AI Tackles Video Analytics of Rugby Games
When Toshiba’s rugby team, the Brave Lupus aren’t busy taking on other teams, they are tackling a new project—one that involves high-level ICT technology. The goal is to combine audio-visual recognition technologies with deep learning to create tools for planning strategies and bolstering player skills. The project’s foundation lies in Toshiba’s top-class, audio-visual cloud computing […]
“The Face of the Airport” – Passenger Information Boards
How ANA and Toshiba’s collaboration made Haneda an even better airport Better visibility of the boards thanks to applied ergonomics Usefulness for both the passengers and airport staff How good teamwork enabled two companies to work together Over 74 million passengers visit Tokyo Haneda Airport every year. The airport’s international terminal was the first airport […]
Five Things Everybody Should Know About Hydrogen Energy
While thermal and nuclear power remain our main sources of baseload energy supply, there is increasing interest in renewables—most of us are familiar with the potential of hydro, and solar and wind power. However, there is another energy source that we need to add to that list, one that is attracting increasing attention as perhaps […]
Driving a See-through Car?
Driving a see-through car? If you have ever driven, you will almost certainly have been gripped at one time or another by a sudden feeling of apprehension as another vehicle—a car, a motorcycle or even a bicycle—suddenly looms up alongside yours. You ask yourself, “How come I didn’t see it in the side mirror?” Mirrors […]
Generating Power from a Waterfall Only as Tall as a Man: Micro Hydro Broadens the Appeal of Hydropower
Mounting concerns about environment degradation are accelerating adoption of many and various renewable energy systems around the world, with solar, wind, and biomass power among the more familiar. However, the largest single source of emission-free, renewable electricity worldwide is hydroelectric power, which harnesses the power of moving water to generate electricity. The key advantages of […]
Bringing the New AI Era to Life – The Researchers Creating Toshiba’s Technologies
Our previous three articles introduced how Toshiba applies AI at Yokkaichi Operations, in an image recognition LSI, and in communications. These technologies all originated at Toshiba’s Corporate Research and Development Center. Osamu Hori, the Director of the Center, has been closely involved with image recognition research throughout much of his career, which is interwoven with […]
Toshiba’s Communication AI: Evolving AI-related Technologies Long Cultivated by Toshiba
AI Supports Human Communication Like Human Does In an age where technology advances at an ever faster pace, we now generate vast amounts of data each and every day. To store it, we have driven forward progress in storage to realize exabyte-level data centers—that’s an 8 followed by 18 zeros—and to mine and use this […]
Toshiba Artificial Photosynthesis
Converting CO2 into Ethylene Glycol Among Mother Nature’s many wonders, Toshiba researchers focused on photosynthesis — a process used by plants and other organisms to convert light energy into chemical energy that can later be released to fuel the organisms’ activities (energy transformation). In other words, plants are able to synthesize food directly from carbon dioxide […]
AI Contributes to Cutting Car Accidents: Toshiba’s Image Recognition LSI
Figures from WHO* show that almost 1.25 million people die in car accidents every year. As more cars come onto the world’s roads, it’s a figure that’s likely to grow. But automobile manufacturers are responding, by building increasingly advanced capabilities into their vehicles. This includes collision avoidance technology that automatically stops cars to avoid accidents. […]
Toshiba to the World ~AI’s Social Optimization~
Toshiba, the traditional AI CompanyArtificial intelligence, AI, is an often heard buzzword in the world of IT, and it gets a lot of media coverage for things like “singing-chatting robots” and the interactive personal assistants on our smartphones. But what exactly is AI? Definitions usually center on making computers or systems do things that humans […]
