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20080312913 | Pitch-Estimation Method and System, and Pitch-Estimation Program - A pitch-estimation method, a pitch-estimation system, and a pitch-estimation program are provided, which estimate a weight of a probability density function of a fundamental frequency and relative amplitude of a harmonic component through fewer computations than ever. In the improved pitch-estimation method, 1200 log | 12-18-2008 |
20090306987 | SINGING SYNTHESIS PARAMETER DATA ESTIMATION SYSTEM - There is provided a singing synthesis parameter data estimation system that automatically estimates singing synthesis parameter data for automatically synthesizing a human-like singing voice from an audio signal of input singing voice. A pitch parameter estimating section | 12-10-2009 |
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20100070263 | SPEECH DATA RETRIEVING WEB SITE SYSTEM - A speech data retrieving Web site system is provided which may improve erroneous indexing with participation of a user by allowing the user to correct text data obtained by conversion using a speech recognition technique. Speech data published on a Web is converted into text data by a speech recognition section | 03-18-2010 |
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20130151256 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SINGING SYNTHESIS CAPABLE OF REFLECTING TIMBRE CHANGES - Herein provided is a system for singing synthesis capable of reflecting not only pitch and dynamics changes but also timbre changes of a user's singing. A spectral transform surface generating section | 06-13-2013 |
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20080205316 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication apparatus includes an image information acquisition unit configured to acquire new image information to be transmitted to a display terminal through a wireless access point, a storage unit configured to temporarily store the image information, a decision unit configured to decide to change a state of a wireless communication processing unit of the display terminal from a power save state to a normal state when an amount of the image information stored in the storage unit is not less than a predetermined threshold value, a message generation unit configured to generate a change instruction message in response to decision of the decision unit, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the change instruction message to the display terminal through the wireless access point to instruct the display terminal to change the state of the wireless communication processing unit from the power save state to the normal state. | 08-28-2008 |
20090077192 | SERVER APPARATUS, TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - A server apparatus for establishing communication with a plurality of input/output devices via a network. The apparatus includes: a management unit configured to manage a communication session with the input/output devices; a storage unit configured to store information of the input/output devices in association with group information thereof; an execution unit configured to execute an application program; a communication unit configured to receive an operation instruction for the application program and to transmit to the input/output devices a processing result of the application program; a determination unit configured to determine whether the processing result requires connection of the input/output devices to an external server; and a message transmission unit configured to generate a message including an instruction to connect to the external server, when the determination unit determines that the processing results requires such a connection. The message includes the group information. | 03-19-2009 |
20090147014 | Apparatus, method, and recording medium for detecting update of image information - When a processor, which transits from a first mode that causes a guest operating system to operate to a second mode that causes a virtual machine monitor managing the guest operating system to operate, when previously set transition condition is satisfied, transits to the second mode, a determining unit determines a cause or the transition. When it is determined that an execution of a process related to a completion of writing the image information in an image storage unit on the guest operating system is the cause, a detecting unit detects an updated portion representing an unmatched portion of the image information between before and after writing. | 06-11-2009 |
20090204957 | VIRTUAL COMPUTER SERVER APPARATUS, AND UPDATE IMAGE DETECTION METHOD - A virtual computer server apparatus includes an image information memory to store image information upon dividing into pages, the page being a memory of a predetermined size, an update unit configured to update the image information stored in the image information memory in accordance with operation of the application program, an update page detection unit configured to detect an update page from the pages storing image information transmitted to the terminal and displayed by the terminal as a display area, an update image detection unit configured to detect the image information updated by the update unit from image information in the update page before updated and image information in the update page after updated. | 08-13-2009 |
20100218184 | Information processing device, method, and computer program product - A setting storage unit stores first setting information that defines an operation of a first application that runs on a guest OS and second setting information that defines an operation of a second application that runs on at least one of another guest OS and a host OS. A correspondence storage unit stores first identification information for identifying the first setting information and second identification information for identifying the second setting information, in association with each other. An alternative access gaining unit reads from the correspondence storage unit the second identification information corresponding to the first identification information of the first setting information for which an access request is received, and accesses the second setting information of the second identification information that is read out, in place of the first setting information for which the access request is received. | 08-26-2010 |
