NICT(National Institute of Information and Communication Technology)’s Master Project, which stands for “Multi-lingual Advanced Speech and Text reseARch Project” are running an experiment on multilingual (Japanese, English, Chinese and Korean) real-time translation system. NICT has an English and other language pages to explain the whole experiment, which are and will be done in 5 different… Continue reading Real-time Translation Scouter Is Tested In Yamanashi, Japan
Category: Technology
Make Tokyo Meeting 04: Where You Can See Future, Magic And Junk In A Place
Last weekend at Ookayama Campus, Tokyo Institute of Technology, O’reilly Media‘s mechatronics magazine “Make” held the 4th meeting[J] and gave Japanese geeks the opportunities to present their gadgets to the public. Let’s have a look at some of remarkable and unique items which get us excited. Tokyo-based tech start-up (founded by graduates from the University… Continue reading Make Tokyo Meeting 04: Where You Can See Future, Magic And Junk In A Place
Self-Generating, Battery-less Remote Control For TV
NEC Electronics and Onryoku Hatsuden developed a prototype [J] of remote control which is powered by the movement of user’s button-push actions. User actions produce electrical energy, and enable the controller to turn on/off, change volume and switch channels without dry-cell batteries. Both companies are to promote the technology to TV set vendors, to realize… Continue reading Self-Generating, Battery-less Remote Control For TV
Real-Time Drawing Collaboration Service Cacoo Breaks Out of Beta
Fukuoka-based nulab, Inc. [ja] launched a real-time collaboration tool for drawing diagrams called Cacoo. With its real-time synchronization technology, you can edit files on Cacoo while other team member is working on it. The pre-defined stencil sets include parts for network diagrams, sitemaps, wireframes, and UMLs, in addition to generic shapes and illustrations. Cacoo –… Continue reading Real-Time Drawing Collaboration Service Cacoo Breaks Out of Beta
Digital Content Expo 2009: AR & VR Applications Come Together (2/2)
Continued from the previous blog post on Digital Content Expo 2009. Pull-Navi (The head mount device to navigate a holder by pulling his ears) (Developed by Kajimoto Laboratory, the University of Electro-Communications) That motion reminds us of a rider controlling a horse by pulling a lead rope on his back. When a controller moves a… Continue reading Digital Content Expo 2009: AR & VR Applications Come Together (2/2)
Digital Content Expo 2009: AR & VR Applications Come Together (1/2)
Last week, there was an annual event called Digital Content Expo 2009 at Miraikan, Japan’s national museum of emerging science and innovation located in the Tokyo waterfront area, which introduced approximately 50 artistic elements and R&D results of newly developed digital content technologies. Let’s see some of items which were exhibited at the event with… Continue reading Digital Content Expo 2009: AR & VR Applications Come Together (1/2)
KDDI To Increase Tribrid Powered Cellphone Base Stations To Reduce CO2 Emissions
Japan’s no.2 cellphone carrier KDDI au announced to start the deployment of a new power control system to their cellphone base stations as to switch the power sources to three ways of solar power, battery and midnight power service. Solar-powered stations used to be deployed only in the areas which have no access to commercial… Continue reading KDDI To Increase Tribrid Powered Cellphone Base Stations To Reduce CO2 Emissions
IBM Research Lab in Tokyo Develops Technology to Control Reading Flow
Researchers at IBM Research – Tokyo is working on a way to easily arrange the reading flow of screen readers and mobile devices. With the visual editor technology they are developing, webmasters can drag-and-drop the connected arrows that will lead the screen reader in an arbrary order. You can even adjust the granularity of the… Continue reading IBM Research Lab in Tokyo Develops Technology to Control Reading Flow
Emoji/Manga Relation Explained Fully
You might have heard about that Gmail and iPhone has added Japan originated emoticon, Emoji, set. You may know that Google has been promoting those “letters” into Unicode standard. Filing those drawings as new letters is, though Chinese letters were made from drawings thousands years ago, not acceptable for all people, some says it is… Continue reading Emoji/Manga Relation Explained Fully
Enabling Speech-To-Text YouTube Videos Enhances Business Potential
On Wednesday, Tokyo-based tech start-up in media rep service and speech recognition technology development Catalog just released the closed alpha version of the brand new service that enables speech-recognize what is spoken in a movie on the video sharing services such as YouTube and Nico Nico Douga[J]. In this release, the first 1,000 applicants can… Continue reading Enabling Speech-To-Text YouTube Videos Enhances Business Potential