Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090119274 | NAMED ENTITY EXTRACTING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - 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 | 05-07-2009 |
20090327184 | USER SUPPORT DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A user support device which accurately judges that a user is in a confused state and supports the user is provided. The user support device includes: a confused state judging unit ( | 12-31-2009 |
20100058237 | TARGET ESTIMATION DEVICE AND TARGET ESTIMATION METHOD - A target estimation device that appropriately estimates a function targeted by a user from among functions of an operated apparatus includes: an item inputting unit ( | 03-04-2010 |
20100094896 | PROGRAM RETRIEVAL SUPPORT DEVICE AND ITS METHOD - The program retrieval support device includes the following units. A program-information-accumulation unit ( | 04-15-2010 |
20100229120 | OPERATION ASSISTING APPARATUS AND OPERATION ASSISTING METHOD - Provided are an operation assisting apparatus and a method thereof which accurately estimate an intention of a user and present a desired function more preferentially. | 09-09-2010 |
20100281036 | INFORMATION SEARCH SUPPORT METHOD AND INFORMATION SEARCH SUPPORT DEVICE - An information search support device includes: a cluster selection history information accumulation unit which accumulates content information of each cluster and cluster selection history information indicating a cluster selected by a user; a degree of certainty calculation unit which calculates a degree of certainty indicating a degree to which a vague search target of the user has been identified, based the cluster selection history information accumulated; a search target estimation unit which obtains a condition for estimating the search target; a search-omitted information extraction unit which extracts search-omitted information that is included in the cluster that is not selected and is estimated from the obtained condition; and a search-omitted information addition unit which adds, to the cluster selected by the user, the extracted search-omitted information, in the case where the degree of certainty is equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold. | 11-04-2010 |
20100287275 | OPERATION SUPPORTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING OPERATION - Provided is an operation supporting device that can estimate an apparatus to be supported in operation and support the operation independent of a position relationship between a position of the apparatus to be supported and a position of the user, and of a density of apparatuses. The operation supporting device includes: an operation history collecting unit ( | 11-11-2010 |
20100333022 | OPERATION SUPPORT APPARATUS AND METHOD OF THE SAME - The operation support apparatus includes: an operation load calculation unit ( | 12-30-2010 |
20110008020 | RELATED SCENE ADDITION APPARATUS AND RELATED SCENE ADDITION METHOD - The related scene addition apparatus capable of extracting a related scene even when information on a moving image content having no information related to each scene, such as text information, has been retrieved includes: an operation record storage unit ( | 01-13-2011 |
20110016072 | OPERATION SUPPORT APPARATUS AND OPERATION SUPPORT METHOD - An operation support apparatus includes: an operation record storage unit ( | 01-20-2011 |
20110138202 | ELECTRIC POWER CONTROL SUPPORT DEVICE AND ELECTRIC POWER CONTROL SUPPORT METHOD - An electric power control support device ( | 06-09-2011 |
20110313693 | OPERATIONAL STATUS DETERMINATION DEVICE AND OPERATIONAL STATUS DETERMINATION METHOD - An operation status determination device includes: a receiving unit which receives a value, as power consumption data, from which power consumption of an appliance is derivable, the power consumption being measured at predetermined time intervals; a specification unit which specifies operation start times of the appliance, based on the power consumption data received by the receiving unit; and a determination unit which determines whether or not the appliance starts operating automatically, based on each of occurrence frequencies of the operation start times specified by the specification unit. | 12-22-2011 |
20120150463 | UTILIZATION-TIME CHANGING SUPPORT DEVICE AND METHOD OF SUPPORTING CHANGE IN UTILIZATION TIME - Provided is a utilization-time changing support device including: a household-electrical-appliance power record storage unit storing records of power consumption for each household electrical appliance used in a living space; a power record writing unit receiving information indicating the power consumption of the household electrical appliance from a measuring device that measures the power consumption, and writing, into the household-electrical-appliance power record storage unit, a record of the information as one of the records of the power consumption; a regular use determining unit determining whether or not the household electrical appliance used during a predetermined period is regularly used, based on the records of the power consumption; and a period change possibility determining unit outputting (i) whether or not a utilization period of the household electrical appliance can be changed and (ii) another utilization period as a result of the determination, based on the records of the power consumption. | 06-14-2012 |