20110219428 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND TERMINAL - According to one embodiment, an electronic device connected to an authentication device through a first communication network, and further connected to another electronic device through a second communication network, wherein the electronic device executes authentication of the electronic device and another electronic device by data delivery/receipt conforming to a predetermined procedure between the electronic device and the authentication device through the first communication network, and data delivery/receipt between the electronic device and another electronic device through the second communication network. | 09-08-2011 |
20120250756 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A signaling unit of a display terminal establishes communication with a content server, video communication terminal, and PC server through a communication unit, and transmits/receives image data compressed by MPEG2, MPEG4, and JPEG. A media control unit switches compression schemes for decoding in a media processing unit on the basis of the received image data. The media processing unit performs decoding processing including inverse orthogonal transformation processing and dequantization processing in accordance with the switched compression scheme. At this time, a single processing circuit performs inverse orthogonal transformation processing and dequantization processing. | 10-04-2012 |
20130002521 | SCREEN RELAY DEVICE, SCREEN RELAY SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER -READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, a screen relay device includes a communication unit that receives first image information from relay source devices, and transmits second image information to a relay destination device, a determining unit that determines a storage area of the first image information in a first storage unit, a rendering unit that renders the first image information in the determined storage area, and a screen transfer unit. The screen transfer unit compares the first image information corresponding to an updated region where the image information stored in the first storage unit has been updated by the rendering of the rendering unit and the second image information corresponding to the updated region to extract a difference region, and writes the first image information of the difference region to a second storage unit as the second image information. | 01-03-2013 |
20130054733 | FILE TRANSFER DEVICE AND METHOD THEREFOR - There is provided a file transfer device in which a determining unit determines, when a first file requested by a user terminal is not cached in a file buffering unit, a second file transferred to the user terminal based on a file cache status of the file buffering unit, a transfer protocol unit reads the second file from the file buffering unit while the file buffering unit reads the first file, a transmitting unit transmits the second file to the user terminal, wherein the instructing unit determines to transfer the first file, based on a progress status of reading the first file, the transfer protocol unit suspends reading the second file and reads the first file from the file buffering unit, the transmitting unit transmits the first file read by the transfer protocol unit to the user terminal. | 02-28-2013 |
20130077878 | IMAGE RELAY APPARATUS AND IMAGE RELAY METHOD - According to one embodiment, an image relay apparatus includes a reception unit, a determination unit and a transmission unit. The reception unit receives compressed image data from a relay source apparatus. The determination unit determines whether or not the compressed image data is processable through a first path not involving decompression of the compressed image data, based on data on a relay destination apparatus. The transmission unit transfers, to the relay destination apparatus, either the compressed image data processed through the first path or recompressed image data obtained by processing the compressed image data through a second path involving decompression, drawing, and recompression of the compressed image data. | 03-28-2013 |
20140244960 | COMPUTING DEVICE, MEMORY MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAM - According to one embodiment, there is provided a computing device managing a first memory region and a second memory region, a power consumption to hold data stored in the second memory region being smaller than that of the first memory region, including: a data manager and a data processor. The data manager manages a referring number, which is a number of processes referring to first data existing in either one of the first memory region or the second memory region. The data processor moves the first data to the second memory region when the first data exists in the first memory region and the referring number to the first data satisfies a first condition. | 08-28-2014 |
20140281660 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, TIME ADJUSTING METHOD, AND TIME ADJUSTING PROGRAM - One embodiment provides an information processing device which includes a clock unit, a file access unit and a setting unit. The clock unit is configured to count up an elapsed time from a prescribed reference time if an origin time has not been set, and to count up an elapsed time from the origin time if the origin time has been set. The file access unit is configured to access a file which has time information given by an external device or the information processing device. The file is stored in a storage device. The setting unit is configured to acquire the time information from the file via the file access unit, and to set the acquired time information into the clock unit as the origin time. | 09-18-2014 |
20140297878 | Communication Control Device, Server, Communication System and Computer Readable Medium - According to an embodiment, a communication control device includes a first connecting unit, a connection maintaining unit, and a disconnection detector. The first connecting unit is configured to connect to a server via a network and establish connection with the server. The connection maintaining unit is configured to transmit a packet for maintaining the connection to the server when a non-communication state of the connection continues for a predetermine time. The disconnection detector is configured to detect a packet stoppage state. When the disconnection detector has detected the packet stoppage state, the connection maintaining unit shortens the predetermined time. | 10-02-2014 |
