Abstract: A first communication terminal includes a first storage unit for storing first and second identification information for identifying first and second communication terminals, respectively, a first generation unit for generating a room name based on the first and second identification information, and a first communication unit for transmitting to a server device a request to generate a room for communicating data, and the room name The first communication unit transmits information indicating an invitation to the room and the first identification information to the second communication terminal via a network in accordance with the second identification information, and accesses the room corresponding to the room name.

Abstract: A mobile phone is disclosed wherein an operation window is displayed on a display unit. Buttons for input of information for controlling processing related to an application executed in the mobile phone are displayed in the operation window. A touch panel is provided on the display unit. When a user drags his/her finger on the touch panel as indicated by an arrow, a display position of the operation window is shifted so as to be dragged by the user's finger.

Abstract: The character input device (5) (i) determines an input candidate that is a character string to be inputted at an input position on a basis of a character string before the input position, (ii) causes a display screen to display a candidate selection key to which the determined input candidate is assigned in such a manner as to allow a user to select the candidate selection key, and (iii) when the displayed candidate selection key is selected, inputs at the input position the character string of the input candidate assigned to the selected candidate selection key, the character input device including a first candidate determination section (38) for assigning a Caps key to the candidate selection key, a second candidate determination section (39) for assigning a Done key to the candidate selection key, and an editing candidate determination section (40) for assigning a Clear key to the candidate selection key. This allows determining an input candidate with high probability.

Abstract: A voice recognition apparatus capable of recognizing any word utterance by using a neural network, the apparatus includes a unit for inputting an input utterance and for outputting compressed feature variables of the input utterance a unit using a neural network and connected to the input unit for receiving the compressed feature variables output from the input unit and for outputting a value corresponding to a similarity between the input utterance and words to be recognized. The neural network unit has a first unit for outputting a value which corresponds to a similarity in partial phoneme series of a specific word among vocabularies to be recognized with respect to the input utterance. The neural network also has a second unit connected to the first unit for receiving all of the values output from the first unit and for outputting a value corresponding to a similarity in the specific word with respect to the input utterance.

Abstract: An apparatus for calculating a sum of products of proper elements in matrix, connected to a receiving device (21) for receiving an input vector and having a memory (11, 12) capable of storing data used to determine whether each of the matrix elements is zero or nonzero and storing data representative of contents of the matrix elements having nonzeros, the apparatus being capable of reducing a required capacity of the memory (11, 12) and a number of calculation processes in a linear transformation of the input vector received at the receiving device (21) by using a transformation matrix having matrix elements of a large scale sparse matrix, the transformation matrix being represented in a two-dimensional array and stored in the memory (11, 12), the apparatus includes a determining unit connected to the memory (11, 12) for determining whether each of the matrix elements in the transformation matrix is zero or nonzero in accordance with the zero data or the nonzero data stored in the memory (11, 12), and a calcu

Abstract: A neurocomputer connected to a host computer, the neurocomputer having a plurality of processor elements, each of the processor elements being placed at each of node of a lattice respectively, the neurocomputer includes a plurality of first processor elements, each of the first processor elements being placed at a node of the lattice, capable of transmitting data from and to the host computer and capable of transmitting the data to one of adjacent processor elements, a plurality of second processor elements, each of the second processor elements being placed at a node of the lattice, capable of receiving the data from one of adjacent processor elements, and capable of sending the data to another adjacent processor elements from which the data is not outputted.