23rd week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 48 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150154894 | PROFILES USED IN GENERATING CHANNEL LETTERS - A profile for forming a channel letter box is disclosed. In some embodiments, the profile can have a rule formed of a first material. The rule can also have a substantially flat first surface and a rule axis. The rule axis can have a rule length. The profile can also have at least one rib formed from a second material and bonded to the first surface. The rib can be disposed substantially parallel to the rule axis and have a rib height smaller than the rule height. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154895 | Product Centric Merchandiser - A product merchandiser which can be adjusted to position the sign based on the size and shape of the particular product being merchandised, and on the space available on the shelf or counter in view of the proximity of the other products, such that the product information, e.g., product name and price, is clearly visible and associated with the product being merchandised. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154896 | ILLUMINATING PRISMATIC BADGE FOR A VEHICLE - A badge mounted on a vehicle is provided herein. The badge includes a housing having a viewable portion. A light source is disposed inside the housing and is configured to direct light toward the viewable portion. Light emitted from the light source illuminates in a plurality of colors which may create a prismatic appearance. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154897 | Controller and Display Apparatus with Improved Performance and Associated Methods - An apparatus includes a multiplexed liquid crystal display (LCD) controller. The LCD controller operates in at least first and second phases of operation. The LCD controller drives a first plurality of signal lines to a first set of voltages during the first phase of operation and to a second set of voltages during the second phase of operation. The LCD controller selectively couples to a node at least some of the plurality of signal lines between the first and second phases of operation depending on data provided to the LCD controller. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154898 | DISPLAY DEVICES - A display device comprises a display substrate, first interconnections, second interconnections, a driving circuit and a polarizing plate. The display substrate includes a bend portion which is curved with respect to an axis parallel to a first direction. The first interconnections extend in the first direction and are on the display substrate. The second interconnections are on the display substrate, connected to the first interconnections and extend in a second direction different from the first direction. The driving circuit is electrically connected to the first interconnections and the second interconnections and provides driving signals to the first interconnections and the second interconnections. The polarizing plate is on the display substrate and overlaps the first interconnections and the second interconnections. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154899 | DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING REPAIR STRUCTURE - A display device having a repair structure that makes a defective pixel operate as a normal pixel in a display panel. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154900 | APPARATUS FOR ELIMINATING IMAGE STICKING, DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ELIMINATING IMAGE STICKING - An apparatus for eliminating image sticking, a display device and a method for eliminating image sticking. The apparatus for eliminating image sticking comprises a Multi-Level Gate (MLG) circuit ( | 2015-06-04 |
20150154901 | DISPLAY DRIVING CIRCUIT AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF, DISPLAY APPARATUS - The present disclosure relates to the display technique. Disclosed is a display driving circuit, including: a gate line driving circuit, configured to separate gate line driving signals of adjacent rows according to a first output enable signal; a shielding signal generation circuit, configured to trigger and generate a shielding signal when the gate line driving signal needs to be turned off; and a gate line shielding circuit configured to shield the first output enable signal according to the shielding signal so as to turn off the gate line driving signal, wherein the first output enable signal is inputted from a first inputting terminal of the gate line shielding circuit, the shielding signal is inputted from a second inputting terminal of the gate line shielding circuit, and an outputting terminal of the gate line shielding circuit is connected to the gate line driving circuit. The display driving circuit, a driving method thereof and a display apparatus according to the embodiments of the present disclosure are capable of shielding the first output enable signal directly according to the shielding signal so as to turn off the gate line driving signal and shield the data on the corresponding gate lines, thereby they can avoid occurring of abnormal statuses with the first output enable signal and also can save the cost and space of the circuit. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154902 | GATE DRIVING METHOD AND DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosure are a display device that provides effective partitive driving using an optimal signal line structure, and provides partial driving that effectively drive a partial area under the signal line structure and partial driving, and a gate driving method thereof. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154903 | IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - Disclosed is an image signal processing apparatus with a function to display an image signal and a luminance waveform representing a relationship between a luminance level and a position in the image signal. The apparatus displays the image signal such that a predetermined color is applied to an area whose luminance level falls within a preset luminance level range. On the other hand, the luminance waveform of the image signal is displayed such that a color corresponding to the predetermined color is applied to an area corresponding to the luminance level range. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154904 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE CONTROL CIRCUIT AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - The present invention discloses a light emitting device control circuit and a control method thereof, for controlling a light emitting device array display. The present invention controls not only the conduction timing and duration of one or more selected light emitting devices in the light emitting device array display, but also controls the current flowing through the selected light emitting devices by a variable current source, such that in one frame of a given length, the resolution of the brightness of the light emitting devices is increased. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154905 | DISPLAY PANEL, DRIVING METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A display panel includes: a driver section configured to generate a first pixel packet including digital luminance data; a plurality of unit pixels successively connected, each of the unit pixels configured to perform a display operation, based on the digital luminance data of the first pixel packet, and one or more of the unit pixels configured to perform a detection operation of a physical quantity thereof to generate a second pixel packet including digital detection data acquired by the detection operation and then output the second pixel packet to a subsequent one of the unit pixels; and a receiver section configured to receive the second pixel packet. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154906 | ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE CIRCUIT AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - An organic light-emitting diode circuit and a driving method thereof are disclosed herein. The organic light-emitting diode circuit includes a storage unit, a transistor, a coupling capacitor, a compensation unit, an input unit, a switch unit, and an organic light-emitting diode. The transistor is configured to be driven by a voltage stored in the storage unit so that a second end of the transistor generates a driving current. The coupling capacitor changes a voltage of the second end of the transistor. The compensation unit changes the voltage level at the second end of the transistor according to a first scan signal. The input unit transmits a data voltage to the storage unit according to a second scan signal. The switch unit is turned on according to a light-emitting signal so that the driving current is transmitted to the organic light-emitting diode through the switch unit. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154907 | PIXEL DRIVER CIRCUIT AND PIXEL CIRCUIT HAVING CONTROL CIRCUIT COUPLED TO SUPPLY VOLTAGE - A pixel driver circuit for driving a light-emitting element and a pixel circuit having the pixel driver circuit are provided. The pixel driver circuit includes a data line, address lines, switch thin film transistors, feedback thin film transistors and drive thin film transistors. The pixel circuit may include an organic light emitting diode, which is driven by the pixel driver circuit. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154908 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY AND METHOD OF COMPENSATING FOR IMAGE QUALITY THEREOF - Provided is an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device including a plurality of pixels to display images, each of the pixels including an OLED, a driving transistor connected to the OLED, and a switching transistor configured to supply data signals to the OLED, the device including: a sensor configured to sense a change amount of a mobility of the driving transistor; a compensation value calculator configured to obtain a change amount of a threshold voltage of the driving transistor based on the sensed change amount of the mobility; and a data compensator configured to adjust the data signals based on the sensed change amount of mobility and the obtained change amount of the threshold voltage. