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A robot apparatus which, by exploiting limited resources highly efficiently, is capable of making expressions matched to the motion or to complex variegated feeling or instinct states, representing the crucial information in achieving smooth communication with the human being, is disclosed. A method of expression by the robot apparatus is also disclosed. The robot apparatus expresses plural states, such as emotional states or the processing states of perceptual recognition, by a light radiating device loaded at a location of the head part of the humanoid robot apparatus walking on two legs. The light radiating device includes e.g. the color hue, saturation and patterns of light emission as expressive units represented independently of one another. A plural number of orthogonal states, that is, the emotional states and the states of perceptual recognition, are expressed simultaneously, using a plural number of the orthogonal representations of the light radiating device correlated by a unit for correlating plural reciprocally orthogonal states, derived from the own inner states or external stimuli, with at least one expressive unit.

A robot apparatus which, by exploiting limited resources highly efficiently, is capable of making expressions matched to the motion or to complex variegated feeling or instinct states, representing the crucial information in achieving smooth communication with the human being, is disclosed. A method of expression by the robot apparatus is also disclosed. The robot apparatus expresses plural states, such as emotional states or the processing states of perceptual recognition, by a light radiating device loaded at a location of the head part of the humanoid robot apparatus walking on two legs. The light radiating device includes e.g. the color hue, saturation and patterns of light emission as expressive units represented independently of one another. A plural number of orthogonal states, that is, the emotional states and the states of perceptual recognition, are expressed simultaneously, using a plural number of the orthogonal representations of the light radiating device correlated by a unit for correlating plural reciprocally orthogonal states, derived from the own inner states or external stimuli, with at least one expressive unit.

Disclosed is a method for enabling a mobile station existing in a serving cell area to perform a handover procedure in a broadband mobile communication system including the mobile station, a serving base station providing a service to the mobile station, and one or more target base stations containing at least one target cell area overlapping with the serving cell area occupied by the serving base station. The method includes transmitting a handover request message from the mobile station to the serving base station when it is detected that a performance of a handover is necessary; and transmitting a handover indication message containing handover cancel information to the serving base station when the mobile station determines a cancel of the handover while the mobile station is being handed over to one or more target base stations by the serving base station.

A dialog server which provides dialogs made by at least one user through their respective avatars in a virtual space. A method and a computer readable article of manufacture tangibly embodying computer readable instructions for executing the steps of the method are also provided. The dialog server includes: a position storage unit which stores positional information on the avatars; an utterance receiver which receives at least one utterance of avatars and utterance strength representing an importance or attention level of the utterance; an interest level calculator which calculates interest levels between avatars based on their positional information; a message processor which generates a message based on the utterance in accordance with a value calculated from the interest levels and the utterance strength; and a message transmitter which transmits the message to the avatars.

An IC tag module enables data communication with, and receipt of power from, an external unit through a wireless port and enables the same with an electronic device in which the IC tag module is incorporated through a wired port, which includes a wired communication port and a wired power supply port. The IC tag module further includes a power supply circuit unit for combining power supplied from both the wireless port and the wired power supply port and for supplying the combined power supply to the IC tag module. A data storage circuit unit of the IC tag module stores data received through the communication ports, and a control circuit controls the operation of the module. The power supply circuit detects whether power is supplied first through the wireless port or the wired power supply port. If power is supplied from both ports, the control circuit enables communication with the data storage circuit unit through the port from which power was supplied first, and disables communication through the other port.

Provided is a planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA) which has a Co-Planar Waveguide (CPW) feeding structure and can be attached to a metal surface, and an RFID tag using the same. The PIFA includes a radiation patch layer; a Co-Planar Waveguide (CPW) feeding layer; a feeding probe; and a short-circuit. The CPW feeding layer includes a feeding means and a ground surface. The feeding probe electrically connects the radiation patch layer and the feeding means and provides a Radio Frequency (RF) signal to be radiated to the radiation patch layer. The short-circuiting means short-circuits the radiation patch layer and the ground surface through the dielectric layer. The PIFA can be applied to a passive RFID tag. Impedance matching between the antenna and the RFID chip is possible. Also, the PIFA can easily control resonant frequency of the antenna and reactance.

