Sony Broadcast & Professional Research Laboratories

About: Sony Broadcast & Professional Research Laboratories is a company organization based out in Taipei, Taiwan. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Signal & Image processing. The organization has 38708 authors who have published 63864 publications receiving 865637 citations.

Photovoltaic study on the photo-enhanced diffusion of Ag in amorphous films of Ge2S3

Abstract: The process of the photo-enhanced diffusion of Ag atoms has been studied from photovoltaic responses in evaporated films of Ge2S3 between semitransparent metal electrodes. In addition to the ordinary barrier photovoltaic responses, an electron flow toward the Ag electrode (or a hole flow in the opposite direction) is generated by illumination of light. The current increases with the diffusion of Ag and disappears abruptly when the forefront of the diffusion reaches the opposite electrode. A simple model for the mechanism of the diffusion is presented by assuming the existence of charged defect centers in Ge2S3 films.

TANGENT: a novel, 'Surprise me', recommendation algorithm

Abstract: Most of recommender systems try to find items that are most relevant to the older choices of a given user. Here we focus on the "surprise me" query: A user may be bored with his/her usual genre of items (e.g., books, movies, hobbies), and may want a recommendation that is related, but off the beaten path, possibly leading to a new genre of books/movies/hobbies.How would we define, as well as automate, this seemingly selfcontradicting request? We introduce TANGENT, a novel recommendation algorithm to solve this problem. The main idea behind TANGENT is to envision the problem as node selection on a graph, giving high scores to nodes that are well connected to the older choices, and at the same time well connected to unrelated choices. The method is carefully designed to be (a) parameter-free (b) effective and (c) fast. We illustrate the benefits of TANGENT with experiments on both synthetic and real data sets. We show that TANGENT makes reasonable, yet surprising, horizon-broadening recommendations. Moreover, it is fast and scalable, since it can easily use existing fast algorithms on graph node proximity.

System and method for correlating camera views

Abstract: A method for correlating views of two or more video camera systems includes obtaining a plurality of data point coordinate sets to represent relative positioning between the camera systems and data point objects in the environment. The views may be correlated through Interpolation or extrapolation using the obtained data point coordinate sets. Devices such as lasers may also be used to correlate views of two or more video camera systems.

A method and apparatus for performing spoken language translation

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for performing spoken language translation are provided, wherein a speech input (302) is received comprising at least one source language. The speech input comprises words, sentences, and phrases in a natural spoken language. Source expressions are recognized (304) in the source language. Misrecognitions of the source expressions resulting from factors comprising noise and speaker variation are minimized (410) by the generation of intermediate data structures that encode at least one recognition hypothesis. Furthermore, misrecognitions are minimized by the generation of candidate recognized source expressions by processing the intermediate data structures using models comprising a general language model and a domain model. A recognized source expression is selected and confirmed by a user through a user interface. The recognized source expressions are translated (308) from the source language to a target language, and a speech output is synthesized (314) from the translated target language source expressions. Moreover, a meaning of the speech input is detected, and the meaning is rendered in the synthesized translated output.

Graphical navigation control for selecting applications on visual walls

Abstract: A graphical user interface displays a first menu image on a display for an operating system on a computer. The first menu image includes a taskbar image which carries button images selectable by the user to carry out a function. The GUI also displays a second menu image on the display for a navigator software which is running under the operating system. The navigator software provides a quasi-operating system environment. The GUI displays the taskbar image in the second menu image whereby the user can carry out functions of the operating system from within the quasi-operating system environment provided by the navigator software. Three visual walls are arranged on the GUI as if the user is standing inside a three-dimensional cube and open to the sky. Clicking once either on the side walls moves the contents of the side wall to the center, in effect rotating the cube. When a wall is centered, the user can activate any function in the wall by clicking on a button. Buttons displayed in the side wall may be immediately activated by double clicking so the user does not have to center the side wall.