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20120166176 | SPEECH TRANSLATION SYSTEM, DICTIONARY SERVER, AND PROGRAM - A conventional speech recognition dictionary, translation dictionary and speech synthesis dictionary used in speech translation have inconsistencies. Inconsistency among dictionaries can be solved with a dictionary server including an all-language group dictionary storage unit capable of having stored therein, for two or more languages, two or more all-language term information pieces for speech recognition, translation and speech synthesis, an information-for-speech-recognition sending unit that acquires information for speech recognition including speech recognition information of a term for all languages, and sends the information to one or more speech recognition servers, an information-for-translation sending unit that acquires information for translation including the written form of the term for all languages, and sends the information to one or more translation servers, and an information-for-speech-synthesis sending unit that acquires information for speech synthesis including speech synthesis information of a term for all languages, and sends the information to one or more speech synthesis servers. | 06-28-2012 |
20120197629 | SPEECH TRANSLATION SYSTEM, FIRST TERMINAL APPARATUS, SPEECH RECOGNITION SERVER, TRANSLATION SERVER, AND SPEECH SYNTHESIS SERVER - In conventional network-type speech translation systems, devices or models for recognizing or synthesizing speech cannot be changed in accordance with speakers' attributes, and therefore, accuracy is reduced or inappropriate output occurs in each process of speech recognition, translation, and speech synthesis. Accuracy of each processing of speech translation, translation, or speech synthesis is improved and appropriate output is performed in a network-type speech translation system by, based on speaker attributes, appropriately changing the server to perform speech recognition or the speech recognition model, appropriately changing the translation server to perform translation or the translation model, or appropriately changing the speech synthesis server or speech synthesis model. | 08-02-2012 |
20120221321 | SPEECH TRANSLATION SYSTEM, CONTROL DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD - Appropriate processing results or appropriate apparatuses can be selected with a control device that selects the most probable speech recognition result by using speech recognition scores received with speech recognition results from two or more speech recognition apparatuses; sends the selected speech recognition result to two or more translation apparatuses respectively; selects the most probable translation result by using translation scores received with translation results from the two or more translation apparatuses; sends the selected translation result to two or more speech synthesis apparatuses respectively; receives a speech synthesis processing result including a speech synthesis result and a speech synthesis score from each of the two or more speech synthesis apparatuses; selects the most probable speech synthesis result by using the scores; and sends the selected speech synthesis result to a second terminal apparatus. | 08-30-2012 |
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20100001415 | LIQUID EPOXY RESIN COMPOSITION - A liquid epoxy resin composition comprising
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20100016474 | LIQUID EPOXY RESIN COMPOSITION - A liquid epoxy resin composition comprising (A) a liquid epoxy resin, (B) an amine curing agent, and (C) an inorganic filler in an amount of from 50 to 900 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the component (A), wherein the component (B) is contained in such an amount that a molar ratio of epoxy groups of the component (A) to amino groups of the component (B), ranges from 0.6 to less than 1.0, provided that, if the component (B) includes an amine curing agent which is solid in the composition at a temperature of from room temperature to 150° C., a content of such an amine is 30 mol % or less, based on the component (B). | 01-21-2010 |
20100304536 | DAM COMPOSITION FOR USE WITH MULTILAYER SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE UNDERFILL MATERIAL, AND FABRICATION OF MULTILAYER SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE USING THE SAME - A composition comprising (A) an epoxy resin, (B) a curing agent, (C) an inorganic filler having an average particle size of 0.1-10 μm and a maximum particle size of up to 75 μm, and (D) a surface-silylated silica having an average particle size of 0.005 μm to less than 0.1 μm is suited as a dam composition for use with a underfill material in the fabrication of multilayer semiconductor packages. | 12-02-2010 |
20120074596 | SET OF RESIN COMPOSITIONS FOR PREPARING SYSTEM-IN-PACKAGE TYPE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - Set of compositions for preparing system-in-package type semiconductor device. The composition set consists of underfill composition for preparing underfill part and encapsulation resin composition for preparing resin encapsulation part. 1) A cured product of the underfill composition has a glass transition temperature, Tg, ≧100° C. and is the same with or differs from a Tg of a cured product of the encapsulation resin composition by ≦20° C. 2) Total linear expansion coefficient of the cured product of the underfill composition at a temperature not higher than (Tg−30)° C. and a linear expansion coefficient of the cured product of the encapsulation resin composition at a temperature not higher than (Tg−30)° C. is ≦42 ppm/° C. 3) A ratio of the linear expansion coefficient of the cured product of the encapsulation resin composition to the linear expansion coefficient of the cured product of the underfill composition ranges from 0.3 to 1.0. | 03-29-2012 |
20120184646 | SEMICONDUCTOR-ENCAPSULATING LIQUID EPOXY RESIN COMPOSITION AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor-encapsulating liquid epoxy resin composition comprises (A) a liquid epoxy resin, (B) an aromatic amine curing agent, and (C) an inorganic filler comprising an inorganic filler A which is a silica having an average particle size of 0.1 to 3 μm, and an inorganic filler B which is an amorphous nanosilica having an average particle size of 5 to 70 nm and having its surface treated with a coupling agent represented by the following formula (1) and/or (2): | 07-19-2012 |