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154909 | DISPLAY AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING DISPLAY - A display includes a pixel array part with pixels that each have at least one transistor whose conduction state is controlled by a drive signal input to a control terminal, and a scanner including a plurality of buffers that are formed of transistors. The buffers correspond to a pixel arrangement and output a drive signal to the control terminals of the transistors of the pixels. The transistors of the pixels and the transistors of the buffers are formed through irradiation with laser light that is moved for scanning in a predetermined direction and has a predetermined wavelength. The transistors in the buffers are formed in such a way that the channel length direction of the transistors is set parallel to the scan direction of the laser light. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154910 | DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD OF CALCULATING COMPENSATION DATA THEREOF, AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A display device includes a sensing driver, a memory, a first compensator, and a second compensator. The sensing driver measures a first voltage value applied to a light emitter in a pixels. The memory stores a second voltage value previously measured for the pixel. The first compensator calculates a temperature of the light emitter at a time of measuring the first voltage value, and compensates for the first voltage value based on the temperature. The second compensator compensates for input data for the pixel based on a voltage variation obtained from the temperature-compensated first voltage value and the second voltage value. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154911 | DRIVE CIRCUIT, DISPLAY UNIT, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Provided is a drive circuit that includes a scanning circuit configured to perform a first vertical scanning and a second vertical scanning on each of first and second display regions, adjacent to each other in a vertical direction in a display region including pixels, individually in one frame. The first vertical scanning causes light emission of each pixel to be performed, and the second vertical scanning causes light extinction of each pixel to be performed. The scanning circuit is configured to perform the first vertical scanning and the second vertical scanning to cause timing of starting the light emission of an n+1th frame for a first scanned row, adjacent to the first display region, in the second display region to be later than timing of ending the light emission of an n-th frame for a final scanned row, adjacent to the second display region, in the first display region. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154912 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR COMPENSATING FOR LUMINANCE VARIATIONS THEREOF - An organic light emitting diode display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels in a display region, each pixel including a switching thin film transistor, a driving thin film transistor, and a light emitting diode, the display region divided into a plurality of regions; a diode current measuring portion electrically connected to the light emitting diode of each pixel and measuring a current of each divided region; a timing control portion obtaining a gain value of each divided region based on the measured current of each divided region, and generating compensated image data using the gain value; a gate driver supplying gate voltages to the display panel; and a data driver supplying data voltages corresponding to the compensated image data to the display panel. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154913 | Organic Light Emitting Display Device and Method for Driving the Same - An organic light emitting display device comprising a display panel and a panel driver is disclosed. The display panel includes pixels and sensing lines respectively coupled to the pixels. Each pixel includes an organic light emitting device and a driving transistor to control a current flow in the organic light emitting device. The panel driver is configured to receive an input image data, to generate a sensing data by sensing a characteristic variation of the driving transistor, to generate a peak luminance data to limit peak luminance of an input image, to generate a corrected data by correcting the input image data based on the sensing data, to convert the corrected data to a data voltage based on a plurality of reference gamma voltages set based on the peak luminance data, and to supply the data voltage to the pixels. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154914 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE (OLED) PIXEL, DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device includes a plurality of OLED pixels. In one aspect, each pixel respectively includes a first capacitor connected between a data line and a first node, a switching transistor connecting the first node and a second node, a second capacitor connected between the second node and a third node, a driving transistor having a gate electrode connected to the third node and controlling a driving current flowing from a first power source voltage to an OLED, and a reference voltage transistor transmitting a reference voltage to the first node. When a light emitting step occurs in which the OLED emits light, it is simultaneously performed in a plurality of pixels by use of a driving current, the switching transistor is turned off and the reference voltage transistor is turned on such that the reference voltage is transmitted to the first node, and a data voltage corresponding to a scan signal of a gate-on voltage respectively corresponding to a plurality of pixels is stored to the first capacitor. Aspects also include pixel circuits and methods of driving the pixels in the display. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154915 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A pixel circuit is disposed in correspondence to an intersection of a scanning line and a data line. The pixel circuit is provided with a wiring for shielding an relay electrode connected to a source of the transistor for controlling a current flowing to a light emitting element from the data line. The wiring has a structure in which an relay electrode located on the same layer as the data line, an relay electrode located on the same layer as the relay electrode, an electrode portion of a conductive layer between the data line and the relay electrode are electrically connected to each other. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154916 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND BACKLIGHT DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device and a backlight driving method thereof. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel and a backlight panel, wherein the liquid crystal display panel includes a main control unit, and the backlight panel includes light-emitting units and a backlight driving circuit. The backlight driving method comprises steps of: the main control unit outputting a frequency control signal; the backlight driving circuit outputting at least one diming control signal based on the frequency control signal sent by the main control unit, and periodically controlling turn-on and turn-off of the light-emitting units based on the dimming control signal; wherein frequency of the dimming control signal is N times of a screen refresh frequency of the liquid crystal display panel, and N is an integer greater or equal to 2. The method can effectively eliminate backlight flickers for liquid crystal display devices with an ultra-high degree of resolution. The present invention is especially suitable for LED backlight source liquid crystal display devices with an ultra-high degree of resolution. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154917 | BACKLIGHT MODULE, METHOD FOR DRIVING SAME AND DISPLAY DEVICE USING SAME - A display device includes a power rectifying unit for rectifying alternating power, a power factor correction unit correcting the power factor of the alternating power and outputting a power factor corrected voltage containing a direct current voltage component having at least a predetermined size, a display module driven by the power factor corrected voltage, a backlight unit, and a driving unit supplying the main driving voltage to a backlight unit, receiving the power factor corrected voltage when the size of the rectified voltage is smaller than a preset threshold value to generate a supplementary driving voltage. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154918 | METHOD FOR DRIVING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A low-resolution image is displayed at high resolution and power consumption is reduced. Resolution is made higher by super-resolution processing. Then, display is performed with the luminance of a backlight controlled by local dimming after the super-resolution processing. By controlling the luminance of the backlight, power consumption can be reduced. Further, by performing the local dimming after the super-resolution processing, accurate display can be performed. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154919 | DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention provides a display device that can suppress the unevenness of reflection brilliance due to the glare of an outside light on a display surface, and can achieve the enhancement of the visibility of a display image. For preventing the unevenness of the reflection brilliance due to the glare of the outside light on the front surface of the display of the display device, a display device according to an aspect of the present invention corrects the display brilliance of the display image on the display and suppresses the unevenness. That is, the display brilliance of the display image is corrected for each pixel, such that a mixed display brilliance MDB resulting from adding the reflection brilliance on the front surface of the display and the display brilliance of the display image becomes a brilliance in accordance with a characteristic curve OMDBC that is fixed regardless of the reflection brilliance R. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154920 | HUE SEQUENTIAL DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD - This disclosure provides systems, methods, non-transitory computer readable storage media, and apparatus for displaying images using hue-based frame-specific contributing colors (FSCCs). In one aspect, an input is configured to receive image data corresponding to a current image frame. Contributing color selection logic is configured, based on received image data, to obtain a set of FSCCs for use in conjunction with a set of frame-independent contributing colors (FICCs) to generate the current or a subsequent image frame on a display. The set of FSCCs are obtained from determining the dominant hues in the image frame. The image frame is displayed such that subframes associated with displaying the FSCCs have weights that are greater than the subframes associated with displaying the FICCs. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154921 | BACKLIGHT DRIVING CIRCUIT AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A backlight driving circuit and a liquid crystal display device are described. The backlight driving circuit drives at least one LED bar and includes a power supply module, a switch module, and a detection module. When the detection module detects that a positive polarity end of a power supply voltage of the power supply module is electrically coupled to a negative polarity end of the LED bar, the switch module switches the positive polarity end of the power supply voltage to be electrically coupled to the positive polarity end of the LED bar and switches a negative polarity end of the power supply voltage to be electrically coupled to a negative polarity end of the LED bar. The present invention can detect the polarities of the LED bar so that the LED bar can keep on working normally. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154922 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device comprising a liquid crystal panel, a backlight, a liquid crystal panel drive controller, and a backlight drive controller determining a luminance pattern defining a magnitude of luminance of each of the plurality of illumination parts on the basis of luminance information corresponding to each area to perform an area control for separately controlling the luminances of the plurality of illumination parts in accordance with the luminance pattern, the backlight drive controller having a special area control mode for performing the area control by determining the luminance pattern common to a plurality of frames of the image displayed on the display region, wherein the backlight drive controller, in the special area control mode, performs computation of an average value of the luminances of respective pixels of the image on the basis of the image signal for the plurality of frames to determine the luminance pattern. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154923 | DISPLAY DEVICE EQUIPPED WITH POWER GENERATION FUNCTION - An MEMS shutter-type display device equipped with a power generation function, which achieves reduction of power consumption, is provided in the present invention. The display device equipped with a power generation function according to the present invention includes: a first substrate including a movable first shutter with a first slit, a first electrode, and a second electrode that is installed on the side opposite to the first electrode via the first shutter; a second substrate including a second shutter with a second slit; a drive circuit to actuate the first shutter; the first shutter being positively or negatively charged; and the drive circuit being connected to the first electrode. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154924 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - An input buffer chooses, in accordance with first control clocks, to output an input data signal or output a high-impedance signal. A master flip-flop chooses, in accordance with second control clocks, to output a data signal received from the input buffer or retain a currently output data signal. A master-slave switch chooses, in accordance with the second control clocks, to output a high-impedance signal or output a data signal received from the master flip-flop. A slave flip-flop chooses, in accordance with the second control clocks, to retain a currently output data signal or output a data signal received from the master-slave switch. A clock buffer inputs the second control clocks, and generates and outputs the first control clocks. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154925 | METHOD FOR DRIVING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate provided with a terminal portion, a switching transistor, a driver circuit portion, and a pixel circuit portion including a pixel transistor and a plurality of pixels, a second substrate provided with a common electrode electrically connected to the terminal portion through the switching transistor, and liquid crystal between a pixel electrode and the common electrode. In a period during which a still image is switched to a moving image, the following steps are sequentially performed: a first step of supplying the common potential to the common electrode; a second step of supplying a power supply voltage to the driver circuit portion; a third step of supplying a clock signal to the driver circuit portion; and a fourth step of supplying a start pulse signal to the driver circuit portion. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154926 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL APPARATUS, METHOD OF DRIVING ELECTRO-OPTICAL APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - An electro-optical apparatus includes scanning lines; signal lines; pixels; and a drive unit. The signal lines are divided into k signal line groups (k is an integer of two or greater). The drive unit includes a precharging circuit that supplies precharging signals to the signal lines, and an image signal circuit that supplies image signals to the signal lines. The image signal circuit includes k image sequence lines and k groups of switches. The precharging circuit includes k precharging sequence lines and k groups of precharging switches. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154927 | GATE DRIVER-ON-ARRAY DRIVING CIRCUIT AND DRIVING METHOD - The present invention provides a gate driver-on-array (GOA) driving circuit and a driving method, which are used for generating a gate pulse to drive a scan line. The GOA driving circuit includes a GOA control unit utilized to generate a first control signal and a second control signal; a selective switch circuit coupled between the GOA control unit and the scan line, utilized to output the gate pulse according to the first control signal and the second control signal, the gate pulse having a high level and a low level; and a field effect transistor coupled to the selective switch circuit, utilized to turn on during the high level so that the gate pulse slopingly lowers to a predetermined level and then lowers to the low level. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154928 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a first-stage output circuit adapted to perform output to a first-stage output signal line as an endmost output signal line out of a plurality of output signal lines disposed in parallel to each other, and the first-stage output circuit includes a start signal line to which a start signal for applying a conducting potential sequentially to the plurality of output signal lines is applied, a first clock signal line to which a first clock signal is applied, a second clock signal line to which a second clock signal is applied, a first transistor having a source to which the first-stage output signal line is connected, and a drain to which the first clock signal line is connected, and a second transistor having a gate to which the start signal line is connected. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154929 | METHOD OF ADJUSTING DISPLAY DEVICE DRIVING VOLTAGE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention discloses methods of adjusting display device driving voltage and a display device, which are used for improving pressing unevenness (Trace Mura) of the display device caused by pressing or paddling. The method comprises: comparing the driving voltage of a display device with a driving voltage threshold; and if the driving voltage is larger than the driving voltage threshold, adjusting the driving voltage to make the adjusted driving voltage be smaller than or equal to the driving voltage threshold. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154930 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A device for driving a liquid crystal display, in which a pixel voltage is reduced by a kickback voltage variable according to grayscales, includes: a signal controller which receives an input image signal corresponding to a grayscale; an image signal corrector which corrects the input image signal and generates a data input signal; and a data driver which supplies a data voltage corresponding to the grayscale based on the data input signal, where the grayscale includes black, white grayscale and intermediate grayscales, the data voltage includes positive and negative voltages, and when a difference between a sum of the positive and negative voltages and a common voltage is defined an offset value, a first offset value corresponding to the black grayscale, a second offset value corresponding to the white grayscale and a third offset value corresponding to the intermediate grayscale satisfy the inequation: |first offset value-second offset value|≦50 mV. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154931 | METHOD OF DRIVING A DISPLAY PANEL, DISPLAY PANEL DRIVING APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD AND DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING THE DISPLAY PANEL DRIVING APPARATUS - A method of driving a display panel includes applying a gate signal to a gate line of a display panel to drive the gate line, and driving a data line of the display panel by applying a data signal to the data line, where the driving the data line of the display panel includes over-driving the data line based on a data load signal and a polarity control signal. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154932 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a substrate, a gate line connected to a gate driver, a reference voltage line, a data line crossing the gate line and the reference voltage line, a first thin film transistor including a first drain electrode and connected to the gate line and the data line, a second thin film transistor including a second drain electrode, a third thin film transistor connected to the gate line, the reference voltage line, and the second thin film transistor, and a pixel electrode including a first sub-pixel electrode connected to the first thin film transistor and a second sub-pixel electrode connected to the second thin film transistor. The first drain electrode overlaps the reference voltage line, and an area of a region in which the first drain electrode and the reference voltage line overlap each other increases in a direction toward the gate driver. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154933 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPENSATING FOR DEFECTIVE PIXEL OF DISPLAY - Provided is a method for compensating for a defective pixel of a display. The method includes identifying at least one of a plurality of pixels of a display as a defective pixel and compensating for a function of the defective pixel by using at least one pixel from a first pixel group located in a first partial region corresponding to the defective pixel and a second pixel group located in a second partial region located adjacent to the first partial region among a plurality of partial regions, each partial region comprising some adjacent pixels among the plurality of pixels. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154934 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CUSTOMIZING OPTIMAL SETTINGS USING END-USER PREFERENCES - Embodiments of the present invention provide a novel solution that uses subjective end-user input to generate optimal image quality settings for an application. Embodiments of the present invention enable end-users to rank and/or select various adjustable application parameter settings in a manner that allows them to specify which application parameters and/or settings are most desirable to them for a given application. Based on the feedback received from end-users, embodiments of the present invention may generate optimal settings for whatever performance level the end-user desires. Furthermore, embodiments of the present invention may generate optimal settings that may be benchmarked either on a server farm or on an end-user's client device. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154935 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, COVER FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND METHOD OF PERFORMING A FUNCTION IN AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device, a cover of the electronic device, and a method of performing a function in the electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display unit configured to display information and a controller configured to detect whether a display screen is covered with one or more parts a cover covering the display unit, and to perform a predetermined function if the display screen is covered with the one or more parts of the cover. Another embodiment may be implemented at any amount. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154936 | MOBILE DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A mobile device and a method for controlling the mobile device are provided. The mobile device includes a flexible display unit that has a first longitudinal edge and a second longitudinal edge and is configured to be wound in spiral turns and thereby to create at least two display regions with respect to a boundary between the first longitudinal edge in one turn and the second longitudinal edge in a next turn. The mobile device further includes a sensor unit configured to sense the boundary and to determine a display region, and a control unit configured to control the determined display region. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154937 | COLOR SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUIT, COLOR SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A color signal processing circuit of the present disclosure includes: a correction signal generation unit which generates, on the basis of a signal level of a color signal corresponding to one primary color among color signals corresponding to a plurality of primary colors being input, a correction signal for chromaticity of a color signal corresponding to another primary color as a difference value from a signal level of each color signal corresponding to predetermined chromaticity; and a correction unit which uses the correction signal generated by the correction signal generation unit to correct the color signal corresponding to the other primary color. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154938 | Gamma Voltage Driving Circuit, Source Driving Module, and Liquid Crystal Panel - The present invention discloses a Gamma voltage driving circuit, which comprises a voltage dividing resistor string, which comprises 2 | 2015-06-04 |
20150154939 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING AFTERIMAGE LEVEL OF DISPLAY DEVICE - A method for determining the afterimage level of a display is used for solving the problem in the conventional technology that the accuracy is very low as the afterimage level of the display can only be determined by human-eye observation. The method comprises: determining a brightness variation index and an area index of an afterimage displayed by the display device after an afterimage test; and determining the afterimage level of the display device according to the determined brightness variation index and the determined area index. Because both the brightness variation index and the area index of the afterimage can be determined objectively, the means of human-eye subjective observation is not required any more and the afterimage level of the display can be determined objectively, and hence the accuracy of determining the afterimage level of the display can be improved. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154940 | Determining Correlated Movements Associated With Movements Caused By Driving A Vehicle - Example methods and systems for determining correlated movements associated with movements caused by driving a vehicle are provided. In an example, a computer-implemented method includes identifying a threshold number of sets of correlated movements. The method further includes determining that the threshold number of sets of correlated movements is associated with movements caused by driving a vehicle. The method still further includes causing the wearable computing system to select a driving user interface for the wearable computing system. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154941 | ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A driving method of an electro-optic device includes initializing a gate voltage of a driving transistor; and performing a data write operation where a threshold voltage of the driving transistor is compensated by turning on a first transistor and a second transistor connected in series between a drain and a gate of the driving transistor and a voltage is provided to a capacity element connected to the gate of the driving transistor to hold a voltage of the compensated data signal as a gate voltage. The first transistor is at a drain side of the driving transistor and the second transistor is between the first transistor and a gate side of the driving transistor. When the data write operation ends, the second transistor is first turned off and, subsequently, the first transistor is turned off. The second transistor is again turned on after the first transistor is turned off. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154942 | Transmission Method for Display Device - A transmission method for a display device is provided. The display device includes a one-to-many timing controller and a plurality of source drivers. The transmission method includes determining whether the plurality of source drivers being operated in different operational modes are switched on or off according to a command signal, to receive a display information of the one-to-many timing controller. The display information comprises at least a first control triggering signal, a first control signal, a first display information triggering signal, a first display signal, a second display information triggering signal and a second display signal, and the command signal is an internal setting signal or an external setting signal. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154943 | Timing Controller, Source Driver, and Display Driver Integrated Circuit Having Improved Test Efficiency and Method of Operating Display Driving Circuit - A timing controller, a source driver, and a display driver integrated circuit (DDI) having improved test efficiency and a method of operating the DDI are provided. The timing controller includes a code generation unit for generating a first code from display data, a protocol encoder for generating a data sequence including the display data and the first code, and a transmission unit for providing the data sequence to a source driver through a link. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154944 | DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD OF DISPLAY, AND PROGRAM - In a digital signage device, a control unit extracts a face region and a torso region from an image of the object to be displayed, compares the extracted face region and torso region to a face region and torso region extracted from a screen image on an image display unit in use, and then calculates, on the basis of these comparison results, a first adjustment factor for adjusting the size of the face region and a second adjustment factor for adjusting the size of the torso region in the image of the object to be displayed, the respective sizes of the face region and torso region in the image of the object to be displayed being separately adjusted on the basis of the calculated first adjustment factor and second adjustment factor in order to display an adjusted image on the image display unit. