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We propose a HEMS Printer that prints smart home-related information on small pieces of paper on demand. Triggered by entrance door motion, demand-response signals, or error signals from home appliances, it prints electricity saving information, upcoming schedules, coupons of nearby stores (to encourage "cool sharing"), maps of repair shops, and so on. Our device is essentially a portable...
The image on a digital book cover gives potential buyers not only an impression of the book's contents but also serves as an aid when searching and browsing before and after buying the book. We have developed a method for revising book cover images to reflect readers' impressions. It uses a database of the correspondence between adjectives and colors as extracted from book reviews. This correspondence...
A genogram refers to a family tree used for medical purposes. It is a useful diagnosis tool for physicians to understand patients' family information. There are many programs that attempt to support genogram creation, but each has its own limitation. For examples, some programs require users to pay usage fee and to install them in computers in order to view and edit genograms. While free Web-based...
Dependable Network-on-Chips (NoCs) are crucial for the design of recent large scale embedded systems in high-end consumer electronics products. A new NoC architecture named extended 2D mesh NoC (E2DM-NoC) has been proposed in the previous study. The E2DM-NoC is shown to be effective in the reduction of routing rules and communication latency; however, its implementation and performance have not fully...
If TFT-LCDs are used in controllers, each with a picture monitor, are operated together with PCs under the direct sunbeam, or if smartphones and car navigators are mostly used under sunshine in a daily life, such displays would be strongly requested at brighter illuminance in outdoor-use under the strong sunbeam. We newly apply to the direct drive assembly of backlight to lighting for the rear of...
Sleep deprivation distracted most people. The common ways to monitor people sleeping are electroencephalogram and polysomnography. Recently, wearable devices provide function to estimate sleep status. However, in some situations people feel uncomfortable to wear devices, such as elder with dementia. This paper presents a scheme to estimate sleep status based on wearable free device. We utilized SVM...
Lots of players, such as content holders, platform service providers, and application service providers are expected to continue to grow rapidly along with the utilization of electronic commerce. Moreover, increase in affiliate marketing might induces the appearance of many agents who manage billing areas in the near future. Because a large number of transactions are sent and received through the...
We proposed an automatic Linked Open Data (LOD) conversion system of tweet data associated with tourist spots. This system contributes to the cost reduction of LOD based information system for tourism in terms of data maintenance and language translation. In our system, tweet data at a tourist spots will be converted into LOD automatically based on tourist spots location information. We also developed...
In recent years, large-scale warehouse has become remarkable. In the work of the warehouse, it is considered that travel time in the order picking occupy the large part of the total work time. Methods of changing product placement has been widely studied. But there is no method of changing product placement after the start of order picking. In this study, we propose the dynamic product placement method...
Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are gathering attention now and used in various fields. Accordingly, the demand for verification of GPU Programs is increasing. In this paper, we describe a method to detect bank conflict by using symbolic execution. Bank conflict is the bug happening when multiple processing units access the same bank in the shared memory at the same time. Symbolic execution is a...
As a result of the previous design of a user interface of a smartphone for the visually impaired (VI) user, in this paper, we propose an improved design of the VI user interface which is based on the operation frequency of when a specific user uses a particular smartphone. As a result of the accumulation of the operation frequency of the smartphone function, this design will move this function with...
AdLocus is an APP developed by HyXen Company for mobile advertisements. This advertising software can push the message to the target users within specified locations. Based on the real big data provided by AdLocus, we design a dynamic advertisements recommendation system to increase the advertising efficiency. The proposed method uses the regression models and the click probability to recommend the...
Nowadays, the industry is discussing the different HDR Content Transmission proposals. There is no global standard of HDR Content Broadcast Transmission yet, which opens countless opportunities for global consumer's electronics in the future. For this reason, we propose an efficient Broadcast transmission with backwards compatibility with ISDB-Tb considering to actual standards. Additionally, each...
There is a visual novel which is a game combined with visual interaction and novel texts. We have challenged making an EPUB-type visual novel, because we can easily make it. The EPUB format is based on HTML5. In addition, We can get an easy way to make a visual novel with equations. Our visual novel gives us happy math.
In this paper, we describe the development of a spoken dialogue system based on PRINTEPS architecture. This spoken dialogue system is composed of five modules (speech recognition, language understanding, dialogue management, response generation, speech synthesis). In PRINTEPS, when calling the spoken dialogue system, system developers specify the small-scale dialogue goal. The system performs a dialogue...
In the OTS/CafeOBJ method, systems are described in CafeOBJ algebraic specification language, and verified by using equational reasoning. A proof score is a script of verification. We have proposed a method which generate skeleton Java codes and test cases from specifications and proof scores, however, test cases generated from the method are not complete, that is, there are blanks to be filled to...
Pointing gestures are an area of active research. Pointing methods were proposed in a standing posture or a sitting posture. Proposed methods in each posture have a potential to apply in different posture. However, it wasn't cleared that a gesture can apply in a different posture. We analyze difference of pointing gestures between a standing posture and a sitting posture. In the experiment, we used...
We evaluated usability by feedback of human senses ("Sight", "Hearing", and "Haptics") in non-contact operation system using non-contact display. We performed the experiments in conditions of single, double and all human senses (totally seven conditions). In the experiments, distance between feedback threshold and reaction points, number of operation error and time of...
This paper presents a new fast motion estimation algorithm. It searches groups of 4-pixels simultaneously and uses the value concatenated the absolute difference of upper 2-bit with the exclusive OR of the lower 6-bit. The search accuracy results show that the sum of absolute difference value is increased 4 of 7 video sequences when compared to the full-search algorithm with 4-bit absolute difference...
Privacy violation cases are repeatedly reported by users of various photo sharing services. To avoid violating other's privacy unintentionally, visual abstraction techniques could be applied to blur photogenic persons at sufficient level so that they cannot be identified. From the result of our online survey conducted among 5,000 samples and Price Sensitive Measurement analysis, we succeeded in finding...
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