The invention relates to a data management system and method based on a composite blockchain network, wherein the system comprises a first-level blockchain network and at least one second-level blockchain network; the second-level blockchain network comprises multiple mutually connected slave node servers; the second-level blockchain network sets a master node server in all the slave node servers; and the master node servers in all the second-level blockchain networks are mutually connected, so that the first-level blockchain network is formed. By means of the data management system and method disclosed by the invention, the integrity, the authenticity and the standardization of data can be ensured through audit signature verification of the composite multi-level blockchain network; the security of the data is ensured in a hierarchical encryption and multiple authorization mode; structural design of hierarchical storage of detailed data and classified index data is carried out through a blockchain technology and the composite multi-level network; therefore, the data is relatively smooth to interconnect, intercommunicate and exchange; furthermore, audit tracing can be realized; and the data retrieving, applying and sharing efficiency can be increased.

The invention reveals a network service polymerization system and a polymerization method based on a cloud computing configuration. The system comprises a client, a web interface server, a task dispatch server, a message processing server and a database server. The web interface server is used to provide the client with information and process data which is irrelevant to the information. The task dispatch server is in charge of monitoring the resource consumption state of the message processing server and returns relatively idle message processing server addresses for the web interface server to call when the web interface server asks for relatively idle message processing server addresses for a logged-in user. The message processing server is connected to the client through the web interface server and the network service of the user carries out login, logout, state management and message transmit-receive processing at the message processing server. According to the invention, various network services can be supported and different users at different platforms can carry out accessible communication.

The invention discloses a multi-round dialogue intelligent voice interaction system and device. The system comprises a hybrid semantic understanding module, a semantic understanding adaptive module and an automatic dialogue management module. The voice input is converted into a text and input to a hybrid semantic understanding module after being subjected to voice recognition; wherein the hybrid semantic understanding module is used for understanding user intention and extracting corresponding state information, an automatic dialogue management module is used for guiding a dialogue process, outputting dialogue texts and converting the dialogue texts into voice output based on the user intention to realize dialogue, and the semantic understanding self-adaptive module is used for optimized learning of the hybrid semantic understanding module. According to the invention, a plurality of modules such as speech recognition, natural language understanding, natural language generation, speechsynthesis and dialogue management are integrated to form a whole set of multi-round dialogue intelligent speech interaction system which is easy to expand and configure and can be applied to any scene.

In an interface unit, an input section obtains an input signal of user's speech or the like and an input processing section processes the input signal and detects information relating to the user. On the basis of the detection result, a response contents determination section determines response contents to the user. While, a response manner adjusting section adjusts a response manner to the user, such as speech speed and the like, on the basis of the processing state of the input signal, the information relating to the user detected from the input signal, and the like.

In a short range radio communication headset, signals transmitted by the short range radio communications are received while direct sounds propagated from an external are detected. Then, a digital signal adaptation processing using either received signals or the direct sounds as reference signals are applied, and a ratio between the received signals and the direct sounds is controlled by correlating the reference signals and another one of the received signals and the direct sounds that are not used as the reference signals and extracting necessary components.

Provided is an information processing device including: a notification state control unit configured to switch a notification state of outside information with respect to a user, the outside information indicating a situation external to the user; and a presentation state control unit configured to switch, based on the switched notification state, a presentation state in which information indicating a response of the user to the outside information is presented to the outside of the user.

The present invention provides an information-processing apparatus including disclosure-information sender means for transmitting user-disclosure information to an other apparatus, disclosure-information receiver means for receiving other user-disclosure information from the other apparatus, display control means for controlling a process to display information received by the disclosure-information receiver means, connection request means for making a request for a connection to an other apparatus in accordance with a user operation, connection-permission determination means for producing a determination result as to whether or not a connection requested by the connection request means as a connection to an other apparatus has been permitted by the other apparatus on the basis of a response received from the other apparatus, and communication means for transmitting an image and voice of the user to an other apparatus and receiving an image and voice of an other user from the other apparatus in case a determination result produced by the connection-permission determination means indicates that a connection with the other apparatus has been permitted by the other apparatus.

A communication device is provided which can smoothly perform communication using a video phone function by suppressing the video phone function depending on whether the video phone function is in an effective condition.When an incoming call using the video phone function is occurred or when an outgoing call using the video phone function is performed, a control unit determines whether the video phone function is in the effective condition. Only when it is determined that the video phone function is in the effective condition, the control unit starts communication using the video phone function. When it is determined that the video phone function is not in the effective condition, the control unit 10 executes control to perform only audio communication without performing the communication using the video phone function.

