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In this paper, we describe a prototype human head tracking parametric speaker system that can present speech in a highly directional beam. This system is composed of the Kobuki robot platform, the Kinect sensor, a USB-controlled camera pod and a parametric speaker. We found that it is possible to track and deliver speech to a human walking at an average speed of 5 km/h. Experimental results have shown...
Recently, investigations on user-oriented information delivery system to support information acquisition has been actively conducted. In order to provide information retrieved from the internet, TV program and local contents, we propose an information delivery system based on Active Information Resource (AIR). This paper describes a design of AIR-based cooperation mechanism of heterogeneous contents...
In this paper, a household electric appliance remote controller operated without touching it is proposed. A prototype was prepared in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
This paper describes about the design and implementation of My-MS smart card chip's prototype in Xilinx's Zynq-7000 XC7020-1-CLG484 FPGA device. The comparison between the design implementation in this device and in Xilinx's Virtex 4 XC4VLX60-10FF668 is explained in this paper in terms of area and time requirements. The paper explains also some of the basic functions of the smart card embedded operating...
As a trend, our everyday goods are changing to program-controlled ones from pure mechanical or electrical ones. The concept of ‘coded object’ was proposed for such a new generation product by Kitchin and Dooge. We propose a novel interaction method using OCR for coded objects, which is aimed at simplifying the operations on the configuration of coded objects and making the recording, sharing, and...
Simple electroencephalographs (EEG devices), which have recently become commercially available, are portable and wearable, such that they do not restrict a wearer's actions. This convenience of use enables the inexpensive and wide use of electroencephalography. This study examines the construction of a system that can capture EEG information using simple EEG devices and feed it back to a user. A prototype...
In the present study, we focused on the development of an indoor positioning infrastructure using ICT which is easy to personal use, and provides correct positioning information. Although GPS exhibits superior performance outdoors, as for the indoor positioning, the fixing rate and accuracy are not high enough for pedestrian navigation systems and/or LBS (Location-Based Service). In this regard, we...
The paper presents a support device for nursing. Several prototypes of assistive devices for feeding gastrostomy have been proposed to provide appropriate pressure for the pressurized bag. A control method for force detection has been also presented. Effectiveness of the proposed device have verified by nurses at hospitals.
This university has published the “MMDAgent” voice interaction system toolkit as opensource software. MMDAgent enables users to develop voice interaction system easily by editing the voice interaction scenario based on Finite State Transducer (FST) format. However, having numerous people edit it simultaneously is difficult. For that reason, tremendous labor costs are necessary to describe an abundant...
Various agricultural environment control systems using sensor data have recently been proposed and implemented. However, the high temperatures and humidity in agricultural environments prevent wireless sensor networks from collecting environmental data and operating long term with high reliability. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a greenhouse environment control system that can maintain a high...
As people increasingly capture more digital media, users want to share them easily without complex setup and manipulation. We propose an intuitive and direct means for sharing files between mobile devices: placing devices together and dragging a file directly from one screen to the other. Our approach allows users a mutual operation, and it is scalable to number of devices. We designed several such...
Copy-and-paste (or cut-and-paste) have been a representative metaphor of segmented data exchange between electrical documents in a personal computer. Computing environment is now spreading over life space. Data exchange between mobile phones, tablet devices, and home electric appliances is expected to be intuitive and copy-and-paste is one effective metaphor for such a purpose. In this case, copy-and-paste...
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