20130181361 | THERMOSETTING RESIN COMPOSITION FOR SEMICONDUCTOR ENCAPSULATION AND ENCAPSULATED SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A thermosetting resin composition for semiconductor encapsulation contains a both end allyl isocyanurate ring-terminated organopolysiloxane polymer as a sole base polymer and an isocyanurate ring-containing organohydrogenpolysiloxane polymer as a sole curing agent or crosslinker. When a semiconductor element array having semiconductor elements mounted on a substrate with an adhesive is encapsulated with the thermosetting resin composition, warp-free semiconductor devices having improved heat resistance and moisture resistance are obtainable. | 07-18-2013 |
20130197129 | LIQUID EPOXY RESIN COMPOSITION AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - Disclosed is a liquid epoxy resin composition containing: (A) a liquid epoxy resin comprising at least one liquid epoxy resin represented by the following general formula (1) or (2): | 08-01-2013 |
20150353731 | HEAT-CURABLE RESIN COMPOSITION - The present invention can provide a heat-curable resin composition which is excellent in insulation property, heat resistance, and preservation stability. The heat-curable resin composition includes (A) cyanate ester compound having at least two cyanate groups in a molecule, (B) phenol curing agent including a resorcinol type phenol resin represented by the formula (1), | 12-10-2015 |
20160040048 | LIQUID EPOXY RESIN COMPOSITION AND ADHESIVE AGENT FOR HEATSINK AND STIFFENER - Provided is a highly reliable adhesive agent for heatsink or stiffener, obtained by improving a conventional epoxy resin composition. The invention is a liquid epoxy resin composition exhibiting a viscosity of 50 to 1,000 Pa·s when measured by an E-type viscometer at 25° C., and including a liquid epoxy resin exhibiting a viscosity of 0.1 to 1,000 Pa·s when measured as above; a liquid phenol-based curing agent without siloxane bond and exhibiting a viscosity of 0.1 to 100 Pa·s when measured as above; a curing accelerator selected from tetraphenylphosphine, imidazole and tertiary amine; an inorganic filler treated with a silane coupling agent and exhibiting an average particle diameter of 0.1 μm or larger; thermoplastic resin particles being solid at 25° C.; and a silica treated with a silane coupling agent having a nonreactive functional group, and exhibiting an average particle diameter of not smaller than 0.005 μm but smaller than 0.1 μm. | 02-11-2016 |
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20120078607 | SPEECH TRANSLATION APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - According to one embodiment, a speech translation apparatus includes a receiving unit, a first recognition unit, a second recognition unit, a first generation unit, a translation unit, a second generation unit, a synthesis unit. The receiving unit is configured to receive a speech in a first language and convert to speech signal. The first recognition unit is configured to perform speech recognition and generate a transcription. The second recognition unit is configured to recognize which emotion type is included in the speech and generate emotion identification information including recognized emotion type(s). The first generation unit is configured to generate a filtered sentence. The translation unit is configured to generate a translation of the filtered sentence in the first language in a second language. The second generation unit is configured to generate an insertion sentence. The synthesis unit is configured to convert the filtered and the insertion sentences into speech signal. | 03-29-2012 |
20120253782 | FOREIGN LANGUAGE SERVICE ASSISTING APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - According to one embodiment, a foreign language service assisting apparatus is provided with first and second acquisition units, a translation unit, a presentation unit and an accepting unit. The first acquisition unit acquires first information on a first article. The second acquisition unit acquires second information on second articles associated with the first article, and subsequent speech candidates expected to be spoken, based on the first information. The translation unit translates the first information, the second information, and the candidates. The presentation unit presents translation result. The accepting unit accepts selection associated with the first or second articles or the candidate. | 10-04-2012 |
20130253924 | Speech Conversation Support Apparatus, Method, and Program - According to one embodiment, a speech conversation support apparatus includes a division unit, an analysis unit, a detection unit, an estimation unit and an output unit. The division unit divides a speech data item including a word item and a sound item into a plurality of divided speech data items. The analysis unit obtains an analysis result. The detection unit detects, for each divided speech data item, at least one clue expression indicating one of an instruction by a user and a state of the user. The estimation unit estimates, if the clue expression is detected, playback data item from at least one divided speech data item corresponding to a speech uttered before the clue expression is detected. The output unit outputs the playback data item. | 09-26-2013 |
20140006007 | SPEECH TRANSLATION APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM | 01-02-2014 |