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154945 | FULLY-ADJUSTABLE CAPO FOR STRINGED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS - A tuning apparatus for a musical instrument is provided. The apparatus includes a clamp, a plurality of string-contacting members, and a string-contacting member spacing adjustment mechanism. The clamp removably attaches to a desired longitudinal position on the instrument's neck. Each member is rotatably supported by the clamp and rotates thereon independently of the other members. Each member also adjustably impinges upon and urges a given string or course thereof on the instrument toward a user-selectable one of three different longitudinal positions on the neck's front surface, these positions including a home position, a home−1 position, and a home+1 position. The mechanism allows a user to adjust the location of the members as a group on the clamp so as to substantially center the plane of rotation of each member over a different string or course thereof, and to maintain substantially equal spacing between each different adjacent pair of members. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154946 | METAL-EDGED PLECTRUM AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE THEREOF - A plectrum or guitar pick and method of manufacture thereof. The plectrum has one or more metal edges that are substantially flush/planar with the body of the plectrum. This edge may be an outer edge of the plectrum itself or an inner edge of a cutout punched into the body of the pick. Alternatively, metal can be plated onto the body of the plectrum. The body of the plectrum may be formed of a metal, plastic or other suitable material. The interior of the body may contain customized designs, print, or cutouts that contain metal. The metal edge of the plectrum is capable of being flush with the body through a novel method of manufacturing plectra on metallic (e.g., copper clad) boards. Thus, the body and edges of the plectrum may remain coplanar as if created from the same material, though retaining benefits of being formed of two separate materials. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154947 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - A musical instrument is disclosed which comprises a first tubular member having an inlet end and an outlet end, an interior surface, and an exterior surface and a second tubular member having an inlet end and a closed end having a one-way valve, the second tubular member adapted for receiving the first tubular member for moving the first tubular member relative to the second tubular member, and the second tubular member for receiving a liquid through the one-way valve. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154948 | PROGRAMMABLE MUSICAL INSTRUMENT PEDALBOARD - In one embodiment, a programmable pedalboard for a musical instrument is provided. The pedalboard includes a docking station for receiving a removable portable computer that provides a plurality of instrument effects. The docking station is configured to receive an audio signal from a musical instrument and to modify the audio signal from the musical instrument based on at least one instrument effect from the plurality of instrument effects. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154949 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS THEREOF FOR DETERMINING A VIRTUAL MOMENTUM BASED ON USER INPUT - A computer-implemented method including generating a user interface implemented on a touch-sensitive display configured to generate a virtual dual flywheel system for modulating a lifecycle of a musical note or chord. The dual flywheel system (DFS) includes a first VFS and a second VFS, where the first virtual flywheel system series connected to the second virtual flywheel system such that an output of the first virtual flywheel system is coupled to an input of the second virtual flywheel system. Upon receiving a user input on the user interface, the dual flywheel system determines a virtual momentum for the first virtual flywheel based on the user input and a predetermined mass coefficient of the first virtual flywheel system, and determines a virtual momentum for the second virtual flywheel based on the virtual momentum of the first virtual flywheel system and a predetermined mass coefficient of the second virtual flywheel. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154950 | ACTIVE NOISE REDUCTION HEADPHONE - An active noise reduction earphone includes a speaker, a plurality of microphones and a feedback system. Each microphone is displaced from the speaker and the other microphones, and each microphone generates a microphone signal responsive to received acoustic noise. The feedback system receives a combination of the microphone signals and generates an inverse noise signal that is applied to the speaker. The speaker generates an inverse acoustic noise signal that substantially cancels the acoustic noise signal at a predetermined location relative to the speaker and the microphones. The feedback system can include a microphone signal combiner in communication with the microphones. The microphone signal combiner generates a signal that may be a sum or weighted sum of the microphone signals and can be used to generate the inverse noise signal. The earphone has an increased noise reduction bandwidth and improved cancellation capability relative to conventional earphones. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154951 | AUDIO APPARATUS AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - An audio apparatus and method are provided. The method includes receiving, by a controller, first audio data and second audio data and processing the first audio data and the second audio data to generate first audio signals and second audio signals. Further, reverse phase signals of the first audio signals are generated by the controller. A first group of the plurality of audio outputting units output the first audio signals and a second group of the plurality of audio outputting units output the second audio signals and the reverse phase signals of the first audio signals. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154952 | System and Method for Generating Manually Designed and Automatically Optimized Spoken Dialog Systems - Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and tangible computer-readable storage media for generating a natural language spoken dialog system. The method includes nominating a set of allowed dialog actions and a set of contextual features at each turn in a dialog, and selecting an optimal action from the set of nominated allowed dialog actions using a machine learning algorithm. The method includes generating a response based on the selected optimal action at each turn in the dialog. The set of manually nominated allowed dialog actions can incorporate a set of business rules. Prompt wordings in the generated natural language spoken dialog system can be tailored to a current context while following the set of business rules. A compression label can represent at least one of the manually nominated allowed dialog actions. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154953 | GENERATION OF WAKE-UP WORDS - A method, system and tangible computer readable medium for generating one or more wake-up words are provided. For example, the method can include receiving a text representation of the one or more wake-up words. A strength of the text representation of the one or more wake-up words can be determined based on one or more static measures. The method can also include receiving an audio representation of the one or more wake-up words. A strength of the audio representation of the one or more wake-up words can be determined based on one or more dynamic measures. Feedback on the one or more wake-up words is provided (e.g., to an end user) based on the strengths of the text and audio representations. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154954 | INITIATING ACTIONS BASED ON PARTIAL HOTWORDS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, receiving audio data; determining that an initial portion of the audio data corresponds to an initial portion of a hotword; in response to determining that the initial portion of the audio data corresponds to the initial portion of the hotword, selecting, from among a set of one or more actions that are performed when the entire hotword is detected, a subset of the one or more actions; and causing one or more actions of the subset to be performed. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154955 | Method and Apparatus For Performing Speech Keyword Retrieval - A method and an apparatus are provided for retrieving keyword. The apparatus configures at least two types of language models in a model file, where each type of language model includes a recognition model and a corresponding decoding model; the apparatus extracts a speech feature from the to-be-processed speech data; performs language matching on the extracted speech feature by using recognition models in the model file one by one, and determines a recognition model based on a language matching rate; and determines a decoding model corresponding to the recognition model; decoding the extracted speech feature by using the determined decoding model, and obtains a word recognition result after the decoding; and matches a keyword in a keyword dictionary and the word recognition result, and outputs a matched keyword. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154956 | AUTO-TAGGER THAT LEARNS - Examples perform context categorization by categorizing a transcription of a speech file based on the context of the subject matter of the transcription. A computer processor is configuration to provide a system that generates a normalized transcription of the speech file transcription and compares elements of the normalized transcription to elements of a context categorization model or a corpus of categorized transcriptions to determine whether the normalized transcription contains keywords of transcriptions that have previously been categorized. If the comparison yields a result indicating a specific match with a context category, the normalized transcription is assigned to the matching context category. As the number of successfully categorized transcriptions stored in the corpus increases, the more frequently the system and method examples perform successful comparisons. As a result, the context categorization accuracy increases and the system appears to learn. