198 results about "Unit recording" patented technology

A robot recording a message on a wireless tag which includes: a voice recognition unit recognizing a voice input by a voice input unit which inputs a voice of a person; a message extraction unit extracting the message from the vice recognized by the voice recognition unit based on a fixed phrase provided for obtaining a message; a recording unit recording the message extracted by the message extraction unit on the wireless tag provided on an object.

Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for performing automatic diarisation of sound recordings including speech from one more speakers. The automatic diarisation has a development or training phase and a utilisation or evaluation phase. In the development or training phase background models and hyperparameters are generated from already annotated sound recordings. These models and hyperparameters are applied during the evaluation or utilisation phase to diarise new or not previously diarised or annotated recordings.

Disclosed are a computerized method and system for the identification of identical or similar audio recordings or segments of audio recordings. Identity or similarity between a first audio segment of a first audio stream and at least a second audio segment of an at least second audio stream is determined by digitizing at least the first audio segment and the at least second audio segment of said audio streams, calculating characteristic signatures from at least one local feature of the first audio segment and the at least second audio segment, aligning the at least two characteristic signatures, comparing the at least two aligned characteristic signatures and calculating a distance between the aligned characteristic signatures and determining identity or similarity between the at least two audio segments based on the determined distance.

An image forming apparatus has: a recording head having plural unit recording heads divided in a direction orthogonal to a moving direction of a recording medium; a detecting section detecting at least offset of an image recorded by a vicinity of an end portion, in the direction orthogonal to the moving direction of the recording medium, of the plural unit recording heads; and a correcting section correcting recording offset of the recording head on the basis of results of detection of the detecting section.

An information processing apparatus includes a first information processor, a plurality of second information processor, and a plurality of temperature detecting units detecting temperature in the vicinity of each of the plurality of second information processors. The first information processor includes an application program execution control unit controlling execution of an application program, a distributed processing control unit controlling distributed processing, a recording unit recording first information relating to temperature detected by the temperature detecting unit, and second information relating to the execution of the process of the second information processor, an anomaly detecting unit detecting an anomaly in the temperature detected by the temperature detecting unit, and an anomaly-time control unit controlling the distributed processing of the distributed processing control unit in response to the temperature anomaly detected by the anomaly detecting unit.

A traffic information system including a travel history database retaining the data on the travel history of vehicle measured at a constant temporal or running interval; a link cost weighting pattern database for storing patterns for weighting the link costs of road links, used in the determination of the travel paths of vehicles; a vehicle ID / link cost weighting pattern set database retaining the data representing the matching of the vehicle IDs with their associated link cost weighting patterns used to determine the travel paths of the vehicles; a link cost weighting pattern selection unit selecting the patterns for weighting the link costs used to determine the travel paths of the vehicles on the basis of the vehicle IDs; and a vehicle ID / link cost weighting pattern matching unit recording the data representing the matching of the vehicle IDs with their associated link cost weighting patterns.

An optical tomographic imaging device and the like which suppress influence in the case of a measuring beam being truncated by an iris, and can ensure reliability of a tomographic image which is acquired, when imaging the tomographic image of a retina in an eyeground of an examined eye. An optical tomographic imaging device is configured to have an observation unit observing a state of irradiating an examined object with the measuring beam, and imaging a state of the measuring beam being incident on the examined object as an observation image, a recording unit recording the observation image by linking the observation image with a tomographic image by the optical tomographic imaging device, and an evaluating unit evaluating reliability of the tomographic image which is linked with the observation image based on the observation image imaged in the observation unit.

The IC card is capable of providing a plurality of services to an external device on one card, and comprises: a interface for the external device; a switch disposed on the IC card and that selects a service; a memory unit recording a information corresponding to a plurality of services and having a plurality areas each storing different information from another areas in security level; a CPU reading / writing information from / to the memory unit based on the service selected by the switch, and provides the selected service to the external device by way of the interface; a security level judgment unit judging the security level on an access status by the application to the memory areas; and a display unit displaying a kind of selected service or a security level of the service.

An electronic camera of the present invention includes: an imaging unit capturing a subject to generate an original image; a derivative image generating unit reducing resolution or color of the original image to generate a derivative image for transfer; a recording unit recording the original image and the derivative image thereon such that the original image and the derivative image get associated with each other; and a transfer unit transferring the derivative image recorded on the recording unit to an external transfer destination. In this configuration, the recording unit finds the derivative image (original image) by referring to the association with the original image (or derivative image), thereby collectively managing the original image and the derivative image. This makes it possible to prevent a user from being confused at image management due to the original image and the derivative image being the same image.

The invention discloses a method to realize data backup and recovery, which is characterized by the following: arranging trigger snapshot event; choosing the time of trigger snapshot event as the snapshot time; recording the trigger snapshot event; distributing the address and the present value of the recorded data unit if receiving the modified order for the data unit before next event; executing the order; reading the snapshot unit between the present time and the recovery time; basing on the time order of distribution snapshot unit; writing the recorded data into the data unit of the snapshot unit recording address. This invention also discloses a system to realize data backup and recovery. This invention is fit for continuous protection of data.