20140320498 | TERMINAL DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a terminal device includes a memory unit, a managing unit, a detecting unit, a reference assigning unit, a reference deleting unit, a determining unit, and a changing unit, and a deleting unit. The detector detects that a first graph element read by a processing unit is updated before the start of transactions being executed by the processing unit. The determining unit determines that a first graph element is updated before the start of the oldest transaction being executed and does not have reference information assigned thereto. The first graph element is pointed to by link information of a second information. The changing unit changes the link information of the second graph element to point to a third graph element, or delete the link information. The deleting unit deletes the first graph element. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324799 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a data processing apparatus includes a first generating unit, a second generating unit, a transfer instructing unit, and a transfer controller. The first generating unit generates transfer instruction information that specifies a storage position of transfer data in a data transfer source, a storage position of the transfer data in a data transfer destination, and a data transfer size, when the first generating unit determines that data transfer from a first storage unit to a second storage unit is required. The second generating unit generates fragment-transfer instruction information that is obtained by fragmenting the transfer instruction information into fragments of a predetermined data size. The transfer instructing unit instructs to perform data transfer based on the fragment-transfer instruction information. The transfer controller controls the data transfer between the first storage unit and the second storage unit according to instruction of the data transfer. | 10-30-2014 |
20140325174 | ACCESS CONTROL APPARATUS, ACCESS CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, an access control apparatus includes a determiner and a controller. The determiner is configured to determine whether an access state of a first device to a storage device satisfies an exclusion criterion for access to the storage device from a second device. The controller is configured to prohibit the access to the storage device from the second device when the access state of the first device satisfies the exclusion criterion. | 10-30-2014 |
20140325271 | TERMINAL DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a terminal device includes a memory unit, a managing unit, a manipulation recording unit, and at least one of first and second detecting units. The managing unit generates and deletes a processing unit which executes a transaction for individually manipulating data with respect to data elements and data containers stored in the memory unit. The manipulation recording unit records manipulation information while a transaction is being executed by the processing unit. The first and second detecting units detect the presence or absence of competition. The first detecting unit detects competition during an execution state of a transaction as set by the processing unit. The second detecting unit detects competition during a commit preparation state of a transaction as set by the processing unit. When at least either the first detecting unit or the second detecting unit detects competition, the processing unit aborts the transaction. | 10-30-2014 |
20140359062 | DATA TRANSFERRING APPARATUS, DATA TRANSFERRING SYSTEM AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, there is provided a data transferring apparatus to communicate with a communicating apparatus through a network in accordance with a predetermined protocol, including: a writing controller and a transmission controller. The writing controller performs control of writing a first response message containing first data to a storage. The transmission controller performs control of reading the first response message from the storage and transmitting the first response message to the communicating apparatus, upon receiving a data acquisition request message for the first data from the first communicating apparatus. | 12-04-2014 |
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20090016566 | Apparatus for processing images, and method and computer program product for detecting image updates - The address calculating unit calculates a virtual address of a page for each pixel of a rectangular region of a predetermined size that is included in a screen. The acquiring unit acquires a physical address in correspondence with the virtual address of each pixel of the image information for which writing is requested, in accordance with a conversion table. The writing unit writes the image information for which writing is requested at the acquired physical address. The detecting unit detects an updated portion of the image information the content of which does not match before and after the writing, in units of pages. The compressing unit compresses the image information of the updated portion that is detected. | 01-15-2009 |
20090198809 | Communication device, method, and computer program product - A communication device includes a receiving unit that receives, from a computer running a virtual machine that can be switched between an active state and a stopped state, screen information provided by the virtual machine; a display unit that displays the screen information; a judging unit that, from the screen information displayed by the display unit, based on a number of operation procedures required for a process to be performed, judges whether the virtual machine performing the process by the operation procedures is to be stopped; and a transmitting unit that transmits a signal to the computer running the virtual machine judged to be stopped for stopping the virtual machine. | 08-06-2009 |