20120209439 | UTILIZATION START INTERVAL PREDICTION DEVICE AND UTILIZATION START INTERVAL PREDICTION METHOD - A prediction device for predicting a prediction interval being a time interval predicted with a high possibility of appliance utilization starts includes: an evaluation unit calculating, using utilization interval history data, an evaluation value for determining a prediction scheme for each appliance; a determination unit, based on the evaluation value at least for each appliance, determining at least one of a first and a second prediction scheme as the scheme of the prediction interval for the appliance, the first prediction scheme using a property that the appliance is utilized in a predetermined cycle, and the second prediction scheme using a property that the utilization of a second appliance being the appliance is started in a period from a start or an end of utilization of a first appliance being another appliance to a passage of a predetermined time; a prediction unit predicting a prediction interval according to the determined scheme. | 08-16-2012 |
20130021456 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING CONVERGENCE PERFORMANCE - Provided is a convergence performance determination device including an eye information acquisition unit configured to acquire eye information which is information on eye movements of a user when viewing a stereoscopic video; a convergence movement calculation unit configured to calculate amounts of convergence movement each indicating a degree of a convergence eye movement of the user, based on the eye information acquired by the eye information acquisition unit; and a determination unit configured to determine convergence eye movement performance of the user by comparing between distribution data indicating a distribution of the amounts of convergence movement calculated by the convergence movement calculation unit in an evaluation interval which is a predetermined playback time interval of the stereoscopic video being viewed by the user and distribution data indicating a distribution of the amounts of convergence movement determined in accordance with depth information on the stereoscopic video in the evaluation interval. | 01-24-2013 |
20130021458 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO - Provided is a stereoscopic video presenting apparatus including: an eye movement measurement unit configured to measure an eye movement of each of users viewing the stereoscopic video; a user count determination unit configured to determine the number of users viewing a same stereoscopic video; and a failure state determination unit configured to compare, when the user count determination unit determines that the number of users viewing the same stereoscopic video is plurality, eye movements of a plurality of users to determine a user whose eye movement is in a failure state among the plurality of users. | 01-24-2013 |
20130044291 | VISUAL FATIGUE LEVEL MEASURING DEVICE, VISUAL FATIGUE LEVEL MEASURING METHOD, VISUAL FATIGUE LEVEL MEASURING SYSTEM, AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL GLASSES - A visual fatigue level measuring device includes: a video presenting unit which presents 3D video; a test period determining unit which determines two or more time periods each of which is for a test for measuring a level of visual fatigue; an eye movement obtaining unit which obtains data indicating eye movements of left and right eyes of a player with respect to the presented video; an eye movement extracting unit which extracts, from the obtained eye movement data, eye movement data in each of the two or more time periods determined by the test period determining unit; an eye movement comparing unit which compares eye movements in the two or more time periods based on the extracted data; and a fatigue level determining unit which determines the level of visual fatigue of the player based on the comparison result. | 02-21-2013 |
20130229711 | IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL EYEGLASSES - Provided is an image display system which can assuredly perform collaborative processing such as determination of a fatigue state of a viewer using three-dimensional eyeglasses and an image display apparatus, without increasing system scale, the image display system including: a transmitting and receiving unit included in a three-dimensional display TV which transmits to three-dimensional eyeglasses a specification-designating signal designating a specification which at least includes a data format for a communication signal; a transmitting and receiving unit included in the three-dimensional eyeglasses which receives the specification-designating signal transmitted from the three-dimensional display TV and, according to the specification designated by the received specification-designating signal, converts a biometric signal acquired by a biometric signal sensor into the communication signal, and transmits the communication signal to the three-dimensional display TV. | 09-05-2013 |
