Masanori SANO, a senior research engineer (1969) lives in Tokyo. He has been at NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) since 1994, and belonged to STRL(Science and Technology Research Laboratories) for more than 20 years. His research interests include information extraction from media, information processing, metadata production systems and universal services. He received B.E. and M.E. in electric engineering, and Ph.D. in information engineering. He is also involved with standardization activity in SMPTE, MPEG, EBU and ABU.
佐野雅規（1969）現居東京，1994年起任職NHK，於NHK放送技術研究所服務已逾20年，現為資深研究工程師。研究興趣包括媒體資訊擷取、資訊處理、後設資料系統以及普及服務。他擁有電子工程學士與碩士學位，以及資訊工程博士學位。他也參與SMPTE、MPEG、EBU、ABU的標準化相關活動。
How to approach Sign Language and current status.
R&D on Universal Services at STRL
One of important roles for public broadcaster is providing useful information to not only ordinary people but also hard of hearing people including elderly people, visually impaired people and hard of understanding people like foreigner who is not familiar with Japanese. NHK STRL(Science and Technology Research Laboratories)has been conducting R&D on these topics for a long time.
In this presentation, Masa will introduce the latest status of the related research activities widely and shallowly, and then talk deeply about CG-based sign language animation for the deaf people. You will learn a piece of the sign language which is not understood correctly by many people, and how STRL has been approaching it. It would be very nice if this talk triggers you to get new ideas and more interest for universal services in a broad sense.
NHK放送技術研究所對於公共媒體普及服務之研發現況
手語服務新思維
對公共媒體而言，最重要的使命是提供資訊給所有社會成員，不只是一般成員，也包括聽力障礙者、年長者、視力受損者，以及聽力理解較為吃力者，包括對於日本語較不熟悉的外國人或外地人。NHK放送技術研究所對於此類議題已有長期的研究。
佐野雅規在本場演講中，除了對NHK放送技術研究所近期的研究活動進行引介，將深度探討以CG技術作為手語動畫為聾人及聽障者所提供的服務。聽眾將透過此類最新發展，發現過往對手語的理解未必正確，而NHK放送技術研究所對於手語已經開展出全新面向。由此角度出發，將可對於「普及服務」能有更廣泛理解與嶄新認識。