Abstract: A three-dimensional video processing apparatus includes: a video obtaining unit which obtains a 3D video for three-dimensional viewing; a position obtaining unit which obtains a position of a first area which is an area included in a part of the 3D video; a disparity obtaining unit which obtains disparity amounts of the 3D video; a determination unit which determines a size of an enlargement area; and an area selection unit which selects, as the enlargement area, at least one second area that has disparity amounts within a predetermined range, includes the first area, and has a size determined by the determination unit.

Abstract: A stereoscopic image processing apparatus includes an input/output interface operable to obtain a stereoscopic image including images at least at two view points, a parallax information detector operable to obtain parallax information about a parallax value for at least one of an upper region including an upper end and a lower region including a lower end of the obtained stereoscopic image, a display method setting unit operable to set a display method of an image on the region for which the parallax information is obtained, based on the parallax information about the region, an signal processor operable to process the image of the stereoscopic image on the region for which the parallax information is obtained, based on the set display method, and an signal processor operable to output a new stereoscopic image obtained based on the processed result.

Abstract: An image generating system determines respective luminance values of multiple polygons representing a surface of a subject rendered by reference to a texture image attached to the multiple polygons. The system includes a capturing section storing a texture image of an object deformed by external force; a memory section retaining a correspondence table including information about a position of one polygon set corresponding to a position on a surface of the object to which no external force is applied, information about a stress vector indicating external force applied to the position on the surface of the object and associated with the one polygon corresponding to the position on the surface of the object to which external force is applied, and information about the luminance value of the texture image of the object to which the external force is applied; and a texture mapping section making reference to the table.

Abstract: A tactile feedback system includes: a removing section for removing a contact-device-specific oscillating waveform, included in both a first contact-generated waveform representing a frictional vibration produced when a contact device contacts with one object and a second contact-generated waveform representing a frictional vibration produced when the contact device contacts with another object, from the first contact-generated waveform; a superposing section for superposing a finger-pulp-specific oscillating waveform, included in both the first finger-pulp-generated waveform representing a frictional vibration produced when a person's finger pulp contacts with the one object and the second finger-pulp-generated waveform representing a frictional vibration produced when the finger pulp contacts with that another object, on the first contact-generated waveform from which the contact-device-specific oscillating waveform has been removed; and a simulating section for displaying a vibration stimulation based on t

Abstract: The present invention realizes highly realistic texture mapping even if the object, to which a texture is going to be attached, has been deformed. The image generating system of this invention includes: a capturing section for storing data about a texture image representing a subject that has been deformed by external force; a memory section for retaining a table of correspondence in which for each of multiple polygons, associated with each other are: position information about a position where one polygon, to which no external force is applied, is located; information about a stress vector indicating external force applied to the position of that polygon; and information about the luminance value of a texture image when the external force is applied; and a texture mapping section for making reference to the table with the position information of the object's polygon, to which no external force is applied, and the information about the stress vector to act on the object's polygon.

Abstract: The present invention provides a technique for sensing and reproducing various feels, which a person gets discretely over a period of time, by time sequential sensing. A tactile processor includes: a movement measuring section for determining a status of contact between a person and an object; a physical measuring section for measuring a physical property value of the object; and a physical-psychological transformation section for generating a tactile feature quantity based on the physical property value that has been measured by the physical measuring section and on the weight of the physical property of an arbitrary object. The weight is variable according a status of contact between the person and the arbitrary object and is calculated based on not only a physical property value representing the status of contact between the person and the arbitrary object but also a tactile feature quantity representing a feel that the person gets when touching the arbitrary object.

Abstract: A dialog supporting apparatus which can support an on-going dialog so that the dialog is smoothly completed. The dialog supporting apparatus includes an utterance receiving unit receiving an utterance of a dialog participant and outputting utterance information, an utterance processing unit translating the utterance identified by the utterance information, an utterance output unit outputting the translated utterance information, a dialog history database, an utterance prediction generating a first utterance prediction information based on the first utterance prediction information and the second utterance prediction information.

Abstract: A speech recognition device presenting whether a user's utterance is an unregistered word and whether the utterance should be repeated. The device includes a vocabulary storage unit (102) defining a vocabulary for speech recognition, and a speech recognition unit (101) checking the uttered speech against registered words. The device also includes a similarity calculation unit (103) calculating a similarity between the uttered speech and acoustic units, a judgment unit (104) judging, based on the check by the speech recognition unit (101) and the calculation performed by the similarity calculation unit (103), whether the uttered speech is a registered or unregistered word, an unregistered word unit (106) storing unregistered words, an unregistered word candidate search unit (105) searching the unregistered word unit (106) for unregistered word candidates, the, when the judgment unit (104) judges that the uttered speech is an unregistered word, and a display unit (107) displaying the result.