20100050006 | Communication apparatus, power supply control method, display apparatus, communication method, and computer program product - The detecting unit detects a disconnection of communications that have been established with a display apparatus. When the disconnection of the communications is detected, the message generating unit generates a confirmation message that confirms whether the communications should be reestablished. The transmitting unit transmits the confirmation message to the display apparatus. The receiving unit receives a reply message that indicates whether the communications should be reestablished from the display apparatus. The main power supply controlling unit shuts down the main power supply when the reply message indicates that the communications should not be reestablished, or when no reply message is received. | 02-25-2010 |
20100053472 | Image content transmitting server, image display apparatus, image content transmitting method, and image displaying method - An image content transmitting server includes a remote control service unit that transmits, to an image display apparatus connected via a network, data of a desktop screen displayed on another display apparatus, and receives an input from an input unit connected to the image display apparatus; an image-content transmission service unit that transmits a list of identification information of image contents to the image display apparatus, and transmits the image contents to the image display apparatus, based on the identification information of the image contents included in the list of identification information; and a service advertising unit that advertises services implemented by the remote control service unit and the image-content transmission service unit to the image display apparatus in accordance with a discovery protocol for finding the services. | 03-04-2010 |
20110310965 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to one embodiment, a communication device includes an image storage unit storing a display image, an update image generation unit generating an update image used to update the display image, a detection unit detecting a difference region representing a region in which pieces of pixel information do not match between the update image and the display image, and a compression image generation unit generating a difference region compression image. The communication device further includes a moving picture generation unit generating a moving picture at a designated frame rate, a control unit comparing the size of the difference region with a first threshold and performs control of decreasing a frame rate designated to the moving picture generation unit when the size of the difference region is larger than the first threshold, and a transmission unit transmitting the compression image and the moving picture to the display device. | 12-22-2011 |
20120079302 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - According to an embodiment, a communication device includes a wake-up signal reception unit configured to receive a wake-up signal to request a change of a state from a second state to a first state, the second state requiring less power consumption than the first state; and a state control unit configured to change the state from the second state to the first state and inform a control unit of the change of the state when the wake-up signal is received, the control unit being configured to process a frame received during the first state. | 03-29-2012 |
20130047014 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a communication apparatus includes a data reception controller configured to receive data from an external device functioning in an active state via a network and store the data in a buffer; a remote controller configured to, when a predetermined condition is satisfied, issue a request to the external device to switch to a power saving state; and a processor configured to process the data stored in the buffer. | 02-21-2013 |
20130067176 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROGRAM PRODUCT - In an information processing device according to an embodiment, a generating unit generates a descriptor including information indicating an area in a storage unit and state information indicating a state of an entry in which the information indicating the area is stored, and an update unit updates the state information according to at least one of writing and reading of data to the area indicated in the entry selected according to the state information by the input/output unit. The generating unit generates the descriptor in advance before at least one of writing and reading of data to/from the storage unit is started. | 03-14-2013 |
20130232314 | COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a communication management apparatus mediates data between an information processing terminal having a temporary memory and an external memory device that is installed outside the information processing terminal. The apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive a write request issued by a device other than the information processing terminal for writing the data in the external memory device; a reading-writing unit configured to control reading of the data from the external memory device and control writing of the data in the external memory device; and a delete command issuing unit configured to, when the write request with respect to the external memory device is received, issue a delete command to the information processing terminal for deleting temporary data that is stored in the temporary memory. | 09-05-2013 |
20130238881 | DATA TRANSMISSION DEVICE, DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a data transmission device includes a processor, a memory controller, an information memory, a generation unit, and an instruction unit. The memory controller controls read and write operations during data transfer between memory devices. The information memory stores transfer instruction information generated by the processor. The transfer instruction information includes positional information of a position where data is stored in the memory device as read source or a write destination of the data and size information of the data. The generation unit includes divides the transfer instruction information into predetermined data size pieces to generate plural pieces of partial transfer instruction information. The instruction unit instructs the memory controller to acquire a piece of the partial transfer instruction information. | 09-12-2013 |