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154957 | CONVERSATION SUPPORT APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF CONVERSATION SUPPORT APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM FOR CONVERSATION SUPPORT APPARATUS - A conversation support apparatus includes: a speech input unit configured to input speech signals of two or more users; a speech recognizing unit configured to recognize the speech signals input from the speech input unit; a display unit configured to display the recognition results of the speech recognizing unit; and an image processing unit configured to set display areas respectively corresponding to the users into an image display area of the display unit. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154958 | MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION RETRIEVAL METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - The present invention relates to a multimedia information retrieval method and electronic device, the multimedia information retrieval method comprising the steps of: extracting from a to-be-retrieved multimedia the voice of the to-be-retrieved multimedia; recognizing the voice of the to-be-retrieved multimedia to obtain a recognized text; and retrieving a multimedia database according to the recognized text to obtain the multimedia information of the to-be-retrieved multimedia. The present invention also relates to an electronic device. The multimedia information retrieval method and electronic device of the present invention can automatically, quickly, and comprehensively present to a user the multimedia information the user wants to know, thus greatly improving user retrieval efficiency and retrieval success rate. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154959 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING DUAL MODE SPEECH RECOGNITION - A system and method is presented for performing dual mode speech recognition, employing a local recognition module on a mobile device and a remote recognition engine on a server device. The system accepts a spoken query from a user, and both the local recognition module and the remote recognition engine perform speech recognition operations on the query, returning a transcription and confidence score, subject to a latency cutoff time. If both sources successfully transcribe the query, then the system accepts the result having the higher confidence score. If only one source succeeds, then that result is accepted. In either case, if the remote recognition engine does succeed in transcribing the query, then a client vocabulary is updated if the remote system result includes information not present in the client vocabulary. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154960 | SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHODOLOGY FOR SELECTING MEETING USERS BASED ON SPEECH - In one embodiment, video and audio data of a plurality of users is received from at least one external device and a speaking user is identified from at least one of the video and audio data. One or more phrases is extracted from the audio data and at least one database is accessed to identify a different user based on the one or more extracted phrases. This different user is designated as the speaking user and the video, audio data and at least a portion of the user data is transmitted to a client device such that a communication session of the client device is updated. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154961 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING FRAUDULENT CALLERS - The methods, apparatus, and systems described herein are designed to identify fraudulent callers. A voice print of a call is created and compared to known voice prints to determine if it matches one or more of the known voice prints, and to transaction data associated with a database of voice prints. The methods include a pre-processing step to separate speech from non-speech, selecting a number of elements that affect the voice print the most, and/or computing an adjustment factor based on the scores of each received voice print against known voice prints. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154962 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SPLITTING A DIGITAL SIGNAL - A method for splitting a digital signal using prosodic features included in the signal is provided that includes calculating onset value locations in the signal. The onset values correspond to stress accents in the signal. Moreover, the method includes splitting, using a processor, the signal into a prosodic unit candidate sequence by superimposing the stress accent locations on the signal, and processing the sequence to include only true prosodic units. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154963 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND TERMINAL DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING INFORMATION - Methods, systems, and terminal devices for transmitting information are provided. An exemplary system includes a sending end and at least one receiving end. The sending end is configured to obtain audio data to be transmitted, encode the obtained audio data according to an M-bit unit length, and use a pre-set cross-platform audio interface to control an audio outputting device of the sending end to send the encoded audio data to the at least one receiving end. The M-bit unit length is an encoding length corresponding to each frequency of a number N of frequencies, N is greater than or equal to 2, and M is greater than 0. The at least one receiving end is configured to use the pre-set cross-platform audio interface to control an audio inputting device of the at least one receiving end to receive the encoded audio data. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154964 | MULTI-PATH AUDIO PROCESSING - In some implementations, a device for providing dual uplink processing paths may include a human listening (HL) input processing unit configured to receive an audio stream and pre-process the audio stream to create a first audio signal adapted for human listening via a first uplink processing path, a machine listening (ML) input processing unit configured to receive the audio stream and pre-process the audio stream to create a second audio signal adapted for machine listening via a second uplink processing path, and a network interface unit configured to transmit the first audio signal via the first uplink processing path and transmit the second audio signal via the second uplink processing path to a remote server. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154965 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IMPROVING THE RENDERING OF MULTI-CHANNEL AUDIO SIGNALS - Conventional audio compression technologies perform a standardized signal transformation, independent of the type of the content. Multi-channel signals are decomposed into their signal components, subsequently quantized and encoded. This is disadvantageous due to lack of knowledge on the characteristics of scene composition, especially for e.g. multi-channel audio or Higher-Order Ambisonics (HOA) content. An improved method for encoding pre-processed audio data comprises encoding the pre-processed audio data, and encoding auxiliary data that indicate the particular audio pre-processing. An improved method for decoding encoded audio data comprises determining that the encoded audio data had been pre-processed before encoding, decoding the audio data, extracting from received data information about the pre-processing, and post-processing the decoded audio data according to the extracted pre-processing information. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154966 | Haptic Signal Synthesis and Transport in a Bit Stream - Techniques for synthesizing a parameterized haptic track from a multichannel audio signal and embedding the haptic track in a multichannel audio codec bit stream. The haptic track synthesis can occur while encoding the multichannel audio signal as the multichannel audio codec bit stream. The haptic track can be synthesized in a way that allows select parameters of the haptic track to be extracted from the audio signal. The parameters can be adjusted by a user during the encoding process. For example, the parameter adjustments can be made using a authoring/monitoring tool. The parameter adjustments can be recorded as metadata that, along with the haptic track, is included in the codec bit stream. In some aspects the present technology, the adjustable parameters include center frequency, gain, decay rate, and other parameters that allow for modulation of the haptic track during decoding of the codec bit stream. By synthesizing a parameterized haptic track, A/V content creators can be provided greater control in authoring haptic content to accompany the A/V content they create. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154967 | LOW BITRATE AUDIO ENCODING/DECODING SCHEME HAVING CASCADED SWITCHES - An audio encoder has a first information sink oriented encoding branch, a second information source or SNR oriented encoding branch, and a switch for switching between the first encoding branch and the second encoding branch, wherein the second encoding branch has a converter into a specific domain different from the spectral domain, and wherein the second encoding branch furthermore has a specific domain coding branch, and a specific spectral domain coding branch, and an additional switch for switching between the specific domain coding branch and the specific spectral domain coding branch. An audio decoder has a first domain decoder, a second domain decoder for decoding a signal, and a third domain decoder and two cascaded switches for switching between the decoders. