an input speech and a likelihood of the speech as a speech likelihood and an image model generation unit configured to obtain image models of a predetermined number of candidates for the speech recognition result in descending order of speech likelihoods, wherein the image model generation unit initially performs retrieval from an image model database storing the image models when the image models for the candidates for the speech recognition result are generated and generates an image model from information acquired from a network if the image model is not stored in the image model database.

Abstract: An information providing device presenting a first and a second word respectively extracted from a first and a second word group includes: a first and a second memory unit respectively storing the first and the second word group; a word extraction unit extracting a word from the second word group as the second word; a sound collection unit collecting a voice signal; and a voice recognition unit performing voice recognition on the collected voice signal, wherein the first memory unit stores a word group of a discussion theme in the first word group; the second memory unit stores a word group corresponding to the first word in the second word group, and the word extraction unit stores a new word in the second word group based on a voice recognition result of content spoken by a speaker at a meeting where the first word and the second word are presented.

Abstract: An object authentication device includes a speech recognition unit configured to obtain candidates for a speech recognition result for an input speech and a likelihood of the speech as a speech likelihood, an image model generation unit configured to obtain image models of a predetermined number of candidates for the speech recognition result in descending order of speech likelihoods, an image likelihood calculation unit configured to obtain an image likelihood based on an image model of an input image, and an object authentication unit configured to perform object authentication using the image likelihood, wherein vocabularies predicted through speech recognition are categorized and the image model is formed in association with a category.

Abstract: A vehicle control device includes an information acquisition unit that acquires road surface condition information indicative of a road surface condition determined on the basis of sound data obtained by performing sound source separation with respect to a sound acquired by a microphone array, a storage unit in which there is stored control content in accordance with the road surface condition, and a control unit which controls a drive unit provided on a vehicle, on the basis of the control content in accordance with the road surface condition indicated by the road surface condition information.

Abstract: A vehicle control device includes an information acquisition unit that acquires road surface condition information indicative of a road surface condition determined on the basis of a sound acquired by a microphone, a storage unit in which there is stored control content in accordance with the road surface condition, and a control unit which controls a drive unit provided on a vehicle, on the basis of the control content in accordance with the road surface condition indicated by the road surface condition information.

Abstract: A vehicle control device includes an information acquisition unit that acquires road surface condition information indicative of a road surface condition determined on the basis of a sound acquired by a microphone and a road surface image acquired by capturing an image of a road surface, a storage unit in which there is stored control content in accordance with the road surface condition, and a control unit which controls a drive unit provided on a vehicle, on the basis of the control content in accordance with the road surface condition indicated by the road surface condition information.

Abstract: A voice processing device includes: a sound source localization unit configured to determine a direction of each sound source on the basis of voice signals of a plurality of channels; a sound source separation unit configured to separate signals for respective sound sources indicating components of respective sound sources from the voice signals of the plurality of channels; a speech section detection unit configured to detect a speech section in which the number of speakers is 1 from the signals for respective sound sources; and a speaker identification unit configured to identify a speaker on the basis of the signals for respective sound sources in the speech section.

Abstract: A conference system includes an utterance indication processing unit configured to display text information representing utterance content of each speaker on a display unit of each of one or more terminals, and a notification unit configured to notify a speaker of a request to slow down a speech rate of the speaker.

Abstract: An interaction device includes a voice collection unit that collects a speech of a speaker, a voice recognition section that recognizes voice of the speech collected by the voice collection unit, a speech content understanding section that understands a speech content on the basis of the recognized content, a response sentence generation section that generates a response sentence in accordance with the speech content, an output unit that outputs the response sentence, a detection section that detects that the speech between the speaker and the interaction device has been broken, and a connection control section that controls a connection between the speaker and a person in charge of a center on the basis of the speech content understood by the speech content understanding section and a vacant state of the person in charge of the center when the speech has been broken.

