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20090307647 | LAYOUT DESIGN METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A layout design method includes extracting a plurality of pairs of complementary signals from signal lines connected between a plurality of circuit blocks, for every signal lines connected between the same circuit blocks, and routing the pairs by twisting each pair. | 12-10-2009 |
20100100863 | ROUTING DESIGN METHOD, ROUTING DESIGN APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING ROUTING DESIGN PROGRAM - In a routing design method for designing routing of a SiP having first and second routing portions that are connected to each other via bonding wires, whether a DRC error of the first or second routing portion is present or not is determined and the DRC error is selected when the DRC error is present. A plurality of nets associated with the selected DRC error are specified and the routes of the specified nets are removed. Then, bonding wire allocations of the specified nets are changed. Further, the specified nets are rerouted so as not to cause a DRC error and whether the rerouting result is accepted or not is determined. | 04-22-2010 |
20100218151 | WIRING DESIGN METHOD FOR WIRING BOARD - A wiring design method for a wiring board comprises, if design rule errors are found in the wiring design, selecting one of the design rule errors as a selected design rule error, specifying a predetermined number of the second connection terminals as selected second connection terminals that correspond to the selected design rule error, and moving the selected second connection terminals to predetermined coordinate positions. Each time when the selected second connection terminals are moved to the post-movement coordinate positions, the method comprises connecting the second connection terminals and the first connection terminals, conducting the design rule check, and determining whether no design rule errors are detected newly and the selected design rule error is not detected either. | 08-26-2010 |
20110066266 | INTERCONNECTION DESIGN METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM CONTAINING PROGRAM AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF INTERCONNECTION SUBSTRATE - An interconnection design method for a multiplayer interconnection substrate having a power supply layer or a ground layer, interconnection layers having interconnections, vias connecting the interconnection layers mutually, and an opening surrounding a via in the power supply layer or the ground layer, the method including: specifying an interconnection for a specific signal as a specific signal interconnection; determining an approximate arrangement of vias; changing positions of the vias and obtaining approximate interconnection routes in respective approximate arrangement of the vias, and evaluating respective interconnectivity for an evaluation region; and obtaining a detailed interconnection route based on a result of the evaluation of the interconnectivity; the specific signal interconnection including one adjacent to a via, and the evaluating respective interconnectivity includes setting a position of one end of the evaluation region into a position associated with an outside end face of the opening. | 03-17-2011 |
20120060366 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING WIRING PATHWAY OF WIRING BOARD AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING WIRING PATHWAY OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - In an embodiment of the invention, a wiring pathway determining method includes: tracing continuously a first wiring forming grid to extend an additional wiring line from a starting point to one first already-selected intersection selected from plural first intersections; computing a first via allocatable region where an additional via can be allocated on a first wiring layer and a second via allocatable region where the additional via can be allocated on a second wiring layer based on positions of an already-designed wiring line and an already-designed via; allocating the additional via, in which a first already-selected intersection is included in an arbitrary position in a region of a lower surface, such that the lower surface is included in the first via allocatable region and such that an upper surface is included in a second via allocatable region; and tracing continuously a second wiring forming grid to extend the additional wiring line from the additional via to an ending point. | 03-15-2012 |
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20100191530 | SPEECH UNDERSTANDING APPARATUS - A speech understanding apparatus includes a speech recognition unit which performs speech recognition of an utterance using multiple language models, and outputs multiple speech recognition results obtained by the speech recognition, a language understanding unit which uses multiple language understanding models to perform language understanding for each of the multiple speech recognition results output from the speech recognition unit, and outputs multiple speech understanding results obtained from the language understanding, and an integrating unit which calculates, based on values representing features of the speech understanding results, utterance batch confidences that numerically express accuracy of the speech understanding results for each of the multiple speech understanding results output from the language understanding unit, and selects one of the speech understanding results with a highest utterance batch confidence among the calculated utterance batch confidences. | 07-29-2010 |
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20110112839 | COMMAND RECOGNITION DEVICE, COMMAND RECOGNITION METHOD, AND COMMAND RECOGNITION ROBOT - A command recognition device includes: an utterance understanding unit that determines or selects word sequence information from speech information; speech confidence degree calculating unit that calculates degree of speech confidence based on the speech information and the word sequence information; a phrase confidence degree calculating unit that calculates a degree of phrase confidence based on image information and phrase information included in the word sequence information; and a motion control instructing unit that determines whether a command of the word sequence information should be executed based on the degree of speech confidence and the degree of phrase confidence. | 05-12-2011 |
20110141306 | Image capturing device, method of searching for occlusion region, and program - An image capturing device is equipped with an external parameter estimating unit for estimating external parameters using a distance image obtained by a TOF camera and a luminance image obtained by a CCD camera, a corresponding pixel determining unit for determining a correspondence relationship between pixel positions in the distance image and pixel positions in the luminance image, using previously stored internal parameters of the TOF camera and the CCD camera or the CCD camera, and the external parameters, and an occlusion searching unit for searching for an occlusion region in the distance image, using the correspondence relationship between pixel positions in the distance image and pixel positions in the luminance image. | 06-16-2011 |