An imaging apparatus according to an implementation of the present invention is connected to a memory and includes: an imaging device reading any given area; a main image storage unit reading an image of a main image area, the image representing a whole image formed on the imaging device, and store in the memory an image associated with the read image as a main image; a sub image storage unit reading an image of a watch area from the imaging device, the watch area being an area to be watched, and store the read image in the memory as a sub image; an encoder encoding the main image and the sub image stored in the memory by the main image storage unit and the sub image storage unit; and a recording unit recording the main image and the sub image encoded by the encoder on a recording medium.

In phase change optical recording media wherein initialization process of the recording layer has been the rate determining and cost-increasing factor in the production of the medium, the production cost is reduced by reducing the time required for the initialization and simplification of the initialization process. Stable writing / reading properties are also realized from immediately after the initialization. The present invention provides an optical recording medium comprising a substrate and a recording layer formed over the substrate, wherein the recording layer comprises two or more unit recording layers wherein adjacent two unit recording layers are constituted from different materials and mixture layers between the two adjacent unit recording layers containing all of the elements included in the adjacent two unit recording layers; at least one of the two adjacent unit recording layers is a crystalline layer; and the overall composition of the recording layer falls within the composition of a phase change recording material.

A method for converting video information from an incoming format to an outgoing format using a process free from one or more intermediary files. The method includes receiving video information in a first format and receiving a desired output media format based upon a first input and a desired TV standard based upon a second input. The method decodes the video information in the first format to raw video information in an uncompressed format and directly resizes the raw video information in the uncompressed format into a size associated with the desired output media format and the desired TV standard. The method adjusts the uncompressed format in the size associated with the desired output media format and the desired TV standard to a frame rate associated with the desired TV standard and encodes the uncompressed format in the size and the frame rate into an elementary video stream. A step of multiplexing the elementary video stream with audio information in the desired output media format and the desired TV standard to form video and audio information in a presentation format based upon the desired output media format and the desired TV standard is included.

A communication device that includes an authentication unit that authenticates a wireless communication device depending on whether a predetermined authentication condition is satisfied, and a relay unit that relays communication performed by the wireless communication device when the authentication unit successfully authenticates the wireless communication device, comprising: an information transmission and reception unit receiving connected-terminal information, which includes identification information identifying the wireless communication device whose communication is being relayed, held by other communication devices; a recording unit recording the received connected-terminal information; a judging unit judging, when a connection request is received from the wireless communication device, whether the identification information identifying the wireless communication device is included in the recorded connected-terminal information; and a permitting unit permitting relaying of communication performed by the wireless communication device when the identification information of the wireless communication device is included in the recorded connected-terminal information.

An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit receiving data input to one or more apparatuses; a data storage unit storing the data with a determined display position thereof in a display screen; a log storage unit storing a data change as a log; an association unit monitoring a communication status of a communication with the one or more apparatuses, and associating information indicating an apparatus where a communication error occurs and a timing when the communication occurs with the log; a recording unit recording video of the data change displayed in the display screen from when the communication error occurs until when the communication is recovered for an apparatus; and a transmission unit transmitting the video from an event when the communication error occurs until an event when the communication is recovered and the log to the apparatus.

The present invention discloses a RFID access apparatus and a Transaction method using the same. The RFID access apparatus, coupled to a SD card socket disposed in an electrical terminal device including a controller unit coupled to said SD card socket and a radio frequency transceiver coupled to said controller unit, and being capable of accessing data recorded in a RFID tag through operating said electrical terminal device, comprising: a SD interface, coupled to said SD card socket for signal and data communication; a radio frequency access unit, coupled to said SD interface for reading data recorded in said RFID tag and writing data into said RFID tag; and a memory unit, coupled to said SD interface for storing data. By using the RFID access apparatus, a transaction method can be performed in the following steps: providing an electrical terminal device comprising a SD card socket; inserting a RFID access apparatus, comprising a memory unit recording an electric currency, into said SD card socket; accessing a price, stored in a RFID tag attached on a product, by operating said electrical terminal device; and making transaction.

An information recording / reproducing system has an information recording / reproducing apparatus and a portable information recording / reproducing apparatus. The information recording / reproducing apparatus has: an information copying device which, when predetermined a piece of program information is reproduced from a first recording medium, copies the piece of program information and at least one piece of program information to be subsequently reproduced, from the first recording medium to the second recording medium, and an information erasing and copying device which, when the reproducing of the piece of program information is ended, erases the piece of program information from the second recording medium, and then newly copies a piece of program information to be reproduced after said at least one piece of program information, from the first recording medium to the second recording medium.