Abstract: An information providing device presenting a first and a second word respectively extracted from a first and a second word group includes: a first and a second memory unit respectively storing the first and the second word group; a word extraction unit extracting a word from the second word group as the second word; a sound collection unit collecting a voice signal; and a voice recognition unit performing voice recognition on the collected voice signal, wherein the first memory unit stores a word group of a discussion theme in the first word group; the second memory unit stores a word group corresponding to the first word in the second word group, and the word extraction unit stores a new word in the second word group based on a voice recognition result of content spoken by a speaker at a meeting where the first word and the second word are presented.

Abstract: An information providing device, an information providing method, and a recording medium capable of assisting in creating user's inspiration and improving efficiency in creating inspiration are provided. The information providing device is an information providing device presenting a first word, and a second word extracted from a second word group, the information providing device including: a second memory unit storing the second word group comprising a plurality of second words corresponding to the first word, and stores the second word group by level of the second words; and a word extraction unit extracting a second word corresponding to the first word from the second word group, wherein the first word is a discussion theme, and a charging system is different for each level in the second word group.

Abstract: An information providing device, an information providing method, and a program capable of assisting in creating user's inspiration and improving efficiency in creating inspiration are provided. The information providing device is an information providing device displaying first data extracted from a first data group and second data extracted from a second data group in combination, and includes: a first memory unit storing a data group classified under a genre as the first data group; and a second memory unit storing a data group related to the genre of the first data group as the second data group.

Abstract: An optical communication apparatus includes: a reception unit that receives, from a transmission apparatus which transmits a light signal including predetermined information, the transmitted light signal; a multipath removal unit that recognizes, when detecting a plurality of images having the same optical information in the received light signal, the light signal due to a reflection wave based on at least one of a luminance of the light signal, a size of an image corresponding to the light signal when receiving at the reception unit, and a propagation distance of the light signal and removes the light signal due to the reflection wave; and an control unit that acquires, from the light signal received by the reception unit, information based on the light signal obtained by removing the light signal due to the reflection wave by the multipath removal unit.

Abstract: A conference support system includes a plurality of terminals which are respectively used by a plurality of participants in a conference, and a conference support device. Each of the plurality of terminals includes an operation unit configured to sets utterance content as an important comment, and an important comment notifying unit configured to notify the other terminals of information indicating the important comment.

Abstract: An audio processing device includes a sound source localization unit that determines respective directions of sound sources from audio signals of a plurality of channels, a setting information selection unit that selects a setting information from a setting information storage unit that stores setting information including transfer functions of directions in advance for each acoustic environment, and a sound source separation unit that separates the audio signals of the plurality of channels into respective sound-source-specific signals of sound sources by applying a separation matrix based on transfer functions included in the setting information selected by the setting information selection unit.

Abstract: A conference system includes an utterance indication processing unit configured to display text information representing utterance content of each speaker on a display unit of each of one or more terminals, and a notification unit configured to notify a speaker of a request to slow down a speech rate of the speaker.

Abstract: An object authentication device includes a speech recognition unit configured to obtain candidates for a speech recognition result for an input speech and a likelihood of the speech as a speech likelihood, an image model generation unit configured to obtain image models of a predetermined number of candidates for the speech recognition result in descending order of speech likelihoods, an image likelihood calculation unit configured to obtain an image likelihood based on an image model of an input image, and an object authentication unit configured to perform object authentication using the image likelihood, wherein vocabularies predicted through speech recognition are categorized and the image model is formed in association with a category.

Abstract: An object recognition device includes an imaging device configured to capture an image including a recognition target object, an image model configured to pre-accumulate image data, and an image recognition unit configured to authenticate the object of the captured image using the image captured by the imaging device and the image model, wherein when an unauthenticated object is present, the image recognition unit retrieves and acquires an image of the unauthenticated object via a network, generates the image data from the acquired image, and recognizes an object name of the object on the basis of the generated image data.