20110184737 | SPEECH RECOGNITION APPARATUS, SPEECH RECOGNITION METHOD, AND SPEECH RECOGNITION ROBOT - A speech recognition apparatus includes a speech input unit that receives input speech, a phoneme recognition unit that recognizes phonemes of the input speech and generates a first phoneme sequence representing corrected speech, a matching unit that matches the first phoneme sequence with a second phoneme sequence representing original speech, and a phoneme correcting unit that corrects phonemes of the second phoneme sequence based on the matching result. | 07-28-2011 |
20130013290 | LANGUAGE PROCESSOR - A referring expression processor which uses a probabilistic model and in which referring expressions including descriptive, anaphoric and deictic expressions are understood and generated in the course of dialogue is provided. The referring expression processor according to the present invention includes: a referring expression processing section which performs at least one of understanding and generation of referring expressions using a probabilistic model constructed with a referring expression Bayesian network, each referring expression Bayesian network representing relationships between a reference domain (D) which is a set of possible referents, a referent (X) in the reference domain, a concept (C) concerning the referent and a word (W) which represents the concept; and a memory which stores data necessary for constructing the referring expression Bayesian network. | 01-10-2013 |
20130163887 | OBJECT CLASSIFICATION/RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND METHOD - An apparatus is provided for classifying targets into a known-object group and an unknown-object group. The apparatus includes a speech/image data storage unit configured to store a spoken sound of a name of an object and an image of the object; a unit configured to calculate a speech confidence level of a speech for the name of the object with reference to a spoken sound of a name of a known object; a unit configured to calculate an image confidence level of an image of an object with respect to an image of a known object; and a unit configured to compare an evaluation value, which is obtained by combining the speech confidence level and image confidence level, with a threshold value, and classify a target object into an object group determined according to whether the spoken sound of the name and the image are known or unknown. | 06-27-2013 |
20140156276 | CONVERSATION SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING SPEECH - A dialogue system which correctly identifies an utterance directed to a dialogue system by using various pieces of information including information other than a voice recognition result without requiring a special signal is provided. | 06-05-2014 |
20140249814 | OBJECT RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND AN OBJECT RECOGNITION METHOD - An object recognition system is applicable to practical use, and utilizes image information besides speech information to improve recognition accuracy. The object recognition system comprises a speech recognition unit to determine candidates for a result of speech recognition on input speech and their likelihoods, and an image model generation unit to generate image models of a predetermined number of the candidates having the highest likelihoods. The system further comprises an image likelihood calculation unit to calculate image likelihoods of input images based on the image models, and an object recognition unit to perform object recognition using the image likelihoods. At the time of generating the image model of the candidate, the image model generation unit first searches an image model database, and, when the image model of the candidate is not found in the database, the image model generation unit generates said image model from image information on the web. | 09-04-2014 |
20140249826 | SPEECH DIALOGUE SYSTEM AND SPEECH DIALOGUE METHOD - A speech dialogue system generates a response sentence in a way to improve the efficiency of the dialogue with the user, based on a result of estimation on an attribute of a proper name in an utterance of a user. The system includes a database attribute estimation unit to estimate the attribute of the input proper name by utilizing a database, and a web attribute estimation unit to estimate an attribute of an input proper name by utilizing information on the web. A reliability integration unit calculates integrated reliability of estimation for each of possible attributes obtained from the estimation by the units, by integrating first reliability of the estimation. A response generation unit generates a response sentence to an input utterance based on the integrated reliabilities of the possible attributes. | 09-04-2014 |
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20080319748 | Conversation System and Conversation Software - A first domain satisfying a first condition concerning a current utterance understanding result and a second domain satisfying a second condition concerning a selection history are specified. For each of the first and second domains, indices representing reliability in consideration of the utterance understanding history, selection history, and utterance generation history are evaluated. Based on the evaluation results, one of the first, second, and third domains is selected as a current domain according to a selection rule. | 12-25-2008 |
20100131277 | Device, Method, and Program for Performing Interaction Between User and Machine - There is provided a device for performing interaction between a user and a machine. The device includes a plurality of domains corresponding to a plurality of stages in the interaction. Each of the domains has voice comprehension means which understands the content of the user's voice. The device includes: means for recognizing the user's voice; means for selecting a domain enabling the best voice comprehension result as the domain; means for referencing task knowledge of the domain and extracting a task | 05-27-2010 |
20100250241 | Non-dialogue-based Learning Apparatus and Dialogue-based Learning Apparatus - The invention provides a dialogue-based learning apparatus through dialogue with users comprising: a speech input unit ( | 09-30-2010 |
20100332231 | LEXICAL ACQUISITION APPARATUS, MULTI DIALOGUE BEHAVIOR SYSTEM, AND LEXICAL ACQUISITION PROGRAM - A lexical acquisition apparatus includes: a phoneme recognition section | 12-30-2010 |