20130257684 | SCREEN IMAGE TRANSFER DEVICE AND SCREEN IMAGE TRANSFER SYSTEM - A screen image transfer device includes a screen image data storage module that stores screen image data of a screen image displayed on a display device, a connection allotment module that allots/assigns a different connection to each of multiple screen regions of the display device, and a communications module that transmits the stored screen image data to the screen regions of the display device over the different connections assigned by the connection allotment module. | 10-03-2013 |
20130263045 | SCREEN DISPLAY DEVICE AND SCREEN DISPLAY SYSTEM - A screen display device specific display areas controlled by operation of a layout control terminal and is connected to the layout control terminal via a network. The screen display device is equipped with a window composition information generation section that generates screen composition information of the specific display areas in accordance with the operation of the layout control terminal, a layout management section that manages the screen composition information of the specified area, and a communications section that sends the screen composition information of the specific display areas to the layout control terminal. | 10-03-2013 |
20140306977 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes an image drawing region determining module, a virtual buffer allocation module, a physical buffer allocation module, a first converter, and an image drawing module. The image drawing region determining module determines an image drawing region based on first image information. The virtual buffer allocation module allocates virtual addresses to a virtual buffer configured to store the first image information virtually. The physical buffer allocation module allocates physical addresses to a physical buffer configured to store second image information corresponding to the determined image drawing region. The first converter converts at least a part of the allocated virtual addresses into at least a part of the allocated physical addresses. The at least part of the virtual addresses corresponds to the second image information. The image drawing module stores he second image information in the physical buffer based on the physical addresses obtained through the conversion. | 10-16-2014 |
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20090222593 | Server device, method and program - There is provided with a server device which outputs a result of computation processing to an output device, including: a communication unit configured to receive a connection request from an input device; an output device manager configured to store an identifier of the output device; and an connection controller configured to acquire output capability information of the output device, configured to acquire input capability information of the input device, configured to generate secret information which can be input to the input device and can be output by the output device, on the basis of the input capability information and the output capability information, configured to transmit the secret information to the output device, and configured to generate a result of computation processing based on input information received from the input device for transmitting to the output device in a case of receiving the secret information from the input device. | 09-03-2009 |
20120084457 | RELAY DEVICE, RELAY METHOD AND RELAY SYSTEM - A relay device includes a screen information receiving unit that receives screen information from the application server, a cycle screen storage unit that stores screen information, a cycle detecting unit that detects a cycle of a change as first cycle information when the screen information cyclically changes, a cycle converting unit that converts the first cycle information into second cycle information, and a screen, information transmitting unit that acquires screen information from the cycle screen storage unit and transmits the screen information to the client terminal at a timing based on the second cycle information. | 04-05-2012 |
20130249921 | SERVER, SCREEN TRANSFER SYSTEM, AND SCREEN TRANSFER METHOD - There is provided a server in which a screen update generating unit generates screen update information representing an image of an update area in a screen; a distributing unit distributes the screen update information to a transmitting unit selected from first to N-th transmitting units; a storage stores a generation history of the screen update information; and a precedence possibility determining unit specifies, based on the generation history of the screen update information, screen update information X and Y such that the screen update information X is more previously generated than the screen update information Y and that the image of the screen update information Y is permitted to be displayed prior to the screen update information X, wherein the distributing unit distributes the screen update information Y to the transmitting unit different from that of distributing the screen update information X. | 09-26-2013 |
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20140095739 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - There is provided a communication device which communicates with a target communication device, including: a communication controller, a general-purpose processing unit, a data transfer processing unit and a starting unit. The general-purpose processing unit communicates with the target communication device via the communication controller. The data transfer processing unit receives data from the target communication device via the communication controller. The starting unit starts up the data transfer processing unit. The general-purpose processing unit receives a data transfer start request from the target communication device. The starting unit starts up the data transfer processing unit when the general-purpose processing unit receives the data transfer start request. The general-purpose processing unit or the data transfer processing unit notifies a data transfer start response to the target communication device after the data transfer processing unit is started up. | 04-03-2014 |