Method and system for reporting to a source user before communication begins communication means usable by both the source and a destination user. Operable communication means at each user's information terminal are stored in a list DB 2 in advance for each user. A selection device 1 receives a destination user designation from the source user who is requesting communication, and acquires the usable communication means of the destination user and the source user respectively from the list DB 2. There are also cases in which the selection device 1 acquires communication means usable by the source user from the selection device 1 or a user terminal 4. Next, the selection device 1 creates a candidate list describing communication means which both parties can use, and sends it from a WWW server, for example, to the source user terminal. Before communication begins, the candidate list is displayed at the source user terminal by a WWW browser, for example.

A communication terminal includes a display device configured to display an image on the display device according to image display parameters; a processor to process the images data; and a communication interface to transmit or receive data, the communication interface configured to be coupled to a remote image processing device via a network. Unnecessary data is prevented from being transmitted, and it becomes possible to reduce processing loads on the terminals to thereby display only the focused image data section in a shared fashion between the terminals during the communication. When a communication is conducted in real time, it can be explicitly indicated on what section of image data a user of a terminal which is to transmit the image data and a user of a terminal which is to receive the image data are to focus each other's attention during the communication.

Disclosed is a wireless headset apparatus and an operation method thereof. A separate earphone is connected to a wireless headset so that the user can listen to a voice through both the earphone and a built-in speaker included in the wireless headset. When the connected earphone includes a microphone, the function of a built-in microphone included in the wireless headset is interrupted, and a voice is received through the microphone included in the connected earphone, so that the user can smoothly communicate even when the user moves to a noisy area where the communication environment is poor.

The present invention discloses a passive optical network (PON) protection method, a switchover control device, and a PON protection system. In embodiments of the present invention, a protection optical line terminal (OLT) is connected to optical links of at least two working OLTs through the switchover control device; when a working OLT or working optical link fails, the switchover control device replaces the working OLT through the protection optical link, thus ensuring smooth communication. In addition, by using the networking mode of multiple working OLTs and one protection OLT, the embodiments of the present invention greatly saves the networking cost and facilitates the application of the PON technology.

Exemplary embodiments for visual communication between a first device and a second device, comprising: using data from a camera system to create a 3D mesh model of a first device user, wherein the 3D mesh model is made available for storage on the second device for subsequent display on the second device; during the visual communication session between the first device and the second device, receiving sensor data from a sensor array, including image data capturing changing facial expressions and motion of the first device user; using the image data to determine 3D mesh model updates; transmitting the 3D mesh model updates to the second device for the second device to update display of the 3D mesh model of the first device user; and receiving from the second device for display on the first device at least one of a 2D video stream or updates to a 3D mesh model of a second device user.

In an interface unit, an input section obtains an input signal of user's speech or the like and an input processing section processes the input signal and detects information relating to the user. On the basis of the detection result, a response contents determination section determines response contents to the user. While, a response manner adjusting section adjusts a response manner to the user, such as speech speed and the like, on the basis of the processing state of the input signal, the information relating to the user detected from the input signal, and the like.

The delay in a multi-channel audio coding apparatus and a multi-channel audio decoding apparatus is reduced. The audio coding apparatus includes: a downmix signal generating unit (410) that generates, in a time domain, a first downmix signal that is one of a 1-channel audio signal and a 2-channel audio signal from an input multi-channel audio signal; a downmix signal coding unit (404) that codes the first downmix signal; a first t-f converting unit (401) that converts the input multi-channel audio signal into a multi-channel audio signal in a frequency domain; and a spatial information calculating unit (409) that generates spatial information for generating a multi-channel audio signal from a downmix signal.

A driver assistance apparatus in a vehicle, the driving assistance apparatus including a sensor unit configured to sense a surrounding of the vehicle; an alarm unit on the vehicle configured to output an alarm outside of the vehicle; a transceiver configured to provide wireless communication; and a processor configured to detect a person included in the sensed surrounding of the vehicle is in an alarm situation, control the transceiver to transmit an alarm signal to a mobile terminal of the person to inform the person he or she is in the alarm situation in response to a successful attempt to communicate with the mobile terminal of the person, and output an alarm via the alarm unit towards the person to inform the person he or she is in the alarm situation in response to an unsuccessful attempt to communicate with the mobile terminal of the person.