20150095011 | SPEECH TRANSLATION SYSTEMS, SPEECH TRANSLATION METHOD AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SPEECH TRANSLATION - According to one embodiment, a speech translation system includes a first terminal device including a first speech input unit for inputting a first speech of a first language spoken by a first user, and converting the first speech to a first speech signal; a second terminal device including a second speech input unit for inputting a second speech of a second language spoken by a second user, and converting the second speech to a second speech signal; a speech recognition device that receives the first speech signal and the second speech signal, recognizes the first speech signal to a first recognized text, and recognizes the second speech signal to a second recognized text; a machine translation device that receives the first recognized text and the second recognized text, translates the first recognized text to a first translated text of the second language, and translates the second recognized text to a second translated text of the first language; and a control device; wherein the first terminal device receives (a) a first text set of the first language being the first recognized text and the second translated text, and (b) a second text set of the second language being the second recognized text and the first translated text, and includes a first display unit that displays the first text set and the second text set; and the second terminal device receives at least one text of the second text set, and includes a second display unit that displays the at least one text of the second text set. | 04-02-2015 |
20150199341 | SPEECH TRANSLATION APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - According to one embodiment, a speech translation apparatus includes a speech recognition unit, a translation unit, a search unit and a selection unit. The speech recognition unit successively performs speech recognition to obtain a first language word string. The translation unit translates the first language word string into a second language word string. The search unit search for at least one similar example and acquires the similar example and a translation example. The selection unit selects, in accordance with a user instruction, at least one of the first language word string associated with the similar example and the second language word string associated with the translation example, as a selected word string. | 07-16-2015 |
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20130211818 | SPEECH TRANSLATION APPARATUS, SPEECH TRANSLATION METHOD AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SPEECH TRANSLATION - According to one embodiment, a speech translation apparatus includes a first input unit configured to input a first speech of a first speaker; a second input unit configured to input a second speech of a second speaker that is different from the first speaker; a first translation unit configured to translate the first speech to a first target language sentence; a second translation unit configured to translate the second speech to a second target language sentence; a first output unit configured to output the first target language sentence; a second output unit configured to output the second target language sentence; a speech detecting unit configured to detect a first speech duration from the first speech and detect a second speech duration from the second speech; and an output timing adjustment unit configured to adjust at least one of the first output unit and the second output unit, when the first speech duration and the second speech duration overlap each other. | 08-15-2013 |
20150081270 | SPEECH TRANSLATION APPARATUS, SPEECH TRANSLATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF - According to one embodiment, a speech of a first language is recognized using a speech recognition dictionary to recognize the first language and a second language, and a source sentence of the first language is generated. The source sentence is translated into a second language, and a translation sentence of the second language is generated. An unknown word included in the translation sentence is detected. The unknown word is not stored in the speech recognition dictionary. A first pronunciation candidate of the unknown word is estimated, from a representation of the unknown word. A second pronunciation candidate of the unknown word is estimated from a pronunciation of an original word included in the source sentence corresponding to the unknown word. The unknown word, the first pronunciation candidate and the second pronunciation candidate, are registered into the speech recognition dictionary correspondingly. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081271 | SPEECH TRANSLATION APPARATUS, SPEECH TRANSLATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF - A first speech processing device includes a first speech input unit and a first speech output unit. A second speech processing device includes a second speech input unit and a second speech output unit. In a server therebetween, a speech of a first language sent from the first speech input unit is recognized. The speech recognition result is translated into a second language. The translation result is back translated into the first language. A first speech synthesis signal of the back translation result is sent to the first speech output unit. A second speech synthesis signal of the translation result is sent to the second speech output unit. Duration of the second speech synthesis signal or the first speech synthesis signal is measured. The first speech synthesis signal and the second speech synthesis signal are outputted by synchronizing a start time and an end time thereof, based on the duration. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081274 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSLATING SPEECH, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF - A first speech input device captures a speech of a first language. A first speech output device outputs another speech of the first language. A second speech input device captures a speech of a second language. A second speech output device outputs another speech of the second language. In a speech recognition/translation server, a first speech recognition device receives a first utterance speech of the first language from the first speech input device, and recognizes the first utterance speech. A first machine translation device consecutively translates the first language of the recognition result into the second language without waiting completion of the first utterance speech. A first speech synthesis device generates a second speech of the translation result. A first output adjustment device outputs the first utterance speech and the second speech to the second speech output device by adjusting a volume of the first utterance speech to be smaller than a volume of the second speech. | 03-19-2015 |