20130242387 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM, THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL EYEGLASSES - Provided is a three-dimensional image display system including: eyeglasses including a type information transmission unit which transmits type information of the eyeglasses and a potential information transmission unit which transmits a biopotential of a viewer as potential information; and a three-dimensional display TV including a type information reception unit which receives the type information, an electrode position determination unit which determines, based on the received type information, a position of an electrode included in the eyeglasses, a potential information reception unit which receives the transmitted potential information, and a wearing conditions determination unit which determines wearing conditions of the viewer wearing the eyeglasses, based on the determined electrode position and the received potential information. | 09-19-2013 |
20140078252 | STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS AND STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD - A stereoscopic video processing apparatus includes: a switch operation detection unit which detects a switch operation, made by a user, that is an operation to select a channel of a three-dimensional (3D) video or an operation for a fast-forward playback, a rewind playback, skipping, or locating a cue point of a 3D video; a frequency determination unit which determines a detection frequency indicating the number of switch operations per unit of time detected by the switch operation detection unit; and a video processing unit which performs processing to reduce a difference in depth between 3D videos before and after switching of the 3D videos when the detection frequency per unit of time determined by the frequency determination unit is higher than or equal to a predetermined frequency. | 03-20-2014 |
20140081117 | EYE FATIGUE DETERMINATION APPARATUS AND EYE FATIGUE DETERMINATION METHOD - An eye fatigue determination apparatus includes: an electrooculogram obtainment unit that obtains an electrooculogram indicating a potential measured using an electrode placed near an eye of a viewer who is viewing video content, the electrooculogram being measured in a plurality of predetermined time sections during display of the video content; an impedance obtainment unit that obtains an impedance between the electrode and the viewer's skin at a position where the electrode is placed, the impedance being measured in the plurality of predetermined time sections; an electrooculogram correction unit that corrects the electrooculogram measured in the plurality of predetermined time sections and obtained by the electrooculogram obtainment unit, based on the impedance measured in the plurality of predetermined time sections and obtained by the impedance obtainment unit; and a fatigue determination unit that determines fatigue of the viewer's eye, based on the electrooculogram corrected by the electrooculogram correction unit. | 03-20-2014 |
20140184760 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO DISPLAY METHOD - A three-dimensional (3D) video display apparatus includes: a viewing action detecting unit which detects whether or not a viewing state of a user who views a plurality of 3D video display screens with a viewing target being changed between the 3D video display screens has changed a predetermined number of times or more in a predetermined time period; and a control unit which restricts user's viewing action of viewing a 3D video image displayed by an image display unit when the viewing action detecting unit detects that the viewing state of the user has changed the predetermined number of times or more in the predetermined time period. | 07-03-2014 |
20140285641 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY DEVICE, THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY METHOD - A three-dimensional display device for displaying a three-dimensional image, including: a gaze point obtaining unit which obtains a position of a gaze point of a viewer; a fusional area determination unit which determines a fusional area where binocular fusion is allowed, based on the obtained position of the gaze point; a correction unit which corrects the three-dimensional image so as to suppress display of an object that is included in the three-dimensional image outside the fusional area; and a display unit which displays the corrected three-dimensional image. | 09-25-2014 |
20140347456 | VIEWER WITH VARIFOCAL LENS AND VIDEO DISPLAY SYSTEM - A viewer includes a varifocal lens and a lens controller that adjusts a focal length of the varifocal lens, and can adjust a focal point in accordance with eye movement of the user. When a 3D image viewing detector detects 3D image viewing by the user, a focal length fixing section instructs a lens controller to fix a focal length of the varifocal lens irrespective of eye movement of the user. | 11-27-2014 |
20140347623 | VIEWER WITH MULTIFOCAL LENS AND METHOD FOR CHANGING FOCAL LENGTH OF VIEWER - A viewer includes a multifocal lens capable of setting one of a plurality of focal lengths. When a measuring section detects a change in gazing point distance, a selection section selects a focal length to be set among the plurality of focal lengths, and a determiner determines a time duration before a focal length of the multifocal lens is changed. A controller changes the focal length of the multifocal lens when a detector detects a blink or saccadic eye movement of the user before the determined time duration elapses. | 11-27-2014 |