Abstract: A named entity extracting apparatus that extracts a named entity suitable for a user by enabling an order to be set in which the named entity is extracted from texts includes: an extraction order reading unit 103 that acquires a named entity pattern name stored in association with an extraction order in an extraction order storage unit 102; a named entity extracting unit 105 that extracts the named entity from input texts using a named entity pattern corresponding to the named entity pattern name acquired by the extraction order reading unit 103; and an extraction end judging unit 106 which outputs, in the case where extraction has not ended, a text on which the extraction is in progress to the extraction order reading unit 103, and continues the named entity extraction processing.

Abstract: A dialog supporting apparatus is provided which can support an on-going dialog so that the dialog is smoothly completed irrespective of the other party in the dialog. The dialog supporting apparatus includes utterance receiving units which receive the utterances of the dialog participants and output utterance information for identifying an utterance. Moreover, the dialog supporting apparatus includes utterance outputting units which output the utterance information from the other participant in the dialog as an utterance, and an utterance processing unit which transforms the utterance identified by the utterance information into an other utterance form. Furthermore, the dialog supporting apparatus includes a dialog history selection unit which selects an optimum dialog history in a dialog history database and an utterance prediction unit which predicts utterances in the dialog based on the selected dialog history.

Abstract: A dialogue supporting apparatus that easily selects a desired sample sentence from among candidate-sample sentences corresponding to inputted speech.

Abstract: A dialog supporting device supporting improved dialog by reducing the number of utterances resulting from misunderstandings and hasty conclusions.

Abstract: A named entity extracting apparatus that extracts a named entity suitable for a user by enabling an order to be set in which the named entity is extracted from texts includes: an extraction order reading unit 103 that acquires a named entity pattern name stored in association with an extraction order in an extraction order storage unit 102; a named entity extracting unit 105 that extracts the named entity from input texts using a named entity pattern corresponding to the named entity pattern name acquired by the extraction order reading unit 103; and an extraction end judging unit 106 which outputs, in the case where extraction has not ended, a text on which the extraction is in progress to the extraction order reading unit 103, and continues the named entity extraction processing.

Abstract: Provided is a dialog supporting device which can support dialog to be speedily completed on the whole, by reducing the number of operations required to generate one utterance regardless of dialog partner's interrupting utterances.

Abstract: A dialogue supporting apparatus is provided which carries out a trade-off between the speed of the translation process and the fluency of the translation result, in accordance with the contents of a dialogue.

Abstract: A dialog supporting apparatus which can support an on-going dialog so that the dialog is smoothly completed. The dialog supporting apparatus includes an utterance receiving unit which receives an utterance of a dialog participant and outputs utterance information, an utterance processing unit which translates the utterance identified by the utterance information, an utterance output unit which outputs the translated utterance information, a dialog history database, an utterance prediction unit which generates a first utterance prediction information based on the first utterance prediction information and the second utterance prediction information.

Abstract: There is provided an information retrieval apparatus which can properly retrieve information associated with a user's preference from one of a plurality of data bases having different use frequencies. An information retrieval apparatus includes: a retrieval instruction issue unit which identifies one of an information source A data base, an information source B data base and an information source C data base according to the user's operation; a retrieval keyword selection unit which preferentially selects, from a group of keywords indicating the user's preference, one or more strongly preferred keywords based on a number associated with the use frequency of the data base identified by the retrieval instruction issue unit; and a retrieval unit which retrieves information including the one or more keywords selected by the retrieval keyword selection unit from the data base identified by the retrieval instruction issue unit.

Abstract: A speech recognition device that is capable of presenting, to a user in an easy-to-understand manner, whether or not the user's utterance is a word unregistered in a speech recognition dictionary and whether or not the utterance should be repeated due to a recognition error includes: a speech recognition vocabulary storage unit (102) which defines vocabulary for speech recognition; a speech recognition unit (101) which checks the uttered speech against the registered words; a reference similarity calculation unit (103) which calculates a similarity between the uttered speech and a combination of acoustic units, which are subwords; an unregistered word judgment unit (104) which judges, based on the result of the check by the speech recognition unit (101) and a result of the calculation performed by the reference similarity calculation unit (103), whether the uttered speech is a registered word or an unregistered word; an unregistered word storage (106) which stores unregistered words; an unregistered word cand

Abstract: A dialog supporting apparatus which can support an on-going dialog so that the dialog is smoothly completed. The dialog supporting apparatus includes an utterance receiving unit which receives an utterance of a dialog participant and outputs utterance information, an utterance processing unit which translates the utterance identified by the utterance information, an utterance output unit which outputs the translated utterance information, a dialog history database, an utterance prediction unit which generates a first utterance prediction information based on the first utterance prediction information and the second utterance prediction information.

Abstract: Provided is a dialog supporting device which supports dialog to speedily complete by reducing the number of utterances resulted from misunderstandings and hasty conclusion.