A method for measuring signals of peripheral cells when heterogeneous communication modules such as Long Term Evolution (LTE), wireless Local Area Network (LAN), Bluetooth, and Global Positioning System (GPS) coexist in a terminal in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving a measuring report setting message including measuring report conditions from a base station, measuring signal quality of at least one of a serving cell or a peripheral cell and determining whether the measured signal quality satisfies the measuring report conditions, and generating and transmitting a measuring report message including a measuring result to the base station when the measured signal quality satisfies the measuring report conditions. Accordingly, the terminal may measure signals of peripheral cells in a state in which there is interference from another communication module to maintain a normal communication situation.

Disclosed are a data transceiver and a method thereof in a wireless communication system, and particularly, is a data transceiver and method thereof using multiple routes in the wireless communication system. The data transmitting / receiving method using the multiple routes in the wireless communication system includes setting a direct route to a corresponding station and a relay route to a relay device, selecting one route from among the direct route and relay route, and transmitting / receiving data through the selected route.

An HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) file processing method of the invention comprises: specifying a character string not influencing a display at a user terminal in an HTML file received from another server according to a request from the user terminal by referring to a definition data storage storing data for specifying the character string not influencing the display at the user terminal; and changing the HTML file so as to reduce data amount in accordance with a method corresponding to an attribute of the specified character string, and transmitting the changed HTML file to the user terminal. As stated above, because the data amount of the HTML file is reduced by performing the processing with respect to the character string not influencing the display at the user terminal, the user at the user terminal is unconscious of the performance of the method according to this invention, and the smooth communication of the Web page data including the HTML file becomes possible. Besides, because the data amount is reduced, the communication charge can also be reduced.

The invention relates to a fire self-rescuing high-speed life device controlled by micro computer, which can be controlled without wire. The device comprises host computer component, at least a hand-hold wireless remote controller, falling load device and sling component, wherein the host computer component is set at the special life port of building or in the refuge safe room and is connected with the building. The hand-hold wireless remote controller is taken by escaping man or escaping man, escort and ground meeting man all take hand-hold wireless remote controller. The falling load device is connected with the host computer component. The sling component is connected with the falling load device and the host computer component respectively. The device also comprises an air locator, which control the air location of falling load device and the distance between the falling load device and the building outer wall. The air locator is connected with the falling load device and is communicated with the hand-hole wireless remote controller without wire. The device can be controlled by escaping man or escaping man and ground rescuing man. It can control falling speed and space location. It is provided with fire proof and collision prevention performance and safe and reliable use.

The invention relates to an underwater target central position searching system. The system comprises an underwater CMOS camera, target searching equipment, an underwater cable and wireless transceiver, wherein the underwater CMOS camera is used for shooting an underwater image, the target searching equipment is connected with the underwater CMOS camera and used for processing the underwater image so as to identity the central position of an underwater target in the underwater image, and using the underwater image marked with the central position as a compound image to be sent to the wireless transceiver through the underwater cable, the wireless transceiver is used for sending the compound image to an underwater target searching platform at a far end in a wireless mode. Through the adoption of the system disclosed by the invention, the type, the shape and the central position of the underwater target can be automatically acquired under an underwater environment, and reliable reference data are provided for the underwater detection.

The invention is applied to the technical field of computers, and provides a video chatting method and a video chatting system. The method comprises the following steps of acquiring the facial video data of a first client user, and identifying the facial vector data of the first client user according to the facial video data; and transmitting the facial vector data to a second client, so that the second client renders the facial vector data of the first client user to generate a virtual image model of the first client user, and displays the virtual image model of the first client user. According to the method and the system, the facial vector data is transmitted through a network in a video chatting process, so that network traffic is greatly reduced, the method and the system can be smoothly used in an ordinary mobile network, the data transmission speed is high, and the network traffic cost is greatly reduced.

A robot cleaner including: a main body; and an RF antenna installed at the main body with such a length appropriate for communication with a remote controller. Because the RF antenna is installed within the main body, the degradation of traveling performance and cleaning efficiency caused as the antenna contacts with an external obstacle can be prevented.