An image processing apparatus includes a request determining unit receiving an operation event indicating a request to use an image processing function and determining whether the request is from a guest user based on the received operation event; a guest login processing unit generating guest login information including a guest user identifier and access right information of the guest user if the request is from the guest user and sending a login request to request a login process for the guest user based on the guest login information; an access control unit disabling access control on the image processing function in response to the login request based on the access right information in the guest login information; and a usage history recording unit recording a usage history of the image processing function in association with the guest user based on the guest user identifier in the guest login information.

A hologram recording and reproducing apparatus having a reduced encoding error and high reliability even when a signal-to-noise (S / N) ratio of reproducing signals is deteriorated due to various disturbances. The hologram recording and reproducing apparatus includes: a unit generating a recording low-density parity check code from recording data; a unit generating a recording block code from the recording low-density parity check code; a unit recording data by emitting an object beam onto a hologram recording medium; a unit reproducing data by emitting a reference beam onto the hologram recording medium; a unit decoding a reproducing block code corresponding to the recording block code based on the levels of a reproducing signal, decoding a reproducing low-density parity check code corresponding to the recording low-density parity check code based on the reproducing block code, and calculating estimation data estimating values of respective bits of the reproducing low-density parity check code based on the level of the level of the reproducing signals; and a unit decoding the low-density parity check code based on the estimation data and decoding the recording data.

A multi-channel head position control apparatus and a method of controlling the position of the multi-channel head in which even if the width of a tape-like recording medium is changed, each of unit recording heads constituting a multi-channel head can be aligned with corresponding track centers. The multi-channel head having a plurality of unit recording heads arrayed in the longitudinal direction is disposed so that the alignment direction of the unit recording heads forms an azimuth angle relative to the running direction of the tape-like recording medium. The position of the multi-channel head is controlled by a supporting section in accordance with a control signal recorded on the tape-like recording medium and detected by a detecting section so that the alignment between each of the unit recording heads and corresponding track center is maintained.

A recording apparatus includes a recording unit recording an image, an endless belt which is stretched between rollers such that the inner circumferential surface thereof contacts the rollers and the outer circumferential surface thereof opposes the recording unit, a mark arranged on the profile of the belt, and a mark detection unit which detects that the mark moving in accordance with the travel of the belt is positioned at a predetermined position.

A recording apparatus for compression-coding video data and recording the compression-coded video data, including an encoder compression-coding video data using interframe compression based on predictive coding for each of groups each including a plurality of pictures, a plurality of pictures including at least one independently-decodable picture; a mark information generator generating mark information indicating an access position to the video data for each of the groups; and a recording unit recording the video data compression-coded by the encoder in a recording medium is provided. When the access position is designated to one of the groups decodable without use of information on a closest past group in reproduction order, the mark information generator generates the mark information indicating a position of a top of the decodable group.

A multiple hologram recorder includes an optical system and an incident angle controller. The optical system applies a recording beam and a reference beam to a unit recording region of a hologram recording medium. The recording beam is modulated in accordance with information to be recorded. The reference and the recording beams have the same wavelength. The angle controller adjusts the incident angle of the recording or reference beam to preset angles. Every time the incident angle is adjusted to one set angle, one-page holographic recording is performed. The set angles include a reference angle associated with an angular interval. The incident angle controller causes the incident angle to continuously vary within the angular interval when the incident angle is adjusted to the reference angle. This continuous variation is performed with the recording and the reference beams irradiating the unit recording region.

The present disclosure relates to a cloud based system for compiling a series of brief recordings made by a plurality of different users sequentially to form an aggregated audio presentation. The system stores a plurality of user audio files which corresponding to a single audio presentation such as a song, conversation or presentation. Each brief recording is assigned a unique identifier indicating the corresponding presentation and the user that recorded the brief recording before the brief recording is uploaded to a server for storage. The plurality of brief recordings can be aggregated at the server into a single audio presentation that can be streamed back to users. Alternatively, the plurality of brief recordings can remain separate, wherein the plurality of brief recordings can be transmitted piecemeal to users in the order indicated by the unique identifiers to simulate an aggregated audio presentation.

A data recording device collects vehicle data in time series. Then, record into the data recording unit a series of vehicle data that meet the predetermined acquisition conditions and are collected in a predetermined period, the series of vehicle data comes from the time-series vehicle data collected by the data acquisition unit, and associate it with time information at the same time . When the data control unit records a series of vehicle data in the data recording unit, the data acquisition unit continues to collect vehicle data.

The invention is a high speed CCD camera data synthesizing system, converting three parallel input continuous data streams of high speed CCD cameras through three interface level conversion chips into TTL signals to be written in an FPGA, respectively, and synchronizing the three high speed CCD cameras by FIFO of the FPGA; writing the three synchronized data into three SDRAM chips, respectively, and constructing SDRAM controller in the FPGA to implement dynamic and real-time buffer storage of the three data; synthesizing the three buffer-stored data by the FPGA and converting into LVDS signal by internal level converting circuit of the FPGA to be sent to the next processing unit-recording system. And it extremely raises system efficiency and has universality, applied to CCD cameras of different resolutions.