CONTENTS

Policy on Intellectual Property Right (IPR)
 1     Hearing disabilities
 2     Seeing disabilities
 3     Aging disabilities
 4     Receiver user-friendliness
 1     Speech rate conversion technology for elderly people
 2     Real-time closed-captioning using speech recognition
 3     Multimedia browsing system for visually impaired people
 4     Machine translation to sign language with CG-animation
 5     Device for evaluating broadcast background sound balance for elderly listeners
 6     Easy-to-read language broadcasting service and language conversion support technology
       6.1      What does easy Japanese mean?
       6.2      Web service functions
       6.3      Rewrite support system
       6.4      Future challenges