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154968 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR ADAPTING AUDIO INFORMATION IN SPATIAL AUDIO OBJECT CODING - An apparatus for adapting input audio information, encoding one or more audio objects, to obtain adapted audio information is provided. The input audio information includes two or more input audio downmix channels and further includes input parametric side information. The adapted audio information includes one or more adapted audio downmix channels and further includes adapted parametric side information. The apparatus includes a downmix signal modifier for adapting, depending on adaptation information, the two or more input audio downmix channels to obtain the one or more adapted audio downmix channels. Moreover, the apparatus includes a parametric side information adapter for adapting, depending on the adaptation information, the input parametric side information to obtain the adapted parametric side information. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154969 | DOUBLY COMPATIBLE LOSSLESS AUDIO BANDWIDTH EXTENSION - An encoder for digital audio signals at a higher sample rate creates a stream for consumer distribution at a lower sampling rate, with compatibility for standard PCM players without a decoder. In conjunction with a suitable decoder, two enhanced playback options are supported, the first option allowing full lossless reconstruction of a noise-shaped higher sampling rate signal, the second option allowing lossy bandwidth extension even if an intervening transmission chain has truncated the least-significant-bits of the encoder's output signal. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154970 | SMOOTH CONFIGURATION SWITCHING FOR MULTICHANNEL AUDIO RENDERING BASED ON A VARIABLE NUMBER OF RECEIVED CHANNELS - A decoding system reconstructs an n-channel audio signal on the basis of an input signal representing the audio signal, in different time frames, either by parametric coding or as n discretely coded channels. Parametric decoding uses a core signal and mixing parameters controlling a spatial synthesis stage, to which a downmix signal is supplied from a downmix stage. The downmix stage realizes a projection on the downmix signal based on an n-channel input signal, either a discretely coded signal or a core signal padded with neutral-valued channels. The padding may take place either on the decoding side (reduced parametric coding) or the encoding side. In an embodiment, an audio decoder ( | 2015-06-04 |
20150154971 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING MULTI-CHANNEL HOA AUDIO SIGNALS FOR NOISE REDUCTION, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING MULTI-CHANNEL HOA AUDIO SIGNALS FOR NOISE REDUCTION - A method for encoding multi-channel HOA audio signals for noise reduction comprises steps of decorrelating the channels using an inverse adaptive DSHT, the inverse adaptive DSHT comprising a rotation operation and an inverse DSHT, with the rotation operation rotating the spatial sampling grid of the iDSHT, perceptually encoding each of the decorrelated channels, encoding rotation information, the rotation information comprising parameters defining said rotation operation, and transmitting or storing the perceptually encoded audio channels and the encoded rotation information. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154972 | WATERMARK INSERTION IN FREQUENCY DOMAIN FOR AUDIO ENCODING/DECODING/TRANSCODING - An audio processing device includes an initial processing module to generate a stream of frequency coefficients based on input audio data, a watermarking module to embed a digital watermark into the stream of frequency coefficients to generate a modified stream of frequency coefficients, and a final processing module to process the modified stream of frequency coefficients to generate output audio data. In some implementations, the input audio data comprises unencoded audio data, the initial processing module comprises a frequency domain transform module to perform a time-to-frequency domain transform to generate the unencoded audio data, and the output audio data is encoded audio data. In other instances, the input audio data comprises encoded audio data, the initial processing module comprises an initial decoding module to partially decode the encoded audio data to generate the stream of frequency coefficients, and the output audio data is decoded audio data. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154973 | ACTIVATING FUNCTIONS IN PROCESSING DEVICES USING ENCODED AUDIO AND DETECTING AUDIO SIGNATURES - Methods and apparatus for performing an action on a device based on audio are disclosed. An example method includes determining at a first device whether the audio includes a monitoring code indicating that the audio is to be monitored, generating a signature using a portion of the audio containing the monitoring code, and causing the action to be performed on a second device based on at least one of the monitoring code or the signature. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154974 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENCODING AND DECODING OF INTEGRATED SPEECH AND AUDIO UTILIZING A BAND EXPANDER TO OUTPUT THE AUDIO OR SPEECH TO A FREQUENCY DOMAIN ENCODER OR AN LPC ENCODER - Provided are an apparatus and a method for integrally encoding and decoding a speech signal and a audio signal. The encoding apparatus may include: an input signal analyzer to analyze a characteristic of an input signal; a first conversion encoder to convert the input signal to a frequency domain signal, and to encode the input signal when the input signal is a audio characteristic signal; a Linear Predictive Coding (LPC) encoder to perform LPC encoding of the input signal when the input signal is a speech characteristic signal; and a bitstream generator to generate a bitstream using an output signal of the first conversion encoder and an output signal of the LPC encoder. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154975 | METHOD FOR ENCODING AND DECODING AN AUDIO SIGNAL AND APPARATUS FOR SAME - A method for coding and decoding an audio signal or speech signal and an apparatus adopting the method are provided. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154976 | Natural Language Control of Secondary Device - Natural language controlled devices may be configured to activate command recognition in response to one or more wake words. Techniques are provided to enable a voice controlled system to detect or receive an indication of a secondary device available to be controlled. The voice controlled system communicates with the secondary device to obtain information related to the secondary device. The voice controlled system may output of an audio query requesting audio input data related to controlling the secondary device from a user and generate, based on the requested audio input data, recognition data utilized to recognize of at least part of one or more commands to issue one or more controls to the secondary device. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154977 | Detecting Nonlinear Amplitude Processing - Disclosed is a computer system comprising an audio processing module, an echo cancellation module and a control module. The audio processing module is configured to process an audio signal and output the processed audio signal to e.g. a speaker (or similar) of the system. The echo cancellation module is configured to cancel echo from an audio signal received via e.g. a microphone (or similar) of the system. The control module is configured to detect a condition indicative of nonlinear amplitude processing by the audio processing module and control said echo cancellation by the echo cancellation module based on the detected condition. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154978 | \SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NOISE REDUCTION IN PROCESSING SPEECH SIGNALS BY TARGETING SPEECH AND DISREGARDING NOISE - An exemplary noise reduction system and method processes a speech signal that is delivered in a noisy channel or with ambient noise. Some exemplary embodiments of the system and method use filters to extract speech information, and focus on a subset of harmonics that are least corrupted by noise. Some exemplary embodiments disregard signal harmonics with low signal-to-noise ratio(s), and disregard amplitude modulations that are inconsistent with speech. An exemplary system and method processes a signal that focuses on a subset of harmonics that are least corrupted by noise, disregards the signal harmonics with low signal-to-noise ratio(s), and disregards amplitude modulations that are inconsistent with speech. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154979 | AUTOMATED PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGY USING AUDIO WAVEFORM DATA - In order to play waveform data back at a variable performance tempo by using waveform data which complies with a desired reference tempo, the present invention performs a timeline-expansion/contraction control on the waveform data to be played back, according to the relationship between the performance tempo and the reference tempo. The present invention also determines whether to limit the playback of the waveform data according to the relationship between the performance tempo and the reference tempo. In the case that playback is to be limited, the present invention stops playback of the waveform data, or reduces the resolution of playback processing and continues playback of the waveform data. The present invention stops playback of the waveform data when, for example, the relationship between the performance tempo and the reference tempo is a relationship in which the waveform data would be played back at a performance tempo which would cause a processing delay or a deterioration of sound quality. As a result, it is possible to preemptively prevent a system freeze and solve problems such as the generation of music which has a slower tempo than the desired performance tempo, or the generation of music which includes the intermittent cutting out of sound due to noise, or a significant reduction to sound quality. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154980 | CEPSTRAL SEPARATION DIFFERENCE - A method for characterization of a human speech comprises performing ( | 2015-06-04 |
