1. A speech processing apparatus, comprising:
an entity extracting unit to extract entity information by extracting input speech entity information from input speech and extracting a respective upper entity from a respective same domain as the input speech entity information;
a focus determination unit to determine a focus of the input speech using the extracted input speech entity information requiring a response;
a mapping unit to map lower domain entities, of the domain, corresponding to the focus with the extracted input speech entity information; and
a recognition unit to recognize a result of arranging the extracted input speech entity information according to semantic association among domain entities, of the domain, as the input speech,
wherein the upper entity is a hierarchically higher entity, within the domain, than the lower domain entities, the semantic association among domain entities is preset, and entity portions within the extracted input speech entity information are semantically associated with one another.
2. The speech processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the extracted input speech entity information comprises at least one individual word entity andor at least one phrase entity.
3. The speech processing apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a response unit to respond to a recognized request according to the recognized result of the recognition unit.
4. The speech processing apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a verification unit to compare a degree of relation of the mapped lower domain entities with a preset reference level and to output a verification signal as a result of the comparison,
wherein the recognition unit recognizes the input speech in response to the verification signal.
5. The speech processing apparatus of claim 4, wherein the verification unit examines whether a combination of selected plural lower domain entities are included in one of a preset plurality of combinations and outputs the verification signal as a result of the examination.
6. The speech processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the entity extracting unit reads out the input speech entity information and the upper entity from a stored collection of the domain comprising preset entity information and a plurality of upper entities.
7. The speech processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the focus determination unit determines the focus using entity information denoting a query or entity information denoting a command among the extracted input speech entity information.
8. The speech processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the mapping unit reads the lower domain entities to be mapped from a stored collection of the domain comprising a preset plurality of lower domain entities.
9. A method of speech processing, the method comprising:
extracting entity information by extracting input speech entity information from input speech and extracting a respective upper entity from a respective same domain as the input speech entity information;
determining a focus of the input speech using the extracted input speech entity information that requires a response;
mapping lower domain entities, of the domain, corresponding to the focus with the extracted input speech entity information; and
recognizing the extracted input speech entity information according to a semantic association among domain entities, in the domain, as the input speech,
wherein the upper entity is a hierarchically higher entity, within the domain, than the lower domain entities, the semantic association among domain entities is preset, and entity portions within the extracted input speech entity information are semantically associated with one another.
10. The method of claim 9, wherein the extracted input speech entity information comprises at least one individual word entity andor at least one phrase entity.
11. The method of claim 9, further comprising responding to a recognized request according to a result of the recognizing of the extracted input speech entity information.
12. The method of claim 9, further comprising comparing a degree of relation among the mapped lower domain entities with a preset reference level,
wherein, in the recognizing of the extracted input speech entity information, the input speech is recognized if the degree of relation is greater than the reference level.
13. The method of claim 12, wherein the comparing of the degree of relation further comprises determining whether a combination of selected plural lower domain entities form one of a plurality of preset combinations, and
in the recognizing of the extracted entity information, the input speech is recognized if the combination of the selected plurality of lower domain entities form one of the plurality of preset combinations.
14. The method of claim 9, wherein, in the extracting of the input speech entity information and the upper entity, the input speech entity information and the upper entity are read from a stored collection of the domain comprising preset entity information and upper entities.
15. The method of claim 9, wherein, in the mapping of the lower domain entities, the lower domain entities to be mapped are read from a stored collection of the domain comprising a plurality of preset lower domain entities.
16. A medium comprises computer readable code to implement a method of speech processing, the method comprising:
extracting entity information by extracting input speech entity information from input speech and extracting a respective upper entity from a respective same domain as the input speech entity information;
determining a focus of the input speech using the extracted input speech entity information that requires a response;
mapping lower domain entities, of the domain, corresponding to the focus with the extracted input speech entity information; and
recognizing the extracted input speech entity information according to a semantic association among domain entities, in the domain, as the input speech,
wherein the upper entity is a hierarchically higher entity, within the domain, than the lower domain entities, the semantic association among domain entities is preset, and entity portions within the extracted input speech entity information are semantically associated with one another.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A solid-state image pickup device comprising:
a photosensitive part, having m\xd7n pixels, formed on a semiconductor substrate, which includes a p-type semiconductor layer and an n-type semiconductor layer, and aligned two-dimensionally along m columns (where m is an integer of 2 or more), which partition a horizontal direction, and n rows (where n is an integer of 2 or more), which partition a vertical direction, and picking up an image of light that is made incident thereon;
a transfer electrode, being installed on top of said pixels with the longitudinal direction thereof being set along the horizontal direction of said photosensitive part and being applied a vertical transfer voltage that transfers charges generated in said pixels in the vertical direction; and
a supply wiring line, formed of metal or metal silicide, installed so as to cover a part of a light-shielded pixel, which is a predetermined pixel among said pixels, and with the longitudinal direction thereof being set along the vertical direction of said photosensitive part, being electrically connected to said transfer electrode, and applying said vertical transfer voltage to said transfer electrode;
wherein being arranged to enable correction of the amount of lowering of an output signal, output by said light-shielded pixel, due to said supply wiring line.
2. The solid-state image pickup device according to claim 1, wherein said supply wiring lines are installed on top of said pixels of columns, among said m columns, at the respective ends of said photosensitive part.
3. The solid-state image pickup device according to claim 1, wherein said supply wiring line is installed on top of said pixels of a substantially central column, among said m columns of said photosensitive part.
4. The solid-state image pickup device according to claim 1, wherein said supply wiring line is installed as a set of k supply wiring lines (where k is an integer of 2 or more) for applying said vertical transfer voltages of k phases and the k said supply wiring lines that form a set are installed on top of said pixels of one column.
5. The solid-state image pickup device according to claim 1, wherein said supply wiring line is installed as a set of k supply wiring lines (where k is an integer of 2 or more) for applying said vertical transfer voltages of k phases and the k said supply wiring lines that form a set are installed in a dispersed manner along a plurality of columns.
6. The solid-state image pickup device according to claim 1, wherein light of substantially uniform intensity is made incident in advance on said photosensitive part to determine a reference output signal and the output signal of said light-shielded pixel is corrected based on said reference output signal.
7. The solid-state image pickup device according to claim 1, wherein the output signal of said light-shielded pixel is corrected based on the output signal of the non-light-shielded pixel adjacent said light-shielded pixel.
8. The solid-state image pickup device according to claim 1, wherein binning, in which the charges generated in a predetermined number of said pixels are added to form an output signal, is performed.
9. The solid-state image pickup device according to claim 1, wherein said vertical transfer voltage is controlled by the TDI drive method, in which charges are transferred in the vertical direction at a rate corresponding to the movement velocity of an image pickup subject to perform image pickup without blur of said image of light of said image pickup subject.
10. A solid-state image pickup device array wherein a plurality of the solid-state image pickup devices according to claim 1 are aligned in a mutually adjacent manner with said photosensitive parts being aligned in the horizontal direction.