Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080250130 | System, Method and Engine for Playing Smil Based Multimedia Contents - A system for playing SMIL based multimedia contents, comprising: a plurality of SMIL engines for analyzing and interpreting SMIL documents, as well as communicating with and controlling SMIL sub engines, remote media proxies, or local media playing devices; a plurality of remote media proxies for receiving instructions from the upper level SMIL engines, starting or stopping providing media objects to the remote media playing devices, sending back events, and providing basic user interaction capabilities, wherein said a plurality of SMIL engines, a plurality of remote media proxies, and local and remote media playing devices construct a tree-link structure, of which the root node is a SMIL engine, the branch nodes are SMIL engines and remote media proxies, and the leaf nodes are local and remote media playing devices. The corresponding SMIL engines and methods are also provided. The present invention enables the playing of SMIL based multimedia contents on a set of PvC devices, which can be dynamically configured as a new multimedia terminal on demand. | 10-09-2008 |
20110066785 | Memory Management System and Method Thereof - A memory management system and method include and use a cache buffer (such as a table look-aside buffer, TLB), a memory mapping table, a scratchpad cache, and a memory controller. The cache buffer is configured to store a plurality of data structures. The memory mapping table is configured to store a plurality of addresses of the data structures. The scratchpad cache is configured to store the base address of the data structures. The memory controller is configured to control reading and writing in the cache buffer and the scratchpad cache. The components are operable together under control of the memory controller to facilitate effective searching of the data structures in the memory management system. | 03-17-2011 |
20110076303 | Methods for Screening for Anti-Graying Agents on the Basis of AFF-4 - An objective of the present invention is to provide an anti-graying agent. The present invention provides a method for screening an anti-graying agent whereby a substance that increases expression of AFF-4 in cells is selected by applying a candidate substance to cells in vitro; and, an anti-graying agent containing at least one type of herbal extract selected from the group consisting of | 03-31-2011 |
20110166861 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SYNTHESIZING A SPEECH WITH INFORMATION - According to one embodiment, an apparatus for synthesizing a speech, comprises an inputting unit configured to input a text sentence, a text analysis unit configured to analyze the text sentence so as to extract linguistic information, a parameter generation unit configured to generate a speech parameter by using the linguistic information and a pre-trained statistical parameter model, an embedding unit configured to embed information into the speech parameter, and a speech synthesis unit configured to synthesize the speech parameter with the information embedded by the embedding unit into a speech with the information. | 07-07-2011 |
20110199929 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MEASURING NETWORK PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS - A method and a device for measuring network performance parameters are disclosed. The method includes: receiving an extended bidirectional forwarding detection (BFD) packet that includes a packet loss monitoring Type-Length-Value (TLV) and/or a time delay monitoring TLV; and calculating network performance parameters according to the packet loss monitoring TLV and/or the time delay monitoring TLV in the received extended BFD packet. The device includes: an extended BFD packet receiving module and a network performance parameter calculating module. The method and the device enables the calculating of network performance parameters and the monitoring of network performance, and therefore the problem of monitoring network performance in technical solutions in the prior art is solved. | 08-18-2011 |
20110320199 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FUSING VOICED PHONEME UNITS IN TEXT-TO-SPEECH - According to one embodiment, an apparatus for fusing voiced phoneme units in Text-To-Speech, includes a reference unit selection module configured to select a reference unit from the plurality of units based on pitch cycle information of the each unit and the number of pitch cycles of the target segment. The apparatus includes a template creation module configured to create a template based on the reference unit selected by the reference unit selection module and the number of pitch cycles of the target segment, wherein the number of pitch cycles of the template is same with that of pitch cycles of the target segment. The apparatus includes a pitch cycle alignment module configured to align pitch cycles of each unit of the plurality of units except the reference unit with pitch cycles of the template by using a dynamic programming algorithm. | 12-29-2011 |
20120110647 | MANAGING UNIQUELY TAGGED ITEMS USING THE INTERNET - The invention teaches managing an item in the Internet of Things, wherein the system comprises: an item registration module, configured to receive at least one registration information of the item, wherein the registration information of the item includes the item's unique number marked by an information sensing device and a tag of an external data source where related information of the item is located, the at least one registration information is from at least one external data source, the unique number is the same in the at least one registration information; a storage module, configured to store the item's registration information; and a query processing module, configured to receive a query to the related information of the item, and obtain the related information of the item from the external data source which corresponds to the external data source tag included in the stored registration information of the item. | 05-03-2012 |