20150154981 | Voice Activity Detection (VAD) for a Coded Speech Bitstream without Decoding - A system, method and computer program product are described for voice activity detection (VAD) within a digitally encoded bitstream. A parameter extraction module is configured to extract parameters from a sequence of coded frames from a digitally encoded bitstream containing speech. A VAD classifier is configured to operate with input of the digitally encoded bitstream to evaluate each coded frame based on bitstream coding parameter classification features to output a VAD decision indicative of whether or not speech is present in one or more of the coded frames. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154982 | MEDIA CONTENT PLAYING SCHEME - A system may include a server configured to detect speech data from media content and to divide the detected speech data into one or more speech data segments in accordance with at least a respective speaker and a break in the detected speech data; and a media content playing device configured to receive the speech data segments from the server, to receive, from an input device, a control signal to play the media content, and to skip forward or rewind to play the media content starting at the identified starting point corresponding to a first one of the respective speech data segments. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154983 | DETECTING PAUSE IN AUDIBLE INPUT TO DEVICE - A device includes a processor and a memory accessible to the processor and bearing instructions executable by the processor to process an audible input sequence provided by a user of the device, determine that a pause in providing the audible input sequence has occurred at least partially based on a first signal from at least one camera communicating with the device, cease to process the audible input sequence responsive to a determination that the pause has occurred, determine that providing the audible input sequence has resumed based at least partially based on a second signal from the camera, and resume processing of the audible input sequence responsive to a determination that providing the audible input sequence has resumed. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154984 | MULTI-FORMAT READ DRIVE - A method according to one embodiment includes receiving a tape cartridge at an apparatus having a plurality of modules configured to at least read data stored on a magnetic recording tape of the tape cartridge, each of the modules having an array of readers. One module is configured to read data on a magnetic recording tape which none of the other modules can read. The method further includes determining at least one of a format of the magnetic recording tape and a format of the tape cartridge, and activating at least one of the modules to read data stored on the magnetic recording tape in response to determining the at least one of the format of the magnetic recording tape and a format of the tape cartridge. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154985 | MAGNETIC FLUX BARRIER - Data storage systems having barriers that may reduce erasure flux and increase write-ability are provided. Data storage systems include a writing element. The writing element has a write pole with a flare region. A magnetic flux barrier is located along the write pole flare region. The magnetic flux barrier is illustratively made from an in-plane magnetically anisotropic material that has an easy plane of magnetization. In another embodiment, a data storage system includes a writing element having an air bearing surface and a shield at the air bearing surface. The shield has a magnetic permeability of approximately zero. The shield illustratively includes alternating layers of positive and negative permeabilities. The shield optionally includes a plurality of shields that may include top, bottom, and side shields. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154986 | CONTROLLING MAGNETIC LAYER ANISOTROPY FIELD BY OBLIQUE ANGLE STATIC DEPOSITION - In one general embodiment, a system includes a magnetic layer having first and second magnetic sublayers. An anisotropy of the first magnetic sublayer is oriented in a different direction than an anisotropy of the second magnetic sublayer. In another general embodiment, a magnetic head includes a magnetic layer having first and second magnetic sublayers directly adjacent one another. A deposition thickness of the magnetic layer is less than 60 angstroms. An interface between the magnetic sublayers is oriented at an angle of greater than 2 degrees and less than 88 degrees relative to a plane of deposition thereof. The magnetic layer includes at least one material selected from a group consisting of Co, Fe, Ni, CoFe, CoFeB, CoHf and NiFe. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154987 | MAGNETIC HEAD HAVING A SHORT YOKE WITH A TAPERED COIL STRUCTURE - In one embodiment, a magnetic head includes a main pole configured to write data to a magnetic medium using a magnetic field, a return pole positioned above the main pole at a media-facing surface of the magnetic head, the return pole being configured to return magnetic flux from the main pole after it has exited a magnetic medium, and a coil configured to produce magnetic flux in the main pole, the coil being positioned below the return pole, wherein a film thickness of a first turn of the coil on a media-facing surface side thereof is less than a film thickness of a second turn of the coil. Other magnetic heads having a shortened magnetic circuit length and methods of production thereof are presented in additional embodiments. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154988 | HEAD GIMBALS ASSEMBLY, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THERMAL-ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING AND MANUFACTURING EQUIPMENT OF THERMAL-ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING - Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to a HAMR head. The HAMR head includes an anti-reflecting (AR) coating on a side opposite (e.g., a flex side) of the air bearing surface (ABS). The anti-reflective coating may include one or more anti-reflective layers. The anti-reflective coating reduces the amount of light reflected back towards a light source unit. A shading layer may be disposed on the anti-reflective coating and may function as a contact electrode as well as reducing stray light escaping from the laser, thus reducing the amount of stray light reaching the ABS. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154989 | HEAT ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING HEADS HAVING BILAYER HEAT SINKS - Disclosed herein is an apparatus that includes a near field transducer positioned adjacent to an air bearing surface of the apparatus; a first magnetic pole; and a heat sink positioned between the first magnetic pole and the near field transducer, wherein the heat sink includes a first and second portion, with the first portion being adjacent the near field transducer and the second portion being adjacent the first magnetic pole, the first portion including a plasmonic material, and the second portion including a diffusion blocking material. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154990 | SCISSOR SENSOR WITH BACK EDGE BIAS STRUCTURE AND NOVEL DIELECTRIC LAYER - A scissor type magnetic sensor having an improved back edge bias structure. The back edge bias structure extends beyond the sides of the sensor stack for improved bias moment and is formed on a flat topography that provide for improved magnetic biasing. The sensor is formed by a method that includes first defining a sensor width and then depositing a multi-layer insulation layer that includes a dielectric layer that is resistant to ion milling and the depositing a fill layer over the dielectric layer that is removable by ion milling. After the multi-layer insulation layer has been deposited the back edge (i.e. stripe height) of the sensor is formed by masking and ion milling. This ion milling removes portions of the non-magnetic, electrically insulating fill layer that extend beyond the stripe height and beyond the sides of the sensor, leaving the dielectric layer there-beneath. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154991 | SCISSOR MAGNETIC READ SENSOR WITH NOVEL MULTI-LAYER BIAS STRUCTURE FOR UNIFORM FREE LAYER BIASING - A scissor type magnetic sensor having a back edge bias structure that has a non-uniform magnetic moment to compensate for differences in magnetic spacing between the bias structure and a first magnetic free layer as compared with the magnetic spacing between the bias structure and a second magnetic free layer. The magnetic bias structure can include a first magnetic layer and a second magnetic layer formed over the first magnetic layer, with the first magnetic layer having a higher magnetic moment than the second magnetic layer. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154992 | TRANSDUCER RESISTOR SHUNT STRUCTURE FOR LOW-COST PROBING - Embodiments described herein generally relate to resistive shunt design in a read sensor for providing accurate measurements from an electronic lapping guide (ELG). More specifically, embodiments described herein relate to a transducer resistor shunt structure for low cost probing. A bleed resistor network for a read sensor may comprise one or more first resistors arranged in parallel with one another and a second resistor arranged in series with the one or more first resistors. The resistor arrangement may require a small physical area and reduce or prevent ELG measurement errors. | 2015-06-04 |
20150154993 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING ESD EVENTS IN CABLED DEVICES - An audit device according to one embodiment includes a substrate; at least one test element coupled to the substrate; a connector adapted for coupling the at least one test element to leads of a cable; and a probe for detecting at least one of: voltage across and current through the at least one test element. One test element is coupled to a group of leads of the connector. All positive polarity leads of the group of leads are coupled together on the substrate, and all negative polarity leads of the group of leads are coupled together on the substrate, such that the test element is coupled across the positive and the negative coupled leads of the group of leads of the connector. The test element is coupled across pairs of leads of the cable when the cable is coupled to the connector. Additional systems and methods are also presented. | 2015-06-04 |