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20080208563 | Apparatus and method for translating speech in source language into target language, and computer program product for executing the method - An associated-information storage unit stores a name of associated information and a display position in association with each other. An example storage unit stores a semantic class, an example in a source language, and an example in a target language in association with each other. A dictionary storage unit stores the name of associated information and the semantic class in association with each other. An acquiring unit acquires the name of the associated information corresponding to the display position of the selected associated information from the associated-information storage unit, and acquires a semantic class corresponding to the acquired name of the associated information from the dictionary storage unit. A translation unit acquires an example in the target language corresponding to the acquired semantic class and a speech recognition result from the example storage unit, thereby translating the recognition result. | 08-28-2008 |
20080221877 | User interactive apparatus and method, and computer program product - A response storage unit stores a response, a watching degree relative to a display unit, and an output form of the response to a speaker and the display unit. An extracting unit extracts a request from a speech recognition result. A response determining unit determines a response based on the extracted request. A direction detector detects a viewing direction of a user. A watching-degree determining unit determines a watching degree based on the viewing direction. An output controller obtains an output form corresponding to the response and the determined watching degree from the response storage unit, and output the response to the speaker and the display unit according to the obtained output form. | 09-11-2008 |
20090222257 | SPEECH TRANSLATION APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A translation direction specifying unit specifies a first language and a second language. A speech recognizing unit recognizes a speech signal of the first language and outputs a first language character string. A first translating unit translates the first language character string into a second language character string that will be displayed on a display device. A keyword extracting unit extracts a keyword for a document retrieval from the first language character string or the second language character string, with which a document retrieving unit performs a document retrieval. A second translating unit translates a retrieved document into its opponent language, which will be displayed on the display device. | 09-03-2009 |
20120221323 | TRANSLATION DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a translation unit translates a first sentence in a first language into a sentence in a second language using parallel translations. A next utterance table includes first identification information distinguishing between a sentence in the first language and a sentence in the second language included in the parallel translation and includes second identification information identifying a sentence previously selected as the next utterance of the sentence indicated by the first identification information. An acquiring unit acquires next utterance candidates, which are sentences indicated by the second identification information associated with the first identification information of the first sentence. If the selected next utterance candidate is the first language, the translation unit translates the selected next utterance candidate into the second language. If the selected next utterance candidate is the second language, the translation unit translates the selected candidate into the first language. | 08-30-2012 |
20120296647 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - In an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes: a converting unit; a selecting unit; a dividing unit; a generating unit; and a display processing unit. The converting unit recognizes a voice input from a user into a character string. The selecting unit selects characters from the character string according to designation of the user. The dividing unit converts the selected characters into phonetic characters and divides the phonetic characters into phonetic characters of sound units. The generating unit extracts similar character candidates corresponding to each of the divided phonetic characters of the sound units, from a similar character dictionary storing a plurality of phonetic characters of sound units similar in sound as the similar character candidates in association with each other, and generates correction character candidates for the selected characters. The display processing unit makes a display unit display the generated correction character candidates selectable by the user. | 11-22-2012 |
20130006616 | INFORMATION RETRIEVING APPARATUS, INFORMATION RETRIEVING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, an information retrieving apparatus includes a housing; an input-output unit to perform dialogue processing with a user; a first detecting unit to detect means of transfer which indicates present means of transfer for the user; a second detecting unit to detect a holding status which indicates whether the user is holding the housing; a third detecting unit to detect a talking posture which indicates whether the housing is held near the face of the user; a selecting unit to select, from among a plurality of interaction modes that establish the dialogue processing, an interaction mode according to a combination of the means of transfer, the holding status, and the talking posture; an dialogue manager to control the dialogue processing according to the selected interaction mode; and a information retrieval unit to retrieve information using a keyword that is input during the dialogue processing. | 01-03-2013 |
20130218553 | INFORMATION NOTIFICATION SUPPORTING DEVICE, INFORMATION NOTIFICATION SUPPORTING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, an information notification supporting device includes an analyzer configured to analyze an input voice so as to identify voice information indicating information related to speech; a storage unit configured to store therein a history of the voice information; an output controller configured to determine, using the history of the voice information, whether a user is able to listen to a message of which the user should be notified; and an output unit configured to output the message when it is determined that the user is in a state in which the user is able to listen to the message. | 08-22-2013 |