20120176994 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR OFFLOADING NETWORK TRAFFIC - A method, a device, and a system for offloading network traffic are provided, which are applied in the field of mobile communications. An offloading device located before a Serving General Packet Radio Service Support Node (SGSN) receives a data stream of a user sent by a base station, obtains an offloading policy of the user from the offloading device and/or obtains the offloading policy of the user from a policy server, and forwards the data stream according to the offloading policy. Accordingly, the offloading device can obtain the corresponding offloading policy according to the data stream sent by a forwarding plane, send a data stream of low value, low real-time performance requirement, or low priority to the Internet or another specific networks, and send a data stream of high value, high real-time performance requirement, or high priority to high-value devices, thereby reducing the networking cost. | 07-12-2012 |
20120185935 | IMPLEMENTING AUTOMATIC ACCESS CONTROL LIST VALIDATION USING AUTOMATIC CATEGORIZATION OF UNSTRUCTURED TEXT - A method, system and computer program product are provided for implementing automatic access control list validation using automatic categorization of unstructured text. Automatic categorization of unstructured text is performed on a plurality of documents of an access control list for determining an average term vector. Each of the documents is scored against the average term vector to identify a dissimilar document, flagged as a possible security risk. Automatic categorization of unstructured text is performed on user information of a plurality of members of a candidate access control list for determining a typical term vector. A similarity score is determined by user information and the typical term vector, members of an access control list that are dissimilar from other members of the access control list are identified. | 07-19-2012 |
20120221339 | METHOD, APPARATUS FOR SYNTHESIZING SPEECH AND ACOUSTIC MODEL TRAINING METHOD FOR SPEECH SYNTHESIS - According to one embodiment, a method, apparatus for synthesizing speech, and a method for training acoustic model used in speech synthesis is provided. The method for synthesizing speech may include determining data generated by text analysis as fuzzy heteronym data, performing fuzzy heteronym prediction on the fuzzy heteronym data to output a plurality of candidate pronunciations of the fuzzy heteronym data and probabilities thereof, generating fuzzy context feature labels based on the plurality of candidate pronunciations and probabilities thereof, determining model parameters for the fuzzy context feature labels based on acoustic model with fuzzy decision tree, generating speech parameters from the model parameters, and synthesizing the speech parameters via synthesizer as speech. | 08-30-2012 |
20120274762 | OBTAINING DISTANCE BETWEEN DIFFERENT POINTS ON AN IMAGED OBJECT - The present invention discloses an image capturing apparatus and a method for obtaining the distances between different points of an object to be shot during image capturing of said object. The method comprises: determining a pair of specified points on the object for distance measurement; focusing on each specified point respectively, and obtaining a focal length for obtaining a clear image of the specified point on an imaging device of an image capturing apparatus, a distance between the clear image point of the specified point and a longitudinal axis of a convex lens of the image capturing apparatus, and a distance between the convex lens and the imaging device of the image capturing apparatus during said focusing; and calculating a distance between the specified points in the pair on the object. | 11-01-2012 |
20120328811 | Epoxy Resin Compositions - An epoxy resin composition having a curing component and an epoxy component is disclosed. The curing component includes an amount of about 8% to about 70% by weight of the composition of a primary curing agent and about 0.001% to about 5% by weight of the composition of a secondary curing agent. The epoxy composition also includes about 30% to about 92% by weight of the composition of the epoxy component. A number of equivalents of reactive curative groups in the curing component is from about 0.50 to 0.98 times the number of epoxide equivalents present in the epoxy component. An epoxy product formed from the epoxy resin composition is also disclosed. | 12-27-2012 |
20130088994 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING PERFORMANCE OF MULTI-SERVICE IN TUNNEL - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for measuring performance of multi-service in a tunnel, including: receiving a measurement message corresponding to a service packet, where a priority of the measurement message is the same as that of the service packet, and the measurement message includes at least one of the three: a packet loss measurement parameter, a delay measurement parameter, and a variation measurement parameter; and measuring performance of a service in a tunnel according to a measurement parameter in the measurement message. According to the embodiments of the present invention, a problem that performance measurement cannot be performed for different services transmitted in a tunnel in the prior art may be solved. | 04-11-2013 |
20130229922 | DS-Lite with BFD Support - A network node for detecting failures in a Dual Stack Lite (DS-Lite) tunnel, comprising a processor configured to obtain a domain name that identifies a first node, create the DS-Lite tunnel to the first node using the domain name, initiate a first bidirectional forwarding detection (BFD) session to the first node, transmit a plurality of BFD data packets within the DS-Lite tunnel, and detect a failure within the DS-Lite tunnel using the BFD data packets. | 09-05-2013 |