20130253932 | CONVERSATION SUPPORTING DEVICE, CONVERSATION SUPPORTING METHOD AND CONVERSATION SUPPORTING PROGRAM - A conversation supporting device of an embodiment of the present disclosure has a information storage unit, a recognition resource constructing unit, and a voice recognition unit. Here, the information storage unit stores the information disclosed by a speaker. The recognition resource constructing unit uses the disclosed information to construct the recognition resource including a voice model and a language model for recognition of voice data. The voice recognition unit uses the recognition resource to recognize the voice data. | 09-26-2013 |
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20090322262 | Controller For Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor and Motor Control System - A motor control system includes a power converter, a vector controller for controlling the power converter, an axial error estimating operation for estimating an axial error which is a deviation between the phase estimation value and phase value of the motor, and a rotational speed estimating computing unit | 12-31-2009 |
20110006715 | Control Unit and Control Method for Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor - If magnitude relations between the output terminal voltage based on a DC negative terminal of the inverter and a threshold voltage that is a fixed value are compared, polarity thereof is changed at a predetermined rotor phase. The magnitude relation, for example, is detected by an inexpensive and simple apparatus such as a level shift circuit and a NOT circuit. The rotor phase of the permanent magnet synchronous motor is inferred on the basis of changes in the magnitude relation and if it is differentiated, a rotation speed is inferred. If the inferred values of the rotor phase and rotation speed are fed back to synchronous operation or vector control, the free-running permanent magnet synchronous motor is restarted. | 01-13-2011 |
20120001581 | CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR AC ELECTRIC MOTOR - A control apparatus and a control method for an AC electric motor detect DC bus current plural times at predetermined intervals during first and second predetermined periods and multiply vectors having integrated values of detected values during respective periods as elements by an inverse matrix of a matrix having integrated values during respective periods of sine and cosine functions of output voltage phase of an inverter at the moment that detection is made as elements to thereby estimate reactive and active currents. | 01-05-2012 |
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20080259549 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes an array substrate including a top-emission-type display element which is provided in a rectangular display area, and a driving circuit which is disposed outside of the display area and drives the display element, and a sealing substrate which is disposed to be opposed to the display element of the array substrate and includes a recess portion which is opposed to the display element and is larger than the display area, wherein the sealing substrate further includes, in the recess portion on the outside of the display area, a moisture-absorbing material which is disposed along three or less sides of four sides of the display area, and the moisture-absorbing material and the driving circuit are disposed in a manner to overlap at least partly. | 10-23-2008 |
20110108812 | ORGANIC EL DEVICE - According to one embodiment, an organic EL device includes an insulating substrate, switching elements arranged two-dimensionally above the insulating substrate, an insulating layer positioned above the switching elements and provided with contact holes communicating with the switching elements, respectively, pixel electrodes arranged correspondingly with the switching elements, cover members arranged correspondingly with the contact holes, an organic layer extending over the pixel electrodes, the cover members and a portion of the insulating layer positioned below a region between the pixel electrodes, and a counter electrode positioned above the organic layer. Each pixel electrode includes an electrode body positioned above the insulating layer and a contact section extending in the contact hole and electrically connects the electrode body to the switching element. Each cover member covers the contact section and is made of an insulating material. | 05-12-2011 |
20110121719 | ORGANIC EL DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - According to one embodiment, an organic EL device includes an insulative substrate, a switching element above the insulative substrate, an insulation film above the switching element and includes a contact hole reaching the switching element, a pixel electrode above the insulation film and includes a contact portion extending into the contact hole and electrically connected to the switching element, an organic layer extending over the pixel electrode including the contact portion, and extending over the insulation film in a vicinity of the pixel electrode, and a counter-electrode above the organic layer. | 05-26-2011 |
20110198630 | ORGANIC EL DEVICE - According to one embodiment, an organic EL device includes an insulating substrate, first and second interlayer insulators, pixel electrodes, an organic layer, and a counter electrode. The first interlayer insulator is positioned above the insulating substrate. The second interlayer insulator is positioned on the first interlayer insulator and provided with slits. The pixel electrodes are arranged on the second interlayer insulator. Two or more of the pixels are adjacent to each other with one of regions corresponding to the slits interposed therebetween. The organic layer is positioned on the pixel electrodes and includes an emitting layer. The counter electrode is positioned above the organic layer. | 08-18-2011 |